You can play along at home this Sunday and download the official ballot for The Oscars. I do watch the show each year, often bored. I am not looking forward to the dual hosting job of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Martin seems like he’s been pissed off for the last ten years, while Baldwin, well he’s just great actually. [Download]
Here is hoping that Inglourious Basterds wins everything and shuts up Avatar and the Hurt Locker. Ooh that’s a bingo!
The 2010 Academy Awards will feature a special tribute to writer/director John Hughes. Oscar hosts Steve Martin (Planes Trains & Automobiles) and Alec Baldwin (She’s Having A Baby) both had worked with Hughes. Not much is known about the tribute, but cast members who have worked with Hughes over the years are rumored to be involved. Hughes is best known for writing and/or directing some of the best films from the 1980’s – Hughes dropped out of filmmaking in 1991, retiring from the public eye, and rarely granting or giving interviews to the media. He wrote a couple screenplays and did some rare script and treatment work using his pseudonym, Edmond Dantès (a reference to the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Count of Monte Cristo). Those films include Beethoven, Maid in Manhattan (story) and Drillbit Taylor (story). He passed away in August of 2009, and is missed.
The nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards have been released and looking up and down the list, I kind of wish they didn’t have 10 nominees for Best Picture. Looks a little forced. I won’t say what movies shouldn’t be there, but for betting sake, I will bold my choices for the biggest awards. As expected, James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow both have Best Director Nominations, and their films Avatar and The Hurt Locker are competing for Best Picture. Too bad they broke up (married from 89-91), because that would be crazy celebration sex. I guess after making my choices below, AVATAR only gets one Oscar. Inglourious Basterds gets five. Something tells me that will not be the outcome on March 7th. Also, some odd snubs and facts from Cinematical:
COMPLETELY SHUT OUT (FOR THE WORSE)
(500) Days of Summer, Away We Go, Moon, Where The Wild Things Are
COMPLETELY SHUT OUT (FOR THE BETTER)
The Hangover, Public Enemies, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
THERE IS A GOD
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is not in the running for Best Visual Effects
IS THEIR MEMORY GETTING BETTER?
Four of the ten Best Picture nominees (District 9, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds and Up) were all released last summer as opposed to the other six, released from October on.
OR WORSE?
17 of the 20 acting nominees were in films released in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Here is the list:
I believe in miracles, where you from? You sexy thing.
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81st Academy Awards gave out the nominations this morning. Are you surprised that they really dropped the ball on some of these? Get off my lawn. And the snubs are…
- The Dark Knight gets snubbed for Director, Best Picture, Score
- Darren Aronofsky gets snubbed for Best Director
- Leonardo DiCaprio snubbed for Best Actor
- Clint Eastwood fails to get a Best Actor nod
- Kate Winslet doesn’t get double nomination
- The Wrestler snubbed for Best Picture
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads nominations with 13
- Sam Mendes…nothing
- Australia snubbed for Best Cinematography.
- Best song 3 noms, 2 are for Slumdog and one for Wall-E, why not just another for the boss?
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