Movie Film Awards Hollywood Party

Susan dances her heart out

FILM DISCUSSION GROUP
PRE-OSCAR PARTY 2017

Our own Seb and Mia (Archie & Simone)
strike a "City of Stars" pose

Fred & Ginger (Richard and Susan) add classic glamour to La La Land		Florence Foster Jenkins (Marilyn) sings an off key aria for guests		Florence's French twin Marguerite (Marian) joins in the aria		Sad Jackie (Joanne) lightens up in La La Land	Jackie (Ruth) sneaks a smoke
Julia Child (Elaina) seasons her chicken		Remember the film Lobster? (Dan)		Saroo's Mom (Sharon) finds her missing boy in La La Land		Pia & Terry take a bank-robbing break	Oh no...The heptapods have crashed our party! (John and Adriane)
Why are they here? What do they want? (Karen and John)		Where's Amy Adams when you need her?				Ah... they bring a weapon? tool? gift? (David and Adriane)	Happy heptapod
Pondering our film favorites We have no interest in what the academy thinks....these are our thoroughly vetted, most deserving winners. We each had 1 "lucky star" to use once. We cast 1 vote per category and could use our 1 lucky star if we wanted to vote for 2 nominees in a single category or wanted to give 1 deserving favorite 1 extra vote. SEE OUR FINAL DECISIONS BELOW...						And the Heptapod goes to........	Rather the Oscar goes to....

BEST FILM Moonlight: 14 La La Land: 6 Hidden Figures: 6 Manchesterby the Sea: 3 Fences: 2 Hacksaw Ridge: 1 Hell or High Water: 1 0 for Arrival and Lion	BEST ACTOR Casey Afleck, Manchester by the Sea: 10 Denzel Washington, Fences: 6 Ryan Gosling, La La Land: 1 Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic: 1 Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge: 0	BEST ACTRESS Natalie Portman, Jackie: 9 (Viola Davis deserved to be in this category) Meryl Streep, Florence Jenkins: 2 Isabelle Huppert, Elle: 2 Emma Stone, La La Land: 1 Ruth Negga, Loving: 0 we deservingly added: Taraji Henson, Hidden Figures: 1	BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Marshala Ali, Moonlight: 11 Lucas Hedges, Manchester by Sea: 3 we fondly added: Sunny Pawar, Saroo in Lion: 2 and deservingly added: Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight: 2 0 for all other nominated actors	BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Viola Davis, Fences: 10 Naomi Harris, Moonlight: 4 Nicole Kidman, Lion: 1 Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures: 1 0 for Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea	My personal favorite for best documentary... Lfe Animated (Didn't see I Am Not Your Negro, but I probably would have listed it here also)
MORE: And here's a nod to my other personal favorites that came out early in 2016... Hail Caesar A Bigger Splash The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window		We didn't see enough foreign language films to cast a vote at our party, but these should be pretty good.... Elle A Man Called Ove Toni Erdmann Salesman
Walk down Oscar Memory Lane and see our past Film Discussion Party photos and all of our discussion summaries on ourweb page: www.filmdiscussiongroup.com			.