Every year the Academy Awards Nominations are sure to piss people off, and this year is no exception. Hugo dominated receiving 11 nods, including Best Picture and Best Director, for Martin Scorsese’s movie that I called the best movie of 2011. The Artist however is getting a lot of love too (10 nods) for all the right reasons so it will be a showdown of cinematic appreciation for sure.
So my questions this year are as follows: Where is Drive? Why didn’t Michael Shannon get a nomination for Take Shelter? Why is Bridesmaids in any of these categories? Why isn’t Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part II? Why didn’t David Fincher or Steven Spielberg get a best director nod? Why didn’t The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo get a best picture nod?
That’s all I can think of for now, I will likely be live blogging the Oscars this year, Sunday February 26th, so this list will be re-posted, my bold predictions are not always my favorite choice, it’s what the Academy voters will likely choose.
Let’s take a look at the list of major nominations:
News concerning The Oscars tends to be boring (wake me up when Ricky Gervais wins) and this unfortunately is no different. So I have one of my favorites Kate Winslet to help.
The nominees for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Not a lot of surprises, it is nice to see Toy Story 3 going for Best Picture as I said it should in my initial review and naming it the best movies of 2010. The King’s Speech has 12 nominations, followed by 10 for True Grit and then 8 for both The Social Network and Inception, with no Best Director for Christopher Nolan. A deserved nomination for John Hawkes in Winter’s Bone. James Franco got a nomination for 127 Hours, and might be looking at a busy night as host and possible award winner.
