Academy Awards... T minus 1 day. TICK-TOCK.

Max Optional · 2010-03-09T12:14:56

I have to confess - I'm one of those who stays up all night and cuts himself loose of the rest of society once every year when the spring is looming on the calendric horizon. In no more than three days I will once more follow this protocol boldly as my fierce appetite for movies will come to its more than somewhat commercially slanted conculsion. I hereby call forth a round of predictions as to precisely who and why anyone will get their golden statuette in '10. Click to see the list of nominees. (most relevant categories only) Best picture The Hurt Locker Runner-up: Up In The Air My choice might be mildly bland and general, but I really do feel like this year we could be getting our first Best Pic by a female director. Thumbs crossed. Actor in a leading role George Clooney - Up In The Air TBH when I went to see this on a date I fought against it because I thought it was a premature sequel to that Pixar animation (as I was lagging behind with my movie-buff gene after a half-year period of isolation). But I came out of the theater totally thrilled at how bloody well-executed the whole thing was. I couldn't say this too often, but Clooney never seems to fall below above average and there are cases (notably Michael Clayton, O Brother, Where Art Though?, Good Night And Good Luck, to an extent Syriana and this flick) where he can totally blow everyone flat out of the water. Oh, did I miss Sparky the Dog in South Park? Actor in a supporting role As I've seen too few titles to make an educated guess, my gut tells me it's probably Christopher Waltz (Inglorious Basterds) or Woody Harrelson (The Messenger) Actress in a leading role Same as above, but Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) Actress in a supporting role I'd seriously consider Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air), but I doubt that's going to happen, so I give my vote for Vera Farmiga or Penelope Cruz (Nine). I think it's probably going to be Farmiga, though. Animated feature Coraline I never go to see a movie more than once unless my friends make me to or there's something special about it. I went to see Coraline thrice in the theater and I've seen it two more times afterwards. I'd really like to see Fantastic Mr Fox because I think it's as close anyone's going to get this year, but Coraline proved that Pixar and CGI are so yesterday. Like, sooooooo yesterday. Best cinematography Since Avatar has no real cinematography as such to speak of, I think the Oscar goes to Inglorious Basterds with The Hurt Locker being a close runner-up. Directing The Hurt Locker Best Visual Effects I have nothing against Cameron - I think he's one of the these geniuses that can't really fail (he hasn't done so thus far anyway), but I really do feel like the kind of imagery Avatar has owes 80% to a fantastic use of 3D (a directorial choice) and 20% to innovative use of actual CGI. So my vote goes to District 9. What they did to Star Trek was nothing short of what Spielberg and Lucas did to Indiana Jones. The fact that Leonard Nemoy went along with it, at best, makes me doubt his sanity. If there was any CGI in that film then it wasn't memorable enough to kill the disappointment in me. This movie will forever be on my very short blacklist. Best writing (adapted screenplay) My first choice WOULD be In The Loop, but unfortunately aside from the jokes therein the story lacked so much (or should this matter for adaptions?) that I'm inclined to go with, in this order, The Education, Up In The Air, District 9. Best writing (original screenplay) The Hurt Locker followed by Inglorious Basterds The fact that Up is on the list kind of insults the list, though, IMO. Taking a brief look back, however, one can easily notice the Academy's tendency to step outside of the bounds of a particular category and focus-fire on a single title or group of people each year (last year being a somewhat notable exception) - eg remember the LOTR series, which got best visual effects for parts 1 and 2 and then canned the whole show with the final film? Or how The Matrix cashed in on everything, as did American Beauty or Slumdog Millionaire (wth?). With this in mind I think this year is going to be like 2005 with Jamie Foxx and Ray wreaking havoc, the most memorable moment being ">Foxx's rather emotional acceptance speech and also ">Penelope Cruz's arguably even more emotional speech in '09. This year, I predict, will be the year of the woman. Kathryn Bigalow will rule and The Hurt Locker will demolish. As a side note: I went to see Shutter Island today and I dare predict Scorsese has a real (and I mean a real) shot at an Oscar in 2011. [Edited by - irreversible on March 6, 2010 9:08:41 AM]

GDNet Lounge Community

Started by irreversible March 04, 2010 04:25 PM

32 comments, last by nobodynews 14 years, 8 months ago

way2lazy2care

793

March 09, 2010 10:27 AM

Quote: Original post by irreversible
About the in memoriam section - is it me or was Patrick Swayze missing from it as well?

he was the first one they showed ;)

LessBread

1,415

March 09, 2010 10:55 AM

Maude's real name was Bea Arthur. Scanning over her imdb page, she acted in a movie starring Lucille Ball back in 1974, and she starred in a "wedding movie" made in 1970 that won an Oscar for best original song. Beyond that she had a couple of bit parts, including the part of a bureaucrat in a Mel Brooks movie. The rest of her career was in television. On these boards she'll probably be recognized as the voice of "Femputer" on the Futurama episode set on the planet of Amazons.

"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." - the Laughing Man

AndrewBC

280

March 09, 2010 11:20 AM

Quote: Original post by LessBread
Maude's real name was Bea Arthur. Scanning over her imdb page, she acted in a movie starring Lucille Ball back in 1974, and she starred in a "wedding movie" made in 1970 that won an Oscar for best original song. Beyond that she had a couple of bit parts, including the part of a bureaucrat in a Mel Brooks movie. The rest of her career was in television. On these boards she'll probably be recognized as the voice of "Femputer" on the Futurama episode set on the planet of Amazons.

Femputer sentences you to death! ... By snu snu!

About Me | Website | Blog

nobodynews

3,128

March 09, 2010 12:14 PM

Quote: Original post by irreversible
(it's funny how Hollywood seems to avoid the word 'film', which is almost like an avant garde term for posh people)

In all fairness, the award has been termed "Academy Award for Best Picture" since 1931. This isn't to say that there isn't a general Hollywood avoidance of the word 'film' (I haven't noticed either way) just that I wouldn't cite the name of an 80 year old award as evidence of this.

C++: A Dialog | C++0x Features: Part1 (lambdas, auto, static_assert) , Part 2 (rvalue references) , Part 3 (decltype) | Write Games | Fix Your Timestep!

Academy Awards... T minus 1 day. TICK-TOCK.

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

Academy Awards... T minus 1 day. TICK-TOCK.

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

Reticulating splines