And the award for Best Picture goes to...Slumdog Millionaire!

>and the award for Best Picture goes to...Slumdog Millionaire!

What year did you completely give up on the Oscars?

The Wrestler is second rate, puffed up and ephemeral. Fakes realism with puffed up platitudes. A formidable mediocrity

The competition that year was pretty weak, but I still would have handed it to Frost/Nixon.

When Shakespeare In Love beat Saving Private Ryan. SiL is a fine little film, and SPR isn't flawless, but that made me WAT.

(You)

Never paid much attention to the Oscars, but I watched Trumbo after I saw it was nominated for an Oscar. It told me everything I needed to know about how worthless they are as a measurement of quality. That film was such pretentious, masturbatory, revisionist shit.

can you speak english instead of buzzwords

TDK was better than both and wasn't even nominated because muh pro war themes.
That said I had very little faith after 1999. 2006 made me lose what little faith I had left.

Ok Pauline take an ambien and I'll send someone out to get milk for your afternoon nap.

>Saving Private Ryan
>not Thin Red Line

sup reddit

>mfw some critics seriously write this way

hi pajeet

Would you call it a glib facsimile, big guy?

When James Cameron's Avatar lost to the Hurt Locker

TDK for best picture? The academy isn't filled with manchildren

>Capeshit better than The Wrestler

Youngfags won't remember this, but I threw my remote when Apocalypse Now lost to fucking Kramer vs Kramer (Meryl Streep's feminism movie)

when fellowship and two towers lost and rotk wom, during that time even though i was 12-14 i knew the Oscars were worthless

ive been proved right since. Argo, piece of shit. 12 Years A Slave, piece of shit. the acting awards are even more of a joke

leave patel

Hell what won two years ago? I forgot for a minute. It was Birdman. Noah was better than Birdman and I'll fight everyone. Just like last year, Bridge of Spies should have won best picture.

I actually really liked both of those movies, but I've got to admit that Argo is...shallow. It was an interesting story well told, but makes absolutely no lasting impact. 12 Years at least has some reflection value.

It's really upsetting to see people so upset over this opinion.It is asinine. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Poshlost. Mediocre, but anyway plausible.

Man, Birdman did NOT fucking deserve to win best picture. No fucking way.

>12 Years A Slave
Come on m8, the acting and design were quality. Prime Fassy.

Get out corn man

Tbh Birdman was one of the only times I can remember actually being happy with the winner

>Poshlost. Mediocre, but anyway plausible.
lol

when i was reading my moms oscar book and it said citizen kane lost.

also maybe when titanic won.

When Les Miserables lost to Argo.

Beating ANY of the best picture nominees was an insult. Aside from SPR and Grass in the wind, we also had elizabeth and life is beautiful getting the shaft.

Gwyneth Paltrow fucked over Cate Blanchette for best actress that same year.

The biggest sin though, is shakespear in love beating Bulworth for best original screenplay. Bulworth is kinoasfuck.

fassbender deserved the oscar thats why i say the oscsrs suck senpai

didnt like the film liked fassy

malick literally just shoots the grass in that movie

I thought Keaton should have won for sure, not the film though. Keaton was robbed

>be grass
>get shot

Burgers, when will they learn?

rereading this, i sound kinda plebby. in my defense, the hype for citizen kane seemed appropriate when i first watched it and i still do love it. it was a solid film from all aspects.

i didnt really mean to phrase it like its my favorite of all time.

les mis was trash too

Goodfellas not winning best picture and Scorsese not winning best director was a travesty

fuck I was just about to say this kek

Pacino not winning an Oscar for godfather 2 or dog day afternoon

what else was up that year. i liked casino better than goodfellas tho

What won that year?

When crash won

Say that to my face and not online you nonentity

Dances with Wolves.

>used puffed up twice

Fuck off

fuck

Fuck, I forgot about that. A level of pandering that has yet to be topped.

>les mis was trash too

...

What is the best example of a movie that won an Oscar, became media buzz, and then just fucking disappeared without a single tinge of cultural impact?

I'm guessing Slumdog Millionaire?

I gave up on those shitty awards when fucktard Sean Penn was awarded best actor over my nigga Bill Murray in 2003. That piece of acting and that movie were awesome.

The artist.

this post triggers the Sup Forumsitposters

boyhood sort of won an oscar

you got it. heard about that fucking movie nonstop for a solid six months after it released and a month around oscar time, and it disappeared forever following that, aside from the occasional joke on TV about the buzz surrounding it

>Beauty and the Beast was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture
>The Lego Movie didn't even get nominated
>Brave over Wreck-It Ralph

What will it take for animation to be respected as a tool for storytelling

jesus how young are you?

crash.

when it stops being CG shit

Disney animation is just a poor man's pixar with not actual animation these days

They invented the animation category just to get movies like Beauty and Beast out of the way forever.

Is that an Armond quote?

>Bulworth
Mah nigga. Careful tho Sup Forums immigrants will come out and bash it because there are brown people in it

now if you want real kino...

frost/nixon was trash, literally just made shit up the whole time

the lego movie was nothing great faggot

Both absolutely correct. I'd also add Argo, The Hurt Locker, Crash, and Spotlight to that list. Sad how many examples there are from recent years.

>user
>a favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to reddit and tumblr. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, meme clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus.

patrician detected

When they gave the award to Penn for playing a literal gay politician.
Rourke deserved it for so many reasons but again, politics.
I never cared since.

Crash beat Brokeback Mountain

I don't know how good La grande belleza is. But i feel like Jagten(the hunt) deserved it more. Judging from my own opinion and reviews

Slumdog millionaire had a better waifu

>the lego movie was nothing great faggot

foreign films have their own category

>patrician
You're joking right

They appeased the gays a few years later though. See

A mature, well-made, adult story with great animation and acting and sky high box office returns. Even if that happened (which it won't) they invented the Animation category to prevent that from happening anyway. which by the way what a fucking joke that category. How can anyone compare shit like Waltz with Bashir with Ratatouille or Princess Kaguya with Monster High?

The LEGO movie was unexpectedly kino.

Milk was pretty good

that's what i'm saying la grande belezza won the foreign language academy award over Jagten

>Waltz with Bashir with Ratatouille or Princess Kaguya with Monster High
n-no, they didn't do that, did they?
remember when the wind rises lost to Frozen?

It's complete shit. Animation isn't a genre, but everybody treats it like it is. It's also bullshit that sci-fi and fantasy films are almost never even considered for awards. It's always shitty dramas that got a limited release.

ah I see

I think that's about as much a sham category as animation

Why? because they have a own category and they should be with the normal ones or that foreign language movies have no place at the american oscars?

Damn, you must have really hated it with a webm like that

>Pauline
I cracked a smile.

I've never watched Godard so maybe he would take the top spot for me otherwise, but I find Danny Boyle to be the director I remember most for appreciating his technical skill but hating his themes. Globalism, consumerism, and idolatry wrapped in pop glib without pop vigor.

Partly because they should just be with all the American films since so many productions transcend borders anyways, and partly because I don't think the academy really puts any effort into their picks.

Hahahaha, disregard that, I suck cocks. I meant this webm

I'll correct myself as Waltz with Bashir was never even nominated according to Wikipedia, it was in the foreign language category so I'll give them credit on that one. But Ratatouille beat Persepolis, Anomalisa lost to Inside out, and Kaguya lost to Big Hero fucking 6. A lot of these movies are good but how the fuck do you compare them?

The Reader; even The Artist or Crash were talked about for at least fifteen minutes. I never heard anyone talk about The Reader.

holy shit this is embarassing

2001
Winner: A Beautiful Mind
Loser: Fellowship of the Ring

2002
Winner: Chicago
Loser: The Two Towers, The Pianist

2003
Winner: Return of the King
Loser: Master and Commander, Lost in Translation, Mystic River

2004
Winner: Million Dollar Baby (its shit)
Loser: The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray

2005
Winner: Crash (its shit)
Loser: Munich, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck

2006
Winner: The Departed (its shit)
Loser: Babel, Letter from Iwo Jima (Children of Men not even nominated)

2007
Winner: No Country for Old Men
Loser: There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton

2008
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (its shit)
Loser: The Wrestler, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2009
Winner: The Hurt Locker (its shit)
Loser: District 9, A Serious Man, Inglorious Basterds

2010
Winner: The Kings Speech (its shit)
Loser: Black Swan, The Social Network,

2011
Winner: The Artist
Loser: The Tree of Life, War Horse

2012
Winner: Argo (its shit)
Loser: Amour, Lincoln, (Noah better than most nominated)

2013
Winner: 12 Years A Slave
Loser: Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her

2014
Winner: Birdman (its shit)
Loser: Boyhood, Grand Budapest Hotel, Whiplash

2015
Winner: Spotlight (its shit)
Loser: Bridge of Spies, Room, The Revenant (not that good but better than Spotlight)

>mfw looking back at the 2012 oscars

holy shit no wonder the artist won, there was literally nothing good in any of those nominations

brad pitt should have won best actor for moneyball though

>how the fuck do you compare them
see the academy just doesn't care about anything but best actor/actress and best film, that's what makes that sweet sweet ad revenue

What the fuck is "Chicago?"

>caring about any award shows
>caring about awards

Reddit Reddit go away, dont come again another day.

some shitty musical

a musical

how old are you it was a little too adhd at times. i liked it and saw it in theaters but its nothing great its a lego movie

>he rates oscars above palm doors