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24 Jan 2012
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Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo
Jessica Chastain
Melissa McCarthy
Janet McTeer
Octavia Spencer
Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh
Jonah Hill
Nick Nolte
Christopher Plummer
Max von Sydow
Best film
Warhorse
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Actor In a Leading Role
Demián Bichir - A Better Life
George Clooney - The Descendants
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Actress In a Leading Role
Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
Animated Feature Film
A Cat in Paris - Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
Chico & Rita - Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Kung Fu Panda 2 - Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Puss in Boots - Chris Miller
Rango - Gore Verbinski
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
Directing
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants - Alexander Payne
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
Documentary Feature
Hell and Back Again
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Pina
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
Undefeated
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Documentary Short
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement - Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
God is the Bigger Elvis - Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
Incident in New Baghdad - James Spione
Saving Face - Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom - Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
Film Editing
The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants - Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball - Christopher Tellefsen
Foreign Language Film
Belgium, "Bullhead" - Michael R. Roskam, director
Canada, "Monsieur Lazhar" - Philippe Falardeau, director
Iran, "A Separation" - Asghar Farhadi, director
Israel, "Footnote" - Joseph Cedar, director
Poland, "In Darkness" - Agnieszka Holland, director
Makeup
Albert Nobbs - Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score)
The Adventures of Tintin - John Williams
The Artist - Ludovic Bource
Hugo - Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Alberto Iglesias
War Horse - John Williams
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Artist - Written by Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call - Written by J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris - Written by Woody Allen
A Separation - Written by Asghar Farhadi
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Descendants - Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo - Screenplay by John Logan
The Ides of March - Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball - Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan
Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Hugo - Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
Real Steel - Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Dan Glass, Brad Friedman, Douglas Trumbull and Michael Fink
Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
Hugo - Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
Moneyball - Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
War Horse - Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
Sound Editing
Drive - Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Ren Klyce
Hugo - Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
War Horse - Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYay! So freaking happy for Melissa McCarthy! I've loved her since Gilmore Girls and the fact that she's finally getting recognition is amazing.
ReplyDeleteGary Oldman finally nominated for an Oscar? Recently checked and couldn't believe he didn't have a lot of award wins considering his carreer.
ReplyDeleteGlad the women of The Help also got some Oscar recognition and can't really understand how Jonah Hill scored a nomination. I liked Moneyball and he was good in it, but it wasn't too impressive and there were others this year I found definitely better.
Its about damn time that Gary Oldman got nominated
ReplyDeleteHard not to see The Artist taking home the whole bucket.
ReplyDeleteLOL. That tends to be my reaction too when a Spanish movie is nominated for sth! "Maybe I should watch this one..."
ReplyDeleteSeriously...what's the point of even tuning in this year. Clearly "The Artist" is going to sweep.
ReplyDeleteI'm annoyed that Spielberg didn't get more nominations for both War Horse and TinTin. He at least should have received a Best Director nomination though all the nominees in that category are deserving as well. And TinTin should have been nominated for a Best Animated Feature Film.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Jonah Hill over Albert Brooks in the Best Supporting Actor category? What.
Jonah Hill over ALAN RICKMAN????? I don't want to live on this planet anymore........
ReplyDeleteThanks !
ReplyDeleteWho I want to win :
- Best picture : The Artist.
- Best animated picture : Rango.
- Best actor : Jean Dujardin (The Artist).
- Best actress : Viola Davis (The Help).
- Best supporting actor : Jonah Hill (Moneyball).
- Best supporting actress : Bérénice Bejo (The Artist).
- Best director : Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).
- Best screenplay (original) : Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris).
- Best screenplay (adapted) : Aaron Sorkin & Steven Zaillan (Moneyball).
The Artist ! 10 Oscar nominations (including 5 in major categories), that's quite impressive.
Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo are up against big shots who deserve to be nominated (Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain were fantastic) but I'm confident they'll win. I don't get why Melissa McCarthy is nominated though. All the actresses on Bridesmaids were great but nowhere near Oscar-worthy performances.
Michel Hazanavicius is nominated personally for 3 Oscars : best directing, best original screenplay and best editing. He will win something, that's for sure. I wouldn't mind if he were to win for best screenplay or best editing, but if he has to win an Oscar it is for his brilliant directing. Kristen Wiig and Woody Allen did a great job for their screenplays but Allen's movie was magical, I want him win his first Oscar since 1987.
Scorsese should not win for Hugo (except for a few scenes, I don't see why he should win an Oscar on that one), the great directing of Tree of Life cannot save the movie from being a pseudo-intellectual joke, and the directing of Midnight in Paris is not that exceptionnal. Yep, the win of The Artist for best directing is a lock to me.
Aaron Sorkin should win (another Oscar after The Social Network last year, that'd be impressive), but I'd also love if Jim Rash (Dean Pelton from Community !) and his co-writers won for The Descendants. If they win, may Jim Rash have a thought for Community on stage and wish for a season 4 (I know he wouldn't do that, but if he did, that would be awesome).
As for the best animated picture, where the fuck is Tintin ? The movie
won a Golden Globe (and rightfully so), and it's not even nominated ? It
makes no sense. Spielberg's Tintin is awesome and deserved to win. As
Captain Haddock would say : "tonnerre de Brest, bachi-bouzouks, bande de
moules à gaufres !". I want Rango for the win then (I'd happily support
Une vie de chat, but I haven't seen it).
And regarding the best picture, I haven't seen War Horse, Extremely Loud & Incredible Close and The Descendants yet, but other than that all the nominees deserve to be here imo, except Tree of Life. That was such a boring, pretentious movie. Sure, Mallick has shot beautiful images (his nom for best director is deserved), but if they serve no purpose, I don't see the point. The Artist is better than Tree of Life (# the worst), Hugo (#5), The Help (#4), Midnight in Paris (#3), Moneyball (#2), it should win.
And as I said in the Golden Globe thread (), if you loved The Artist you'll love "OSS 117 : Le Caire, nid d'espions" and "OSS 117 : Rio ne répond plus", two comedies written/directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean Dujardin (and Bérénice Bejo is the female lead in the first OSS 117). Such a brillant humor in both movies, they're some of my favorite comedies ever, and I long for the third and final movie.
Thanks :) I'm really happy with quite a few of the noms!
ReplyDeleteGo War Horse! :)
ReplyDeleteClooney better not win I swear to God. Fassbender and Shame not being on the list - although expected given that this is America and the content of the film - is ridiculous.
ReplyDelete- Best film : The Artist- Best actor : Jean Dujardin (The Artist)- Best actress : Viola Davis (The Help)- Best supporting actor : Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marylin)- Best supporting actress : Jessica Chastain (The Help)- Best director : Terrence Mallick (The Tree of Life)
ReplyDeleteI think both Gosling and Brooks could have been nominated for their performances in Drive, but Brooks especially seems to be a snub!
ReplyDeleteI would have placed John Hawkes from Martha Marcy May Marlene ahead of Jonah Hill in the Best Supporting Actor category too honestly.
I agree about Tree of Life. I thought it was self-indulgent tripe honestly. Some beautiful cinematography and direction maybe.... but a mess more than an achievement.
Apart from Brooks I also had Viggo Mortensen ahead of Hill.
ReplyDeleteGosling - who I like a lot as an actor - had 3 great roles this award season (Drive, Ides of March & Crazy. Stupid. Love) but even in Ides of March he wasn't exactly Oscar worthy for me. He should have got one years ago for Half Nelson and/or Lars and the Real Girl.
I have not seen A Dangerous Method yet but I have heard good things...
ReplyDeleteI loved Lars and the Real Girl! XD Such an odd and funny movie.
I also thought Gosling was phenomenal in United States of Leland, even if the movie was uneven at times.
Amazing how many of the actors were in multiple nominated movies this year. Jessica Chastain was in 3 too and a couple others were in two....
I still have to wtach some of the nominated movies, haven't seen The Artist and The Descendants yet, but also My Week With Marilyn & Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are on my to-watch-list.
ReplyDeleteJust realized I'm missing Tilda Swinton on the nominees list, she was terrific in We Need to Talk about Kevin.
Lars and the Real Girl definitely is one of my favourite movies ever. Sometimes even laugh out loud funny, great acting and a great story underneath.
Haven't seen United States of Leland, but since you praised Gosling's performance I guess I have to check it out some time.
I already thought that there are a lot of actors in multiple critically aclaimed movies this season when the Globes nominations came out.
Not an overly bad list, but this was a tough year in my mind. There were a lot of great performances, but not a lot of "stand out of the pack" brilliant performances".
ReplyDeleteI think TIlda Swinton was overlook for We Have to Talk About Kevin, as was Michael Shannon for Take Shelter in the lead categories. Both could be legitimate winners in their categories honestly.
I already mentioned Albert Brooks in Drive below I guess. I can understand that the momentum for any Drive nominations had died down a month or two ago. One of the issues with an early in the year release I guess.
I think David Fincher deserved the nod over Woody Allen too. Midnight in Paris was good, but not on the same level in my mind as Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
I think John Hawkes was great as the cult leader in Martha Marcy May Marlene and deserved a Supporting Actor nod. Jessica Chastain was overlooked for Take Shelter and Tree of Life, but at least she got the nod for The Help.
Over all I'm pleased with the nominations outside of Melissa McCarthy's I guess. I think Bridesmaids was one of the most overrated movies of the year.
I didn't see many films last year so i have no opinion whats so ever.
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