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|  #1 Posted on 2.2.10 0811.31 | Instant Rating: 1.42 | From http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/02/academy.award.nominations.list/index.html?hpt=C1
The list is alive:
Best picture
"Avatar"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
"Up in the Air"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Up"
"The Blind Side"
"District 9"
"An Education"
"A Serious Man"
Actor
George Clooney, "Up in the Air"
Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"
Colin Firth, "A Single Man"
Morgan Freeman, "Invictus"
Jeremy Renner, "The Hurt Locker"
Actress
Meryl Streep, "Julie & Julia"
Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side"
Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Helen Mirren, "The Last Station"
Carey Mulligan, "An Education"
Supporting actor
Matt Damon, "Invictus"
Woody Harrelson, "The Messenger"
Christopher Plummer, "The Last Station"
Stanley Tucci, "The Lovely Bones"
Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"
Supporting actress
Vera Farmiga, "Up in the Air"
Mo'Nique, "Precious"
Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"
Penelope Cruz, "Nine"
Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Crazy Heart"
Director
Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"
Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"
James Cameron, "Avatar"
Lee Daniels, "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air"
Animated feature
"Up"
"Coraline"
"Fantastic Mr. Fox"
"The Princess and the Frog"
"The Secret of Kells"
Original screenplay
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"The Messenger"
"A Serious Man"
"Up"
Adapted screenplay
"District 9"
"An Education"
"In the Loop"
"Precious"
"Up in the Air"
Best foreign-language film
"Ajami"
"El Secreto de Sus Ojos"
"The Milk of Sorrow"
"Un Prophete"
"The White Ribbon"
Best film editing
"Avatar"
"District 9"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Precious"
Best documentary feature
"Burma VJ"
"The Cove"
"Food, Inc."
"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"
"Which Way Home"
Art direction
"Avatar"
"The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus"
"Nine"
"Sherlock Holmes"
"The Young Victoria
Cinematography
"Avatar"
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"The White Ribbon"
I could go through the stupidiness of Blind Side being nominated and what the hell is The White Ribbon, but I want to make sure I get the post in first. | Promote this thread! |           | dwaters
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| #2 Posted on 2.2.10 0819.15 | Instant Rating: 3.45 | I really don't like having ten Best Picture nominees instead of five. That's way too many.
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| #3 Posted on 2.2.10 0841.54 | Instant Rating: 7.69 | Originally posted by lotjx
Best picture
"Up"
FUCK. YEAH.
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|  #4 Posted on 2.2.10 0844.19 | Instant Rating: 6.53 | | Winners: AVATAR, Bigelow, Bridges, Bullock, Waltz, Mo'Nique, UP (for Animated). | Reverend J Shaft
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| #5 Posted on 2.2.10 0909.09 | Instant Rating: 1.47 | | If Hurt Locker and Bigelow win, I will delight in the schadenfreude of Bigelow shoving it in Cameron's face. She can just stand on the podium at the end and declare "I'M QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE...BITCH!!" and I'll be happy. | Amos Cochran
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| #6 Posted on 2.2.10 0912.00 | Instant Rating: 6.53 | | She's too classy for that. Plus, Cameron has been uncharacteristically gracious so far this season, even going so far as to admit that she deserves the awards more than him. | Big Bad
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|  #7 Posted on 2.2.10 1536.19 | Instant Rating: 5.69 | Originally posted by dwaters
I really don't like having ten Best Picture nominees instead of five. That's way too many.
I tend to agree, but it's a double-edged sword. As eye-rolling as it is to see 'Blind Side' as a BP nominee, it's also great to see movies like Up and District 9 be recognized since you know they wouldn't have sniffed a nomination in a five-picture field. Everyone seems to agree that Hurt Locker, Inglourious, Avatar and UITA would've all been nominated for BP anyway, so I wonder which of the other six would've been the fifth nominee under the old rules.
This is probably going to be kind of a rote ceremony...Bridges, Waltz, Mo'Nique are huge favorites, it's looking like Sandra Bullock is the big favorite for Best Actress (there's a sentence I never thought I'd write), Bigelow is the favorite for direction. The only question is whether Hurt Locker or Avatar will take the big prize.
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| #8 Posted on 2.2.10 1542.11 | Instant Rating: 7.59 | Originally posted by Big Bad
Everyone seems to agree that Hurt Locker, Inglourious, Avatar and UITA would've all been nominated for BP anyway, so I wonder which of the other six would've been the fifth nominee under the old rules.
I'd guess Precious, since it also got nominated for director.
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| #9 Posted on 2.2.10 2037.58 | Instant Rating: 6.12 | | I'm not much of a movie buff or anything, but Avatar or Basterds winning BP would be rediculous IMO. I didn't dislike them, but neither blew me away. UP winning would make my day. | Peter The Hegemon
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| #10 Posted on 3.2.10 0120.11 | Instant Rating: 7.03 | Originally posted by MUTigermask
I'm not much of a movie buff or anything, but Avatar or Basterds winning BP would be rediculous IMO. I didn't dislike them, but neither blew me away. UP winning would make my day.
Up being *nominated* made my day. It winning would be an incredible fountain of joy. Not that it's going to happen. But I still will put the Pixar canon up against any other group of at-all-related films of the same time period.
My feeling at the moment is that Avatar won't win Best Picture. I think people will feel that it's had enough of the spotlight and it's not THAT great. I don't think it winning would be ridiculous--I can think of much worse that won--but I don't think it's really worthy, either.
It really is surprising that Bullock seems such a lock for Best Actress, but that shows the lack of strong female roles out there. Streep's not going to win again for something that's less than substantial. If Mirren hadn't won a couple of years ago, she'd be the favorite, but the sentimentality won't be there. Sidibe has a shot, I guess. |
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