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|  #1 Posted on 26.2.12 2238.35 | Instant Rating: 9.00 | Best Picture: The Artist (Thomas Langmann, producer)
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
Best Actor: Jean Dujardin for The Artist
Best Actress: Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer for Beginners
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer for The Help
Best Original Screenplay: Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Descendants - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash (from the novel "The Descendants" by Kaui Hart Hemmings)
Best Animated Feature: Rango
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation (Iran)
Best Documentary Feature: Undefeated
Best Documentary Short: Saving Face
Best Live Action Short: The Shore
Best Animated Short: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson for Hugo
Best Film Editing: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Best Original Score: Ludovic Bource for The Artist
Best Original Song: "Man or Muppet" by Bret McKenzie (from The Muppets)
Best Sound Editing: Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty for Hugo
Best Sound Mixing: Tom Fleischman and John Midgley for Hugo
Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti (production design) and Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) for Hugo
Best Makeup: Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland for The Iron Lady
Best Costume Design: Mark Bridges for The Artist
Best Visual Effects: Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning for Hugo
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Oprah Winfrey
Honorary Oscar: Dick Smith, James Earl Jones
Multiple winners:
The Artist: 5
Hugo: 5
The Iron Lady: 2
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| #2 Posted on 26.2.12 2342.57 | Instant Rating: 8.79 | Voted for Moneyball.
Bret McKenzie and Craig Pelton are the new kings of Hollywood. | It's False
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| #3 Posted on 26.2.12 2357.56 | Instant Rating: 6.58 | This was a terrible night for Billy Crystal. He just didn't have it this year the way he did in the past. Chris Rock in a two minute bit was funnier than Crystal was all night.
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| #4 Posted on 27.2.12 0050.10 | Instant Rating: 7.26 | Originally posted by JustinShapiro
Voted for Moneyball.
Bret McKenzie and Craig Pelton are the new kings of Hollywood.
Pretty surreal to see Deputy Clementine Johnson presenting an Oscar too.
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|  #5 Posted on 27.2.12 0107.02 | Instant Rating: 6.01 | Holy cow, I was excited enough to see Dean Pelton win, but I didn't realize the other Descendants co-writer (besides Payne) was a guy who has dozens of small, funny roles in loads of commercials, movies and TV shows.
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| #6 Posted on 27.2.12 0402.26 | Instant Rating: 7.11 | Best Documentary Short: Saving Face
I just watched this a few days ago. It was very good if a bit sad. It's about women who are the victims of acid attacks by their husbands and the Pakistani court system.
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| #7 Posted on 27.2.12 0645.09 | Instant Rating: 6.39 | Originally posted by JustinShapiro
Bret McKenzie and Craig Pelton are the new kings of Hollywood.
Kudos to Jim Rash for the Oscar and for mocking Angelina Jolie's right leg. (insidemovies.ew.com)
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| #8 Posted on 27.2.12 0800.52 | Instant Rating: 7.62 | A dead, bland evening smothered in weak comedy (even from the Christopher Guest gang) and an inexcusably bad sound system. Pretty lackluster winners too. A very weak year.
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| #9 Posted on 27.2.12 0816.51 | Instant Rating: 1.15 | The Academy just doesn't seem to like Clooney and Pitt. Meryl Streep, again in what is considered a weak film? A french guy who can't say three words of English, at least the Best Actor crazy Italian guy who walked on seats knew some English. If anything the Muppets were avenged for Rainbow Connection losing back in the day. I have been shouting for Super 8 for best picture at least a nod for that tenth spot due to my nostalgia for those type of films when I was a kid. I guess the Academy voters felt the same way about The Artist when they were kids. Again Walkind Dead > Oscars.
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| #10 Posted on 27.2.12 0827.51 | Instant Rating: 8.09 | Originally posted by lotjx
The Academy just doesn't seem to like Clooney and Pitt.
Clooney has an Oscar.
The Big Bossman raised the briefcase.
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| #11 Posted on 27.2.12 1022.57 | | So if they're gonna nominate Meryl Streep for Best Actress, why even bother nominating anybody else? You just know they're gonna hand the Oscar to her no matter what. | Reverend J Shaft
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| #12 Posted on 27.2.12 1025.41 | Instant Rating: 3.52 | Originally posted by Mattitude
So if they're gonna nominate Meryl Streep for Best Actress, why even bother nominating anybody else? You just know they're gonna hand the Oscar to her no matter what.
Uh, she's won 3 times in 17 nominations. It would seem her being nominated hardly equates to a win. I believe last night was her first win in 30 years.
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| #13 Posted on 27.2.12 1028.10 | Instant Rating: 0.00 | | Huh. I did not know that. Blame me never paying any real attention to the Oscars, because for some reason it felt like she wins all the time. My mistake. | Zeruel
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| #14 Posted on 27.2.12 1123.49 | Instant Rating: 6.19 | Originally posted by SchippeWreck
Originally posted by JustinShapiro
Voted for Moneyball.
Bret McKenzie and Craig Pelton are the new kings of Hollywood.
Pretty surreal to see Deputy Clementine Johnson presenting an Oscar too.
And weird to see Serenty Johnson from "Halfway Home" win one.
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| #15 Posted on 27.2.12 1136.32 | Instant Rating: 7.95 | Originally posted by Reverend J Shaft
Uh, she's won 3 times in 17 nominations. It would seem her being nominated hardly equates to a win. I believe last night was her first win in 30 years.
The list of people to win 3 or more Academy Awards in acting categories is Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment, As Good As It Gets), Meryl Streep (Kramer Vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, The Iron Lady), Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, The Lion In Winter [shared with Barbara Streisand], On Golden Pond), and Walter Brennan (Best Supporting Actor 1936, 1938, and 1940). Getting even 3 Academy Awards is a big deal. | Lord of the Manor
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|  #16 Posted on 28.2.12 0630.35 | Instant Rating: 5.00 | Originally posted by lotjx
The Academy just doesn't seem to like Clooney and Pitt. Meryl Streep, again in what is considered a weak film? A french guy who can't say three words of English, at least the Best Actor crazy Italian guy who walked on seats knew some English. If anything the Muppets were avenged for Rainbow Connection losing back in the day. I have been shouting for Super 8 for best picture at least a nod for that tenth spot due to my nostalgia for those type of films when I was a kid. I guess the Academy voters felt the same way about The Artist when they were kids. Again Walkind Dead > Oscars.
Just curious how many of the films you've referred to here you have actually seen. Dujardin's basic English has nothing to do with his win. You'd understand that if you had seen the film.
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| #17 Posted on 28.2.12 1227.56 | Instant Rating: 2.90 | I call BS on Streep winning. Same reason Fox winning for Ray was crap. They are doing impressions. If that is what it takes to win Best Actress, Tina Fey should have one for doing Palin.
The dame from The Artist should have won. She was a huge part of that movie and was as engaging as Dujardin IMO. | Doc_whiskey
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| #18 Posted on 28.2.12 1304.26 | Instant Rating: 9.00 | I still think Viola Davis got robbed. I also was kind of hoping Bridesmaids would have gotten original screenplay because good comedies never seem to get there due from the academy. Finally, I wish Transformers would have won one of the technical awards just so I could say Academy award winning Transformers: Dark of the moon everytime I referenced the movie.
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| #19 Posted on 28.2.12 1321.39 | Instant Rating: 7.77 | Originally posted by Doc_whiskey
I still think Viola Davis got robbed.
Ebert was tweeting links about her Sunday/Monday with weird angles:
1) There was an online effort to convince her to wear her natural hair to the Oscars to inspire the young black girls watching to be proud of their hair.
2) There was relief expressed that she lost because some didn't want her to win for playing a maid.
Neither of these have anything to do with her earning an Academy Award, which I think she did for Doubt. She had such a small role there, and she stole that film from Streep AND Hoffman.
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| #20 Posted on 28.2.12 1351.14 | Instant Rating: 3.52 | Originally posted by Mr. Boffo
Originally posted by Reverend J Shaft
Uh, she's won 3 times in 17 nominations. It would seem her being nominated hardly equates to a win. I believe last night was her first win in 30 years.
The list of people to win 3 or more Academy Awards in acting categories is Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment, As Good As It Gets), Meryl Streep (Kramer Vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, The Iron Lady), Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, The Lion In Winter [shared with Barbara Streisand], On Golden Pond), and Walter Brennan (Best Supporting Actor 1936, 1938, and 1940). Getting even 3 Academy Awards is a big deal.
Not sure why you quoted me here, but I agree. Three wins IS a big deal. Part of me thinks the Academy enjoys giving Oscars to actors that come out of nowhere (like Dujardin), partly to snub those actors that get nominated a bunch and partly hoping that the winner is a flash in the pan so they can boast the rarity of multiple time winners. | | Pages: 1 2 Next
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