WGA Awards anticipation thread

[CMJ]

I thought this too. You know how they say it's often the film with the 2nd most nominations that wins Best Picture? And probably after that it's the one with the most. Off the top of my head, Ordinary People won with only 6 nominations back in 1980 - which was tied for the least amount of nominations with Tess that year. (of the Best Pic nominees)

Actually it's the one with the most that wins about 2 thirds of the time. Then the one with second most usually wins if the leading film doesn't.

It's rare for a film to win that isn't among the top two nominated films. Argo is breaking so many precedents this year.

[Triviachamp]

Well five more films had more noms than The Greatest Show on Earth. And four films had more noms than Annie Hall and the Departed. And In the Heat of the Night was tied for least noms of The BP nominees. Not to mention Grand Hotel.

[Triviachamp]

It's rare for a film to win that isn't among the top two nominated films. Argo is breaking so many precedents this year.

There is also Wings, Casablanca, An American in Paris, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Midnight Cowboy, Chariots of Fire, Silence of the Lambs.

[electric_storm]

I don't think total nominations matter as much as where and how you get nominated. Like double sound nods and a total filler one for Arkin or SLP getting everything it did are in a way a better indicator of popularity than something like "Lincoln" or "Benjamin Button" showing up in all applicable categories.

[Capt. January]

Is it too late to roofie the voters?

Unfortunately, no. Having only seen "Pi", "Beasts", "Amour" and "Argo", I'm still saddened all awards would go to "Argo". The academy will sometimes not give a damn who is winning all the awards and will go their own way. But, really, the only way they could honorably get away with NOT awarding "Argo" is by giving "Amour" Best Picture. I´m not good at statistics but I think the chances of that happening are -75%.

[Thomas]

Arghgo makes perfect sense, though.

[agasimono]

So unflattering...

[erikdean]

Oh my God, that is awful.

[Thomas]

Flesh dress?

[dyedred19]

For somebody as beautiful as she is, she really struggles with dressing herself.

Here's hoping her Oscar look is as great as it was last year.

[eoindaly2k11]

For somebody as beautiful as she is, she really struggles with dressing herself.

Here's hoping her Oscar look is as great as it was last year.

It's just a bad dress but amazing everything else

[Addison de Witt]

She is lovely even when she wears a bad dress

[guany]

So unflattering...

[Capt. January]

Add a little color and she'll look fine.

[babz]

For somebody as beautiful as she is, she really struggles with dressing herself.

Here's hoping her Oscar look is as great as it was last year.

She's not dressing herself, it;s her stylist. Jennifer Lawrence has been so hit and miss this awards season too. Both should fire whoever is dressing them.

[AliasDarren]

I believe Lawrence's is Rachel Zoe, also Anne Hathaway's. She hasn't been doing too good of a job this season. Chastain is wildly inconsistent, she either looks incredible or terrible.

[Sliced Peach]

I think Chastain has had pretty bad fashion sense both this season and last year. She's a very (unconventionally) beautiful lady but she's not exactly a fashionista. That is an awful dress, ew!

[Vincent Blanchett]

That's a very unfortunate outfit for Saint Chastain

[Matt24]

I think Chastain is beyond beautiful, but she's a consistently terrible dresser.

[Rasie]

Lawrence and Chastain both need to trade up for better stylists.

I'd love to see JLaw with someone young like Ryan Hastings or Leith Clark. I just want to see Jessica with someone who knows how to flatter her body type and won't make her look so boring all the time.