The Golden Treefrog Award for Best Picture aka Oscar Poll (1 Viewer)

[The Military Workshop]

Hi Guys,
Nearly Oscar time so lets Poll for Best Movie.

The nominations are :

Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty

of which I have seen the ones underlined.

I would have no problem with any of those 4 winning. Of course there is a difference from which one I would like to win as opposed to which one I think will win.

So I think Lincon will win as iconic subject and Spielberg. Based on other awards Argo might win. However for me I would like Django to win.

Poll is for who you would like to win based on movies you have seen.

Regards
Brett

 

[Ragnar]

I have not seen any of those films so im going to forfeit my vote!

 

[The Military Workshop]

I have not seen any of those films so im going to forfeit my vote!

I wont tell if you vote for the one with most Aussies in it (Les Mis or Zero).

No surprise Lincoln ahead in the voting at this stage. Will make up for when Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan was beaten by Shakespeare in Love {sm2}

 

[The Military Workshop]

No surprises my idea has been copied by the Daily Mail {sm4}

Their poll currently has Lincoln and Les Mis equal first at 27% each with Argo next.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/poll.html?pollId=1034613

 

[villagehorse]

De Niro will pull Silver linings thru, the dark horse of the race. Cheers, Robin.

 

[The Military Workshop]

Robin,
Apparently Silver is first movie in 30 years where actors were nominated in all 4 actor categories.
Brett

 

[waynepoo]

Was bored because of the very wet weather here in Brissy so I thought I'd turn on the box and watch the Oscars, well became even more bored and remembered why I stopped watching them in the past...what a lot of pretentious BS. The worry is I think they actually seem to take themselves seriously.....{sm2}
Wayne.

 

[villagehorse]

Robin,
Apparently Silver is first movie in 30 years where actors were nominated in all 4 actor categories.
Brett

Can I vote again Brett, want to try and out do Lincoln which of course would have to be the favourite on this type of forum. Ok than I concede, Lincoln wins in a landslide, still buying my DVD of Sliver Linings even so. Cheers, Robin.

 

[The Military Workshop]

Seems the awards were fairly spread out this year.

No real surprise for me with the winning actors although surprised Waltz's role counted as supporting as it was at least equal to Jaime Fox's.

Lincoln could feel let down by no Best Picture / Director award. Have not seen Pi but Best Director was probably the surprise based on what I had read.

Enjoyed the hand puppet Flight skit and good to see Capt Kirk involved.

Brett

 

[nysoldiers]

Surprised that Argo won best picture.....very political with Clooney and Affleck well connected.
I thought that Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Lining were heads above Argo.
Best director and best supporting actor were also disappointing. I thought Tommy Lee Jones was terrific.
Supporting actress was close in my mind betwee Ann Hathaway and Sally Field.

 

[johnnybach]

Was bored because of the very wet weather here in Brissy so I thought I'd turn on the box and watch the Oscars, well became even more bored and remembered why I stopped watching them in the past...what a lot of pretentious BS. The worry is I think they actually seem to take themselves seriously.....{sm2}
Wayne.

I just caught a clip of some of the "acceptance" nonsense on the News! My God - let some of them speak for themselves, instead of reading from a srcipt - and you really get a glimpse of the real person!!!! jb

 

[Warrior]

Surprised that Argo won best picture.....very political with Clooney and Affleck well connected.
I thought that Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Lining were heads above Argo.
Best director and best supporting actor were also disappointing. I thought Tommy Lee Jones was terrific.
Supporting actress was close in my mind betwee Ann Hathaway and Sally Field.

Agreed 100% on all points; Lincoln was nominated for 12 awards and ended up with two, what a farce, Spielberg once again gets snubbed.

He's the best director out there IMO, yet the boobs in hollywood continue to snub the man, Saving Private Ryan for example should have won for best picture, yet it did not.

As for Mr Spielberg, he continues to direct great pictures and living well is the best revenge for him..........

 

[Scott]

Agreed 100% on all points; Lincoln was nominated for 12 awards and ended up with two, what a farce, Spielberg once again gets snubbed.

He's the best director out there IMO, yet the boobs in hollywood continue to snub the man, Saving Private Ryan for example should have won for best picture, yet it did not.

As for Mr Spielberg, he continues to direct great pictures and living well is the best revenge for him..........

Speakin' o' boobs... great musical number from Seth MacFarlane. You still have to consider that this is an industry award show for an industry where the public watches and is entertained by the product. This US industry employs lots of people, it still exports a US product, and it's meritocracy based on fannies in seats. It's too bad that the folks that win Oscars that make it happen behind the camera get the Jaw's theme played over them if they thank everyone too long.

BTW I was pulling for Lincoln as well but I haven't seen Argo yet. I couldn't care less about Pi and the spiritual stuff.

 

[jazzeum]

I saw the three movies and thought they were all very good although I was obviously pulling for Lincoln. Although I liked Pi I don't understand how Ang Lee got Best Director. If you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth seeing.

The thing that may have overshadowed Lincoln was Lewis' performance. It may have overwhelmed the rest of the movie. I thought Sally Field should have gotten the Award. She was fantastic.

Anyway, I look forward to picking up the Lincoln DVD when it comes out.

 

[jazzeum]

One of the highlights of last night's show was Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger. Here's a brief article about her in Jazz Wax, http://www.jazzwax.com/2013/02/shir...um=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Jazzwax+(JazzWax)

 

[VIRIATO]

Haven't seen Lincoln yet but to me it's a must see, of course. I have seen Argo and 00h.30m., and between those two I would choose Argo, quite clearly although Bigelow's film is quite fine. There is just something with the way Argo handled characters and tension building that made me like it better than 00h.30m..

Paulo

 

[Harper (aka Spitfrnd)]

I am not sure it is fair to say Spielberg was snubbed due to Lincoln's failure to win a Best Picture or more than 2 or its 12 Oscar nominations. Lewis was great (when is he not) but I don't think Lincolnwas nearly as good overall as a number of its competitors for BP, including Argo. Actually it is not clear to me that the picture merited all of its 12 nominations. If he was slighted it may have been for Best Director but sometimes a film's deficiencies will get in the way of that and that might have affected my decision for that category here as well. If anything, I think SPR and War Horse were both better pictures and both did win awards for that category from other respected film groups, BAFTA in the case of SPR and AFI in the case of War Horse. Lincoln also won the AFI BP award but while I more often agree with AFI than any other film group, I think that was the wrong decision in this case.