My Oscar 2011 Predictions and my Personal Choices
The Academy will make their choices, I make mine. These are predictions on how the Academy votes. Expect to see a lot of "The Artist" on their lists; expect to see a lot of Hugo on mine.
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- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.Best Picture - My choice "Hugo"
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.Best Actor - Jean Dujardin
My choice - Jean Dujardin - DirectorPhyllida LloydStarsMeryl StreepJim BroadbentRichard E. GrantAn elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.Best Actress - Meryl Streep
My choice - Viola Davis - The Help or
Bernice Bejo - The Artist - It's a lead performance - DirectorMike MillsStarsEwan McGregorChristopher PlummerMélanie LaurentOliver, a graphic designer, is attracted to a free-spirited and unpredictable Anna. Memories of his father encourage him to open himself up to the potential of a true and long-lasting relationship.Best Supporting Actress - Christopher Plummer
(haven't seen this yet, but I know Plummer is deserving)
My choice - Ben Kingsley - Hugo - DirectorTate TaylorStarsViola DavisEmma StoneOctavia SpencerAn aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.Best Supporting Actress - Octavia Spencer
My choice - Octavia Spencer - DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius
My choice - Martin Scorsese - Hugo - DirectorWoody AllenStarsOwen WilsonRachel McAdamsKathy BatesWhile on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.Best Original Screenplay - Woody Allen
My choice Woody Allen - DirectorAlexander PayneStarsGeorge ClooneyShailene WoodleyAmara MillerA land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.Best Adapted Screenplay - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
My Choice - Moneyball (2011): Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin - DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsJohnny DeppIsla FisherTimothy OlyphantRango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.Best Animated Film
My choice - Rango - DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.Best Foreign Language Film
(I've seen none of the nominees) - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsBrad PittSean PennJessica ChastainThe story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki
My choice - Hugo - Robert Richardson - DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.Best Editing - Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
My choice - Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsAsa ButterfieldChloë Grace MoretzChristopher LeeIn 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.Best Art Direction - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
My choice - Hugo - DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.Best Costume Design - Mark Bridges
My choice - Hugo - Sandy Powell - DirectorPhyllida LloydStarsMeryl StreepJim BroadbentRichard E. GrantAn elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.Best Makeup - Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland
My choice - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011): Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
P.S. Thank God - J. Edgar was not nominated. - DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.Best Original Score - Ludovic Bource
My choice - Hugo - Howard Shore - DirectorJames BobinStarsAmy AdamsJason SegelChris CooperA Muppet fanatic with some help from his 2 human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures.Best Original Song - Bret McKenzie ("Man or Muppet")
My choice - "Life's a Happy Song" - The Muppets. (not nominated)
I also have a soft spot for Elton John's "Hello, Hello" from Gnomeo and Juliet (not nominated). - DirectorMichael BayStarsShia LaBeoufRosie Huntington-WhiteleyTyrese GibsonThe Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.Best Sound Mixing and Editing
My choice - War Horse - DirectorRupert WyattStarsJames FrancoAndy SerkisFreida PintoA substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.Best Visual Effects
My choice - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - DirectorMarshall CurrySam CullmanStarsDaniel McGowanLisa McGowanTim LewisA rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.'Best Documentary
My choice - Cave of Forgotten Dreams or Senna (neither nominated) - DirectorJames SpioneStarsEthan McCordU.S. Army veteran Ethan McCord recounts his life-changing experiences at the scene of one of the most notorious events of the Iraq War: the slaying of two Reuters journalists, along with a group of mostly unarmed men, on the streets of Baghdad by American attack helicopters in July 2007.Best Documentary Short
My choice - don't care, expect a political film to win and a preachy acceptance speech for any of the nominees. - DirectorAmanda ForbisWendy TilbyStarsAdam BlackwoodLuba GoyAnthony BekennCalgary, 1909. An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.Best Animated Short
1909 - period film will go along with nostalgia craze this year.
My choice - haven't seen any but The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore sounds interesting - DirectorHallvar WitzøStarsEdvard HægstadIngrid VikenTerje RanesEverybody will die one day, but 70-year-old Oskar will die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a long-ago disagreement. Will he reach his brother, whom he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it is too late?Best Live Action Short Film
It's about dying, I think the Academy will go for this one.