Topic: [MERIT][CONTEST] The winner of the Oscar 2020 (Read 954 times)

you don't need to point up merits earned by JR.MEMBER because even the account received more than 10 merits but "lack of activities" he will remain as JR Member rank so His ranked won't complicate the rules since he can still gain 10 merits and remain as His rank.

i did not anticipate the rules as i dont really have the original plan to participate or at least i only want to Join the conversation since i am also a movie Lover and a fan of Oscar.

but thanks for Pointing that out Budz because my legitimacy is under question if you don't mentioned everything in this.

I am a Legit participant now lol  

The contest is already over... Don't you know that Oscars were already awarded?

If you ask "if you could have been eligible", the answer is "no", as you did not have 10 merits earned in the past 120 days prior the contest.

Tell me, please, do I have the right to participate ?

Yep exactly 
I checked everyone and for peter0425 it was your decision, not mine like you said 

Indeed, the contest did not allow Jr. Members, nor Newbies, but it was stated in the OP.

However, as a funny fact, I just realized that I didn't take any look (of curiosity) at participants' eligibility regarding merits: to have earned at least 10 in the last 120 days.

According to this criterion:
- GazetaBitcoin registered in the contest on Jan 29th, 18:12:02. According to loyce.club, I had earned at that moment more than 10 merits in the past 120 days, thus I was eligible - http://loyce.club/Merit/history/1285797.html

- Rikafip registered on Feb 3rd, 10:40:11. According to loyce.club, at that moment, he had also more than 10 merits earned in the past 120 days, thus being eligible - http://loyce.club/Merit/history/2658890.html

- Jawhead999 registered on Feb 4th, 12:24:50. According to loyce.club, at the registration he had also earned at least 10 merits in the past 120 days, thus being eligible - http://loyce.club/Merit/history/2578892.html

- peter0425 was signed up against his will ( ) on Feb 6th, at 17:02:42 and, according to loyce.club he had earned only 7 merits in the past 120 days prior the registration (http://loyce.club/Merit/history/950952.html), thus being not eligible for the contest. However  in his case the criterion is irrelevant, as he was dragged in, instead of registering himself

With other words, the contest and its participants were 100% legit!

Some How contest was not Valid to Some, Especial Jr Members Accordingly to Updated Rank Requirements. it was supposed to be  Member as Contest entry requirement and not Jr member  if so those 10 merits should be removed to at least 1 Merit with 30 activity which is Jr member Rank status, it kind of confusion when you look to updated ranks Requirements.

Rank   Required    Activity  Merit Required                                              
Jr Member             30        1                                            
Member                60        10                                      
                                                          



(To join you need to be at least Jr Member on the forum and have earned a minimum of 10 merits in the last 120 days) 10 Merit is Member Requirement

The requirement meant should be Member and Not Jr as wrote. it was supposed to be clear for anyone to understood

I think this should Be Changed  Accordingly to Updated Rank Requirements. To a Member as Contest entry requirement or if you need Entry to be Jr member those 10 merits should be removed to atleast 1 Merit with 30 activity which is Jr member Rank status , it kind of confusion when you look to updated ranks Requirements.

Rank   Required    Activity  Merit Required                                              
Jr Member             30        1                                              
Member                60        10                                        
                                                          



(To join you need to be at least Jr Member on the forum and have earned a minimum of 10 merits in the last 120 days) 10 Merit is Member Requirement

The requirement means that you should be Member and Not Jr as written it suppose to be clear for anyone to understand

you deserve it mate,and let me be a Fan because of this lol

is that Charlie Chaplain time?hahaha i also enjoy watching Black and White sometimes though i felt being color blind when doing that lol.

again Happy to be part of this Great Game i ever Joined in this forum.

Cheers!!!

First of all, congrats Rikafip! That was really impressive - to get 13 points! You rocked, man! Congrats!

Also congrats to Jawhead999 and peter0425, for winning 2nd and 3rd places!

This contest was really fun and I long waited for the Oscars Also, I want to thank to OP for organizing it!

Besides, I want to say that I was very impressed by peter's fairness, as I did not expect that at all. Thank you for the merit and for your fair-play. I also want to congratulate you for having this fair-play spirit. Not many have it. Now, in the end, we can say that all the participants won

Thank you so much @Tramirostronix , I'm very suprised I can be the runner up for your contest, since I not sure can be in top 3 
If you have the other contest next time, I will join again.
Congratulations to everyone who win the contest

for the fairness of the Event and since i had been awarded(while i am only gatecrasher lol) awarding you also Budz @GazetaBitcoin as you really deserve to win as well.

thanks for this great Game i really enjoyed ,and you @Rikafip?you a Damn Good in Movies no wonder you made more than Half of the categories,Congrats Buddy!!!

to OP @Tramirostronix,you made a Great game for us all here,Hope seeing more of this in the future and i will be giving My merits as well (hope i have received more by that time because i am our of merits now lol)

Thank you guys..

Ok so yes the results are :

GazetaBitcoin : 3
Rikafip : 13
Jawhead999: 9
peter0425 : 5


So the winner is Rikafip, then  Jawhead999 and finally peter0425
congrats !!

Edit : distribution done

Hi guys , sorry for the delay .. I have no wifi in the place i am currently .. and my phone is almost dead so almost no data at all....

But it should be done today !

I was also surprised by parasite but about the best movie Oscar ... A small part of me think it's because of the "Oscar are racist .. only white people win " 

sometimes Luck comes to those new comer lol,i am not supposedly part of the game and now as a unofficial result i am on top 3?lol then i must celebrate for this one 

I am definitely surprised by Parasite, as it's the first time foreign film ever to  win best picture award.
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While we are waiting for @Tramirostronix to announce official results, i checked a bit and unless i miscounted, this is what i got:

Rikafip 13/24
Jawhead: 9/24
peter0425: 5/24
GazetaBitcoin: 3/24

I am definitely surprised by Parasite, as it's the first time foreign film ever to  win best picture award, but i can't say it's undeserved as it is undeniably  quality movie. It might be easier for other non-English movies to win best picture Oscar in the future, now when Parasite broke the ice,  especially for  South Korean cinema  as they had even better movies than this in the past, Like Memories of Murder, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, Oldboy, Mother,  etc..



Interesting choice. I have j'accuse and grace à dieu  on my watchlist, i will definitely watch them  when they come out.

Aaand the Oscars are over! Here is the final list of the nominees and of the winners (with bold):

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Best Picture:

• Ford v Ferrari – Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and James Mangold
• The Irishman – Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff
• Jojo Rabbit – Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi
• Joker – Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff
• Little Women – Amy Pascal
• Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach and David Heyman
• 1917 – Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, and Callum McDougal
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino
• Parasite – Kwak Sin-ae and Bong Joon-ho

Best Director:

• Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
• Todd Phillips – Joker
• Sam Mendes – 1917
• Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Bong Joon-Ho – Parasite

Best Actor in A Leading Role:

• Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory as Salvador Mallo
• Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Rick Dalton
• Adam Driver – Marriage Story as Charlie Barber
• Joaquin Phoenix – Joker as Arthur Fleck / The Joker
• Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

• Cynthia Erivo – Harriet as Harriet Tubman
• Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber
• Saoirse Ronan – Little Women as Josephine "Jo" March
• Charlize Theron – Bombshell as Megyn Kelly
• Renée Zellweger – Judy as Judy Garland

Best Actor in a Supporting role :

• Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Fred Rogers
• Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes as Pope Benedict XVI
• Al Pacino – The Irishman as Jimmy Hoffa
• Joe Pesci – The Irishman as Russell Bufalino
• Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth

Best Actress in a Supporting role:

• Kathy Bates – Richard Jewell as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell
• Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw
• Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit as Rosie Betzler
• Florence Pugh – Little Women as Amy March
• Margot Robbie – Bombshell as Kayla Pospisil

Best Original Screenplay:

• Knives Out – Rian Johnson
• Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
• 1917 – Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
• Parasite – Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• The Irishman – Steven Zaillian based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
• Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi based on the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
• Joker – Todd Phillips and Scott Silver based on the characters created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson
• Little Women – Greta Gerwig based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
• The Two Popes – Anthony McCarten based on his play The Pope

Best Foreign Langage Film:

• Corpus Christi (Poland) in Polish – Directed by Jan Komasa
• Honeyland (North Macedonia) in Turkish[a] – Directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• Les Misérables (France) in French – Directed by Ladj Ly
• Pain and Glory (Spain) in Spanish – Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
• Parasite (South Korea) in Korean – Directed by Bong Joon-ho

Best Documentary Feature:

• American Factory – Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert
• The Cave – Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær
• The Edge of Democracy – Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan
• For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
• Honeyland – Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev

Best Animated Feature:

• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold and Brad Lewis
• I Lost My Body – Jeremy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice
• Klaus – Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh and Marisa Román
• Missing Link – Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight
• Toy Story 4 – Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen

Best Documentary Short:

• In the Absence – Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam
• Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) – Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva
• Life Overtakes Me – John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson
• St. Louis Superman – Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan
• Walk Run Cha-Cha – Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt

Short Film Animated:

• Dcera (Daughter) – Daria Kashcheeva
• Hair Love – Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver
• Kitbull – Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson
• Memorable – Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre
• Sister – Siqi Song

Short Film Live action:

• Brotherhood – Meryam Joobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon
• Nefta Football Club – Yves Piat and Damien Megherbi
• The Neighbors' Window – Marshall Curry[/bb]
• Saria – Bryan Buckley and Matt Lefebvre
• A Sister – Delphine Girard

Music (original Score):

• Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
• Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
• Marriage Story – Randy Newman
• 1917 – Thomas Newman
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams

Music Original Song:

• "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" from Toy Story 4 – Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
• "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Rocketman – Music by Elton John; Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
• "I'm Standing with You" from Breakthrough – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
• "Into the Unknown" from Frozen II – Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
• "Stand Up" from Harriet – Music and Lyrics by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo

Best Sound Editing:

• Ford v Ferrari – Donald Sylvester
• Joker – Alan Robert Murray
• 1917 – Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Wylie Stateman
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Matthew Wood and David Acord

Best Sound mixing:

• Ad Astra – Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulano
• Ford v Ferrari – Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow
• Joker – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland
• 1917 – Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano

Production Design:

• The Irishman – Production Design: Bob Shaw; Set Decoration: Regina Graves
• Jojo Rabbit – Production Design: Ra Vincent; Set Decoration: Nora Sopková
• 1917 – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
• Parasite – Production Design: Lee Ha-jun; Set Decoration: Cho Won-woo

Best Cinematography:

• The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
• Joker – Lawrence Sher
• The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
• 1917 – Roger Deakins
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Robert Richardson

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

• Bombshell – Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker
• Joker – Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou
• Judy – Jeremy Woodhead
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten and David White
• 1917 – Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis and Rebecca Cole

Best Costume Design:

• The Irishman – Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson
• Jojo Rabbit – Mayes C. Rubeo
• Joker – Mark Bridges
• Little Women – Jacqueline Durran
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips

Best Film Editing:

• Ford v Ferrari – Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker
• The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
• Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles
• Joker – Jeff Groth
• Parasite – Yang Jin-mo

Best Visual Effects:

• Avengers: Endgame – Dan DeLeeuw, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
• The Irishman – Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, and Nelson Sepulveda
• The Lion King – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Elliot Newman
• 1917 – Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler, and Dominic Tuohy
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Roger Guyett, Neal Scanl
  

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As far as I see, I guessed correctly 3 winners

Hum I just look on my page the highest mark so it will be :

no order :

j'accuse
joker
once upon a time in hollywood
avengers
the dirt
grace à dieu


and after i don't know aha

Hi @GazetaBitcoin, I asked others to share their top movies of 2019, not some general list of the best movies ever.

Dear padawan:

Read carefully!



From all of this thread you seem deserving my list! If you want it I can email to you! This is my last 20 years work!

I'm  the greatest film fan ever (watching movies since 1930 ). Just let me know if you want the list! + Or anyone else

This was just a spam, all this was already mentioned in the first post of the thread.



I personally don't think that 1917 is the best film of  2019, but i think it's the one that will most likely win an Oscar.  When i made predictions, i went with what i think Academy will choose, rather than who i would like to win. For me Marriage Story was the best one, but i doubt it will win an Oscar for best film. Since i mentioned which one is the best for me in 2019, i might as well mention 9 more that make my top 10 of 2019:

2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood-this was the tough call, to decide whether i liked this one or Marriage Story the most. For me this is one of the best Tarantino movies so far, i really enjoyed the film, it was a bit different than usual Tarantino style, and i liked the change.

3.Uncut Gems-i expected a good film, knowing that Safdie brothers are capable directors, but this was even better than i expected. Extremely fast paced and anxious film, that gets us right into the world of a hardcore gambler. It will not be a everyones cup of tea as it is kinda "attack on senses", but it's worth checking it out.

4.Parasite- another very good movie from Bong Joon Ho, and interesting mix of genres. And one more with strong message, like in his previous work.

5.1917-beautiful film to watch in cinema, i really enjoyed this one. Tehnically perfect, and one of the best war movies i saw since 2001 and Black Hawk Dawn.

6.Joker- I am not a fan of comic based movies, so i liked a bit different take on known villian, with great performance by Phoenix.

7.The Lighthouse-second film by Eggers, guy who made an excellent horror The VVitch few years before.This one is definitely not for everyone, as film is made in style of 1920 German cinema and great F.W Murnau, with a  bit of Greek mithology. Dafoe and Pattinson did great job there.

8.JoJo Rabbit- serious theme made in a different way, reminds a bit of Life is Beautiful. Taika Waititi is simply not capable of making a bad film.

9.The Two Popes-i am not really a religious guy, but that didn't stop me from enjoying in this one. Pleasant surprise, and very good Hopkins and Price in leading roles.

10.Doctor Sleep- sequel to Shining, made by the Stephen King book of the same name. We all know that Shining is one of the best horrors ever made, Kubrick's masterpiece, so i must admit that i was really skeptical about this one, but it turned out to be good film, thanks to Flanagan who is an experienced horror movies director(he made few good movies and an excellent series, The Hunting of the Hill House). As long as you don't expect the same style of movie like Shining, you will be good.

Few honorable mentions: One Cut of the Dead, Dolemite Is My Name, Togo, The Art of self-defense, Arctic, Dragged Across Concrete, The Kindergarten Teacher, Dogman, Shazam!, Dark Waters, Ford vs Ferrari, The Wild Pear Tree, The Mustang, Birds Of Passage, Pain and Glory..

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Anyone else interested to share their top 5/10/whatever while we are waiting for Oscars? I am always on the lookout for new films!