academy awards

[texas]

hey guys i always think its fun to discuss these before the winners are announced and i know that avatar is going to win every award so id like to hear some actual good opinions before im driven insane by blind james cameron worship

Best Picture

   * Avatar
   * The Blind Side
   * District 9
   * An Education
   * The Hurt Locker
   * Inglourious Basterds
   * A Serious Man
   * Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
   * Up
   * Up in the Air

   
Best Director
   * Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
   * James Cameron – Avatar
   * Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
   * Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
   * Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

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: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
   * 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: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Best Original Screenplay    
   * The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
   * Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
   * The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
   * A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
   * Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

   
Best Adapted Screenplay
   * District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
   * An Education – Nick Hornby
   * In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche
   * Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher
   * Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

[size=]Best Animated Feature    

   * Coraline – Henry Selick
   * Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
   * The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker
   * The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey
   * Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter
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Best Foreign Language Film
   * Ajami (Israel) in Arabic and Hebrew – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
   * El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella
   * The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) in Spanish – Claudia Llosa
   * A Prophet (France) in French – Jacques Audiard
   * The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke
   
Best Animated Short
   * French Roast – Fabrice O. Joubert
   * Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty – Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
   * The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) – Javier Recio Gracia
   * Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin
   * A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park

Best Original Score    

   * Avatar – James Horner
   * Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
   * The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami and Beck Sanders
   * Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer
   * Up – Michael Giacchino

   
Best Original Song
   * "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
   * "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
   * "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 – Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
   * "Take it All" from Nine – Maury Yeston
   * "Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett

Best Sound Editing    

   * Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
   * The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson
   * Inglourious Basterds – Wylie Stateman
   * Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
   * Up – Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

   
Best Sound Mixing
   * Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
   * The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
   * Inglourious Basterds – Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
   * Star Trek – Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
   * Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Best Art Direction    

   * Avatar – Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
   * The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
   * Nine – Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
   * Sherlock Holmes – Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
   * The Young Victoria – Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

   
Best Cinematography
   * Avatar – Mauro Fiore
   * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Bruno Delbonnel
   * The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
   * Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
   * The White Ribbon – Christian Berger

Best Makeup    

   * Il Divo – Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
   * Star Trek – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
   * The Young Victoria – Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

   
Best Costume Design
   * Bright Star – Janet Patterson
   * Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier
   * The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Monique Prudhomme
   * Nine – Colleen Atwood
   * The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

Best Film Editing    

   * Avatar – James Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin
   * District 9 – Julian Clarke
   * The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis and Bob Murawski
   * Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
   * Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Joe Klotz

   
Best Visual Effects
   * Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
   * District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken
   * Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton


despite avatar being nominated for a disgusting amount of awards, there were a few things that were really nice to see, like up in the best picture category.

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

you should be more excited that UP is nominated for BEST PICTURE

its like a miracle

[emanhattan]

Amongst all the shit that was on the movies last year you have to admit there were some pretty fuckin great ones every now and then

Up
coraline
Fmr fox
Avatar(tbh I liked it with the cliches and all)
Inglorious basterds
princess n frog
Didnt see district nine but im pretty sure I would have liked it a lot if I had seen it

and 9 "not from tim burton" wasnt that nice.

I dont know why but as much of a fan as I am of pixar and "up". Fantastic mr fox was my favorite animated feat of last year and I hope people apreciate it/does well. I like that chaotic sense of storytelling, and I had never seen a wes anderson movie before.

Also that nazi from inglorious bastards christoph waltz was fuckin great.
It really pisses me off how dumb critics criticised that movie for using different languages, while as tarantino himself said "that is the future of cinema".WAY better than hiring americans to speak english and pretend they are germans like in valkyrie

[The Good Ole Ant]

hope dr. parnassus gets something, that movie was phenomenal

[Mew_User]

If Sandra Bullock wins for best actress she will be the only actress in history to win a Golden Raspberry and an Oscar in the same week.

[The Good Ole Ant]

my god i just noticed the animated feature nominees
i dont envy the fellas who have to choose a winner from that selection

[RobHalford]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA BLIND SIDE OVER MOON?

REALLY?

[rtil]

avatar wins all categories even ones it's not nominated in the end

[The Good Ole Ant]

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[DrRumack]

of all the nominees ive only seen fantastic mr fox coraline and inglourious basterds

and all of them deserve something

[CVG]

My fav pick would be Coraline because of the HUGE amount of production work a stop-motion has even had in its category and the story was great and bizarre. But 2nd was Mr. Fox for doing something different not aimed at kids and using animation to its advantage to accent its narrative.

Also WOW, Up made it to Best Picture?! This hasn't happened since Beauty and the Beast in 1991. Although I don't think it will win, I'm still so happy to see that MAYBE Hollywood is starting to take some notice of animation (shame that is still had to be technically a "kids" film but I'm not criticizing).

[psi43]

ok let's see, which of these movies have i seen

up

inglorious bastards

yep that's it well i liked them both.

[Jeinu]

i think i've only seen maybe 5 of those films

i gotta get to watchin

[jjjjjjjjjj]

having up nominated for best picture kinda spoils what will win best animated feature wont it
either way if i had to choose between the animated features it would probably be Coraline or Fantastic Mr Fox

avatar will win best picture :[

[Gerkinman]

Im sad Moon and Ponyo weren't nominated for anything, also Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which was my fav animated movie from last year.  =(

[creamcorn]

avatar will win best picture :[

Im sad Moon and Ponyo weren't nominated for anything, also Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which was my fav animated movie from last year.  =(

[psi43]

cloudy with a chance of meatballs was a really bad movie imo

[emanhattan]

cloudy meatballs was pretty cool but its like watching a really long hannah barbera cartoon.
fun stuff but probably wouldnt watch again

[RobHalford]

cloudy with a chance of meatballs was a really bad movie imo

OH BOY PREPARE FOR THE SHITSTORM TO FOLLOW

[creamcorn]

has anyone seen one of those 5 short animations? im kinda interested in those