I’m still in the midst of my annual February screening, so I have no solid opinions yet. However, who are your picks? The Oscars are on March 7. Last year, I was pre-empted because I was en route to the Philippines, but I’ve my normal Academy punditry this season.<\/p>\n
Best Motion Picture of the Year: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Best Achievement in Directing: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Best Achievement in Cinematography: Best Achievement in Art Direction: Best Achievement in Costume Design: Best Achievement in Sound: Best Achievement in Editing: Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Best Achievement in Makeup: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score: Best Short Film, Animated: Best Short Film, Live Action: Best Documentary, Short Subjects: Best Documentary, Features: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: I’m still in the midst of my annual February screening, so I have no solid opinions yet. However, who are your picks? The Oscars are on March 7. Last year, I was pre-empted because I was en route to the Philippines, but I’ve my normal Academy punditry this season. Best Motion Picture of the Year:A … Continue reading Oscar nominations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1656],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A Serious Man<\/span>
An Education<\/span>
Avatar<\/span>
The Blind Side<\/span>
District 9<\/span>
Inglourious Basterds<\/span>
Precious<\/span>
The Hurt Locker<\/span>
Up<\/span>
Up in the Air<\/span><\/p>\n
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart<\/span>
George Clooney, Up in the Air<\/span>
Colin Firth, A Single Man<\/span>
Morgan Freeman, Invictus<\/span>
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker<\/span><\/p>\n
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side<\/span>
Helen Mirren, The Last Station<\/span>
Carey Mulligan, An Education<\/span>
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious<\/span>
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia<\/span><\/p>\n
Matt Damon, Invictus<\/span>
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger<\/span>
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station<\/span>
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones<\/span>
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds<\/span><\/p>\n
Penelope Cruz, Nine<\/span>
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air<\/span>
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart<\/span><\/span>
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air<\/span>
Mo’Nique, Precious<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker<\/span>
James Cameron, Avatar<\/span>
Lee Daniels, Precious<\/span>
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air<\/span>
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds<\/span><\/p>\n
Inglourious Basterds<\/span> – Quentin Tarantino
The Hurt Locker<\/span> – Mark Boal
The Messenger<\/span> – Alessandro Camon; Oren Moverman
A Serious Man<\/span> – Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Up<\/span> – Bob Peterson; Pete Docter; Thomas McCarthy<\/p>\n
District 9<\/span> – Neill Blomkamp; Terri Tatchell
An Education<\/span> – Nick Hornby
In the Loop<\/span> – Jesse Armstrong; Simon Blackwell; Armando Iannucci; Tony Roche
Precious<\/span> – Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air<\/span>– Jason Reitman; Sheldon Turner<\/p>\n
Avatar<\/span> – Mauro Fiore
Das weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte<\/span> – Christian Berger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/span> – Bruno Delbonnel
Inglourious Basterds<\/span> – Robert Richardson
The Hurt Locker<\/span> – Barry Ackroyd<\/p>\n
Avatar<\/span> – Rick Carter (art director); Robert Stromberg (art director); Kim Sinclair (set decorator)
Nine<\/span> – John Myhre (art director); Gordon Sim (set decorator)
Sherlock Holmes <\/span>– Sarah Greenwood (art director); Katie Spencer (set decorator)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus<\/span> – David Warren (art director); Anastasia Masaro (art director); Caroline Smith (set decorator)
The Young Victoria<\/span> – Patrice Vermette (art director); Maggie Gray (set decorator)<\/p>\n
Bright Star<\/span> – Janet Patterson
Coco avant Chanel<\/span> – Catherine Leterrier
Nine<\/span> – Colleen Atwood
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus<\/span> – Monique Prudhomme
The Young Victoria<\/span> – Sandy Powell<\/p>\n
Avatar<\/span> – Christopher Boyes; Gary Summers; Andy Nelson; Tony Johnson
Inglourious Basterds<\/span> – Michael Minkler; Tony Lamberti; Mark Ulano
Star Trek<\/span> – Anna Behlmer; Andy Nelson; Peter J. Devlin
The Hurt Locker<\/span> – Paul N.J. Ottosson; Ray Beckett
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen<\/span> – Greg P. Russell; Gary Summers; Geoffrey Patterson<\/p>\n
Avatar <\/span>– Stephen E. Rivkin; John Refoua; James Cameron
District 9<\/span> – Julian Clarke
Inglourious Basterds<\/span> – Sally Menke
Precious<\/span> – Joe Klotz
The Hurt Locker<\/span> – Bob Murawski; Chris Innis<\/p>\n
Avatar<\/span> – Christopher Boyes; Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Inglourious Basterds<\/span> – Wylie Stateman
Star Trek<\/span>– Mark P. Stoeckinger; Alan Rankin
The Hurt Locker<\/span> – Paul N.J. Ottosson
Up<\/span> – Michael Silvers; Tom Myers<\/p>\n
Avatar<\/span> – Joe Letteri; Stephen Rosenbaum; Richard Baneham; Andy Jones
District 9<\/span> – Dan Kaufman; Peter Muyzers; Robert Habros; Matt Aitken
Star Trek<\/span> – Roger Guyett; Russell Earl; Paul Kavanagh; Burt Dalton<\/p>\n
Il divo<\/span> – Aldo Signoretti; Vittorio Sodano
Star Trek<\/span> – Barney Burman; Mindy Hall; Joel Harlow
The Young Victoria<\/span> – John Henry Gordon; Jenny Shircore<\/p>\n
Crazy Heart<\/span> – Ryan Bingham; T-Bone Burnett
– For the song “The Weary Kind”
Faubourg 36<\/span> – Reinhardt Wagner (music); Frank Thomas (lyrics)
– For the song “Loin de Paname”
Nine<\/span> – Maury Yeston
– For the song “Take It All”
The Princess and the Frog<\/span> – Randy Newman
– For the song “Almost There”
The Princess and the Frog<\/span> – Randy Newman
– For the song “Down in New Orleans”<\/p>\n
Avatar<\/span> – James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/span> – Alexandre Desplat
Sherlock Holmes<\/span> – Hans Zimmer
The Hurt Locker<\/span> – Marco Beltrami; Buck Sanders
Up<\/span> – Michael Giacchino<\/p>\n
French Roast <\/span>– Fabrice Joubert
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty<\/span> – Nicky Phelan; Darragh O’Connell
La dama y la muerte<\/span> – Javier Recio Gracia
Logorama<\/span> – Nicolas Schmerkin
Wallace and Gromit in ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’<\/span> – Nick Park<\/p>\n
Ist\u00e4llet f\u00f6r abrakadabra <\/span>– Patrik Eklund; Mathias Fj\u00e4llstr\u00f6m
Kavi<\/span> – Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish<\/span> – Luke Doolan; Drew Bailey
The Door<\/span> – Juanita Wilson; James Flynn
The New Tenants<\/span> – Joachim Back; Tivi Magnusson<\/p>\n
China’s Unnatural Disaster<\/span>: The Tears of Sichuan Province – Jon Alpert; Matthew O’Neill
Kr\u00f3lik po berlinsku<\/span> – Bartosz Konopka; Anna Wydra
Music by Prudence<\/span> – Roger Ross Williams; Elinor Burkett
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner<\/span> – Daniel Junge; Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant<\/span> – Steven Bognar; Julia Reichert<\/p>\n
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land<\/span> – Anders \u00d8stergaard; Lise Lense-M\u00f8ller
Food, Inc.<\/span> – Robert Kenner; Elise Pearlstein
The Cove<\/span> – “tbd”
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers<\/span> – Judith Ehrlich; Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home <\/span>– Rebecca Cammisa<\/p>\n
Ajami<\/span> – Israel
Das weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte<\/span> – Germany
El secreto de sus ojos<\/span> – Argentina.
La teta asustada<\/span> – Peru
Un proph\u00e8te<\/span> – France<\/p>\n
Coraline<\/span> – Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/span> – Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog<\/span> – John Musker; Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells<\/span> – Tomm Moore
Up<\/span> – Pete Docter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"