Academy Awards 2010

[XanBcoo]

The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards are now available:

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academy.../nominees.html

This year there are 10 nominees for Best Picture:

“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9”
“An Education”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
“A Serious Man”
“Disney/Pixar's Up”
"Up in the Air”

I'm amazed to see some of the movies on that list up for best picture. I think it's great that District 9 is a nominee (and one of the only deserving movies on that list), and that Up was considered good enough to be a contender (and not just shoe-horned into a Best Animated Film" category).

Avatar and The Blind Side don't belong on that list. Avatar was groundbreaking, but Best Picture it was definitely not. And Sandra Bullock can bite it. The Blind Side was wholesome Hollywood drivel with pretty ridiculous racist undertones.

Predictions say that the Best Picture will probably go to Avatar or The Hurt Locker. My personal favorite on that list is A Serious Man. It's one of the Coen brothers' best films and everyone here should go see it.

As for the other categories, I think James Cameron is pretty much guaranteed to win Best Director and then take home every technical award it's nominated for (basically all of them).

[Zati]

Yep, the frontrunners for Best Picture are definitely Avatar and The Hurt Locker, it's gonna be a very tight race between those two. Anything else, and I believe it will be a huge upset in a lot of people's minds.

Personally, I wouldn't mind if there was an upset, since I liked most of those films, except for Precious, which I think is overrated.

I really hope Up In the Air, and Inglourious Basterds take home a few awards. They're my two favorites, and were both outstanding and phenomenal movies, imo.

[Kagemane_no_Jutsu]

I still need to catch most of these. But I just knocked off The hurt Locker from my list, wasn't at all what I anticipated and Im a big war movie fan. Really great stuff, more than good enough to earn a year's best title forsure.

[Zati]

The Hurt Locker was slightly above average to me, which is still pretty good, but I was a bit underwhelmed. It's just my opinion, though.

Anyways, it's still about a month away, but here's a list of my own personal favorites, along with who I think will be the actual winners :

Best Picture -
Personal favorite : Inglourious Basterds
Prediction for actual winner : Avatar or The Hurt Locker

Best Actor -
Personal favorite : Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Prediction for actual winner : Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

Best Actress -
Personal favorite : Carrey Mulligan (An Education) or Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Prediction for actual winner: Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia) or Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)

Best Supporting Actor -
Personal favorite : Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Prediction for actual winner : Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress -
Personal favorite : Anna Kendrick or Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Prediction for actual winner : Mo'Nique (Precious)

Best Director -
Personal favorite : James Cameron (Avatar)
Prediction for actual winner : James Cameron (Avatar)

Best Animated Film -
Personal favorite : Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Prediction for actual winner : Up (Pete Docter)

Best Original Screenplay -
Personal favorite : A Serious Man (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Prediction for actual winner : The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)

Best Adapted Screenplay -
Personal favorite : Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
Prediction for actual winner : Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)

Honorable mention :
District 9 - I thoroughly enjoyed it, and thought it was brilliantly done and executed. Unfortunately, I doubt it will get any awards with the tough competition this year. But, I absolutely agree with what Xan said on the first post, it's definitely deserving of the Best Picture nomination.

Nice little known gem :
An Education - Wow, what a fantastic film. I really liked it a lot. Carrey Mulligan will be a strong and solid actress in the future for sure. Very deserving of the Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

There were a bunch of snubees as always, but I won't get into that now. All in all, another wonderful and marvelous year at the movies.

[itadakimasu]

subtitle - Avatar got robbed.

Srsly... I watched hurt locker because it has all the " oscar hype" and there wasn't anything special about the movie. Charactors were not developed, the story was minimal and the ending was nothing special.

District 9 was much better, and Avatar we all know was amazing.

http://www.moviefone.com/oscars-acad...nominee-winner

List of nominee's and winners.

Avatar got "best visual effects, best art direction, best Cinematography

The Hurt Locker got best picture, best director, best video editing ( really?), best sound mixing, best sound editing, best original screenplay.

Honestly... that movie was mediocre at best. Did the people voting even see the other movies?

Whoops... my bad for double posting. Didn't see the thread.

[Testarossa Autodrive]

Avatar was good. It was entertaining but definitely not worthy of the overall Best Motion Picture. I did not see The Hurt Locker, though. The only thing that was worth watching for last night was seeing Jeff Bridges win and Ben Stiller as a Na'vi.

[XanBcoo]

I'm glad Avatar didn't win much aside from the visual awards. Take away the 3D and it's a really unamazing, run of the mill movie. It was good, but not best picture good.

Sandra Bullock can bite it

Let me reiterate this. Fuck Sandra Bullock. She had no place winning any sort of award for that schmaltzy, racist role. It's so frustrating to think that Gabby Sibide will probably never have another shot at winning an Oscar, but Sandra Bullock will finish her long career doing crappy rom coms and glorious white woman Oscar Bait movies like The Blind Side. What a disappointment.

Otherwise, I love that Jeff Bridges finally got some recognition. The Dude Abides...

Having watched the Awards show last night, I really really want to see Precious. The Hurt Locker and An Education, however, look completely boring.

Ben Stiller as a Na'vi.

[Zati]

Surprisingly, most of my predictions were pretty dead on and accurate, except for the Best Director category. I was literally gobsmacked when I heard Kathryn Bigelow, instead of James Cameron. I thought it was an absolute lock and sure win for Mr. James Cameron. I also found it pretty amusing too, that it just so happens to be that Kathryn Bigelow is James Cameron's ex-wife, heh.

I knew it was gonna be either Meryl Streep or Sandra Bullock for Best Actress. I don't hate Sandra Bullock as much as Xan does, lol. But, I'm with him, she really didn't deserve it, there were far better performances this year than hers. I was rooting for Meryl Streep all the way. She definitely deserves it way more, and it's a travesty that she hasn't won one since Sophie's Choice. Man, just give the brilliant lady more awards for god's sake.

[XanBcoo]

Yeah, I would have been perfectly ok with Meryl Streep winning best actress. Certainly more deserving than Bullock, who actually won a Razzy for worst actress the day before yesterday.

And the whole Cameron/Bigelow thing was extra entertaining since most people were pitting them against each other. A lot of my female friends are all "Yeah! Finally a woman won! Suck it Cameron!" but to my knowledge, James Cameron actually admitted he thought Bigelow deserved best director. Why people treating him like such a jerk ?

[itadakimasu]

Does anybody have some thoughts on the Hurt Locker or why it had so much hype?

[XanBcoo]

Perhaps it's a political thing? It's about the Iraq war, isn't it?

Apparently it did really well in the 2010 BAFTAs as well. There must be something good about it, but everyone I know who's seen it said it was really average.

In any case, thanks to their nominations, I really want to see Precious, Crazy Heart, and Up in the Air. All 3 look like really good movies.

[darkshadow]

Precious was good, and so was Up in the Air.

[Stitch]

I could shoot Ben Stiller right now.

[Testarossa Autodrive]

I just about died when he started speaking the language to Cameron.

[Zati]

Yeah, I would have been perfectly ok with Meryl Streep winning best actress. Certainly more deserving than Bullock, who actually won a Razzy for worst actress the day before yesterday.

And the whole Cameron/Bigelow thing was extra entertaining since most people were pitting them against each other. A lot of my female friends are all "Yeah! Finally a woman won! Suck it Cameron!" but to my knowledge, James Cameron actually admitted he thought Bigelow deserved best director. Why people treating him like such a jerk ?

Yep, Sandra Bullock became the first person to win the Oscar and Razzie on the same weekend, lol. Talk about irony.

I know, it wasn't a bitter divorce or anything, from what I read and heard. They're still on good terms, and have nothing but respect for each other. In fact, Cameron actually encouraged Bigelow to take on and direct The Hurt Locker. So, not sure why they treat him like a jerk. But yeah, that's a pretty remarkable achievement for Kathryn Bigelow, being the first female to win Best Director.