Well I'm a big movie buff so I love the Oscars. I'll post my predictions and you post yours! I added imdb links to the Best Picture nominees in case you wanted to check them out.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams in The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech
Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit
Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom
WINNER!! Melissa Leo
Best Achievement in Directing
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for True Grit
David Fincher for The Social Network
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech
David O. Russell for The Fighter
WINNER!! Tom Hooper
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
How To Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
WINNER!! Toy Story 3 other categories
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Another Year
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
WINNER!! The King's Speech
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
WINNER!! The Social Network
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies(Canada)
Outside the Law (Algeria)
WINNER!! In A Better World
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
WINNER!! Inception
Best Achievement in Editing
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
The Social Network
WINNER!! The Social Network
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit
WINNER!! Alice in Wonderland
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King's Speech
The Tempest
True Grit
WINNER!! Alice in Wonderland
Best Achievement in Makeup
Barney's Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman
WINNER!! The Wolfman
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
A.R. Rahman for 127 Hours
John Powel for How to Train Your Dragon
Hans Zimmer for Inception
Alexandre Desplat for The King's Speech
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross for The Social Network
WINNER!! The Social Network
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
127 Hours ("If I Rise")
Country Strong ("Coming Home")
Tangled ("I See the Light")
Toy Story 3 ("We Belong Together")
WINNER!! Toy Story 3
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Inception
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit
WINNER!! Inception
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Inception
Toy Story 3
TRON: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable
WINNER!! Inception
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2
WINNER!! Inception
Best Documentary, Features
Exit Through the Gift Shop
GasLand
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land
WINNER!! Inside Job
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang
WINNER!! Stangers No More
Best Short Film, Animated
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, a Journey Diary
WINNER!!The Lost Thing
Best Short Film, Live Action
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143
WINNER!! God of Love
You can copy the ballot below if you want to post your predictions in the thread:
Ballot
Best Picture:
Best Actor:
Best Actress:
Best Supporting Actor:
Best Supporting Actress:
Best Director:
Best Animated Film: Ballot For Other Categories
Best Original Screenplay:
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Best Foreign Language Film:
Cinematography:
Editing:
Art Direction:
Costume Design:
Make-up:
Original Score:
Original Song:
Sound Mixing:
Sound Editing:
Visual Effects:
Best Documentary:
Best Documentary, Short:
Best Animated, Short:
Best Live Action, Short:
My Ballot:
Best Picture: The King's Speech
Best Actor: Colin Firth
Best Actress: Natalie Portman
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale(though I want Geoffry Rush to win) Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo
Best Director: David Fincher(though I want Tom Hooper to win) Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3
My Ballot for Other Categories
Best Original Screenplay: The King's Speech
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Social Network
Best Foreign Language Film: In A Better World
Cinematography: True Grit
Editing: The Social Network
Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland
Costume Design: The King's Speech
Make-up: The Wolfman
Original Score: Inception(Hanz Zimmer ftw!!)
Original Song: 127 Hours - "If I Rise"
Sound Mixing: Inception
Sound Editing: Inception
Visual Effects: Inception
Best Documentary: Inside Job
Best Documentary, Short: Poster Girl
Best Animated, Short: Day & Night
Best Live Action, Short: Wish 143
Last edited by InsomniaRed on Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:34 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Ballot
Best Picture: Toy Story 3
Best Director: Kevin Smith
Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3
Wait...is this what I want to happen..or my prediction? The above is what should happen. What will happen is the dumbest crap will win and the best stuff will get ignored. I mean...just look at the nominations. The Social Network will probably win everything because everybody's afraid of that jackass cause he's got so much money and power now....
I'm having trouble figuring out why The Illusionist is a nomination for "Best Animated Feature Film of the Year". Unless we're talking about two different movies, the one I'm remembering wasn't animated and came out back in '06 (good movie, btw).
The Kings Speech will probably get it because in the current economic climate a feel good movie will be more favoured and feel good movies of such excellent quality are rair.
rdsrds2120 wrote:I'm having trouble figuring out why The Illusionist is a nomination for "Best Animated Feature Film of the Year". Unless we're talking about two different movies, the one I'm remembering wasn't animated and came out back in '06 (good movie, btw).
Ballot
Best Picture: True Grit
Best Actor: Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Best Actress: Natalie Portman in The Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale in The Fighter
Best Supporting Actress: Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech
Best Director: David Fincher for The Social Network
Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3
Early predictions say it's going to come down to Social Network vs. Kings Speech for Best Picture. I'm going to go with the dark horse.
Ballot
Best Picture: A toss up between King's Speech and Black Swan
Best Actor: Colin Firth in The King's Speech
Best Actress: Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor: Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress: Hailee Stanfield in True Grit
Best Director: David Fincher
Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Inception
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: The Social Network
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: Biutiful
Best Achievement in Cinematography: The King's Speech
Best Achievement in Editing: The Social Network
Best Achievement in Art Direction: The King's Speech
Best Achievement in Costume Design: The King's Speech
Best Achievement in Makeup: No idea
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score: Hans Zimmer for Inception
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song: Toy Story 3
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing: Inception
Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Tron Legacy
Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Inception
The rest I have no idea
I think Helena Bonham Carter could potentially win the Best Supporting Actress but it would be nice to see Hailee/some awards for True Grit which is an awesome film. I don't like it when films win too many awards/other films get 'snubbed.'
I would have all 3 from King's Speech win, they were all amazing, but that is just my opinion, so I had to make predictions on the reception of all the films/actors. I have no doubt True Grit will win for cinematography though. Not sure if they'll be able to pull out an acting award because they are shadowed by the others.
The problem I have with The King's Speech is that it's a film that's treading on rather familiar territory. Period British Royalty piece. Kind of stale now, and I'd like to reward some creativity and more modern films. I'd actually be satisfied with either Social Network or True Grit winning as both are pretty progressive to me.
safariguy5 wrote:The problem I have with The King's Speech is that it's a film that's treading on rather familiar territory. Period British Royalty piece. Kind of stale now, and I'd like to reward some creativity and more modern films. I'd actually be satisfied with either Social Network or True Grit winning as both are pretty progressive to me.
True Grit is awesome and I love the Coen's but it is hard to describe a remake as progressive even if the original was made by the jerk off John Wayne.
rdsrds2120 wrote:I'm having trouble figuring out why The Illusionist is a nomination for "Best Animated Feature Film of the Year". Unless we're talking about two different movies, the one I'm remembering wasn't animated and came out back in '06 (good movie, btw).
Ballot
Best Picture: The King's Speech
Best Actor: Colin Firth
Best Actress: Natalie Portman
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo
Best Director: only possible upset-Tom Hooper/Kings speech
Best Animated Film: toy Story 3
Fincher got robbed for sure. Thought it was nice that Spielberg did the Best Picture noms. Can we please give him a best director already?? Also, thought the in memoriam montage should have been silent so people could applause. Remember when they had Heath Ledger? Standing ovation. Let people express their appreciation and don't drown it out.
I got 16 right out of 24. Glad Hooper won though, even if everyone wanted Fincher to win. I was still prayer for a miracle to happen and Geoffry Rush winning his Oscar but I knew it would go to Bale, which I am okay with, I know he did a great job too.
Cinematography surprise, though understandable. I really thought that would be the category to make sure True Grit, nominated 10 times, wasn't snubbed, but Inception did snag it for a tie with The King's Speech for 4 Oscars for the night.
InsomniaRed wrote:
Cinematography surprise, though understandable. I really thought that would be the category to make sure True Grit, nominated 10 times, wasn't snubbed, but Inception did snag it for a tie with The King's Speech for 4 Oscars for the night.
Completely agree, my money was on True Grit for cinematography. But I'm a sucker for sweeping American landscapes. I picked Brokeback Montain its year and I was wrong then too! Thats actually the moment where my heart sank and I knew Crash would win.
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safariguy5 wrote:Thought it was nice that Spielberg did the Best Picture noms. Can we please give him a best director already??
Do you mean to go with the ones he received for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan? He only won Best Picture once however, with Schindler's List.
I'm really not surprised that the Academy, made up overwhelmingly of people who lived through WWII, gave Best Picture to a movie about that time period, and while The King's Speech was really good and inspiring, True Grit should have had it.
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