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The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards are out

That Zootopia is nominated is not a big surprise and to see a german Movie for best foreign Movie is nice too

All I want is for Kubo to win SOMETHING. They totally earned every award in my book though I fear they'll get snubbed by the more popular Moana or Zootopia…

Well we all wished that, but… remember when big hero 6 beat 2 criticly aclaim movies? yeah, Moana/Zootopia will probably win

Interesting fact: O.J.: Made in America, the ESPN production, has a listed running time of a whopping 467 minutes (7 hours and 47 minutes), and was nominated this year for Best Documentary (Feature). The current record for longest film to win an Academy Award is "the U.S.S.R.-produced War and Peace" at 431 minutes (Best Foreign Language Film). So we could have a record breaker there this year.

Very glad that Zootopia, Moana, and Kubo and the Two Strings are all nominated for Best Animated Feature. I haven't seen Your Name yet (comes out in April for the United States), but I will say it's a shame that it isn't nominated--although I heard Makoto Shinkai doesn't really want to be nominated, so I guess it's good that it goes with his wishes?

I have a feeling that Zootopia might win though because of the whole "culturally relevant" feel to it, plus the judges not really giving two shits about the animation category because "HURR DURR FOR KIDZ" I wouldn't mind if Zootopia won, since I want that to win along with Moana and Kubo (though most of my hopes are for Kubo)

As for Visuals, I would've been shocked if Doctor Strange didn't get nominated--what DID shock me was seeing Kubo in that category because I didn't expect to see an animated film at all in that category (but Kubo is stop-motion, so it's almost live-action, like 15% live action).

I'm not too surprised that La La Land has 14 nominations, it's practically a love letter to Los Angeles and old-school musicals. I actually saw that movie recently and I thought it was pretty good. Nice music, good visuals, good chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone (who knew they can sing so well?)

I also wanna note how Doctor Strange is the only Marvel movie on that list. To be honest, I was kinda expecting Deadpool to pop up somewhere there after the Golden Globes. Hell, even SUICIDE SQUAD got a nomination for makeup, which is hilarious considering how many people online were negative towards that subject after they were first revealed *cough*HarleyQuinnJoker*cough*

As for the awards ceremony, I'm kind of afraid to watch it because I feel they're gonna hammer in the whole "Hey, Trump is president and we don't approve!" schtick like they did with the diversity thing last year.
Speaking of which, even though I don't give a shit about the whole diversity thing in the awards, at least people can finally shut up about the whole #OscarsSoWhite thing. As I mentioned last year, a person's race doesn't define an acting award, if the person acted very well enough to get approval from judges, then that person deserves the nomination.

I wonder if alt right trolls are gonna create a hashtag called #OscarsSoBlack.

Anyways, La La Land is entering as the huge favorite. Let me give you guys a detail of what the Best Picture noms are all about:

La La Land – A romantic musical about a musician and an actress finding true love in LA.

Moonlight – An autobiographical film about a gay black man struggling with his identity in 1980s Miami.

Manchester By The Sea – A man returns to a small town to look over his nephew after the nephew's father died.

Arrival – Aliens arrive on Earth and it's up to a scientist to translate their messages in order to avoid war.

Lion – The true story of an Indian man who used Google Earth to reunite himself with his parents.

Hidden Figures – The true story of how black female mathematicians helped America with the Space Race without getting the attention they deserved.

Hacksaw Ridge – A pacifist stands by his refusal to fight while he was serving in World War II.

Hell Or High Water – In the West, a pair of brothers carry out various heists in order to save their farm.

Fences – Based on the theatrical play, a man and his son attempt to pursue their sports dreams but face racial discrimination in the 1950s.

OH BOY IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN WHERE THE OSCAR COMMITTEE WHIP OUT THEIR ELITIST DICKS AND SUCK EACH OTHER DRY ONCE AGAIN

In all seriousness, I at least recognize most of the movies being awarded, unlike last year where I swear most of the "Best Picture" nominations were released 2 days before the actual ceremony, which really pissed me off (also for the fact that I wholeheartedly disagree with the winner, but I've learned that the only important awards are in terms of production and design, the "main" awards are just pandering and validation nowadays)

I'm also really shocked at how Nocturnal Animals was snubbed barring Michael Shannon's nomination. That movie was fantastic what the fuck

For Animation, I know the Academy is once again going to go "Just give it to the Disney movie" "But there's two Disney movies up for nomination" "Fuck if I care, give it to the one that sparked the most maymay's or something I don't have time for this" even though I think Kubo was best in terms of how it was actually animated. I'm not saying the others had bad animation (I'm still blown away by the water animation in Moana), but the scale and detail of Kubo I think deserves it more, though we all know Zootopia is going to win (I didn't hate the movie, it's good, I just think it was vastly overrated like Big Hero 6)

Piper better win best animated short, that was hands down Pixar's best animation and was dangerously fatal levels of cuteness

I'm leaning towards Arrival and Moonlight for Best Picture, both were fantastic as well (and Arrival winning means the Academy is actually beginning to give a shit about Sci-Fi movies which would be a first)

I don't think I'll watch the ceremony, I think Rylade is right in that it's going to be half awards, half shitting on Trump and really I'm just fucking sick of politics right now and last year's jokes were incredibly unfunny, and this year probably won't be any better. And Jimmy Kimmel's hosting fuck that.

TL;DR – Unpopular movie opinions and general hatred at the Academy

Oscars are next Sunday.

Just waiting for obligatory soap boxes as opposed to acceptance speeches. After all, this is Hollywood.

Best Supporting Actor – Mahershala Ali in Moonlight
Best Makeup and Hairstyling – Suicide Squad
Best Costume Design – Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Best Documentary – OJ: Made In America

Best Sound Editing – Arrival
Best Sound Mixing – Hacksaw Ridge
Best Supporting Actress – Viola Davis in Fences

Best Foreign Film – The Salesman (Iran)
Best Animated Short – Piper
Best Animated Film – Zootopia
Best Production Design – La La Land

Best Visual Effects – The Jungle Book
Best Film Editing – Hacksaw Ridge
Best Documentary Short – The White Helmets
Best Live Action Short – Sing

Once again, stop being salty.

Best Cinematography – La La Land
Best Original Score – La La Land
Best Original Song – City Of Stars in La La Land

Best Original Screenplay – Manchester By The Sea
Best Adapted Screenplay – Moonlight
Best Director – Damien Chazelle for La La Land
Best Actor – Casey Affleck in Manchester By The Sea
Best Actress – Emma Stone in La La Land

LA LA LAND WINS BEST PICTURE!

Edit: WTF?! THEY FUCKED UP! MOONLIGHT WON!

Yeah that got me as well, Jimmy Kimmel is weird.

Was kinda of sad some of the nominations I wanted didn't win, but oh well.

AND THE WINNER OF BEST PICTURE
LA LA LAND

So I finally got to see the whole Oscars presentation, and I gotta say this was really enjoyable.

For the winners, it's a bit disappointing to me that Doctor Strange didn't win the VFX award, but I am glad Jungle Book won it--I forgot all of that was made in a studio rather than a legit jungle, not to mention the motion capture. I do find it funny how Suicide Squad, a polarizing DCEU movie, got an Oscar (even if it was technical), yet Doctor Strange, a more positively-recieved MCU movie, didn't.
In Best Animated Feature, I'm glad Zootopia won it. As mentioned before, I would've been fine if either that, Kubo, or Moana took it since I loved all three. Though I was rooting for Kubo and the Two Strings because that movie stuck with me a lot more.
And I'm so glad Emma Stone got that award. She was great in La La Land, especially with when singing.
And speaking of La La Land, when that mistakenly got the Best Picture award, I was like "Oh all right, not really surprising." But then we did get that Steve Harvey moment that Moonlight was the legit winner, and I still wasn't surprised it won (it was a prediction of mine that it would win given the praise it got); that moment though did surprise me. My mom thinks Moonlight (as well as the other black winners) only won the award because they were black. I disagree with her, but at the same time I thought about what happened last year and she may have a point.

For the presentation, as I said I actually enjoyed it. I loved the way it opened with Justin Timberlake having everyone join the fun; I liked how Jimmy Kimmel's "rivalry" with Matt Damon was brought into the show; the unsuspecting tourists and food parachutes were amazing, too. And I was afraid that they'd keep shitting on Trump, so I was glad that they didn't focus too much on all that and only brought him up when relevant (that Iranian movie winning Best Foreign Film but the director couldn't come because of Trump's ban).

In short, really good show in my opinion despite the Best Picture snafu. After the awards, I'd say movies I gotta check out from it are Arrival and Moonlight.

Like no other mainstream events that always like to brag about being anti-Trump which might be outdated or unnecessary for any mood, The Oscars have subtle approaches by not dropping his name.
Source (cited from Washington Post wrapped in archive.is, read with cautious)

Welp, Now I can finally stop talking about this ceremony.