Steve Mc Queen

**wasabi** · 03-03-2014, 01:16 AM

This name and his movie will win the most Oscars tonight at the Oscar awards.
Why?
I am no soothsayer.

**Jimmy McNulty** · 03-03-2014, 01:35 AM

Because this year it's about young talent and feeling guilty about slavery. McQueen is also black.

Well, not 'guilty' exactly. More of a common consensus that everyone feels a bit bad that it happened while not really actually caring intermingled with lots of verbal backslapping and cocaine.

**Jimmy McNulty** · 03-03-2014, 01:39 AM

Though of the films listed that I've seen, I happen to think it's the best of them. Haven't seen Wolf, Nebraska, and Philomena.

**blue** · 03-03-2014, 01:54 AM

never heard of any of them
I'll watch them, maybe, in 10 or 15 years
no rush

**Mr Lick** · 03-03-2014, 01:55 AM

I watched Gravity a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a complete load of tosh. Even the acting was abysmal. Oscar nomination? Crikey!!

**wasabi** · 03-03-2014, 02:03 AM

Watched this today in the Cinema,took My Son on his birthday

**blue** · 03-03-2014, 02:12 AM

Gravity ?

this smug, arrogant tosser is enough to put anyone off

I downloaded it but deleted it unwatched,when I noticed him in it.

**malcy** · 03-03-2014, 02:26 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

I watched Gravity a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a complete load of tosh. Even the acting was abysmal. Oscar nomination? Crikey!!

To be fair Sandra Bullock is only expected to pick up $70,000,000 for her part so what do you expect ?

**Chittychangchang** · 03-03-2014, 03:02 AM

When i opened the thread i was expecting references to some of the greatest films of all time...

Bullitt
The Great Escape
Papillon
The Getaway
The magnificent seven

The real Steve McQueen.

**jamiejambos** · 03-03-2014, 07:30 AM

^
Me as well, funny old thing.

**bsnub** · 03-03-2014, 08:15 AM

^^ Yes what a let down.

**Cujo** · 03-03-2014, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

When i opened the thread i was expecting references to some of the greatest films of all time...

Bullitt
The Great Escape
Papillon
The Getaway
The magnificent seven

The real Steve McQueen.

Yep.
Funnily enough I found copies of Bullitt and the Getaway while rummaging in my local DVD shop a couple of months ago. Still great movies, particularly when tinged with nostalgia.

**Rural Surin** · 03-03-2014, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

I watched Gravity a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a complete load of tosh. Even the acting was abysmal. Oscar nomination? Crikey!!

I really don't understand what "they" consider to be award winning in film.

Gravity will hold your attention, but nothing worthy of such high praise.

It's all politics anyway.
Mai phen rai.

**leemo** · 03-03-2014, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by blue

Gravity ?

this smug, arrogant tosser is enough to put anyone off

I downloaded it but deleted it unwatched,when I noticed him in it.

Pathetic movie that needed two big names to make it sound watchable.

**Neverna** · 03-03-2014, 11:17 AM

I was surprised Steve McQueen was directing because he's dead but apparently there's someone else with the same name.

Here's the only Steve McQueen I'll remember.

**harrybarracuda** · 03-03-2014, 11:39 AM

Well you all have no idea what makes a good film.

Gravity - 7 So far, including Best Director which was a no-brainer.

I'm just surprised Blue isn't happy that the Black man movie isn't doing badly, but there's still Best Actors and Best Film.

Although Best Actor will surely go to Matthew Mcwhatsisface.

**Sailing into trouble** · 03-03-2014, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

When i opened the thread i was expecting references to some of the greatest films of all time...

Bullitt
The Great Escape
Papillon
The Getaway
The magnificent seven

The real Steve McQueen.

We had a black and white telly, but I did think SQ looked abit pale for a Blackman.

Scary film that papillon.

**harrybarracuda** · 03-03-2014, 11:47 AM

Cate Blanchett there's a surprise. Not.

**harrybarracuda** · 03-03-2014, 11:55 AM

Matthew Mcwhoisheagain cleans up.

**harrybarracuda** · 03-03-2014, 11:59 AM

Best Picture - Black Man things.

**taxexile** · 03-03-2014, 12:22 PM

the best films out of them all "nebraska" and "philomena", didnt win anything.

dallas buyers club was a mediocre film at best, painfully overacted in that septic shouty way.
blue jasmine was terrific though.

**harrybarracuda** · 03-03-2014, 12:31 PM

From the Oscar Nominations (Oscar Nominations 2014) thread, a post dated 17th January 2014:

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett
Best Sup. Actor: Jared Leto
Best Sup. Actress: Lupita Nyong'o
Best Original Screenplay: American Hustle
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave
Best Animated Feature: Frozen

And the winners:

86th Academy Awards winners
Last updated: 27 minutes ago
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Best Animated Feature: Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
Best Cinematography: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
Best Directing: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Best Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom (Nominees to be determined)
Best Documentary Short: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
Best Film Editing: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
Best Foreign Language Film: The Great Beauty (Italy)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
Best Original Score: Gravity (Steven Price)
Best Original Song: Let It Go - Frozen
Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
Best Animated Short Film: Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
Best Live Action Short Film: Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
Best Sound Editing: Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
Best Sound Mixing: Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)
Best Visual Effects: Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
Best Original Screenplay: Her (Spike Jonze)

The only one I missed was Original Screenplay - how the feck did that shit win it?

**Fluke** · 03-03-2014, 12:33 PM

After being inspired by Steve McQueen at the Oscars , Sol Campbell has decided to go to Hollywood to make movies, hes currently at home writing the script to his debut movie called *Ten years not the England Captain*

**Fluke** · 03-03-2014, 12:41 PM

Thought of that myself BTW

^

**xanax** · 03-03-2014, 12:46 PM

12 years a slave was a one dimensional, sentimental guilt film, no better than roots and not much more historically accurate. Such films are always bashing the southerners and never the northern slave owners, including many presidents and even Grant who won the war.
The film Lincoln was even worse though, here is what the great liberator really thought about blacks, bit different from the lies in the film:

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

by:

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
Source:

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

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