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Topic: The OSCARS Thread - 2011

Well, it's that time of year again for the Oscars. I myself am buzzing with excitement for the actual event, however I'm equally as pleased at seeing the nominations announced just about 30 minutes ago. With the King's Speech leading the field with 12 Nominations (Apart from the ones shown the others are yet to be revealed). Leave your creative comments and rants on what, which, and why below.


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech


BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours


BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David O. Russell, The Fighter


BEST PICTURE
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


BEST ANIMATED FILM
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)
Incendies (Canada)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Biutiful (Mexico)


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, The Fighter
Mike Leigh, Another Year
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David Seidler, The King’s Speech

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I'm glad to see Toy Story 3 got nominated for best animated film and best picture.

Definitely watching the Oscars this year! mini/delirium

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...I don't know any of these films.
Except Toy Story.

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I'm so excited about this! Harry Potter better win for SOMETHING!

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Nah, its all about the Razzies.....

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I think it's weird that Hailee Steinfeld was nominated as a supporting role and Jeff Bridges was nominated as a lead role; I have read a few arguments for these placements but I still feel like they're pretty blatantly inaccurate.  Jeff Bridges as a lead role is borderline though it makes enough sense, I guess, but the whole narrative is centered around the girl.

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I'm very glad John Hawkes got a nomination for Supporting Actor. The only words I can use to describe his performance are inappropriate for this community.

Somewhat sad that Polanski and The Ghost Writer are completely absent, and Inception deserved an Editing if not a Director's nomination. The King's Speech is a nice film, but it didn't really need Editing along with everything else it got. But whatever, it's just the Oscars.

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I'm quite pleased with the Oscar nominations to be honest. But no love for Shutter Island? mini/confused

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Harry Potter, Toy Story 3, and The King's Speech are my favs. Guess which is my fav out of those favs.

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The only ones I've seen out of those are Toy Story 3 and True Grit, and both of them are great. But True Grit is probably the best movie I've seen in the past 5 years.

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My take on the animation portion of the Oscars:

-No Animated Feature Oscar nomination for Gorō Miyazaki's "Tales From Earthsea"
(This is his first animated feature with Studio Ghibli and also Hayao Miyazaki's son. Hmmmm....?)

-No Best Animated Feature Oscar nomination for "Tangled", but a song nod?
(Seriously? Even with the newly created techniques and renderings tailored for the film it still gets snubbed?)

-No Oscar nods for "Waking Sleeping Beauty"
(Okay, so I'm bias on this one. I can understand why it didn't get a nod with the film using old footage. But come on, even "Dream On Silly Dreamer" didn't receive a nomination.)

-No Oscar nod for "Despicable Me"
(Surprised about this one. Golden Globe nod, but not an Oscar nod.)

-Toy Story 3....total of 5 Oscar nods for Best Animated Feature, Song, Best Picture, Sound Editing, & Adapted Screenplay.
(Surprised at the multiple noms. Especially the Best Picture nom.)

Eh, like Asteroid said...it's just the Oscars.

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I think "The Social Network" should win best picture.

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Donsalvatore wrote:

...I don't know any of these film:/
Except Toy Story.

You... Don't... Know... Inception? mini/eek

Pixar will win Best Animated Film again, you'll see...

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Meh. There weren't that many good films this year. Ture Grit, Toy Story 3 and what else?

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EddieHasscle wrote:

Meh. There weren't that many good films this year. Ture Grit, Toy Story 3 and what else?


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Brickyman wrote:
EddieHasscle wrote:

Meh. There weren't that many good films this year. Ture Grit, Toy Story 3 and what else?


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Inception too mini/wink

EddieHasscle wrote:

Ture Grit, Toy Story 3 and what else?

How to Train Your Dragon, The Social Network, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Tangled, Despicable Me, Shutter Island ect.

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I hope How to Train your Dragon will win best animation. It was just awesome in terms of the animation.

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Goldenbrick wrote:

I hope How to Train your Dragon will win best animation. It was just awesome in terms of the animation.

Except Toy Story 3 was better. mini/troll

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BOO! No Daft Punk nom for score.

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Hmm, no Scott Pilgrim in the music categories. Kind of disappointed about that; I really enjoyed its soundtrack. Of course I could contend that it might have been nominated in other fields as well, but these are the Oscars so it was kind of a given that it wouldn't be.