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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 Motion Picture of the Year

• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The Kids Are All Right
• The King's Speech WINNER!!
• The Social Network
• Toy Story 3
• True Grit
• Winter's Bone

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Javier Bardem in Biutiful
• Jeff Bridges in True Grit
• Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
• Colin Firth in The King's Speech
• James Franco in 127 Hours

WINNER!! Colin Firth

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right
• Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole
• Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone
• Natalie Portman in The Black Swan
• Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine

WINNER!! Natalie Portman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Christian Bale in The Fighter
• John Hawkes in Winter's Bone
• Jeremy Renner in The Town
• Mark Ruffalo in The Kid's Are All Right
• Geoffry Rush in The King's Speech

WINNER!! Christian Bale

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

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....

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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).

-rd

It's out of the Kings Speech and Winter's Bone.

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).

-rd

It's an animated picture:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775489/

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

My predictions rather than personal choice

Yeah I did predictions rather than choice. My brackets show who I want to win in a few categories, but I am predicting they don't.

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.

InsomniaRed wrote:

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).

-rd

It's an animated picture:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775489/

Ahhh, I hadn't heard of that movie and was filling in the blanks with false info. Thanks

-rd

Will be a predictable show

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

Oh man, I'm late to the CC Oscar party! The Oscars are one my absolute favorite things and they're totally my Superbowl.

I got 18 out of 24 correct. We had the same predictions in the "major" categories Insomnia . I really thought Fincher would win.

What did everyone think of the show? Anyone else bummed that Corey Haim was excluded from the montage of dead people?

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.

As much as I wanted Steinfeld to win to give True Grit something, she wasn't really a supporting actress. She was in every scene!

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.

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.