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Here's our next featurette for the groundbreaking superhero flick/depressing neo-western Logan, once again brought to you by jas:
The end of the hero’s journey can be one of the most daunting challenges when telling stories, sometimes finding a satisfying ending can be difficult. Given that challenge Logan absolutely delivers the satisfying conclusion to the Wolverine character that we have seen in cinemas since 2000’s X-Men with director James Mangold delivering a unique blend of superhero heroics, and revisionist western. Featuring an amazing cast that deliver astounding performances that include Sir Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, and Hugh Jackman, who delivers his best performance of the character that he has played for seventeen years and nine films. Bringing to life an uncanny adaptation of the Old Man Logan comic to screen, Logan delivers on a concluding chapter that shows us one our favorite heroes stripped down, defeated, coming to grips with his own mortality, but ultimately showing us that heroes never die. Nominated for five awards tonight including Best Picture, this is Logan.

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We move one step closer to the night's biggest awards with the unveiling of Best Cast. Here are the nominees:
Baby Driver
Get Out
I, Tonya
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
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And the Winner is....:
I, Tonya
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Up next, we have our resident film producer six presenting a featurette for Raw, this year's most unconventional Best Picture nominee and winner of Best Foreign Language Picture:
This may be the most obscure Best Picture nominee we’ve ever had, but give it some attention and you’ll agree it’s one of the best. A modest French film about a teenager’s first year in veterinary school may not sound like much, but add some cannibalism and you’ve got something much more unique.

This is Julia Ducournau’s ambitious debut and boy does it look and sound like the work of and old pro. The film’s confidence is incredible, as it plays with humour, drama, and horror, sometimes all at the same time, without ever coming across as silly, clichéd, or dull. The direction has a marvelous sense of rhythm and movement, and indeed physicality as our heroine discovers her latent problem in a world of wild hazing and rampant hedonism. You don’t see films becoming cult classics anymore, because the internet ensures instant awareness (such as the deserved success of fellow nominee Get Out), but this will surely rise through the ranks and eventually be considered as one of the great debuts of our era.
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The big 4 starts now with Best Actress in a Leading Role. Here are the nominees:
Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth)
Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
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And the Winner is....:
Sally Hawkins
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Fresh off of Sally Hawkins' big win, here is Boosh with some more praise for Best Picture nominee The Shape of Water:
Baltimore, 1961. A mute janitor, Elisa Esposito, works in a top-secret research facility when she discovers an amphibious creature from the Amazon as their latest experiment. The military wants to kill the creature and discovers how it lives. Elisa, however, discovers that the creature is more than what he seems and develops a relationship with him. Elisa’s objective: save the creature and allow him to return home. But what seems like an easy escape mission at first soon becomes a journey that will change their lives and give a new meaning to Elisa’s own life.

A cross between E.T., Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the works of Douglas Sirk, Guillermo del Toro’s romantic sci-fi film was both a popular film (grossing $62 million in the US) and a well-decorated one, winning the Golden Lion at Venice and Best Picture at the Academy Awards as well as the Critics’ Choice Awards. An imaginative and artistic director such as del Toro is one of the few directors who could have pulled this story off, as humanity and love serves as the themes in an era where sci-fi has been reduced to “blow things up” and “man is superior to all”. The characters also defy current sci-fi convention, in which del Toro chooses to focus on the marginalized in both the genre and in 1960’s society. Instead of a masculine white man, our heroes are a mute woman, her African-American friend, her closeted gay neighbor, and the creature. This kind of diversity is rarely seen in Hollywood cinema and gives the film a theme of unity as well.

And the performances. Sally Hawkins gives a performance few actors are able to pull off: a character who has no spoken dialogue and communicates almost entirely through sign and body language, creating a brilliantly subtle performance rarely seen in wide-appealed cinema today. The cast built around Hawkins is also one of 2017’s best. Michael Shannon, perhaps the most underpraised actor in film today, embodies pure evil as an overzealous, overly masculine bureaucrat in a terrifying performance that was sadly ignored by the Academy. Richard Jenkins plays the friendly, cat-loving artist in his usual likeable self but with the added challenge of being a character forced to hide from his true self in a time of hate and hypocrisy. Octavia Spencer serves a literal voice of reason with her usual charm and wise. And Doug Jones, after years of essentially being a special effect in his various roles, from Mac Tonight and Abe Sapien, to Pale Man and Silver Surfer, gets the biggest role of his career and knocks it out of the park.
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Best Actor is up next. Here are the 5 gents up for the honor:
Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Hugh Jackman (Logan)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
James McAvoy (Split)
Robert Pattinson (Good Time)
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And the Winner is...:
Daniel Day-Lewis

This was a god damn BATTLE. Only 3 points seperated DDL and last-place finisher Robert Pattinson.
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Presenting the featurette for War for the Planet of the Apes, our final Best Picture nominee of the evening, is six:
A film fanatic gets to the point in their life where they think anything mainstream and big and brash can’t be good. It’s understandable, when the majority of blockbusters are blockheaded, brainless blocks of marketed material, designed to light up the screen and keep you distracted from your life for 120 minutes. But film fanatics need to keep hope. There’s always a great big movie around the corner, whether it’s Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings, or The Dark Knight. And the Planet of the Apes reboot is surprisingly the next in line, setting up its anti-hero ape Caesar slowly and smartly in the superb first film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and then testing his leadership in Dawn.

But it’s the final film of the Caesar trilogy that surprises the most. Rather than make it bigger and louder it’s actually more intimate, a sort of sci-fi Western as Caesar goes on a personal journey for revenge, taking himself into the realm of a disturbed human leader. While most revenge films trip over themselves by glorifying the violence that it’s supposed to criticise, this film manages to find a satisfying resolution while also showing us the faults of vengeance and war itself. And all the while managing to sustains its 2+ hours, have time to fit in some great battle sequences, tense intimate moments, and even have a dash of humour. If all blockbusters could be as smart and as character-focused as this, then what a world we’d live in.
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Now to honor the finest artists behind the camera. Here are the nominees for Best Director:
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth)
Jordan Peele (Get Out)
Edgar Wright (Baby Driver)
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And the Winner is......:

Jordan Peele
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Over the past couple of hours, you've seen these 10 films profiled. Now it's time to crown one the belle of the ball. Here are the nominees for Best Picture:
Baby Driver
Call Me by Your Name
Coco
Get Out
Good Time
I, Tonya
Logan
Raw
The Shape of Water
War for the Planet of the Apes
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And the Winner is.....:









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The Fish Fucking Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the 1st time in our history, we selected the same Best Picture winner as the Academy.
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Full recap of the winners:
Breakthrough Performance: Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
Best Original Screenplay: Get Out
Best Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Allison Janney (I, Tonya)
Best Animated Feature: Your Name
Best Documentary Feature: I Am Not Your Negro
Best Cinematography: The Shape of Water
Best Visual Effects: War for the Planet of the Apes
Best Score: The Shape of Water
Best Foreign Language Picture: Raw
Best Cast: I, Tonya
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Best Director: Jordan Peele (Get Out)
Best Picture: The Shape of Water

Thank you guys for participating and I apologize for the delay that resulted in no one being around for pretty much the duration of the ceremony.
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