{"id":660,"date":"2011-02-15T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T05:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2011-02-15T23:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T05:27:51","slug":"83rd-academy-awards-nominees-my-picks-for-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/83rd-academy-awards-nominees-my-picks-for-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"83rd Academy Awards Nominees + My Picks for Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. Anyway, here are some of the nominees and my picks:<\/p>\n

(*) My picks are denoted with asterisk<\/p>\n

Performance by an actor in a supporting role<\/h3>\n

Christian Bale – The Fighter
\nJohn Hawkes – Winter’s Bone
\nJeremy Renner – The Town
\nMark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right
\n*Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech<\/p>\n

Performance by an actress in a supporting role<\/h3>\n

Amy Adams – The Fighter
\nHelena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
\nMelissa Leo – The Fighter
\n*Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
\nJacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom<\/p>\n

Adapted screenplay<\/h3>\n

Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy – 127 Hours
\n*Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
\nMichael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich – Toy Story 3
\nJoel Coen & Ethan Coen – True Grit
\nDebra Granik & Anne Rosellini – Winter’s Bone<\/p>\n

Original screenplay<\/h3>\n

Mike Leigh – Another Year
\nScott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington – The Fighter
\n*Christopher Nolan – Inception
\nLisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg – The Kids Are All Right
\nDavid Seidler – The King’s Speech<\/p>\n

Best animated feature film<\/h3>\n

How to Train Your Dragon
\n*The Illusionist
\nToy Story 3 – Toy Story wins every time, so if Illusionist doesn’t win, this one’s a sure bet.<\/p>\n

Achievement in Cinematography<\/h3>\n

Black Swan
\n*Inception
\nThe King’s Speech
\nThe Social Network
\nTrue Grit<\/p>\n

Achievement in visual effects<\/h3>\n

Alice in Wonderland
\nHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
\nHereafter
\n*Inception
\nIron Man 2<\/p>\n

Achievement in film editing<\/h3>\n

Black Swan
\nThe Fighter
\nThe King’s Speech
\n127 Hours
\n*The Social Network<\/p>\n

Achievement in directing<\/h3>\n

Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
\nDavid O. Russell – The Fighter
\nTom Hooper – The King’s Speech
\n*David Fincher – The Social Network
\nJoel Coen and Ethan Coen – True Grit<\/p>\n

Performance by an actress in a leading role<\/h3>\n

Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
\nNicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
\nJennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone
\n*Natalie Portman – Black Swan
\nMichelle Williams – Blue Valentine<\/p>\n

Performance by an actor in a leading role<\/h3>\n

*Javier Bardem – Biutiful
\nJeff Bridges – True Grit
\nJesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
\nColin 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.
\nJames Franco – 127 Hours<\/p>\n

Best motion picture<\/h3>\n

Black Swan
\nThe Fighter
\n*Inception
\nThe Kids Are All Right
\nThe King’s Speech
\n127 Hours
\nThe Social Network – America wants to promote youth entreprenuerialsim, so this might be it.
\nToy Story 3
\nTrue Grit
\nWinter’s Bone<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The awards show airs February 27, 2011, probably on ABC. It will be hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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