Michael Keaton wins at Independent Spirit Awards, will he win the Oscar?
Source: Faux News-AP
A day before it may soar at the Oscars, "Birdman" spread its wings at the 30th Independent Film Spirit Awards, winning best picture, best actor for Michael Keaton and best cinematography.
The elegantly stitched together backstage comedy came away the big winner at the annual pre-Oscars afternoon celebration of independent film on Saturday. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Birdman" won over what many consider its stiffest competition, the 12-years-in-the-making "Boyhood," though that film's maker, Richard Linklater, still took the directing honor.
As Hollywood has increasingly devoted itself to global blockbusters, the Spirit Awards once a casual indie appetizer to the Oscars feels more and more like the center of the industry, or at least a more idealized version of it. Set in a beachside tent in Santa Monica the day before the Academy Awards are held across town, the Spirits broadcast live this year for the first time variously boasted of growing prominence and of preserving a way of moviemaking often regarded as obsolete at the studios.
"We are threatened to become a species in extinction," said Inarritu, the Mexican filmmaker, accepting the best feature award.
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Feb 21, 2015. Actor Michael Keaton accepts the award for Best Male Lead for his role in "Birdman" at the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California. (Reuters)
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Not sure who it will go to, but I am pretty sure it will be one of the two of them.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)They didn't even consider Selma
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Selma is up for Best Picture, the same category as Birdman (which I found to be a refreshing film shot with a VERY interesting and unique style).
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)That's my take
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Orrex
(63,216 posts)What a fucking trainwreck that's going to be.
Omaha Steve
(99,660 posts)I wasted $7.00 on a blind buy when it came out on home video: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375210/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Orrex
(63,216 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,660 posts)Anybody seen it?
Orrex
(63,216 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)I hope he wins.
Demit
(11,238 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)He completely understood the character as both Bruce Wayne and Batman. His Bruce Wayne wasn't just some dumb alternate personality for the "real" badass techovigilante in a bat suit.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)The Dark Knight Returns was an excellent graphic novel. One of my favorites.
Christian Bale is a close second, however. He and Nolan really got the dark edginess that is seen in Batman Year One, The Man Who Falls, and The Long Halloween.
I'm still awaiting someone to do a Batman film based on The Killing Joke. Hands down, my favorite Batman novel.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)can't believe screenwriters nominated other screenwriters for the Birdman script. It amounted to nothing more than "Fuck........Fuck......fuck.....fuck.....fuck......(rinse and repeat). Nothing especially creative or well written there. Meh.
romanic
(2,841 posts)maryellen99
(3,789 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)I think" The theory of everything" should win..and Eddie Redmayne with that said I hate the Oscars.