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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
It is nonsense to make a prediction this early, I'm well aware of that. And y'all need to know that I'm the one person who didn't care for Budapest so there is no bias here. Following their heroic crowning of 12 Years A Slave, I think the academy will be eager to award a light-hearted movie the top prize this year. Sure this could change if Gone Girl, Fox Catcher, Inherent Vice, etc... are undeniable once-in-a-lifetime pictures, but I'm going to assume they will just be "really good". I see a couple things that are working heavily in its favor. 1) They can award an overdue Wes Anderson. He is one the most respected filmmakers in Hollywood, all the guilds love him, yet he has never received a single best picture or best director nomination. 2) They can show that opening earlier than October will not doom your best picture chances. From a producers point of view this should be a huge goal. Look at Chef, which is heading for $30M+. Even with Favs and RDJ, I doubt it does that in the fall. Why? Because there's a hundred other movies appealing to the exact same audience. 3) I'm basing this on nothing, I haven't seen the movie, but I feel like there will be a Boyhood backlash in the coming months. Someone high up will think its just OK, but feel the need to go into detail about all its flaws just because everyone else is calling it perfect. Call it Social Network syndrome. 4) For once Wes will have the support of the actors guild. There's usually no time for a powerhouse performance in an Anderson ensemble movie, but here he lets Fiennes shine and dominate the film. 5) And lastly, nobody seems to have a problem with it (other than me). Nobody seems to care that Jude Law's narration is annoying, exhausting and pointless. Nobody else seems to mind that Wes cuts off half the screen. It's an easy movie to get behind and feel good about supporting. I'll post more reasons as I think of them. |
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| Author: | _axiom [ Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Nomination? Maybe. Win? Absolutely no. Even if it came out in November or later it wouldn't win. It's just no BP winner movie that Academy would go for. |
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| Author: | Algren [ Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Nah, it'll be something released closer to the Oscars. |
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| Author: | trixster [ Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
it's gonna lose to boyhood |
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| Author: | Libs [ Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Absolutely not. It won't even be nominated. IMO, Boyhood is the only movie released so far this year with a shot at a Best Picture nod. |
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| Author: | Algren [ Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
I guess I need to see Boyhood now. |
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| Author: | publicenemy#1 [ Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
no thanks, I also wasn't a huge fan of the movie. Anderson could get a nom though if there isn't much competition, and Ralph Fiennes will almost certainly be nominated. |
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| Author: | nghtvsn [ Sat Aug 09, 2014 8:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
I concur. Nomination Possible. Win 0% |
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| Author: | David [ Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
What I would love to see happen is a Best Actor nomination for Ralph Fiennes. |
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| Author: | Steve [ Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Yes, a nomination for the delightful Fiennes would be marvelous!!! But in regards to the thread topic, and echoing everyone else's sentiments, there's no way this will ever happen. I arrived at my conclusion through the following logic: My favorite movie of the year has never won Best Picture. |
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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
I think Fiennes will win the Golden Globe for Comedy, but lose to Steve Carrell at the oscars. |
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| Author: | publicenemy#1 [ Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Fiennes wouldn't be supporting? I probably would place him there but I guess like Gene Hackman in Tenenbaums he would be considered lead. |
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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Well, well, well this guy isn't looking so crazy anymore. I don't think it is a stretch to say that absolutely nothing has emerged as a frontrunner, which was one of my conditions for a Budapest win. Boom diggy. Now it just needs a political spin... |
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| Author: | _axiom [ Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
I forgot this came out this year. Feels like it was two years ago. |
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| Author: | Libs [ Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Flava'd vs The World wrote: Well, well, well this guy isn't looking so crazy anymore. I don't think it is a stretch to say that absolutely nothing has emerged as a frontrunner, which was one of my conditions for a Budapest win. Boom diggy. Now it just needs a political spin... Gurl, this isn't happening. Pack it in. |
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| Author: | Webslinger [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 1:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
I'm as big of a Wes Anderson fan as anyone else out there (and I love this movie), but there's absolutely no way that it's winning Best Picture. Even getting nominated is probably going to be a struggle. |
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| Author: | Renton [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 6:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
This is not even getting nominated for Best Picture. |
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| Author: | zwackerm [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 5:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Renton wrote: This is not even getting nominated for Best Picture. It will be lucky to get one or two nominations for anything. Moonrise Kingdom just got one for Screenplay, and its hard to argue this was a considerably better film, if at all. |
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| Author: | jmovies [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 5:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Considering how weak BSA is this year I still say Fiennes gets a nom in that category |
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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
How is Fiennes a supporting actor though? He is on screen for 80% of the film. |
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| Author: | _axiom [ Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Flava'd vs The World wrote: How is Fiennes a supporting actor though? He is on screen for 80% of the film. Screentime makes no difference. Longest performance to win a supporting acting Oscar Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973) - 1 hour, 6 minutes and 58 seconds. Longest performance to be nominated for a supporting acting Oscar Frank Finlay in Othello (1965) - 1 hour, 30 minutes and 43 seconds. Shortest performance to win a lead acting Oscar Patricia Neal in Hud (1963) - 21 minutes and 51 seconds. |
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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Yeah, but except for the romance, no one else in the film even has an arc. Fiennes is front and center because the film revolves around him. It would be absolute fraud if Fiennes was in supporting. |
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| Author: | _axiom [ Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
http://www.goldderby.com/photos/254/3338/20.-george-clooney-'syriana'.html |
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| Author: | David [ Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Fox Searchlight is (rightly, in my opinion) campaigning Fiennes as a lead: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/fyc/film/gbh/categories/ He deserves a nomination, but will not receive one. |
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| Author: | Dr. Lecter [ Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Grand Budapest Hotel Best Picture Club |
Honestly, this is still not winning, but it could end up with most nominations. I see at least 8, up to 10. |
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