# 85th Academy Awards viewing thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 24, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279 "2013-02-24T19:12:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/101 "2013-02-25T02:35:00Z")
Great choice! And for those who haven’t seen it, the little girl is a genuine future star.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/102 "2013-02-25T02:36:49Z")
I’m so happy for Curfew! I agree, that little girl, Fatima Ptacek. will be a name someday.
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### Author:  [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/103 "2013-02-25T02:36:55Z")
Live-action short :(.
At least I guessed the doc short correctly. Which is weird, since I haven’t seen those, and I’ve been wrong for most of the other categories, which I have seen. Moral of the story: stop watching the nominees, and my Oscar pool will improve drastically.
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### Author:  [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/104 "2013-02-25T02:38:48Z")
Interesting that Neeson is talking about Lincoln. I wonder if he is disappointed that he didn’t take the role.
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### Author:  [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/105 "2013-02-25T02:38:48Z")
It’s hilarious to hear Liam Neeson introduce **Lincoln** , since he was attached to the project for so long.
ETA: Ninja’d!
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### Author:  [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/106 "2013-02-25T02:40:46Z")
How ironic that Liam Neeson is announcing Lincoln as a Best Picture nominee…when for all the years that movie was in Development Hell, he was attached to the project for the lead role!
(Although, as much as I love Liam, I’m not all that sure he’d have been convincing as Lincoln. Too burly, not lanky enough. Daniel Day-Lewis couldn’t have been more perfect.)
ETA: D’oh.
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### Author:  [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/107 "2013-02-25T02:41:49Z")
I wanna see this movie where Lincoln gets the hostages out of Iran and then offs bin Laden. Looks really good! Oh, that wasn’t a trailer?
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/108 "2013-02-25T02:42:49Z")
You know, it’s ironic that Neeson was talking about Lincoln…ah nevermind.
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### Author:  [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/109 "2013-02-25T02:43:21Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#):
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> I wanna see this movie where Lincoln gets the hostages out of Iran and then offs bin Laden. Looks really good! Oh, that wasn’t a trailer?
Yeah, I don’t really get why they’re doing it that way. What was wrong with having each movie introduced separately?
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/110 "2013-02-25T02:44:37Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> What happened?
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> Hobbit definitely should have won on the merit of effects, but Pi is getting a lot of love from the critics. Except for the incredibly, incredibly powerful monologue from the main character at the end of the movie, I thought it was only OK. Hobbit, to me, was also the better movie.
May have been a better movie, but as far as VFX go, the more impressive work is usually the stuff you’re not supposed to notice as a visual effect, and if the artists did their job, you don’t (and because so, unfortunately it’s the more unsung VFX work).
Although Pi is pretty stylized as it is, when you see the tiger you aren’t always thinking ‘that’s CG’, however, you see a troll, you know it’s CG, even if done as superbly as Weta Digital. But Rhythm & Hues deserved this Oscar, and justly won, IMHO (though, bittersweet in having to file Chapter 11 this year).
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/111 "2013-02-25T02:45:26Z")
Yeah, Sugarman!!
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/112 "2013-02-25T02:45:28Z")
All right! I’m sure all the rest are worthy, but this will get more people to see this wonderful film.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/113 "2013-02-25T02:46:27Z")
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN!!! Ok, I can die happy. I don’t care what else wins for the rest of the night.
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### Author:  [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/114 "2013-02-25T02:48:30Z")
Okay, the guy on stage literally tugging the coats of the winners to try to get them to stop talking? Super tacky.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/115 "2013-02-25T02:50:02Z")
McFarlane presents well visually, but then he opens his mouth and all those lame jokes spill out. Sorry, not trying to crap on those who like him, the material just comes off as mean-spirited, for the most part.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/116 "2013-02-25T02:51:31Z")
The director I loathe more than any alive wins. Bleagh.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/117 "2013-02-25T02:51:43Z")
Sucking like usual in the Oscar Pool…
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### Author:  [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/118 "2013-02-25T02:51:49Z")
Who didn’t have _Amour_ in their pool for foreign language film? Anybody? Bueller?
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/119 "2013-02-25T02:51:51Z")
Ausgezeichnet!
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/120 "2013-02-25T02:52:06Z")
So happy ‘Amour’ won, what an incredible film.
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