Fearless Oscar Picks 2016

Going out on a limb for The Big Short as Best Picture, and choosing Film Editing due to that pick. Am looking forward to Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning an overdue Oscar this year.

Update with Winners shown in bold. 15/24 is pretty awful, and below my average.

Best Picture
“The Big Short”

Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu, “The Revenant”

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”

Best Actress
Brie Larson, “Room”

Best Supporting Actor
Sylvester Stallone, “Creed”

Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”

Best Original Screenplay
“Spotlight”

Best Adapted Screenplay
“The Big Short”

Best Foreign Film
“Son of Saul”

Best Documentary Feature
“Amy”

Best Animated Feature
“Inside Out”

Best Film Editing
“The Big Short”

Best Song
“The Hunting Ground”

Best Original Score
“The Hateful Eight”

Best Digital Effects
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Best Cinematography
“The Revenant”

Best Costume Design
“Mad Max: Fury Road”

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Mad Max: Fury Road”

Best Production Design
“Mad Max: Fury Road”

Best Sound Editing
“The Revenant”

Best Sound Mixing
“The Revenant”

Best Short Film, Live Action
“Shok”

Best Short Film, Animated
“Sanjay’s Super Team”

Best Documentary Short Subject
“A Girl in the River”

The Super Bowl 50 Logo is a Disaster

With this year’s milestone Super Bowl being held our own Bay Area backyard, it’s been hard to escape the hype. And thanks to good weather, Julie and I did brave the crowds yesterday to visit Super Bowl City in San Francisco (the fact that we could easily flee and find something else to do in The City was also a factor). Though football isn’t really my thing anymore (thank you SF Giants), it certainly was an impressive scene that many people seemed to be really enjoying.

My initial exposure to SB50’s marketing push came not via television or billboards, but with a display in our neighborhood supermarket. They were selling SB50 logo shirts and other items, obviously trying to position themselves as your “big game headquarters.”  But something about the display bothered me. The colors seemed off. I’m used to seeing the NFL’s red/white/blue color scheme but this one seemed muted. What’s with this ugly yellow color?

Oh, it’s supposed to be gold. You know, the “golden anniversary” celebrating the 50th Super Bowl.

I can kind of see it now but I still think the color scheme is all wrong. It’s not a good color, certainly nothing that strikes immediately as gold. The ironic part is that with the game being held in the Bay Area at the SF 49ers home stadium, it isn’t like they don’t have a really good model for what a good gold color should look like on a football logo or jersey. In fact, the Los Angeles Rams’ gold color also matches the 49ers gold.

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Gold in them thar hills?