85th Academy Awards. Nominations

I try not to get too excited about the Oscars, but I am genuinely surprised by these nominations. I don’t want to complain that my favorites weren’t selected, but I still feel as if they really dropped the ball, especially on the foreign film and documentary selections. No Queen of Versailles? Really?

puha.

The feeling of that you’re watching something important goes a long way.

Amour being nominated in five major categories is indeed a surprise. Whether it wins is another thing – after all, The White Ribbon went home empty-handed, although the sheer strength of its showing this time ’round says well of its chances in the Foreign Language category at least.

Anyway, these are who will likely win, in some of the other major categories anyway:

BP: Les Miserables
Lead Actor: DDL; if not, Jackman
Lead Actress: Jessica Chastain (Riva snaring it is but a dream, sadly)
Supporting Actor: PSH
Supporting Actress: Hathaway
Director: Ang Lee; if not, Spielberg
Adapted Screenplay: Life of Pi; if not, Lincoln
Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty

Skyfall for original score. Really? David Arnold never got so much as a nomination and he revitalized/shaped the modern Bond sound and got the musical landscape and structure set out by John Barry. I got the feeling Thomas Newman was out of his element on the project.

The feeling of that you’re watching something important goes a long way — The packaging can be both ‘levis-ad poetic realism’ or ‘arthouse classicism’.

But true it would be very exciting if Riva would get the Female lead.

The best Oscars nominations I’ve seen in a long time.
Still, where’s The Master’s score by Jonny Greewood? I really think he would deserve another chance after being disqualified 5 years ago with There Will Be Blood’s score.

Very excited about Amour’s nominations too. Just having been nominated to all the important categories (except the Best Actor) is a victory.

Also, I’m disappointed with the choice of my country to take João Canijo’s ‘Blood of my Blood’ for a nomination to Best Foreign Movie… with Miguel Gomes’ ‘Tabu’, we would have had much more chances to get in the final nominees. It’s a shame…

http://mubi.com/lists/my-personal-oscar-picks-2013

Here are my picks.