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Topic: 2013 Academy Award Nominations
Are Announced (Full List) |
2013 Academy Award Nominations
Are Announced (Full List)
Wall Street Journal, by Barbara Chai
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Posted By:abuela10, 1/10/2013 9:14:41 AM
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| The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards, or Oscars, were announced by Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone Thursday. The ceremony, which will air Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, will also be hosted by MacFarlane. “Lincoln” led the pack with 12 nominations, including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Other films receiving nominations were “Silver Linings Playbook,” including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress, and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” including Best Director, Best
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/10/2013 9:20:22 AM (No. 9108598)
I nominate Barack Hussein Obama, for Best Actor. His performance has millions believing he is actually an American president. Amazing!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dolphin, 1/10/2013 9:22:25 AM (No. 9108602)
I find I really don´t need to watch movies any more.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Feebie, 1/10/2013 9:27:06 AM (No. 9108609)
I could give two rips.
I hope this entire industry drifts into irrelevance. What a bunch of elitist, congratulatory, self-important, silicone sell-outs in over priced, gaudy outfits. (Pah-tooey).
Wake me when it´s over. The silver screen stars and starlets that made the Hollywood crowd worthy of praised are past extinct.
Talentless hacks. The whole lot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
VinGoombatz, 1/10/2013 9:27:44 AM (No. 9108611)
Bad week for me. No nomination at the Peepuls Choyce Awards...now no nomination for the Ack-cademy Awe-ards. Damn.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 1/10/2013 9:31:24 AM (No. 9108618)
......yawn............
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
canadiandruid, 1/10/2013 9:33:43 AM (No. 9108624)
#5 was my response when i watched lincoln
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DSchneider, 1/10/2013 9:37:28 AM (No. 9108633)
"Lincoln" is very, very good. "Les Miserables" is perhaps the best film from Hollywood in the last ten years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Immanuel Goldstein, 1/10/2013 9:45:34 AM (No. 9108650)
It´s not that the film makers in Hollywood aren´t talented, or that they don´t make movies with value. It´s that they choose to funnel garbage at us, and champion values that undercut the principles that this country was founded upon. They praise depravity and despise virtue, and they get rewarded for this with obscene and despicable wealth. And they had the nerve to to blame Romney for the wealth that he honestly created.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/10/2013 9:46:06 AM (No. 9108652)
I nominate Vice President Joe Biden for the Best Comedy Performance of the Year.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mitzi, 1/10/2013 9:55:37 AM (No. 9108671)
The last time I went to the movies was August 2003.
I only recall the incident because I was on vacation in FL and it was raining ... not much else to do, and I was recovering from arm surgery. It was a movie about a race horse.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
vrb8m, 1/10/2013 9:57:34 AM (No. 9108677)
I liked True Grit.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
theoat, 1/10/2013 10:11:49 AM (No. 9108720)
Lincoln - that´s CSPAN with whiskers. Let´s listen to D. D. Lewis raise his voice (just like he does in all his movies). He sounds just like Lincoln, oh wait, no one really knows what Lincoln sounds like. A real snooze list.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Roll Tide, 1/10/2013 10:22:05 AM (No. 9108745)
I´ve never heard of 90% of these people. I´m aware of "Lincoln" because of it´s hype. --But I DO am familiar with a LOT of Barbara Stanwyck movies I saw on TCM last month. Thank goodness for that network--despite the fact that it was founded by Turner.... The escapism is about all that gets me by sometimes! Can´t take the news channels anymore.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Roll Tide, 1/10/2013 10:23:21 AM (No. 9108752)
Sorry for that mistyped, nonsense sentence above.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/10/2013 10:28:40 AM (No. 9108775)
I think Les Miserables has gotten mixed reviews because of its Christian message and because Hugo himself had certain free market leanings (noting how Jean Valjean´s factory lifted up the people in his town and how, after he had to go on the run, the people again descended into poverty and stopped paying taxes). All of this could be ignored on the stage because the music was the star of the show. That is, I think, why so many complain that the singing isn´t as good in the movie as in the play.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
farmwife, 1/10/2013 10:30:01 AM (No. 9108779)
I atually spent money to go see ´Lincoln´. Wish I had it back. Over hyped.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
AltaD, 1/10/2013 11:01:23 AM (No. 9108891)
When did they start nominating more than 5 movies for best picture? And if there are so many wonderful movies each year, why only 5 nominees for all other categories?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
joew9, 1/10/2013 11:07:10 AM (No. 9108901)
The only movies I´ve been to in a decade were 2016 and Life of Pi.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
rosefenn, 1/10/2013 11:28:20 AM (No. 9108956)
Loved Les Mis. Also loved Moonrise Kingdom, MIB3, Argo, The Avengers, The Hunger Games, and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (the better of the 2 Lincoln movies released last year!) As long as they don´t preach to me, or treat me like a ploddingly backward 7 year old, I am happy to give them my money so they can entertain me. But the Oscars are a joke, a bad joke. Haven´t watched them in years.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
45_Auto, 1/10/2013 11:48:35 AM (No. 9109020)
I´m with #11, John Wayne was great!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 1/10/2013 11:50:02 AM (No. 9109025)
I liked the Lincoln movie--"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", that is.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Agent Orange, 1/10/2013 1:00:16 PM (No. 9109166)
One of the worse movies I´ve seen in years was the "Master", it was disconnected and really had no plot line, but the worse film of the year had to be Brad Pitt´s "Killing then Softly", Most everyone in the theatre walked out before the movie ended.
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