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 23rd January 2018, 07:44 PM
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QUOTE(Iz @ Jan 23 2018, 05:56 PM)  This is just insulting. Not sure if 'Your Name' was eligible for this year or last year with how it works but 'A Silent Voice' was definitely eligible and to get... whatever that Boss Baby thing is over it is really kind of ridiculous when you consider this is an awards session, supposed to highlight the more niche films. Animation can be a viable medium that isn't just for kids etc etc (although to be fair, googling The Breadwinner, Loving Vincent and Coco, those seem totally legit films to be on there) Actually, I've just found the list of films submitted. They had ASV and In This Corner Of The World, and even Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale would have made the animation category look less of a joke. Or the Lego Movies. I'm sorry, who made these choices? The voting for Animated Feature changed this year which was always more likely to favour blockbuster animated films. In the past, only voters from the animated branch were able to vote meaning they were much more likely to favour niche films. From this year, any Academy member can vote in that category just like Best Picture meaning most people are just gonna nominate what they see at the cinema with their little ones. Expect to see many more nominees in the future like The Boss Baby and Ferdinand which probably would have just been Golden Globes fodder in the past 
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23rd January 2018, 08:03 PM
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Tbh I enjoyed The Boss Baby a lot more than Coco
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23rd January 2018, 08:39 PM
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QUOTE(Styles Bilinski @ Jan 23 2018, 08:03 PM) Tbh I enjoyed The Boss Baby a lot more than Coco Ban it.
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23rd January 2018, 09:56 PM
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I'm on it dw x
I'm aware I haven't seen it, but The Boss Baby up for Animated Film when it was pretty much universally acknowledged as an average at best film that just has box office numbers going for it is ridiculous and while I wasn't expecting Lego Batman to get in after the first one didn't, I just can't shake the feeling of snootiness they have towards it. If that's set to be the new norm going by Josh's post, then that's not good. Animated films can be just as meaningful and ground-breaking as live action. Anyway, that aside, a decent set of noms, fantastic to see Logan get one for Adapted Screenplay (shame Wonder Woman couldn't pick up at least one nom, feels a bit wrong that the only DC film still with an award to it's name is Suicide Squad...), and Get Out getting so many is absolutely wonderful to see for a modern horror film. I've seen two out of nine of those Best Picture nominees already (Get Out and Dunkirk) so that's two down *. Not that I'm particularly looking forward to The Post, everything about that feels far too calculated and cynical, somewhat glad it didn't get as many nominations as I thought. |
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23rd January 2018, 09:59 PM
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I'm 4/9 for Best Pic so far!
1) Three Billboards 2) Dunkirk 3) Get Out 4) The Post Loved Three Billboards & will probs be a contender for my top 10 of 2018, both Dunkirk/Get Out were just in/just outside my top 10 of 2017 and The Post was good but nothing more than that and I wish it was snubbed here. 
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23rd January 2018, 10:17 PM
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I genuinely don't get their hate for Lego Movie!? The first one I will let slide coz it had some live action scenes in it, but Lego Batman... I can't. The animation is actually really good/not generic animation
Boss Baby I enjoyes more than I thought I would. But that's because I was expecting 2/10 and it ended up being 6/10 at best lol. |
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23rd January 2018, 10:49 PM
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I feel like part of it is that they're typically resistant because it's built around promoting a commercialised product or maybe it's just too frantic and filled with pop culture references (I recall Wreck it Ralph lost to Brave as well despite being much better received), which does reek of snobbiness as even critics recognised that there was a good film in there with both films, and it's not exactly the Emoji movie...
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23rd January 2018, 10:58 PM
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YAY for Get Out - that was probably my favourite film last year! Enhanced by the use of Childish Gambino at the end. *.*
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24th January 2018, 12:05 AM
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QUOTE(Josh! @ Jan 23 2018, 02:02 PM) Mudbound getting four nominations is HUGE for Netflix though, they really are in the game now it seems *.* In other huge news for Mudbound, I've just found out that Rachel Morrison is the first EVER female cinematographer to be nominated in that category. Crazy that it took 90 years for that to happen so big congratulations to her! *.* |
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24th January 2018, 01:45 AM
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Christopher Plummer also becomes the oldest acting nominee ever at 88 years old *.*
He wouldn't have been in my personal top five but props to him for breaking such an impressive record!!! |
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28th January 2018, 10:42 PM
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As the Oscars won't take place until March it means that all the major contending films will have been released in the UK by the time of the ceremony this year. Still have bad memories of 2015 when Julianne Moore won Best Actress for a film that still hadn't been released in this country!! (I've never illegally downloaded a film before and have no intention to)
Have any Best Picture winners ever won the Oscar before their UK release, or even other nominations by the time of the ceremony? |
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