Movie 85th Academy Awards.

[Warsaw]

Felt like chucking up a thread on this one seeing as the nominations just got released and it's all abuzz on the web.


(updated with winners)
Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Original Screenplay
Amour, Michael Hanake
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo, Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin,
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Animated Feature:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Cinematography
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada

Full List http://oscar.go.com/nominees

Biggest shocker probably in the best director category. No Bigelow, Tarantino, Hooper, Affleck. Might mean that none of those films win best picture. Life of Pi won big, 11 noms. And seeing as how technically great that films is, might be the year of Pi...

Australia watch and Jackman and Watts both get a best Actor/Actress nod. And Jacki Weaver gets a nod for best supporting in Silver Linings. 2 in 3 years for her.

Also stoked to see Beasts of the Southern Wild get some love, cause I just loved that film. So glad thatQuvenzhane Wallis got nominated and they didn't leave her out just cause she's a kid. Speaking of which, maddest stat of the night...Quvenzhane being 9 and Emmanuelle Riva at 85 years old both nominated for Best Actress.

 

[CF]

Haven't seen Life of Pi yet but of the noms for best film/director I'd have to go with Lincoln/Spielberg at this stage.

Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis
Best Actress - Jessica Chastain

How Zero Dark Thirty wasn't nominated for best film is a mystery too.

 

[Conan Troutman]

Great to see Michael Haneke nominated for some oscars. Amour surely has to be a shoo-in for best foreign film, having been nominated for best picture also.

A little disappointed The Impostor did not make the final cut for documentary, after making the short list (top 15). That said, I've not yet watched any of the other doco nominations, so are basing my thoughts on it compared to previous years.

 

[Noobz0r]

Big misses in my book are Ben Affleck not getting a nomination for directing Argo, and The Master not getting a nomination for cinematography.

 

[Probitas_]

Big misses in my book are Ben Affleck not getting a nomination for directing Argo, and The Master not getting a nomination for cinematography.

Agree with both of these.
I really disliked The Master, but still think it should have been nominated for Cinematography, along with Moonrise Kingdom.
Samuel L Jackson not getting a nod for Best Support in Django Unchained is a bit stiff, but I think that goes a bit far outside of the Academys comfort zones.

 

[750mlPump]

Crazy nominations. Affleck and Bigelow missed despite hitting every precursor there is. Pretty much everyone at the Critics' Choice today (where Argo won BD/BP) was consoling Affleck. Dude looked pissed.

SLP with Weinstein will win. It's the first film since '81 to get all four acting nominations and BD/BP.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Minor nit but was surprised that Hotel Transylvania didn't make it for Animated Feature.

 

[peejay]

Have seen looking for sugarman - its a very good doco.

 

[peejay]

In fact it made me dust off my old rodriguez vinyl and crack up the turntable !

 

[djrossie16]

I didn't think The Master was that that great but Joaquin Phoenix put one of the great performances i've ever seen. Along with Phillip Seymore Hoffman (in my mind) they put on a couple of the great performances in scenes that i've witnessed.
Haven't seen Lincoln but definitely will.

 

[RobbyRoy]

Crazy nominations. Affleck and Bigelow missed despite hitting every precursor there is. Pretty much everyone at the Critics' Choice today (where Argo won BD/BP) was consoling Affleck. Dude looked pissed.

Affleck and Bigelow not getting in is huge, but The Master not in cinematography is the big one for me. Unbelievable.

Back to Affleck though. I had money on him to win the Oscar, and was actually pretty confident he would. It's more than conceivable that he wins at the Golden Globes and Director's Guild as well, which would be unprecedented as far as I know.

Clearly Lincoln is the front runner for BP now, with Silver Linings and then probably Life of Pi behind it. Crazy how much they loved SLP actually. I thought Lawrence would be their big win, but Cooper would be the only one even close to DDL I would think, De Niro is a very good roughie and Russell could upset Spielberg.

Not as interesting as it was when Argo and ZD30 looked like red hot contenders, but maybe not an entirely one horse race either.

 

[childeric]

Expect Lincoln to dominate awards

Iconic president combined with nation going through a rough patch

 

[ManWithNoName]

Best Picture - Lincoln (pending ZD30, Django and SLP)
Actor - Daniel Day Lewis. It's not even a contest.
Actress - haven't seen any of those films
Supporting Actor - Wow this is hard. Pending SLP and Django I'll go Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Scientologists in the academy may not vote for him on principle though.
Supporting Actress - Amy Adams currently.
Director - Spielberg

 

[Bomber32]

I nearly fell off the chair laughing last night when Channel 7's Mike Amor said that Hugh Jackman should now be hot favourite to win the Oscar for Best Actor. It's not even going to be close, Daniel Day Lewis will win it in a canter.

I do expect Lincoln to do very well overall. I must say, I am looking forward to seeing it when it's released here.

 

[mellowyellow]

Always liked Jacki, so it comes as a delight to see her nominated

 

[CF]

I do expect Lincoln to do very well overall. I must say, I am looking forward to seeing it when it's released here.

It's a brilliant movie that's for sure. I thought that Zero Dark Thirty was the best movie of the year with Lincoln a close second. But Lincoln will win more Oscars.

 

[DIG]

Acc to early odds, Day-Lewis, Spielberg and Hathaway are almost unbackable favorites in their categories.

In best picture, Lincoln was 2/5 vs Les Mis nearest at 6/1.

The other main categories were a bit more up for grabs from the ones I saw.

 

[HARKER]

In fact it made me dust off my old rodriguez vinyl and crack up the turntable !

You must be the only one in Australia to have one as only the South Africans knew of Rodriguez.

True story.....The doco told me so.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Acc to early odds, Day-Lewis, Spielberg and Hathaway are almost unbackable favorites in their categories.

In best picture, Lincoln was 2/5 vs Les Mis nearest at 6/1.

The other main categories were a bit more up for grabs from the ones I saw.

Hated Les Mis but wouldn't be unhappy if Hathaway won. The very small amount of screen time may count against her though.

 

[750mlPump]

Affleck and Bigelow not getting in is huge, but The Master not in cinematography is the big one for me. Unbelievable.

Back to Affleck though. I had money on him to win the Oscar, and was actually pretty confident he would. It's more than conceivable that he wins at the Golden Globes and Director's Guild as well, which would be unprecedented as far as I know.

Clearly Lincoln is the front runner for BP now, with Silver Linings and then probably Life of Pi behind it. Crazy how much they loved SLP actually. I thought Lawrence would be their big win, but Cooper would be the only one even close to DDL I would think, De Niro is a very good roughie and Russell could upset Spielberg.

Not as interesting as it was when Argo and ZD30 looked like red hot contenders, but maybe not an entirely one horse race either.

The Master's snub there was disgraceful. Especially if they saw it in 70mm (which i doubt many did, but still).
It's made up somewhat by Skyfall's inclusion, but really that branch has NFI, Tree of Life lost last year to The Artist.

It's hilarious that for the day between BAFTA and Oscar nominations Affleck looked like he would stroll to the Oscar. Now nothing. He's going to get GG, DGA and possibly BAFTA (alt. Pi) and PGA (alt. Lincoln) yet there's no chance Argo will DrivingMissDasy its way to Oscar Glory, protest votes be damned.

A BD/BP for Lee/Lincoln or SLP for both look the only possibilities. No way Spielberg is winning for an under directed Munich redux over Lee for Life of Pi.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Think about how many Scientologists there are in Hollywood. There's the "snub" of The Master explained.

 

[750mlPump]

Think about how many Scientologists there are in Hollywood. There's the "snub" of The Master explained.

LOL No. That's such a lazy answer.

 

[CF]

Think about how many Scientologists there are in Hollywood. There's the "snub" of The Master explained.

That's funny I always thought most of the academy voters were Jewish, not Scientologist's.

 

[ManWithNoName]

LOL No. That's such a lazy answer.

Oh let me enjoy my conspiracy theories.

 

[jod23]

Just watched Silver Linings Playbook. Was fantastic! Absolutely loved it. Cooper, Weaver, DeNiro and Lawrence were all fantastic. I hope it does well at the Oscars.