86th Academy Awards - The Oscars

[Rusty Sticks]

It's the biggest night in Hollywood folks: the Oscars! It's the biggest awards show on television, honoring the best of the best in films for 2013. This year the host is Ellen DeGeneres, popular talk show host of her own show, Ellen.

Here we can talk about the awards themselves, including predictions, reactions, red carpet shenanigans, etc.

The nominees!:

Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Animated Feature
The Croods (Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson)
Despicable Me 2 (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri)
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner)
Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki)

Best Cinematography
The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)
Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins)

Best Costume Design
American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
The Invisible Woman (Michael O'Connor)
12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris)

Best Directing
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

Best Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen)
Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher)
Dirty Wars (Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer)
20 Feet from Stardom (Nominees to be determined)

Best Documentary Short
CaveDigger (Jeffrey Karoff)
Facing Fear (Jason Cohen)
Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (Edgar Barens)

Best Film Editing
American Hustle (Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten)
Captain Phillips (Christopher Rouse)
Dallas Buyers Club (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker)

Best Foreign Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty)
The Lone Ranger (Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny)

Best Original Score
The Book Thief (John Williams)
Gravity (Steven Price)
Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)
Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)
Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song
Happy (Despicable Me 2)
Let It Go (Frozen)
The Moon Song (Her)
Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

Best Production Design
American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler)
Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker)

Best Animated Short Film
Feral (Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden)
Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim)
Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
Possessions (Shuhei Morita)
Room on the Broom (Max Lang, Jan Lachauer)

Best Live Action Short Film
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) (Esteban Crespo)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras)
Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari)
The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill, Baldwin Li)

Best Sound Editing
All Is Lost (Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns)
Captain Phillips (Oliver Tarney)
Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Brent Burge, Chris Ward)
Lone Survivor (Wylie Stateman)

Best Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips (Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro)
Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland)
Lone Survivor (Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow)

Best Visual Effects
Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds)
Iron Man 3 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick)
The Lone Ranger (Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier)
Star Trek Into Darkness (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)

Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Nebraska (Bob Nelson)

 

[Chaos Jackal]

Moved to Misc., as I don't see what it has to do with Pokemon. Feel free to discuss anything from the movies to the dresses, but please no insulting. Opinions are opinions. Thank you.

 

[Rusty Sticks]

Moved to Misc., as I don't see what it has to do with Pokemon.

Mistake on my part. Didn't even notice haha.

 

[Eagle4]

Looking forward to this very much; I'm getting up at 5 in the morning in order to watch this (taped, but before school so I don't get spoiled on who won). The films this year have been fantastic and most of the main categories are extremely competitive. I'm expecting a few shocks, and here are my predictions:

Bold = Winner
Red = Most Deserving (imo)

Spoiler

Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Animated Feature
The Croods (Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson)
Despicable Me 2 (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri)
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner)
Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki)

Best Cinematography
The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)
Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins)

Best Costume Design
American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
The Invisible Woman (Michael O'Connor)
12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris)

Best Directing
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

Best Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen)
Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher)
Dirty Wars (Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer)
20 Feet from Stardom (Nominees to be determined)

Best Documentary Short
CaveDigger (Jeffrey Karoff)
Facing Fear (Jason Cohen)
Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (Edgar Barens)

Haven't seen any

Best Film Editing
American Hustle (Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten)
Captain Phillips (Christopher Rouse)
Dallas Buyers Club (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker)

Best Foreign Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty)
The Lone Ranger (Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny)

Best Original Score
The Book Thief (John Williams)
Gravity (Steven Price)
Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)
Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)
Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song
Happy (Despicable Me 2)
Let It Go (Frozen)
The Moon Song (Her)
Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

Best Production Design
American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler)
Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker)

Best Animated Short Film
Feral (Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden)
Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim)
Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
Possessions (Shuhei Morita)
Room on the Broom (Max Lang, Jan Lachauer)

Haven't seen any

Best Live Action Short Film
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) (Esteban Crespo)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras)
Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari)
The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill, Baldwin Li)

Haven't seen any

Best Sound Editing
All Is Lost (Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns)
Captain Phillips (Oliver Tarney)
Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Brent Burge, Chris Ward)
Lone Survivor (Wylie Stateman)

Best Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips (Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro)
Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland)
Lone Survivor (Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow)

Best Visual Effects
Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds)
Iron Man 3 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick)
The Lone Ranger (Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier)
Star Trek Into Darkness (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)

Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Nebraska (Bob Nelson)

 

[Eagle4]

^ just like to point out how well I predicted

 

[Rusty Sticks]

Updated the OP with the winners in italics!

...so. How 'bout that John Travolta flubbing Idina Menzel's name? I have no idea who Adele Dazeem is.

 

[Juliacoolo]

Some of the most important factors of a game lie in the items and abilities of a Pokemon. This can be tricky for newer players, as items and abilities are not available on Team Preview, and can be game-breaking if a player is not aware of them. Items can also be game-breaking. Playing around Choice Items, Life Orb, And Status Orbs can give you an un-rivaled advantage over the lesser-experienced player. The following is a collection of all of the most common and threatening Items and Abilities that every player should be aware of.

Items​

Every Pokemon can hold an item when entering a battle. You want the items you give your Pokemon to enhance their performance. Different Pokemon have different roles, and they need to be equipped accordingly. If you have a defensive wall, a good choice for it would be Leftovers. Leftovers recover 6.5% of the users HP at the end of each turn, effectively letting the Pokemon wall longer. A poor choice for a defensive wall, would be a Choice Item or Life Orb. Choice Items increase attack, or speed, while also limiting you to one move. This is very hindering to a wall, as it's soul purpose is to use a variety of moves to stall the opponent, not try to attack it. Life Orb increases the power of a Pokemon's Attacks, at the cost of 10% of the Pokemon's max HP in Recoil.

Roles, Movesets, Typing, and Team Type are the main things you need to keep in mind when determining the items you put on your own Pokemon, and when anticipating the item on your opponent's Pokemon.

Air Balloon

- When held by a Pokémon, the Pokémon will float into the air. When the holder is attacked, this item will burst.

Competitive Use: Many Pokémon suffer from a Ground-Type weakness. This often prevents them from Walling, or Sweeping to their maximum potential. Air Balloon eliminates the holder's Ground-Type weakness until they are hit by another attack, efficiently saving them from potential harm.

Common Holders:

Black Sludge

- A held item that gradually restores the HP of Poison-type Pokémon by 6.5% at the end of each turn. It inflicts damage on all other types.

Competitive Use: This is basically a Leftovers for Poison-Types. The only true benefit of using Black Sludge over Leftovers is that on any Pokemon that isn't a Poison-Type, Black Sludge hurts them. At the chance that your item gets swapped my Trick, or otherwise given to the opponent, you end up gaining somewhat of an advantage.

Common Holders:

Chesto Berry

- A Poffin ingredient. It may be used or held by a Pokémon to recover from sleep.

Competitive Use: Many sweepers suffer from fragility, and lack a reliable recovery move. Some of them will use Rest, which gives them full HP and Status recovery. Chesto Berry then removes the Sleep Status, then allowing them to continue fully refreshed.

Common Holders:

Choice Band

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. This headband ups Attack by 50%, but allows the use of only one of its moves.

Competitive Use: Many Pokemon are blessed with sky-high Attack stats. While limiting them to only one move, the Choice Band complements this strength.

Common Holders:

Choice Scarf

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. This scarf boosts Speed by 50%, but allows the use of only one of its moves.

Competitive Use:Some Pokemon duffer from low, or mediocre speed. Choice scarf allows them overcome this. In other cases, faster Pokemon are also given Choice Scarf. This is sometimes used to outspeed other fast opponents, or sometimes for Tricking the Scarf to the opponent, crippling them.

Common Holders:

Choice Specs

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. These distinctive glasses boost Sp. Atk by 50% but allow the use of only one of its moves.

Competitive Use: Many Pokemon are blessed with sky-high Special Attack stats. While limiting them to only one move, the Choice Specs complements this strength.

Common Holders:

Eviolite

- A mysterious evolutionary lump. When held, it raises the Defense and Sp. Def of a Pokémon that can still evolve by 50%.

Competitive Use: Many Pokemon used to be Basic or Stage 1, and later were given a new evolution. These Pokemon often still have viable defensive qualities, in which Eviolite enhances, sometimes putting them above their evolved counterparts.

Common Holders:

Expert Belt

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a well-worn belt that slightly boosts the power of supereffective moves by 20%.

Competitive Use: Sweepers often carry a wide variety of moves. Expert belt compliments this diversity, as the sweepers main goals is to exploit the weaknesses of its enemies.

Common Holders:

Flame Orb

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a bizarre orb that inflicts a burn on the holder in battle.

Competitive Use: Some Physical Sweepers have the Ability Guts. This gives a 50% Attack boost when affected by a Status Condition. The Flame Orb gives it this boost, and prevents the Holder from obtaining other crippling Conditions. On the defensive side, some Pokemon with Magic Guard hold it. Magic Guard prevents the Burn damage, and some Pokemon Trick or Psycho Shift the Status onto the opponent.

Common Holders:

Focus Sash

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. If it has full HP, the holder will endure one potential KO attack, leaving 1 HP.

Competitive Use: Many Pokemon suffer from fragility, but still have legitimate competitive use. Focus Sash buys them an extra turn, leaving them with one HP when an attack would normally Knock Out the Pokemon. The use of Focus Sash has severely gone down this generation, as Sand, Hail, and Hazards all break Focus Sash, rendering it useless.

Common Holders:

Leftovers

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. The holder's HP is gradually restored during battle. 6.5% of the Holder's HP is restored at the end of each turn.

Competitive Use: Leftovers is probably the most common item you'll see in a battle. Just about every single team carries it. Leftovers provides un-rivaled recovery that neutralizes Sandstorm damage, and is generally helpful in keeping your Pokemon alive.

Common Holders:

Life Orb

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. It boosts the power of moves by 30%, but at the cost of 10% of the Holder's max HP on each hit.

Competitive Use: Life Orb is another very common item. It gives sweepers a nice 30% boost, which is often the difference between K.O.ing the opponent, and leaving them with HP left to attack you.

Common Holders:

Lum Berry

- A Poffin ingredient. It may be used or held by a Pokémon to recover from any status problem.

Competitive Use: Primarily used on Leads, Lum berry cures a Pokemon on any status condition. Often, Substitute is paired with Lum Berry, to eat the Status, and Sub to block the rest.

Common Holders:

Rocky Helmet

- If the holder of this item takes damage, the attacker will also be damaged 6.5% of their Maximum HP upon contact.

Competitive Use: Rocky Helmet is used to hurt the opponent upon contact. It is often used on Walls who switch in, take little damage, and end up hurting the foe in doing so.

Common Holders:

Sitrus Berry

- A Poffin ingredient. It may be used or held by a Pokémon to heal the user’s HP by 25% of the User's maximum.

Competitive Use: Belly Drummers, and other Pokemon that commonly lose HP quickly may use a Sitrus Berry to heal them back to a healthy HP level after damage is inflicted.

Common Holders:

Toxic Orb

- An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a bizarre orb that badly poisons the holder in battle.

Competitive Use: Like Flame Orb, Some Pokemon use Toxic Orb to activate the Guts ability. Other Pokemon have the ability Toxic Heal. This gives them HP recovery when they are Poisoned, and prevents other Status Conditions from crippling them.

Common Holders:

Yache Berry

- A Poffin ingredient. If held by a Pokémon, it weakens a foe’s supereffective Ice-type attack.

Competitive Use: Some of the top Pokemon suffer from an Ice-Type Weakness, notably the Dragon, Flying, and Ground-Types. Yache Berry allows the Holder to deft this Weakness, for one Attack.

Common Holders: