I'm usually unplugged from these awards, but someone please tell me: how can a film like The Help get as many nominations as it did?
lazarus said:I don't think Pooh getting nommed is an impossibity. First, if I'm not mistaken there may be enough eligible films this year to widen the category to five titles instead of the usual three. Also, what else besides Rango and Tintin is a sure thing? Arthur Christmas? Rio? Cars 2? Kung Fu Panda 2? None of these are exactly being held up as best of the year quality, whereas Pooh had very good reviews IIRC.
bono_212 said:I meant it was a fantasy that nothing else would be nominated, save those three.
I'm putting my money on it being Rango, which will win, Tintin, Pooh, Arthur Christmas and Rio, but a Pixar snub seems unlikely. Crossing my fingers.
Purely from a technological standpoint, Tintin should win, but the catergory is best animated picture, and the all around winner probably would more deservingly go to Rango. Of course, since Winnie the Pooh was like, the only traditionally animated film to come out this year, I pretty much have to root for it. Plus it was awesome, so there's that. I don't recall if there's an animated short catergory or not, but the cartoon that was on before Pooh was also amazing.
I was thinking that the nominations make it look like it will be a Hugo vs. The Artist slug fest, not The Descendants vs. The Artist. I don't know.
I was thinking the same as you, in that Dragon Tattoo looks like it would fit much better in the BP category, replacing Extremely Loud and Incredibly Hanks.
Also agreed, I was a bit bummed to not see Woodley's name in there for Supporting Actress. I haven't even seen that movie yet (was actually thinking about going this afternoon maybe) but let's be honest...this was the only chance that girl will ever have to be nominated for an Oscar. And she barely missed the cut. Oh, well. She's still very cute.
#HollywoodProblems
Can not fucking believe my strongest outrage is pouring out towards the animated film category. There's nothing shocking about the Best Picture noms, imo.
I'll give you $1000 if Shailene Woodley is ever nominated for an Academy Award.
This was her chance.
Given just how poorly Extremely Loud was received, everyone thought the Daldry love-fest was over, and how The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has all of those nominations and is left out, it's pretty shocking. Has any film ever had just one other nomination and been a BP nominee?
That said, I'll accept Von Sydow's nomination to make up for ignoring the bulk of his career, especially his performance in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Yeah, not to say that Gump was completely deserving, or even a great film, but it was definitely beloved, and it had some cultural impact and some memorable characters/moments.
There are certainly worse Best Picture nominees than Forrest Gump.
Powerhour, A Serious Man and The Blind Side only had 1 nom in addition to BP. Having a list that can go to 10 will allow that kind of thing to happen.
Grand Hotel actually won BP with no other nominations.
The Artist winning Cinematography would be hilarious (ly misguided). Same for editing really.
Because Hugo got a few tech nome that The Artist didn't, it was able to cancel out the latter's acting noms, and add another to lead the field in total noms.
Conceivably we have the possibility of Hugo winning more Oscars than the actual BP winner. I think it's a likely winner in Art Direction and Costumes, possibly editing, one or both sound categories, and even special effects. And then there's Marty who might win his second in the same BP/BD split fashion that Oliver Stone and Spielberg did.
Even if The Artist takes Direction over Marty, it's an underdog in both acting categories and screenplay. I think score is a good bet, cinematography and editing are questionable.
The "smaller" or mellower frontrunner tends not to win Editing (Million Dollar Baby, The King's Speech). They gave it to The Social Network last year, so a win for Hugo or Dragon Tattoo is more likely IMO. Yes, The hurt Locker beat Avatar in this category, but the former had a lot of tense scenes which would give it an upper hand, and it was still a hybrid action movie. The Artist has some fun montages, but nothing else that really attracts attention. Crash would seem like an exception but it had a bunch of different storylines which some idiots mistake for equalling great editing.
I'll remind you (sadly) that Gangs of New York was up for 10 and took home none.
My money would be on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for editing, but will they really give it to the same team two years in a row?