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Oscar Nominations 2011 (Jan 25, 8:30am EST/5:30am PST)

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jett

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Talon- said:
It's an awards show. They're there to be congratulated.

I hate Diplo more and more every day.
Not because you, just the avatar. So, yes, because of you.

Nope. Some of the tracks were repurposed from previous Reznor work, so it was disqualified.

?? It's nominated.
 

Macmanus

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Discotheque said:
Yeah I'm not a big fan of Inception (thought it is really fun after it picks up steam) but he deserved the nomination over the kings' speech guy and o russell.

I don't think people who have this feeling really understand what a director does, or what their main focus is. Considering how incredibly flat and underutilized all the talented actors were in Inception, it would be rather tragic to see him nominated. Also considering how fucking incredible the characters were in TKS and The Fighter, specifically the supporting ensemble, I think Russell and Hooper got what they deserved.
 

Talon

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WyndhamPrice said:
Except it wasn't disqualified and is nominated? Or are you trolling?
Wait, it was nominated?

Slashfilm said it was going to get pulled because a chunk of the soundtrack was based off of Reznor b-sides.

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Antiochus

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How does one know Inception will never get Best Picture? Common sense? Clairvoyance?

Just look at who's nominated in Best Director and Best Film Editing. Also, scrutinize the number of nominations compared to Best Picture

The Academy couldn't have made it more obvious
 

jett

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Acid08 said:
Franco is going to get fucking robbed because a movie starring British people came out. Bullshit.

Have you actually seen The King's Speech? Collin Firth is more deserving of the win than Franco. Frankly 127 hours is really not that great.
 

Speevy

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Colin Firth will win both because of his incredible performance and the previous snub.

Franco will lose because he's simply not the best performer of the year and he's too young/lucky to be nominated.
 

Speevy

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I give Hailee Steinfeld props not only because of her performance, but also because she clearly understood what the Coens were going for. To have that kind of intelligence at her age is remarkable.
 

Ceres

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Acid08 said:
Seriously?

At least half the films nominated for Best Picture have a British actor.

Speevy said:
Colin Firth will win both because of his incredible performance and the previous snub.

Franco will lose because he's simply not the best performer of the year and he's too young/lucky to be nominated.

I've been slacking on my Firth fangirling. I still need to see A Single Man.
 

(._.)

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Good stuff, agree with pretty much everything here. I'll have my winners prediction bracket up soon. Anybody pissed off at any of these?
 
I havnt seen alot of what's on this list. Are any of the screenwriting noms more deserving of the win than Aaron Sorkin? Social Network had a razor sharp script.
 

Xater

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theignoramus said:
I havnt seen alot of what's on this list. Are any of the screenwriting noms more deserving of the win than Aaron Sorkin? Social Network had a razor sharp script.

True Grit maybe.
 

(._.)

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Winter's Bone got several nominations it deserved. BAFTA's overlooked it because I'm guessing it wasn't pushed there at all.
 

ghst

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Macmanus said:
I don't think people who have this feeling really understand what a director does, or what their main focus is. Considering how incredibly flat and underutilized all the talented actors were in Inception, it would be rather tragic to see him nominated. Also considering how fucking incredible the characters were in TKS and The Fighter, specifically the supporting ensemble, I think Russell and Hooper got what they deserved.
hooper's first choice for george vi was hugh grant: "it was going to be more of a fun film".

TKS is astounding in its delicately cultivated narrative and tasteful acts of restraint, but its entire tonal conception was a happy accident.
 
Talon- said:
Wait, it was nominated?

Slashfilm said it was going to get pulled because a chunk of the soundtrack was based off of Reznor b-sides.
Only two tracks out of 19 includes elements from his previous work, and only because Fincher insisted that those elements stay. Only one of those tracks could be heard in the movie.

As of now, it's nominated.
 

Macmanus

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ghst said:
hooper's first choice for george vi was hugh grant: "it was going to be more of a fun film".

TKS is astounding in its delicately cultivated narrative and tasteful acts of restraint, but its entire tonal conception was a happy accident.

But it wasn't. Your point is moot in the context of the final product.

Also I'd argue that it's "tasteful acts of restraint" lost it's way towards the final act of the film when it got a bit ham fisted with the glorious march onward to war.

Also note:

Last month, the director, Tom Hooper, told me: “I wasn’t interested in Hugh doing a light version. It was a blessing, really, because once I started talking to Colin Firth and getting to know him, the rightness of him playing the part was so profound.”

Happy accident indeed.
 

big ander

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Speevy said:
Still though, should be up for best film or best foreign film or something.
Unfortunately the category is foreign language film, so it doesn't fit. One of my favorites of the year, though.
Antiochus said:
How does one know Inception will never get Best Picture? Common sense? Clairvoyance?

Just look at who's nominated in Best Director and Best Film Editing. Also, scrutinize the number of nominations compared to Best Picture

The Academy couldn't have made it more obvious
So you're saying because it didn't get other nominations, it will or it won't get BP?
I think there's no way in hell it'll get BP, just wondering what you think.
Macmanus said:
I don't think people who have this feeling really understand what a director does, or what their main focus is. Considering how incredibly flat and underutilized all the talented actors were in Inception, it would be rather tragic to see him nominated. Also considering how fucking incredible the characters were in TKS and The Fighter, specifically the supporting ensemble, I think Russell and Hooper got what they deserved.
I get where you're coming from about Inception. I think Nolan did a better job directing in Inception than the Coens did with True Grit. I like True Grit a lot, but it's still a disappointment for me. It has very little depth. It's just a super fun movie with great dialogue.
Russell for sure deserved it. The Fighter gets a lot of kneejerk "this is bad" reactions, but while it's a traditional story the direction (particularly in the boxing scenes) and the acting are fantastic.
 
screw all this movie talk though. The more important question is...do you guys think Bansky will show up for the documentary award?
 
Discotheque said:
screw all this movie talk though. The more important question is...do you guys think Bansky will show up for the documentary award?
I think we're missing an even more important question. Are we going to see any nip slips at the Oscars this year? That's the real shit people want to know.
 

element

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While I understand Nolan not getting a nomination for Direction, I'm surprised to see Inception not nominated for best editing, while seeing The Kings Speech.

screw all this movie talk though. The more important question is...do you guys think Bansky will show up for the documentary award?
I was just thinking that.
 

Snuggles

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Damn, I'm out of touch. The only films that I've seen with notable nominations are Toy Story 3 and Inception. I haven't seen any of the films that make up the acting, directing or most of the best picture catagories. Honestly, though, the only one I'm even interested in watching is True Grit.
 

RobbieNick

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Man, fuck the Academy.

First off, Hailee Steinfeld for supporting actress. SUPPORTING?!! Is that what it means when the motherfucking movie revolves around your character?!! Supporting?!! There's not even another actress in this movie outside of the old maid!!

Nope, the academy snubbed her for lead only because she was so young. what bullshit.

Second, WHERE THE FUCK IS TRON: LEGACY?!!! I'm okay with no Best FX or Best Costume, but to snub Daft Punk out of Best Original Score is pure bullshit! They had the best soundtrack out of any picture last year. For many people, it was the best part of the movie.
Even those who hated the story loved the soundtrack.
 
element said:
While I understand Nolan not getting a nomination for Direction, I'm surprised to see Inception not nominated for best editing, while seeing The Kings Speech.

I was just thinking that.
Editing was pretty bad during some scenes. Highly bad during the Arianne/Cobb cafe scene where street erupts.
 

Meliorism

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Discotheque said:
screw all this movie talk though. The more important question is...do you guys think Bansky will show up for the documentary award?

http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/01/banksy-takes-the-top-prize-at.php

"Now's not the time for long, rambling speeches. I'll leave that for the director of 'Waiting for Superman.'

I'd like to thank the Cinema Eye awards. It's great to be recognized by people who are so obsessed with the documentary genre -- in other words people who are even more socially retarded than myself.

I guess some of you may be getting a bit suspicious about me. How can you know that this award is real? But I'd like to categorically assure you that this evening's awards are not being staged by actors for a parody I'm making about film awards.

I'd like to thank anyone who worked on the movie. Almost all of them did a great job. And I'd like to dedicate this award to anyone out there who's ever looked at the state of this world and though: 'I can't just stand idly by and watch this happen. I need to get it on tape.' Thank you and have a good evening."

In short, if Gift Shop wins, Banksy will not show up.
 
shagg_187 said:
Editing was pretty bad during some scenes.

As it is for all Nolan films. But the editing as they interchanged between dream layers (bridge, hotel and shadow moses) is the reason why this was nominated (and rightly so). I was really impressed.
 

XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Looks like we have a total of 5 nominations.

ILM - Best Achievement in Visual Effects for Iron Man 2
Skywalker Sound - Sound Editing for Toy Story 3 and Tron Legacy, and Sound Mixing for Inception and The Social Network.
 

Speevy

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RobbieNick said:
First off, Hailee Steinfeld for supporting actress. SUPPORTING?!! Is that what it means when the motherfucking movie revolves around your character?!!



Well, in this case supporting means all the main actress nominations are taken up.
 
XiaNaphryz said:
Looks like we have a total of 5 nominations.

ILM - Best Achievement in Visual Effects for Iron Man 2
Skywalker Sound - Sound Editing for Toy Story 3 and Tron Legacy, and Sound Mixing for Inception and The Social Network.

Good job on the mixing for Social Network.
 

Forkball

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Was The Fighter really that good? From the previews it seemed like one of the most outdated and hackneyed movies this year.
 

Speevy

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Forkball said:
Was The Fighter really that good? From the previews it seemed like one of the most outdated and hackneyed movies this year.



I thought it tried too hard to reach some level of grittiness and authenticity that I suppose this type of movie demands (though I'm not sure why?)
 

ezekial45

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Forkball said:
Was The Fighter really that good? From the previews it seemed like one of the most outdated and hackneyed movies this year.

I thought it was good overall, but Bale was fucking amazing.
 
Holy fuck, I love How to train Dragon, but I start to really hate their super mega fanatics, the majority that praise the film have to trash talk about toy story 3, and the majority of the time they dont even have arguments.
The most one that ive heard, is not the best Pixar movie...
Is not the best...
Of course its not the best if you usually always make movies of 11/10 and you make a 10.5 movie!
But that means that even if Toy Story 3 is a 10, or a 9, doesnt mind the scale, How to train a dragon will always be technically below it, becuase its not as good.

People praise to fucking much HTTAD because it comes of a legacy of fucking shitty movies were it shines like the brightest star in the sky. Its good, really good, but not fucking perfect like some people are praising because it still has some VERY shitty things that doesnt make it mega great,
I cant praise to the heavens a movie were 80% of the cast are shitty dreamwork characters, with their fucking dreamwork smirk smiles, and their fucking bad jokes and that they seem to be made for you to hate them. All the kids besides the main character are fucking atrocious.
You have 4, FOUR good characters in the movie. The father, the kid and the dragon and the guy without a hand. The others range all from mediocre to horrible.

And really, I cant understand people that say the ending is excellent and that it makes cry, and blah, blah... I saw it from a fucking mile for gods sake, it was as typical as it gets.

Now tell me, in Toy Story 3, what the majority of people felt during the scene were the toys
were going to be burned
, I still have goosebumps with that scene, and I know what is going to happen, i even thought during the whole movie the first time I was watchin that
Slinky was going to die
, but surprise there!
Or the ending, now that is how you end a trilogy, THAT is a perfect ending.
And at least you dont want to punch 80% of the characters in their throat, yeah, you could argue that the villian group is not so good (apart from the bear boss), but the old cast and the new toys (for fucks sake, they made barbie and ken awesome) are incredible.

Its the syndrome of the underdog vs the always winner, but come on, this is not a Rocky movie, a Pixar is not the movie villian.

Toy Story 3 is going to win because its the better movie FULL STOP.
 

mr stroke

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Acid08 said:
Franco is going to get fucking robbed because a movie starring British people came out. Bullshit.


Franco shouldn't nor should Firth IMO. Even though he is great in the movie he was miles better in A Single Man.

Its Ryan Gosling that should win. He got the major snub, he gives the best performance of the year. Not even a nom is robbery
 

shintoki

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Macmanus said:
I don't think people who have this feeling really understand what a director does, or what their main focus is. Considering how incredibly flat and underutilized all the talented actors were in Inception, it would be rather tragic to see him nominated. Also considering how fucking incredible the characters were in TKS and The Fighter, specifically the supporting ensemble, I think Russell and Hooper got what they deserved.
I'd take it even further. Once the 3rd level dream was introduced, the film became a mess. There really isn't any way in hell he deserves the nom with how weak the film was overall.
 

mr stroke

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RobbieNick said:
Man, fuck the Academy.

First off, Hailee Steinfeld for supporting actress. SUPPORTING?!! Is that what it means when the motherfucking movie revolves around your character?!! Supporting?!! There's not even another actress in this movie outside of the old maid!!

Nope, the academy snubbed her for lead only because she was so young. what bullshit.

Second, WHERE THE FUCK IS TRON: LEGACY?!!! I'm okay with no Best FX or Best Costume, but to snub Daft Punk out of Best Original Score is pure bullshit! They had the best soundtrack out of any picture last year. For many people, it was the best part of the movie.
Even those who hated the story loved the soundtrack.


My assumption- the Academy is a bunch of crotchety old people that hate techno/house or any form of electronic music?
 

effzee

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Forkball said:
Was The Fighter really that good? From the previews it seemed like one of the most outdated and hackneyed movies this year.

I thought it was. Now granted I haven't seen TSN, True Grit, or Winter's Bone but The Fighter was amazing. Great performances and great real life story.
 
I even read one guy here saying something about people cock sucking Pixar.
Yeah man, fight the good fight, becuase you are totally wrong.

No one is cock sucking Pixar, and Cars not winning happy feet, even if it was the better movie of the two, although I will not defend cars because its Pixar's low, demonstrates it.

Pixar is there becuase it deserves it, and they did this by working as hard as they can to try to give always their best of the best, a thing that Dreamworks only has done a handfull of times, that is if there were less than 5 fingers in a normal hand.
 
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