Oscar Picks

[Dual]

http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees

Mine are as follows:
Best picture: The Hurt Locker or A Serious Man.

Best actor: Morgan Freeman.

Best supporting actor: Christopher Plummer.

Best actress: Helen Mirren.

Best supporting actress: The ones I've seen weren't any good.

Best animated film: The Fantastic Mr. Fox, with no disrespect to Coraline.

Art direction: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Cinematography: The Hurt Locker.

Costume design: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Directing: The Hurt Locker.

Editing: The Hurt Locker.

Original score: Mr. Fox.

Original screenplay: A Serious Man.

 

[Yub]

AVATAR WILL SCOOP DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING.


No that I want it too, but it will because the Academy is full of morons who want to appear they have their finger on the pulse.

 

[Dual]

AVATAR WILL SCOOP DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING.


No that I want it too, but it will because the Academy is full of morons who want to appear they have their finger on the pulse.

Agreed, unfortunately.

 

[Tisiphone]

Jeff Bridges has been winning a lot of the other awards, so I have a feeling he'll take the oscar as well. Even if I want Jeremy Renner to win.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

This is who I think WILL win, not who I want to win:

Best motion picture of the year
“The Hurt Locker”

Achievement in directing
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

Best animated feature film of the year
“Up” (Walt Disney) Pete Docter

Adapted screenplay
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner - “Up in the Air” (Paramount with Cold Spring and DW)

Original screenplay
Quentin Tarantino - “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

Achievement in cinematography
“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore

Achievement in costume design
“The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Sandy Powell

Best documentary feature
“The Cove”

Best documentary short subject
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” A Community Media Production
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

Achievement in film editing
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Best foreign language film of the year
Germany - “The White Ribbon”

Achievement in makeup
“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
“Up” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“The Weary Kind” (Theme from "Crazy Heart") (Fox Searchlight)
Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best animated short film
“A Matter of Loaf and Death”

Best live action short film
“The New Tenants”

Achievement in sound editing
"Up” (Walt Disney) Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Achievement in sound mixing
“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)

Achievement in visual effects
“Avatar” (20th Century Fox)

Achievement in art direction
“Avatar” (Twentieth Century Fox)

 

[Grandtheftcow]

Avatar is sci-fi though. There's a long history of snubbing sci-fi films when it comes to awards.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Avatar is sci-fi though. There's a long history of snubbing sci-fi films when it comes to awards.

Indeed. When they first announced that Best Picture would stretch to 10 nominees, they all but promised the geeks that it meant that Star Trek would make the list, to make up for the Dark Knight snub last year.

But they turned around and ass-raped the geeks once more. They had Avatar to fill the token "sci-fi/fantasy popcorn blockbuster" spot.

Not that I thought Trek deserved to be included anyway -- it didn't. But it's just interesting how mainstream Hollywood works.

 

[curiousa2z]

so where's the list of who you WANT to win?

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

so where's the list of who you WANT to win?

I've seen maybe 3 films out of all the nominees in all the categories. Shrug.

Four, as of this morning, thanks to the Intertubes.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

SEEN: Harry Potter, Star Trek, Julie & Julia, Up)

OWN, still need to watch: Up in the Air, Avatar (watching in 2D)

 

[Tisiphone]

I have no desire to see Julie/Julia. I just am not liking Meryl Streep lately. She gets nominated for breathing these days.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I felt exactly the same way. And the movie is a well-made trifle, albeit with a fine attention to detail. And it all falls apart by virtue of having no ending to speak of; the viewer is kind of left to decide what was meaningful about what he/she just sat through.

Having said that, I can see why Streep got the accolades for this one. Although the usual earmarks of her overacting are all on full display, after watching the whole film, the one positive thing you walk away with is "Damn, there's nobody else who could have played Julia Child like that..."

Another good point: JANE LYNCH FROM GLEE PLAYS JULIA'S MAN-HUNGRY SISTER! Worth the trouble for Gleeks around the globe.

 

[Tisiphone]

I have a serious girl crush on Jane Lynch. But it has nothing to do with Glee, and everything to do with Role Models, The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Best in Show.