Monday, February 27, 2017

The Oscar Recap - Oscar Blew it! - Coltons Point Times picks 17 of 24 winners! Oops Fake News just changed the Movie of the Year - the Games continue!

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In case you missed the Big Show the Coltons Point Times picked 17 of the 24 winners of the 89th Academy Awards.  I thought a 71% winning record was pretty good but after the La La Land crew went on stage and accepted the Best Picture Oscar the Academy belatedly interrupted the celebration by La La Land people and said La La Land did not win, but Moonlight won.


Was the Academy getting into the Fake News game with the wrong winner being announced, and did it have anything to do with the attacks on the Academy before last years Oscars of ignoring minorities?  While Moonlight was certainly good, there is something very suspicious about this kind of a major blunder in one of the most watched shows of the year and the most respected award show in the past.


Maybe it is time to drop the award shows since they all seem to be embroiled in politics and have lost their way as an entertainment medium.  I do not know of anyone who pays to see shows because of the politics of the actors and actresses and they seem to think being on the big screen acting gives them the right to act like the news media.


The choice between the two shows boiled down to Moonlight, a movie about growing up poor, Black and gay, or La La Land, "a musical with big numbers, intimate reveries and adult feelings, “La La Land” is a boy-meets-girl tale with early 21st-century rhythms (mostly good, even if its white stars are nestled, more self-consciously than naturally, in a multicultural world)" as Manohla Dargisn of The New York Times described it.


Box Office Receipts - La La Land $141 million - Moonlight $22.2 million


How about we let the public decide?  La La Land has earned nearly $141 million in domestic box office sales to date while Moonlight has earned $22.2 million.  I guess having six and a half times more receipts means nothing in terms of movie popularity.


Maybe Fake News is now here to stay and polarizing politics will destroy the movie industry as it did the news industry.  In the end it is the American public being played and that is not right!  Here is what other media had to say about the Oscar disaster.


Oscars Blows It: Gives Best Picture To Wrong Film; Chaos On Stage As ‘Moonlight’ Wins

16 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Moonlight won Best Picture after a complete mix-up on the stage in which Faye Dunaway read the wrong winner. It was thought that La La Land won to walk away with seven wins from its record-tying 14 nominations and producers Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt even gave acceptance speeches before the mistake was discovered. It was a major upset for the top award of the night. Moonlight had gathered two awards — Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali and Adapted Screenplay and… »
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Newswire: What the hell just happened?

19 minutes ago | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
The Oscars made history tonight, though not exactly the kind of history it wanted to make. As Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway came out to present Best Picture, Beatty opened the envelope and took a lengthy pause before reading the winner—a pause that many, including Dunaway, took for some kind of tension-building/feeble old man shtick. And when he read the winner as La La Land, no one believed anything was amiss. Of course it was La La Land. This whole awards season, the narrative has been La La Land’s inevitable victory. And so, as the producers, cast, and crew came on stage to begin their well-rehearsed acceptance speeches, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
But then Warren Beatty popped back in—always with the Warren Beatty—and suddenly it was evident something had gone very wrong.
“This is not a joke,” said producer Jordan Horowitz. “Moonlight, you »
- Sean O'Neal
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Oscars 2017 live: Beatty and Dunaway announce wrong best picture winner for La La Land – Moonlight wins

Follow the latest news from this year’s Academy Awards, with updates from the Hollywood ceremony, the acceptance speeches, red carpet hits and misses, and awards announcements for the best films, actors and actresses
Oscar winners 2017: the full list
Oscars red carpet 2017 – in pictures
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Related: Moonlight wins best picture Oscar – after Warren Beatty reads out La La Land
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As fantastic as it was to see Moonlight win, those poor La La Land guys who found out mid-speech that the win wasn’t theirs. They’re still dealing with that:
Heads are gonna roll. You couldn't have a worse possible f-up if you tried. Team Lll still consoling each other in theater. pic.twitter.com/UUr6dlKF9S
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- Benjamin Lee, Hannah Marriott and Ellie Violet Bramley
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Oscars 2017: The 21 Best, Worst and Most Uncomfortable Moments

23 minutes ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Denzel Washington officiating a wedding. Seth Rogen breaking into an impromptu Hamilton performance. Oh, and La La Land incorrectly being named Best Picture. Those were just a few of the truly bizarre things that took place at the 89th Annual Academy Awards.
VideosOscars: Jimmy Kimmel Shreds Trump, Mel Gibson in Monologue — Grade It!
Late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel managed to do a decent job as Oscars host — which, if you haven’t repressed all memories of James Franco and Anne Hathaway’s 2011 hosting stint, you’ll know is no small feat. Sure, we could’ve done without his tired banter with frenemy Matt Damon, »
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'Moonlight' wins best picture at dramatic Oscars 2017


In a shock finale to Sunday’s 89th Academy Awards, the drama was named best picture moments after La La Landhad been declared the winner in error.


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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Move over Trump it is time for the Oscars - The nominees and projected winners! The 89th Academy Awards!

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Oscar news

Oscar Nominations 2017: View the Complete List of Nominees


by Steve Dove


Welcome to the full list of nominations for the 2017 Oscars. Every nominee, every category, every detail you need is right here. What was nominated for Best Picture? Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight all secured Best Picture nominations. The nominees for Actor in a Leading Role include Casey Affleck, Andrew Garfield, Ryan Gosling, Viggo Mortensen and Denzel Washington. For Actress in a Leading Role, Isabelle Huppert, Ruth Negga, Natalie Portman, Emma Stone and Meryl Streep were nominated. Check out the complete list of nominations below. Let the glitz, glamour and prestige begin!

 
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Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic

Coltons Point Times Winner - Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
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Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

Coltons Point Times Winner - Emma Stone, La La Land
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Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals

Coltons Point Times Winner - Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
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Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

Coltons Point Times Winner - Viola Davis, Fences
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Coltons Point Times Winner - Zootopia
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Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land

Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America
13th

Coltons Point Times Winner - O.J. Made in America
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Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

Coltons Point Times Winner - The White Helmets
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Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight

Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann

Coltons Point Times Winner - A Man Called Ove
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A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad

Coltons Point Times Winner - Star Trek Beyond
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Jackie
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers

Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster
"City Of Stars" from La La Land
Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story
Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
"How Far I’ll Go" from Moana
Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Coltons Point Times Winner - "City of Stars" from La La Land
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Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land
Passengers

Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper

Coltons Point Times Winner - Piper
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Ennemis Intérieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode

Coltons Point Times Winner - La Femme et le TGV
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Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Coltons Point Times Winner - Hacksaw Ridge
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Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Coltons Point Times Winner - La La Land
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Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Coltons Point Times Winner - The Jungle Book
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Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight

Coltons Point Times Winner - Moonlight
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Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women

Coltons Point Times Winner - Manchester by the Sea 
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