Best Cinematography Oscar and ISA

Post by **Nigel** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:12 am

Dion Beebe and Robert Elswit.

I really liked Beebe's work on "In the Cut". And Elswit did a great job on GNGL...

Both are great at their work.

Good Luck

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:30 am

Didn't see "Geisha" but I thought "The New World" was fantastic and should have won. Leave it to the Academy to make weird choices

Post by **Nigel** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:33 am

I heard that "The New World" was pretty amazing as well. I haven't seen either.

I voted for the "The three burial of Melquiades Estrada" for the ISAs. It was pretty great looking and really captured the light of the Southwest.

I also heard "Capote" was great but I missed it all together.

Good Luck

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:39 am

"I also heard "Capote" was great but I missed it all together."

I think most people did... not the Academy, but everyone else. It looked pretty good but not the kind of movie I can make my semi-annual journey to the theatre to see.

Post by **David M. Leugers** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:20 am

The Oscars are more often than not just a political exercise. How else do you explain Rex Harrison winning Best Actor for "My Fair Lady" over the incredible three-role performance by Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove"? There are tons of examples more recent. Best Picture and even Cinematography choices leave plenty of room for argument. I guess that is the nature of awards...

David M. Leugers

Post by **reflex** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:05 am

Interesting year for the Oscars - things took a more indie twist than usual. I mean, Capote was filmed in Winnipeg for crying out loud!

Wasn't surprised that Geisha took the Cinematography award, although I admit to having seen zero of the year's "Big" films. That's never happened to me before, although my wife saw Brokeback and there's an unwatched copy of Le Carre's Constant Gardner sitting in the midst of a pile of letters in my office.

Post by **S8 Booster** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:44 pm

cant believe you guys bother watching oscar winners or nominees.

you arent really interested in filmmaking are you?

:lol:

s8hÃƒâ€Ãƒâ€t

Post by **Scotness** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:17 pm

S8 Booster wrote:cant believe you guys bother watching oscar winners or nominees.

you arent really interested in filmmaking are you?

:lol:

s8hÃƒâ€Ãƒâ€t

Too true

Oscars =

(except the girls look great)

Scot

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:32 pm

"cant believe you guys bother watching oscar winners or nominees"

"Watching" is different from periodically looking at the results online. I don't think anyone here (at least I hope not) sat in front of the TV for three hours. Although I did tune in to see the performance of the song from Hustle & Flow... I liked Jon Stewart's comment: Oscars - Three Six Mafia - 1, Martin Scorsese, 0.

Post by **Nigel** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:46 pm

I don't even own a TV so it would be hard for me to watch them....

However, I do like to know who wins for Cinematography.

Good LUck

Post by **flatwood** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:10 pm

Nigel wrote:....However, I do like to know who wins for Cinematography.

Well, I watched em and had a good time and even saw a former studio client in the audience (Keith Urban) and John Travolta was a presenter and I had a tiny part in Urban Cowboy back in the day, thats what makes it fun besides rooting for Hustle and FLow with the Tennessee connection. Reese Witherspoon, I dont know and havent seen Walk The Line but I did know Johnny Cash who, many years ago supplied a couple of autographed photos for the studio walls here.

As far as New World is concerned, they never screened it here in the boonies but I will definately pick up the dvd of it. I cant wait to see the cinematography in it.

Post by **audadvnc** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:40 pm

S8 Booster wrote:cant believe you guys bother watching oscar winners or nominees.

Yeah, I just catch it all at the supermarket counter. Gwynneth and Britany? They look like hippos!

Post by **Nigel** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:53 pm

Well Keira Knightley has been on the Yahoo home page for quite some time..she is one girl that I will gladly look at.

Good Luck

Website · Post by **BigBeaner** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:39 am

They made sure to cut to Keira enough (thank god). She was sitting next to Jack Nicholson. It made me wonder whose luckier...

If you like Matt Dillon though, holy god, you missed your oscars. He was cut to the most and a lot of the other shots he was still in the frame somehow, second only to Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, then Keira/Nicholson. I wasn't paying attention 100% but most of the time I would look up, if it wasn't Jon Stewart or a montage, it was dillon.

Number216 · Post by **Number216** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:05 am

"The New World" should have won for Best Cinematography. Not only did it have better visuals, but unlike "Memoirs of a Geisha", it never succumbed to "style-over-substance". Both the visuals and the story were given equal treatment, and went together seamlessly. With "Geisha", storytelling and visual style battled frequently, and visual style always emerged as the victor.

"Capote" was a film that I wish won more awards- and I'll start with acting. Philip Seymour Hoffman was brilliant, but so was Catherine Keener- their interactions together throughout the film were moments to savor.

Why the Academy wouldn't award "The New World":

It's not political. Never once does it shamelessly manipulate the audience, or strive to be a big giant epic, nor does it ever preach (yet even more proof that trailers can be misleading). This is the only Terrence Malick film I've ever seen, but from what I've heard, this objective angle of storytelling exists in all of his films... which I see has quite a few critics irritated. Personally, I love it.