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Big Magilla wrote:Worst Best Picture nominee since All that Jazz.

Oh, c'mon. The Blind Side was definitely worse. Incredibly Close and Unbelievably Boring or whatever that thing was called was also terrible (both starring Sandra Bullock, I might add).

anonymous1980 wrote:

Big Magilla wrote:Worst Best Picture nominee since All that Jazz.

....and I actually love both Mad Max: Fury Road AND All That Jazz.

I actually love All That Jazz and hate Mad Max

Big Magilla wrote:Worst Best Picture nominee since All that Jazz.

....and I actually love both Mad Max: Fury Road AND All That Jazz.

Worst Best Picture nominee since All that Jazz.

The Original BJ wrote:Magilla, predicting against Mad Max: Fury Road looks a lot like this year's equivalent of your annual no-shot old lady prediction, only in reverse.

I am predicting a lock out for Mad Max: Fury Road as well. My theory (probably flawed) is that Mad Max had love enough to gain a swag of technical categories. But not the numbers necessary when the entire Academy votes leaving it empty handed at the end of the night.

Picture: The Revenant
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Actress: Brie Larson, Room
Supp. Actor: Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Supp. Actress: Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Adapted Screenplay: Room (The Big Short)

Cinematography: The Revenant
Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Production Design: Mad Max: Fury Road
Costume Design: Cinderella
Original Score: The Hateful Eight
Original Song: "Till It Happens To You", The Hunting Ground

Visual Effects: Star Wars
Sound Mixing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Sound Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Make-Up: Mad Max: Fury Road

Foreign Language: Son of Saul, Hungary
Animated Feature: Inside Out
Animated Short: World of Tomorrow
Docu Feature: Amy
Docu Short: Last Day of Freedom
Live Action Short: Ave Maria

1. Brooklyn and The Martian
2. Alan Rickman
3. No

Here we go. Runner-ups in braces.

Picture: The Revenant
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Actress: Brie Larson, Room
Supp. Actor: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies (Sylvester Stallone, Creed)
Supp. Actress: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short

Cinematography: The Revenant
Editing: Fury Road
Production Design: Fury Road
Costume Design: Cinderella (Fury Road)
Original Score: The Hateful Eight
Original Song: "Till It Happens To You", The Hunting Ground

Visual Effects: Fury Road (Force Awakens)
Sound Mixing: Fury Road
Sound Editing: Fury Road
Make-Up: Fury Road

Foreign Language: Son of Saul, Hungary
Animated Feature: Inside Out
Animated Short: World of Tomorrow
Docu Feature: Amy
Docu Short: Last Day of Freedom
Live Action Short: Ave Maria

1. Brooklyn and The Martian
2. David Bowie
3. Yes

Magilla, predicting against Mad Max: Fury Road looks a lot like this year's equivalent of your annual no-shot old lady prediction, only in reverse.

Picture: Spotlight
Direction: Alejandro G. Inarritu, The Revanant
Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short
Lead Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revanant
Lead Actress: Brie Larson, Room
Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

Original Song: "Till It Happens To You," The Hunting
Original Score: The Hateful Eight
Film Editing: Spotlight
Cinematography: The Revanant
Visual Effects: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sound Mixing: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sound Editing: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Production Design: The Martian
Costume Design: The Danish Girl
Makeup And Hairstyling: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Foreign Language Film: Son Of Saul, Hungary
Documentary Feature: Amy
Animated Feature: Inside Out
Live Action Short Film: Everything Will Be Alright
Documentary Short Film: A Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness
Animated Short Film: Sanjay's Super Team

1: Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road
2: Maureen O'Hara (David Bowie will be first)
3: Yes

CalWilliam wrote:The Greatest Show on Earth also won only two Oscars: Best Picture and Best Motion Picture Story.

For some reason, I assumed it won at least one tech award.

Greg wrote:anonymous, do you realize you are predicting Spotlight will become the first film since 1940's Rebecca to win Best Picture while winning only one other award?

The Greatest Show on Earth also won only two Oscars: Best Picture and Best Motion Picture Story.

anonymous, do you realize you are predicting Spotlight will become the first film since 1940's Rebecca to win Best Picture while winning only one other award?

BEST PICTURE
Spotlight
(RU: The Revenant)

BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro G. Inarittu, The Revenant

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Brie Larson, Room

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Emma Donoghue, Room
(RU: The Big Short)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Inside Out

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant

BEST FILM EDITING
Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Colin Gibson (production design) & Lisa Thompson (set decoration), Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Till It Happens to You", The Hunting Ground

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Sandy Powell, Cinderella

BEST SOUND MIXING
Mad Max: Fury Road
(RU: The Revenant)

BEST SOUND EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
Shok
(RU: Stutterer)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
World of Tomorrow

01. Which Best Picture nominee/s will go home empty handed? Bridge of Spies, The Martian and Brooklyn.

02. Who will be the last person in the In Memoriam montage? David Bowie.

03. Will BB8 show up? Yes.

Picture: The Revanant
Direction: Alejandro G. Inarritu, The Revanant
Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Adapted Screenplay: The Martian
Lead Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revanant
Lead Actress: Brie Larson, Room
Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight

Original Song: "Till It Happens To You," The Hunting
Original Score: The Hateful Eight
Film Editing: The Revanant
Cinematography: The Revanant
Visual Effects: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sound Mixing: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sound Editing: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Production Design: The Revanant
Costume Design: Cinderella
Makeup And Hairstyling: The Revanant

Foreign Language Film: Son Of Saul, Hungary
Documentary Feature: Amy
Animated Feature: Inside Out
Live Action Short Film: Stutterer
Documentary Short Film: A Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness
Animated Short Film: Bear Story

1: Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Big Short
2: Omar Sharif
3: Yes

Also, considering that I went with conventional wisdom for all my winner posts, Lee was the one out-there post I decided to allow myself to make.