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Topic: 83rd Annual Academy Awards nominations
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 01-26-2011 12:34 PM
I don't think many people have any real expectation for Inception to win the Best Picture Oscar. The Social Network was the critic's darling, but even it's chances are slim to none now that that Producer's Guild of America has given its award to The King's Speech. That all but guarantees The King's Speech is going to win the Best Picture Oscar. I would be very surprised if it didn't.
Toy Story 3 was a great movie. It deserves a Best Picture nomination. But being that it's animated puts it at a severe disadvantage, possibly more so than live action movies rooted in science fiction or fantasy genres. Another disadvantage: Toy Story 3 was the North American box office champ for 2010. The Academy doesn't like giving Best Picture Oscars to top money making movies unless it really has to do so.
As for the Oscars telecast, why bother watching it? The Producers Guild, Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild awards telegraph the winners in the most popular Oscar categories. The only surprises remaining are those who win in the lesser categories. Most people don't care about categories like visual effects, sound, editing, cinematography, art direction, etc. unless they have a particular geeky interest in those fields.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
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posted 02-28-2011 12:03 AM
Overall, this year's Oscar telecast turned out to be just about as predictable as I predicted. The SAG Awards, DGA Award and Producers Guild Award very much telegraph the Oscar results.
The list of winners, cut and paste style:
quote: from some news wire report
Best Picture – “The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role – Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”
Actor in a Supporting Role – Christian Bale in “The Fighter”
Actress in a Leading Role – Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”
Actress in a Supporting Role – Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”
Animated Feature Film – “Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich
Art Direction – “Alice in Wonderland” Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Cinematography – “Inception” Wally Pfister
Costume Design – “Alice in Wonderland” Colleen Atwood
Director – “The King’s Speech” Tom Hooper
Documentary (Feature) – “Inside Job” Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Strangers No More” Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Film Editing – “The Social Network” Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Foreign Language Film – “In a Better World” Denmark
Makeup – “The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Music (Original Score) – “The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Music (Original Song) – “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″ Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Short Film (Animated) – “The Lost Thing” Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Short Film (Live Action) – “God of Love” Luke Matheny
Sound Editing – “Inception” Richard King
Sound Mixing – “Inception” Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
Visual Effects – “Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Adapted Screenplay – “The Social Network” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Original Screenplay – “The King’s Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler
The only surprise for me in the major categories: Melissa Leo winning the Supporting Actress Oscar for The Fighter.
I was happy to see Inception win the Best Cinematography Oscar. Take that Black Swan! Inception was worthy of its two Oscars for sound and the Oscar for Visual Effects. I wish the movie would have won Best Original Screenplay. The movie was worthy of all the major awards, but didn't get any.
I was also happy to see Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win the Best Score Oscar for The Social Network. It was a very unconventional score as far as movie music goes.
The Oscars telecast was not all that great. The opening was funny enough and Anne Hathaway is hella-beautiful. But overall it just seemed kind of "meh" in how it plodded along.
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Joe Redifer
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posted 02-28-2011 12:43 AM
I don't normally watch much television so I had the MUTE button at the ready to block ALL commercials. It proved even more helpful than I could imagine. The show starts and OMG WTF IS WRONG WITH ANNE HATHAWAY'S FACE???? Oh wait, that's just Anne Hathaway and her droopy-dog face. Is it melting? Granted, she looks a little better here than the atrocity that appeared in that Wonderland movie.
The show goes on and on and I am muting many of the speeches because I usually just don't care if people who would never hang out with me thank other people who would never hang out with me. Nothing tremendously exiting happens. Kirk Douglas reminds us that he is still alive. The president of ABC and the MPAA appear because they want to be on TV, but nobody gives a shit. Really, nobody... but them. Barack Obama appears on video talking about his favorite song (nobody cares, either). Hale Berry appears to remember some white woman for us. What? She was black? Damn, is my set inverted? The highlight of that segment was that she said "black" and not "African American". Political correctness is for dicks.
They decide to perform each of the songs and again my MUTE button gets a hefty workout. I always kind of feel bad for Randy Newman since he has Down Syndrome. Obviously he won again for the same damn song he has written 20 times before. What? It's a different song? Bullshit. It would be very simple to make an "app" that would create Randy Newman songs. I will give him some honest respect, however, for calling people out who pull lists to read from when they win. So tacky.
Billy Crystal is rushed in in a desperate attempt to save the show. He fails and goes back home. Someone is approaching the screen with a microphone... who is it? OH HOLY HELL MUTE MUTE MUTE!!!!!. Phew. Made it just in time before Celine Dion starts singing about dead people. I'm sure that each and every one of the dead people wish they had died last year instead when Celine wasn't there to dishonor their memories.
The director of "King's Speech" wins. When the camera first shows him, Jen mentions that he looks like a "tweety bird". I kind of thought he looked like a miniature James Cameron myself. Colin Firth wins because 1) He's British and 2) He played someone with some kind of noticeable defect. No, the defect was not that he was British.
King's Speech wins. Nobody cares. TV goes off immediately.
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