86th Annual Academy Award Nominations Announced

[Mooch]

I'm glad to see the Best Score category is not as ridiculous as the BAFTA nominations.

Although I do think The Hobbit is a better score than Gravity.

 

[Gaith]

Well, there's a respectable and dull set of nominees, with pretty much nothing to get excited or argumentative over. The only category I really have a champion in is Delpy/Hawke/Linklater for Before Midnight. Jesse and Celine FTW!

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[Argus Skyhawk]

What do you guys think of the song "Alone Yet Not Alone"? Apparently it is raising some eyebrows that a song from such an obscure film received a nomination while much more well-known songs did not:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention...ot-alone-the-years-most-obscure-oscar-nominee
http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...g-nom-alone-yet-not-alone-riles-up-contenders
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-alone-not-alone-singer-672005

 

[Sophronisba]

I haven't heard the song; I've heard it described as "mediocre." The whole thing seems a little fishy, but who knows. Maybe as an inspirational hymn, it was just so different from everything else that it stood out.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

I rather like it and think it is touching. I haven't heard nearly enough songs from movies this year to have any opinion on whether it deserved to be nominated, but I do like it.

Also, from what I understand, academy voters received a DVD of all 75 eligible songs to listen to, so it is not necessarily shady that it got nominated. If it just happened to be prettier than many songs from more well-known films, maybe that is all it took.

 

[Starbreaker]

I think this may finally be Leo's year. Though I could see Bruce Dern as a darkhorse in this race.

France submitted Renoir which got meddling reviews from critics and moviegoers. It didn't even make the shortlist.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Blue is the Warmest Colour is conspicuously absent from the Foreign Language category, I notice.

France didn't submit it.

It was released too late to be eligible. From The Guardian:

Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, Blue was expected to follow in the footsteps of the previous year's Palme winner, Michael Haneke's Amour, and feature strongly at the Academy awards.

However, one of the regulations states that a film must have opened in its home country by the end of September to be put forward for nomination. Blue is due to be released in France on 9 October, thereby missing the deadline, and its French distributors Wild Bunch are not willing to give up the prime spot in the domestic release schedule.

Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, holder of the film's US rights, told Deadline he had attempted to persuade Wild Bunch to release the film earlier since an Oscar nomination would make a huge difference to its US box office prospects.

He said: "They actually were going to do a qualification run in [Lille], the town where it was shot in northern France. But ultimately the French governing body said 'No'. It had to be a wide release in order for it to qualify … it's unfortunate."