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DosCadenaz said:
So boyhood is gonna win? I was surprised to hear Grand Budahpest (sp) won over Birdman but I'm still rooting for Birdman
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I haven't seen Birdman yet, but The Grand Budapest Hotel is in my top 3 for the year. In my opinion, it should get STRONG consideration for Best Picture and Ralph Fiennes would be my pick for Best Actor. He was incredible in it.
 
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Just saw Selma and :whoo: :wow:

Instant classic!! 10/10 :banderas:

Best movie of last year and should win best picture but we all know we can't have two pro black films win two years in a row. :beli:
 
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Vulture has a nice article on fixing the nomination process: seeding, March Madness style

Step 1: Reduce the number of Best Picture nominees back to five, as God intended. No one need shed a tear if next year’s version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close misses the Oscar cut.

Step 2: Divide the film-release calendar into four three-month segments: Winter (January through March), Spring (April through June), Summer (July through September), and Fall (October through December). If you want to add a little sports-arena razzle-dazzle to the process, give these “seasons” more exciting names, like Frost Season, Blossom Season, Blockbuster Season, and Prestige Season. The fifth nomination is reserved for a wild card, which can be a film that came out any time during the year.

Step 3: Instruct Academy voters to select the best film released in each season, for a total of four selections. The top vote-getter in each season becomes the Best Picture nominee from that season. And the top vote-getter from any season that didn’t win its particular season becomes the fifth wild-card nominee.

By returning to five nominees — a no-brainer — you ratchet up the prestige of simply getting a nod. And by dividing the nominations among seasonal contenders, you temper the extent to which preceding awards shows chip away at Oscar’s big reveal. Best Picture nominees, having been chosen by totally novel criteria, would reliably be different from the films repeatedly feted elsewhere. And worthy blockbusters like The Dark Knight — the snubbed film that, anecdotally, prodded the change toward the ridiculous, too-inclusive, ten-nominee system — would stand a great chance to earn a nomination simply by winning its Blockbuster Season slot.

In fact, imagine the breadth of gamification and intrigue and ingenuity that now becomes possible. Studios and distributors could look at the whole year like generals surveying a battlefield map. Your spunky indie release might not have a prayer in jam-packed Prestige Season — but move it to Blossom Season (a three-month stretch which, this year, saw exactly zero Golden Globe nominees released), and you’ve suddenly got a chance. Films like American Sniper (released so late that it wasn’t even considered for many pre-Oscar awards) or The Gambler (a potential award contender that got snowed under in the avalanche of competition) could seek out more promising release slots — or, hell, wait a few weeks and compete in Frost Season for 2015. You no longer need to worry that your early year film release will be “forgotten” come ballot time, since you’re only competing with other films released early. Which means filmmakers have a real incentive to spread their best films all over the calendar — and audiences looking for something to watch in the stifling summery shadow of, say, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have new hope as they head out to the cinema.

Let’s game it out for this year: Boyhood, by cannily counterprogramming its release in August, would be a lock to snatch the Blockbuster Season’s slot. Grand Budapest, the best film in a weak winter, tops the Frost division. Maybe Birdman’s studio, gaming the system, craftily slipped that film into the (for now) uncompetitive Blossom Season, thus ensuring a nomination and avoiding an ensuing slugfest with Prestige Season heavyweights like Selma and The Imitation Game. And then the top-non-champion vote-getter — maybe a dark-horse sentimental favorite like St. Vincent — slips in at No. 5 as the spunky wild-card underdog.

The result: Better films are released all year. Critics don’t have to scramble to see every Oscar contender post-Thanksgiving. Film publicists get to spread the load over 12 months rather than six crazy weeks. Maniacal studio heads who love to game awards get a whole new way to game them — and a way that doesn’t have to involve shadow attacks and whisper campaigns against other nominees. Smart, whiz-bang blockbusters like this year’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes would be reliably rewarded for aiming higher than their punch-drunk summer contemporaries. And most important, Oscar viewers can cheer lustily for films they’ve actually already seen, rather than films that premiered months ago at Telluride, played for one week in New York and L.A., and won’t hit their towns for another month. Who knows — maybe, just as in sports, fan bases will develop around different seasons. People will sit at home in their Frost Season colors, cheering their division’s nominee. I’m usually a Blockbuster Season supporter, but this year’s Wild Card has really caught my imagination. Who doesn’t love an underdog?

In short, with seeded nominations, everyone wins. Well, not everyone — eventually, there can be only one winner, the year’s Best Picture recipient. That is already how it should be. But a seeded nomination system would make getting to that eventual winner a whole lot more rational and a hell of a lot more fun.
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http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/how-to-fix-the-oscars-seeded-nominations.html
 
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flyry said:
i fukk with some of the logic in this article breh

the scheduling problem is absurd
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Really? Because I think it's dumb as fukk and ignoring the real problem, namely that voters are too lazy and disinterested to look further than two months of releases, and if they ever had any intention to look at the whole of a year's movie releases, a bunch of fat Hollywood producers will drop enough dinners, banquets and money-filled envelopes to sway their opinion.

But making a bunch of retarded divisions that'll exclude even more films than possible, that's the way to go! Oh, three of the most movies of the year dropped in "insert awful made up gimmick name" season. Too bad only one of them can make it to the final round. Divisions work for sports because there's direct competition between the parties so they earn that spot in the finals. People always want to improve the Oscars but they never just want to admit that the biggest problems are the people who vote and the people who buy votes.
 
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TheGodling said:
Really? Because I think it's dumb as fukk and ignoring the real problem, namely that voters are too lazy and disinterested to look further than two months of releases, and if they ever had any intention to look at the whole of a year's movie releases, a bunch of fat Hollywood producers will drop enough dinners, banquets and money-filled envelopes to sway their opinion.

But making a bunch of retarded divisions that'll exclude even more films than possible, that's the way to go! Oh, three of the most movies of the year dropped in "insert awful made up gimmick name" season. Too bad only one of them can make it to the final round. Divisions work for sports because there's direct competition between the parties so they earn that spot in the finals. People always want to improve the Oscars but they never just want to admit that the biggest problems are the people who vote and the people who buy votes.
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i wasn't talking about the division aspect..not sure i agree with that..but i do agree with spreading the films out instead of packing 2 dozen movies in the past few weeks of the year.

last year i didn't go to the theater for the first few months of the year cuz all the films looked trash. If something that looked good came out in say dumpuary I and i'm sure others would go see it.

we need more grand budapest hotels early in the year and less ifrankenstein
 
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flyry said:
i wasn't talking about the division aspect..not sure i agree with that..but i do agree with spreading the films out instead of packing 2 dozen movies in the past few weeks of the year.

last year i didn't go to the theater for the first few months of the year cuz all the films looked trash. If something that looked good came out in say dumpuary I and i'm sure others would go see it.

we need more grand budapest hotels early in the year and less ifrankenstein
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Well, that much is obvious but that's all in the hands of the voters. If film fans all around the world could remember Zodiac at the end of 2007 as one of the best, there's no excuse for the voters not to. Forcing the system to accommodate to that will only backfire in so many ways it would become pointless.
 
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