Oscar nominations

[charliepanayi]

^ Same with Shawshank.

@ charlie: Crash & Braveheart are brilliant films. How can you think they are anything less?

Avatar deserves everything it gets. You people need to wake up and see how much balls it took to make a film on such a grand scale, and pull it off spectacularly. Avatar will still be talked about in 50 years, whereas the Hurt Locker will be forgotten about in 5.

I can't make any good predictions as I haven't seen most of the films nominated.

Crash is horribly melodramatic and unsubtle, it beats you over the head with its message to the point of tedium. As for Braveheart, hilariously anti-English, homophobic, messes with history beyond the point of 'I'll let this slide because it's a film', and has the nauseating sight of Mel Gibson copping off with not one, but two much younger women. And it beat Babe, which is especially unforgiveable.

And The Hurt Locker will be forgotten in 5 years? I'd love to have your psychic abilities. I think it'll go down as one of the best films made about war.

Saying 'Film/Band/Singer X will be forgotten in 5/10/20/100 years' is a daft argument, you have no way of knowing such a thing.

And animation is filed alongside comedy/sci-fi/fantasy - the Oscars will usually ignore it for the big prizes as they're so dull in their choices.

[Croyles]

I want Avatar to win SOMETHING, but then again I don't honestly think it deserves it compared to The Hurt Locker, which I have just finished watching. Thing is, I think best director should go to Kathryn Bigelow, but it also deserves best picture.

Its funny that I find Avatar a much better film than Titanic, but oddly neough Titanic was nominated for 14 oscars and won 7!

Ah whatever, i might not even watch the oscars.

[charliepanayi]

Titanic won 11 Oscars, not 7.

Actually watch the Oscars? That's like a form of torture!

[Bastian]

I loved Avatar . . . but it's not really "Best Picture" worthy. It's a good popcorn flick . . . but the Oscars usually award art more than fluff.

The only award I really care about is Animated. Coraline should win. But it won't. Up will win. Ugh. I love Pixar. LOVE Pixar. But Coraline is amazing.

[Breine]

Avatar deserves to win some technical awards, as e.g. Art Direction and Visual Effects.

[charliepanayi]

That Visuals Effect category is just a cruel one this year really with Avatar in it XD

[I Took the Red Pill]

I was pleased with the winners for the most part. I'm just glad Avatar didn't take home Best Picture.

[Shiny]

I should have known that the movie that bored me the most out of the list of Best Picture would win Best Picture. I was really hoping the awards wouldn't be predictable and wouldn't go for something like The Hurt Locker or Avatar.

[Lightening]

I've been pushing forward seeing Hurt Locker but I guess it's time to actually see it now. I'm not big on war movies, hopefully it won't bore me to death.

the night was saved already from the beginning when Christoph won. and I'm also happy for Sandra Bullock. Not especially for her act in this movie but for many of her past movies and for finally winning an oscar.

[Shiny]

Yeah, Sandra Bullock is such an amazing actress. She's been in so many greats such as The Lake House, Speed, and Miss Congeniality. The Best Actress award is long deserved for her. /sarcasm *throws up in mouth*

[Del Murder]

I should have known that the movie that bored me the most out of the list of Best Picture would win Best Picture. I was really hoping the awards wouldn't be predictable and wouldn't go for something like The Hurt Locker or Avatar.

Yeah they should have given it to Up!

[Meat Puppet]

I loved Avatar . . . but it's not really "Best Picture" worthy. It's a good popcorn flick . . . but the Oscars usually award art more than fluff.

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[charliepanayi]

The Hurt Locker (global box office $16 million) beating Avatar (global box office over $2 billion) - it's Bigelow's revenge on Cameron! And deserved.

Acting awards predictable (Bullock wins a Golden Raspberry and an Oscar), though by all accounts Christoph Waltz's one is richly deserved.

Precious beating Up in the Air to Best Adapted Screenplay. The Oscars preferring melodrama over sharp, funny dialogue. Nice one.

Wallace and Gromit don't win Best Animated Short

As usual when two big guns go head to head for Best Foreign Film (The White Ribbon and A Prophet this year) the Oscars ignore both.

[Madame Adequate]

Yeah, Sandra Bullock is such an amazing actress. She's been in so many greats such as The Lake House, Speed, and Miss Congeniality. The Best Actress award is long deserved for her. /sarcasm *throws up in mouth*

Sandy is a GODDESS

I don't understand why the Oscars weren't simply swept by District 9, Up, and Inglourious Basterds. But at least Waltz got a nod.

[charliepanayi]

Yeah, Sandra Bullock is such an amazing actress. She's been in so many greats such as The Lake House, Speed, and Miss Congeniality. The Best Actress award is long deserved for her. /sarcasm *throws up in mouth*

Sandy is a GODDESS

I don't understand why the Oscars weren't simply swept by District 9, Up, and Inglourious Basterds. But at least Waltz got a nod.

District 9 = science fiction (Oliver beat 2001 to Best Picture, which tells you all you need to know about how the Academy treats science fiction)

Up = animation (another genre which the Oscars ignore)

Inglorious Basterds = er...no idea really.

And I think Mark Kermode summed it up about Sandra Bullock:
'She's funny, she's gorgeous, it's impossible not to love her and yet she makes rotten film after rotten film after rotten film.'