Oscar nominations

[charliepanayi]

Yes it's time for the four hour plus horribly smug circle jerk that is the Oscars. Despite their making enough bad decisions to fill an encyclopedia with, I enjoy seeing who wins etc.

The nominations are:

BEST PICTURE

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In the Air

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron, Avatar
Katherine Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarentino, Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up In The Air

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up In The Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Penélope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up In The Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air
Mo'Nique, Precious

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Neil Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9
Neil Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, In The Loop
Geofrey Fletcher, Precious
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boall, The Hurt locker
Quentin Tarentino, Inglourious Basterds
Joel And Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Up

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Predictions/thoughts? I think the following will win:

Film: Avatar (but The Hurt Locker should)
Director: James Cameron (see above)
Actor: Jeff Bridges
Actress: Sandra Bullock (a travesty if she does, The Blind Side looks truly awful)
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique
Animated Film: Up

[Breine]

God I hope Avatar doesn't win Best Film. Mo'Nique and Christoph Waltz are pretty sure to win for Best Supporting Actress/Actor, so is Jeff Bridges for Best Actor. Best Actress is a bit tricky to figure out, though.

Best Director is between Bigelow and Cameron. I hope Tarantino wins for Best Original Screenplay.



EDIT: Also, I'm not sure what to think of 10 films getting nominated for Best Picture.

[Ouch!]

EDIT: Also, I'm not sure what to think of 10 films getting nominated for Best Picture.

Think they want more box office money.

[Aurey]

God I hope Avatar doesn't win Best Film.

[Dreddz]

I hope Avatar wins Best Picture. Just to piss you all off.

[Aurey]

Oh, it's most likely going to. I just like to whine about it. ;}

[ljkkjlcm9]

Why is it whenever all these movie award shows come around, I've never heard of half of the movies? Seriously, it's just stupid and annoying, because I go to the movies like 3-4 times A MONTH.

THE JACKEL

[Bunny]

Then you're doing something wrong because I've heard of every single movie on the list and I rarely go to the theater.

[charliepanayi]

I won't exactly kill myself if Avatar wins anyway (and it will, The Hurt Locker just hasn't been seen enough), there'll have been far worse Oscar winners in the past (Driving Miss Daisy, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago and Crash in the last 20 years or so alone). Would be funny if Tarantino stole in to sneak the big prizes, but I can't see that happening.

Best Actress looks very weak this year, but the other categories look decent.

The ten nominees thing for Best Picture is a daft gimmick in my opinion, the Oscars desperate to show they can recognise commercial/genre/animated films. It shouldn't have to take an expansion to ten films for them to acknowledge a film like Up rather than yet another worthy drama about the Holocaust or someone with an illness of some kind.

[Raistlin]

Then you're doing something wrong because I've heard of every single movie on the list and I rarely go to the theater.

Yeah, same.

Is Avatar really that favored to win? That's disappointing.

[charliepanayi]

Well $2 billion in box office tends to swing a few votes - interesting to note how some previous 'biggest films of all time' fared in the Best Picture category:

Jaws - nominated, lost (to One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest)
Star Wars - nominated, lost (to Annie Hall)
E.T. - nominated, lost (to Gandhi)
Jurassic Park - not nominated (but Spielberg won for Schindler's List anyway)
Titanic - nominated, won

[Dreddz]

Well $2 billion in box office tends to swing a few votes

I also figure thats why people hate on the film so much. I mean seriously, what the hell is wrong with Avatar? I would love to see it win Best Picture instead of typical Oscar bait movies like Precious. Maybe Avatar isn't perfect but its still an accomplished film and very entertaining. And other than the nitpickers on the internet everyone I have met said it was amazing.

Now you lot can go ahead and tell me that the story sucked. Blah blah blah....

[McLovin']

It's funny that people say Avatar is the highest grossing film of all time when really when you count inflation it's, I think, number 26 on the list.

Inglorious Basterds should win something.

[charliepanayi]

Well $2 billion in box office tends to swing a few votes

I also figure thats why people hate on the film so much. I mean seriously, what the hell is wrong with Avatar? I would love to see it win Best Picture instead of typical Oscar bait movies like Precious. Maybe Avatar isn't perfect but its still an accomplished film and very entertaining. And other than the nitpickers on the internet everyone I have met said it was amazing.

Now you lot can go ahead and tell me that the story sucked. Blah blah blah....

Well you kind of answered your own question about why some people don't like the film at the end there. I'd rather Precious doesn't win (and it won't) either, but I'd rather something like Up or The Hurt Locker or Up in the Air (or the shamefully overlooked Moon) did.

Inglorious Basterds will win Best Supporting Actor and possibly the screenplay award too.

[Dreddz]

Well you kind of answered your own question about why some people don't like the film at the end there.

I personally think its quite immature to write off a film based on just one aspect of it.

And yeah, Christoph Waltz deserves to win Best Supporting Actor.