Actually saw some Oscar nominees last year

[Bob78164]

The Oscar nominations have been announced. For the first time in a while, I've actually seen a few of the movies. --Bob

[BackInTex]

I've seen:

American Hustle - bunch of nominations
Prisoners - Cinematography
The Book Thief - Origianal Score (John Williams, duh) - Did I post about my daughter flying from Houton to Oregon just to seem him conduct the Eugene Orchestra? It was one of her bucket list items
Saving Mr. Banks - Origianal Score
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects
Iron Man 3 - Visual Effects
Star Trek Into the Darkness - Visual Effects

[Vandal]

Here's the full list:


• Best picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
12 Years a Slave

• Best actor
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

• Best actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

• Best supporting actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

• Best supporting actress
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

• Best director
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

• Best animated feature film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

• Best foreign film
The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium
The Great Beauty, Italy
The Hunt, Denmark
The Missing Picture, Cambodia
Omar, Palestine

• Best original screenplay
American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson

• Best adapted screenplay
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter

• Best original score
The Book Thief
Gravity
Her
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks

• Best original song
Alone Yet Not Alone, from Alone Yet Not Alone
Happy, from Despicable Me 2
Let It Go, from Frozen
The Moon Song, from Her
Ordinary Love, from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

• Best cinematography
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

• Best costume design
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave

• Best documentary feature
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet from Stardom

• Best documentary short subject
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

• Best film editing
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years a Slave

• Best makeup and hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

• Best production design
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave

• Best animated short film
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom

• Best live-action short film
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Helium
Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem

• Best sound editing
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor

• Best sound mixing
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

• Best visual effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

[BackInTex]

Looks like somebody can go to the concession bar and order "the usual".

[Bob Juch]

The only one I've seen is Gravity. I saw that in an IMAX 3D theater only because I knew it would lose a lot on my home TV. I can wait for everything else.

[bazodee]

I just finished watching one of the Feature-length films nominated for Best Documentary. It's called the "Act of Killing." It's pretty difficult to stomach but very, very interesting in a surreal way.
It features the anti-communist death squads that rampaged over Indonesia in the mid-1960s. These men, who murdered thousands (if not millions) seem to have no shame, no sense of remorse about their actions. But the way the filmmaker brings this out is truly fascinating.

Basically, he provides the resources for some of these guys (in their 70s now) to produce a movie re-enacting the scenes of murder and carnage. Surreal doesn't begin to describe the scene when one of the killers is watching a first edit of a scene where he is executing a suspected communist and his dismayed reaction is, "I should never have worn white that day."

Not for everyone but it's a really interesting point of view.