I watched it and itβs obvious that everyone there is a paid actor!!!
The Golden Melody Awards (Chinese speaking countries version of Grammys) will be happening in Taiwan on 21st August. While there's 2 weeks left, there's also 22 nominated albums for Album of the Year and 7 songs for Song of the Year so this will give some time for people to check them out before the awards. Most people know nothing about this music scene due to a) it being on the other side of the world and b) not speaking Mandarin. Because of this I thought I would share the list of nominated Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Music Video of the Year so people can check them out. Here is an English link to all nominations
One thing to note before all of this is that in the Chinese speaking music scene, ballads are the most common type of pop song, especially among the older generations. I'm not informed enough to explain why this is just that it's a thing due to the influence of Enka and Shidaiqu but people over at /r/cpop and /r/twmusic can probably help with info on that. It's only within the past 20 years that Dance Pop became more of a thing in the mainstream with Jolin Tsai and S.H.E. Hip hop & RnB has had around 10 years influence with Jay Chou leading in that area. Also all of these artists for SotY are Taiwanese but this award is also open to people from Singapore, China and Hong Kong, basically anyone that sings in Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka or the native Indigenous languages.
Last Year was a sweep for ABAO (ιΏη). An indigenous singer from the Paiwan group with Kinakaian ζ―θ¦ͺηθι (Mother Tongue). An RnB influenced album sung in her mother tongue and goes into Paiwan culture. Won't go too much into this since I could spend hours talking about how great it is but definitely check it out. Singles (All with Eng subs): Thank You ζθ¬, tjakudain η‘ε₯ (No Choice) ft. DJ Didilong, Kinakaian ζ―θ¦ͺηθι (Mother Tongue).
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Mayday are a Taiwanese powerhouse in the Mandarin music scene. This is a 5-piece band that started in 1997 and have had hit album after hit album ever since. The most popular music act in Taiwan, no questions asked. Multiple worldwide sellout tours, a cornerstone of KTVs (Karaoke) and have be
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I will only be posting the main awards here, for the rest of the award winners, please refer to their official website
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γ Best Male Singer (Mandarin) γ
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γ Album of the Year γ
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γ Song of the Year γ
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γ Best Band γ
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γ Best Vocal Group γ
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γ Best New Artist γ
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Among which, Soft Lipa, Hebe Tien, SANGPUY and Olivia Tsao are probably the biggest winners of the night
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This year, the In Memoriam Segment at the 2022 Oscars will be overshadowed by the loss of legends like Betty White. But, will the Academy take a special moment to mention the cinematographer who died on the set of Rust? The year that a crew member (camera assistant Sarah Jones) died on train tracks while making Midnight Rider, there was an outcry in the industry about safety. (Did you know the director pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter?) But she was not featured in the In Memoriam segment. Cowards.
The Alec Baldwin/Rust shooting shouldn't just get swept away by the machine that caused the accident. The film industry is constantly under pressure to produce in unsafe conditions in order to meet budgetary and time constraints. Halyna Hutchins untimely passing was the result of a workplace injury that was entirely preventable if the financial producers had not exerted undue pressure to produce work in unsafe conditions to meet unrealistic timeframes.
At the 2015 Oscars, Meryl Strep presented the In Memoriam segment. What she read prior to the video montage was really moving. Who will read the segment this year, and will they acknowledge the workplace accident on the Rust set?
- PE
Midnight Rider (2015)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/midnight-rider-director-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-crew-member/
2015 Oscars In Memoriam
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/midnight-rider-director-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-crew-member/
2021 In Memoriam Segment
https://abc.com/shows/oscars/news/oscar-news/oscars-in-memoriam-2021
About the 2022 Academy Awards
Oscar nominations voting begins on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, and will end on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. The official Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, with the ceremony taking place on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2022.
β’ The movie came out around peak awards season (December 1995).
β’ It starred Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Val Kilmer.
β’ It was critically acclaimed and made $187 million at the box office against a budget of $60 million.
β’ Director Michael Mann helmed critical and/or commercial hits with Thief, Manhunter and The Last Of The Mohicans.
I thought perhaps Warner Bros might have reserved their award campaign budget for a more successful/acclaimed film. However, I looked at the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominees and the only WB films that were nominated were Batman Forever (Cinematography, Sound, Sound Effects Editing), A Little Princess (Art Direction, Cinematography) and Something To Talk About (Kyra Sedgwick for the Best Supporting Actress), all of which were shut out.
It seems odd to me that Heat, with all of the attributes Academy voters usually love, didn't make the cut or was not submitted for consideration in the first place.
Hi guys and welcome back to another year of the Oscars Death Race! After another tough year, we finally have something new to look forward to and hopefully a great season to follow!!
As always we're going to start the season with our pre-screener thread where we'll have predictions for this year's awards. This is of course not definitive of what will be nominated but a great place to start on your own Death Race!
So please comment below with your own predictions for this year as well as any screeners you've come across. As usual, this thread will be regularly edited between now and the ceremony. Obviously linking to pirated content is against Reddit's TOS so we'll just be posting the titles of the screeners which one can use to search for the files by their own means.
Please feel free to comment below or message myself with the titles of any predicted nominations you are aware of or sources where they can be legitimately streamed (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc). For now the list is sparse and messy so bear with us. If you notice we have the title of a particular screener that you had problems with or you've found a superior copy of please let us know.
Obviously we'd all prefer to be able to have access to see movies in the cinema where they are meant to be seen, but due to members of this sub around the globe who don't get films made available to them, we think this resources is very important. If you have the opportunity to support the films you love please do. And don't forget to join us on Discord!
See last year's thread if you're new to how this works- hopefully this thread will look similar to that or to this one here by the time we're done.
Happy Death Race to you and your kin!
- Belfast: VoD / Belfast.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-CMRG
- Don't Look Up: Available of Netflix 24th December
- King Richard: HBO Max / King.Richard.2021.1080p.HMAX.WEBRip.DDP5.1.Atmos.x264-CM
- No Time to Die: VoD / No.Time.To.Die.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEBRip.1600MB.DD5.1.x264-GalaxyRG
- Coda: VoD / Coda.2021.1080p.WEBRip.1400MB.DD5.1.x264-GalaxyRG
- Dune: VoD / Dune.2021.1080p.HDRip.X264-EVO
- Licorice Pizza: Available in theaters Dec 25th (US)
- Parallel Mothers: Available in theaters Dec 24t
Voice acting has been around for as long as animation has been around, which I think is around 90 - 100 years but unfortunately, voice acting performances are very rarely given recognition, particularly in regards to award ceremonies. I personally feel like this is a bit of a travesty as voice performances are a HUGE part of animated movies, TV shows, etc. There have been so many amazing voice performances in the last 30+ years that for the most part, go completely disregarded aside from the Annie Awards of course. So I think award ceremonies like the Oscars, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guilds, etc. should add a category that would allow those performances to get the recognition they deserve.
Crypto is more than just technology. And the best tech can lose very badly.
People get into crypto for money. But it is not just that. It gives people, especially millennials and Gen-Z a sense of ownership ("I have a stake in this network"), shared value ("I'm a part of this vibrant and die-hard community"), and freedom ("I take my own risk to be rich or get rekted"). As a result, building a vibrant community and brand awareness is absolutely critical to the success of any crypto project. It is also a huge weakness of Hedera whether we like it or not.
The HBAR Foundation today has announced her partnership with AR Rahman to build a brand-new NFT music platform focused on Indiaβs independent music community, a move that we can only see its truly huge impacts on Hedera network and HBAR in particular in the next couple of months.
AR Rahman, two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Grammy Award winner, Golden Globe Award winner, is a proven Winner. His huge network and impact not just in Indian but the world music and entertainment industry is a real deal.
And imagine, if his NFT music platform turns out to be a huge business success (which likely to be the case), who else will join the party? Adele? Taylor Swift?
This is the influencer that we have been asking for. This is the kind of publicity we have been dreaming about. Let the hype train start. Let's hype the substance.
