Oscar Nominations 2014

[danlb_2000]

Disney picked up a couple Oscar nominations..

Frozen
- Animated Feature Film
- Original Song - Let it Go

The Wind Rises (Buena Vista Home Entertainment is one of the producers and Disney is a distributor)
- Animated Feature Film

Get a Horse
- Animated Short Film

Iron Man 3
- Visual Effects

The Lone Ranger
- Visual Effects
- Makeup and Hair

Saving Mr. Banks
- Original Score - Thomas Newman

 

[danlb_2000]

Disney picked up a couple Oscar nominations..

Frozen
- Animated Feature Film
- Original Song - Let it Go

Iron Man 3
- Visual Effects

The Lone Ranger
- Visual Effects

Saving Mr. Banks
- Original Score - Thomas Newman

Not directly Disney related, but it's interesting to note that Blackfish did not get nominated. Sea World will be happy about that.

 

[Magenta Panther]

The snubbing of Saving Mr. Banks is astounding. Not to mention Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson. Ridiculous.

 

[Travel Junkie]

Saving Mr. Banks was a nice movie but not great by any stretch of the imagination. Emma Thompson could have received a nomination but who do you remove to put her in? That’s really the only potential snub I see. Hanks is solid as he always is but that wasn’t even his performance of the year.
It is an above average film but is simply not in the same class as those other nominated films. No way does it warrant a Best Picture Nomination. It is not just the Oscars. The movie has had very little love this awards season and quite frankly the box office has been sub standard for a film with 2 huge stars and a big studio behind it. Emma and the music is the only thing getting any nominations from anyone.

 

[BuddyThomas]

Saving Mr. Banks was a nice movie but not great by any stretch of the imagination. Emma Thompson could have received a nomination but who do you remove to put her in? That’s really the only potential snub I see. Hanks is solid as he always is but that wasn’t even his performance of the year.
It is an above average film but is simply not in the same class as those other nominated films. No way does it warrant a Best Picture Nomination. It is not just the Oscars. The movie has had very little love this awards season and quite frankly the box office has been sub standard for a film with 2 huge stars and a big studio behind it. Emma and the music is the only thing getting any nominations from anyone.

Robert Redford was also snubbed and Tom Hanks was snubbed for both best actor in Captain Phillips and best supporting in Banks. Monsters University was snubbed. Oprah Winfrey was snubbed for The Butler. It was snub city this year.

 

[Travel Junkie]

Of course this is all opinion, but Hanks was not snubbed for Banks. His performace in Banks has not been recognized at all as being deserved a nomination from anyone of note. No SAG, Golden Globe, or Oscar nom. You can make a case for Captain Phillips and Redford as well but there are only so many people nominated and Idris Elba not being nominated could also be a snub. There was just a lot of strong lead male performances this year. Oprah yes, she should be in.

Monster's University? Really?

 

[BuddyThomas]

Yes Monsters University. Really. Variety.com lists it as one of the 15 biggest snubs and surprises. Pixar usually e ds up with a film in the Best Animated category.

 

[Travel Junkie]

Yes Monsters University. Really. Variety.com lists it as one of the 15 biggest snubs and surprises. Pixar usually e ds up with a film in the Best Animated category.

MU would have been nominated had Frozen not gotten one because Disney hardly ever if ever gets shut out of the animated nomination process. Disney put its marketing push behind Frozen getting nominated and the small campaign for MU was likely a token one for John Lassiter’s ego.
The Variety article mentioned was quoting it a snub for Pixar, not the movie. It is virtually a lock for any title baring the Pixar name to get nominated. Cars 2 was also considered a snub believe it or not when it was not nominated because of it being a Pixar production not because it was a good movie. The fact that MU is one of only two Pixar movies not nominated for best animated feature speaks volumes about how it is perceived by Disney not pushing it hard and the how the industry viewed it.
Marketing for the Oscar’s is huge and Disney chose to push Frozen over MU and that is why I question why people thought it would be nominated. Disney didn’t even have much faith in it. THE reason why Redford was not nominated was because he didn’t campaign for it. Instead Christian Bale gets nominated for the heavily pushed American Hustle. If Disney pushed MU over Frozen MU would have been nominated.

 

[NemoRocks78]

I'm not the biggest fan of Saving Mr. Banks, but Emma Thompson should've gotten in at the very least. She was fantastic. From what I've read, that last spot was expected to come down to Amy Adams vs. Meryl Streep (cuz of the lukewarm reception August: Osage County). As a huge fan of American Hustle, I'm glad Adams made it in, but Thompson should've gotten in over Streep.

I also agree with @Virtual Insanity about Hanks as Walt. Great performance, but there was no talk about it during this awards season. It certainly wasn't a snub.

 

[RandomPrincess]

Possible EGOT winner!

From Entertainment Weekly - If Frozen composer Bobby Lopez wins an Oscar for “Let It Go,” he’ll be the 12th person ever to achieve the prestigious EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony), as well as the youngest person ever to receive all four awards (he turns 39 a week before this year’s ceremony). Lopez picked up Tonys for Avenue Q (Best Original Score) and The Book of Mormon (Best Original Score, Best Book of a Musical) in 2004 and 2011, a Grammy for Book of Mormon‘s original cast recording in 2012, and a pair of Daytime Emmys for his work on Wonder Pets in 2008 and 2010. (Lopez was also nominated for an Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics Primetime Emmy in 2007 for his work on Scrubs‘ musical episode, but he lost the prize to “Dick in a Box” writers Justin Timberlake and the Lonely Island.)

 

[Animaniac93-98]

That Lone Ranger got anything is hilarious (in a good way) to me. And why not? The effects during the climax and the make-up on the cast was quite good. Sound mixing/editing, art direction, costume design and cinematography would also have been appropriate chocies.

I wish Oz the Great and Powerful would have gotten costume design. The detail and individuality that went into those outfits was really impressive. However, I'm not surprised they decided not to give anyhing to a Stromberg related project this year given his two recent Oscar wins (Avatar and Alice in Wonderland).

Good news for Frozen and Get a Horse. Glad to see Monsters Uni "snubbed" as it wasn't that great and Pixar does not deserve any more free passes than anyone else. Notice their short film was ignored too.

Saving Mr. Banks only really deserved a extra nom for actress anyway. Best Score is an odd choice given its use of pre-existing Disney songs.

On a non-Disney note, I have no idea why so many people are upset The Butler didn't get nominated for anything. I saw it and it wasn't that kind of top tier excellence. Maybe make-up, and that's it. I'm more surprised Rush didn't get anything given how much it was loved by audiences and critics alike. And no visual FX nom for Pacific Rim?

 

[Tony Perkis]

The snubbing of Saving Mr. Banks is astounding. Not to mention Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson. Ridiculous.

Sorry, but if the deciding choice was Hanks or Jonah Hill from The Wolf of Wall Street, they absolutely made the correct call.

The Wolf of Wall Street is my favorite film of 2013, and I'm putting all of my rooting interest behind that film.

 

[Prince-1]

The snubbing of Saving Mr. Banks is astounding. Not to mention Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson. Ridiculous.

Saving Mr. Banks was an ok movie with a great performance by Thompson. Was she deserving, yes, but the women who were nominated were equally as good so not a big snub. Hanks was just ok as Walt and really didn't deserve one for that performance. I thought if he was snubbed it was for Captain Phillips which was a much better role. As for best picture nomination, SMB did not deserve one at all.Again, it was an ok movie...that's all.

 

[Thrill]

No snub love for The Blue Umbrella?

Best animated short I've seen in a long time.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Sorry, but if the deciding choice was Hanks or Jonah Hill from The Wolf of Wall Street, they absolutely made the correct call.

The Wolf of Wall Street is my favorite film of 2013, and I'm putting all of my rooting interest behind that film.

Wolf of Wall Street was three hours of depraved crap. Which makes it exactly the kind of film today's Hollywood likes to reward.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Saving Mr. Banks was an ok movie with a great performance by Thompson. Was she deserving, yes, but the women who were nominated were equally as good so not a big snub. Hanks was just ok as Walt and really didn't deserve one for that performance. I thought if he was snubbed it was for Captain Phillips which was a much better role. As for best picture nomination, SMB did not deserve one at all.Again, it was an ok movie...that's all.

It's gotten a "A" Cinemascore from the only critics who really matter - the unwashed masses (the people who buy the tickets that make Hollywood the fat cat it is). I think it was more than okay. It was a clean, uplifting movie that did right by all of the parties involved in its story. It deserved better than to be tied with "Bad Grampa" for Oscar noms.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I'm a little shocked people were expecting Saving Mr. Banks to get major Oscar noms.

 

[Tony Perkis]

It's gotten a "A" Cinemascore from the only critics who really matter - the unwashed masses (the people who buy the tickets that make Hollywood the fat cat it is). I think it was more than okay. It was a clean, uplifting movie that did right by all of the parties involved in its story. It deserved better than to be tied with "Bad Grampa" for Oscar noms.

The moviegoing audience should never be given the power to award films; if it were, the awful Pirates sequels would be award winners, Twilight would have trophies, The Blind Side would be the best picture winner, and a performance of Tom Hanks playing Tom Hanks pretending to be Walt Disney would be considered triumphant accomplishments.

In short, the moviegoing public isn't intelligent enough to award good films.

 

[Tony Perkis]

Wolf of Wall Street was three hours of depraved crap. Which makes it exactly the kind of film today's Hollywood likes to reward.

The Wolf of Wall Street was a brilliant look at how excessive greed and money can make people engage in heinous, awful acts of self indulgent. Just like its masterpiece of a spiritual predecessor, Goodfellas.

Sorry you can't enjoy the film that says the F word a lot and has its main character blow coke into a woman's backside like the rest of us. All hail Scorsese.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

No snub love for The Blue Umbrella?

Best animated short I've seen in a long time.

It was cute, but nothing spectacular. Walt did a similar thing in the 40s with hats.

I'm a little shocked people were expecting Saving Mr. Banks to get major Oscar noms.

Best Actress was a strong possibility given the Golden Globes, but picture, screenplay and/or supporting actor? That was more than a little far fetched. Academy voters aren't D23 members.