The Oscar Nominees are...

[Fighter]

District 9 Best Picture

[Diesel]

A nomination for Score for Avatar?

Squid will not be happy

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Damn I feel old...lol. Even though I enjoyed movies like D9 and Avatar, I'm still not sure if they (and movies like Up) belong in the best pic cag.

[MDJ]

Up can be nominated for both?

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by MDJ

Up can be nominated for both?

Any film can be nominated for any category as long as it meets the requirements of the nomination process.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by MDJ

Up can be nominated for both?

Yes but it will most likely only win the animated award and not the best picture but I still say it should win best picture

[Mike53421]

Wow, for once I don't object to any of the main categories. Last year it was Slumdog winning everything, and years before it always seems like I'm rooting for someone (Phoenix in Walk The Line), should enjoy the show.

Really liking the love for Inglourious Basterds and actually had to no idea Pulp Fiction received so many nominations! I've seen six of the ten nominees too so I can be a total snob this year.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by mikejet

Best Director yes but I don't think the Academy will ignore a movie that is making over 2 BILLION dollars. They will have to award it for that alone.

The Academy has ignored tons of popular movies (Jaws, Star Wars, E.T.,
Close Encounters, etc etc etc) so just because it's a blockbuster-- it guarantees nothing.
However there's another angle to look at-- the Oscars have been a ratings bust for many years since most nominated pictures the last decade have had little interest to the mass public--- with a popular movie like AVATAR they are expecting audiences to tune in again-- they may give the award to AVATAR for this reason-- yes, it's about $$ again-- but based on viewer ratings...

[Darkhawk9587]

Originally Posted by Romulus

Best Picture

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

I am a little surprised by these. I have seen most, and none really stand out as Oscar worthy IMO. Avatar was pure eye candy; District 9 was really good as was The Hurt Locker and Up. I think this Oscar is a toss up between all mentioned.

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by mikejet

No according to a majority of the nations critics

Mike there is only one critic (well two back then) worth listening to and we all know who that is. What did Ebert and the late Siskel say about Titanic vs L.A. Confidential? As I have no idea....but it's a toss up with these two in my book but if I HAD to choose one it would be Titanic and this is coming from someone who adores L.A. Confidential. Both are on my top 100 films of all time list.

[Elandyll]

Originally Posted by Diesel

A nomination for Score for Avatar?

Squid will not be happy

Saw Avatar for the 2nd time this week end.
The score is not really noticeable on the first viewing because the IMAX and 3D effects are overwhelming, but it is indeed an excellent score, worthy of being at the least nominated.


my picks:



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 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
Hellen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglorious Basterds

Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

Adapted Screenplay
District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious
Up in the Air

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

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

Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious

Best Original Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek


My Totals:

Avatar: 6 (including best director + technicals and score)
Up in the Air: 3 (including best actor)
The Hurt Locker: 1 (the big one)
UP: 1
The Blind Side: 1 (best actress)
Inglorious Basterds: 1
Star Trek: 1
Fantastic Mr Fox: 1 (honestly I prefer UP, but I have the feeling that Fox will gather more sympathy)

[repete66211]

Originally Posted by Elvis

Yes!!!! No Star Trek love!!! Happy dance....

+1

I haven't seen The Blind Side, A Serious Man or Precious, but An Education was the best movie I saw this year. It didn't make nearly enough money to win anything though.

If the Academy wants to rearrange things they need to take a cue from the Golden Globes. Subdivide Best Picture into different categories--Best Drama, Best Animation, Best Comedy/Musical. It's the only fair way to compare apples to apples and the only way to make both adults and Avatar/TDK/The Matrix, etc. fans happy. There's no basis to compare movies like Up in the Air or An Education to movies like Up or Avatar.

[EricJ]

Avatar was a shoe-in to show off its number of nominations with technical, but seeing Up not get the key Editing and Screenplay necessary for a Picture win is a genuine shock, considering what we were suspecting this year...

I still have faith that reason will prevail--even those who could take or leave Titanic will admit that Avatar Is No Titanic, where Oscar image is concerned--but it looks like we haven't gotten out of the "We've forgotten how to nominate mainstream films" ghetto yet.

Originally Posted by Shanester

What if Avatar wins best picture and Bigelow best director??
Wasn't the academy criticized last year for NOT nominating TDK the most successful picture of 2008

It's going to be a Picture/Director split this year, which means there isn't the push for a sweep as there was in the "classic" years.
And they did from the fanboys, but then we all said, "Look, people, you know it was just about about Dead Heath, and he got it, and got a big standing ovation, end of story, move on." So nobody minded after that.

Originally Posted by Dr.Zoidberg

So if the oscars hadn't gone to 10 best pic nods, which of this years 5 would have been left off?

Oh, that's an easy one--
1-5:
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Up
Up In The Air
Precious, and Since When Does The Book Credit Get Mentioned In the Freakin' Title??

6-10
The Blind Side
An Education
A Serious Man
District 9
Inglorious Basterds

In other words, 6-10 were all the nominees you'd Think Might Be Up There if you hadn't seen them, based on what everyone was guessing in November....I don't think anyone in the Academy seriously considers Inglorious or District a contender, except that everyone had gotten used to saying it was supposed to be, Serious is only up there on the Coens' past-win name pedigree, and Blind Side is pure FYC hype on the part of the producers.
Well, so much for "Star Trek For Best Picture", like they were all hoping the ten-nomination stunt would help spark a revival of mainstream movies being nominated again...At least we know they WANT to, but it's a long twelve-step process back to "Chicago" and "Return of the King" again, and it starts with realizing there's a problem.
Hopefully it won't make them do anything desperate and actually give Picture or Director to Avatar, they're not that desperate for the Golden Globes' TV image....But there's still that fear of West Coast voters and the damage they can do.

[Foggy]

THANK GOD, Up got nominated, I love everyone. (Also very happy district 9 is there)

[Steve46]

I hope the Wallace & Gromit short secures another win for Nick Park.

I want Inglourious to win everything possible and Up to win best animated. I'll be satisfied if Waltz wins and Tarantino gets the screenplay award.

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Avatar was a shoe-in to show off its number of nominations with technical, but seeing Up not get the key Editing and Screenplay necessary for a Picture win is a genuine shock, considering what we were suspecting this year...

Eric, "UP" did get a nom. for Best Orig. Screenplay.

Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by mikejet

No according to a majority of the nations critics

haha I remember it well, there was debate in regards to picture but overall Titanic was seen as superior. Think about all the technical categories. Screenplay is the only thing LA was clearly better at. It may have had better individual acting performances, although that's debatable, but overall the acting as a whole in Titanic was better, in large part due to the expansive cast.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

Eric, "UP" did get a nom. for Best Orig. Screenplay.

Yes, but it has to get both OS/AS and Editing to send the other nominees home in a given year--

Still, it could happen, as none as of the Picture front runners are Directors this year and none of the Directors are Pictures, so either one is a tossup:
Usually, in a five-nomination year, the Directors are four of the Pictures, and one "breakout" nominee from a critics'-favorite that didn't get Picture--Here, they have enough Pictures to choose the fifth-nominee from (in this case Tarantino), but if Pete Docter didn't make the Director nomination necessary to complete the sweep-trifecta, that's....disconcerting.
Kind of expected it, though--They might still give Picture to Up and Director to Bigelow (or Cameron, but just to Cameron, and all that that implies), but for all the "Let's nominate Pixar!" mania, there might still be the technical confusion over just what an animation director does, and whether he can be credited as artistically responsible, or which of the two directors on it actually got the award.

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

haha I remember it well, there was debate in regards to picture but overall Titanic was seen as superior. Think about all the technical categories. Screenplay is the only thing LA was clearly better at. It may have had better individual acting performances, although that's debatable, but overall the acting as a whole in Titanic was better, in large part due to the expansive cast.

As a whole yes, if you include all the technical aspects you can argue that Titanic is the better film. It's just my personal taste that I like LA much more because I personally despise Titanic.

Rollo Tomasi!

[Lepidopterous]

Wow, 10 best picture nominees and Invictus still got snubbed. Poor Clint Eastwood.

Great to see Up and D9 get nominations, even though they're definitely in the bottom half.