Let us know who you voted for in the comments as well as who you would like to win and why.
Best film
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best supporting actor
Best supporting actress
Best director
Full List of Nominees can be downloaded here


I'm with hot coffee awaiting the nominations!
ReplyDeleteSo intriguing this year with so few "locks" and a much more open field!
- Will John Hawkes get in for The Sessions?
- Will Bradley Cooper and/ or Hugh Jackman get displaced by Richard Gere?
- Does Jauquin Phoenix manage a nomination despite his movie comign out so early in the season?
- Do the smaller indie movies like Beasts of the Southern Wild, Hyde Park on Hudson, Moonrise Kingdom and The Sessions get some Oscar love or will the juggernauts like Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Argo gobble up the nominations?
- Will the controversy of Django Unchained push the film into multiple nominations?
Let the games begin......
Enjoy the coffee ;)
ReplyDeleteShould be interesting.
It def has the prospects be a more interesting year...Be back to discuss later.
ReplyDeleteDid anything shocking happen yet?
ReplyDeleteNo huge shocks...
ReplyDeleteA few minor surprises like Affleck not getting a Best Director nod when Argo, his movie did.
John Hawkes did not get nominated for The Sessions.
Beasts of the Southern Wild got 3 huge nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (she was 6 when it filmed and she is still only 9 now).
I was hoping the main actor in Life of Pi (young Pi) would get a nomination, he was excellent in the role.
ReplyDeleteVery happy to see the Master, Armour and Beasts, got some Oscar love!
ReplyDeleteOkay, it was expected they would get some , but they got more nominations than I thought they would.
oh wow, thanks
ReplyDeleteSome of the other nomination and categories for those to lazy to lick the downloadable list! XD
ReplyDeleteBest animated feature
"Frankenweenie"
"Pirates!: Band of Misfits"
"ParaNorman"
"Brave"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
Best foreign language film
"Amour"
"No"
"Kon Tiki"
"A Foreign Affair"
"War Witch"
Best original screenplay
"Flight"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Django Unchained"
"Amour"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
Best adapted screenplay
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Argo"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
Nice for Naomi Watts for The Impossible.
ReplyDeleteSurprised for no Ben Affleck directing, but nice that Argo seemed to do well.
Too Bad for Life of Pi.
For those who don't want to downl0ad the full list you can see it here: http://www.imdb.com/oscars/nominations/
ReplyDeleteIT really is odd that Affleck got snubbed. The last few years Best Director and Best Picture were nominated hand and hand. I guess when you nominate like 9 or 10 films for Best Picture and then only 5 for Best Director some people will get snubbed.
ReplyDeleteI do not like so many Best Film nominees personally. It feels gratuitous and a bit like pandering to me.
Agreed. On the whole I don't watch many of them.
ReplyDeletebut but dicaprio in django unchained ...whyyyyyyyyy ?
ReplyDeleteNo major surprises here..I was expecting Affleck to get a nomination but with 9 movies for Best Film and only 5 directors someone is usually left out.
ReplyDelete-Can't offer an opinion about Best Film yet,as I haven't seen most of them yet.
-I can see Daniel Day-Lewis winning Best Actor.
-Can't decide for Best Actress,but it's great that they're acknowledging the younger actors/actresses.
-As far as the technical stuff go,one thing is for certain.Vissual effects will be going to The Hobbit trilogy for the next three years. ; )
That's unusual too!
ReplyDeleteGood nominations! :)
ReplyDeleteExcept for that clusterfuck Tarantino movie...
i am happy that Skyfall got a nomination for Best Song.
ReplyDeleteHaneke will probably win for director, but beyond that, my guess is that Lincoln will take the most important prizes.
ReplyDeleteI'm done with the Oscars. Bunch of old people voting for who they want. I can't believe Affleck and Tarantino are not nominated for directors! To me Affleck deserves the award.
ReplyDeleteI just hope En Kongelig affære (Mads Mikkelsen) wins. :-)
ReplyDeleteI don't know why you think its 'old people' people of all ages vote.If your a member you get to vote,young, middle aged, and older people vote.
ReplyDeleteYikes,so many movies i haven't seen...yet.
ReplyDeleteNaomi Watts really deserved this nomination and deserve the award, her job on The Impossible film was just amazing, emotive, touching, i really hope she gets it
ReplyDeleteI absolutely think that Silver Linings Playbook deserve all their noms, but I think Jennifer Lawrence has the best shot at coming home a winner. Due to Lincoln, it makes Bradley Cooper basically out of the race because of Daniel Day Lewis's performance.
ReplyDeleteThis is gonna be the year of Steven Spielberg in orcars, with Lincoln he will win the best categories (movie, actor and director) there is no other movie competing with him Argo won the golden globe but in the oscars the academy will be with Steven.
ReplyDeleteLOL, I've only seen movies and they're in the animated categories - Brave and Paranorman!
ReplyDeleteJust look at the Golden Globe winners its still indicative of what happens at the Oscars
ReplyDeleteBest Film - Lincoln, Argo may be the winner of many rewards but I think the Academy is going to stick with what it knows best.
ReplyDeleteBest Actor - Has to be DDL really. This is Bradley's first nom and I'm sure if he can get some other great films he could be a winner in years to come. Denzel was great in Flight and will win again one day.
Best Actress - Jennifer looks like a clear winner, she has been nominated before which helps. Jessica may take the prize but by playing 'crazy' Lawrence has the edge.
Best Supporting Actor - This one is a little bit harder. I would love to see De Niro make a stunning comeback after years of awful films he was fantastic in this. But I think it belongs to the equally great Waltz or Tommy Lee Jones.
Best Supporting Actress - I want to say Sally Field but the Academy seems to be in love with Anne Hathaway and as Les Miserables won't be winning any of the other big awards I say its hers to lose.
Best Director - If Lincoln wins then Spielberg if it fails to get Best Film though anyone could be up for it. Life of Pi was beautiful and as Ang Lee showed with Brokeback Mountain you don't have to win Best Film to get Best Director (thought we all know Brokeback should have won, and yes I am still bitter)
I really feel that Ben Affleck should have gotten the nod for Argo.
ReplyDeleteOk I get it Jennifer Lawerance was good. But I not the best! Naomi Watts in The Impossible was amazing!! I didn't watch zero dark thirty, not yet anyway, so I can't really say anything about her.
ReplyDeleteLincoln I get was a good movie but I couldn't understand a word they said with all the old English and they talked so damn fast!
:-) Yes Brokeback should have won. I´ll join your bitter club.
ReplyDeleteAgreed on all points..
ReplyDeleteOne possible exception is that I have a gut feeling Emmanuelle Riva might win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. It just seems like the type of role that gets the academy's attention.
Although being a foreign film..... definitely not as common for foreign film actors to win Best Actor Oscars. I can only recall a few times it has happened in my lifetime...
-Last year with Jean Dujardin....
-One of the more famous "walks" to the stage ever when Roberto Benigni went nuts winning for Life is Beautiful! XD
-Marion Cotillard for portraying Edith Piaf in La Vie en rose
May have happened more, but those are the only foreign language winners to win an OScar for Best Actor/Actress I recall....
Watts was great (as ever) in The Impossible, but that movie certainly does not have the buzz of Silver Linings Playbook.
ReplyDeleteI think that sometimes that buzz pushes voters over the edge if they are struggling to decide a winner....
Likewise I think Helen Hunts performance in The Sesssions was brilliant and daring. I don't see her having much of a chance though against the seeming Juggernaut that is Miss Hathaway.
I'm a little iffy with some of these but I think I know which movie will win, actress, actor, director some of the others I don't know. It's pretty easy to predict this year but it's also one of those you-don't-know-who-will-win-till-they-win moments.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great of Emmanuelle won, I do like it when it doesn't go to the front-runner and your right it has happened before.
ReplyDeleteStill annoys me all these years later!
ReplyDeleteIf it was up to me:
ReplyDelete- Best Movie: Les Miserables
- Best Actor: Hugh Jackman
- Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
- Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
- Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway
- Best Director: Ang Lee