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Editing:
1. Arrival
2. Hugo
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Zero Dark Thirty
5. Ford v. Ferrari
6. American Sniper
7. Gravity
8. Inception
9. Dunkirk
10. Skyfall
11. Bohemian Rhapsody

Mixing:
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. 1917
3. Whiplash
4. Hacksaw Ridge
5. Dunkirk
6. Inception
7. Gravity
8. Hugo
9. Les Misérables
10. Bohemian Rhapsody

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1. Life of Pi
2. Gravity
3. The Jungle Book
4. Inception
5. Hugo
6. Blade Runner 2049
7. Ex Machina
8. Interstellar
9. First Man
10. 1917

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1. Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter
2. Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
4. Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges
5. Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
6. The Artist – Mark Bridges
7. The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin
8. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Colleen Atwood
9. Little Women – Jacqueline Durran
10. Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood

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1. The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen
2. Hugo – Dante Ferretti
3. Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson
4. Black Panther – Hannah Beachler
5. The Shape of Water – Paul Denham Austerberry
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Barbara Ling
7. The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin
8. La La Land – David Wasco
9. Lincoln – Rick Carter
10. Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg

All of my top 5 would’ve had my vote out of their respective competition.

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1. Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
2. Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
3. Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
4. 1917 – Roger Deakins
5. Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki
6. La La Land – Linus Sandgren
7. Hugo – Robert Richardson
8. The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
9. Inception – Wally Pfister
10. Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda

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NSFC tend to make the most eclectic and inspired choices, even if I don’t always agree with them. Nevertheless, they too have been guilty of rubberstamping frontrunners when there have been plenty of other good or better options. Still, they get my vote.

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The problem was that neither Children of a Lesser God nor Awakenings were huge critical darlings compared to some of their respective competition; the latter in particular had some notable detractors. I can see why the directors branch might’ve found the transition of Children from stage to screen somewhat awkward, with William Hurt constantly speaking Marlee Matlin’s ASL out loud – a theatrical device less effective on film. Then again, films directed by men with similar-level reviews got directing noms so maybe sexism did had something to do with it.

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For the masses. For people who actually distinguish what a career-best performance is they marvel at her JUDY. BJD comes second.

This is incredibly pretentious. Why is it so inconceivable that someone may prefer her Bridget over her Judy for reasons other than mass appeal?

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Dan Jo wrote:

The Triplets of Belleville bores me after 30 mins of viewing. I thought it was odd kind of animation.

That is the general idea, yes.

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RobertPius wrote:

(Compared to Adams who really never was touted as a possible winner and probably only with Junebug would some people say she was their favorite.)

There’s a small but observable minority who would have voted for Adams in The Master, myself included. She even won two of the main US critics awards for it.

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BetteDavis wrote:

Apparently Disney is still going to push it for the Oscars with a full campaign. Interested to see if the Voters go for it. What will the Academy do if people vote for it anyway?

If it’s ineligible it won’t be on the published list eligible contenders. If an Academy member tried to vote for it (assuming that’ll even be physically possible with online voting) their vote would be disregarded.

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M: The Original wrote:

Also, people feel like they’re honoring Aretha. Ma Rainey does not have the same cache outside of Wilson’s play.

She should have though. She was dubbed ‘Mother of the Blues’ for a reason.

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MrOceanBlueEyes wrote:

Ammonite feels like a cheap Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Don’t insult Mary Anning or the director of God’s Own Country like that.

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TheDreamingHead wrote:

Unless they twist the story (which is fine as long as they remove all the political tones but it’s ridiculous to change JD Vance’s life story!), I don’t see why so many pundits are still predicting Amy in lead!

She’s first billed on IMDb and pundits aren’t familiar with the source material. That’s probably the only reason.

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BetteDavis wrote:

I’m aware, but his previous films weren’t adapted from a play. We know the script will be good, the role will be baity, and Viola is a great actress who has already won for a very different August Wilson role.

It seems natural to predict her as a serious contender regardless of how the film itself is received. The play is great, hopefully they adapt it well, but I could definitely see Davis winning like Zelly for Judy. Great, transformative performance, playing a real life person with singing involved, and the movie is only ok.

My only concern with Davis is that she is not a singer; in fact, by her own admission, she will never complete an EGOT because she ‘can’t sing’. (She could win for spoken word I suppose.) I haven’t seen or read the play so I’m not sure how much actual singing is involved in the role as written; nevertheless, I haven’t found any confirmation so far on whether Davis will be doing her own vocals. If she has successfully trained to sound like a plausible blues singer then that would immediately propel her to the forefront of the Best Actress race, but if not she’ll need other transformative elements for a chance to win. A high-quality performance in an August Wilson role is what people expect from Viola Davis, and might not be enough in itself to propel her to a second Oscar so soon after her first.