January 27, 201213 yr biggest pile of shit nomination list I have ever seen. Was the last year really that bad for film? Was thinking precisely the same thing myself... The exclusion of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, We Need To Talk About Kevin or Shame is frankly ludicrous.. The Ides of March should have been in with a shout as well.. Moneyball?? Christ, who on earth except a small group of Americans would give enough of a shit about a baseball film? Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close?? Does any load of old flannel vaguely connected to "9/11" get a nomination now? Extremely poor and incredibly boring more like. The Descendants??? Pass the sleeping bag.... It really is a pretty grim list of mediocrity.... -_-
January 27, 201213 yr 'The Tree of Life' is the only "risk" they took this year. The rest is incredibly safe and mediocre, as many have said. The exclusion of Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Drive irks me the most. Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Shannon should have been in with a shout, too. OH AND MELANCHOLIA FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. That category was designed for films like Melancholia. What is the point of the best original song category? They nominate two songs (if you can even call them that...) despite lots of variety this year. Edited January 27, 201213 yr by ▲▲▲
January 27, 201213 yr 'The Tree of Life' is the only "risk" they took this year. The rest is incredibly safe and mediocre, as many have said. The exclusion of Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Drive irks me the most. Tilda Swinton's performance in We Need To Talk About Kevin is astounding... Tilda Swinton is astounding. Full stop... I have so much admiration for her as an actress and the fact that she takes on some incredibly difficult and challenging roles. Drive is very good, and, yes, it should have been in there.. It's incredibly reminiscent of a 70s film called "The Driver" with Ryan O' Neil and Bruce Dern.. I recommend that wholeheartedly if you enjoyed this.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077474/
January 27, 201213 yr What is the point of the best original song category? They nominate two songs (if you can even call them that...) despite lots of variety this year. It just gets more farcical by the year. The voting process makes it easy to sabotage songs a voter might dislike, and the qualifications for even being considered restrict songs that aren't the first musical cue of the closing credits, which is where a lot of the original songs are likely to be. But this year is ludicrous. They could've filled out the category with songs from The Muppets alone, and yet... just one? I don't get where their heads are at. The nominees for score have such a narrow conception of the modern field of composing, too (plug alert - I wrote a blog piece about it). Dire turnaround from their awarding Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross last year. I'm not sure why people are surprised, though - have we forgotten The King's Speech's triumph so quickly? And The Blind Side being a Best Picture nominee? Anyway, the majority of nominees, and certainly the winners, are basically pre-determined by the ridiculous amount of critics' and guild's awards in the past few months, which themselves seem decided by an online community devoted to predicting them from a whole year in advance. They're not awarding the best of the year, they're awarding the best of a pre-determined two dozen films because the consensus gives them the widest audience amongst the people who vote for these things. Although I must stick up for Moneyball. No, not the best film of the year, but it's not really a baseball film. It's an engrossing drama about the facts and figures of the business behind baseball. Probably still sounds dry to most people, but I thought it was rather impressive.
January 27, 201213 yr 'The Tree of Life' is the only "risk" they took this year. The rest is incredibly safe and mediocre, as many have said. The exclusion of Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Drive irks me the most. Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Shannon should have been in with a shout, too. OH AND MELANCHOLIA FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. That category was designed for films like Melancholia. This is so correct. Melancholia deserved a screenplay nomination, among everything else actually. Bridesmaids? Moneyball? The Descendants?
January 28, 201213 yr Author 'The Tree of Life' is the only "risk" they took this year. The rest is incredibly safe and mediocre, as many have said. The exclusion of Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Drive irks me the most. Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Shannon should have been in with a shout, too. OH AND MELANCHOLIA FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. That category was designed for films like Melancholia. If you mean for Take Shelter then I completely agree. And I'm glad that Jessica Chastain got a nomination for Supporting Actress even if it is for The Help because it's been her year for me. That, Take Shelter, The Tree of Life. I expect she's amazing in The Debt too but I still need to see that.
February 27, 201213 yr Should I watch this? UNDECIDED No point mate, no doubt The (f)Artist will win just about everything, despite being overhyped, pointless nostalgia crap... Like I said earlier, the best films, the best actor (Ryan Gosling) and actress (Tilda Swinton) arent even nominated. I love film, which is why I generally hate The Oscars.... -_-
February 27, 201213 yr The Artist to win best film. :wub: Anything bar that rubbish The Descendants :puke2:
February 27, 201213 yr The Artist is obviously going to win and whilst I might not love it personally, I think it totally deserves to do so. It's such a special film, brilliantly made and acted. I really don't think Dujardin deserves Best Actor though, even though he'll get it. Of the nominees Gary Oldman is the only one really deserving. Best Actress will probably go to Viloa, even though I think Meryl trounced her performance wise, Glenn a close second.
February 27, 201213 yr Not bothering with this. One of the worst set of nominations in a while. TREE OF LIFE ASIDE.
February 27, 201213 yr No point mate, no doubt The (f)Artist will win just about everything, despite being overhyped, pointless nostalgia crap... Like I said earlier, the best films, the best actor (Ryan Gosling) and actress (Tilda Swinton) arent even nominated. I love film, which is why I generally hate The Oscars.... -_- If we're talking about 'overhyped' performances let's talk about Ryan Gosling in Drive! The way his character was written (ie. barely speaking, and waiting 30 seconds to respond to anybody) gave the film such a pretentious feel. It wasn't really 'meaningful' or even that emotional beyond Carey's performance. I found Ryan's character actively annoying in fact. He was great in certain scenes (the elevator, anything with Carey) but otherwise it wasn't all that. Tilda gave a great performance though. But then she was passed over for I Am Love as well and that was wonderful.
February 27, 201213 yr Drive is brilliant but Gosling had nothing on Michael Fassbender in Shame. Swinton however... I can't get my head around snubbing her and Elizabeth Olsen. Edited February 27, 201213 yr by ▲▲▲
February 27, 201213 yr Not bothering with this. One of the worst set of nominations in a while. TREE OF LIFE ASIDE. Definitely agree. Makes me mad that Tree of Life won't win. That was one of the best pieces of cinema I've seen in a really long time (my friend on the other hand walked out after 30 minutes calling it "pretentious crap" — their loss). Shame was probably the second best film I saw this year. I did think Hugo was really sweet though, and that's getting a lot of awards. Other than that, snooze.
February 27, 201213 yr I know it won't be popular here, but I don't care, I am SO SO SO happy that Meryl won. An astonishing performance, as ever, and long overdue.
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