I wouldn’t be surprised if Hugo, even with the most nods, comes up empty handed in all categories.
I think Hugo will end up with best picture
It’s good to see some of the choices they made for films i didn’t think would even get nods (Tree of Life, etc) but the giant list of snubs is just…pathetic. The Oscars are generally sad, but i didn’t know they’d be this sad.
I haven’t seen Into the Abyss, but Cave of Forgotten Dreams is midling-Herzog at best.
There’s so many disappointments in the acting categories I wonder if they should apply the goofy nomination rule used for Best Picture. What the contest would be like if there were nine Best Actor nominations?
I too am miffed at the disregard for Albert Brooks, but how about no nod for the best visual effects of the year in Tree of Life?
ME LIKEY
Tree of Life nominations (although now we get to watch it lose)
A Separation screenplay nod
Five animated films, two of which I’ve never heard of
Three out of five foreign film nominees are ones I’ve seen or have wanted to see
Bret McKenzie, Oscar nominee (and a 50% chance of Oscar winner Bret McKenzie)
ME NO LIKEY
Best picture list looks boring
No Fassbender, at all
No Swinton either
I’ve seen 1/10 female actor nominees and, frankly, I’m happy with that!
No A Dangerous Method
No Melancholia
No big surprises (Le Havre in any category would be awesome!)
Israel gets nominated for foreign film every damn year. They have a decent cinema, but Cedar is terrible.
ME MAYBE LIKEY, ME NO KNOW
I seem to be the only person who likes Stephen Daldry. However, I put off seeing ILAEC (or is it ELAIC?), because it stars Hanks, Bullock and Jeopardy kid. I would rather download it though!
No Almodovar in the Foreign Film category. I thought the Academy loved the guy. No Dangerous Method or Melancholia (I thought Dunst was a lock).
In Documentary, no Herzog. Caves of Forgotten Dreams was technically 2010), but Into the Abyss has gotten rave reviews.
No Brooks, Fassbender, Carey Mulligan (Great in 2 films), Winnie the Pooh in animation, No Viggo or Keira Knightley, no Elizabeth Olsen for Martha Marcy Mae Marlene.
“This is a distinctly Swedish story”
Doesn’t the international bestseller-ness of the novels suggest othewise?
^Everybody loves a good Swedish meatball.
i understand why Melancholia is not anywhere, given Von Trier’s desenters and whatever, but i was really suprised that the only nod that Drive got was for sound editing. that movie really didn’t get anything else? come on.
I really laughed at this, despite myself. Patton Oswalt’s tweets for an Oscar party with all the snubs:
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“^Everybody loves a good Swedish meatball.”
Yup . . . seems to me the trilogy is pretty much a right-down-the-middle-of-the-plate genre fiction, even if the particulars are indeed rooted in Swedish culture.
Snubs:
Sareh Bayat, A Separation
Judy Dench , My Week with Marilyn
Kat Dennings, Thor
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Leila Hatami, A Separation
Zoé Héran, Tomboy
Ben Kingsley, Hugo
Michelle Monaghan, Source Code
Carey Mulligan, Shame
Patton Oswalt, Young Adult
Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life
Mark Strong, The Guard
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
I think I would’ve shit my pants if the Academy was smart enough to give a nomination to Zoe Heran for Tomboy.
Eliminated Films:
Shame
Young Adult
A Dangerous Method
Melancolia
Take Shelter
Martha Marcy May Marlene
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Albert Brooks. As he tweeted:
Looking forward to the State of the Union tonight. Hope the new Axis of Evil includes Hollywood.
And to the Academy: “You don’t like me. You really don’t like me.”
I got ROBBED. I don’t mean the Oscars, I mean literally. My pants and shoes have been stolen.
Bold prediction — A SEPARATION will not win the Foreign FIlm Oscar. Way too many of the Academy would never give an award to a film from Iran.
i can’t believe we need to talk about kevin wasn’t nominated for ANYTHING
holy shit
Beyond upset that Gosling wasn’t nominated for anything. I honestly loved him in Drive. He barely says a dozen words but has tremendous screen presence. Gotta give him credit for that. If Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin can be nominated for silent roles in The Artist (and whose nominations, by the way, I completely support), Gosling can get one freaking nomination! Snubbed for Lars and the Real Girl, snubbed for Blue Valentine, this is getting ridiculous.
Also upset about the lack of a nomination for Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Olsen, and, frankly, Kristen Wiig. Would have been more than happy if at least one of them was nominated.
I felt like Snowtown should have been in the running for best foreign. Into The Abyss and Interrupters should have made the cut for docs. The whole thing was a mess. I hope The Artist wins every category its in.
This is a distinctly Swedish story”
Doesn’t the international bestseller-ness of the novels suggest othewise?
My point is that the movie didn’t need to be remade. The 2009 film did a perfectly good job with the story with top Swedish actors in the roles. Fincher, nor Craig, nor Mara added anything to the story.
Generally, I can’t stand English adaptations of foreign stories. They ring hollow, whether it was Garbo as Ana Karenina or Omar Sharif as Zhivago or Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan taking on Wings of Desire or Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise as Samurai warriors. There is plenty of American and British material to draw from.
Tree of Life was a very pleasant surprise, and if academy members actually watch it, the movie might be the “dark horse” for Best Picture.
The real headscratcher is Jessica Chastain nominated for The Help instead of Tree of Life.
I thought she was wonderful in Tree of Life. At least she was recognized, unlike Hunter McCracken.
Tree of Life was the only film that completely blew me away this past year. For me, it was as if I was taught something like a new cinematic language. I didn’t care a whole lot for the beginning or the end but the middle 80-minute or so section that traced the family life was perhaps the most insightful, meaningful, beautiful 80 minutes of film I’ve ever experienced.
That said, I thought for sure that Tree of Life would be nominated for Best Editing. I’m very happy it’s up for cinematography but did anyone else think its editing was outstanding and almost perfect?
Most of the greatest directors and films have been snubbed by the Oscars. It’s interesting that a “children’s” film Hugo, an “arthouse” film Tree of Life and a French film The Artist (albeit part US funded) are contenders for Best Picture- if any of the 3 win that would be some sort of change. Ironic that The Artist is a front-runner when no subtitled films have won Best Picture, and rarely make the shortlist.
Some nice departures this year, especially for what is essentially a studio award. It seems that Oscar is finally reaching out between Hollywood.
That should have been beyond Hollywood.
Drunken Father Figure of Old
Really – Melancholia should be somewhere on the list… although I didn’t much care for it either.