Annual Academy Awards Meme
Another year, another set of Oscar nominations! I had quite a few thoughts about them that I emailed to various friends this morning and as a result feel tapped out haha. I will start with this though: I am appalled that John Hawkes was snubbed for "The Sessions". I shouldn't be shocked given the omission of Michael Fassbender last year and a million other deserving folks from years past, but somehow I still am. I know everyone is obsessed with how great Daniel Day-Lewis was (and I'm not arguing against that!) but Hawkes deserved to win that category, nevermind be nominated. Ugh.
Also I'm saddened on behalf of Ben Affleck. "Argo" was one of my favourites of the nominated films, and he absolutely deserves a director nod for it. That being said, I think it's kind of delightful that the directors of "Amour" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" snuck in there (bizarrely perhaps, as I have seen neither haha).
I've never heard of "War Witch" and feel like I should check it out, given national pride and all, but then I read the synopsis: In a war-torn central African nation, a twelve-year-old girl is abducted from her village and forced to fight as a child soldier. Over the course of two years, Komona endures a brutal and horrific existence that will damage her irrevocably.
O Canada, yet another lighthearted and uplifting foreign language film!
I'm pleased that I've actually seen one of the short films nominated this year! Yay "Paperman"! It was quite delightful. And should clearly win based on the fact that I've seen it :P
Anyway, on with the meme!
Full list of nominations
Key:
Bold - movies I have seen
Italic - movies I want to see before the ceremony
5 Broken Cameras
Adam and Dog
Amour (#25 in 2013)
Anna Karenina
Argo (#97 in 2012)
Asad
Marvel's The Avengers (#49 in 2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (#6 in 2013)
Brave (#59 in 2012)
Buzkashi Boys
Chasing Ice
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Django Unchained (#1 in 2013)
Flight
Frankenweenie (#23 in 2013)
Fresh Guacamole
The Gatekeepers
Head over Heels
Henry
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
How to Survive a Plague
The Impossible (#16 in 2013)
Inocente
The Invisible War (#9 in 2013)
Kings Point
Kon-Tiki
Les Miserables (#7 in 2013)
Life of Pi (#125 in 2012)
Lincoln (#4 in 2013)
Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'
The Master
Mirror Mirror
Mondays at Racine
Moonrise Kingdom
No
Open Heart
Paperman
ParaNorman (#123 in 2012)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Prometheus (#56 in 2012)
Redemption
A Royal Affair
Searching for Sugar Man (#26 in 2013)
The Sessions (#113 in 2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (#120 in 2012)
Skyfall (#111 in 2012)
Snow White and the Huntsman (#53 in 2012)
Ted (#124 in 2012)
War Witch
Wreck-It Ralph (#114 in 2012)
Zero Dark Thirty (#10 in 2013)
Total: 15 23/53
That's pretty consistent with where I usually am around this time actually! Hopefully I'm able to get lots of viewing in before the show!
Also I'm saddened on behalf of Ben Affleck. "Argo" was one of my favourites of the nominated films, and he absolutely deserves a director nod for it. That being said, I think it's kind of delightful that the directors of "Amour" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" snuck in there (bizarrely perhaps, as I have seen neither haha).
I've never heard of "War Witch" and feel like I should check it out, given national pride and all, but then I read the synopsis: In a war-torn central African nation, a twelve-year-old girl is abducted from her village and forced to fight as a child soldier. Over the course of two years, Komona endures a brutal and horrific existence that will damage her irrevocably.
O Canada, yet another lighthearted and uplifting foreign language film!
I'm pleased that I've actually seen one of the short films nominated this year! Yay "Paperman"! It was quite delightful. And should clearly win based on the fact that I've seen it :P
Anyway, on with the meme!
Full list of nominations
Key:
Bold - movies I have seen
Italic - movies I want to see before the ceremony
5 Broken Cameras
Adam and Dog
Amour (#25 in 2013)
Anna Karenina
Argo (#97 in 2012)
Asad
Marvel's The Avengers (#49 in 2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (#6 in 2013)
Brave (#59 in 2012)
Buzkashi Boys
Chasing Ice
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Django Unchained (#1 in 2013)
Flight
Frankenweenie (#23 in 2013)
Fresh Guacamole
The Gatekeepers
Head over Heels
Henry
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
How to Survive a Plague
The Impossible (#16 in 2013)
Inocente
The Invisible War (#9 in 2013)
Kings Point
Kon-Tiki
Les Miserables (#7 in 2013)
Life of Pi (#125 in 2012)
Lincoln (#4 in 2013)
Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'
The Master
Mirror Mirror
Mondays at Racine
Moonrise Kingdom
No
Open Heart
Paperman
ParaNorman (#123 in 2012)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Prometheus (#56 in 2012)
Redemption
A Royal Affair
Searching for Sugar Man (#26 in 2013)
The Sessions (#113 in 2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (#120 in 2012)
Skyfall (#111 in 2012)
Snow White and the Huntsman (#53 in 2012)
Ted (#124 in 2012)
War Witch
Wreck-It Ralph (#114 in 2012)
Zero Dark Thirty (#10 in 2013)
Total: 15 23/53
That's pretty consistent with where I usually am around this time actually! Hopefully I'm able to get lots of viewing in before the show!