Oscar nominations out

 

Would like Jeff Bridges/Sandra Bullock to win their respective actor/actress awards anyway.

Actress in a supporting role

Mo'Nique in Precious

Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air

Penélope Cruz in Nine

Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds

Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart

 

Actor in a supporting role

Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

Christopher Plummer in The Last Station

Matt Damon in Invictus

Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones

Woody Harrelson in The Messengers

 

Actor in a leading role

Morgan Freeman in Invictus

Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart

George Clooney in Up in the Air

Colin Firth in A Single Man

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

 

Actress in a leading role

Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia in It's Complicated

Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side

Helen Mirren in The Last Station

Gabourey Sidibe in Precious

Carey Mulligan in An Education

 

Animated feature film

Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)

The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker)

Coraline (Henry Selick)

Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson)

Secret of Kells

 

Foreign language film

Ajami (Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, Israel)

A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, France)

The Secret of Her Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina)

The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany)

The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Peru)

 

Directing

Avatar (James Cameron)

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

Lee Daniels (Precious)

 

Writing (adapted screenplay)

District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)

An Education (Nick Hornby)

Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)

Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)

In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche)

 

Writing (original screenplay)

The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)

Up (Pete Docter and Bob Petersen)

The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)

 

Best picture

Avatar (James Cameron – director; Brooke Breton , Laeta Kalogridis, Jon Landau, Josh McLaglen, Janace Tashjian, Peter M Tobyansen, Colin Wilson – producers)

District 9 (Neill Blomkamp – director, Bill Block, Philippa Boyens, Carolynne Cunningham, Elliot Ferwerda, Paul Hanson, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Michael S Murphey – producers)

An Education (Lone Scherfig)

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

Precious (Lee Daniels)

A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)

Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)

The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock)

Up

bullshit.

Is Crazy Heart worth watching? Looked shit from the trailer but Jeff Bridges and all these awards are making me wonder

 

How about The Blind Side? Would normally avoid a Bullock vehicle but apparently she can act now

wow, 09 was a shit year for movies.

My picks, I expect an Avatar backlash and Up in the Air to win big:

 

Actress in a supporting role

Mo'Nique in Precious

 

Actor in a supporting role

Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

 

Actor in a leading role

George Clooney in Up in the Air

 

Actress in a leading role

Gabourey Sidibe in Precious

 

Animated feature film

Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)

 

Foreign language film

The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany)

 

 

Directing

Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

 

 

Writing (adapted screenplay)

In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche)

 

Writing (original screenplay)

The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)

 

Best picture

Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)

Edited February 2, 2010 by lumpenprol

im backing district 9, it wont win but it should

I'd say The Blind Side is worth a watch, I really enjoyed it anyway. Does the book justification as well.

Edited February 2, 2010 by Alex C

Avatar should get Best Director.. that sounds about right.

I saw both "Coraline" and "Up" and loved both, but I'll be really sad if (when) "Up" takes the animated award. I think the work that went into Coraline's animation was mind-blowing and deserves credit.

 

ps:

 

in the loop was definately the most enjoyable movie this year for me

how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture?

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:06 PM, GORDO said:

how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture?

 

I was thinking the same thing. Best "Fake world in 3d that causes depression" perhaps

directing requires a different skill set than writing.

 

 

conversely, really good writing doesn't necessarily make a great movie.

apparently, good acting does. i'm done debating stuff to a bunch of haters.

the blind side might be the most cringeworthy movie of 2009. it's fucking ridiculous that it and district 9 have been nominated for best picture. it's fucking ridiculous that they are nominating 10 movies for best picture. just look at the stretching. what a shit year of movies. hurt locker is probably the best movie i've seen this year though i havent seen up in the air.

 

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how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture?

because there happened to be five better actors? not getting an oscar nod by no stretch means that the quality of acting or writing wasn't great. the academy is probably also confused as to how much acting goes into animation. i really think the lead chick in avatar did an incredible job acting.

are the oscars pretty much analogous with the grammys as far as awards for artforms? utterly clueless? or are the oscars closer to awarding genuine artistic achievement. i cant tell because my taste in film seems to be pretty pedestrian. i need to know if i should be embarrassed over caring about who gets nominated.

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:41 PM, Fred McGriff said:

it's fucking ridiculous that they are nominating 10 movies for best picture.

 

It's a marketing thing.

obviously but it's just a bad move, it's not going to help them, it's going to make the others in the same category less desirable to watch. hurt locker and blind side mentioned in the same breath is criminal. and i didnt even think hurt locker was necessarily great. but it's clearly a superior film.

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:41 PM, Fred McGriff said:

i really think the lead chick in avatar did an incredible job acting.

 

agreed.

 

christoph waltz's in "Basterds" was the most artful i've seen this year, but i haven't seen a lot of the stuff that's up. "Ajami" is supposed to be amazing.

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:52 PM, Fred McGriff said:

are the oscars pretty much analogous with the grammys as far as awards for artforms? utterly clueless? or are the oscars closer to awarding genuine artistic achievement. i cant tell because my taste in film seems to be pretty pedestrian. i need to know if i should be embarrassed over caring about who gets nominated.

 

i think they're both basically done under the premise that everyone lives in small, grey rooms, and they only creative media they're allowed to see are the films shown at the local zongoplex and the songs on whatever flashing reality-show blitzkreig is on MTV and its associated genre-oriented contemporaries. that coupled with a desire to reward the projects in both which featured the most already well-known actors or "musicians" and those which generated the most money.

 

the shame of it is that both the oscars and the grammies have an opportunity to open up TRULY innovative stuff to a wider audience. you know, to actually do the research to find the little gems that were overlooked by most. to recognise true creativity even when it's not backed by billion-dollar budgets (hell, it took peter jackson slapping his name on District 9 in order for it to get as noticed as it was.)

 

to be fair, the oscar nominations surprised me a bit in a good way. wouldn't have expected coraline or District 9 in there.

 

if coraline's score isn't nominated, though, that's a complete joke. but maybe AMPAS still has some credibility left.

 

NARAS lost the plot a while ago, and they're just speeding music's demise.

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:06 PM, GORDO said:

how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture?

 

 

It actually happens quite often in the history of the academy. Especially acting, at least half the best pictures had no winner for acting. That's completely different.

just checked the best score noms. fucking AVATAR? james horner killed it in aliens, but the avatar score took insulting tribal bongo "booga-booga" music to a new low. for as 'innovative' and 'otherwordly' as the rest of the film was, the score had an opportunity to really go new places, but didn't. at all.

 

the 'up' score got nominated, which is good. that was pretty spectacular, actually.

 

haven't seen 'sherlock holmes' yet, but it's fucking zimmer. i can guess it's bombastic orchestral stuff with some 'edgy' electric guitar thrown in along with an overuse of stylus RMX.

 

what is it with music? the coraline score was amazing. cool instrumentation, amazing themes, a made-up language... never heard anything quite like it.

 

i guess these organisations are more apt to reward "very traditional, but with SLIGHT changes" than "truly different and great".

You got to remember that those are awards exist as a promotion tool for the business of movie-making, nothing else.

  On 2/2/2010 at 3:48 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

Is Crazy Heart worth watching?

It's good.