Before the advent of CMS like WordPress, one had to manually organize and update single webpages if he didn’t have PHP or other dynamic methods available. Well, now I can post things much easier and so here is my first post of Oscar picks. It seems Roger Ebert wants you believing he doesn’t already know who the winners are and you can win big money if you can guess the winners in a contest hosted by Mubi.com. Anyway, here are some of the nominees and my picks:
(*) My picks are denoted with asterisk
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Christian Bale – The Fighter
John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner – The Town
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right
*Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
*Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Adapted screenplay
Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy – 127 Hours
*Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich – Toy Story 3
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – True Grit
Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini – Winter’s Bone
Original screenplay
Mike Leigh – Another Year
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington – The Fighter
*Christopher Nolan – Inception
Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg – The Kids Are All Right
David Seidler – The King’s Speech
Best animated feature film
How to Train Your Dragon
*The Illusionist
Toy Story 3 – Toy Story wins every time, so if Illusionist doesn’t win, this one’s a sure bet.
Achievement in Cinematography
Black Swan
*Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
Achievement in visual effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
*Inception
Iron Man 2
Achievement in film editing
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
*The Social Network
Achievement in directing
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
David O. Russell – The Fighter
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
*David Fincher – The Social Network
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – True Grit
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone
*Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Performance by an actor in a leading role
*Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech, dude’s a classy actor and is nominated all the time. If not Anton Chigur, then this guys a guarantee.
James Franco – 127 Hours
Best motion picture
Black Swan
The Fighter
*Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network – America wants to promote youth entreprenuerialsim, so this might be it.
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
How I chose them was by looking for trailers or clips of each nominee. I’m sure that’s how the Academy does it anyway, as they have to review thousands of submissions. These are only the genres that get any flack, so they’re the ones listed. Other thoughts are noted.
The awards show airs February 27, 2011, probably on ABC. It will be hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco.