The Oscars 2017

[Dana Jean]

MadamMack -- are you going to be here?

Anyone who cares to join us for The Oscars, please do. Charlotte and I have gotten together for years now to yak in real time about the show. Lots of fun.

 

[Out of Order]

I think The Godfather is a shoe-in for Best Picture.

 

[do1you9love?]

I don't usually make it for all of the Oscars, but I love reading your posts after the fact. Here's to a fun night!

 

[GNTLGNT]

I think The Godfather is a shoe-in for Best Picture.

....I think this is the shoe-in for the Best Picture Oscar.....

 

[Kurben]

A man called Ove for best foreign movie. I support it because its swedish and havent seen any of the others but i'll cheer for it.

 

[not_nadine]

MadamMack -- are you going to be here?

Anyone who cares to join us for The Oscars, please do. Charlotte and I have gotten together for years now to yak in real time about the show. Lots of fun.

I will! I will! Hoping MadamMack responds. You guys are too much funnies together.

I was snortin laugh.

Spoiler

I wonder if the old threads are still available?

 

[kingricefan]

....I think this is the shoe-in for the Best Picture Oscar.....

Can't see the image, Scotty!!

 

[kingricefan]

I will be having my annual Oscar Bash here at Casa KRF so I won't be able to be on here in 'real' time as I will be hosting my guests (and making sure that they don't steal any of my books!! ). I will come on here after they have left for the evening to play catch up.

 

[Alexandra M]

I think The Godfather is a shoe-in for Best Picture.

Of course you do

 

[mjs9153]

Will Hacksaw Ridge be in the running for BP this year,or will it be next year? I personally haven't seen it yet,am going to rent it this weekend,but am hearing lots of buzz that it was a wonderful film..

 

[FlakeNoir]

I will be having my annual Oscar Bash here at Casa KRF so I won't be able to be on here in 'real' time as I will be hosting my guests (and making sure that they don't steal any of my books!! ). I will come on here after they have left for the evening to play catch up.

Oh good Lord, I really need to get my eye prescription checked out, I was so sure your post said something like "I will be having my Oscar Bush harvested at Casa KRF..."

Have fun my sweeties, I love reading the Oscars thread each year...

 

[kingricefan]

Prediction: Ryan Gosling doesn't win Best Actor. Winner: Casey Affleck.

 

[kingricefan]

Prediction: La La Land doesn't win best picture. Winner: Moonlight

 

[Alexandra M]

Will Hacksaw Ridge be in the running for BP this year,or will it be next year? I personally haven't seen it yet,am going to rent it this weekend,but am hearing lots of buzz that it was a wonderful film..

I just googled 'Hacksaw Ridge, I hadn't heard of it before. Sounds like a great movie and definitely my kind of movie.

 

[mjs9153]

I just googled 'Hacksaw Ridge, I hadn't heard of it before. Sounds like a great movie and definitely my kind of movie.

Yeah, I think I am going to rent it on pay-per-view tomorrow afternoon, one of those for 48 hour rentals so I can see it a few times,it looks really good.

 

[skimom2]

I don't even know what was nominated!

 

[GNTLGNT]

....I think this is the shoe-in for the Best Picture Oscar.....

 

[GNTLGNT]

I don't even know what was nominated!

http://oscar.go.com/news/nominations/oscar-nominations-2017-view-the-complete-list-of-nominees#!

 

[skimom2]

http://oscar.go.com/news/nominations/oscar-nominations-2017-view-the-complete-list-of-nominees#!

Thank you, dearest

 

[skimom2]

Here are my (uneducated) predictions for the major awards:

Best Picture- LaLa Land (Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood)
Best Actor- Casey Affleck (because he is amazing in a dreadfully depressing movie-Hollywood wants us to think it is deep )
Best Actress- Emma Stone (have to justify that LaLa Land win)
Supporting Actor- Mahershala Ali (His SAG speech was killer. And he's a wonderful actor)
Supporting Actress- Viola Davis or Octavia Spencer (tough call. Viola Davis is the better actress, but Hidden Figures isn't taking home any other major awards, and Hollywood is still stinging from 'Oscars so white' last year)
Animated- Moana (should be Kubo and the Two Strings. We'll see what happens.)
Cinematography-Arrival (Highly reviewed, not as highly attended. A bone to critics, if you will)
Costuming-Florence Foster Jenkins (should be Fantastic Beasts, but Meryl Streep isn't taking home an Oscar this year...)
Directing-Toss up between Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester By The Sea and whoever directed LaLa Land. Lonergan is very well respected as a playwright and script doctor--this probably gives him an edge. LaLa Land is Hollywood loving itself, though. Edge to Lonergan.
Original song-the Moana song by Lin Manuel Miranda. If the academy can't give him an Oscar for Hamilton, by God it will get him on that stage for something!

I didn't really care about these, but now I'm curious whether my logical predictions (I've seen almost none of the nominated movies this year) will pan out