The nominations for the Academy Awards have been released this afternoon. La La Land has matched the record set by All About Eve and Titanic for most nominations, at 14. I'm going to see it tonight, so hoping to see something good. Scratch what I said about Silence earlier, no nominations for Best Picture , I forgot a lot of the stuff that came out last year which actually probably was better. Still need to see Hacksaw Ridge and Manchester by the Sea too. Here they are (have put them in spoilers as the post would be well long otherwise): Spoiler: Best Picture Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester by the Sea Moonlight Spoiler: Best Director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) Damien Chazelle (La La Land) Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) Spoiler: Best Actor in a Leading Role Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) Ryan Gosling (La La Land) Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic) Denzel Washington (Fences) Spoiler: Best Actor in a Supporting Role Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water) Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) Dev Patel (Lion) Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals) Spoiler: Best Actress in a Leading Role Isabelle Huppert (Elle) Ruth Negga (Loving) Natalie Portman (Jackie) Emma Stone (La La Land) Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins) Spoiler: Best Actress in a Supporting Role Viola Davis (Fences) Naomie Harris (Moonlight) Nicole Kidman (Lion) Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea) Spoiler: Best Original Screenplay Hell or High Water La La Land The Lobster Manchester by the Sea 20th Century Women Spoiler: Best Adapted Screenplay Arrival Fences Hidden Figures Lion Moonlight Spoiler: Best Original Score Jackie (Mica Levi) La La Land (Justin Hurwitz) Lion (Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka) Moonlight (Nicholas Britell) Passengers (Thomas Newman) Spoiler: Best Visual Effects Deepwater Horizon Doctor Strange The Jungle Book Kubo and the Two Strings Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Spoiler: Best Production Design Arrival Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Hail, Caesar! La La land Passengers Spoiler: Best Film Editing Arrival (Joe Walker) Hacksaw Ridge (John Gilbert) Hell or High Water (Jake Roberts) La La Land (Tom Cross) Moonlight (Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon) Spoiler: Best Sound Editing Arrival Deepwater Horizon Hacksaw Ridge La La Land Sully Spoiler: Best Sound Mixing Arrival Hacksaw Ridge La La Land Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Bengazi Spoiler: Best Original Song La La Land - 'Audition' La La Land - 'City of Stars' Moana - 'How Far I'll Go' Jim: The James Foley Story - 'The Empty Chair' Trolls - 'Can't Stop the Feeling' Spoiler: Best Cinematography Arrival (Bradford Young) La La Land (Linus Sandgren) Lion (Greig Fraser) Moonlight (James Laxton) Silence (Rodrigo Prieto) Spoiler: Best Foreign Language Film A Man Called Ove (Sweden) Land of Mine (Denmark) The Salesman (Iran) Tanna (Australia) Toni Erdmann (Germany) Spoiler: Best Costume Design Allied Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Florence Foster Jenkins Jackie La La Land Spoiler: Best Live Action Short Ennemis Intérieurs La Femme et le TGV Silent Nights Sing Timecode Spoiler: Best Animated Short Blind Vaysha Borrowed Time Pear Cider and Cigarettes Pearl Piper Spoiler: Best Documentary (Feature) Fire at Sea I Am Not Your Negro Life, Animated OJ: Made in America 13th Spoiler: Best Documentary (Short Subject) Extremis 4.1 Miles Joe's Violin Watani: My Homeland The White Helmets Spoiler: Best Makeup and Hairstyling A Man Called Ove Star Trek Beyond Suicide Squad
I can definitely recommend Split. It's a bit creepy, funny in parts, tense, good story. James McAvoy was excellent. Spoiler: Question about the ending It turns out it is a sequel to Unbreakable starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson. I've never seen it. Is it worth watching?
Ive seen it, a nice return to form of sorts from M Night Shyamalan, been a while since he did a film that was any good. Spoiler: Spoilery Spoilers Unbreakable is my fave film by M Night, it's very underrated and is acclaimed by most who've seen it. It's pretty much a superhero film, but not in the conventional way. I will warn you though - this is a sequel, but the only real reference to the original is that scene with Willis.
I only get 50p pocket money each week,my wife has the rest so will have to save up... thanks I'll have a bash at that lbia
Guess I am going to be in a minority in being unimpressed by La La Land. The previous film to get 14 nominations was Titanic. That was another one that didn't do it for me. please log in to view this image
Films seen since last post: La La Land - yep, I can see why it is nominated for so many Oscars now. It's bloody good. Hacksaw Ridge - Fantastic. Can't believe it's a true story. Manchester by the Sea - BEST FILM OF 2016. Emotional stuff. Casey Affleck should be a cert to win Best Actor. Moonlight - As with Manchester, bloody emotional stuff. Another fantastic flick. Trainspotting 2: Loved it. Not as good as the first (though how could it be?), but a great follow up that remains faithful to the original.
I'm watching a download of Whisky Tango Foxtrot. WTF. What the ****. Martin Freeman (again) as Scottish smartarsehole. But OK. *Recommended.
We just started watching that last series of Sherlock which we taped. Last one we saw was the one with the cereal killer in it. I can honestly say I've no idea wtf is going on.
My Mrs. Loves that program, I'm the same as you Happy, can't keep up, but it doesn't help reading the forum while it's on.
Sort of film related. Today in Tesco my missus bumps into Warwick Davies. Wife: he's really little. Me: ... Wife: smaller than I expected! Me: stop talking to me.
It's gets both of our full attention. Neither of us know what's going on. No idea why we even watch it.
