Best Picture: The Artist (10)
The Descendants (5)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2)
The Help (4)
Hugo (11)
Midnight in Paris (4)
Moneyball (6)
The Tree of Life (3)
War Horse (6)
Best Director: Woody Allen; Midnight in Paris
Michael Hazavinicus; The Artist
Terrence Malick; The Tree of Life
Alexander Payne; The Descendants
Martin Scorsese; Hugo
Best Actor: Demian Bichir; A Better Life (1)
George Clooney; The Descendants
Jean Dujardin; The Artist
Gary Oldman; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (3)
Brad Pitt; Moneyball
Best Actress: Glenn Close; Albert Nobbs (3)
Viola Davis; The Help
Rooney Mara; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (5)
Meryl Streep; The Iron Lady (2)
Michelle Williams; My Week with Marilyn (2)
Best Supporting Actor: Kenneth Branagh; My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill; Moneyball
Nick Nolte; Warrior (1)
Christopher Plummer; Beginners (1)
Max von Sydow; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress: Berenice Bejo; The Artist
Jessica Chastin; The Help
Melissa McCarthy; Bridesmaids (2)
Janet McTeer; Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer; The Help
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Descendants: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo: John Logan
The Ides of March: George Clooney, Grant Heslov & Beau Willimon (1)
Moneyball: Aaron Sorkin, Stevan Zallian & Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
Best Original Screenplay: The Artist: Michael Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids: Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call: J.C. Chandor (1)
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen
A Separation: Asgar Farhadi (2)
Best Animated Film: A Cat in Paris (1)
Chico & Rita (1)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (1)
Puss in Boots (1)
Rango (1)
Best Song: The Muppets; “Man or Muppet” (Bret McKenzie) (1)
Rio; “Real in Rio” (Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown & Siedah Garrett) (1)
Best Score: The Adventures of Tintin; John Williams (1)
The Artist: Ludovic Bource
Hugo: Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Alberto Iglesias
War Horse: John Williams
Best Cinematography: The Artist: Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo: Robert Richardson
The Tree of Life: Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse: Janusz Kaminski
Best Film Editing: The Artist: Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants: Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
Hugo: Thelma Schoonmacher
Moneyball: Christopher Tellefson
Best Costume Design: Anonymous: Lisy Christi (1)
The Artist: Mark Bridges
Hugo: Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre: Michael O’Conner (1)
W.E.: Arianne Phillips (1)
Best Art Direction: The Artist: Lawrence Bennett/ Gregory S. Hooper
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2: Stuart Craig/ Stephanie McMillan (3)
Hugo: Dante Ferretti/ Francesco LoSchiavo
Midnight in Paris: Anne Seibel/ Helene Dubreuil
War Horse: Rick Carter/Lee Sandales
Best Sound Mixing: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Ren Klyce, Michael Semanick, David Parker & Mark Weingarten
Hugo: Tom Fleischman & John Midgely
Moneyball: Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco & Ed Novick
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush & Peter J. Devlin (3)
War Horse: Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson & Stuart Wilson
Best Sound Editing: Drive: Lon Bender & Victor Ray Ennis (1)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Ren Klyce
Hugo: Philip Stockton & Eugene Gearty
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Ethan van der Ryan & Erik Aadahl
War Horse: Gary Rydstrom & Richard Hymns
Best Make-Up: Albert Nobbs: Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston & Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II: Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight & Lisa Tomblin
The Iron Lady: Mark Coulier & J. Roy Helland
Best Visual Effects: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II: Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler & John Richardson
Hugo: Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman & Alex Henning
Real Steel: Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor & Swen Gillberg (1)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White & Daniel Barrett (1)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler & John Frazier
Okay, I want to know how Stephan Daldry movies keep getting nominated for Best Picture when they keep getting horrendous reviews. First The Reader, now Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? Scott Rudin, please find another director to produce their work and cram down award people's throats. May I suggest Christopher Nolan? He's been shafted enough times (by your Reader, I might add). Kinda shocked that you backed down from promoting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in favor of EL&IC.
I'm going to violate my compulsive need to watch every award film this year because I refuse, flat out f'n refuse, to see The Tree of Life. I have been tortured enough times with Malick's poetry as narrative structure way of telling stories and the trailers for this movie only tell me one thing: his pretense is firing on all cylinders with this film. His movies will have the best cinematography to them, but have you ever looked at a pretty picture of nothing? That's a Terrence Malick movie. Next film.
I'm ecstatic that Hugo is the most nominated movie this year! Couldn't be happier! Do I think it'll win? No, because Harvey Weinstein is cramming The Artist down every Academy voter there is. Again, The Artist is cute, very well made, but for me, it's too nostalgic of a movie to win. If (I should really say when) the Academy awards the Artist Best Picture, it'll be the deathnail for the Academy by proving how out of touch they are with the real world and that their tenured voters should really be re-examined.
Why, oh, why does the Academy's sound branch have to keep nominating Michael Bay's movies. They're loud. That's it. They're noise and screaming. That's not a well-mixed movie. Half the time, you can't even tell what the hell they're saying outside of Shia consistently screaming "OPTIMUS" at the top of his lungs. If anything, a true blessing would be to turn the acting in a Michael Bay movie completely down since no one really cares about the characters or story anyway. And this is what you nominated over Super 8's fantastic sound design and mixing? Shame Academy's sound branch. Nothing but shame.
Should I point out a correlation between the number of nominations for both Transformers: Dark of the Moon and The Tree of Life? Just saying, pretty pictures with no stories do not a good movie make.
I'm glad the Academy's branch recognized Real Steel for visual effects. Right now, the race is between Harry Potter and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (with underdog Hugo in the mix), but Real Steel's use of motion capture didn't go unnoticed. I'm happy there.
Academy's music branch: You're messed up. You have too many rules and regulations to determine what qualifies for a Song and Score nomination. You screwed up too many years now for too long for me to take you seriously anymore, but this year's inclusion of only two songs for Best Song is just the final nail in the coffin for me. While I'm overjoyed at the prospect of Man or Muppet winning Best Song (you know what, I'm gonna play it on my itunes now to enjoy it again. I LOVE that song), this category has become a joke after 2006, only doing one thing right ("Falling Slowly" from Once winning). First, you say that the song has to be utilized in the movie in some manner, we can only determine that you're favoring musicals or movies about music over all others (pretty f'n elitist, if you ask me). Then you say that only two songs from a movie can get nominated, which indicates that you're not allowing musicals and movies about songs to get nominated. Then you declare certain scores ineligible for utilizing previously written pieces of score, but give awards to Babel, a movie that utilized a very well known piece of previously written music in a crucial point of the film...and you show said point as the nominee?!? I guess what I'm trying to say, Academy's Music Branch, is WHAT THE F*** ARE YOU MORONS DOING OUT THERE?!!!!
Okay, I guess we're going to have to refer to him as Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill. And we can finally call Gary Oldman an Oscar nominee! That's right, for the first time in his career, Gary Oldman has finally been nominated for an Oscar! The race is between George Clooney and Brad Pitt, but hey, he's finally scored his first nomination. And I'm ecstatic about Rooney Mara getting a nomination. She had a daring role to take on, she had a lot of expectations to live up to (especially since Noomi Rapace did such a good job with it no more than two years ago) and she's an excellent role model of strong independence for women. Granted, I haven't seen We Need to Talk About Kevin, so I don't know if Tilda Swinton did a nomination worthy performance, but bravo, mon chere. And Melissa McCarthy! I'm so happy she made it in also. She took a role that could have been dismissible and became not only a scene stealer, but managed to deliver a great message for heavy set women out there in both the film and with her performance also.
The Ides of March getting nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Okay. Fine. One nomination, that works for me. As long as it isn't Best Picture, I'm happy.
I don't think this year is going to be very exciting unless it starts to look like Hugo's going to win (which, if it does, I will personally kiss everyone in the room I'm with). The Artist will sweep a few categories, the winners are pretty much give ins, but the big story here is, does anyone really care about the movies nominated?
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