Academy Award winners for 2012:

1. Best Picture: "The Artist."
2. Actor: Jean Dujardin, "The Artist."
3. Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady."
4. Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, "Beginners."
5. Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, "The Help."
6. Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist."
7. Foreign Language Film: "A Separation," Iran.
8. Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, "The Descendants."
9. Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris."
10. Animated Feature Film: "Rango."
11. Art Direction: "Hugo."
12. Cinematography: "Hugo."
13. Sound Mixing: "Hugo."
14. Sound Editing: "Hugo."
15. Original Score: "The Artist."
16. Original Song: "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets."
17. Costume Design: "The Artist."
18. Documentary Feature: "Undefeated."
19. Documentary Short: "Saving Face."
20. Film Editing: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."
21. Makeup: "The Iron Lady."
22. Animated Short Film: "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore."
23. Live Action Short Film: "The Shore."
24. Visual Effects: "Hugo."

Had a fun time watching the oscars was happy for miss octavia! and Meryl !even tho I also wanted Viola to win!

Taira-Panku wrote:

Had a fun time watching the oscars was happy for miss octavia! and Meryl !even tho I also wanted Viola to win!

Yeah, Viola was the odds-on favorite to win... Very surprising.

bmwracer wrote:

24. Visual Effects: "Hugo."

Hugo was definitely nice.

Jav_sol wrote:

Hugo was definitely nice.

I would've expected a body count in the movie considering Scorcese directed.

I didn't see any of these movies that won an award in any category.
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Super No. 1 wrote:

I didn't see any of these movies that won an award in any category.

LOL, I'll bet that applies to a lot of people.

bmwracer wrote:

LOL, I'll bet that applies to a lot of people.

I've seen The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Hugo.

Jav_sol wrote:

I've seen The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Hugo.

That's two more than me.

bmwracer wrote:

That's two more than me.

I highly recommend the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. The original Swedish films, not the American remake. Excellent suspense films. Available on Netflix.

Tu_triky wrote:

I highly recommend the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. The original Swedish films, not the American remake. Excellent suspense films. Available on Netflix.

A co-worker from Sweden told me about that trilogy, but it didn't pique my interest for some reason.

bmwracer wrote:

A co-worker from Sweden told me about that trilogy, but it didn't pique my interest for some reason.

Right on. It's intense man. I really enjoyed it. Well you can queue it up if you ever change your mind. Also available on Prime, too.

So, the Oscars are going to add a "most popular" category:https://variety.com/2018/film/news/oscars-popular-film-category-what-it-means-1202899599/

Imagine if they'd had it in 1984. Then we'd see ads for that "Oscar winning film", , , , "Police Academy".

Tu_triky wrote:

I highly recommend the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. The original Swedish films, not the American remake. Excellent suspense films. Available on Netflix.

Is it too late to comment on something posted over six years ago?

I thought the first film was excellent, the second decent, the third lousy. Noomi Rapace, who played the titular character, was memorable in that role.

Over the last decade I have invested a lot of time and money into foreign crime series. I especially enjoy the Scandinavian ones, from Denmark and Sweden in particular. Astonishing how a small country like Denmark could produce so many outstanding series, even more than big neighbor Sweden. Tiny Iceland also came out with a crime drama a couple of years ago that I enjoyed immensely (they're working on a sequel as I speak).

Years ago I used to watch a lot of British crime series; they still come out with the occasional impressive one, but I liked the older ones more.

France has produced a couple of crime series I liked.

Justified was the last really good American crime series I watched. But to be fair, I don't watch any American dramas anymore--the exception is zombie crap because that's what my significant other is into; I dunno why she likes that mind-numbing junk, but anything to keep her happy . . . .

And it's been years since I've watched a dorama. Don't know if I'm missing anything, given how disappointed I was in the quality of dorama in the years leading up to when I finally said no mas.

Well whaddya know, Anne Watanabe was here for the Oscars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSBf23p-niY&t=248s

At about 4:25 in the video when she goes to get coffee and some other stuff, I know exactly where that is. The corner of Sunset and Cahuenga in Hollywood. Several big hotels in the area, she probably stayed at one of them while here. Amoeba Records used to be across the street but they've moved over to Hollywood Blvd.

Follow up video from Anne about her stay here for the Oscars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dvjg_7CZac

^ Funny that she bought some peanut butter. I was in Europe for one summer and the one thing I couldn't find anywhere was peanut butter! As soon as I got back to the States the first thing to do was get some peanut butter.
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She mentioned applauding by the audience at the end of a movie. I think that's a Los Angeles thing more than American. I've seen movies in a lot of different cities, LA is the only one where the audience applauds. Which I've never understood. The actors can't hear you, they don't even know you're alive.