82nd ACADEMY AWARD Nominations

[jinxx]

Huuuwaaaat!? Cloud was one of the dancers! Wooooo, GO DANIEL!

 

[D. Martin]

I hope he had a mohawk too.

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[IrishJedi]

Loving that THE HURT LOCKER kicked 'tard ass. But I'm actually kind of pissed than AVATAR won "Best Cinematography". It's almost entirely digital and CGI! Most of cinematography is the art of lighting (and shooting) on film. It's gathering complete images through the camera lens. If a movie that is 90% green screen with most of its images coming from computer software can win this, why not an honestly animated film like UP? I can live with AVATAR's win for Art Direction (though it was far from original) or Best Visual Effects (though DISTRICT 9 had much more photo-realistic FX that didn't pull you out of the story)... but Cinematography? Just asinine.

 

[D. Martin]

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[LOTRFan]

... but Cinematography? Just asinine.

And that Where the Wild Things Are wasn't even mentioned ...

 

[IrishJedi]

And that Where the Wild Things Are wasn't even mentioned ...

I know! By far the most befuddling of all Oscar categories this year. I understand that 99% of the populace doesn't have a clue what Cinematography really is... but the Academy? Scary.

 

[Jen]

Loving that THE HURT LOCKER kicked 'tard ass. But I'm actually kind of pissed than AVATAR won "Best Cinematography". It's almost entirely digital and CGI! Most of cinematography is the art of lighting (and shooting) on film. It's gathering complete images through the camera lens. If a movie that is 90% green screen with most of its images coming from computer software can win this, why not an honestly animated film like UP? I can live with AVATAR's win for Art Direction (though it was far from original) or Best Visual Effects (though DISTRICT 9 had much more photo-realistic FX that didn't pull you out of the story)... but Cinematography? Just asinine.

I was rather surprised by the Cinematography win as well.

 

[azurepred]

Im glad Kathryn Bigelow won. She deserved it. I been following her since Near Dark. Avatar was a masterpiece of cinema. but to be honest I throught District 9 done so much for the history of cinema in the aspects of sci fi story telling as Avatar did to the technology in film. District 9 was the best picture of 09. I seen it back to back. I seen it Saturday and went back on Sunday to watched it again.

I agree, D9 was an all around awesome movie, not just visually, but the story and acting was great too, by far my fav movie out of the bunch. I'm with the majority, I think Avatar is overrated.

 

[wofford29]

I thought there were 3 surprises/upsets tonight. Everything else was as expected. The surprises were Precious winning adapted screenplay. The White Ribbon losing foreign language film, and Avatar winning for cinematography.

 

[IrishJedi]

DP's all over the world must still have their jaws on the ground. Honestly, it was baffling that it was even nominated in that category, much less it actually winning.

 

[Timinator]

DP's all over the world must still have their jaws on the ground. Honestly, it was baffling that it was even nominated in that category.

Carl, are you seriously saying that you LIKED WTWTA?

 

[wofford29]

Where The Wild Things Are is a minor masterpiece of a film.

 

[Ktjn]

Shouldn't D9 have been in the "make up category"?


I was wrong on one question/prediction in the Oscar contest. I wouldn't doubt someone got it 100% right.

 

[Darklord Dave]

Loving that THE HURT LOCKER kicked 'tard ass. But I'm actually kind of pissed than AVATAR won "Best Cinematography". It's almost entirely digital and CGI! Most of cinematography is the art of lighting (and shooting) on film. It's gathering complete images through the camera lens. If a movie that is 90% green screen with most of its images coming from computer software can win this, why not an honestly animated film like UP? I can live with AVATAR's win for Art Direction (though it was far from original) or Best Visual Effects (though DISTRICT 9 had much more photo-realistic FX that didn't pull you out of the story)... but Cinematography? Just asinine.

I thought that at first too, but the only people that are allowed to nominate for Best Cinematography are those members of the Academy in the cinematography branch. So it shouldn't have been nominated at all if the DPs really thought it was more animated than filmed.

And I'm so glad that Hurt Locker won so many awards - truly deserving although I loved Avatar and District 9 too.

 

[The ill Jedi]

Loving that THE HURT LOCKER kicked 'tard ass. But I'm actually kind of pissed than AVATAR won "Best Cinematography". It's almost entirely digital and CGI! Most of cinematography is the art of lighting (and shooting) on film. It's gathering complete images through the camera lens. If a movie that is 90% green screen with most of its images coming from computer software can win this, why not an honestly animated film like UP? I can live with AVATAR's win for Art Direction (though it was far from original) or Best Visual Effects (though DISTRICT 9 had much more photo-realistic FX that didn't pull you out of the story)... but Cinematography? Just asinine.

I agree 100%.

 

[Darth Madden]

I was wrong on one question/prediction in the Oscar contest. I wouldn't doubt someone got it 100% right.

I got at least 6 and maybe 7 (I forgot to write down my picks.) I know for sure I missed best actress though.

 

[LOTRFan]

I got at least 6 and maybe 7 (I forgot to write down my picks.) I know for sure I missed best actress though.

I only missed one, I had Streep over Sandra.

 

[wofford29]

I got them all right and from the looks of it in the comments section of the contest a lot of people did. This was actually probably the easiest year in a decade to pick the winners.

 

[The ill Jedi]

And I'm so glad that Hurt Locker won so many awards - truly deserving although I loved Avatar and District 9 too.

Same here on all accounts. It's great that so many movies that I loved were nominated this year.

 

[Ktjn]

I got them all right and from the looks of it in the comments section of the contest a lot of people did. This was actually probably the easiest year in a decade to pick the winners.

Yeah, I read some. On another forum, someone put in multiple entries (hope they get caught). I wish SS had added more categories.