House of Hall

03/10/2023

Oscars have been a joke for awhile now and that means a lot coming from an optimist. 'Thirteen Lives' by Ron Howard is easily the best picture this year. Not a single nomination though... Other honorable mentions would be 'Amsterdam' & 'Glass Onion'. Out of the actual nominees though, I'd like to see 'The Banshees of Inisherin' take it.

03/27/2022

The movies nominated last year for 2021 were way better than this years. Unfortunately Nomadland took home the win. I would have liked to see "The Trial of the Chicago 7" get more recognition. I'd put that as the best picture. Mank and Sound of Metal are definitely honorable mentions. This year I was disappointed as usual. Tick, tick... Boom! Was probably the best picture but wasn't nominated. Perhaps Andrew Garfield can take best actor as he deserved it in the past. Other movies that stood out to me this year is Being the Ricardos and Licorice Pizza. **Thumbs-crossed*"

02/02/2020

Best Picture: Jojo Rabbit
Best Director: Sam Mendes "1917"
Best Cinematography: 1917
Film Editing: Ford v Ferrari
Best Screenplay: B**g Joon Ho "Parasite" (Sorry Rian Johnson)
Best Screenplay (Adapted): Taika Waititi "Jojo Rabbit"
Best Actor: Jonathan Pryce "The Two Popes"
Best Actress: Cynthia Erivo "Harriet"
Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Hopkins "The Two Popes"
Production Design: 1917

02/18/2019

Best Picture: Green Book
Best Director: Paweł Pawlikowski "Cold War"
Best Cinematography: Cold War
Best Screenplay: The Favourite
Best Actor: Rami Malek "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Best Actress: Olivia Colman "The Favourite" (Would give it to Kulig for Cold War but no nomination)
Best Animated: Isle of Dogs
Original Score: BlackKklansman or Black Panther (hard to get the Wakanda theme out of my head)

02/23/2018

Best Picture: Get Out
Best Director: Guillermo Del Toro "Shape of Water"
Best Cinematography: The Shape of Water
Best Screenplay: Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing
Best Actor: Timothée Chalame "Call Me by Your Name"
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins "Shape of Water"
Best Animated: Coco
Sounds/Music: Dunkirk

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02/19/2017

House of Hall picks. Better movies this year over last year.

Best Picture: Hacksaw Ridge
Best Actor: Andrew Garfield (for Silence though)
Best supporting: Dev Patel in Lion (good enough to be main)
Best Actress: Ruth Negga for Loving
No supporting actress
La La Land takes cinematography, directing, costumes and sound mixing (wow maybe too much)
Hacksaw Ridge for film and sound editing
A Disney movie for best animated... Probably Zootopia
(Moana for Original Score though)
Visual Effects: Doctor Strange
Original Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea (title alone worth it)
Adapted: probably Lion

02/14/2017

Oscars time again.. So far not impressed.

02/19/2016

It's that time of year for the Academy Awards again. Let's see...

Picks:
Best Picture = Room
Best Director = Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Revenant)
Cinematography = John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Film Editing = Hank Corwin (The Big Short)
Original Screenplay = Whoever wrote Inside Out
Adapted Screenplay = Emma Donoghue (Room)
Best Actor = Matt Damon (The Martian)
Best Actress = Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
Best Supporting Actor = Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)
Best Supporting Actress = Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)
Makeup/etc. = Revenant
Sound = Mad Max
..i lost interest towards the end.. terrible year for Hollywood..

02/17/2015

House of Hall picks "The Imitation Game" to win best picture.

Eddie Redmayne (Theory of Everything) for best Actor. Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) for best Actress. JK Simmons (Whiplash) for supporting Actor. Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) for supporting Actress. Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman) for Director. Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman) for Cinematography. Milena Canonero (Grand Budapest Hotel) for costume design. Tom Cross (Whiplash) for Film Editing. Jóhann Jóhannsson (Theory of Everything) for best Original Score. Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) for Adapted Screenplay. Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel) for Original Screenplay.

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03/17/2014

Anime nights every Friday at the House of Hall

10/31/2012

There was a leak in the catch basin so Father Hall and I rigged up this contraption!

07/23/2012

Milkweed strikes again =/