Official 82nd Annual Academy Awards{Oscars} Thread

[miaedu]

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Really disappointed with the exclusion of Anthony Mackie.

In addition to or instead of Jeremy Renner?

 

[That70sJoe]

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In addition to or instead of Jeremy Renner?

I'm not bothered that Renner got nominated but IMO Anthony Mackie was the best thing in The Hurt Locker. Too bad the voters didn't feel the same way (the film got other nods).

 

[miaedu]

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At least that terrible song from Avatar wasn't nominated.

Music (Original Song)

“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
“Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

 

[gaz1978]

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Avatar will probably win (despite zero nominations for acting or, crucually, WRITING).

However, The Hurt Locker or Precious should win.

 

[miaedu]

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Avatar will probably win (despite zero nominations for acting or, crucually, WRITING).

However, The Hurt Locker or Precious should win.

Interesting article in today's New York Times:

LAST year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the bestower of Oscar gold, took a calculated risk — some would say a cynicalized risk — by announcing that there would be 10 best picture nominees instead of the usual 5. Cue months of grumbling and grousing from armchair critics who said the expansion devalued the award, from directors who were miffed that there wasn’t a parallel doubling of their category, and from Academy members who couldn’t think of 10 good movies, period.

Now that the nominations have been announced, the consensus seems to be: Hey, that was a pretty good idea.

“It did exactly what it was supposed to do,” said Ronni Chasen, a longtime awards consultant in Los Angeles. The broadened field includes box office behemoths like “Avatar,” inspirational fare like “The Blind Side” and genre films like the sci-fi parable “District 9,” in addition to typical Oscar bait: artful war tales (“The Hurt Locker”), the sophisticated coming-of-middle-age (“Up in the Air”) and British period dramas (“An Education”).

For the first time since the 1992 awards, the best picture nominees also include an animated film, the Pixar hit “Up,” which had crossover appeal among moviegoers and critics. And there were still spots for indie-popcorn flicks like “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist World War II adventuretainment, and “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” elevated urban grit.

At a time when television audiences are more segmented than ever, this group had something nearly everybody could root for — a major concern for the ceremony’s producers, who are aiming to boost ratings by giving the show a populist wash. After spending months “planning for disaster” — the nomination of 10 art-house films — Bill Mechanic, a producer of the show, said they were pleasantly surprised by the mix. “What intruded on us is all positive,” he said.

For all the upheaval, the Oscar race in the last few weeks has focused on three films: “Avatar,” “The Hurt Locker” and, to a lesser extent, “Up in the Air.” Will “The Blind Side,” the feel-good Sandra Bullock box office hit that was a surprise addition to the best picture list, swing votes from these contenders? Not likely, industry veterans say.

For one thing, Oscar rarely splits the vote between best director and best picture — it’s only happened, the Academy says, 21 times in 81 years — so the five films with director nods (“Avatar,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Precious” and “Up in the Air”) are considered the “real” best picture candidates.

For another, the top prize usually goes to films that have nominations across multiple categories, chiefly in acting and in editing or screenplay or both, in addition to directing. Four managed that feat this year: “The Hurt Locker,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Precious,” and “Up in the Air.” (Awards watchers were quick to note one film that won best picture without a screenplay nomination: “Titanic” in 1998.) The upshot is that, in terms of campaigns, this year will essentially be more of the same.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/movies/awardsseason/05carpet.html?ref=movies

 

[MisterMajestic]

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I like the Fact that all 5-Oscar Nominated Directors are "friends" and respect each other...

James Cameron embraced Lee Daniels at the Golen Globes after giving his exceptance speech for "Best Director"..

This will be one of those RARE award seasons where the Losers will be cool with the Winners...

 

[Spiff]

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Avatar will probably win

If it wins, I won't complain. But I don't think it will, given the academy's history with sci-fi films. I haven't seen Hurt Locker yet (long wait in my Netflix queue), but from the previews and reviews I have seen I can't fathom why it should win either. Nobody has even heard of it until the Golden Globe awards last month. But, the material is the exact type of stuff that snooty academy people like to vote for, even though the majority of them probably never watched it.

 

[That70sJoe]

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IMO Kathryn Bigelow will win Best Director. She was solid all acorss the board and I know the Academy wants to break new ground and have a woman win.

 

[miaedu]

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Six actors. One room. A conversation so intimate, we were even invited to tag along for potty breaks. Welcome to NEWSWEEK’s 13th Oscar Roundtable.

http://photo.newsweek.com/oscar-roundtable/2010/electric-company.html

 

[Red Storm]

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I watched the Blind side recently. A good movie but I don't see how Sandra Bullock got nominated, she delivered but enough to win an oscar? not in my opinion. I would like to see Carey Mulligan win in this category.

Mo'nique is a lock for supporting actress.

 

[miaedu]

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Wouldn't mind if the Oscar's mirror the BAFTA.


The Hurt Locker' wins six BAFTA Awards

"The Hurt Locker" won six of its eight races at the BAFTA Awards in London including the top prize of best picture. Since the BAFTAs were moved up in 2000 to take place while academy members were still voting for the Oscars, these laurels have foreseen only three of the nine best-picture winners: "Gladiator" (2000), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003) and last year's "Slumdog Millionaire."

Unlike this year's Oscars, there were only five films nominated for the top BAFTA and the winner was decided by a simple vote count. Of the four other nominees, all of which are also in contention at the Oscars, "Avatar" took two of its eight races, production design and visual effects; "An Education" prevailed with just one of its eight nominations, best actress (Carey Mulligan); "Up in the Air" went one for six winning adapted screenplay; and "Precious" came out on top in one of its four categories, supporting actress (Mo'Nique).

The BAFTAs have done better at predicting the acting Oscar champs since the date change. Of the 36 acting Oscars handed out this decade, 22 went to BAFTA winners. In 2006 and 2007, all four BAFTA champs went on to win at the Oscars. Last year, three of the four BAFTA winners repeated at the Academy Awards; Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler") was the exception.

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_...s-cameron.html

Best Film: 'The Hurt Locker'

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, 'The Hurt Locker'

Best Actor: Colin Firth, 'A Single Man'

Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, 'An Education'

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, 'Inglourious Basterds'

Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, 'Precious'

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, 'The Hurt Locker'

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, 'Up in the Air'

Best Animated Film: 'Up'

Best Foreign Language Film: 'A Prophet'

The Orange Rising Star Award: Kristen Stewart

Production Design: 'Avatar'

Outstanding British Film: 'Fish Tank'

Best Makeup: 'The Young Victoria'

Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell, 'The Young Victoria'

Best Visual Effects: 'Avatar'

Best Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, 'The Hurt Locker'

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema: Joe Dunton

Best Film Editing: 'The Hurt Locker'

Best Sound: 'The Hurt Locker'

Best Music: Michael Giacchino, 'Up'

Best Animated Short: 'Mother of Many'

Outstanding Debut: Duncan Jones, 'Moon'

Best Short Film: 'I Do Air'

Best Animated Short: 'Mother of Many'
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[Sgt Pepper]

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Going out on a limb for my Oscar predictions:

Best Picture
Inglourious Basterds

Best Director
First Lady, The Hurt Locker

Best Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino, Masturbation for Hollywood Jews

Best Adapted Screenplay
Jason Reitman and Other Guy, Up in the Air

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Actress
Meryl Streep, 16th Time's the Charm

Best Supporting Actor
Not Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on Oscar Bait

 

[josher]

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Going out on a limb for my Oscar predictions:

Best Picture
Inglourious Basterds

Best Director
First Lady, The Hurt Locker

Best Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino, Masturbation for Hollywood Jews

Best Adapted Screenplay
Jason Reitman and Other Guy, Up in the Air

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Actress
Meryl Streep, 16th Time's the Charm

Best Supporting Actor
Not Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on Oscar Bait

You got everything right except Picture and Actress.

Sandy is going to win, and Hurt Locker's chances heep growing with each award it gets, though I'd still be surprised if Avatar doesn't win, even though Locker deserves the award.

 

[Digicel]

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I am happy Mulligan won the BAFTA because it was some good work; although i was really hoping Meryl would have won it so i could be more confident about her winning the Oscar.

I still cannot believe that Bullock is the front runner. I mean seriously, the nomination alone should be her reward; but to actually give her the Oscar?

 

[Sgt Pepper]

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You got everything right except Picture and Actress.

Sandy is going to win, and Hurt Locker's chances heep growing with each award it gets, though I'd still be surprised if Avatar doesn't win, even though Locker deserves the award.

I know I'm going WAY out on a limb with Basterds, but Harvey Weinstein has thrown his muscle back into the race and since he pulled it off with Shakespeare in Love -- and since the new preferential voting system makes Best Picture more difficult to predict this year -- I'm going with a hunch. I'm not the only one to think this is possible; the LA Times is predicting Basterds to win also. That said, I'm 90% sure it will be The Hurt Locker, but I've always found it's more fun to go with the underdog possibility. You get to look really cool on the off-chance that it happens.

Best Actress though is genuinely a mystery. I know it seems Bullock is way out front but I think she's more vulnerable than The Hurt Locker. Oh she's definitely the frontrunner, but she's not a lock the way Mo'nique is. Don't make too much out of that SAG win; Meryl Streep won the SAG award for Doubt last year, and so it's likely enough actors felt no pressure to give her another SAG award one year later. But the Academy won't have that problem; they have not recognized her in two decades. Also, this year reminds me a lot of 2003 when Sean Penn and Bill Murray won the Globe Best Actor awards (just like Bullock and Streep this year), and then Johnny Depp won the SAG for his role in a huge blockbuster (just like Bullock and her hit this year) allowing people to think Murray and Depp had a chance. But when it came down to it, The Academy went with the respected vet and Penn won his first Oscar.

I know the two situations aren't perfectly analogous, but I'm personally hoping all this hysteria for Bullock's nothing performance in a terrible (and racist) film will be a moot point with a generally older Academy who -- and for once this will be their fuddy-duddyness being put to good use -- will find it impossible to give an Oscar to Sandra fucking Bullock over The Greatest Living American Actress.

 

[Digicel]

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The thing with Meryl Streep is that she will always do great work and will always get nominated so the voters take her for granted thinking that they will always have another chance to reward her so lets give it to someone who probably wont get this chance again, or a veteran who has never won or another reason.

However, with that said, looking back on Meryls resume, i cant say that she has ever really been robbed; sure she could have won many times before; but some of her fellow nominees were just as deserving. Although if it was up to me she would have won for "Out of Africa, Bridges of Madison Country and A Cry in the Dark."


Meryl may only win again when her performance just cannot be ignored and just stands above everyone that year; because if its just her regular "streepness" then they will always give it to someone else for whatever reason.


Anyways i am keeping my fingers and my penis crossed for justice.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

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However, with that said, looking back on Meryls resume, i cant say that she has ever really been robbed;

Oh I disagree, there are quite a few examples where Streep was robbed, but I'll chose the most glaring of her recent nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Adaptation. A truly weird film, but Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper were phenomenal in it. Cooper deservingly won and it's a shame his co-conspirator in meta-hilarity didn't also win on the distaff side. Instead the Academy went with the truly overrated Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago (she wasn't even the best supporting performance in her own film!) and seven years later, her win certainly seems embarrassing and unnecessary.

 

[josher]

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I know I'm going WAY out on a limb with Basterds, but Harvey Weinstein has thrown his muscle back into the race and since he pulled it off with Shakespeare in Love -- and since the new preferential voting system makes Best Picture more difficult to predict this year -- I'm going with a hunch. I'm not the only one to think this is possible; the LA Times is predicting Basterds to win also. That said, I'm 90% sure it will be The Hurt Locker, but I've always found it's more fun to go with the underdog possibility. You get to look really cool on the off-chance that it happens.

Best Actress though is genuinely a mystery. I know it seems Bullock is way out front but I think she's more vulnerable than The Hurt Locker. Oh she's definitely the frontrunner, but she's not a lock the way Mo'nique is. Don't make too much out of that SAG win; Meryl Streep won the SAG award for Doubt last year, and so it's likely enough actors felt no pressure to give her another SAG award one year later. But the Academy won't have that problem; they have not recognized her in two decades. Also, this year reminds me a lot of 2003 when Sean Penn and Bill Murray won the Globe Best Actor awards (just like Bullock and Streep this year), and then Johnny Depp won the SAG for his role in a huge blockbuster (just like Bullock and her hit this year) allowing people to think Murray and Depp had a chance. But when it came down to it, The Academy went with the respected vet and Penn won his first Oscar.

I know the two situations aren't perfectly analogous, but I'm personally hoping all this hysteria for Bullock's nothing performance in a terrible (and racist) film will be a moot point with a generally older Academy who -- and for once this will be their fuddy-duddyness being put to good use -- will find it impossible to give an Oscar to Sandra fucking Bullock over The Greatest Living American Actress.

Oh, if I could make the decision, I'd give it to Meryl in a New York minute, and I'd be thrilled if she were to win.

But Sandy is one of the most beloved women in the industry, and people just want to reward her for that. It's often the way the these things work.

And as for Picture, I'm betting 75% of the members who vote will choose (in either order) Hurt Locker and Avatar as their first and second choices.

Quentin will be quite happy to receive the award for original screen play.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

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Avatar will probably win (despite zero nominations for acting or, crucually, WRITING).

Why is it "crucial?" Titanic wasn't nominated for Writing either and managed to rake in a record-eleven.

It's more crucial to have a Directing nomination if you're talking about winning Best Picture.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

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But Sandy is one of the most beloved women in the industry, and people just want to reward her for that. It's often the way the these things work.

Oh I know. I'm just hoping voter elitism will factor in for a GOOD cause this time, resulting in a Streep win.

And as for Picture, I'm betting 75% of the members who vote will choose (in either order) Hurt Locker and Avatar as their first and second choices.

The thing is, Avatar has way more detractors. There are people who HATE Avatar, but I've never heard that kind of vitriol launched at The Hurt Locker. And that's crucial with a preferential voting system, where The Hurt Locker may appear on more #2 votes than Avatar.

I actually think Inglourious Basterds may appear as #2 on more ballots than Avatar also. I think Best Picture is actually between Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds, not Hurt Locker and Avatar.