The Oscars Thread

[destiny4ever]

The Oscars Thread


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A thread to discuss everything and anything regarding the Oscars. Who do you think is going to win? What are your favorite nominees? Your picks and predictions, let’s discuss them all in here. :)

THE LIST:

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids are All Right
The King's Speech
The Social Network
127 Hours
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
Best Documentary Short Subject
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

Best Short Film (Animated)
Day & Night Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let's Pollute Geefwee Boedoe
The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois

Best Short Film (Live Action)
The Confession Tanel Toom
The Crush Michael Creagh
God of Love Luke Matheny
Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143 Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Achievement in Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit

Achievement in Cinematography
Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
Inception (Wally Pfister)
The King's Speech (Danny Cohen)
The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)
True Grit (Roger Deakins)

Achievement in Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi)
The King's Speech (Jenny Beaven)
The Tempest (Sandy Powell)
True Grit (Mary Zophres)

Achievement in Directing
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

Best Documentary Feature
Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)
Gasland Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)
Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)
Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)
Waste Land Lucy Walker, director (Almega Projects)

Achievement in Makeup
Barney's Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman
Achievement in Film Editing
Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)
The Fighter (Pamela Martin)
The King's Speech (Tariq Anwar)
127 Hours (Jon Harris)
The Social Network (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Hors la Loi (Algeria)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat)
127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)
The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
"Coming Home" from Country Strong Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
"I See the Light" from Tangled Music and Lyric by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Achievement in Sound Editing
Inception
Toy Story 3
TRON: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Inception
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit
Achievement in Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2

Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle)
The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini)

Original Screenplay
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
The Fighter (Paul Attanasio, Lewis Colich, Eric Johnson, Scott Silverand Paul Tamasy)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
The Kids are All Right (Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko)
The King's Speech (David Seidler)

[benelori]

I think that Black Swan is one of the best movies ever in the industry...it is certainly one of the best IMO...I still can't find words how beautiful it was....in every single aspect...that's why it should win in every category where it is nominated

[Organizized]

I made my picks and predictions in another thread already, but I guess I'll share it here as well.

(and I've skipped the ones I haven't seen enough of the nominees to have an opinion about, and the ones where I just wouldn't know which one is better..)

Best Picture
Betting on: The King’s Speech
Hoping for: Black Swan

Best Director
Betting on: David Fincher (The Social Network)
Hoping for: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)

Best Original Screenplay
Betting on: The King’s Speech (David Seidler)
Hoping for: Inception (Christopher Nolan)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Betting on: The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
Hoping for: The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)

Best Leading Actor
Betting on: Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
Hoping for: James Franco (127 Hours)

Best Leading Actress
Betting on: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Hoping for: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

Best Supporting Actor
Betting on: Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
Hoping for: Christian Bale (The Fighter)

Best Supporting Actress
Betting on: Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Hoping for: Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

Best Animated Feature
Betting on: Toy Story 3
Hoping for: Toy Story 3

Best Cinematography
Betting on: True Grit
Hoping for: True Grit

Best Visual Effects
Betting on: Inception
Hoping for: Inception

Best Art Direction
Betting on: Inception
Hoping for: Alice In Wonderland

Best Costume Design
Betting on: Alice In Wonderland
Hoping for: True Grit

Best Music (Original Score)
Betting on: Could be any one...
Hoping for: Hans Zimmer (Inception)

Best Music (Original Song)
Betting on: Unsure here as well...
Hoping for: ”We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 (Randy Newman)

Out of all the movies I've seen for the Oscars, my ratings would be as follows:

Black Swan - 9/10
Inception - 9/10
Toy Story 3 - 9/10
The King’s Speech - 8/10
127 Hours - 8/10
The Social Network - 8/10
True Grit - 8/10
The Fighter - 8/10
Winter’s Bone - 8/10
The Kids Are All Right - 8/10
How To Train Your Dragon - 8/10
Alice In Wonderland - 5/10

[destiny4ever]

I have heard and read that Black Swan is a magnificent movie, I haven’t watched it yet but a friend of mine told me it was incredible! And even though I haven’t watched it yet, I must admit I would really like for Natalie Portman to win in the Best actress category.

Interesting picks and predictions, Organizized. :cool: I have just watched “Inception” so I can’t really make an informative and fair decision on which nominees I think should be the winners, but…I thought Inception was pretty cool so I wouldn’t mind if ends up taking the gold in some categories.

[alice&uncas]

From the entire Oscars List, I have only seen 4 of these movies. Alice in the Wonderland, Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, and Iron Man 2. Let the best movie win.

[destiny4ever]

Here is the list of winners :):

Best Picture
"The King's Speech"

Best Actor
Colin Firth - "The King's Speech"

Best Actress
Natalie Portman - "Black Swan"

Best Director
Tom Hooper - "The King's Speech"

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale - "The Fighter"

Best Supporting Actress
Melissa Leo - "The Fighter"

Best Original Song
"We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3"
Music and lyrics by Randy Newman

Best Film Editing
"The Social Network"
Angus Wall & Kirk Baxton

Best Visual Effects
"Inception"
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley & Peter Bebb

Best Documentary Feature
"Inside Job"

Best Short Film (Live Action)
"God of Love" - Luke Matheny

Best Documentary (Short Subject)
"Strangers No More"

Best Costume Design
"Alice in Wonderland" - Colleen Atwood

Best Makeup
"The Wolfman" - Rick Baker & Dave Elsey

Best Sound Editing
"Inception" - Richard King

Best Sound Mixing
"Inception" - Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo & Ed Novick

Best Original Score
"The Social Network" - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Best Foreign Language Film
"In a Better World"
Denmark

Best Original Screenplay
David Seidler - "The King's Speech"

Best Adapted Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin - "The Social Network"

Best Animated Feature Film
"Toy Story 3"

Best Short Film (Animated)
"The Lost Thing" - Shaun Tan & Andrew Ruhemann

Best Cinematography
"Inception" - Wally Pfister

Best Art Direction
"Alice in Wonderland"
Production Design: Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara

[benelori]

I'm a bit butthurt that Black Swan didn't win more...at least in the music categories...it's freaking Tsaikovsky, with some mixing and editing from Clint Mansell-_-...at least Natalie won, and that was a relief, because I'm a bit ashamed but I have to admit, that I started to doubt...U can punish me whenever U want Natalie:hurr...

I didn't see King's Speech, yet, but I heard from many people that it's a well deserved win, but I still would've wanted Black Swan to take at least Best Cinematography or Best Adapted Screenplay

[Organizized]

The only win which was kinda surprising was Melissa Leo winning Best Supporting Actress. I thought Bonham-Carter would win that one for sure, though hoping for Hailee Steinfeld. Leo was great in The Fighter, though, so it was well deserved. :)

Other than that, there wasn't really any big whoop... Even though I predicted The Social Network to win Best Director, "Best Picture" and "Best Director" have shared winners like 80% of the years so far, so that wasn't anything surprising either..

I'm glad Christian Bale got the Best Supporting Actor award.. He's been the #1 for voters on all the big movie sites, but I thought the Academy would be typical and pick Geoffrey Rush because Bale is... well, Bale.

What did everyone think of James Franco and Anne Hathaway as hosts? Personally, I thought they had their moments but at times it was really quite disastrous... :p

[steelwingcrash1]

I am sorry for my ignorance because I haven't watched the Oscars fully yet. I missed it out on TV! When will it be replayed?

Anyway, I really cannot find this on the internet. What category was the part where various clips of winning movies were joined together to form a very unique music? I took a glimpse of it while my brother was watching it and it was entitled "He Doesn't Have His Shirt On."

I really want to know because it was so cool. It had Harry Potter, Toy Story and Justin Timberlake (I can't recall) in it - including the guy in Twilight.

Thank you in advance!