James Bond - The Oscar Thread

X3MSonicXX3MSonicX https://www.behance.net/gallery/86760163/Fa-Posteres-de-007-No-Time-To-Die
edited August 2012 in Trivia & Games Posts: 2,635
Here's the right thread for you to "nominate" something(s) from Bond movies to the oscar, if you could.

What do you'd nominate? Best storyline? best plot? Best acting? Best actress/actor? Best soundtrack?

You can choose anything from all the movies, including NSNA.

I'd nominate:

TWINE for best acting from Sophie Marceau;
GE for the Soundtrack - Goldeneye from Tina Turner;
TND for best storyline.

Up to you, gentlemen! :-bd
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  • edited October 2012 Posts: 12,837
    There should be an oscar for best stunt. And the TLD cargo net sequence should have won in 1987.

    Timothy Dalton for best actor, Robert Davi or Christopher Lee for best supporting actor, and OHMSS, LALD or TWINE for soundtrack.
  • Best screenplay- OHMSS
    Best Actor- Timothy Dalton LTK
    Best Supporting Actor- Telly Savalas OHMSS, Robert Shaw- FRWL
    Best Actress- Diana Rigg OHMSS
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Oscar for best stunt - yes! Ski jump in TSWLM, the cargo net sequence in TLD, and car jump in TMWTGG (removing the stupid pennywhistle sound, it is truly amazing).


    Hmmm. What else? Cinematography - I actually think Skyfall is going to deserve a nod in that category. :)

    Screenplay - Goldeneye and Casino Royale (both exceptionally tight, well written scripts)

    Set design - Ken Adam for so many, let's just say YOLT and TSWLM to name two.


  • Oscar for best stunt - yes! Ski jump in TSWLM, the cargo net sequence in TLD, and car jump in TMWTGG (removing the stupid pennywhistle sound, it is truly amazing).


    Hmmm. What else? Cinematography - I actually think Skyfall is going to deserve a nod in that category. :)

    Screenplay - Goldeneye and Casino Royale (both exceptionally tight, well written scripts)

    Set design - Ken Adam for so many, let's just say YOLT and TSWLM to name two.

    You are so right. I am suprised we was never nominated for a Bond film, but glad he got one for another film.

  • Posts: 1,856
    [quo]te="licensetoforum"]
    You are so right. I am suprised we was never nominated for a Bond film, but glad he got one for another film.

    [/quote]

    Ken got nominated for Spy.
  • Posts: 1,492
    Best director - Peter Hunt, OHMSS
    Best production design - Ken Adam, Spy
    Best actor - Daniel Craig, CR
    Best supporting actor - Robert Shaw, FRWL
    Best actress - Diana Rigg, OHMSS
    Best supporting actress - Luciana Paluzzi, Thunderball
    Best music - John Barry, TLD
    Best screenwriter - Richard Maibaum, OHMSS
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Anybody have an idea as to why Bond films aren't nominated for anything these days? Something like 'Bridesmaids' can be given an Academy Award nomination, but a film such as CR - or possibly even SF - can't and probably won't?
  • Posts: 1,492
    Creasy47 wrote:
    Anybody have an idea as to why Bond films aren't nominated for anything these days? Something like 'Bridesmaids' can be given an Academy Award nomination, but a film such as CR - or possibly even SF - can't and probably won't?

    CR won BAFTAs.

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Ahh, I forgot about that. I wonder why the Academy Awards have stopped for the James Bond series, then.
  • Virage wrote:
    [quo]te="licensetoforum"]
    You are so right. I am suprised we was never nominated for a Bond film, but glad he got one for another film.

    Ken got nominated for Spy.[/quote]
    Thanks for the info you helped to better my day!

  • edited February 2013 Posts: 12,837
    Creasy47 wrote:
    Ahh, I forgot about that. I wonder why the Academy Awards have stopped for the James Bond series, then.

    Doesn't matter at all to me (Bond academy awards). The Oscars are out of touch, biased, and I couldn't give a crap about them frankly. All you have to do is look at the last ones, Drive wasn't nominated for anything, but some crap film about 9/11 that didn't even get over 50% on rotten tomatoes (so that's worse than f*cking DAD) did.

    So I really don't care about Bond winning Oscars. When people are talking about SF and how it looks "Oscar worthy", that doesn't get me excited at all. I just care about the film being good.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Believe me, I care about the film being good, and I do agree about the Oscars - they're a joke anymore - but it would still be nice to have a current Bond film win an award such as that.

    'Slumdog Millionaire' was honestly one of the worst films I've ever seen, and I can't believe it won 'Best Picture,' along with many other films that have won or been nominated in such an unbelievable fashion.
  • Peter O'Toole has won no academy awards. Sandra Bulloick has. Proof of the poltical side of the oscars.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited August 2012 Posts: 40,454
    Many people deserve(d) an Oscar but never received one: Leonardio Dicaprio, Alfred Hitchcock, Annette Bening, Ralph Fiennes, to name a few.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Peter just retired from acting, bless him. One of the greatest actors ever. I hope he gets his third vol. of autobiography out. I loved the first two books.

    I agree the Oscars are not a true showing of appreciation for best talent. Shame that.
  • X3MSonicXX3MSonicX https://www.behance.net/gallery/86760163/Fa-Posteres-de-007-No-Time-To-Die
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    Peter O'Toole has won no academy awards. Sandra Bulloick has. Proof of the poltical side of the oscars.

    you mean that Sandra's a bad actress?
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited August 2012 Posts: 2,629
    Best Actor: Timothy Dalton, License to Kill
    Best Actress: Diana Rigg, OHMSS
    Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Lee, TMWTGG
    Best Supporting Actress: Judi Dench, QOS
    Best Cinematography: Thunderball
    Best Director: Terence Young, FRWL
    Best Film Editing: Casino Royale
    Best Makeup and Hair Styling: Dr No
    Best Original Score: OHMSS
    Best Original Song: Nancy Sinatra, You Only Live Twice
    Best Picture: From Russia With Love
    Best Visual Effects: Casino Royale
    Best Adapted Screenplay: OHMSS
    Best Orgiinal Screenplay: License to Kill
  • X3MSonicX wrote:
    Peter O'Toole has won no academy awards. Sandra Bulloick has. Proof of the poltical side of the oscars.

    you mean that Sandra's a bad actress?
    not oscar worthy.

  • Posts: 612
    Just give all of the awards to Majesty, except maybe best actor. Dalton can take that one. And give best visual effects to The Living Daylights
  • edited August 2012 Posts: 126

    Lotte Lenya in frwl was pretty dang good. Maybe the Best performance in all the movies
  • Just give all of the awards to Majesty, except maybe best actor. Dalton can take that one. And give best visual effects to The Living Daylights
    you sir are a wise man.

  • Ya know what, Kotto was actually pretty damn good in LALD
  • Posts: 1,817
    The unforgivable missing Oscar awards:
    Best Actress: Diana Rigg OHMSS
    Best Original Score: John Barry OHMSS
    Best Supporting Actor: Robert Shaw FRWL or Pedro Armendáriz FRWL
  • So in real life, the Bond Movies have been nominated for 13 Oscars and won 4 of them. That's pretty good when you think about it, I didn't realize they had that many nominations.
  • edited February 2013 Posts: 12,837
    @Creasy47 Very late reply but why did you hate Slumdog Millionaire?
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    This may well have been done before (I cant be bothered to look in all honesty) but why don’t we have our own 50th Bond Oscars right here?

    First of all we would need to do some nominations over say a month and then once we have a shortlist of 4 in each category we could opening the voting for a week for the final results.

    Obviously I’m just the ideas guy and someone else would need to organise it but I think it would be popular and even if we have done it before theres quite a few new members now and in the post SF/50th/Oscar glow it seems like a good time to do it.

    Just tentatively to start the ball rolling (but mostly to pass a deadly dull shift at work) here is my list of categories with 4 nominations in each (except for best picture where there are 10) and the character specific ones which are allowed one performance from each actor:

    Best Actor in a leading role
    Sean Connery – FRWL
    George Lazenby – OHMSS
    Timothy Dalton – TLD
    Daniel Craig – SF

    Best Actress in a leading role
    Diana Rigg – OHMSS
    Izabella Scorupco – GE
    Sophie Marceau – TWINE
    Eva Green – CR

    Best Supporting Actor
    Robert Shaw – FRWL
    Christopher Lee – TMWTGG
    Christopher Walken – AVTAK
    Javier Bardem – SF

    Best Supporting Actress
    Lotte Lenya – FRWL
    Luciana Paluzzi – TB
    Famke Janssen – GE
    Judi Dench – SF

    Best Director
    Terence Young – FRWL
    Peter Hunt – OHMSS
    Martin Campbell – CR
    Sam Mendes – SF

    Best Picture
    FRWL
    GF
    OHMSS
    TSLWM
    OP
    TLD
    LTK
    GE
    CR
    SF

    Best Cinematography
    Freddie Young – YOLT
    Michael Reed – OHMSS
    Phil Meheux – CR
    Roger Deakins – SF

    Best Production Design
    Ken Adam – GF
    Ken Adam – YOLT
    Ken Adam – TSWLM
    Ken Adam – MR

    Best Original Score
    John Barry – GF
    John Barry – YOLT
    John Barry – OHMSS
    David Arnold – CR

    Best Original Song
    Goldfinger – GF
    Live and Let Die – LALD
    You Know My Name – CR
    Skyfall – SF

    Best Visual Effects
    John Stears & co – TB
    John Stears & co – YOLT
    Derek Meddings & co – TSWLM
    Derek Meddings & co – MR

    Best Adapted Screenplay
    Richard Maibaum, Berkley Mather and Johanna Harwood – DN
    Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood – FRWL
    Richard Maibaum and Simon Raven – OHMSS
    Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Paul Haggis – CR

    Best Original Screenplay
    Richard Maibaum, Michael G Wilson and George Mcdonald Fraser – OP
    Michael G Wilson and Richard Maibaum – LTK
    Michael France, Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein – GE
    Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Logan – SF

    Bond specific categories

    Best Performance as Bond
    Sean Connery – FRWL
    George Lazenby – OHMSS
    Roger Moore – OP
    Timothy Dalton – TLD
    Pierce Brosnan – TND
    Daniel Craig – SF

    Best Performance as M
    Bernard Lee – OHMSS
    Robert Brown – TLD
    Judi Dench – SF

    Best Performance as Q
    Desmond Lleweyln – GF
    John Cleese - DAD
    Ben Wishaw – SF

    Best Performance as Moneypenny

    Lois Maxwell – OHMSS
    Caroline Bliss – TLD
    Samantha Bond – GE
    Naomie Harris – SF

    Best Perfomance as Blofeld

    Anthony Dawson/Eric Pohlmann – FRWL
    Anthony Dawson/Eric Pohlmann – TB
    Donald Pleasance – YOLT
    Telly Savalas – OHMSS
    Charles Gray – DAF
    John Hollis/Robert Rietty – FYEO

    Best Bond Girl
    Daniela Bianchi – FRWL
    Maryam D’Abo – TLD
    Izabella Scorupco – GE
    Eva Green – CR

    Best Leading Villain
    Gert Frobe – GF
    Telly Savalas – OHMSS
    Christopher Lee – TMWTGG
    Christopher Walken – AVTAK

    Best Supporting Villain
    Robert Shaw – FRWL
    Harold Sakata – GF
    Richard Kiel – TSWLM
    Andreas Wisniewski – TLD

    Best Ally
    Pedro Armendariz – FRWL
    Topol -FYEO
    Thomas Wheatley – TLD
    Giancarlo Giannini – QOS

    Best Action Sequence
    Parachute Fight – MR
    Tank Chase – GE
    Thames Chase – TWINE
    Parkour – CR

    Best Individual Stunt
    Bumps Willard – TMWTGG
    Rick Sylvester – TSWLM
    BJ Worth and Jake Lombard – TLD
    Wayne Michaels - GE

    Best Car
    Aston Martin DB5 – GF/TB/GE/TND/CR/SF
    Lotus Esprit – TSWLM
    Aston Martin Vantage – TLD
    Aston Martin DBS – CR

    Best Gadget
    Attache case – FRWL
    Rebreather – TB/DAD
    Rolex watch – LALD
    Exploding pen – GE

    Best Gunbarrel
    FRWL
    YOLT
    FYEO
    TLD

    Best Main Title
    Maurice Binder - TB
    Maurice Binder - OHMSS
    Daniel Kleinman - DAD
    Daniel Kleinman - CR

    OK my shift is almost up and I havent even had my break yet so that will do.
  • MalloryMallory Do mosquitoes have friends?
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    Clifton James was seriously put forward as a contender for the best supporting actor at the 1974 Oscars by United Artisits.

    Consider that.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Not exactly serving the purpose of this thread, but I thought it wouldn't warrant its own thread so here we go:

    A slightly embarrassing (or is it) moment for Roger Moore:



    And a funny moment with David Niven:

  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    Roger Moore's recollections about those two moments are quite hilarious. They are featured in his autobiography from 2009.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I'm beginning to sense a necessity to read Sir Rog's books. Haven't read any of them so far. ;-)
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