Levitra vardenafil 20mg tablets My Oscar Predictions 2016

Before I give my predictions on selected categories of next week’s Academy Awards ceremony, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has read this blog ever since I started it back in September of last year. This blog has been viewed over 900 times since I started it and I could not be happier about that.
No, I’m not stopping the controversy but I am working on another project and am not sure how often I’ll be able to post my controversy. I’m hoping I can continue post here at least once per week and provide my readers with what you enjoy about my writing. Until then, know that I haven’t run out of ideas. In fact, I have about 10 posts in the works, including a long overdue one on Return of the Jedi.
So please enjoy my predictions below and look out for more of my work in the future.
BEST PICTURE:
Spotlight
BEST ACTOR:
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant
BEST ACTRESS:
Brie Larson for Room
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Sylvester Stallone for Creed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Rachel McAdams for Spotlight
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
Inside Out
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki for The Revenant
BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro G. Inaritu for The Revenant
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Cartel Land
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Son of Saul from Hungary
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Emma Donoghue for Room
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
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Reagan Rothbard February 23, 2016 , 1:40 am Vote0
Mark, look forward to seeing how well your predictions do. I have a lot of films I need to watch. 🙂
Mark Tordai February 24, 2016 , 7:26 pm Vote0
There are lots of good ones last year and even I didn’t see all of them.
Mal Roarke is a pseudonym... February 24, 2016 , 8:23 pm
Butter gets thinner as it spreads, [Exceptional] IDEAS GET THICKER!
Ludwig von Mises’s view is that ideas are a free good, not subject to economic constraints. They are infinitely reproducible.
The creation of Hollywood was a desire to escape Edison patent fights
Notes: During the Edison era of the early 1900s, many Jewish immigrants had found employment in the U.S. film industry. Under the Edison Trust, they were able to make their mark in a brand-new business: the exhibition of films in storefront theaters called nickelodeons. Within a few years, ambitious men like Samuel Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, and the Warner Brothers (Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack) had switched to the production side of the business. After hearing about Biograph’s success in Hollywood, in 1913 many such would-be movie-makers headed west to avoid the fees imposed by Edison. Soon they were the heads of a new kind of enterprise: the movie studio.
The Motion Picture Patents Company, founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major film companies (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé), the leading distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film, Eastman Kodak.
At the time of the formation of the MPPC, Thomas Edison owned most of the major patents relating to motion pictures, including that for raw film. The MPPC vigorously enforced its patents, constantly bringing suits and receiving injunctions against independent filmmakers. Because of this, a number of filmmakers responded by building their own cameras and moving their operations to Hollywood, California, where the distance from Edison’s home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents.[1]
The Edison Trust was soon ended by two decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States: one in 1912, which canceled the patent on raw film, and a second in 1915, which cancelled all MPPC patents. Though these decisions succeeded at legalizing independent film, they would do little to remedy the de facto ban on small productions; the independent filmmakers who had fled to Southern California during the enforcement of the trust had already laid the groundwork for the studio system of classical Hollywood cinema.
Source material:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company
Action: http://www.punkerslut.com/articles/hollywood_the_worlds_greatest_pirates.html
Hollywood,
the World’s Greatest Pirates
The Story of How Hollywood Built Itself
on the Piracy of Film Patents
By Punkerslut
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Mal Roarke is a pseudonym... February 24, 2016 , 9:04 pm
@atlasaikidoThis sometimes leads to fun conversations about freedom in the fashion industry–and others–and how embracing and using the ratification of ideas that emulation (copying), innovation and its diffusion, adoption and improvement are life giving and move one’s own world incrementally forward, individual by individual and are certainly more profitable than policing one’s customers and calling them pirates as Disney does (whilst making block busters such as “The Pirates of the Caribbean”).
“How a world without copyright would exist”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0
Mal Roarke is a pseudonym... February 24, 2016 , 10:17 pm
@atlasaikido **No independent films have received the award (though a few were nominated), and no actors working outside of the studio system for a picture have won the award for their work in that picture.**[citation needed] William Friedkin, an Academy Award-winning film director and former producer of the ceremony, expressed this sentiment at a conference in New York in 2009, describing it as “the greatest [cartel] promotion scheme that any industry ever devised for itself”.[67]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards