Oscar Nominations

Came out this morning - plenty of surprises! My predicted winner in bold when I have enough information to make an educated guess.

Best Picture

War Horse
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Best Actress

Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Viola Davis, The Help
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

Best Actor

Demian Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Supporting Actress

Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help

Supporting Actor

Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Best Director

Michel Hazanivicus, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Best Original Screenplay

Michel Hazanivicius, The Artist
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumulo, Bridesmaids
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Asghar Farhadi, A Separation

Best Adapted Screenplay

Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants
John Logan, Hugo
George Clooney, Beau Willimon and Grant Heslov, The Ides of March
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, Moneyball
Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Foreign Feature

Bullhead
Footnote
In Darkness
Monsieur Lazhar
A Separation

Best Animated Feature

A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango

Art Direction

The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse

Cinematography

The Artist
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Costume Design

Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.

Documentary Feature

Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated

Documentary Short Subject

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God Is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Film Editing

Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Kevin Tent, The Descendants
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Thelma Schoonmaker, Hugo
Christopher Tellefsen, Moneyball

Makeup

Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle, Albert Nobbs
Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland, The Iron Lady

Music (Original Score)

John Williams, The Adventures of Tintin
Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Howard Shore, Hugo
Alberto Iglesias, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Williams, War Horse

Music (Original Song)

"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets, Bret McKenzie
"Real in Rio" from Rio, Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett

Sound Editing

Drive
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

Sound Mixing

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Monyeball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

Visual Effects

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Short Film (Animated)

Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life

Short Film (Live Action)

Pentecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic

I am surprised that Michael Fassbender missed out for Shame and Tilda Swinton for We Need To Talk About Kevin. Also, where is Tintin on the animated list?? Wish Buck or BCNY got nominated in the documentary field too. Drive was largely absent..

Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor...

Just realised Leonardo Dicaprio has never won a Oscar. WTF. He is seriously an amazing actor with some amazing movies under his belt.. Therefore I think the Oscars can fuck off.

Tree Of Fucking Life?!?! God, I hated that movie so much...total crap!

Man, I didn't even know Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close had been made into a movie?!?! Such a brilliant book!

Not exactly rating well...how can a movie scoring a measly 48% on Rotten Toms possible be up for best picture?

Wow... wtf is up with best song this year... 2 nominees ? :o

Well hopefully the kiwi guy will win the best song then… and they should make a special Oscar for Leonardo Dicaprio ?

Drive & Gosling got the snub big time.

If Tree of Life wins I will express my displeasure in this very thread.

Reckon!

Today!

The Artist nom nom nom

oh great... I wonder who will be wearing what?

tune in to the vacuous Kate Rdger and her plot summaries disgusied as reviews celeb fascination styled bollocks

I always love what Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba wear...mostly Salma she has worn the most amazing dresses ...

Who gets it wrong.. Nicole Kidman and Hillary Swank.. blargh...

Looking forward to tonight!

sour puss

I love movies... what part of the oscars celebrates that?

The awards going to the obvious? The history of the worlds greatest movies being ignored? etc etc

I'm not into womans high priced fashion... thus this is not my day

Would love Hugo to sweep the awards.. such a great movie : )

must watch that me

I don't understand why my pick of movie of the year Jack & Jill is up for heaps of razzies but no oscar?

PC gone mad imo

5 Oscars for Hugo so far.. love it. And Undefeated won Best Doc, which is a future release from my work woooop.

go go you mad young thing

Brett McKenzie just won best original song.

Only one other nomination, was pretty shoe in that one, but still damn awesome for him!

Best Actress seems to be the most debated/contested catagory this year

Really wanted Oldman to win Best Actor. Ah well.

Recording this at home, to watch tonight.

Damn you NY Times notification on my iphone telling me who just won best picture

I had 2 mates win Oscars! Pretty damn cool.

Hugo winning best visual effects... was a bit of a ????

The effects looked very dated to me.

Not too many upsets imo, though thought Viola Davis would win for The Help - she was also one of the few good things in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.