› ›

Skyfall Wins Bond's First Grammy -Make That Two Grammy's

1…4041434546…48

Comments

  • nobodydoesitbetternobodydoesitbetter
    edited February 2013 Posts: 1,021
    Suprised Spielberg didn't win....

    Glad for Day Lewis. A great performance....

    i need to see ARGO...
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    commandbond007 wrote:
    interesting Argo won best picture without any of actors or directing award only the best screenplay........I think Skyfall could have done this too
    Alan Arkin was nominated for Argo.

    A film winning Best Picture without its director or most of its cast getting nominated is more common than you'd think.

    I think Argo is only the 4th film in the history of the OSCARS to win BEST PICTURE without a directing nomination. Plenty of films have won Best Picture without the director winning but the directors were nominated to begin with.

    and the last time that happened was for Driving miss Daisy when Daniel Day Lewis also won his first Oscar...



  • commandbond007commandbond007
    Posts: 660
    I want to see Daniel Craig present a Oscar in the future......
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
    Posts: 4,012
    Great! Two Oscars, the song was a done deal but sound editing was a good surprise. Too bad Deakins went home empty-handed... again.
    This morning media were saying the Oscar jinx is over for Bond :D
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    Sandy wrote:
    Great! Two Oscars, the song was a done deal but sound editing was a good surprise. Too bad Deakins went home empty-handed... again.
    This morning media were saying the Oscar jinx is over for Bond :D

    'The Oscar jinx is over for Bond'. I love that headline ;)
  • commandbond007commandbond007
    Posts: 660
    Deakins will win eventually.........maybe next year or the year after depend what film he is in next
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
    Posts: 4,012
    commandbond007 wrote:
    Deakins will win eventually.........maybe next year or the year after depend what film he is in next

    Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon...
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    edited February 2013 Posts: 11,119
    This is, like 2006, an Oscar ceremony with no clear victory for one film. That's something I liked about these Oscars. Like 'Crash' in 2007, also this year's 'Best Picture' winner won only 3 Oscars in total.

    A short overview of all the winners and the number of Oscars they won:
    4 Oscars --> 'Life Of Pi' (including 'Best Director' and 'Best Music Score')
    3 Oscars --> 'Argo' (including 'Best Picture')
    3 Oscars --> 'Les Misérables' (including 'Best Supporting Actress')
    2 Oscars --> 'Django Unchained' (including 'Best Supporting Actor')
    2 Oscars --> 'Skyfall' (including 'Best Original Song')
    2 Oscars --> 'Lincoln' (including 'Best Actor')
    1 Oscar --> 'Anna Karenina'
    1 Oscar --> 'Zero Dark Thirty'
    1 Oscar --> 'Silver Linings Playbook' ('Best Actress')
    1 Oscar --> 'Amour' ('Best Foreign Language Picture')
    1 Oscar --> 'Brave' ('Best Animated Picture')
    1 Oscar --> 'Searching For Sugarman' ('Best Documentary')
    1 Oscar --> 'Curfew' ('Best Short Picture')
    1 Oscar --> 'Paperman' ('Best Short Animated Picture')
    1 Oscar --> 'Inocente' ('Best Short Documentary')
  • jetsetwillyjetsetwilly
    Posts: 3,327
    Hats off to SF. With Craig as 007, his films have achieved something I didn't think would be possible. Two of his movies are ranked in the 90's on RT, won global acclaim, and SF has gone one step further.

    Biggest BO movie since TB, biggest BO ever in the UK, 7th biggest globally of all time, BAFTA's, and now 2 Oscars.

    This is a great day to be a Bond fan. \:D/
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    jetsetwilly wrote:
    Hats off to SF. With Craig as 007, his films have achieved something I didn't think would be possible. Two of his movies are ranked in the 90's on RT, won global acclaim, and SF has gone one step further.

    Biggest BO movie since TB, biggest BO ever in the UK, 7th biggest globally of all time, BAFTA's, and now 2 Oscars.

    This is a great day to be a Bond fan. \:D/

    You are so right boy :-P
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited February 2013 Posts: 11,189
    jetsetwilly wrote:
    Hats off to SF. With Craig as 007, his films have achieved something I didn't think would be possible. Two of his movies are ranked in the 90's on RT, won global acclaim, and SF has gone one step further.

    Biggest BO movie since TB, biggest BO ever in the UK, 7th biggest globally of all time, BAFTA's, and now 2 Oscars.

    This is a great day to be a Bond fan. \:D/

    Sadly though it seems the ghost of DAD still lives on. Who introduced the tribute again? :p

    Seriously though, this is a historic day in the world of Bond.
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
    Posts: 4,012
    jetsetwilly wrote:
    Hats off to SF. With Craig as 007, his films have achieved something I didn't think would be possible. Two of his movies are ranked in the 90's on RT, won global acclaim, and SF has gone one step further.

    Biggest BO movie since TB, biggest BO ever in the UK, 7th biggest globally of all time, BAFTA's, and now 2 Oscars.

    This is a great day to be a Bond fan. \:D/

    So proud ;;)
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited February 2013 Posts: 4,520
    Nice for Adele she won. About winning oscar for sound editing can be discus, i am happy it is better then Casino Royal but movies like TSWLM also not get oscar for that.

    Will Claudio Miranda wil soon replace Robert Deankins. It whas his second Oscar nomination after The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but this time with Life Of Pi he won and if Bond go to India..

    But no Oscar for TDKR, that make my day ^:)^

  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    You know guys/girls? As of today.........Bond is fucking big!!!
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    Gustav_Graves wrote:
    As of today.........Bond is fucking big!!!

    Bond has always been big! To some of us anyway.

  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    RC7 wrote:
    Gustav_Graves wrote:
    As of today.........Bond is fucking big!!!

    Bond has always been big! To some of us anyway.

    Exactly! What film won best picture last year or the year before and the year before that? I couldn't tell you. Argo and the others are great movies but Bond is bigger and will be talked about for another 50 years. It's great when Bond receives accolades but that's not why Bond movies are made. Bond doesn't need to chase after statues.

  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    edited February 2013 Posts: 11,119
    RC7 wrote:
    Gustav_Graves wrote:
    As of today.........Bond is fucking big!!!

    Bond has always been big! To some of us anyway.

    But off course. Bond has always been big. But there were days that Bond was slightly bigger than other days. One can think of the 'fucking big' Bond craze during the first four Connery Bond films, the 'not too big' period where 'The Man With The Golden Gun' and 'Licence To Kill' did not do as well at the boxoffice as previously anticipated. Mostly because of a combination of marketing errors and lacklustre reviews.

    And then we had the 'big' Brosnan period. But I think as of today Bond is 'fucking big'. There's no doubt about that. Every Bond film is 'big' for us fans. But what 'Skyfall' did comes closer to 'fucking big' if you ask me. And I do agree that Bond shouldn't chase for Oscar statues. But the FACT that 'Skyfall' got two of these statues is one hell of a 'fucking big' extra!
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    Yeah, I think our point is that, for us Bond has always been big. If anything SF is justifying what we already know. It doesn't really effect me as I've spent my life watching, reading, collecting anything Bond related. As for your comments about TMWTGG and LTK, again, you're talking commerical revenue. They are held in equally high regard by me, alongside every other Bond.

    I'm curious, how long have you been a Bond fan?
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    edited February 2013 Posts: 11,119
    RC7 wrote:
    Yeah, I think our point is that, for us Bond has always been big. If anything SF is justifying what we already know. It doesn't really effect me as I've spent my life watching, reading, collecting anything Bond related. As for your comments about TMWTGG and LTK, again, you're talking commerical revenue. They are held in equally high regard by me, alongside every other Bond.

    I'm curious, how long have you been a Bond fan?

    I am 31 years of age and a huge Bond fan ever since my dad allowed me to stay up late to watch a weird, but spectacular movie in which Bond fell inside a hole on a metro station, sliding its way to a secret little lair. That was 'You Only Live Twice'.

    Then my first Bond film in cinema was 'Licence To Kill' in 1989, which scared me to death when I saw a head being blown up. I was 7 years old then. The late summer of 1989.

    By the way, your point is my point too. For me not every Bond film is at the same time a perfect Bond film....or one step further.....a perfect film. The Bond franchise is big because of the wide variety in quality of every Bond film and that no matter how good or how bad it did in reviews.....Bond kept on going:

    A) Because of its lesser big Bond movies; Bond movies that were too cheesy and too funny to be true, Bond movies that were from a quality point of view very mediocre at best, Bond movies that deservedly got very low reviews.
    B) Because of the almost perfect Bond film; Bond film that got very high reviews when they came out, Bond movies where fans literally turned into crazy nerds and where a huge new influx of new fans were created, Bond films that were besides its Bond stamp also a top notch, high quality espionage thriller movie.

    So I am not talking solely about commercial revenues. Upon its releases in 1974 and 1989, 'TMWTGG' and 'LTK' were not that liked as much as their follow-up's. Commercial success AND the overall quality of the actual film (story, plot, originality, trendsetting standards, music, acting, memorable scenes) actually go hand in hand, much more than you think. And if they don't go hand in hand, that's it's mostly a matter of public opinion, a matter of an audience that isn't prepared yet for this new Bond actor or that absence of a gunbarrel sequence.

    I can say one thing about 'Skyfall' though. And this is my honest opinion. This is by far my best Bond experience I've had since I saw 'Licence To Kill' in cinemas in 1989, right from the press announcement in november 2011 until now. Even slightly better than 'Casino Royale'. I have never been so addicted to a Bond movie before.
  • fanbond123fanbond123
    edited February 2013 Posts: 1,661
    Congrats to Skyfall for best song. :) At long last a James Bond theme song has won an Oscar. Hooray.
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    edited February 2013 Posts: 11,119
    Here some Bond highlights of the 85th Academy Awards held in Los Angeles:






    And this will happen when there's a tie ;-):
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    Posts: 11,189
    Gustav_Graves wrote:
    RC7 wrote:
    Yeah, I think our point is that, for us Bond has always been big. If anything SF is justifying what we already know. It doesn't really effect me as I've spent my life watching, reading, collecting anything Bond related. As for your comments about TMWTGG and LTK, again, you're talking commerical revenue. They are held in equally high regard by me, alongside every other Bond.

    I'm curious, how long have you been a Bond fan?

    I am 31 years of age and a huge Bond fan ever since my dad allowed me to stay up late to watch a weird, but spectacular movie in which Bond fell inside a hole on a metro station, sliding its way to a secret little lair. That was 'You Only Live Twice'.

    Then my first Bond film in cinema was 'Licence To Kill' in 1989, which scared me to death when I saw a head being blown up. I was 7 years old then. The late summer of 1989.

    Wow...They let a 7 year old in to see that? You must have looked A LOT older :p
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    BAIN123 wrote:
    Gustav_Graves wrote:
    RC7 wrote:
    Yeah, I think our point is that, for us Bond has always been big. If anything SF is justifying what we already know. It doesn't really effect me as I've spent my life watching, reading, collecting anything Bond related. As for your comments about TMWTGG and LTK, again, you're talking commerical revenue. They are held in equally high regard by me, alongside every other Bond.

    I'm curious, how long have you been a Bond fan?

    I am 31 years of age and a huge Bond fan ever since my dad allowed me to stay up late to watch a weird, but spectacular movie in which Bond fell inside a hole on a metro station, sliding its way to a secret little lair. That was 'You Only Live Twice'.

    Then my first Bond film in cinema was 'Licence To Kill' in 1989, which scared me to death when I saw a head being blown up. I was 7 years old then. The late summer of 1989.

    Wow...They let a 7 year old in to see that? You must have looked A LOT older :p

    Netherlands darling, a country full of opportunities B-) B-) B-)
  • dchantrydchantry
    Posts: 278
    So there's hope for me yet. I'm pretty hot at creating computer graphics and CGI so theres now a chance I can aim for an Oscar in Cinematograhy from now on.
    How ridiculous. Don't people know that CGI is visual effects, not cinematography. I'm not bleating because Deakins didn't win, but a film where 95% is CGI and most camerawork is in front of a green screen, where lighting is done post should NOT win an Oscar, a bloody good cameraman should.
  • mdo007mdo007 Katy, Texas
    Posts: 259
    I'm happy to see Skyfall winning 2 oscars, I wasn't surprised Skyfall would win Best Original song (Adele deserve an oscar for that song). That song is powerful and memorable. I expect more singers to do cover of that song.
  • connerybondconnerybond
    Posts: 163
    I do not care for Oscars. The Bond franchise has been incredibly successful, and Bond has lasted for 50 years and counting.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited February 2013 Posts: 13,355
    Well done Skyfall! Two awards is great news though I was not expecting that tie - most odd.

    It really wouldn't surprise me if Adele sings the Bond 24 theme now. It's got a lot to live up to.
  • 00130013
    Posts: 1,817
    I'm very happy for Skyfall, not that happy for Deakins but I give make a full informed opinion since I haven't seen Life of Pi yet (but I would anyhow prefer a Bond film to take the award.) I also have my doubts on Life of Pi's music.
    The best song was well deserved for Skyfall but also for a franchice that has given very memorable tunes over the years. Of course Adele won, when haven't she? I bet she wrotes a paper on string theory and they'll give her the Nobel on Physics.
    In conclusion, even if Skyfall deserved more nominations, in comparison with previous Bond films this one was a winner.
  • LibrarianLibrarian
    Posts: 312
    Two Oscars! Wow. That's a marvelous news and it's good for the 007 franchise :) after 2008-2012 hiatus.
  • myworldisenoughmyworldisenough
    Posts: 1,143
    Congrats to Skyfall team and Adele for two great awards last night. Really pleased Bond gets some Oscar recognition for a change. Lets hope Bond 25 can build on the success and go even further!
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    you mean Bond 24.

Sign In or Register to comment.