Sam Mendes’ 1917 opened in wide release 2 years ago today. The $95M film opened with $37M, finishing with $159.2M DOM and $384.9M WW. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, it won Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.
News: Joker receives 11 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling
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Bohemian Rhapsody opened in theaters 2 years ago today. The $52M biopic opened with $51M, finishing with $216.6M DOM and $903.9M WW, making it the highest grossing music biopic of all time. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, it won 4 for Best Actor, Best Sound Mixing and Editing, and Best Film Editing.
[Film/TV] Joker receives 11 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling
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Joker receives 11 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling
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My father is nominated for Best Sound Mixing at this year's Academy Awards. Movie buffs of Reddit, how much do you care about these categories?
About 10 years ago Mike Meyers presented the award and his lead-in was a big joke about how no one gives a shit. He said something like "and now the moment everyone has been waiting for, to see their favorite sound mixers like Chet Flippy and Brad Hrjehwjrkhre..." My dad thought it was hilarious, but every sound mixer he knows was pissed as all hell. Since then the Academy has tried to make a big deal about the category to apologize, but I was just curious about what the public thinks. Thanks Reddit!
93rd Academy awards TENET: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Branagh), Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing
And the rest of the awards for the other competing movies...
Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper, opened in wide release 7 years ago today. The $58.8M film opened with $89.3M ($107.2M over 4 days), finishing with $350.1M DOM and $547.4M WW. Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, it won Best Sound Editing.
The Last Jedi has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards: Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score and Visual Effects.
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula, starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves, opened 29 years ago today. The $40M film opened with $30.5M, finishing with $82.5M DOM and $215.9M WW. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, it won Best Costume Design, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Makeup.
Mel Gibson’s Braveheart opened 26 years ago today. The $72M film opened with $9.9M, finishing with $75.6M DOM and $213.2M WW. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, it won 5 including Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, Sound Effects Editing and Makeup.
James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari, starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon, opened in theaters 1 year ago today. The $97.6M film opened with $31.4M, finishing with $117.6M DOM and $225.5M WW. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, it won Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing.
Pixar’s The Incredibles opened in theaters 16 years ago today. The $92M animated film opened with $70.4M, finishing with $261.4M DOM and $631.6M WW. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, it won Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing. A sequel was released 14 years later.
Sidney Poitier’s Oscars acceptance speech after he became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor (1964)
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LPT: Look for a film that has won the Academy Award for Best Sound to really evaluate your new soundbar/home theater system that you find under your Christmas tree.
The award ecognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design and sound editing and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers, re-recording mixers and supervising sound editors of the winning film.
TIL boom mic operator on the original Star Wars, Ken Nightingall, AKA the 'Pink Shorts Boom Guy', was uncredited for his work on Star Wars and, despite it winning both a BAFTA and an Academy Award for best sound, wasn't included on the award citation either.
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Apple honored with historic first Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature for “Wolfwalkers” and Best Sound for “Greyhound”
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TIL that at the 59th Academy Awards, the award for Best Sound was presented by Marlee Matlin, who would later that night become the first deaf actor to ever win an Oscar
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Sidney Poitier’s Oscars acceptance speech after he became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. 1964.
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Heath Ledger, winner of the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance as Joker 🃏🪦
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant opened in wide release 6 years ago today. The $135M film opened with $39.8M, finishing with $183.6M DOM and $533M WW. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, it won Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio.
In Braveheart (1995), the SFX used when the English are shooting the Scots at the Battle of Stirling Bridge was later borrowed from Core Design on the opening sequence of their video game Tomb Raider II (1997). Additionally, Braveheart won an Academy Award (1996) for best sound effects editing.
Academy award winner for best visual effects. 80% practical, notice how the shockwave moves the shipping container in the first thirty seconds as it reverses.
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NEWS: The Suicide Squad has been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Makeup & Hairstyling.
La La Land opened 5 years ago today. The $30M film opened in 5 theaters with $881K (a per theater average of $176K, the best one of 2016), finishing with $151.1M DOM and $447.4M WW. Nominated for 14 Academy Awards, it won 6 including Best Director for Damien Chazelle and Best Actress for Emma Stone.
Do you think 2001 should have won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, and Best Screenplay?
Do you think 2001 should have won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, and Best Screenplay?
I personally think it's a travesty it did not win any of these, kind of like Blade Runner losing Best Art Direction to Gandhi (?????????) or Raiders of the Lost Ark losing Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score to Chariots of Fire.
I also think Kubrick should have won Best Director for the Shining. Best Cinematography (Steadicam) would have been deserved for the movie, too.
What do you think?
[US] This or That? - Which state is a birthplace of an Academy Award winner for Best Director? [11-08-2021]
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Earn five points per question - up to 50 points total - when you answer correctly.
This or That
List ordered in Alphabetical order A, B, C.
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Michigan
- New York
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
List ordered by the number of the correct answer 1, 2, 3.
- 1 - Pennsylvania
- 2 - New York
- 3 - Rhode Island
- 4 - Texas
- 5 - Michigan
- 6 - Kansas
- 7 - Utah
- 8 - Illinois
- 9 - Virginia
- 10 - Ohio
My goal for the year is to watch at least one Best Picture Academy Award nominated film beginning with the first year*
We're currently on the 5th Academy Awards from 1931/32. We are only choosing one film from each year. Sometimes the film we end up watching is the only one available to watch, so I'm learning to go a little outside the box of what I would normally watch.
We decided to watch the nominated films instead of just the winners since this will give us more options, especially since not all the winners are readily available. This was also the selling point to get my husband on board.
So far, we've watched:
*none of the three films from the first Academy Awards from 1927 are available to watch
In Old Arizona (1928)
The Love Parade (1929)
The Front Page (1930)
Today we're catching Five Star Final with Edward G Robinson from 1931.
Barry Jenkins' Moonlight opened 4 years ago today. The $4M film opened to $402K in limited release, grossing $27.9M DOM/$65.3M WW. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, it won for Best Picture (after an infamous mix-up), Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali.
TIL Daniel Day Lewis is the only actor in history to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor. He was nominated for six, winning half. Also, he has won 139 acting awards in total, with 212 nominations. He won 43 awards for his performance in "There Will Be Blood" alone.
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Pete Docter’s Soul, starring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey, opened overseas 1 year ago today. The $150M Pixar film grossed $121M by the end of its international box office run. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards, it won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.
James Rolfe accepts his Academy Award for Best Picture.
I watched the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning Crash for the first time since it came out and it was fucking terrible
I was honestly shocked at how poorly it’s aged. It’s like an out of touch white guy’s fantasia on what race relations in America are like. Brendan Fraser needs to pin a medal on a minority guy but doesn’t want to give it to an Iraqi named Saddam (Iraq War references yay). Matt Dillon sexually assaults a black woman but then he saves her life and he’s suddenly not as bad? Sandra Bullock is rude af to her Mexican maid but then she falls down the stairs. Guess who calls the ambulance? The Maid! She’s not racist anymore! The opening scene features 2 black guys talking about being profiled and how awful it is to be assumed to be criminals…right before they carjack someone. The fact that this film beat Brokeback Mountain, Munich, or the unnominated A History of Violence or Caché is astonishing. Reddit says a lot of hyperbolic things, but one thing is for damn sure: Crash is a truly awful movie lol
To be considered for the Academy Award for Best Picture producers are required to enter the race, sex, and gender identity of each participant in a centralized database. Films that don't include at least one POC in a lead role and 30% LGBTQIA+ in supporting roles won't be eligible for the award.
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Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks shortly after learning Bancroft had won the Academy Award for Best Actress, April 1963 (Photo by Dan Farrell)
TIL: the Ivory Coast has only submitted 2 films for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award…and won once, giving it the highest Submission:Win ratio of any country
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"and the academy award or best animated feature goes to OvrWtchSFM3959 for "D.va doggy style (animation W/sound)"
TIL Curtis Mayfield's Freddie's Dead from the 1972 soundtrack for Super Fly was not nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song as no lyrics were sung in the film thus ruling it ineligible per the Academy's rules. The song appears as an instrumental arrangement in the movie.
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