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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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I tried this last year but maybe people will care this time around. So the idea is pick the winners of the Awards and whomever gets the most correct I will send them a $10 amazon Gift card. I'll be competing too but if I win whoever gets the next closest wins. Sound fun?
Here are the nominees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Oscars#Nominees_and_winners
And my choices
Best Picture
Up
Best Director
Quentin Tarantino-Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges- Crazy Heart
Best Actress
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon - Invictus
Best Supporting Actress
Monique - Precious
Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
Best Adapted Screenplay
District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
Best Animated Feature
Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter
Best Foreign Language Feature
The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke
Best Documentary
Food, Inc. – Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
Best Documentary Short
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province – Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
Best Live Action Short
Instead of Abracadabra – Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
Best Animated Short
A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park
Best Original Score
Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer
Best Original Song
"Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best Sound Editing
Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Best Sound Mixing
Inglourious Basterds – Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
Best Art Direction
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
Best Cinematography
Avatar – Mauro Fiore
Best Makeup
Il Divo – Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Best Costume Design
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Monique Prudhomme
Best Film Editing
Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
Best Visual Effects
Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Where the wild things are was fucking robbed.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Wow, 2009 was an awful year for cinema. I'll post my picks later.
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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
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Looks like fun. I'll choose my picks after I get back from work.
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AtmanRyu
Title: The Wandering Dragon
Joined: Jun 25 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Wow, money sure speaks when you have 10 nominees for best movie...
And frankly, if Avatar wins best movie (seeing that District 9 and Up are also on the list), I have officially lost faith in humanity.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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I expect anything but Inglourious Basterds to win, but honestly...it was the only GOOD movie I saw this year. I mean I liked Avatar and Hurt Locker was ok I guess, but Best Picture worthy? Hardly! I really wish some of the films from 2006 were put out this year instead like The Prestige, which wasn't even nominated back then.
Avatar is going to most likely win, which really sucks because the only thing it should win for is special effects and maybe music.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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I think Avatar may be like Button, securing lots of Noms but not winning much.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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I have seen absolutely none of those movies.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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You're not missing much...seriously the only movie I was surprised with how good it was was Inglourious Basterds, which I honestly thought was going to suck.
I haven't seen Up either, but from the previews I wasn't enthralled in any way, and I've grown beyond the Pixar movies...they haven't really been enjoyable since the first Toy Story.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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I thought up was fantastic. Also this post was my 3000th
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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i havent seen most of these movies, so i will post mine later.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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Anyone have any picks? Money you know afterall.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Anyone have any picks? Money you know afterall. |
No real money involved but I have my picks on the Hollywood Stock Exchange(hsx.com it is a free stock market game using movies and movie stars)
I just hope Avatar does not win best picture. I liked it and had a fun time watching it but I don't want a Titanic style repeat. I'm sure most of the technical awards will go to it but best picture, no. Of course I thought L.A. Confidential was a much better movie than Titanic and look how that turned out.
Best picture is most likely going to The Hurt Locker. I liked it a lot but I still enjoyed Inglourious Basterds even more and would love to see it take best picture. I'd love to see Quentin Tarantino get best director as well but the indicators are pointing at Kathryn Bigelow. I'd rather see her win than James Cameron though. However Quentin Tarantino has a knack for bringing out the best in nearly everyone he works with. If that doesn't qualify as best director I don't know what does.
Also Mélanie Laurent from Inglourious Basterds really got screwed in my opinion. Her first English speaking film and she does a great job yet does not get nominated. She should have been nominated for best actress. She probably wouldn't win but she should have been at least nominated.
I'm pretty sure Quentin Tarantino will win in the best original screenplay department.
I'm also fairly confident that Christoph Waltz will win for best supporting actor.
Sandra Bullock will most likely get best actress, but I'd like it to go to Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia. I had several cooking classes in middle school and high school and we watched many Julia Child shows during both and Meryl had it nailed. I love Sandra Bullock, I still kind of have a crush on her to this day, but Meryl's acting was as close to perfect as you can get for the role.
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"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
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Reinhart_x
Title: Master of nothing
Joined: Oct 06 2009
Location: Ohio
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| IceWarm wrote: |
I'm also fairly confident that Christoph Waltz will win for best supporting actor. |
QFT. Fairly certain Waltz has this one in the bag.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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The awards are tonight, anyone wanna make some picks.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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| Reinhart_x wrote: |
| IceWarm wrote: |
I'm also fairly confident that Christoph Waltz will win for best supporting actor. |
QFT. Fairly certain Waltz has this one in the bag. |
He fuckin' better.
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Q. Tarantino- Kathryn Bigelow- The Hurt Locker
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick
Best Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker
Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon
Best Documentary Feature: The Cove
Best Documentary Short: no idea
Best Live Action Short: no idea
Best Animated Short: no idea
Best Original Score: Avatar
Best Original Song: The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart
Best Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker
Best Cinematography: Inglorious Basterds
Best Makeup: Star Trek
Best Costume Design: no idea
Best Editing: District 9
Best Visual Effects: Avatar
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
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The Hurt Locker really was fucking fantastic.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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| Doddsino wrote: |
| Reinhart_x wrote: |
| IceWarm wrote: |
I'm also fairly confident that Christoph Waltz will win for best supporting actor. |
QFT. Fairly certain Waltz has this one in the bag. |
He fuckin' better. |
He just won.
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"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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Blah. Anyone can play a creepy German.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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Fuck yeah...now only QT needs to win Best Director and I'll be happy.
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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| joshwoodzy wrote: |
| The Hurt Locker really was fucking fantastic. |
Truth. I'm hoping for AT LEAST Best Picture and Best Director.
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us. |
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
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I'd like to point out that I'm 3 for 3 so far. Woot Hurt Locker.
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us. |
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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I don't see the big deal with The Hurt Locker, sure it's current events...but that's about it. It doesn't strike me as some sort of movie that stands on the same level as a lot of other Best Pictures before. It's like Philidelphia, I mean it was good for a short time, but watching it now, it doesn't hold the same capacity. In my honest opinion, it's just not that great of a movie.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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I really liked The Hurt Locker but I still think Inglourious Basterds had a better screenplay.
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"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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It's a movie that resonated with a lot of people serving this country. Inglorious Basterds was just a stereotypical, overly long suckfest.
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