OSCARS 2013

BEST DIRECTOR

 

 

The nominees were:

Ang Lee "Life of Pi"

Michael Haneke "Amour"

Benh Zeitlin "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Steven Spielberg "Lincoln"

David O. Russell "Silver Linings Playbook"

 

What were your favourites? What was unfairly snubbed? Who shouldn't have even been here in the first place?

 

Here are some of the other nominees from major awards from the same year:

Golden Globes

Ben Affleck "Argo"

Kathryn Bigelow "Zero Dark Thirty"

Ang Lee "Life of Pi"

Quentin Tarantino "Django Unchained"

Steven Spielberg "Lincoln"

 

BAFTAS

Ben Affleck "Argo"

Kathryn Bigelow "Zero Dark Thirty"

Ang Lee "Life of Pi"

Michael Haneke "Amour"

Quentin Tarantino "Django Unchained"

Not seen Life of Pi (or Amour) which I'm sure is brilliantly directed and probably would be my winner but here it is anyway:

 

1 David O Russell

2 Steven Spielberg

3 Benh Zeitlin

 

Not a great year really but I like O Russell movies in general and as I've said before, he really knows how to direct an ensemble so would go for him. The others aren't particurlarly amazing I guess I can appreciate them from an objective point of view in terms of film-making, just not my cup of tea.

 

I wish both Affleck & Bigelow made the cut, their films were so tense at times *-*

 

And as always, here's all my winners:

Best Picture: Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director: David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actor: Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables

Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables

Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty

Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated Feature Film: Wreck-It Ralph

Best Original Score: Lincoln

Best Original Song: "Skyfall" from Skyfall

Best Production Design: Lincoln

Best Cinematography: Lincoln

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Hitchcock

Best Costume Design: Mirror Mirror

Best Film Editing: Argo

Best Visual Effects: The Avengers

 

Silver Linings Playbook - 4

Lincoln - 3

Les Miserables - 2

Zero Dark Thirty - 1

Argo - 1

The Master - 1

Wreck It Ralph - 1

Skyfall - 1

Mirror Mirror - 1

The Avengers - 1

Hitchcock - 1

 

I didn't like Lincoln much at all but in the technical aspects, it was very good I guess... SLP/Les Mis/Argo were my top 3 awards movies from this year.