Things that will probably happen that will make me very, very happy:
- Black Swan gets nominated for lots of things, including Cinematography and Directing (but not necessarily for Buster's dream girl)
- The Fighter gets nominated for lots of things, including Editing and Directing and Costume Design (and maybe even Marky Mark?!)
- True Grit gets nominated for lots of things, including Cinematography (give this man an Oscar already!)
- Never Let Me Go gets nominated for best Score
- Blue Valentine pulls nominations for both Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams
- Dianne Wiest, Jacki Weaver, Miranda Richardson, or Barbara Hershey get nominated for Best Supporting Actress (I like my older ladies)
- I Am Love gets nominated for Cinematography
- Tilda Swinton gets nominated for I Am Love
- Carey Mulligan gets nominated for Never Let Me Go
- Never Let Me Go gets nominated for anything else (particularly Best Original Song)
- Any of the ladies from Please Give get nominated
- Winter's Bone gets nominated for Art Direction or Costume Design.
- Juliette Lewis gets nominated for knocking the little pink balls on the back of my socks off in Conviction. Have you seen this, people?
- Three of my all-time favorite actors (of all time!) are up this year, and they aren't even in my own list! Sorry Robert Duvall, Jeff Bridges, and Sam Rockwell. Don't call me biased. I won't mind if they're in, though, obvs.
- Two of my all-time favorite actresses are probably getting nominated this year but aren't even in my own list. Sorry to you too, Annette and Julianne. But let's be honest, this movie was no The Grifters or Safe.
- A lot of these actors I did pick are rilly young.
Picture
Animal Kingdom
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
The Fighter
I Am Love
Never Let Me Go
The Social Network
True Grit
The Way Back
Winter's Bone
Director
Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan
David O. Russell / The Fighter
Luca Guadignino/ I Am Love
David Fincher / The Social Network
Joel and Ethan Coen / True Grit
Actor
Ryan Gosling / Blue Valentine
James Franco / 127 Hours
Mark Wahlberg / The Fighter
Colin Firth / The King's Speech
Jesse Eisenberg / The Social Network
Actress
Natalie Portman / Black Swan
Tilda Swinton / I Am Love
Michelle Williams / Blue Valentine
Carey Mulligan / Never Let Me Go
Nicole Kidman / Rabbit Hole
Supporting Actor
Christian Bale / The Fighter
Vincent Cassel / Black Swan
Andrew Garfield / Never Let Me Go
Jeremy Renner / The Town
Geoffrey Rush / The King's Speech
Supporting Actress
Jacki Weaver / Animal Kingdom
Rebecca Hall / Please Give
Amy Adams / The Fighter
Melissa Leo / The Fighter
Dianne Wiest / Rabbit Hole
Original Screenplay
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
The Fighter
I Am Love
The King's Speech
Adapted Screenplay
Never Let Me Go
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
Cinematography
127 Hours
Black Swan
I Am Love
Never Let Me Go
True Grit
Editing
Black Swan
The Fighter
I Am Love
The Social Network
True Grit
Art Direction
Black Swan
I Am Love
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Shutter Island
Score
127 Hours
The Ghost Writer
Never Let Me Go
The Social Network
The Way Back
5 comments:
and....now I react, with YAYs, OKs, and BOOs.
Best Picture
OK! Great list. "The Town" didn't get in, which it shouldn't.
Best Director
YAY!!! Black Swan, The Fighter, and True Grit all got in! No one thought that would happen. Missing? Inception. Ha! I mean really - that's funny.
Best Actor - OK
Best Actress - Yay for all, esp. Michelle Williams!
Supporting Actor - Yay for them all, esp. John Hawkes!
Supporting Actress - Yay for Jacki Weaver! Boo! for calling that girl "supporting."
Costume Design - Yay for I Am Love!
Documentary - Yay for Exit Through the Gift Shop!
Animated - Yay for The Illusionist! (I admit I haven't seen this but I'm happy about it anyway.)
(Also haven't seen Another Year yet but yay for original screenplay for that too.)
Thanks to make-up for The Way Back (yay!), all my top 10 were nominated, except for Never Let Me Go. BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am somewhat excited about 3 things regarding the directors. 1) David Fincher (actually has a chance but as usual it's for the wrong movie).
2) David O. Russell (again, wrong movie). 3) They are finally listing BOTH Coen brothers (or did they do this before?).
I am also realizing how much I miss you since the old me would be jumping up and down with you but the current me barely has the energy to clap out loud to myself. Sad.
Please, people that I respect, tell me what is good about Black Swan (the only one of these I've seen, which is totally both of your faults for moving away). I thoroughly enjoyed it but never in a million years would have thought it would be up for any kind of award. Except maybe costume or makeup.
I think the Coens have always decided who gets what credit. At first it was always written by both, produced by Ethan, directed by Joel, and edited by both (Roderick Jaynes). Then sometime before NCFOM they changed to directed by both. So they both won director for NCFOM, but only Joel was nominated for director for Fargo.
Here is a great quote I read this morning:
"And save Tom Hooper - The King's Speech is a perfectly fine film, well-made, but it excites nothing inside of me at all - that list of directors is just one giant boner. Just a few short years ago who'd have thunk that the director of Requiem For a Dream and the director of Fight Club and the directors of Barton Fink and the director of Ffffffffffffuckabees! would be fighting for a little gold man? That shit is crazy."
Crazy and awesome.
Sorry I am nerding out today.
Julie, if I can sustain the mood, perhaps I will compose an essay on the brilliance and beauty of Black Swan. Or maybe we should just get drunk and talk about it later.
Black Swan! (a la Mary Catherine Gallagher)
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