Having just seen it (in Final Cut form) for the second time and having found both a lot of new things to love and several things to criticize, I have to ask--will a Blade Runner commentary ever be in our future?

Umm... that's a no brainer, Gwyneth of course!

Jimmy B wrote:

redxavier wrote:

I want Gravity to win [Gary Oldman]every one![/Gary Oldman], but would retain my faith in humanity if it won cinematography, effects and directing.

As much as I love Gravity and want it to win awards, I'd rather Deakins won cinematography for Prisoners because-

a) that movie looks great
b) I want it to win something as it didn't get any performance noms
c) he's Deakins and has never won one yet which is tragic

Everything this man just said. I don't even take the Oscars that seriously but it would be nice for Deakins to finally win that fucking award.

Nope, forget everything I said. The Onion has this shit nailed down.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-on … cks,34975/

I think DocSub might be right. I really wish Gravity would sweep, but I suspect that won't happen. It'll be a repeat of Life of Pi last year, where it picks up all the technicals, cinematography, and best director, while 12 years a slave gets best picture.

Don't underestimate American Hustle though, apparently the academy really likes it.

Also wish Oblivion had picked up a Cinematography nod, but what can you do.

Dividing it into genders is kind of fucked up, sure. But here's the thing: it's more that the entire situation is fucked up, and the "dividing genders" solution is the fairest triage in the meantime. I feel sort of the same way about affirmative action. "Is this fucked up?" "Yes." "Would stopping it make the situation better?" "Well... no. Not by itself, no. That'd probably be worse. You have to do more than that."

From whom do most of the best performances come? For whom do most of the best parts get written? Hell, by whom are most of the scripts written? It's all dudes. It's a general institutionalized guy-thing, like everywhere else. It's not that there's more-betterer male actors, or writers, or anything. It's that the movie industry is still largely a bunch of dudes, telling stories about other dudes, to other dudes. Women get the short-shrift systemically.

So, we could make one tiny little "fair" move in this overall scenario, and say "men and women should be treated equally, goddamnit, so they're all in one actor category now!" And on paper, that would be fairer. But that's in a vacuum, that's not real life - if we made that one change right now, while the rest of the situation is moving so much more slowly toward equilibrium, virtually no women would win Best Actor. It's not that all the great actresses on Earth would die overnight, it's that we'd suddenly be beholden to the schedule of the larger system evening out. We'd be waiting on the entire industry to become Actually Fair. Where great women writers are selling great scripts with great parts for great women actors that'll be voted on by great swaths of female actors in the category. Same as the guys.

And god knows how long that'll take.

Honestly, the one that bugs me is "comedienne." But whatever.

As an anti-shitty patron activist, I'm gonna go on record as saying I find this excessive.