Oscar 2016 Picks

Well it has been a while hasn’t it.  It’s Oscars time again and I’m back with my picks.  It’ll be simple this year, I’ll say what I think will win and also in what order I really liked them (because they aren’t the same often. 

Also, I’m saving a write up of each movie for something else I’m working on.  Hopefully sometime in the near future I’ll be posting a megalist/almost database of movies released from 2013-now.  It’s currently at 657 movies so I should have just about everything covered.  I’m looking to move to a different site first so everything will work out better.  To the picks.

Best Picture

Winner: The Revenant

How I Liked Them:

1. The Revenant

2. Mad Max: Fury Road

3. Spotlight

4. Room

5. The Martian

6. Brooklyn

7. The Big Short

8. Bridge of Spies

Best Actor

Winner: Leo – The Revenant

My Order:

1. Leo – The Revenant

2. Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs

3. Bryan Cranston – Trumbo

4. Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

5. Matt Damon – The Martian (shouldn’t have been nominated)

Best Actress

Winner: Brie Larson

My Order:

1. Brie Larson - Room

2. Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn

3. Cate Blanchett – Carol

4. Jennifer Lawrence – Joy

(5. Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years) – Didn’t see it.  Was going to watch it today but took a nap instead.  Don’t say the Oscars are racist for “the whites” dumdum

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Stallone – Creed

My Order:

1. Tom Hardy – The Revenant

2. Stallone – Creed

3. Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight

4. Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

5. Christian Bale – The Big Short

Best Supporting Actress

Winner – Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

My Order

1. Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

2. Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

3. Rooney Mara – Carol

4. Jennifer Jason Lee – The Hateful Eight

5. Rachel Mc Adams – Spotlight (shouldn’t have been nominated)

Best Director

Winner – Alejandro Gonzalez iñárritu – The Revenant

My Order

1. Alejandro Gonzalez iñárritu – The Revenant

2. George Miller – Mad Max

3. Lenny Abrahamon – Room

4. Adam McKay – The Big Short

5. Thomas McCarthy - Spotlight

Best Original Screenplay

Winner – Spotlight

My Order

1. Spotlight

2. Inside Out

3. Bridge of Spies

4. Ex Machina

5. Straight Outta Compton (shouldn’t have been nominated)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner- The Big Short

My Order

1. The Big Short

2. Room

3. The Martian

4. Brooklyn

5. Carol

Best Animated Feature Film

Winner – Inside Out

My Order

1. Inside Out

2. When Marnie Was There

3. Anomalisa

4. Shaun the Sheep Movie

5. Boy & the World

Best Foreign Language Film – I only saw 2 of these.  I’m sorry, its usually my favorite category too.

Winner – Son of Saul

My Order

1. Mustang

2. Theeb

Son of Saul (need to see it)

Embrace of the Serpent (need to see it)

A War (need to see it)


Best Documentary – Feature

Winner – Amy

My Order

1. The Look of Silence (The Act of Killing not winning over 20 feet of stardom is still the worst thing I’ve seen at the Oscars.  I have no faith in them getting it right again and choosing this as the winner.  Will be hoping though)

2. Cartel Land

3. Amy

4. Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

5. What Happened, Miss Simone (shouldn’t have been nominated

Guys I suck at picking shorts – for the record

Best Documentary – Short Subject – only saw 2 of these sorry

Winner – Body Team 12 (seems to be the favorite)

My Order

1. Last Day of Freedom

2. Chau, Beyond the Lines

Body Team 12 (need to see)

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (need to see)

A Girl In the River: The Price of Forgiveness( need to see)


Best Live Action Short Film

Winner: Shok

My Order

1. Stutterer (really liked)

2. Shok

3. Everything Will Be Okay

4. Day One

5. Ave Maria (didn’t like but the betting favorite somehow so anything can happen)

Best Animated Short Film

Winner – Sanjay’s Super Team

My Order

1. Bear Story

2. Sanjay’s Super Team

3. World of Tomorrow

4. We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

5. Prologue (worst by far)


Best Original Score

Winner – The Hateful Eight

My Order

1. The Hateful Eight

2. Star Wars

3. Bridge of Spies

4. Sicario

5. Carol


Best Original Song – category I care the least about

Winner – Til It Happens to You – The Hunting Ground

My Order

Who Cares


Best Sound Editing – very similar to mixing this year

Winner – Mad Max

My Order:

1. Mad Max

2. The Revenant

3. Star Wars

4. The Martian

5. Sicario


Best Sound Mixing

Winner – Mad Max

My Order

1. Mad Max

2. The Revenant (close)

3. Star Wars

4. The Martian

5. Bridge of Spies



Best Production Design

Winner – Mad Max

My Order

1. Mad Max

2. The Danish Girl

3. The Revenant

4. The Martian

5. Bridge of Spies



Best Cinematography

Winner – The Revenant

1. The Revenant (all others have no chance)

2. Mad Max

3. Sicario

4. The Hateful Eight

5. Carol


Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Winner – Mad Max

My Order –

1. Mad Max

2. The Revenant

3. The 100 Year Old Man (they pretty much did one old face all movie)


Best Costume Design

Winner – Mad Max

My Order

1. Mad Max

2. Cinderella

3. The Danish Girl

4. Carol

5. The Revenant


Best Film Editing

Winner – Mad Max

My Order:

1. Mad Max

2. The Big Short (best thing it had going for it)

3. The Revenant

4. Spotlight

5. Star Wars


Best Visual Effects

Winner – Star Wars

My Order:

1. Star Wars

2. Mad Max

3. Ex Machina

4. The Martian

5. The Revenant

We’ll see how it goes.  I have Mad Max and The Revenant winning pretty much everything it seems.

Adieu

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