Oscar Nominations

Oscar Nominations: Who Got Dissed and Who Got Some Surprise Love

The Academy Award nominations were released this morning and were full of snubs and surprises. The biggest diss was an obvious one: 'Inception' director Christopher Nolan, whose film received eight nominations including best picture, failed to score a best director nomination. Mila Kunis, Ryan Gosling and Michael Douglas, all of whom were shortlisted by critics groups and the Golden Globes in the lead-up to the noms and were expected to be on the ballot, also all failed to land nominations. ( Readmore... )

Oscar Nominations 2011: Who Will Win?

Phones were ringing early Tuesday morning for those members of Hollywood associated with The King’s Speech and True Grit, nominated for 12 and 10 Academy Awards respectively. For the majority of the Oscars’ key categories, voters picks went as expected, with The Social Network coming in a close third with eight nominations. ( Readmore... )

Oscar Nominations

A couple of observations: No female directors, yet again. Too bad not a single person of color acted in any movies this year. How the fuck was True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld a supporting actress?! ( Readmore... )

The 83rd Annual Oscar Nominations

Below is the list of the 83nd Annual Oscar Nominations, which were announced Tuesday morning:

¶Best Picture
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter” ( Readmore... )

'The King's Speech' leads Oscar nominations

"The King's Speech" leads the 2011 Oscar race with 12 nominations, including best picture, director (Tom Hooper), actor (Colin Firth), supporting actress (Helena Bonham Carter) and supporting actor (Geoffrey Rush). ( Readmore... )

Notes on the Oscar Nominations

First, they gave a Best Picture nod to “Winter’s Bone,” even though the smart money had been suggesting that Ben Affleck’s cops-and-robbers entertainment “The Town” would grab the last slot instead. I’m enjoying Affleck’s mid-career reinvention as a director of Bostonian crime stories (“Gone Baby Gone” wears much better on repeated viewings than Martin Scorsese’s Boston-accented Oscar winner “The Departed”), but “Winter’s Bone” was in a different league: Haunting and riveting, primal and genuinely surprising.

Also, it’s precisely the kind of film that deserves some Oscar love: An actual little movie that could, with no-name stars and an obscure director, as opposed to notionally “little” movies like “The King’s Speech” and “Black Swan” that enter the lists with star power and studio muscle to spare. ( Readmore... )

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