Monday, February 1, 2010

And the nominees might be...

Here are my fearless predictions of what and who will be nominated for Oscars tomorrow morning.

BEST PICTURE
An Education
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Precious
Star Trek
Up
Up in the Air

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo'Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Samantha Morton, The Messenger

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
James Cameron, Avatar
Scott Neustatder & Michael H. Weber, (500) Days of Summer
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Nora Ephron, Julie & Julia
Tom Ford and David Scearce, A Single Man
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

2 comments:

Becky B said...

Good job - you got a lot of them right (except that pesky supporting actress category). I was a bit skeptical last night when I saw "Up" on your list for Best Picture - especially considering animated features have their own category now, I thought they would concede that one to "Up" and give a "real" movie the last slot in the Best Picture category. But I was wrong! It seems kind of... dumb to me to have Up nominated for both "Best Picture" and "Best Animated Feature," though. I mean, isn't it a given now that it'll win the latter category? The fact that it was nominated for Best Picture and no other animated film was kind of shows that it's already the best of the animated features. It's like announcing the winner before the ceremony.

All right. I'm thinking way too hard about this. Also, I'm a bit bummed that "9" wasn't nominated - I really liked that movie. I should probably see "Up," though.

JonTeig99 said...

Thanks!
Yeah, I see what you're saying about "Up" - it does seem a bit redundant with the Animated Feature category... but then again, Foreign Language films are eligible for the Best Picture Oscar, and they have been nominated there too (think "Life is Beautiful").
Overall I was pleased and fairly indifferent with the nominations.