2016 Academy Awards

[Carlie]

Aka old white dudes that are detached of what's currently happening vote for things they haven't actually seen or understand.

If I were giving the awards:

Best Picture:
The Martian (Winner)
Mad Max: Fury Road
Bridge of Spies
The Big Short
Beasts of No Nation
Spotlight
The Revenant
Room
Inside Out
Ex Machina

Best Director:
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road (Winner)
Adam McKay – The Big Short
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Ryan Coogler - Creed
Ridley Scott - The Martian
Alex Garland - Ex Machina

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant as Hugh Glass (Winner)
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian as Mark Watney
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe

Best Actress:
Brie Larson – Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome (Winner)
Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years as Kate Mercer
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
Alicia Vikander as Ava

Best Supporting Actor:
Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation as Commandant (Winner)
Tom Hardy – The Revenant as John Fitzgerald
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight as Michael Rezendes
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel
Sylvester Stallone – Creed as Rocky Balboa

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue (Winner)
Rooney Mara – Carol as Therese Belivet
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight as Sacha Pfeiffer
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs as Joanna Hoffman

Best Original Screenplay
Ex Machina – Alex Garland (Winner)
Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen
Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Straight Outta Compton – Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Martian – Drew Goddard from The Martian by Andy Weir (Winner)
Room – Emma Donoghue from Room by Emma Donoghue (Winner)
The Big Short – Adam McKay and Charles Randolph from The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Brooklyn – Nick Hornby from Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Carol – Phyllis Nagy from The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

Best Animated Feature Film:
Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (Winner)
Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, and Rosa Tran
Boy & the World – Alê Abreu
Shaun the Sheep Movie – Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There – Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

 

[Lex]

I'll probably watch this when there's a torrent available in the morning.

 

[ForceStealer]

As usual, I think I've heard of about five of these movies and seen two of them.

 

[Lex]

You beat me, I've heard of three (The Revenant, Mad Max, Inside Out) and seen one (Inside Out).

 

[ForceStealer]

I heard of The Revenant, Mad Max, The Big Short, Ex Machina, and The Martian. Saw Mad Max and Ex Machina.

I don't see a whole lot of movies in general, but the kind that I like almost never appear at the awards. I'm amazed Mad Max is up there, that movie is entirely too much fun to be up for Best Picture. A "Best Picture" award is usually a guarantee that I'll be bored to tears with the film
(There are a few exceptions.)

 

[lithiumkatana17]

Whelp, Leo finally won his damn Oscar. *wipes tear from eye*

 

[ForceStealer]

In what looked like one of his least interesting movies...

 

[Ghost X]

Spoiler: Revenant expection-setting comment...

I heard it was interesting right up until the bear attack, and then it is pretty boring from there.

 

[Channy]

As ranted on your bf earlier, I really don't get at all how Ex Machina got the couple nods it did, it was an awwffuuullll movie. Mr Channy and I were excited for this sci fi movie and were sat wondering when anything was going to happen.

Just imo/rant

 

[Fangu]

Whelp, Leo finally won his damn Oscar. *wipes tear from eye*

Internet is over, we can all go home?

 

[Animexcel]

Yeah, barely watched the Oscars tonight. Turned on the tv and right on cue they were announcing the best actor category.

 

[Lex]

 

[Splintered]

Oh good. I was upset that the Academy Awards might have ruined one of the few long running memes to actually amuse in the silly interest of being fair or whatever, but it's nice to see that it simply evolved.

 

[Lex]

It was Lady Gaga's doing all along:

 

[Shademp]

 

[lithiumkatana17]

Holy shit dude, I just DIED.

 

[Lex]

 

[Carlie]

Spoiler: R.I.P. Leo meme 1994-2016

 

[Ami]

Not even kidding, I've watched that ten times now. I think YouTube's going to break.

 

[Channy]

It was Lady Gaga's doing all along:

did you see his face tho?

Spoiler: R.I.P. Leo meme 1994-2016

well, couldn'ta left one for anyone else, couldja?!

 

[Channy]

I had to share it as soon as I saw it....

 

[Abortedj]

I feel like Leo getting one cheapens that award for everyone else. Not like I hate the guy or anything, he is alright in the right movie. Just doesn't seem like the quality of actor that should get an Academy Award.

 

[Lex]

If we're being serious about this, it was cheapened years ago XD. DiCaprio is certainly more worthy of it than some others IMO.

 

[Abortedj]

I can't think of any less deserving in recent memory. At least for "Best Actor". If we are opening it up to other categories, then yes there have been worse.

Edit: Looked up list for "Best Actor", had to go all the way back to 1976 to find another case that seemed this far off: Peter Finch in "Network". Sure there are others where I think someone else should have won, but not another where someone really didn't earn it.