# 87th Academy Awards viewing thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269 "2015-02-21T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/241 "2015-02-23T05:00:06Z")
Wow, the Imitation Game might go 1 for 8. 8 nominations and perhaps only just 1 win. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/242 "2015-02-23T05:00:32Z")
Another deserving win and gracious speech. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/243 "2015-02-23T05:00:39Z")
I love you NPH, but shut up. I want to go to bed now. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/244 "2015-02-23T05:00:40Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Yep, when in doubt vote for the disabled. Keaton needed to play his character with a limp. Or a club foot. Or an extra finger. Or something. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/245 "2015-02-23T05:01:30Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Yep, when in doubt vote for the disabled. There seem to be four types of characters who have a huge award-winning advantage: 1. The disabled; 2. Homosexuals; 3. Those who play an oppressed figure from a true historical story 4. Those who play the role of a true historical villain ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/246 "2015-02-23T05:03:07Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > 1. The disabled; > 2. Homosexuals; > 3. Those who play an oppressed figure from a true historical story > 4. Those who play the role of a true historical villain What gay characters earned the award? I honestly forget. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/247 "2015-02-23T05:04:51Z")
Birdman… I saw it coming. For about the past hour, at least (I chose “Boyhood”). Wait! I was wrong… I chose “Birdman!” (How could I forget? It’s not like I don’t have my pics in front of me. :smack: ) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/248 "2015-02-23T05:04:51Z")
Best Picture: **Birdman** Well deserved. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/249 "2015-02-23T05:04:55Z")
Sean Penn presents Best Picture. Birdman. Those backgrounds really are wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/250 "2015-02-23T05:05:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What gay characters earned the award? I honestly forget. I think Tom Hanks did for Philadelphia and didn’t Sean Penn win one for Milk? ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/251 "2015-02-23T05:05:55Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Those backgrounds really are wonderful. It’s a good thing they are because we’ve been looking at them for over 3.5 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/252 "2015-02-23T05:06:00Z")
Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/253 "2015-02-23T05:06:40Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I think Tom Hanks did for Philadelphia and didn’t Sean Penn win one for Milk? Jared Leto won last year, and there’s always Brokeback Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/254 "2015-02-23T05:07:14Z")
Ugh, Birdman. Wouldn’t even make my top 20 for the year. Boyhood was the far greater achievement (and film). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/255 "2015-02-23T05:07:34Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > Jared Leto won last year, and there’s always Brokeback Mountain. Thanks, folks, I’d kind of forgotten. I thought of Hanks more in the disabled category for Philadelphia because he was dying in it. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/256 "2015-02-23T05:09:18Z")
Also Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/257 "2015-02-23T05:11:24Z")
The lesson to take away from this year’s awards: it’s better to make your film in one long take than it is to shoot your movie over 12 years. They really spread the awards around this year, didn’t they? I would say _Birdman_ and \*Grand Budapest Hotel \*would be the big winners as far as number of Oscars, but solid big-ticket awards for _Theory of Everything_, _Imitation Game_, Julianne Moore and JK Simmons. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/258 "2015-02-23T05:12:31Z")
My vote for favorite moment goes to Eddie Redmayne. I love how thrilled he was. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/259 "2015-02-23T05:13:35Z")
Like many did, I’m sure, I mentioned that Keaton would have won if he played his character with a disability. So my wife quips that had he done so, they could’ve renamed the movie “My Left Wing.” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269/260 "2015-02-23T05:15:13Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > It’s that big. It was a good dress for her size/ body type. Sorry, I gotta disagree. She may have a huge ass, but that dress made it look elephantine. The draping drew attention to it instead of disguising it. Too bad Joan Rivers is gone (and where was her In Memoriam moment?) because she would have had a killer comment about that dress. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/713269.md?page=14)