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    (Contest) Predict the Upcoming 2019 Oscars....

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     I don't know if anyone on here has yet to already start this, but here it goes anyway

    No prizes to give away, though TCM should have an official annual contest, especially during 31 Days of Oscar

     

    Please feel free to try & outguess the now over 9,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences & if you like just forecast as many as you want, or the total overall 24

     

    As for me in my 38th year here goes        (Who I Think Will Win)     come Sunday February 9th, 2020

    Best Picture: 1917

    Actor: Joaquin Phoenix in Joker-(A BLOW OUT!)

    Actress: Renee Zellweger in Judy

    Supporting Actor:  Brad Pitt, 0nce Upon a Time in Hollywood

    Supporting Actress: Laura Dern, Marriage Story

    Best Director: Sam Mendes for 1917

    Adapted-Screenplay: Little Women

    Original-Screenplay: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

    Foreign-Film: Parasite

    0riginal-Score: 1917

    0riginal-Song: RocketMan

    Cinematography:  l9l7

    Film Editing: The Irishman

    Production Design:  l9l7

    Costumes: Little Women

    Visuals: The Irishman

    Make-Up/Hair: Joker

    Sound Mixing: l9l7

    Sound editing: l9l7

    Animated-Feature: Toy Story 4

     

    The rest are just too tedious, though I entered them in various contests   PLEASE JOIN IN & I THANK YOU

     

     

     

     

     

    Which Hollywood stars smoked the most cigs???

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    14 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:

    As far as the heaviest smokers in the entertainment industry I'll vote for these three:  JACKIE GLEASON, REDD FOXX, FRANK GORSHIN.   

    The hardest breathing I've ever heard from someone not hooked up to oxygen was Redd Foxx.  I felt bad for Redd.  

    There is an interview uploaded to YT with the heading 'Lost Interview' conducted by Allen Stewart:  Redd was 65 when did this interview early in 1988 from a New Orleans nightclub.  He was traveling all over the country for the Miller Lite Comedy Search.  The interview is 4 minutes 15 seconds;  Redd is practically gasping for breath.  The microphone was placed on his shirt at such a spot where it picked up Redd's labored breathing.  Foxx also talked about his new record label 'Redbird Records' or 'Reddbird Records' and the various artists he had signed to it, but it looks like the label never got off the ground.  I've never seen anything released on that label.  And I've looked.     

    As far as who smoked the most onscreen going from the movies I've seen I'll go with Bogey and Bette and Peter Lorre.  I've seen several movies of late featuring Peter Lorre and he was obviously a heavy smoker at that time.   

    His contemporaries also say Lorre was another big boozer

    With 1917 likely on the verge of an Oscar sweep how many War-Films won Best Picture?

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    30 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:

    Depends whether or not you consider a "war picture" to be contained TO a particular war instead of the periods BEFORE the war, DURING the war and AFTER.  

    And PATTON('70) won best picture, but is listed as a "biography", but IMHO, since it only covers George Patton's life during WWII and not his entire life, I never thought of it as a biography, but a damned fine war movie. 

    Sepiatone

    I know over 40yrs since I fell for the MOVIES as a kid people call PATTON both

    With 1917 likely on the verge of an Oscar sweep how many War-Films won Best Picture?

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    2 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:

    You're quite welcome.   But as SCHINDLER'S LIST and THE GREAT ESCAPE  tell stories that take place DURING the war, I consider them more of "war pictures" before CWYW, which covers the Antebellum south and the post war reconstruction.  And too, BOAN is more about post civil war than during.  And by that criteria too, and since BILL HOLDEN was the only statuette winner for STALAG 17, had the movie won, it would have qualified for this poll.  ;) 

    Sepiatone

    The late Mr. 0sborne's A #1 favorite actor was William (Sefton) Holden-(l9l8-l98l)

    Awards season 2019-2020

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    7 hours ago, jakeem said:

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    As it stands right now & looking ahead my still early-(until 7 days prior)  predictions only in the top 6 major races are> 1917, J. Phoenix, Renee Zellweger, Brad Pit, Laura Dern & Sam Mendes

    Awards season 2019-2020

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    On 1/18/2020 at 12:19 PM, jakeem said:
    Some things to consider before watching the 92nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will air  Sunday, February 9, 2020 on ABC:
     
    A member of one of Hollywood's most distinguished families, composer Thomas Newman has earned a Primetime Emmy Award (for his haunting theme to the onetime HBO series "Six Feet Under") and five Grammys for various television and film projects. But he has never won an Academy Award after 14 previous nominations. 
     
    He has been honored with an Oscar bid for the 15th time for his original score for "1917," which marks his seventh collaboration with director Sam Mendes.

    Newman's father was the legendary composer Alfred Newman (1901-1970), who created the 20th Century-Fox fanfare and earned 45 Academy Award nominations. He won nine times.

    Alfred's brother Lionel (1916-1989), who scored more than 200 films and television productions,  was nominated for 11 Oscars and shared a statuette with Lennie Hayton for their work on the 1970 musical "Hello Dolly."  He also co-created the catchy theme song for the NBC series "Daniel Boone," which ran from 1964 to 1970.

    Thomas Newman's brother David also is a composer who has scored more than 100 films.

    Adding to Thomas' anxiety about the upcoming Oscar night is the fact that he'll be competing against another Newman heavyweight. His  cousin Randy, a two-time Academy Award winner, is nominated in the Original Score category  for his musical contributions to the drama "Marriage Story." He also is nominated in the Best Original Song category for "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" from "Toy Story 4."

    Randy Newman knows from personal experience how frustrating Oscar hopes can be. He went winless 15 times before he finally won the 2001 Best Original Song award for "If I Didn't Have You" from the animated film "Monsters, Inc." He triumphed again nine years later with "We Belong Together" from the 2010 animated sequel "Toy Story 3."

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    Thomas Newman is hoping for his first Academy Award victory after 15th nominations

    As for his work on "1917," Thomas Newman knew from the start that he would have to make adjustments. The World War I drama is shot as if it was the story of a continuous series of events.

    "I knew going in that this was going to be a first time for everyone, because of this present-tense thing," Newman told Steve Pond of The Wrap. "I had to constantly be thinking about what worked and what didn’t — and why it worked when it did, and why it didn’t work when it didn’t."

    He added: "Any time I tried to write music that commented on what was happening, it didn’t make the movie as exciting. I had to stay in the present tense and not try to outsell or outmaneuver what you were seeing on screen."

    Here is a list of Newman's overall Oscar nominations:

    • "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994). Best Original Score.
    • "Little Women" (1994). Best Original Score.
    • "Unstrung Heroes" (1995). Best Original Music or Comedy Score.
    • "American Beauty" (1999). Best Original Score.
    • "Road to Perdition" (2002). Best Original Score.
    • "Finding Nemo" (2003). Best Original Score.
    • "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (2004). Best Original Score.
    • "The Good German" (2006). Best Original Score.
    • "WALL-E" (2008). Best Original Score.
    • "WALL-E" (2008). Best Original Song (for "Down to Earth," shared with Peter Gabriel).
    • "Skyfall" (2012). Best Original Score.
    • "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013). Best Original Score.
    • "Bridge of Spies" (2015). Best Original Score.
    • "Passengers" (2016). Best Original Score.
    • "1917" (2019). Best Original Score.

    excellent work again   If anything defeats it this time it will likely be The Joker

    Best Endings & Beginnings in film history?

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    4 minutes ago, spence said:

    although the first 2 are my favorite films ever, this 3rd in the trilogy was good (***) at best & the audience even laughed at this finale

    Duvall knew better then to stay out

    It just goes to show you how uptight the Academy can be & still is This score won one of it's 6 Oscars, but the first was deemed ineligible due to being used in a 1950's Italian film?' & yet AFI in 06 voted THE GODFATHER as the 4th all-time greatest score

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