Oscar Nominations are embarrassing

Insterstellar for best sound Mixing?! That is the most embarrassing nomination I have seen in a long time. The mixing on that film was terrible, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. :-p

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I thought this would be about the fact that every single acting nominee in every category is white.

RE: interstellar - Several of my colleagues saw this and would agree with you, but at the theater where I saw it, it was perfect. Like, amazeballs perfect.

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I thought this would be about the fact that every single acting nominee in every category is white.

I am okay with that, assuming that considerations are done by merit only (which they are not).

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I thought this would be about the fact that every single acting nominee in every category is white.

I am okay with that, assuming that considerations are done by merit only (which they are not).

I still say Interstellar was mess on many levels. The Oscars are always partly political and partly trying to atone for past mistakes.

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The sound mix on Interstellar was good in 70mm IMAX. In other theaters...not so much.

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The sound mix on Interstellar was good in 70mm IMAX. In other theaters...not so much.

A number of the complaints are regarding artistic choices. They intentionally drowned out dialogue with music in a few key scenes, and I thought that it was a pretty bold thing to do, since it messes with people's heads, but I got what they were going for, and I approved... So too do others, as it is now officially an Academy Award-nominated film... Then again, Transformers is an Oscar-winning movie, so make of that what you will.

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It only needs to be good enough to get nominated.

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It only needs to be good enough to get nominated.

By any standard, Guardians of the Galaxy had better mixing an editing, yet not a single nomination for sound…

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It only needs to be good enough to get nominated.

By any standard, Guardians of the Galaxy had better mixing an editing, yet not a single nomination for sound…

I'll start by saying I don't actually give two-shits about the Oscars, and have never watched them. But I do like film, so you have me curious and I'm looking it up :)

I believe the Music scores have to be original. Throwing together a great soundtrack doesn't count for that category. Besides, Guardians basically already got that award.

And was the Sound FX/Editing in Guardians all that great? Perhaps it's a sign of greatness that it didn't stand out to me :)

Note: I love Guardians and haven't seen Intersteller. I'm here for the free stacks.

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but I thought the mixing was brilliant.

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