82nd ACADEMY AWARD Nominations

[wofford29]

In case anyone is curious. Here is the list of the most awarded films of the season factoring in all circles and guilds except Oscar. So just add however many Oscars to these totals and you'll have the new and final totals.

Up In the Air - 36
Inglourious Basterds - 35.5
The Hurt Locker - 35
Precious - 26
Up - 19
The Cove - 13.5
An Education - 10
The Fantastic Mr. Fox - 9
Julie and Julia - 8
Crazy Heart - 7
Summer Hours - 7
500 Days of Summer - 5
Sin Nombre - 5
A Single Man - 4
Avatar - 3
A Serious Man - 3
The White Ribbon - 3

 

[CelticPredator]

Avatar-3...hahahahahaha enough said.

 

[EVILFACE]

Inglourious Basterds

When we look back at this years Oscars and talk about who should have won, it will be Inglourious Basterds, no Avatar.

 

[The Ringer]

Inglourious Basterds

When we look back at this years Oscars and talk about who should have won, it will be Inglourious Basterds, no Avatar.

 

[CelticPredator]

Yep. QT deserved it. Atleast, like you fellas said, Waltz won. I felt happy for the guy.

 

[CelticPredator]

No, that's an UBER BINGO!

 

[Darklord Dave]

Farrah and Ricardo being left out is a huge mistake. Bea Arthur was exclusively a television actor - so her absence makes some sense.

 

[Dusty]

Inglourious Basterds

When we look back at this years Oscars and talk about who should have won, it will be Inglourious Basterds, no Avatar.

Just like when Pulp Fiction was shafted, IMO. I mean, Forrest Gump is a great movie, but QT should AT LEAST have won the director award for PF. Although that one did win the Screenplay award. I just don't get the screenplay award going to Hurt Locker AT ALL!

 

[wofford29]

My guess is that the screenplay went to Hurt Locker because of what Mark Boal endured in actually creating it. I personally liked Basterds better, but I can understand the sentiment for Locker.

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

Glad Avatar one 3 or 4, It deserved it. At least the academy acknowledged that genre with that & district 9. Nice to see bastards villian he was great

 

[Darklord Dave]

My guess is that the screenplay went to Hurt Locker because of what Mark Boal endured in actually creating it. I personally liked Basterds better, but I can understand the sentiment for Locker.

Actually it was a really well done script and how he developed all the characters and played them against each other was truly brilliant.

However I would agree that IB was more original and took more chances and probably deserved to win more.

 

[cedric72]

Just another reason why I think the Academy Awards are a farce, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think District 9 one a damn thing, and Inglorious Basterds was overlooked most of the time. What a disgrace!
Hurt Locker is a good movie, but Best Movie of the year?...
I don't think so.

 

[DinoLast]

Perfectly sums up IB for me.
Yes it's a good movie, and when Waltz and Pitt are on screen it shines, but sadly there is not enough of them to warrant the best picture nod IMO.

As for Hurt Locker it was an intensely enjoyable movie, but had a ton of flaws, and it's almost pushing way beyond the bounds of believability at times.
Plus why were the British portrayed as useless moronic Mercs who could not shoot straight? It's a bit of an insult really. I'm no patriot, but the British Soldiers do an amazing job out in Iraq and Afghanistan, no thanks to our useless government
I know a few guys who have been out there, and they deserve better representation.

D9 is a great movie too, but the Villains are a little one dimensional.
Plus the movie only really got going for me when they seemed to dump the documentary feel of the movie

Avatar looked stunning, and was very enjoyable to watch, but I was never surprised by anything that happened in the movie, as the ending was pretty obvious after what happens to Sigourney Weaver

The only other movie I saw in the category was UP, and I loved it.
It slows a little in the middle of the movie, but it quickly gets going again. Also the Soundtrack definitely deserved the win.

What film was the greatest achievement? For me it has to be Avatar, but for raw storytelling and it would be Hurt Locker.

Avatar might become more appealing to people on here, when the flavour of the month fans move on to something else.

Also please be nice to Solidsnake, he's a great guy, who never has a bad word for anyone.

 

[wofford29]

Actually it was a really well done script and how he developed all the characters and played them against each other was truly brilliant.

However I would agree that IB was more original and took more chances and probably deserved to win more.

I should probably mention that I too believe it's a very well done script and deserving of it's nod. I was just throwing that out as another possible deciding factor in the back of peoples minds while filling out the ballots.

 

[Khev]

I was just throwing that out as another possible deciding factor in the back of peoples minds while filling out the ballots.

My hunch is that the Academy wanted to give the Oscar to Bigelow which had a ripple effect of Hurt Locker winning Best Screenplay and Picture by default.

IB's lack of recognition is frustrating to me. It shouldn't live in the shadow of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, and a win would have prevented that. The script had such a wide range of characters from different nationalities speaking different languages and for once 90% of the cast didn't sound like Tarantino himself. I'm glad the Hurt Locktards are happy but Bigelow's history making moment shouldn't have rippled throughout the rest of nominations the way that it did.

Take the cinematography as well. It was fantastic and it even featured an appropriately vintage looking Nazi propaganda movie within a movie. It was nice to see Avatar get some props for something other than effects but again Basterds seemed to be a better representation of the craft.

 

[The Ween]

Farrah and Ricardo being left out is a huge mistake. Bea Arthur was exclusively a television actor - so her absence makes some sense.

It doesn't really make sense as to why the families wouldn't want them to have their props. I just wonder if it was a mistake. I haven't read anything about it.

 

[The Ween]

I just hope that none of you are thinking that the only reason that Hurt Locker won was because a woman directed it. Let's face it, very seldom does the movie that WE want to win actually wins. I can count the times for me on one hand.

Hurt Locker is just lucky that a movie with a handicapped person or mentally challenged person wasn't nominated.

 

[fuzzylojiks]

This really affirms for me just how crazy the 'Avatards' are. They are incapable of seeing anything but just how great their movie is.

'Avatards' hehe wow insulting to the poor Avatar fans eh?

 

[The ill Jedi]

Respect? Did you watch the video? All I did was laugh the whole time. Sorry, Bam. Respect is an earned thing. That video is pure comedy.

I think that's a member here.

I WILL LET YOU GESS WHOOO; SS RULZ 4 LYFE!

YEah, he can be a little over the top with his opinions at times.

'Avatards' hehe wow insulting to the poor Avatar fans eh?

Please, get over it already.

 

[LOTRFan]

Take the cinematography as well. It was fantastic and it even featured an appropriately vintage looking Nazi propaganda movie within a movie. It was nice to see Avatar get some props for something other than effects but again Basterds seemed to be a better representation of the craft.

Cinematography certainly shouldn't have been awarded to Avatar; I would say that D9, Where the Wild Things Are, and Inglorious were much more impressive.

I too would have liked to see Tarantino get the Screenplay nod; personally I think the writing was second only to his Pulp Fiction.