83rd Annual Academy Award Winners – Full List
Best Picture The King’s Speech Directing The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper Actress in a Leading Role Natalie Portman, Black Swan Actress in a Supporting Role Melissa Leo, The Fighter Actor in a Leading Role Colin Firth, The King’s Speech Actor in a Supporting Role Christian Bale, The Fighter Animated Feature Toy Story 3 Art Direction Alice in Wonderland Cinematography Inception Costume Design Alice in Wonderland Documentary Feature Inside Job Documentary Short Subject Strangers No More Film Editing The Social Network Foreign Language Film In a Better World Makeup The Wolfman Original Score The Social Network Original Song “We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3 Animated Short The Lost Thing Live Action Short God of Love Sound Editing Inception Sound Mixing Inception Visual Effects Inception Adapted Screenplay The Social Network Original Screenplay The King’s Speech...
Read MoreYear in Review – Best Films of 2010
I was fully prepared to start out this post calling 2010 the worst year for film in my moviegoing lifetime. Part of that stems from the fact that many Hollywood movies were really bad in 2010. Terrible even. But there’s also this: I’ve had to sit through an Oscar season where good but not great films like The Social Network, True Grit, and The Fighter are being heralded as masterpieces, along with high art torture porn like Black Swan. By time I got around to even thinking about this post, I was exhausted and frustrated. Then I looked at my running list of 2010 movies screened. Going through all the great films I’ve seen this year, I realized that it wasn’t a bad year for everyone… just American narrative film (docs excluded). That sounds really pretentious, I know, but my...
Read MoreCritics’ Choice Award nominees 2010-2011
Black Swan leads with 12 nominations. From the BCFA: BEST PICTURE 127 Hours Black Swan The Fighter Inception The King’s Speech The Social Network The Town Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone BEST ACTOR Jeff Bridges – “True Grit” Robert Duvall – “Get Low” Jesse Eisenberg – “The Social Network” Colin Firth – “The King’s Speech” James Franco – “127 Hours” Ryan Gosling – “Blue Valentine” BEST ACTRESS Annette Bening – “The Kids Are All Right” Nicole Kidman – “Rabbit Hole” Jennifer Lawrence – “Winter’s Bone” Natalie Portman – “Black Swan” Noomi Rapace – “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Michelle Williams – “Blue Valentine” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christian Bale – “The Fighter” Andrew Garfield – “The Social Network” Jeremy Renner – “The Town” Sam Rockwell – “Conviction” Mark Ruffalo – “The Kids Are All Right” Geoffrey Rush...
Read MoreTHE SOCIAL NETWORK dominates 2010 National Board of Review
So the National Board of Review picks The Social Network. David Fincher’s Facebook movie snagged the Best Picture award, as well as Best Director, Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin). Not since Sense and Sensibility swept the awards in 1995 has a film so overwhelmingly dominated the NBR. (Ang Lee’s Jane Austen adaptation won Picture, Director, and Actress.) For a little context, Sense and Sensibility was the early Best Picture favorite, winning every early award including the BFCA’s Critics Choice, BAFTA’s Orange Award, the HFPA’s Golden Globe. When push came to shove, the Academy went with Braveheart for Best Picture, which slowly built up momentum throughout the season. Is The Social Network peaking too early already? Or is it a slam dunk Oscar winner? Who knows. Now to the full list of NBR winners from the...
Read More15 animated features compete for Oscar 2010
The 2010 Animated Feature Oscar race isn’t much of a race. Toy Story 3 should take this Oscar in a walk. But there are still 14 other animated features competing for a nomination. From the AMPAS: Fifteen features have been accepted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards®. The 15 features are: “Alpha and Omega” “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” “Despicable Me” “The Dreams of Jinsha” “How to Train Your Dragon” “Idiots and Angels” “The Illusionist” “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” “Megamind” “My Dog Tulip” “Shrek Forever After” “Summer Wars” “Tangled” “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” “Toy Story 3” “The Dreams of Jinsha,” “The Illusionist,” “Summer Wars” and “Tangled” have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical...
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