Guest Alex C Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Would like Jeff Bridges/Sandra Bullock to win their respective actor/actress awards anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alex C Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Actress in a supporting role Mo'Nique in Precious Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air Penélope Cruz in Nine Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart Actor in a supporting role Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds Christopher Plummer in The Last Station Matt Damon in Invictus Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones Woody Harrelson in The Messengers Actor in a leading role Morgan Freeman in Invictus Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart George Clooney in Up in the Air Colin Firth in A Single Man Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker Actress in a leading role Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia in It's Complicated Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side Helen Mirren in The Last Station Gabourey Sidibe in Precious Carey Mulligan in An Education Animated feature film Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson) The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker) Coraline (Henry Selick) Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson) Secret of Kells Foreign language film Ajami (Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, Israel) A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, France) The Secret of Her Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina) The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany) The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Peru) Directing Avatar (James Cameron) The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) Lee Daniels (Precious) Writing (adapted screenplay) District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell) An Education (Nick Hornby) Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher) Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner) In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche) Writing (original screenplay) The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen) Up (Pete Docter and Bob Petersen) The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman) Best picture Avatar (James Cameron – director; Brooke Breton , Laeta Kalogridis, Jon Landau, Josh McLaglen, Janace Tashjian, Peter M Tobyansen, Colin Wilson – producers) District 9 (Neill Blomkamp – director, Bill Block, Philippa Boyens, Carolynne Cunningham, Elliot Ferwerda, Paul Hanson, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Michael S Murphey – producers) An Education (Lone Scherfig) The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) Precious (Lee Daniels) A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen) Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock) Up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Is Crazy Heart worth watching? Looked shit from the trailer but Jeff Bridges and all these awards are making me wonder How about The Blind Side? Would normally avoid a Bullock vehicle but apparently she can act now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 wow, 09 was a shit year for movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 My picks, I expect an Avatar backlash and Up in the Air to win big: Actress in a supporting role Mo'Nique in Precious Actor in a supporting role Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds Actor in a leading role George Clooney in Up in the Air Actress in a leading role Gabourey Sidibe in Precious Animated feature film Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson) Foreign language film The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany) Directing Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) Writing (adapted screenplay) In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche) Writing (original screenplay) The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal) Best picture Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaen Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 im backing district 9, it wont win but it should Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alex C Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 I'd say The Blind Side is worth a watch, I really enjoyed it anyway. Does the book justification as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Avatar should get Best Director.. that sounds about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 I saw both "Coraline" and "Up" and loved both, but I'll be really sad if (when) "Up" takes the animated award. I think the work that went into Coraline's animation was mind-blowing and deserves credit. ps: Avator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 in the loop was definately the most enjoyable movie this year for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture? I was thinking the same thing. Best "Fake world in 3d that causes depression" perhaps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 directing requires a different skill set than writing. conversely, really good writing doesn't necessarily make a great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 apparently, good acting does. i'm done debating stuff to a bunch of haters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred McGriff Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 the blind side might be the most cringeworthy movie of 2009. it's fucking ridiculous that it and district 9 have been nominated for best picture. it's fucking ridiculous that they are nominating 10 movies for best picture. just look at the stretching. what a shit year of movies. hurt locker is probably the best movie i've seen this year though i havent seen up in the air. how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture? because there happened to be five better actors? not getting an oscar nod by no stretch means that the quality of acting or writing wasn't great. the academy is probably also confused as to how much acting goes into animation. i really think the lead chick in avatar did an incredible job acting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred McGriff Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 are the oscars pretty much analogous with the grammys as far as awards for artforms? utterly clueless? or are the oscars closer to awarding genuine artistic achievement. i cant tell because my taste in film seems to be pretty pedestrian. i need to know if i should be embarrassed over caring about who gets nominated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 it's fucking ridiculous that they are nominating 10 movies for best picture. It's a marketing thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred McGriff Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 obviously but it's just a bad move, it's not going to help them, it's going to make the others in the same category less desirable to watch. hurt locker and blind side mentioned in the same breath is criminal. and i didnt even think hurt locker was necessarily great. but it's clearly a superior film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest A/D Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 i really think the lead chick in avatar did an incredible job acting. agreed. christoph waltz's in "Basterds" was the most artful i've seen this year, but i haven't seen a lot of the stuff that's up. "Ajami" is supposed to be amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maus Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 are the oscars pretty much analogous with the grammys as far as awards for artforms? utterly clueless? or are the oscars closer to awarding genuine artistic achievement. i cant tell because my taste in film seems to be pretty pedestrian. i need to know if i should be embarrassed over caring about who gets nominated. i think they're both basically done under the premise that everyone lives in small, grey rooms, and they only creative media they're allowed to see are the films shown at the local zongoplex and the songs on whatever flashing reality-show blitzkreig is on MTV and its associated genre-oriented contemporaries. that coupled with a desire to reward the projects in both which featured the most already well-known actors or "musicians" and those which generated the most money. the shame of it is that both the oscars and the grammies have an opportunity to open up TRULY innovative stuff to a wider audience. you know, to actually do the research to find the little gems that were overlooked by most. to recognise true creativity even when it's not backed by billion-dollar budgets (hell, it took peter jackson slapping his name on District 9 in order for it to get as noticed as it was.) to be fair, the oscar nominations surprised me a bit in a good way. wouldn't have expected coraline or District 9 in there. if coraline's score isn't nominated, though, that's a complete joke. but maybe AMPAS still has some credibility left. NARAS lost the plot a while ago, and they're just speeding music's demise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 how can a film that isn't nominated for acting or writing be nominated for directing and best picture? It actually happens quite often in the history of the academy. Especially acting, at least half the best pictures had no winner for acting. That's completely different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maus Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 just checked the best score noms. fucking AVATAR? james horner killed it in aliens, but the avatar score took insulting tribal bongo "booga-booga" music to a new low. for as 'innovative' and 'otherwordly' as the rest of the film was, the score had an opportunity to really go new places, but didn't. at all. the 'up' score got nominated, which is good. that was pretty spectacular, actually. haven't seen 'sherlock holmes' yet, but it's fucking zimmer. i can guess it's bombastic orchestral stuff with some 'edgy' electric guitar thrown in along with an overuse of stylus RMX. what is it with music? the coraline score was amazing. cool instrumentation, amazing themes, a made-up language... never heard anything quite like it. i guess these organisations are more apt to reward "very traditional, but with SLIGHT changes" than "truly different and great". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 You got to remember that those are awards exist as a promotion tool for the business of movie-making, nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Is Crazy Heart worth watching? It's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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