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Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars: Best Original Song
Welcome to “Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars,” a series of rhetorical exercises illustrating the finer points of internet-style debate — live! Each episode of WYWAO features a pair of movie enthusiasts with opposing views about who will win a particular Academy Award. The catch: Each cannot explain why he or she is right. Instead, he or she can only enumerate the many reasons why the other person is wrong. So very, very wrong.
Today’s episode concerns the music of the cinematical spheres. Asie Mohtarez believes “Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi should get the nod, while Abbas Rattani favors “Skyfall” from Skyfall by Sky Fall, er, Adele. Fight!
Shot on location at the Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars: Best Costume Design
Welcome to “Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars,” a series of rhetorical exercises illustrating the finer points of internet-style debate — live! Each episode of WYWAO features a pair of movie enthusiasts with opposing views about who will win a particular Academy Award. The catch: Each cannot explain why he or she is right. Instead, he or she can only enumerate the many reasons why the other person is wrong. So very, very wrong.
How often will moviegoers enjoy the same story in deadly combat for the very same Oscar? You should look it up, but we bet it’s really rare! This year it’s the year of the famous actresses as villains versus two different Snow Whites, and only one of those Snow Whites was banging the director but that’s not important and had no impact on costume design (that we KNOW OF). Lindsey Weber thinks Mirror, Mirror will win, and Bobby Finger says that Snow White and the Hunstsman will get the golden man.
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Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars: Best Actress
Welcome to “Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars,” a series of rhetorical exercises illustrating the finer points of internet-style debate — live! Each episode of WYWAO features a pair of movie enthusiasts with opposing views about who will win a particular Academy Award. The catch: Each cannot explain why he or she is right. Instead, he or she can only enumerate the many reasons why the other person is wrong. So very, very wrong.
Today’s Best Actress episode is an all-Tumblr edition featuring our fashion mandarin Valentine Uhovski (championing Jennifer Lawrence from Silver Linings Playbook) versus our communications director, Katherine Barna (contrariwise saying Jessica Chastain from Zero Dark Thirty shall get the nod). Could either of them be more wrong? Let’s find out!
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Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars: Best Director
Welcome to “Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars,” a series of rhetorical exercises illustrating the finer points of internet-style debate — live! Each episode of WYWAO features a pair of movie enthusiasts with opposing views about who will win a particular Academy Award. The catch: Each cannot explain why he or she is right. Instead, he or she can only enumerate the many reasons why the other person is wrong. So very, very wrong.
In this inaugural episode, the combatants are Jess Burkle (who believes David O. Russell will win Best Director for Silver Linings Playbook) and Halle Kiefer (who believes Steven Spielberg will win for Lincoln). The best part, of course, is that it’s quite possible for everyone to be wrong.
Shot on location at the Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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