Oscar nominations!

[cleolinda]

1) Full list here.

2) Yeah, they're doing ten Best Picture nominees this year. I remember the Academy president saying, when they announced this change a few months ago, something to the effect of, "If I said this had nothing to do with The Dark Knight [not getting nominated last year], I'd be lying." So they're trying to be... more inclusive this

Comments

[mallmouse]

I lol-ed at this comment posted on A diffent forest about Anna Kendrick's Oscar nomination:

"My real question is this: In the trailer for Eclipse will she now get top billing?

"Academy Award Nominee Anna Kendrick, Razzie Nominees Robert Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, and Taylor Lautner."

[maudelynn]

Twilight and Oscar were just used in the same sentence in a million places. My view of the order of the Universe just imploded a little.

That being said, her character is my favourite in the Twilight films. She makes sense most of the time in a world of senselessness.

[cleolinda]

And in the first one, she was wonderfully catty.

But really, there are TONS of Oscar and other award nominees acting in and working on the movies so far. I mean, Desplat is GOOD but the score SUCKED. I strenuously maintain that it is the fault of Twilight as a dread, life-sucking entity itself that is to blame.

[maudelynn]

Exactly. Michael Sheen was nominated, was he not?
I like him.

[enid_keaner]

The Blind Side being nominated fills me with so much rage I can't even explain it. So many more worthy films were ignored (like Bright Star and Moon, for starters) for that paint-by-numbers big screen Lifetime movie.

[cleolinda]

Just based on prior awards, I'm putting my money on The Hurt Locker, but it's an interesting year.

And The Young Victoria isn't the only historical nominee, but it's got that Most Costumes thing going for it. When you get both quantity and quality in a nominee, it's got the best shot. I don't know--it just has the same feel to me as previous winners.

[jedilora]

Maybe it's that it gives of 'costume' rather than 'clothes' to voters? I know I've seen that happen at local theater competitions-the really well thought out but clearly modern costumes come in second to the pretty well done but not quite right historicals.

(Specific example-I saw a group do Tom Jones, in which the men were in 1800s clothes and the women were in Edwardian-which bothered me. All were well done, just not..right. They won over an original piece about a family in the mid-nineties dealing with the father being diagnosed with HIV. One of the kids had a Friends t-shirt on, the mother's old 'interview' suit was clearly from the late 80s...really well thought through.)

And the older or more elaborate, the more the voter hindbrain might be going 'COSTUME' when considering.

[sea_of_tethys]

Yeah, I'm super-squeeish about Up getting nominated. I loved that movie so much!

[radiotrash]

I want Up to win Best Picture. I am soooo surprised/excited they included an animated film. Isn't this the first one nominated for best picture since Beauty and the Beast? And then they made the Best Animated Picture category and crushed my hopes of an animated film ever winning best picture. So I want it to win!

But I have a feeling Avatar is going to. Hmph.

[lolleeroberts]

Well, there is a train of thought that if Avatar wins, it's almost like an animated movie winning...since it's about 50% CGI.

[radiotrash]

I'd rather it be an animated picture with a good story, tbh, or nothing at all. :[

[havocs_roman]

I'm not enough of a geek to come up with a good argument for this, but I don't like that train of thought. The Avatar crowd spent ages going out of its way to distance the film from "animation", and explaining in detail how much Avatar's CGI isn't anything like animation OMG, that frankly, that's where I want them: at a distance. [/grumpy]

[jennygriffee]

The fact that Up got a Best Screenplay nomination on top of Best Picture and Best Animated Feature kinda says something about where it ranks compared to the rest of the animated bunch, really. Not that I have a bias in favor of writers or anything. (And then of course there's score... goooooooo, Giacchino!)

Now would I sound like the biggest geek on earth if I said I was rooting for Carey Mulligan like mad because I still love Sally Sparrow to death? ;)

yaaaaaaaay blink!

[jubilantia]

THAT'S WHO THAT IS? OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH I thought she looked familiar. Now I really have to see "An Education" to honestly decide my opinion. That's still one of my favorite new Who episodes ever. Besides the Empty Child and the Doctor Dances from season 1.

[mysterypoet66]

Sally Sparrow, FTW. (My little fangirl heart went pitter-pat at the rumor of The Weeping Angels returning, just because of Carey Mulligan.) Then I nearly imploded because she's donig a flick w Christopher Eccleston.
UP is made of total, most excellent, whipped-cream-and-cherry-on-top WIN. That said, I'm pulling for Hurt Locker/Bigelow/Renner.