83rd Annual Academy Awards

[robertthunder]

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The Official Discussion Thread for the 83rd Academy Awards


Winners:

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION: ALICE IN WONDERLAND


BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: INCEPTION - Wally Pfister


BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: THE FIGHTER - Melissa Leo


BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: THE LOST THING


BEST ANIMATED PICTURE: TOY STORY 3


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Aaron Sorkin


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: THE KING'S SPEECH, David Seidler


BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: CHRISTIAN BALE - THE FIGHTER


BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE): THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross


ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING: INCEPTION - Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick


ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING: INCEPTION - Richard King


BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP: THE WOLFMAN - Rick Baker and Dave Elsey


BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN: ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Colleen Atwood


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: STRANGERS NO MORE


BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: God Of Love


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: INSIDE JOB


ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS: INCEPTION - Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb


BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING: THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter


ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SONG): “We Belong Together” from TOY STORY 3 - Randy Newman


BEST DIRECTOR: THE KING'S SPEECH - Tom Hooper


BEST ACTRESS: BLACK SWAN - Natalie Portman


BEST ACTOR: THE KING'S SPEECH - Colin Firth


BEST MOTION PICTURE: THE KING'S SPEECH

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Nominees:

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• [Show spoiler]
• 127 Hours
  
  
• Black Swan
  
  
• The Fighter
  
  
• Inception
  
  
• The Kids Are All Right
  
  
• The King's Speech
  
  
• The Social Network
  
  
• Toy Story 3
  
  
• True Grit
  
  
• Winter's Bone

[jhiggy23]

This will be a great thread and I agree with a decent amount of your picks, but this thread is far too premature.

[Foggy]

Good choices, though I think if a suporting actress for Inception is nominated it'll be more likely to be Marion Cotillard than Ellen Page.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Good choices, though I think if a suporting actress for Inception is nominated it'll be more likely to be Marion Cotillard than Ellen Page.

Cotillard is gorgeous and was a huge part of the movie but it was a very generic performance, the only actor I can see from Inception getting a nod is Leo.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by robertthunder

You all know how this works.

Yep, we all know how it works--
Fans still get too optimistic that we'll get "real" nominations and they won't just crib the Critic's Circle artsies and Golden Globe hype-kissups again this year for lack of any other last-minute ideas--So the fanboys get all overexcited and pick their OWN cult favorites of the two or three actual net-hyped movies they saw in theaters that got good grownup reviews,

Best Picture:
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

fill the rest up with MORE geek-hyped movies that haven't opened yet sight unseen based on cult geek-director names,

127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
True Grit (The Coen Brothers)
Somewhere (Sophia Coppola)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)

parrot those same five or six titles for all the OTHER categories,

Best Director:
Christopher Nolan- Inception
David Fincher- The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky- Black Swan
Sophia Coppola- Somewhere
Julian Schnabel- Miral

and if we're lucky, they stop at the majors before going on to show off every excruciating technical category.

Best Cinematography:
Wally Pfister- Inception
Claudio Miranda- Tron Legacy
Jeff Cronenweth- The Social Network
Matthew Libatique- Black Swan
Roger Deakins- True Grit

And even pointing out that even most news critics are stumped for 10 Bests by November has no power to restore reason...Some traditions never die.

[GLaDOS]

No love from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by kotsedriver

No love from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?

The only realistic shot it has is a best foreign film nomination, but who knows. Considering the Academy is concerned more with television ratings than anything else right now, it's not out of the question that it gets a nomination due to its record breaking US limited release box office performance and overwhelmingly positive reviews. What works against it, however, is that the Academy almost always gives the foreign film nominations to straight dramas and topical films.

Rapace is a long shot for a best actress nomination and I think it is very unlikely, but with the exception of Portman, there hasn't been a real strong candidate to come out just yet. Still a lot of movies to be released though.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by Sylentwolf

+1



Yet another movie I haven't seen but I'm sure it's good and will more likely be a "Blind Buy" for me. Saw the trailer and was impressed with the clarity and style ... So, with that said, it was released in Sweeden, February 27, 2009 but released March 12, 2010 (UK), and March 19, 2010 (US) I guess it may qualify as a 2010 release and not a 2009, but still not sure.

Reminds me of the Tommy Lee Jones movie BLUE SKY, which was completed in 1990, but because of the bankruptcy of Orion Pictures, it sat on the shelf until 1994.

It qualifies as a 2010 release.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by kotsedriver

No love from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?

Only if it's the ONE film submitted by Sweden for official competition consideration that year, and passes the private screening committee.

...Darn funny rules about those Foreign Language categories, ain't they?
Used to be the same for Documentary Feature, before they changed it.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Only if it's the ONE film submitted by Sweden for official competition consideration that year, and passes the private screening committee.

...Darn funny rules about those Foreign Language categories, ain't they?
Used to be the same for Documentary Feature, before they changed it.

Right. Safe to say it'll be Sweden's selection, with the worldwide success it's had.

[retablo]

Thank goodness there are some anticipated films coming out in the next 4 months, because Inception is not worthy of being a Best Picture winner.

Really, though, 2010 has been the worst year of movies I have maybe ever seen. Not one film so far has stood out as being that great.

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by retablo

Thank goodness there are some anticipated films coming out in the next 4 months, because Inception is not worthy of being a Best Picture winner.

Really, though, 2010 has been the worst year of movies I have maybe ever seen. Not one film so far has stood out as being that great.

I feel the same way,but to be honest,I haven't been all that many times to the cinemas this year from either lack of what I feel is interesting movies,or lack of time.Gonna see toy story 3 this weekend,and looking forwrd to the facebook movie.May it rise to the expectations

[Mr.F]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

Right. Safe to say it'll be Sweden's selection, with the worldwide success it's had.

They can't choose it because it came out in Sweeden during the eligibility period for the last Oscars. Therefore, it they are going to pick a movie from the Millenium trilogy, it can only be The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, because that is the only movie that played during this year's eligibility period.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by Mr.F

They can't choose it because it came out in Sweeden during the eligibility period for the last Oscars. Therefore, it they are going to pick a movie from the Millenium trilogy, it can only be The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, because that is the only movie that played during this year's eligibility period.

Ahh yes, you are absolutely right. For some reason I thought its Swedish release was in October of last year, which would have made it eligible. I guess I didn't realize that it was released in February 2009.

Here's the rules:


http://www.oscars.org/awards/academy...es/rule14.html


Looking at some of the film festivals though, there should be very stiff competition for foreign film this year.

[The_Basterd]

Best Picture
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Conspirator
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
Never Let Me Go
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
alt: Hereafter (Good buzz, a great director, but I don't know enough about it yet), The Way Back, Somewhere

Best Director
David O. Russell, The Fighter
David Fincher, The Social Network
Christopher Nolan, Inception
Robert Redford, The Conspirator
Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky
alt: Clint Eastwood, Hereafter

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Robert Duvall, Get Low
James Franco, 127 Hours
Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter
alt: Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network and Stephen Dorff, Somewhere

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
Natalie Portman Black Swan
Carey Mulligan Never Let Me Go
Jennifer Lawrence Winter's Bone
alt: Robin Wright, The Conspirator and Julianne Moore, The Kids Are Alright

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network or Never Let Me Go
Sam Rockwell, Conviction
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are Alright
alt: Ed Harris, The Way Back (He might be definitely in, but I don't know much about it, but it has good buzz for him)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Elle Fanning, Somewhere
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Lesley Manville, Another Year
alt: Keira Knightley, Never Let Me Go

Best Original Screenplay
Another Year
The King's Speech
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
Somewhere
alt: Black Swan

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network
The Fighter
Never Let Me Go
Toy Story 3
True Grit
alt: Winter's Bone, 127 Hours

[blufellas]

Leo all the way!

[The_Basterd]

Originally Posted by blufellas

Leo all the way!

Sadly, I do not think he will get a nomination, maybe if Shutter Island came out later in the year... But Fwb.nis going to kill his chances, he is also getting out shined by others and there films are coming out closer to awards season and I doubt there is any room for him.....
His best bet would be Shutter Island though...
Definetely not Inception.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by The_Basterd

Sadly, I do not think he will get a nomination, maybe if Shutter Island came out later in the year... But Fwb.nis going to kill his chances, he is also getting out shined by others and there films are coming out closer to awards season and I doubt there is any room for him.....
His best bet would be Shutter Island though...
Definetely not Inception.

Haven't seen Inception yet so can't judge there, but he has zero chance of being nominated for Shutter Island. Not only was the film mediocre, but he simply didn't shine in the film to the point of deserving a nomination.

[EricJ]

Last year was all set up literally from spring to railroad "Up" into a Best Picture--
Which plans were unexpectedly sent off course in August when critics went on their "Why didn't you go to see Hurt Locker? " crusade the week Transformers 2 opened....At which point, fate was sealed.

This year, there IS nothing to distract the Academy from their ten-year-in-the-making Operation: Pixar Vindication, and the fact that it's Toy Story 3 will only help the fact that there's nothing really mainstream to run against it this year.
(And even if it's not quite Toy Story 2, which was the whole point of their wanting to give it a Picture in the first place, they'll likely pull a Return of the King and say "We're symbolically giving it to whole trilogy!")

[Sith]

Originally Posted by retablo

Thank goodness there are some anticipated films coming out in the next 4 months, because Inception is not worthy of being a Best Picture winner.

Really, though, 2010 has been the worst year of movies I have maybe ever seen. Not one film so far has stood out as being that great.

I've got to agree, I liked a couple movies. But I've laced up my boots for alot of crap this year. I was looking forward to alot of movies that let me down.

Alice and Wonderland, Shutter Island(though I thought it was still a good movie, but just good) Iron Man 2. All of them had so much promise in my opinion and were just average-good at best.

I'll admit I need to get caught up on some stuff though. Really want to see Toy Story 3 and Inception. I cannot beleive I had the Toy Story $8.50 off coupons from the blu rays and didn't use them. FAIL!