Reverend Jax Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Nominations are out. 9 Best picture nominees based on a new algorithm that allows for at least 5 and at most 10 nominees based on a threshold that any nominee has to meet. Interestingly, since the creation of the Best Animated Feature category, Pixar has had a film nominated every year except for 2002 when they didn't release a film (there was a time when Pixar didn't put out a film every year). They had only ever lost twice: in 2001 Monsters, Inc lost to Shrek and in 2006 Cars lost to Happy Feet (only one of those loses was deserved in my opinion). Then, in the past two years, Pixar's Best Animated Film entries (Up and Toy Story 3) were so strong that they were also nominated for Best Picture (this started when they went to 10 Best Picture nominees, so in fairness, I think Ratatouille and WALL-E would have been contenders for that category if there had been 10 slots). But this year, Pixar's film, Cars 2, didn't get a Best Animated Feature nomination in a field of 5 films, and Dreamworks had BOTH their 2011 entries nominated. Best Picture The Artist Thomas Langmann, Producer The Descendants Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Scott Rudin, Producer The Help Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers Hugo Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers Midnight in Paris Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers Moneyball Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers The Tree of Life Nominees to be determined War Horse Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers 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 Actor In a Supporting Role Kenneth Branagh My Week With Marilyn Jonah Hill Moneyball Nick Nolte Warrior Christopher Plummer Beginners Max von Sydow Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Actress In a Supporting Role Bérénice Bejo The Artist Jessica Chastain The Help Melissa McCarthy Bridesmaids Janet McTeer Albert Nobbs Octavia Spencer The Help 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 Art Direction The Artist Laurence Bennett (Production Design); Robert Gould (Set Decoration) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Stuart Craig (Production Design); Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration) Hugo Dante Ferretti (Production Design); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration) War Horse Rick Carter (Production Design); Lee Sandales (Set Decoration) Costume Design Anonymous Lisy Christl The Artist Mark Bridges Hugo Sandy Powell Jane Eyre Michael O'Connor W.E. Arianne Phillips 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 Music (Original Song) "Man or Muppet" from THE MUPPETS Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie “Real in Rio” from RIO Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett Short Film (Animated) Dimanche/Sunday Patrick Doyon The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg La Luna Enrico Casarosa A Morning Stroll Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe Wild Life Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby Short Film (Live Action) Pentecost Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane Raju Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren The Shore Terry George and Oorlagh George Time Freak Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey Tuba Atlantic Hallvar Witzø 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 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 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 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 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 buncha movies i never heard of, more talk about cartoons for babies...oh hey, Sarah Palin's triumphant story got a nom! glad to see liburul media finally doing the right thing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Nick, you forgot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Kinda lame they left out Andy Serkis for his role of Ceasar in Planet of the Apes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkerSeed Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Some weird shit in there. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? That on a lot of people's worst of the year lists. If I want to see Tom Hanks fall out of a skyscraper I'll fucking push him off. Also, no Tin Tin in animated? I've read that a lot of people are saying that mo cap doesn't count as animation. I don't really see that argument but that is the only thing that makes sense to me. On documentaries, Sarah Palin's propaganda film "The Undefeated" is NOT nominated for shit except a special place in hell. "Undefeated" is some documentary about inner city football. On other docs, I'm glad to see paradise lost 3 in there; I haven't seen it yet but part 1 and 2 are fantastic and these filmmakers basically got three wrongfully accused kids off of Death Row and got it all on tape. I wonder, does Werner Herzog need to wrestle a bear himself to get a fucking Documentary Oscar? He keeps releasing some of the best documentary films ever made and getting totally ignored. Also, no Errol Morris (Tabloid), Steve James (The Interrupters, which has like 99% on RT)? I get the feeling that they don't give a shit how these things are mad,e only what they're about. Of course they do a similar thing with foreign. Some good movies, but a lot of "issue heavy" shit. Religion, immigration, the obligatory movie about the holocaust. They generally don't nominate shit like the cool Turkish cop movie "Once upon a time in Anapolia" the revenge flick "The Skin I live in" or the confusing relationship drama "Certified Copy." I guess people see foreign movies to learn shit about other cultures? Meh, fuck that. Otherwise, The Artist is super likable and will probably win best pic. I suspect that it wont win much for acting; I still think the academy wants people to talk in movies to warrant awards. Anyway, while it's all a bunch of bullshit, the filmmakers who win will get more money and resources to make more shit so I generally pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_U_SPACECOWBOY Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 On documentaries, Sarah Palin's propaganda film "The Undefeated" is NOT nominated for shit except a special place in hell. "Undefeated" is some documentary about inner city football. Thanks for clearing that up, I didn't want to believe it was the Sarah Palin film!! (Nice Sewer Shark profile pic btw, never noticed it b4!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Agreed, Jax and Junker: I'm surprised neither Cars 2 nor Tin-Tin got Best Animated Feature Film nominations. Not that either were necessarily worthy, but were they really worse than Puss In Boots? I say HUGO is the best film, but The Artist will win. And the Academy is late to the party w/ Marty, so they may give him a second Best Director win, but I doubt it. I haven't seen The Descendants or Tree of Life yet, but my early prediction would be The Artist nabs a Best Director win as well. I think Oldman will take Best Actor. No clue as to the other acting categories. Plummer or von Sydow may take it for Supporting Actor. It is interesting they put the female lead of The Artist in the Supporting Actress category though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 It is interesting they put the female lead of The Artist in the Supporting Actress category though. Evidently the studio picks which category (lead or supporting) they want a performance to be considered for, and will sometimes hedge their bets thinking that if they might have a shot win supporting, but not lead, or they might get the nom for supporting, but wouldn't even get the nom for lead. ConsiderHeilee Steinfeld's performance in last year's True Grit. I'm willing to bet she appeared in over 90% of the frames of celluloid for that film, but the studio push for her to be nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, either because they thought she had a chance to win it, or because they thought if they campaign for her to be nominated for Best Lead Actress, she wouldn't even be nominated. (Nice Sewer Shark profile pic btw, never noticed it b4!) Junkerseed had gone the longest time of any Hondonian without changing his avatar. I never thought the day would come. And Sewer Shark...man, the memories! Full motion video, that's the furture of gaming my 10 year old self thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkerSeed Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I think I finally changed my avatar in the spirit of me actually hoping to keep posting somewhat consistently, as I have often come back for like 3 posts and fallen off. I will never forget the day that me and my bro got the Sega Cd and completed the journey from Dogmeat to Beachbum in one glorious day of 64 color, 320 × 224 bliss. IMO I think the dude who played Ghost was snubbed at the Oscar noms in 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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