Oscar 2011 Ballot/Predictions
 

Here are the nominees for this year's Academy Awards

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Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait...

Inception wasn't nominated for best Direction or Editing...

The Oscars just invalidated themselves. Done. Over. Goodnight.

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In case you didn't know yet: Inception is overrated.

Not that other Oscar winners aren't...

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In your opinion. But objectively, that movie had the best editing and direction I've seen in long time, regardless of what you think of the rest. The snub for editing is what really amazed me. That movie as masterfully edited. They took what could have been a complete muddled disaster and made it work.

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My favorite movie of the year: Inception.

Second favorite: Black Swan


Lets all list the things we like, shall we?

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Haven't seen a bunch of those movies.

Only thing I can say for sure is Toy Story 3 winning best Animated.


I mean its the only animated up for Best Picture so.....

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How To Train Your Dragon and Despicable Me were both good movies. The latter probably is not "Oscar worthy" but it was cute as hell and had a great soundtrack. How To Train Your Dragon was better than Toy Story 3 but just by a smidgen. At least in my opinion.

The Oscars are too political anyway. This is the second time Nolan got snubbed; I believe Dark Knight was negated from Best Picture (insofar that they upped the Best Picture from 5 to 10 films). I look at the Oscars as a good guide for cinema, and nothing more. I'd say that the Best Actor/Actress categories are the most interesting portion of the awards. On the other hand, can you believe that shit last year with Sandra Fucking Bullock winning for the most vanilla movie/performance on earth, The Blind Side? Okay, so I retract my statement. The Best Actress/Actor crap is rigged too.

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I've actually seen all 10 nominated for Best Picture this year...This is how I would personally rank them.

1. Black Swan
2. King's Speech
3. Toy Story 3
4. Winter's Bone
5. True Grit
6. Social Network
7. The Fighter
8. Inception
9. 127 Hours
10. The Kids Are Alright

In terms of other categories, I have my personal favorites, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll win. I bet King's Speech is the big winner.

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Kings Speech was good, but somewhat boring. Your grandma loves the Kings speech, guaranteed. When I saw it it was a packed theater, very few people under the age of 60.

Toy Story 3 was very good.

True Grit did not live up to the hype in my Opinion

Social Network wasnt as good as I was expecting either.

Inception is over-rated.

127 hours was actually pretty darn good.

Those are the ones I have seen...I guess if I had to pick a winner I would say 127 hours. No clear cut standout this year for me.

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Should we do an Oscar pool?

Don't think we've ever had an Oscar pool

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I'd be into doing some picks...

Here's a Oscar drinking game I stumbled upon too. Figure it would be good to share with the tavern. http://www.movieboozer.com/2011/01/o....html?spref=fb

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I feel like we could come up with better if we tried, but not really sure how much different, better it would be.

So I guess the other end would be creating the right Oscar themed mixed drinks.

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I'd be down for doing picks.

However, will some explain to me when betting on the Oscars became a phenomenon? Someone at my work was talking about this, and I want to know if this is some sort of cognitive bias or if this is some recent trend.

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Not sure if it is better, but these are the rules we came up with

http://nerdsontherocks.com/?p=2129

As for picks.

To make it simple, and I guess so we can add
1 Point for Each Correct Answer

Best Animated Feature: 2001 to present
Best Animated Short Film: 1931 to present
Best Art Direction: 1928 to present
Best Cinematography: 1928 to present
Best Costume Design: 1948 to present
Best Documentary Feature: 1943 to present
Best Documentary Short Subject: 1941 to present
Best Film Editing: 1935 to present
Best Foreign Language Film: 1947 to present
Best Live Action Short Film: 1931 to present
Best Makeup: 1981 to present
Best Original Score: 1934 to present
Best Original Song: 1934 to present
Best Sound Editing: 1963 to present
Best Sound Mixing: 1930 to present
Best Visual Effects: 1939 to present
Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay: 1928 to present
Best Writing – Original Screenplay: 1940 to present

2 Points for Each Correct Answer:
Best Actor in a Leading Role: 1928 to present
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: 1936 to present
Best Actress in a Leading Role: 1928 to present
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: 1936 to present
Best Picture: 1928 to present

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[quote=BreakABone;275251]Not sure if it is better, but these are the rules we came up with

http://nerdsontherocks.com/?p=2129

As for picks.

To make it simple, and I guess so we can add
1 Point for Each Correct Answer

Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Best Animated Short Film: Day & Night
Best Art Direction: The King's Speech
Best Cinematography: True Grit
Best Costume Design: The Tempest
Best Documentary Feature: Inside Job
Best Documentary Short Subject: Poster Girl
Best Film Editing: Social Network
Best Foreign Language Film: Incendies
Best Live Action Short Film: The Confession
Best Makeup: The Wolfman
Best Original Score: Inception
Best Original Song: We Belong Together - Randy Newman
Best Sound Editing: Inception
Best Sound Mixing: Inception
Best Visual Effects: Inception
Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay: Social Network
Best Writing – Original Screenplay: The King's Speech

2 Points for Each Correct Answer:

Best Actor in a Leading Role: Colin Firth
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Christian Bale
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Natalie Portman
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Hailee Steinfeld
Best Director: David Fincher
Best Picture: The King's Speech