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2011 Academy Awards
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I just saw Winter's Bone. I'm rooting for Jennifer Lawrence as Best Actress (although I know she doesn't have a prayer against Portman, who weirdly she reminds me a lot of).
^ The little that I have read about the film makes me want to see it. As well as playing Mystique in "X-Men: First Class" Jennifer also is in "The Beaver" with Mel Gibson and Anton Yelchin's girlfriend.
Tom Hooper won Best Director at the DGA Awards this weekend for The King's Speech. Combine that with the film winning Best Picture at the PGA Awards and it scoring the most Oscar nominations and it now moves solidly into the position of being the odds on favorite to win Best Picture at the Oscars over The Social Network. Hooper now also has an excellent shot at taking the Best Director Oscar over David Fincher, who had previously seemed the likely winner even if it was in a split. Since the DGA Awards started in 1948 there have only been six instances where the winner has not gone on to win the Best Director Oscar.
I think Hooper did a good job of varying up a fairly traditional sort of film template, and I liked TKS better than TSN overall, so I don’t have a problem with him winning. But I was expecting it to go to showier choice.
It has to be rewarding, though, to beat four guys who are all much bigger "names" than he is.
It has to be rewarding, though, to beat four guys who are all much bigger "names" than he is.
I'm looking forward to watching the show - I hope lots of the Pixar crew will be there. I know TS3 doesn't have a hope of actually winning the Best Picture Oscar but I can dream 
The six times that the DGA winner didn't win the Best Director Oscar:
1968 - the DGA Award went to Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Winter and the Oscar to Carol Reed for Oliver!
1972 - the DGA Award went to Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather and the Oscar to Bob Fosse for Cabaret
1985 - the DGA Award went to Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple and the Oscar to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa (Spielberg wasn't even nominated for Best Director at the Oscars)
1995 - the DGA Award went to Ron Howard for Apollo 13 and the Oscar to Mel Gibson for Braveheart (Howard wasn't even nominated for Best Director at the Oscars)
2000 - The DGA Award went to Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Oscar to Steven Soderbergh for Traffic
2002 - The DGA Award went to Rob Marshall for Chicago and the Oscar to Roman Polanski for The Pianist
1968 - the DGA Award went to Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Winter and the Oscar to Carol Reed for Oliver!
1972 - the DGA Award went to Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather and the Oscar to Bob Fosse for Cabaret
1985 - the DGA Award went to Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple and the Oscar to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa (Spielberg wasn't even nominated for Best Director at the Oscars)
1995 - the DGA Award went to Ron Howard for Apollo 13 and the Oscar to Mel Gibson for Braveheart (Howard wasn't even nominated for Best Director at the Oscars)
2000 - The DGA Award went to Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Oscar to Steven Soderbergh for Traffic
2002 - The DGA Award went to Rob Marshall for Chicago and the Oscar to Roman Polanski for The Pianist
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All the more reason watch it and find out how
It's really a (somewhat shockingly) great movie. It's just an overwhelming amount of talent, somehow making it work (it doesn't hurt that the real story does have some fairly interesting drama/betrayal wrinkles in it). Sorkin, David Fincher (!!!!), really good acting... It's probably one of the greatest film examples of proof that plot really doesn't matter that much... execution does.
The movie kind of stays with you in a strange way. Many people saw it, said "hey that was pretty good" then a week later found themselves still thinking about the movie. Not about the plot, but specific scenes. The way they're acted, the psychology of the Zuckerberg character, the way Trent Reznor's atmospheric music haunts the background (very underrated factor contributing to the quality of the movie imo). There's something about this movie I can't put my finger on that makes it remarkable. The comparisons I would draw are Casino Royale or Friday Night Lights (the tv show). It has nothing in common-plotwise but all of those are entertainment that imo somehow transcend what you expect (I find most Bond movies to be generic and boring, can't stand high school football). Great talent somehow finds a way to win out.
BTW, it is out to rent, and will be on Netflix next month!
And the Actors Guild had their say.
TKS snags Best Ensemble, which completes a Guild hattrick, and makes it pretty much unstoppable.
In other news, unless there's a massive late surge for Steinfeld, we're look at a perfect lineup in all the Globes/SAG/Oscar acting categories, which has only happened once before (last year).
TKS snags Best Ensemble, which completes a Guild hattrick, and makes it pretty much unstoppable.
In other news, unless there's a massive late surge for Steinfeld, we're look at a perfect lineup in all the Globes/SAG/Oscar acting categories, which has only happened once before (last year).
I wish there was a sense of unpredictability at the Oscars, but it seems like all the awards that came before it set the trend and the Academy Awards become sort of anti-climatic. I mean the Kings Speech will probably win best picture, but there are 10 nominees and 8 of them don't really have much of a shot. There's this whole thing of "gaining strength" and it's like, well, why even have these awards then. Why not a movie like "The Kids are All Right" become a dark horse and maybe even pull out the victory. It seems like everything is a foregone conclusion and it's almost like why watch now?
I've seen all the Best Picture nominees except for 127 Hours which I actually do want to see and it's out in a wider release. Hopefully I can see it before the award show.
I've seen all the Best Picture nominees except for 127 Hours which I actually do want to see and it's out in a wider release. Hopefully I can see it before the award show.
Well, there are still some shockers now and then, most notably Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan or Crash beating Brokeback Mountain.
Forrest Gump beating Shawshank Redemption was another thing I will never ever understand.
That wasn't a surprise, though. Shawshank beating Forrest would have been a gigantic upset. It took years for the former to assume its current stature.
Though I like Forrest Gump quite a bit, so I don't mind it winning, though Shawshank is a better film. Actually, the whole BP roster that year was quite strong.
Forrest Gump had an advantage over The Shawshank Redemption, though: It was in essence the story of the Baby Boomer generation coming to terms with its own history, at around the same time that that generation was starting to enter its senior years. So it spoke to many people on a much deeper level than Shawshank did, because it spoke to their life experiences and the historical events through which they had lived.