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2011 Academy Awards

CaptainCanada

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It's that time of year again.

Notables:

- Surprisingly strong showing for Winter's Bone, including a Best Supporting Actor nomination for John Hawkes in lieu of someone like The Social Network's Andrew Garfield.

- Christopher Nolan is the new Rob Reiner; no Best Director nomination (for the third time nominated by the DGA but swapped out by the Academy), though he got Screenplay and Picture as a writer/producer.

- The King's Speech takes the nominations lead, with 12 nominations. True Grit has 10 for second, and The Social Network and Inception tied for third with 8 apiece.
 
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CaptainCanada said:
- The King's Speech takes the nominations lead, with 12 nominations. The Social Network and Inception tied for second with 8 apiece.
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AP is saying True Grit is second with 10.

I will never understand the definition of "in a supporting role." Hailee Steinfeld gets a supporting actress nomination but was the protagonist and in almost every scene of the film.

--Justin
 
Yeah, I overlooked that.

Re: Steinfeld, yeah, it's major fraud, but there's a fairly longstanding tradition of young people getting to call themselves "supporting" even when they're not (Tatum O'Neal and Timothy Hutton, to name two past winners).
 
Significant omissions from the nominees: no Best Director nod for Christopher Nolan for Inception, no Best Actor nod for Mark Wahlberg for The Fighter, no Best Supporting Actor nod for Andrew Garfield for The Social Network, no Best Documentary nod for Waiting for Superman.
 
Wahlberg wasn't generally expected to get in; he was good, but it's a quiet and somewhat bland role surrounded by much livelier ones.

I don't follow the tech side especially thoroughly, but no Inception in Best Editing is a surprise.
 
I'm also a little surprised that Danny Boyle didn't get a directing nod for 127 Hours, that was a real director's movie.

--Justin
 
The King's Speech is coming on strong in the end run to challenge The Social Network for Best Picture. The fact that it's scored the most nominations and checked the boxes of nominations for Best Director and Best Film Editing further strengthen its hand. It's very rare for a film to win Best Picture without nominations in both of those categories, although it does occasionally happen (such as Driving Miss Daisy, which didn't get a Best Director nomination). Also The King's Speech is helped by the fact that the Academy is using a preferential ballot for the first time since the 1930s or 1940s.
 
I wonder why Toy Story 3 is in both Animated and Best Picture categories? Seems to me that's going to split the vote, giving Dragon the win in Animated.
 
OmahaStar said:
I wonder why Toy Story 3 is in both Animated and Best Picture categories? Seems to me that's going to split the vote, giving Dragon the win in Animated.
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It didn't hurt Up last year. Toy Story 3 couldn't be more of a sure thing if it tried (though I suppose you can imagine scenarios where voters thus throw a harmless vote the way of another film).

Also of note, True Grit has 10 nominations, the second-most, and its not considered the frontrunner in any of them.
 
Films that scored more than one nomination:

12 nominations - The King's Speech
10 nominations - True Grit
8 nominations - Inception and The Social Network
7 nominations - The Fighter
6 nominations - 127 Hours
5 nominations - Black Swan and Toy Story 3
4 nominations - The Kids Are All Right and Winter's Bone
3 nominations - Alice in Wonderland
2 nominations - Biutiful, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 and How to Train Your Dragon
 
Regarding True Grit's nominations, someone with more knowledge can maybe confirm this, but doesn't this make it the most-nominated remake of all time? (I'm not counting adaptations of classic works like Shakespeare.) Also, if Jeff Bridges wins Best Actor, I think that might be the first time two actors have won the award for playing the same character (discounting classic recurring characters in, again, Shakespeare or something, and biopics - mean in the context of True Grit 2010 being a remake of True Grit 1969). If anyone needs to be reminded, John Wayne won his only Oscar for the original film.*

Alex

*I'm aware T.G. is based on a novel and the new film is a new adaptation of the novel, not strictly speaking a remake of the original film. But unlike Hamlet, 99.999% of the public would know True Grit as a movie based upon an earlier movie, not a book.
 
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Regarding True Grit's nominations, someone with more knowledge can maybe confirm this, but doesn't this make it the most-nominated remake of all time?
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Ben-Hur got 12 nominations (of which it won 11).

Edit to add: And Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro both won Oscars for playing the same character in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II respectively (albeit in different categories - Best Actor for Brando and Best Supporting Actor for De Niro).
 
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Brando and De Niro also both won Oscars for playing Vito Corleone, although De Niro's was considered a supporting role.

Edit - Damn! beat me to it. :)
 
J.T.B. said:
I will never understand the definition of "in a supporting role." Hailee Steinfeld gets a supporting actress nomination but was the protagonist and in almost every scene of the film.
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I don't recall know if it was Michael Phillips or A.O. Scott, but I believe one of the two suggested, when recently appearing on the Filmspotting podcast, that Steinfeld's nomination for Supporting might have been intended in order to give her an easier win.
 
CaptainCanada said:
Wahlberg wasn't generally expected to get in; he was good, but it's a quiet and somewhat bland role surrounded by much livelier ones.

I don't follow the tech side especially thoroughly, but no Inception in Best Editing is a surprise.
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For being a bland role, in my opinion, was probably his best role since Boogie Nights. I think he's only good at headlining a movie when his supporting cast are phenomenal, unlike The Happening, but that movie just sucked on every level. Although he usually plays the same Boston tough guy from role to role.
 
Oh, yeah, I thought he was quite good; but I'm not surprised he's not nominated for it (though they nominated him before for a much livelier part).
 
Well, the only pictures I have not seen from the best picture list are:

The Fighter
The Kids are All Right (Which is in the Queue but I might rent it)
Winter's Bone
127 Hours

While I agree Stienfeld should have been in the best actress category, I'm glad she wasn't snubbed because of her age. She was great in True Grit and I hope she even wins the award.

I can't really complain that much about this list. Of course I didn't see that many movies last year (As it seems to always happen) but those were all very good choices.
 
I've seen nine of the ten BP nominees by now (all but 127 Hours). I'd rank them:

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

I'm rooting for Leo or Adams over Steinfeld. Massive category fraud shouldn't be rewarded.
 
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