Best Picture
A Serious Man
An Education
Avatar (*)
ºThe Blind Side
ºDistrict 9
The Hurt Locker*
Inglourious Basterds
^Invictus
^~(Nine)
Precious
^Star Trek
º(Up)
Up in the Air
A Word or Two: I would really love to see Up get the attention it deserves here, but I just have this feeling deep down in my gut bone that the Academy would rather give it an Oscar rather than just nominate it. And it will never win this category. So I'm goin' with Nine, even though it's been widely panned. Quality - or lack thereof - has never and will never stop the Academy.
EDIT: The Blind Side????? This is what I imagine happened: "All right, everybody, we've got a nice little list of nine movies and–" "Nine movies?!" "Yeah, what's the problem?" "There are supposed to be ten movies!" "Well, I'll be fucked." "Quick, add one! Anything, just add it!" "OK, I'll add The Blind Side because I'm an idiot." "OK."
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart *
George Clooney – Up in the Air (*)
Colin Firth – A Single Man
º(Morgan Freeman – Invictus)
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
^~(Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man)
A Word or Two: You have no idea how badly I want Stuhlbarg to win this. I also want a solid gold house and a rocket car, and I think I've got a better shot of getting those. (Hey, it could happen!) Truth be told, Bridges deserves one o' those gold bastards, and now he's gonna git one. Good for him.
EDIT: I shouldn't be surprised. And I'm really not. I was hoping against hope. Like when you hope for something you really want to happen but it's probably not going to happen and you just keep deluding yourself. It's kinda like that.
Best Actress
^(Penelope Cruz – Broken Embraces)
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side *
Carey Mulligan – An Education (*)
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
º~(Helen Mirren – The Last Station)
A Word or Two: There should be a separate category called "Best Meryl Streep Performance." I would like to see this one go to one of the two younger lasses, Sidibe or Mulligan, and I feel it would go to Sidibe, though I preferred Mulligan. But I even mighter feel like it's going to Sandra Bullock. She's got the Globe (which doesn't count), the SAG (which is frightening), plus she sorta deserves one after making all those mediocre and just plain bad pictures. Wait...
EDIT: I was right!
Best Supporting Actor
º~(Matt Damon – Invictus)
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
^(Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles)
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds*
A Word or Two: OK, there's no question who's getting this: everybody's favorite multi-lingual Jew Hunter. If he doesn't win... don't worry, he'll win. I'm throwin' down my Damon card, though I wish I were throwin' down my McKay card instead. I would love to see him get this. Half cos he's awesome, half cos I love Orson Welles, and half machine. But he won't, and Matt will.
EDIT: I was right again!
Best Supporting Actress
º(Penelope Cruz - Nine)
Vera Farminga – Up in the Air
ºMaggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious*
^~(Samantha Morton – The Messenger)
^Julianne Moore – A Single Man
A Word or Two: If you told me years ago that I would the phrase "Oscar Winner Mo'Nique" would be a phrase that was a true phrase, I'da slapped the lyin' teeth right outta your head. Then I would've sold them to the Tooth Fairy for drug pocket change. But come March 7th...
EDIT: Hmm... I did not see Gyllenhaal coming. I mean she was good and all, don't get me wrong. I just didn't see her coming. (She likes to keep the lights off. ZING!)
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker*
º(Lee Daniels – Precious)
James Cameron – Avatar (*)
^Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
º~(Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds)
A Word or Two: I want the Coens on this list so bad, but they'll never make it. Not when assdicks like Cameron are raking in all the money those Avatar fanboys can scrape out of their moms' wallets. But it's going to Bigelow. Then she can rub it in Cameron's fat fucking face.
EDIT: I guess I shouldn't have assumed that Eastwood would get the nom; he just always gets the nom. As far as I'm concerned this should be Reitman's first nomination. Juno was good, but...
Best Animated Film
Coraline (*)
^Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Fantastic Mr. Fox
^(Ponyo)
The Princess and the Frog
ºThe Secret of Kells
º~(Up)*
A Word or Two: If Up manages to get a Best Pic nod, then I think Ponyo will slip in there. IT would be nice to see Mary & Max or something less conventional slip in there, too. But naw. I think slightly racist princess movies are about as unconventional as it'll be getting.
EDIT: They nominated Up for BOTH? Cheaters. They should tell a body these things.
And there you have it, folks. That's how it all goes down in my head. Let's see what happens. Only a few more hours left...
Yay, movies!
EDIT: I was close, wa'n't I? This is the first time I've ever really done this, written it down and what not. Next year I'll be funnier and more insightful, instead of boring and lame. Deal?
