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| demonic |
Posted - 01/25/2011 : 16:27:15
Well it all starts here... the nominations were announced today. No real surprises as far as the big awards go. But I was delighted to see some love going to Winter's Bone, which could have been left out in the cold (ahem) in favour of some of the bigger hitters of the last year.
Best motion picture of the year
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
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)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Achievement in directing
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David O Russell (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit)
Adapted screenplay
127 Hours - Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt (screenplay); John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (story)
True Grit - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone - Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
Original screenplay
Another Year - Mike Leigh
The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (screenplay); Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story)
Inception - Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech - David Seidler
Best animated feature film of the year
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
Best foreign language film of the year
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (Algeria)
Art direction
Alice in Wonderland - Robert Stromberg (production design), Karen O'Hara (set decoration)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Stuart Craig (production design), Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)
Inception - Guy Hendrix Dyas (production design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (set decoration)
The King's Speech - Eve Stewart (production design), Judy Farr (set decoration)
True Grit - Jess Gonchor (production design), Nancy Haigh (set decoration)
Achievement in cinematography
Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
Wally Pfister (Inception)
Danny Cohen (The King's Speech)
Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network)
Roger Deakins (True Grit)
Achievement in costume design
Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland)
Antonella Cannarozzi (I Am Love)
Jenny Beavan (The King's Speech)
Sandy Powell (The Tempest)
Mary Zophres (True Grit)
Best 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)
Best 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)
Achievement in film editing
Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan)
Pamela Martin (The Fighter)
Tariq Anwar (The King's Speech)
Jon Harris (127 Hours)
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (The Social Network)
Achievement in makeup
Adrien Morot (Barney's Version)
Edouard F Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng (The Way Back)
Rick Baker and Dave Elsey (The Wolfman)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)
John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
Hans Zimmer (Inception)
Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech)
AR Rahman (127 Hours)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song)
Coming Home (from Country Strong, music and lyrics by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey)
I See the Light (from Tangled, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater)
If I Rise (from 127 Hours, music by AR Rahman, lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong)
We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3, music and lyrics by Randy Newman)
Best animated short film
Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
Let's Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) (Bastien Dubois)
Best live action short film
The Confession (Tanel Toom)
The Crush (Michael Creagh)
God of Love (Luke Matheny)
Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)
Achievement in 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)
Achievement in 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)
Achievement in visual effects
Alice in Wonderland (Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi)
Hereafter (Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell)
Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick) |
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| randall |
Posted - 02/27/2011 : 23:11:59
PIC: SPEECH
Actor: Firth
Actress: Lawrence
Director: Fincher
Originial Screenplay: Seidler
Adapted: Sorkin
EDIT, after the Awards. Only one of mine was, I thought, a reach, but Jennifer Lawrence became the It! girl of the awards season. [Wait till you see her in LIKE CRAZY: before your preview during the awards-season glamour, you'd have hardly recognized her from WINTER'S BONE!] The surprise was Finchy not receiving an Oscar for what I felt was the more skillful directorial hand among the five nominees -- I thought it was obvious, but then, what does anybody know? |
| demonic |
Posted - 02/27/2011 : 23:09:28
Here's my predictions; smart thinking is suggesting King's Speech will take best film even though I really, really don't want it to. I'm going for The Social Network anyway to send some good luck vibes to Fincher and co. for their much better film. Otherwise I'm going pretty much entirely straight down the line with all the heavily predicted results. Oh, the tedium! The bracketed, italicised notes following some of the predictions are the people/films I think should win, but probably won't.
Best motion picture of the year
The Social Network
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
(Javier Bardem, Biutiful)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
(John Hawkes, Winter's Bone)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Achievement in directing
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Adapted screenplay
The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
Original screenplay
The King's Speech - David Seidler
(Inception - Christopher Nolan)
Best animated feature film of the year
Toy Story 3
Best foreign language film of the year
Biutiful (Mexico)
(Dogtooth)
Art direction
The King's Speech - Eve Stewart (production design), Judy Farr (set decoration)
(Inception)
Achievement in cinematography
Roger Deakins (True Grit)
Achievement in costume design
Jenny Beavan (The King's Speech)
Best documentary feature
Exit through the Gift Shop (Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz)
Best documentary short subject
Killing in the Name (Nominees to be determined)
Achievement in film editing
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (The Social Network)
Achievement in makeup
Rick Baker and Dave Elsey (The Wolfman)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song)
We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3, music and lyrics by Randy Newman)
Best animated short film
Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
Best live action short film
Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
Achievement in sound editing
Inception (Richard King)
Achievement in sound mixing
Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo and Ed Novick)
Achievement in visual effects
Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb) |
| demonic |
Posted - 01/30/2011 : 03:00:41
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I'm pretty sure that the double meaning of speech, and in particular the non-address sense, was already intended by the book's title and certainly the film's.
Well that must make me the first person to ever use an obvious pun from a film's title in a four word film review.   |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/29/2011 : 18:36:37
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
Mad minds think alike?
I'm pretty sure that the double meaning of speech, and in particular the non-address sense, was already intended by the book's title and certainly the film's. |
| demonic |
Posted - 01/29/2011 : 15:32:21
quote:
Originally posted by Joe Blevins
Indulge me for a moment here as I come up with MAD Magazine parody titles for all 10 Best Picture nominees:
The King's Sp-sp-sp-speech Impediment
Mad minds think alike? 
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 01/29/2011 : 10:11:18
quote:
Originally posted by Joe Blevins
Indulge me for a moment here as I come up with MAD Magazine parody titles for all 10 Best Picture nominees:
Winter's Bomb
The King's Sp-sp-sp-speech Impediment
True Twit
Incraption
Blecch Swan
The Fershlugginer
127 Horrors
The Social Nitwit
The Kids Are Just Alright
Oy! Story 3
NOTES: "Fershlugginer" is a Yiddish word meaning "confounded" or "darned." MAD used it a lot. Also, when the magazine parodied the first True Grit, they called it "True Fat" -- which is a great title but I wanted to come up with one on my own. If you can come up with alternate/better parody titles than these, please contribute.
Black Swoon
The King's Peach-pit
True Git
Interception
Social Netball
Winter's Boner
TKO Fighter
The Kids Are All White
127 Horas
Try Story 3
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| Joe Blevins |
Posted - 01/29/2011 : 03:48:56
Indulge me for a moment here as I come up with MAD Magazine parody titles for all 10 Best Picture nominees:
Winter's Bomb
The King's Sp-sp-sp-speech Impediment
True Twit
Incraption
Blecch Swan
The Fershlugginer
127 Horrors
The Social Nitwit
The Kids Are Just Alright
Oy! Story 3
NOTES: "Fershlugginer" is a Yiddish word meaning "confounded" or "darned." MAD used it a lot. Also, when the magazine parodied the first True Grit, they called it "True Fat" -- which is a great title but I wanted to come up with one on my own. If you can come up with alternate/better parody titles than these, please contribute. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 01/27/2011 : 17:25:27
quote:
Originally posted by BiggerBoat
I've just noticed the The Lost Thing has been nominated in the best animated short film category. I bought the book for my neice for Christmas as an antidote to all the books about princesses she gets (Yeah, great role model for little girls: be nice to animals, have beautiful hair, and if you're very, very lucky you might marry a price. What a bunch of bullcrap.)
It's a great book which relies on the superb graphics, so I can see why it has been adapted. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Despite what appears to be a simple story, it's full of subtle nods towards non-conformity, morality and finding your own reality. The kids love it but it's the parents who don't get it I found.
Nice taster -- looks great! Plus narrated by AC's pal Tim Minchin whom we've seen here on UK comedy shows.
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| BiggerBoat |
Posted - 01/27/2011 : 16:47:50
I've just noticed the The Lost Thing has been nominated in the best animated short film category. I bought the book for my neice for Christmas as an antidote to all the books about princesses she gets (Yeah, great role model for little girls: be nice to animals, have beautiful hair, and if you're very, very lucky you might marry a price. What a bunch of bullcrap.)
It's a great book which relies on the superb graphics, so I can see why it has been adapted. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Despite what appears to be a simple story, it's full of subtle nods towards non-conformity, morality and finding your own reality. The kids love it but it's the parents who don't get it I found.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 01/27/2011 : 06:08:55
I'm with you on that one. But you know, I think it is a cultural thing. People in the US don't know Lesley Manville's work well enough to realize that this is a very different character than she's played in the past. |
| demonic |
Posted - 01/26/2011 : 17:12:06
She's got some tough competition this year but I'll be amazed if she doesn't clich it - I thought her performance was exceptional, with the added bonus of doing some tremendous dancing. Talking of Mike Leigh it's a shame that Lesley Manville didn't pick up a nomination - she was brilliant in "Another Year" and award worthy IMO. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 01/26/2011 : 08:01:45
I was thrilled to see Mike Leigh get that original screenplay nomination and I hope he wins.
Plus, there's some national pride here with Natalie Portman getting this nomination as well. The only other Israeli to ever get a best actor nomination was Topol (for Fiddler on the Roof) and he didn't win it. I'm hoping she wins!
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| GHcool |
Posted - 01/25/2011 : 22:47:29
Best Picture
What Should Win: Black Swan
What Was Snubbed: SHUTTER ISLAND
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: True Grit
Best Actor
What Should Win: James Franco
What Was Snubbed: LEONARDO DICAPRIO
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actor
What Should Win: CHRISTIAN BALE
What Was Snubbed: Jeremy Renner
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: Andrew Garfield
Best Supporting Actress
What Should Win: MELISSA LEO
What Was Snubbed: anyone from For Colored Girls
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: Helena Bonham Carter
Best Director
What Should Win: Darren Aronofsky
What Was Snubbed: MARTIN SCORSESE
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: the Coen Brothers
Best Adapted Screenplay
What Should Win: Toy Story 3
What Was Snubbed: SHUTTER ISLAND
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: True Grit
Best Cinematography
What Should Win: BLACK SWAN
What Was Snubbed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: The King's Speech
Best Art Direction
What Should Win: Inception
What Was Snubbed: SHUTTER ISLAND
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: True Grit
Best Film Editing
What Should Win: Black Swan
What Was Snubbed: SHUTTER ISLAND
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: 127 Hours
Best Score
What Should Win: Social Network
What Was Snubbed: SHUTTER ISLAND
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: The King's Speech
Best Sound Editing
What Should Win: TRON
What Was Snubbed: Black Swan
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: True Grit
Best Sound Mixing
What Should Win: Inception
What Was Snubbed: TRON
What Isn't Deserving of the Nomination: The King's Speech
In total, I am most disappointed this year in Shutter Island being shutted out. I enjoyed True Grit, but I don't understand why it got so many nominations. I am most happy about the recognition Black Swan and The Fighter received. |
| BiggerBoat |
Posted - 01/25/2011 : 20:48:21
I've yet to see the king speechy film, but I did watch The Fighter last night. I'm sorry to say that I didn't find it particularly moving, despite my love of sports films. What I was utterly astounded by, though, was Christian Bale's performance. He plays the older brother of someone (Whalberg) who is three years older than him in real life. You wouldn't have known.
His gait, his physical appearance and his bearing were of a man ten years older than he actually is. I've never seen anything like it. You occasionally get actors playing themselves in their youth, and then as an old man, but these tend to be fleeting scenes which are enhanced by make up, but Bale carries it through the whole film. No drop in accent or body language throughout the whole thing. And then at the very end of the film you see the real people that the characters are based on, and he's nailed it - he is that guy, he's become him.
I know that Bale doesn't have the greatest rep, and he may not be the most likeable guy around, but by Christ does he take his profession seriously. Awesome. My choice.
Also saw Black Swan a couple of nights ago. The friends I saw it with were not fans of the Natalie Portman character, but I felt that it was the character that was called for in the story as it was told. I was blown away by the film in general, and that is more of a nod towards Aranofsky for the achievement in directing and possibly best film, although I doubt the latter. I do feel however that the best actor/actress roles tend to go to those who have displayed forceful rather than withdrawn characters, so Portman may miss out for this reason, but regardless of this, I thought she was phenomenal.
I'm going to try to see more of the nominated films before the awards, so all of these opinions may later drastically...
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| AC |
Posted - 01/25/2011 : 18:43:15
Pretty good list of nominations, and everyone at both my homes seem happy enough with their recognition, although the inevitable complaints about snubs have already started, particularly in Canada. The Canadians seem pretty unhappy about Ryan Gosling being ignored, and for 'Barney's Version' nearly entirely missing out (aside from one technical nod), which is a surprise after Paul Giamatti won the Golden Globe. All this is of course erased by the fantastic news of 'Incendies' being nominated for best Foreign Film: there has been lots of buzz since the Toronto Film Festival about Denis Villeneuve's piece, and I'm thrilled it's been recognised for a nomination in one of the more prestigious categories.
The Aussies have fared well too - Jackie Weaver being primary amongst them for 'Animal Kingdom' (I can't remember the last time there was an acting nomination from an entirely Australian production), and also Geoffrey Rush and Nicole Kidman. I'm also thrilled that Shaun Tan's beautiful short piece 'The Lost Thing' was nominated, both because he's a good West Australian boy who has written some beautiful children's books that I love to read to my son, but also because it is voiced by my dear old friend Tim Minchin.
Aussies/Canucks represent! |
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