Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Winners

The 2012 Oscars Should have gone to...

BEST PICTURE 
Silver Linings Playbook 
WHAT WON? Argo  

BEST DIRECTOR 
Moonrise Kingdom, directed by Wes Anderson 
WHAT WON? Argo, directed by Ben Affleck

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino
THE OSCARS GOT IT RIGHT! 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo, written by Chris Terrio 
THE OSCARS GOT IT RIGHT! 

BEST ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE 
Brave
THE OSCARS GOT IT RIGHT! 

BEST ACTRESS
Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild 
WHAT WON? Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln  
THE OSCARS GOT IT RIGHT!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 
Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables 
THE OSCARS GOT IT RIGHT! 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained
WHO WON? Christoper Waltz in Django Unchained 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers 
WHAT WON? Life of Pi 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 
Anna Karinina 
WHAT WON? Life Of Pi

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Imposter  
WHAT WON? Searching for Sugar Man

Friday, March 1, 2013

The Nominations


The 2012 nominations should be...
For some categories, I posted over 5 nominations because it was too hard to eliminate stuff. There were 9 nominations this year for Best Picture. There should have been 10. 

BEST PICTURE 
Silver Linings Playbook 
Argo
Brave
End of Watch
Moonrise Kingdom
Magic Mike 
Frankenweenie 
Jeff Who Lives at Home
Your Sister's Sister
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 

BEST DIRECTOR
Argo
Moonrise Kingdom
Magic Mike
End of Watch
Perks of Being a Wallflower 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Moonrise Kingdom
End of Watch
Jeff Who Lives at Home
Django Unchained 
Magic Mike 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 
Argo 
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Avengers 
Silver Linings Playbook 
Beasts of the Southern Wild 

BEST ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE 
Frankenweenie 
Wreck it Ralph 
Brave   

This year, I decided that since  there are 5-10 nominations for Best Picture, there should be 5-10 nominations for all acting categories. The most there ever is is 6. 

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastin in Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook 
Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild 
Naomi Watts in The Impossible  
Emily Blunt in Your Sister's Sister 
Zoe Kazan in Ruby Sparks 
Noomi Rapace in Prometheus 
Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables 

BEST ACTOR
Jake Gyllenhaal in End of Watch 
Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook
Jason Segal in Jeff Who Lives at Home
Mark Duplass in Safety Not Guaranteed 
Logan Lerman in The Perks of Being a Wallflower 
Denzel Washington in Flight 
Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln  
Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables
Ethan Hawke in Sinister
Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 
Rosemarie DeWitt in Your Sister's Sister 
Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables 
Sally Field in Lincoln 
Helen Hunt in The Sessions  
Amy Adams in The Master
Amanda Seyfried in Les Miserables 
Samantha Barks in Les Miserables

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 
Michael Pena in End of Watch
Eddie Redmayne in Les Miserables 
Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook 
Phillip Seymour Hoffman in The Master
Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln  
Christopher Waltz in Django Unchained 
Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained
Aaron Tveit in Les Miserables 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 
The Hobbit
Life of Pie
The Avengers
Prometheus
The Dark Knight Rises

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
End of Watch 
Moonrise Kingdom 
Argo 
Magic Mike 
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 
Lincoln 
Anna Karinina 
We Have a Pope 
Les Miserables 
Skyfall 
The Dark Knight Rises

BEST DOCUMENTARY 
The Impostor
How To Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
The Gatekeepers
Searching for Sugar Man
5 Broken Cameras 
The Gatekeepers