Oscar Nominations 2012

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

BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life

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

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

BEST 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 SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer - The Help

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Bullhead - Belgium
Footnote - Israel
In Darkness - Poland
Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
A Separation - Iran

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
Margin Call - JC Chandor
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

BEST ANIMATION
A Cat in Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango

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

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

BEST SOUND EDITING
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Man or Muppet from The Muppets - music and lyrics by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio from Rio - music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown and lyrics by Siedah Garrett

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

BEST COSTUMES
Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.

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

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
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

BEST FILM EDITING
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Penecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic

BEST 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

BEST MAKE-UP
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Iron Lady

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Gary Oldman got a nomination!

Best Picture nominations:

-THE ARTIST
-THE DESECENDANTS
-EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
-THE HELP
-HUGO
-MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
-MONEYBALL
-THE TREE OF LIFE
-WAR HORSE

Put MIDNIGHT IN PARIS and TREE OF LIFE at the top of my queue, they'll be "Very Long Wait" in no time seeing as my most recent DVD;s just shipped this morning.

I've only seen THE HELP from those, but that looks like too many movies. EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE was a surprise. I say strike that one the list, and maybe another one - MONEYBALL? - and you'd have a more interesting race. And from the sound of it, Replace another still with TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPION

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/84/nominees.html?_r=true

Here is the full list.


I've only seen THE TREE OF LIFE and it's great to see it being nominated but I'm not really surprised since the Academy love Malick. I hope he turns up.

Good to see Gary Oldman getting some recognition and TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY should have been nominated for Best Picture to make it 10 BP nominees. I'm sure it's better than most of them anyway.

I thought THE READER was completely mediocre but Stephen Daldry must have friends in the Academy for nominating every film he has made.

DRIVE only gets best sound editing after all the hype.

2012 84th Academy Awards nominations

Once again, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has been way overlooked!!

but I am glad they nominated Rooney Mara for Best Actress and SHE DESERVES to WIN!!

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

Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Best Actress
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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

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

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Hugo, John Logan
The Ides of March, George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball, Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bridget O’ Connor and Peter Straughan

Best Original Screenplay
The Artist, Michael Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids, Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
Margin Call, J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
A Separation, Asghar Farhadi

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

I think having 10 nominees in the Best Picture category simply waters down the value of having been nominated in the first place.

Too many foreigners listed in these nominations, which is why I suspect these Oscars ratings are going to be down yet again.

It's good to see child molester Woody Allen getting some recognition again from the Academy. He should be awarded the coveted Roman Polanski Lifetime Achievement Award at some point.

Looking ahead to 2013, I predict the following nominations::

Best Picture
Skyfall

Best Director
Sam Mendes

Best Original Song
"Skyfall" by MUSE

Best Original Screenplay:
Skyfall by Robert Purvis and Robert Wade

I also predict that, on her way to the podium to accept the Oscar for Best PIcture, Babs will elbow step-brother Michael out of the frame so he can't be seen on screen, and she'll forget to thank her father, Albert Cubby Broccoli, for making the series so great before she shat all over it.

Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Special Effects, Best Sound: Prometheus!!

Transformers got more nominations than Drive.

I'm not watching this shit.

MONEYBALL and MIDNIGHT IN PARIS don't belong on the list. Haven't seen EXTREMELY LOUD, but it looks like exploiting 9/11 will get you pretty far in Hollywood. I can imagine it's a fucking godawful picture with an annoying child actor.

Notable exclusions for Best Picture: DRIVE, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, DRAGON TATTOO

I have a feeling the Woody Allen was given a nomination because he's old and we won't be seeing too many more films from him soon. Fair enough. Same goes for Von Sydow.

I'd like to see Alberto Iglesias win best score, because he's an outstanding composer. If not him, then John Williams for WAR HORSE. The other scores aren't worth a damn--especially THE ARTIST (and I imagine it'll win).

And I hope Rooney Mara wins best actress. She was awesome in DRAGON TATTOO.

Melissa McCarthy? For what was pretty much an extended SNL gag?

If Streep wins for Iron Lady I will throw something. Am I the only person on the planet who thinks she's totally hammy when she does the dress-up act?

Glenn Close might get Lead Actress as a Long Service Award. I haven't seen Albert Nobbs, but with the state of her face recently I doubt she was doing much acting in it.

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MONEYBALL

Haha, that's such a terrible title. You can't tell that it's about baseball just by reading the title. Fake word doesn't even sound like "baseball."

I look forward to the sequels (about basketball, football and volleyball, respectively):

MONEYBALL 2
MONEYBALL 3
MONEYBALL: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

MONEYBALLZ

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Glenn Close might get Lead Actress as a Long Service Award. I haven't seen Albert Nobbs, but with the state of her face recently I doubt she was doing much acting in it.

She may be undergoing a sex change.

Added the full list to Tux's first post.

My bet is on Christopher Plummer.

Consider that a jinx, CP

These 'Ocsars', what are they supposed to be???

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

I think having 10 nominees in the Best Picture category simply waters down the value of having been nominated in the first place.

Agreed (looking back, it's ridiculous that STAR TREK was nominated for Best Picture a couple of years ago). Although, oddly, there are only nine this year.

Jack Wade wrote:

Transformers got more nominations than Drive.

I'm not watching this shit.

we can say shit here?

I couldn't say that at MI6!

are you kidding, stronger stuff has been said

I will say this: I was kind of surprised to see that SHAME got nothing. For all the talk by Follywood of rewarding risky, daring, innovative performances and films, Whorrywood sure managed to try and take the safe route with these selections.

Interesting note from THE LA Times :In the actor category, it seems taking it all off gets you nowhere, whereas saying nothing at all makes you a shoo-in. Michael Fassbender was ignored by the academy for his role as a sex addict in Steve McQueen's "Shame," a performance many thought was a lock in the best actor category. Meanwhile, Demian Bichir was nominated for his role as an undocumented gardener living in Los Angeles in the little-seen Chris Weitz-directed drama "A Better Life," and both Jean Dujardin (best actor, "The Artist") and Max von Sydow (best supporting actor, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close") were nominated for roles where few, if any, words are spoken.

In other words, Demian Bichir was nominated for playing an illegal alien, not an "undocumented worker". That's like me stealing money from someone's wallet and referring to myself as an "undocumented treasury agent" ;)

Didn't Judi Dench win an Oscar for Shakespeare In Love, a film she was barely in for 10 minutes? Admittedly I think that's all I've seen of that film.

Hilly wrote:

are you kidding, stronger stuff has been said

Can I say Fumducks then?

Those Academy members are a bunch of Fumducks!!

I still don't understand why there are 10 Best Picture nominations now!!

So why not 10 for each of the other categories too?

I'm hoping The Tree Of Life wins some awards, and even though I haven't seen The Artist (yet!), I hope that wins too, if only just to inspire other film makers to be different than the norm.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Interesting note from THE LA Times :In the actor category, it seems taking it all off gets you nowhere, whereas saying nothing at all makes you a shoo-in. Michael Fassbender was ignored by the academy for his role as a sex addict in Steve McQueen's "Shame," a performance many thought was a lock in the best actor category. Meanwhile, Demian Bichir was nominated for his role as an undocumented gardener living in Los Angeles in the little-seen Chris Weitz-directed drama "A Better Life," and both Jean Dujardin (best actor, "The Artist") and Max von Sydow (best supporting actor, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close") were nominated for roles where few, if any, words are spoken.

Words aren't everything. In fact in a lot of films today, there are too many of them.

Where's Tintin? Did it not qualify as an animated film?
And WTF on Fassbender's snub?
In any case, these look like the most predictable Oscars in years: The Artist, Scorsese, Clooney, Streep, Plummer.

GeneralGogol wrote:

Where's Tintin? Did it not qualify as an animated film?

I was wondering the same thing.

In a perfect world, MYSTERIES OF LISBON and Raul Ruiz received nominations. But it ain't a perfect world.

Anyway, a fairly predictable set of nominees.