The nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards are out, and the nominees are less surprising than finding out Paris Hilton had herpes (haha, good one, Jay). The King’s Speech led the pack with 12 nominations, so it seems looking like pure awards bait worked out exactly as planned. “P-p-please, s-s-s-ir. H-h-h-elp me fight the N-n-n-nazis.”
The only mild surprises were Waiting for Superman not picking up a documentary nomination, and Mark Ruffalo getting a Best Supporting Actor nod. Another interesting note is that James Franco, who’s co-hosting the awards with Anne Hathaway, also received a Best Actor nomination. Is that the first time that’s happened? Is it? Someone should look that up.
Best Picture
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
“Inception”
“The Kids Are All Right ” [bleh.]
“The King’s Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3″
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone”
Should win: Toy Story 3 (that scene where they’re holding hands on the way to the fire is so unbelievably good) or Winter’s Bone. Will win: The Social Network. Wild Card: Inception.
Best Direction
Darren Aronofsky for “Black Swan”
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for “True Grit”
David Fincher for “The Social Network”
Tom Hooper for “The King’s Speech”
David O. Russell for “The Fighter”
Should win: David Fincher (Aronofsky was great, but it seemed like the main point of that movie was getting a Best Director Oscar). Will win: Probably David Fincher, but don’t discount the old lifetime-achievement award for the Coen Brothers (honestly, who could complain about that). SNUBBED: Chris Nolan.
Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem in “Biutiful”
Jeff Bridges in “True Grit”
Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network”
James Franco in “127 Hours”
Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”
Should win: Pick ‘em. Will win: Firth is probably the favorite on account of being nominated last year, but don’t count out James Franco. I wasn’t a huge fan of 127 Hours, but Franco was the main reason it was even mildly tolerable. Though I’m pissed about his snub for Dicknose in Paris.
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 “Black Swan”
Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine”
Should Win: Bening, Lawrence, or Portman. Will Win: Bening. Even I can’t deny she was great in The Kids Are All Right, and the Kids Are All Right sucked. I never saw Blue Valentine, but Michelle Williams always acts like a prissy teenager who just smelled a fart.
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 Kids Are All Right”
Geoffrey Rush in “The King’s Speech”
Should Win: Jesus, I would not want to have to choose between Bale, Hawkes, Renner, and Rush. I’d say Hawkes probably left the deepest impression on me. Will Win: Bale. GRRR, PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION!
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”
Should Win: Anyone but Hailee Steinfeld (not that she was bad, but she wasn’t particularly great, either). Will Win: Tough to pick. I’m saying either Melissa Leo or Jacki Weaver so the voters can feel good about picking at least one underdog. SNUBBED: Dale Dickey. Winter’s Bone was full of solid performances, but she was the standout.
Adapted Screenplay
Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for “127 Hours”
Aaron Sorkin for “The Social Network”
Michael Arndt, story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich for “Toy Story 3″
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for “True Grit”
Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini for “Winter’s Bone”Original Screenplay
Mike Leigh for “Another Year”
Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington and Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson for “The Fighter”
Christopher Nolan for “Inception”
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg for “The Kids Are All Right”
David Seidler for “The King’s Speech”Animated Feature
“How to Train Your Dragon”
“The Illusionist”
“Toy Story 3″Art Direction
“Alice in Wonderland”: Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration)
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1″: Stuart Craig (Production Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
“Inception”: Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)/span>
“The King’s Speech”: Eve Stewart (Production Design), Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
“True Grit”: Jess Gonchor (Production Design), Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)Cinematography
“Black Swan”: Matthew Libatique
“Inception”: Wally Pfister
“The King’s Speech”: Danny Cohen
“The Social Network”: Jeff Cronenweth
“True Grit”: Roger DeakinsCostume Design
“Alice in Wonderland”: Colleen Atwood
“I Am Love”: Antonella Cannarozzi
“The King’s Speech”: Jenny Beavan
“The Tempest”: Sandy Powell
“True Grit”: Mary ZophresDocumentary (Feature)
“Exit through the Gift Shop”
“Gasland”
“Inside Job”
“Restrepo”
“Waste Land”Documentary (Short Subject)
“Killing in the Name”
“Poster Girl”
“Strangers No More”
“Sun Come Up”
“The Warriors of Qiugang”
Who does Banksy send to collect his award? Mr. Brain Wash? The elephant? I think he should send the elephant. That would be badass. Then Tony Jaa could do a backflip off it and kick the envelope out of James Franco’s hand. Man, I should be producing this thing.
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Whether Banksy wins or not, the whole event is now clearly a performance art piece secretly put together by him and Franco. No one will ever reference or admit to it. That’s part of its genius.
In other news, I can’t believe Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World didn’t get any of the technical Oscar nominations. Whether you liked the movie or not, you can’t deny that it looked pretty awesome throughout.
When does Vince get back? This Brunsy guy sucks.
*jumps*
Inception has to win for Best Pic-
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-ture. It had the best combination of stunning visuals an-
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Are you ser-
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Fuck it I change my vote to True-
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Winter’s Bone should win, but it won’t, so my second choice is The King’s Speech. Sure, it’s all historical-y and Oscar bait-y, but it was actually really good. I thought I’d be bored going in, too.
I still haven’t seen The Social Network, and I’m sure it’s good and all, but I just can’t get over Sorkin’s douchiness.
I was more than a little dissapointed when I saw “How to tame your Dragon” and it wasn’t a documentary on Rex Grossman. =(
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Michelle Williams deserves the nom – do you realize how difficult it is to pretend to hate Baby Goose?
No Mila Kunis nomination? Did Portman kiss herself?
I hope Wally P. Fister wins for cinematographer.
Films need way more Nazis. Otherwise the old jews in Beverly Hills might get stumped and give sentimental twaddle a dozen nominations.
Most of the best actors in Hollywood have a first name starting with a J, but the guy who will win brings hope to C-Tates in the future.
Ooh, and between Winter’s Bone and True Grit, this is a good year for kick-ass female protagonists.
Surprised to not see Tyler Perry get a Best Director nomination. Did he get blacklisted?
If John Hawkes sat through the entire telecast in his Winter’s Bone character I’d shit my pants in joy
I liked Hailee Steinfeld. That was some dialogue she had to deliver. Mike Leigh getting a Screenwriting nod? Aren’t all his movies improvised?
“The Dilemma” made a mistake by waiting until 2011 to launch. It really could have capitalized on a weak 2010 class. Fat guy falls down while VV makes snarky comment? Oscar gold!
And did anyone else think ‘dilemma’ was spelled ‘dilemna’ before these previews came out? Kevin James just keeps BLOWING. MY. MIND.
I only like Colin Firth when hes fighting Hugh Grant or singing ABBA songs
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Chris Nolan wasn’t nominated for best director because that selfish asshole refused to tell anybody on the nomination committee if the top fell and that pissed them all off.
Buried didn’t get nominated for best original screenplay? Don’t these fuckers read their e-mail?
ROFLKOTAL! Nice catch, Morty.
love it or hate it Trons’ special effects were a thousand times better than the shitty effects in Alice in Wonderland
What, no Human Centipede? Boo hoo, I’m English and I stutter, whatever.
Not a one of the ten nominated documentaries is about the Holocaust. That’s got to be a first.
Hey Mark Wahlberg, guess who got nominated for best actor? NAWT YOU!
(But I guess if it wins best picture -which it won’t -you still get an oscar, so tell Donnie that you’re still Mom’s favorite.)
Looks like my screenplay for a gay, black, Jew, with AIDS, struggling to provide for his son/cancer-treatments/retarded brother still hasn’t been made yet. Score!
I’m willing to bet that by now the Oscar “joke” writers have plenty of options for faux-witty banter highlighting Franco’s being nominated. Please, Mr. Vilanch, don’t throw in a line about Hathaway getting “catty” about not being nominated.
gay, black, Jew, with AIDS, struggling to provide
So…he sells Ecstasy that is shrewdly priced?
Also, isn’t calling a gay guy with AIDS like saying “The cowboy that rides a horse.”?
I haven’t seen Winter’s Bone but I want Jennifer Lawrence to win just so she can thank Gabourey Citibank for breaking down the walls (OH YEAH!) that had kept young actresses from getting quality roles in film.
Did anyone see The Tempest? I kind of really want to, but I’ll leave it up to you. Good God I’m apathetic today.
Ah you fawkin sehrious? A cahhtoon and some piece of shit about cahpet munchas gets nawminated and The Town gets bawxed out? That movies is the fawkin welkah of cinema! No one denies this!
Seriously- it was my favorite movie of the year and while I don’t think it deserves best picture, I would have at least liked to see it get some more recognition (best movie nom, best adapted screenplay, director, best putting of something in one’s rear-view mirror)
I just hope that Franco brings Kimiko-tan as his date.
Maybe I was a little too high when I saw True Grit but shouldn’t Hailee Steinfeld be getting an “Actress in a Leading Role” nod? She definitely had the most amount of screen-time and the movie revolved around her character.
I think they promoted her for supporting actress since there wasn’t a chance she’d win for best actress, even though yeah, I agree she wasn’t supporting but was supported.
I was going to argue that Oscar’s crush on Nazis was an overused cliche, but they *did* give two awards to Mel Gibson. Anyway, Christoph Waltz gets to present Best Supporting Actress, which is enough Kraut for any awards show.
Besides, there are the required nominations for physical handicap and weight loss for a role, and those are the Nazis of acting tricks.
@Morty–hilarious that everybody Marky says “nawt you!” to got nominated and he didn’t. Ha ha, you’re tremendously successful and have spent the last 20 years punching obsession-worthy kitty–take that Wahlberg!
The distinction between lead and supporting roles is a joke–Wahlberg and Bale had the same amount of screen time, as did Firth and Rush. The best supporting actor in Fighter was Boo Boo–where *did* he fucking park the car?
How did Paul Blart get overlooked for Fartiest Fart? And, as usual, Wahlberg should have been nominated for Best Cock.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but John Hawkes is DJ Qualls with a fake mustache, right?
the lack of a best director nod for Nolan makes me angar
Jesse EisenTURD (only took me 4 minutes!) being nominated is a joke. The Social Network being nominated is a joke.
That was a movie with no hero, no real motivation for the viewer to keep watching. Just some assholes with a good idea that another asshole stole and made better. I cant believe that little douche got nominated for a couple quick witted lines. I remember when best actor nominations went to the best actors.
At least Javier is up there.
Oh good, The Oscars. There just arent enough self congratulatory black tie events in Hollywood. Those poor souls dont get out enough. When Jesse Eisenberg gets a nom and Chris Nolan gets shot down(again), why would anyone continue to take this bullshit seriously? At least that fuckstain Tom Cruise and his beard wont be attending. Thank you, Ms. Hathaway.
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I’m just glad the only way I’ll see Michael Cera’s birdish presence that night is if they scatter bird seed on the stage and dim the lights so as not to frighten him away.
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