The blog is new, and I am lazy......very lazy.....and so this post comes 2 days after the Oscars have been announced!
So instead of predicting winners, scrutinizing nominees and talking about what was IMO sorely left out of the race, let this be just a mandatory Oscar post. I promise to follow it up with other posts about the great, wonderful movies of 2011 which I watched and why I would recommend them to you.
A list of all nominees can be seen here. The Oscars go to ......
BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR: The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
Any other nominee that would have made me happy too: Hugo or The Descendants
ACTOR in Leading Role: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Any other nominee that would have made me happy too: Frankly speaking...all were great!
ACTRESS in Leading Role: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Any other nominee that would have made me happy too: As is the case with actors.....I think every person nominated has done a great job. Problem is, I would have had perhaps 3 more nominees!!! A very very strong year for female performances. More of that coming up in the subsequent posts.
ACTOR and ACTRESS in Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Octavia Spencer (The Help)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Rango
So instead of predicting winners, scrutinizing nominees and talking about what was IMO sorely left out of the race, let this be just a mandatory Oscar post. I promise to follow it up with other posts about the great, wonderful movies of 2011 which I watched and why I would recommend them to you.
A list of all nominees can be seen here. The Oscars go to ......
BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR: The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
Any other nominee that would have made me happy too: Hugo or The Descendants
ACTOR in Leading Role: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Any other nominee that would have made me happy too: Frankly speaking...all were great!
ACTRESS in Leading Role: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Any other nominee that would have made me happy too: As is the case with actors.....I think every person nominated has done a great job. Problem is, I would have had perhaps 3 more nominees!!! A very very strong year for female performances. More of that coming up in the subsequent posts.
ACTOR and ACTRESS in Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Octavia Spencer (The Help)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Rango
Loved this win. Though have not seen all
nominees, I loved this movie so much when I saw it that I instantly wanted it
to win. Have heard great things about the other nominee Chico and Rita too. Need to catch them asap.
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: A Separation
This was the only film that I have seen in this category and loved it so much that I was totally thrilled by the win and would have been heartbroken to see it lose out to any other. Left to me, I would probably have nominated it in all categories including best picture, best director, best actor, actress etc. Was glad to see a nomination in the screenplay, but lost out on it :( Read a blogpost on it here and here.
BEST SHORT FILM (Live action and Animated): The Shore, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore repectively.
BEST SCREENPLAY (Original and Adapted): Midnight in Paris, The Descendants
Though A separation was a strong competitor, I am quite happy the Midnight in Paris won. Its an adorable movie (will talk about it soon in an upcoming post).
Others were technical awards, am glad Hugo bagged five of them, but also unhappy for many great movies that missed out.
So let the movie post marathon begin......
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