Oscars 2011

TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Jan 11 :: 16:31

I will post the complete list as soon as I can find it. There weren't a lot of surprises. I'm really excited for James Franco. That's about all I can say right now.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Jan 11 :: 17:31

Actor in a Leading Role

* Javier Bardem in "Biutiful"
* Jeff Bridges in "True Grit"
* Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network"
* Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"
* James Franco in "127 Hours"

Actor in a Supporting Role

* Christian Bale in "The Fighter"
* John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone"
* Jeremy Renner in "The Town"
* Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids Are All Right"
* Geoffrey Rush in "The King's Speech"

Actress in a Leading Role

* Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right"
* Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole"
* Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone"
* Natalie Portman in "Black Swan"
* Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine"

Actress in a Supporting Role

* Amy Adams in "The Fighter"
* Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech"
* Melissa Leo in "The Fighter"
* Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit"
* Jacki Weaver in "Animal Kingdom"

Animated Feature Film

* "How to Train Your Dragon" Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
* "The Illusionist" Sylvain Chomet
* "Toy Story 3" Lee Unkrich

Art Direction

* "Alice in Wonderland"
Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
* "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1"
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
* "Inception"
Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
* "The King's Speech"
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
* "True Grit"
Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

Cinematography

* "Black Swan" Matthew Libatique
* "Inception" Wally Pfister
* "The King's Speech" Danny Cohen
* "The Social Network" Jeff Cronenweth
* "True Grit" Roger Deakins

Costume Design

* "Alice in Wonderland" Colleen Atwood
* "I Am Love" Antonella Cannarozzi
* "The King's Speech" Jenny Beavan
* "The Tempest" Sandy Powell
* "True Grit" Mary Zophres

Directing

* "Black Swan" Darren Aronofsky
* "The Fighter" David O. Russell
* "The King's Speech" Tom Hooper
* "The Social Network" David Fincher
* "True Grit" Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Documentary (Feature)

* "Exit through the Gift Shop" Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz
* "Gasland" Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
* "Inside Job" Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
* "Restrepo" Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
* "Waste Land" Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley

Documentary (Short Subject)

* "Killing in the Name" Nominees to be determined
* "Poster Girl" Nominees to be determined
* "Strangers No More" Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
* "Sun Come Up" Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
* "The Warriors of Qiugang" Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

Film Editing

* "Black Swan" Andrew Weisblum
* "The Fighter" Pamela Martin
* "The King's Speech" Tariq Anwar
* "127 Hours" Jon Harris
* "The Social Network" Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Foreign Language Film

* "Biutiful" Mexico
* "Dogtooth" Greece
* "In a Better World" Denmark
* "Incendies" Canada
* "Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)" Algeria

Makeup

* "Barney's Version" Adrien Morot
* "The Way Back" Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
* "The Wolfman" Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)

* "How to Train Your Dragon" John Powell
* "Inception" Hans Zimmer
* "The King's Speech" Alexandre Desplat
* "127 Hours" A.R. Rahman
* "The Social Network" Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Music (Original Song)

* "Coming Home" from "Country Strong" Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
* "I See the Light" from "Tangled" Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
* "If I Rise" from "127 Hours" Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
* "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Best Picture

* "Black Swan" Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
* "The Fighter" David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
* "Inception" Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
* "The Kids Are All Right" Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
* "The King's Speech" Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
* "127 Hours" Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
* "The Social Network" Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
* "Toy Story 3" Darla K. Anderson, Producer
* "True Grit" Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
* "Winter's Bone" Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

Short Film (Animated)

* "Day & Night" Teddy Newton
* "The Gruffalo" Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
* "Let's Pollute" Geefwee Boedoe
* "The Lost Thing" Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
* "Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)" Bastien Dubois

Short Film (Live Action)

* "The Confession" Tanel Toom
* "The Crush" Michael Creagh
* "God of Love" Luke Matheny
* "Na Wewe" Ivan Goldschmidt
* "Wish 143" Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Sound Editing

* "Inception" Richard King
* "Toy Story 3" Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
* "Tron: Legacy" Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
* "True Grit" Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
* "Unstoppable" Mark P. Stoeckinger

Sound Mixing

* "Inception" Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
* "The King's Speech" Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
* "Salt" Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
* "The Social Network" Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
* "True Grit" Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

domesticelefant · 25 Jan 11 :: 19:02

I watched the announcement live earlier. Some categories really offer hard decisions! But I think I'll be hoping for Colin Firth this year, sorry.

Warbee · 25 Jan 11 :: 19:05

I haven't been keeping up with ANY movies this year...only really what I have been hearing on this board and through other friends. The one thing about traveling is its very easy to lose track of these types of things. Although alot of the time the "best" movies arent my favourites anyway

domesticelefant · 25 Jan 11 :: 19:14

May I just add one thing: While I still think The Social Network is a good movie, it's not exactly Oscar material (at least to me), I was still surprised that Andrew Garfield got snubbed for his performance. He should have been nominated, too. That's the one person I would have given the oscar to for that movie. Nothing against Eisenberg, I really like him, but not in that movie.

Warbee · 25 Jan 11 :: 19:19

See this movie I want to see now, not so much because I think it will be a good movie but more because I feel left out that I havent seen it yet!

domesticelefant · 25 Jan 11 :: 19:26

So far I have seen Inception and The Social Network, tonight I'm going to see Black Swan finally and in February I'm definitely going to see The King's Speech. It opens here just 10 days before the Big Show (aka The Oscars, LOL), so I hope I'll get to see it before that. And it bugs me that I have to wait until April for 127 hours, but that's Germany. You always have to wait ages for the good stuff. So I really hope my little OV theatre will have it. It's always a bit of a surprise if they will have a movie or not.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Jan 11 :: 19:41

I've only seen Inception and 127 Hours so far. No idea when I'll get to see the others. I'm not even remotely interested in Black Swan or Toy Story 3, but I hope to see the rest of the Best Picture nominees at some point down the line.

EOcean214 · 26 Jan 11 :: 02:16

I've seen most of the best pictures except for Toy Story 3, Winters Bone and The Kids are Allright. Black Swan is good, really disturbing, not for the faint of heart, but Natalie's performance is truly amazing.

domesticelefant · 26 Jan 11 :: 04:01

EOcean214 wrote:

Black Swan is good, really disturbing, not for the faint of heart, but Natalie's performance is truly amazing.

Dude! It's almost 3am here and I'm still wide awake because of the movie! It seriously blew me away! Natalie Portman was AWESOME!!! I could hardly believe it was the same actress I knew from all those kid movies she used to make. Like the one where she played that pregnant teenager, whatwasthenameagain ... Where The Heart Is. And Anywhere But Here, of course. Oh, and I just found out she was in Cold Mountain, too. It's not that long that I watched that movie but somehow I must have totally missed her. LOL Not to forget Garden State. Loved her in that one. But Black Swan is just ... Wow. If she doesn't win the Oscar for that, then I don't know.

Susanna · 26 Jan 11 :: 04:15

Lol, apparently I am about ten years old because the only movies I've seen of any movies anywhere in the nominations are Toy Story 3, How to Train your Dragon and Tangled. Though I think I get an excuse for Toy Story 3 since the first two movies were a part of my childhood.

justme · 26 Jan 11 :: 23:14

The Best Actors' race looks really interesting. I think the voters tend to vote for the American contestants whenever possible. But I'd be shocked if either James Franco or Jesse Eisenberg won, since they're so young and don't have the tremendous "body of work" that academy voters seem to prefer. Jeff Bridges could pull it out two years in a row, which hasn't happened since Tom Hanks won for "Philadelphia" (1994) and the for "Forrest Gump" (1995) the following year. Though I love Jeff Bridges, I'd kind of like to see us be less xenophobic for a change and go with Colin Firth.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 26 Jan 11 :: 23:18

I don't see any way it could go other than Firth. And that's great.

justme · 26 Jan 11 :: 23:31

Yeah, it would be great. But I still remember Robert Duvall winning for "Tender Mercies" when the other 4 nominees were British. And I don't know very many people who saw "Tender Mercies". And no one who managed to sit through it twice.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Jan 11 :: 00:00

I think that was one of those "body of work" Oscars though. Which could very well be the case with Firth this year. And the buzz about that movie is just so HUGE. It swept the nominations. I just don't see any way for him to lose, really. I think Geoffrey Rush will win too. His only competition is Christian Bale and I think at this point, Bale should just be honored to be nominated and to have won the Globe. I predict a King's Speech rout, with whatever awards it does not win going to The Social Network.

justme · 27 Jan 11 :: 00:06

Yeah, it was the case with Winslet last year. But I adored "Reuben, Reuben" and have watched it many times. And I had yet to be able to sit through "Tender Mercies" or that one where Duvall killed Farrah. The "Godfather" saga was great and everything, but enough already! I just looked it up: Duvall's opponents that year were Tom Conti, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, and Michael Caine. If anybody had a "body of work" award coming that year, it was Caine! Duvall got it because he's from here. Which stinks. :fedup:

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EOcean214 · 27 Jan 11 :: 04:13

There was one year when it was all international winners: Marion Coutillard, Tilda Swinton, Penelope Cruz, I think two or three years ago. I think Firth is the strongest candidate. It was nice to recognize James and Jesse.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Jan 11 :: 05:16

Well, of course, that year, I would've loved it of Tom Conti won. I adore that guy. I mean he's like one of my all time favorite actors. There are movies of his that I've seen ten times. Remember that time he and Margaret Colin were in a TV show together? They had great chemistry. In fact, it's funny you should mention him, I've been thinking a lot lately about Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. I need to put it in my Netflix queue. Totally weird, but really compelling movie and he's just priceless in it. Well, like he always is. That man just twinkles.

justme · 27 Jan 11 :: 20:02

Yeah, he's adorable. He's not tall, has a big nose and a weak chin. But somehow he makes it work for him.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Jan 11 :: 20:24

But he does have beautiful thick black hair and amazing eyes.

justme · 27 Jan 11 :: 20:31

Yeah, he's pretty smashing all right. And he was hilarious as Ross's f-i-l on "Friends". Did you ever see him in a movie where he was this Italian guy who had a fishing boat and he got involved with this British woman on vacation? I can't find it on IMDb, but I saw it once and loved it.

EDIT: Never mind! "Shirley Valentine"! How could I forget that one. I loved it! Even more than "American Dreamer".

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Jan 11 :: 20:35

OMG! Yes! That's Shirley Valentine. Except he was Greek. It was set on Mykonos, I believe. That was my beloved Pauline Collins (from Upstairs, Downstairs) in that film. I absolutely adore it! I've probably seen it 25 times by now. I wish they'd put it on DVD already. I have it on VHS of course, and I have the soundtack on cassette, LOL!

Remember how he promised "I will no try to make foak with you. Foak is foak and boat is boat." HAHA!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Jan 11 :: 20:38

Oh, I love American Dreamer as well. My favorite though, is a very obscure little film, shot in Italy, called Saving Grace. He plays the pope in that one. A pope who feels he has lost touch with the common people and forgotten how to just be a priest. He slips out of the Vatican and ends up in a broken-down little village where the people have absolutely no hope, and gets to work. He was brilliant and it's just a beautiful, sweet little film.

EOcean214 · 20 Feb 11 :: 18:13

Some of the little promos of Anne and James for the oscars look cute. I actually think they are going to do a great job hosting together!

domesticelefant · 21 Feb 11 :: 23:56

So I saw 127 hours today, then I'm going to see The King's Speech on Thursday with my mom and on Saturday I'll see True Grit - finally! That way I watched all the Oscar-relevant movies I wanted to see just in time for the actual show! Great, huh?

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