The Syndicate

It's a trap!

First come first served? I honestly just want to get mine in before the movie opens.

Julian Dennison.

Emily Blunt

Somehow I still have three people I want that no-one has taken. Wow.

I will be leaving no picks blank. I can't even fit all the ones I want into the ten I have.

[mention]Dunya[/mention] - just so you see you're up

Isabella Rossellini

Wow. I thought Oscar Isaac was gone a long time ago for some reason.

insertnamehere wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:16 pm Olivia Colman and Toni Collette

You only get one, dude. MP hasn't picked yet.

timmer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:44 pm Yvonne StraWHOski?

You're dead to me.

Hugh Jackman

And this is where the whole 'US release date' stuff stands us international people up

it's tricky.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:32 am
timmer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:34 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:28 pm
timmer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:14 pm Cooper is a guarantee golden globe nominee
Is he tho.
Dure directed Star is Born, learned to sing, learned to play guitar... a nom if not win for Comedy/musical is a lock, I'd have to think. (Translation: I hope!)
In a year with Mary Poppins and Queen movies coming out, we'll see.

There's literally a queen movie every single year. In 1999 I'm pretty sure every single best picture nominee had one.

Stefani Germanotta

Good pick Rico, I was taking her next.

How are SAG ensemble awards counted?

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:55 pm I predict I'll finish 3rd in Box Office and dead last in awards.

You mean dead last at the... Globes? After being dead last once, you're gone...

I get it though. I'm liking how my team is shaping up but then I have no idea what I'm doing so I'm probably wrong.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:22 pm Guys I'm hyped I can't wait till May 1st

This is kind of funny when you consider we basically won't know much of anything for months.

insertnamehere wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:50 pm Chloe Grace Moretz

Yeah, I was going to get her in a later round, but she's a good sleeper pick.

It's an interesting dichotomy - diversify or double down.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:16 am
Golden wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 5:50 am We're past the twelve. I'm taking Melissa McCarthy

@Iron_Dwarf
@JaggedJimmyJay
Bruh

Yeah?

We're past the twelve. I'm taking Melissa McCarthy

[mention]Iron_Dwarf[/mention]
[mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention]

I've got an ace in the hole in this draft that no-one else is going to draft.

OK, it's more like a 3 of clubs in the hole, but if it pays off everyone's going to think I'm a genius, and they'll be wrong.

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 3:23 pm oh we can dump actors who have movies that have already been released at any point?

Not if they've been released in the United States.

This is a really complicated form of tricksiness where you have to know what movies get a release somewhere else first.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:50 pm Wow you guys really like Backseat huh

Looks like acting awards bait if nothing else.

Sam Rockwell

[mention]Iron_Dwarf[/mention]

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:04 pm
timmer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:59 pm I've got to say, I am feeling like neither my actors nor my films are #1 at the moment, and I'm also a bit worried about my box office... some of you have taken to this contest VERY well...
Your actors certainly look solid. Hedges was my next pick if he was there.

I like Hedges as a get.

I would have been happy to get Margot Robbie.

Glenn Close

[mention]Iron_Dwarf[/mention]

I don't know what I'm doing or why but I'm just going to take...

Meryl Streep. If anyone can get an Oscar nomination for Mamma Mia it's her.

Timmer, are we retaining the rule that we can keep one actor from year to year?

You said we’d skip it, so skip it. We could always bring it back next year.

You took two on my radar anyway

I thought I could wait on Samuel l

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 13, 2018 4:20 pm What's the best way to find out what the available options are now that we are drafting actors/actresses? i.e., How do you all narrow it down?

If I told you, you'd end up drafting all the people I want

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Apr 12, 2018 7:29 pm It's pretty incredible that my top four picks went 1-2-3-4.

Really?

Am I alone in feeling like Saoirse is going to clean up? She was my top choice by such a large margin. None of the top 4 are exactly a surprise either, but still...

[mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention]

Amazed she dropped to me! Dunyas Steve Carell pick is sharp though.

Saoirse Ronan

I'd be ok with 2 where a complaint triggers the approval process, otherwise the trade goes ahead.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:17 pm
Golden wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:15 pm What's the difference between 2 and 3 in your mind?
Rather than consistently having to have 4 people "yes vote" to get a trade, IMO it would work better if trades were publicly announced then had a certain window for complaints to flag it or let it pass through.

And if one person complains then...

What's the difference between 2 and 3 in your mind?

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:10 pm
timmer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:08 pm I'd rather just ban trading than try to set up some kind of committee. Finding non-participants who understand the process to quickly adjudicate a trade or something seems unwieldy.
He meant league players who aren't a part of the trade, not people who aren't playing in the league

This.

And if the trading parties can't find enough people to vote, they can't trade. You need four yes votes to trade, otherwise it fails. Yes votes can come in at any time before a proposed trade movie/film locks and also one party can withdraw a trade until four yes votes occur.

It wouldn't be too hard.

timmer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:02 pmThird point requires a slight bit of "commissioner discretion" potentially, but yes, a late-breaking trade handing over a key Awards player must be balanced, in the sense that the floundering team handing it off must clearly be getting a big box office gain or something in return that makes sense for their prospects in the league. I have discretion to veto any such trade if it is obviously imbalanced.

Commissioner should be a majority vote of non-participants in the trade ie at least four others must agree.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:56 pm - Nobody trades actors/films that have already scored

Dharmahelper, still a useful person to pick up in the draft.

(Or me

)

timmer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 7:26 pm
Ricochet wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:44 pm Mary Poppins Returns will score one week of Christmasy box office, probably credible enough, and will be a sure nominee at the Globes, unless it's a complete stink.

I would have not picked it, however, even at the cost of the entire competition, due to how despicable I find the notion of it even existing. There's milking every past classic in the history of cinema and there's making a sequel out of Mary Poppins. Fuck you, Hollywood.
Mary Poppins Returns is the most guaranteed Golden Globes pick there is - Comedy/Musical is a LOCK for this film.

I tend to think it's chances for nominations at the BAFTAs aren't so bad either. And I'm hoping that I might add a few nominations in technical categories (costume etc) with this and Mary Queen of Scots.

I know I'll be mistaken, but I can't do much else.

Next year we should make it international box office for funsies

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:57 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:44 pm
Golden wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:42 pm I'm still not 100% sure if the box office is only US domestic, or worldwide post US release.
US Domestic
i.e. whoever picked MI6 is screwed

It just means I'm far less qualified to understand box office patterns since US domestic is something I never observe nor care about, but I'm just spending my time imagining that for the most part movies will scale relatively similarly.

I'm still not 100% sure if the box office is only US domestic, or worldwide post US release.

timmer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:12 pm
Golden wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:10 pm Mary Poppins Returns

@Iron_Dwarf
Nooooooooo......

You were holding out for it too? It was so hard for me to sit on it until round 5, but that release date...

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