Oscar Winners 2015

[Basil]

well thought rather than go thru all the threads in here would just stick new thread up as is easier as there is so many....
from bbc news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30835975

Best picture
Winner: Birdman

Best director
Winner: Alejandro G Inarritu, Birdman

Best actor
Winner: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best actress
Winner: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best supporting actor
Winner: JK Simmons, Whiplash

Best supporting actress
Winner: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Best adapted screenplay
Winner: The Imitation Game

Best original screenplay
Winner: Birdman

Best animated short
Winner: Feast

Best cinematography
Winner: Birdman

Best costume design
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best documentary feature
Winner: CitizenFour

Best documentary short
Winner: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1

Best film editing
Winner: Whiplash

Best foreign language film
Winner: Ida (Poland)

Best live action short
Winner: The Phone Call

Best make-up & hairstyling
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best original score
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best production design
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best song
Winner: Glory, Selma

Best sound editing
Winner: American Sniper

Best sound mixing
Winner: Whiplash

Best visual effects
Winner: Interstellar

and there you have it

basil

 

[digitalbabe]

Thanks @Basil what do you think of the winners!

 

[digitalbabe]

Thread stuck.

 

[Basil]

well to be honest haven't seen birdman but will be definetly watching in the near future as had heard good things about it before all of this, so if a steel of it was too come up would definetly be on my radar.

Also glad to see the imitation game got an award, not the one i was thinking of but hey ho. when you consider alan turing's work ended world war 2 by an estimated 2 years early just think of the lives that saved. cumberbatch for me was excellent in this.

Also glad to see grand budapest hotel got some awards was a strange film but strange in a very watchable way and well worth a watch imho!

hopefully these awards will make some people go watch some of these films they would have never watched before and see something different

basil

 

[Marco86]

Nothing for Boyhood Well the oscars are a joke anyway IMO

 

[digitalbabe]

I was surprised Boyhood was snubbed like that as well

 

[Colombianlove41]

I didn't see the hype about boyhood except for the way it was filmed over a long period of time. Birdman is brilliant as well as American Sniper but these were some tough films this year

 

[Flash]

Some shocking embarrassing decisions

Best picture/director : BIRDMAN???

Sorry Richard, I know you spent 12 years making an a movie but we are going to give it to this drivel called birdman?

I knew Benedict wouldn't win but he should have done, The Imitation Game is incredible, his portrayal of Turin is heartbreaking.

 

[Wreck]

Nothing for Boyhood Well the oscars are a joke anyway IMO

Well it won best supporting actress so they can still deem it as an Academy Award winning movie.

 

[kbr1656]

I like Eddie Redmayne, but I would have preferred Michael Keaton winning Best Actor.

 

[steellogic]

Graham Moore gave the most moving acceptance speech.

 

[Futurhythm]

I thought the results this year were a nice mix of obvious ones and almost boring choices. JK Simmons winning best supporting actor was well-deserved and I honestly didn't see that coming. Also, the Best Animated Feature category is a no-contest. They should just get rid of it since they always just give it to the Disney movie anyway.

 

[meaner]

I was think best director will be Linklater and very suprise is that Big Hero gets oscar.

 

[Jericho]

I fill out an Oscar picks every year. This year was supposed to be tougher than most, but I still ended up with 18/24. Which is pretty much what I get every year, no matter what. It's not super hard to "predict" (I just base it off what I read, more than what I thought about the movies). At the end of the day, its a popularity contest and other awards (like the guilds) give a pretty good idea of who's going to win.

The only major "surprise" was How to Train Your Dragon 2 losing. Most people considered that a pretty strong bet. The other ones I missed were either supposed to be close races or where I took an underdog. Still surprised Wes Anderson didn't take one home for original screenplay (and for that matter, I really thought Whiplash would upset in adapted screenplay). But whiffed on both. But those are the breaks. You win some. You lose some. You like some. You don't like some.

 

[Drum18]

@Jericho you guessed that Keaton wouldn't win?

 

[Jericho]

@Jericho you guessed that Keaton wouldn't win?

I did. I picked Eddie Redmayne, who seemed to be a slight to moderate favorite (Redmayne won the SAG, BAFTA and Golden Globe. Although Keaton was in a different category for the Golden Globes). Plus the Academy loves to award people playing real people, as opposed to fictional characters.