Wild Ass Oscar Guesses
Best Motion Picture of the Year
The King’s Speech
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) [I could hear Franco whisper, “James Franco” into his open mic just as Colin Firth was announced.]
Achievement in Directing
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Toy Story 3
Best Documentary Short Subject
Strangers No More
Best Short Film (Animated)
The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Best Short Film (Live Action)
God of Love Luke Matheny < [THIS GUY GAVE PROPS TO THE GREAT STATE OF DELAWARE]
Achievement in Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland
Achievement in Cinematography
Inception (Wally Pfister)
Best Documentary Feature
Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures) < winner
Achievement in Film Editing
The Social Network (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
In a Better World (Denmark)
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) < winner
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
“We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 Music and Lyric by Randy Newman [I call bullshit. He’s written some great songs, this isn’t one of them.]
Achievement in Sound Editing
Inception < winner
My Predictions for the big awards:
Best Motion Picture of the Year
The King’s Speech
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Toy Story 3
Achievement in Art Direction
Inception
Achievement in Cinematography
Inception (Wally Pfister)
Achievement in Directing
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Best Documentary Feature
Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)
* And thus Eagles Owner Jeffrey Lurie, as the producer of this film, will win a freaking Oscar before the Eagles win the Super Bowl. The odds of that were astronomical back in 1995 when he bought the team and his only film credit was V.I. Warchowski.
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
“Coming Home” from Country Strong Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
Achievement in Sound Editing
Inception
And this year, I have actually seen all of the movies but for Winter’s Bone, which sounds like a porn film somehow.
The opening sequence was awesome. Franco and Hathaway seem to be having fun.
My contrarian picks:
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winter’s Bone (long shot I know, but an astonishing debut)
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) (wonder why she’s a supporting actress?)
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
The Illusionist (yes!)
Best Documentary Short Subject
Sun Come Up (heartbreaking)
Achievement in Cinematography
Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
Achievement in Costume Design
I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi) (movie was NOT good, but Tilda Swinton was seriously well dressed here)
Achievement in Directing
David O. Russell (The Fighter)
Best Documentary Feature
Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)
Achievement in Film Editing
Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Biutiful (Mexico)
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
Holy shi… Is Kirk Douglas 100 years old?
He was born in 1916,so pretty close to 100.
Michael Barkann on Twitter: “Damn. Michael Douglas looks terrible.”
Lol. that’s wrong.
Hahahaha. I know.
Delaware wins! “God of Love” wins and Delaware gets a shoutout in the acceptance speech.
Neither DD or Cassandra are doing too well.
Kirk Douglas is 94.
Luke Matheny is a Concord HS alum.
Very nice moment at the end with PS122. I’m glad I stayed up.