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[the Talking Can]

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertain...rd-nominations

Complete list of 85th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Thursday:

1. Best Picture: "Amour," "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook," "Zero Dark Thirty."

2. Actor: Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"; Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"; Denzel Washington, "Flight."

3. Actress: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"; Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"; Quvenzhane Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; Naomi Watts, "The Impossible."

4. Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Argo"; Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"; Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"; Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained."

5. Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, "The Master"; Sally Field, "Lincoln"; Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"; Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"; Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook."

6. Directing: Michael Haneke, "Amour"; Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"; Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"; David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook."

7. Foreign Language Film: "Amour," Austria; "Kon-Tiki," Norway; "No," Chile; "A Royal Affair," Denmark; "War Witch," Canada.

8. Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, "Argo"; Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; David Magee,
"Life of Pi"; Tony Kushner, "Lincoln"; David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook."

9. Original Screenplay: Michael Haneke, "Amour"; Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"; John Gatins, "Flight"; Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, "Moonrise Kingdom"; Mark Boal, "Zero Dark Thirty."

10. Animated Feature Film: "Brave"; "Frankenweenie"; "ParaNorman"; "The Pirates! Band of Misfits"; "Wreck-It Ralph."

12. Cinematography: "Anna Karenina," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Skyfall."

15. Original Score: "Anna Karenina," Dario Marianelli; "Argo," Alexandre Desplat; "Life of Pi," Mychael Danna; "Lincoln," John Williams; "Skyfall," Thomas Newman.

16. Original Song: "Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," J. Ralph; "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted," Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane; "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri; "Skyfall" from "Skyfall," Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth; "Suddenly" from "Les Miserables," Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil.

18. Documentary Feature: "5 Broken Cameras," "The Gatekeepers," "How to Survive a Plague," "The Invisible War," "Searching for Sugar Man."

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

That's a great idea! New you prefer new school or old school musicals?
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High School.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by frazod

I'm reminded of Nazir from the Dark Brotherhood when I read your posts. "I particularly hate jesters. All that singing.... and mirth."

I have no idea who that is. Although Dr. Google tells me it's from Skyrim.

I love all kinds of stuff, books and movies and music and plays. But for some reason I just can't ****ing stand opera or musicals. I listen to hours and hours of orchestral music. I even listen to choral music, like say, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem or Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem (seriously, listen to that if you don't know it), but start some opera or a musical and I'll tune out in about 3 seconds flat.

No idea why.

[frazod]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I have no idea who that is. Although Dr. Google tells me it's from Skyrim.

I love all kinds of stuff, books and movies and music and plays. But for some reason I just can't ****ing stand opera or musicals. I listen to hours and hours of orchestral music. I even listen to choral music, like say, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem or Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem (seriously, listen to that if you don't know it), but start some opera or a musical and I'll tune out in about 3 seconds flat.

No idea why.

You haven't played Skyrim? Really?

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by frazod

You haven't played Skyrim? Really?

Didn't even buy it. They lost me with Oblivion.

[frazod]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Didn't even buy it. They lost me with Oblivion.

It's much better than Oblivion (nothing like those annoying gates that kept popping up in this one). The scope is mind-boggling. I've played over 800 hours and I'm stilling playing, still enjoying it and still finding stuff I hadn't found before.

[keg in kc]

ILM sizzle reel for The Avengers. Very cool stuff:

[Fire Me Boy!]

Honest titles and posters: http://twentytwowords.com/2013/01/11...-best-picture/

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Jesus, I can't believe how much talk there is about a flippin musical in here. Do we need to open up a new subforum on doilies or something?

+1.

I like music, I like plays. HATE musicals.

[TrueFanDave]

Just finished Silver Linings Playbook. Very good movie.

Jennifer Lawrence is awesome.

[Fairplay]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Django, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty were good enough for best picture but not director?

As a rule if the movie is up for Best picture but not director it won't win.

[Fairplay]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Jesus, I can't believe how much talk there is about a flippin musical in here. Do we need to open up a new subforum on doilies or something?

Interestingly I can go out to the Starlight theater and watch a live musical performance and get into it but if its in a movie format I have little or no interest in seeing it.

[Red Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by Fairplay

Interestingly I can go out to the Starlight theater and watch a live musical performance and get into it but if its in a movie format I have little or no interest in seeing it.

Movie musicals - especially movie versions of established stage musicals - are usually a disaster. This one is not.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Fairplay

As a rule if the movie is up for Best picture but not director it won't win.

I'm pretty certain Lincoln is gonna win best picture.

Hollywood loves the Well done historical epic. Especially one with social aspects and messages.

[TrueFanDave]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I'm pretty certain Lincoln is gonna win best picture.

Hollywood loves the Well done historical epic. Especially one with social aspects and messages.

Tried to watch that last week. Boring as ****.

[DaveNull]

I thought lincoln was great, but am hoping it goes to Argo.

Anything but Le Mis.