Oscar Nominations to be Livestreamed Here, There and Everywhere
The Live Stream is no more, so we’ve removed the embed. But there were 130 comments from eager beavers, so we’ll leave this post in place. It would add insult to injury if we destroyed all evidence that any of us were once excited.
For the first time, like ever, the Oscar nominations will be livestreamed on YouTube. Our very own embed code.
If you’re like me you won’t sleep tonight but will marinate in anxiety until the clock finally hits 5am. The announcements will come around 5:30am. And remember: We don’t know how many Best Picture nominees there will be, and they won’t be announcing them in alphabetical order. It should be a memorable year, one for the ages. I will be setting my coffee pot to start promptly at 5am.
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Rashad — 5:30 a.m. PST
Why won’t they announce them in alphabetical order? Is this supposed to be some sort of “hip” attempt to keep the announcement suspenseful? If so, I hate the idea already.
Why won’t they announce them in alphabetical order?
Ridiculous, isn’t it?
Why not let Tom Sherak spin the wheel. He can buy vowels and Vanna White will flip letters until he guesses the titles of the nominees.
Oops, I meant to post this here…
For the first time, the Academy will get involved in the annual online buzz about its nominations, by sponsoring an hour-long live moderated chat starting Tuesday at 2 p. m. CST. It’s open to fans at the Academy website, http://www.oscar.com.
So make sure you guys give ‘em hell if they snub Potter!
I’m thankful it’ll be 8:30am for me. Which means I’ll be half hour into my work day, which means I’ll take an “early break”. I listened in last year, and I’ll be listening in this year.
@M1 – I’m convinced it’s to torture me personally, which of course is impossible. The worst part is going to be when the person pauses and stops reading. And it’s bound to be disappointing.
What people will want to know from AMPAS they will not reveal – everyone always wants to know how many votes for this or that…how many men, how many women.
I hope I get it!
I hope I get it!
How many people does he need?
How many boys?
How many girls?
If not alphabetical, then how? By release date? Box Office? Running time?
Like Ryan said, spin that wheel.
They’ll do a fake-out like the director did in BLACK SWAN. “The films I did NOT tap are nominated for Best Picture.”
They’ll do it like Family Feud – “Survey SAYS …”
How about having Ken Jennings reply to this in the form of a question: “These films were just nominated for Best Picture.” That would be exciting, plus he could win a BRAND NEW CAR!
I have never been less excited for nominations. I’m just not that invested. Speaking of which, did you ever post your “Performance of the Year?”
I’m usually up at 7am CST, so I’m good to go. It really doesn’t make sense for the earlier morning announcements since most papers don’t run two editons anymore, but old habits (and traditions) die hard. It is nice, however, to have a whole day to analyze the nominees instead of staying up all night if they did announce them later in the day.
Always an exciting time, nomination eve. Better than Christmas, really. Really.
I’ve been an Oscar-watcher for over 40 years. Believe it or not, the nominations weren’t televised live, We had to wait for the afternoon paper or the radio or the nightly newscast to find out who was nominated. To demonstate how big the Academy Awards were in those days, the announcement of the nominees was always covered on the front page of every newspaper in the country and around the world.
A lot of you knock the Oscars and its voting membership on this site. But the Oscar is still, and will remain, the supreme award in all of entertainment. Am I stil excited about the Oscars after 40-plus years? You bet – There’s nothing like it. I’ll be absolutely riveted to the TV screen tomorrow morning.
Am I sensing sarcasm?
“One for the ages.”?
Will the acting/directing nominees still be announced alphabetically?
I keep saying every year, I’ll sleep in and get them as soon as I awaken on my computer from Awardsdaily.com. I even said that back during when it was Oscarwatch.com. Then I can’t sleep anyway. And get up and watch them! But thanks as always for getting everyone the Oscar news the fastest anywhere!
Ugh! George Clooney was soooo all over Entertainment Tonight. SHeesh! It’s like he already won!
Academy Voter reaction to the above: “Oh, REALLY?”
“It really doesn’t make sense for the earlier morning announcements since most papers don’t run two editons anymore, but old habits (and traditions) die hard.”
Makes perfect sense. It’s because they want the news to spread over the world on the same day. It’s 2:30pm in Europe (perfect for the afternoon/evening news) and even Japanese people are still awake.
This is a world event.
Will they also be announcing the acting and other categories in random order too?
Oh, thank GOD. Seriously.
I don’t have cable, so I was panicking. Hulu Plus and Netflix really takes care of my basic televised needs, and what I need to see NOW (Season 2 of Downton Abbey, for example) I just buy from iTunes.
Yeah, as mentioned above, will the other categories be announced in random order as well, or is that something exclusive to just Best Picture?
The only thing that would make me ill is if Hugo does not get a Best Picture nomination.
“Always an exciting time, nomination eve. Better than Christmas, really. Really.”
This is so true. This is my 46th (migod) go ’round and I’m still trying to understand the phenomenon. The first time I was cheering for Doctor Zhivago and those nasty little von Trapps spoiled the party. Didn’t matter, the addiction was embedded. The next year, a very tedious Thomas More pulled the rug from under George and Martha, but I came back the next year full of hope, only to see Bonnie and Clyde get ambushed by Mr Tibbs. Then – 2001 – not even nominated. That depression finally lifted the next year, when Midnight Cowboy not only was nominated, but won, for godsakes! A promise of changing times, I thought? No, a cosmic tease that occurs every decade or so. And so on.
So here we go again. I love it/I hate it. (she’s my sister/daughter/sister/daughter)
“Makes perfect sense. It’s because they want the news to spread over the world on the same day. It’s 2:30pm in Europe (perfect for the afternoon/evening news) and even Japanese people are still awake.
This is a world event.”
Exactly Tero.
Does anyone know how long the nominations usually take? I’m wondering if it’s worth getting up at 5:25, watching, and then crashing for a few hours with a huge smile because Rooney Mara and Leonardo DiCaprio snuck in.
And the nominees for best actress are
Keira Knightley for A Dangerous Method *rapturous applause*
Michelle Williams for My Week with Marilyn *tepid applause*
Berenice Bejo for The Artist *Thunderous applause*
Tilda Swinton for We Need to Talk about Kevin *applause*
and
Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady *earth-shattering applause*
(Viola Davis is bumped to supporting with Octavia Spencer. They split the vote and Vanessa Redgrave wins the Oscar)
Regarding the alphabetical order, I remember watching the announcement in 2009. If Forrest Whitaker said Frost/Nixon, no Dark Knight. When he did so, I screamed: bullshit… but it could be WALL-E. Then Milk, no The Reader, please, please… He said it. Game over.
It would be funny if they change Bejo and Viola putting the first as lead and the second as supporting. Who would not be happy with this would be Octavia Spencer, who would say bye bye to the Oscar.
Category placement is so bizarre that in the days before the announcement in 2009, we were all predicting Kate Winslet for lead in Rev. Road and for Supporting in The Reader. Imagine if she was nominated for both and 1/2 thought she should win for The Reader and 1/2 for Rev. Road… she would get both Oscars. The Academy got it right to put her as lead for The Reader but it would have been even funnier if she was nominated for Lead and Supporting for the same role in The Reader… and she could actually win both for the same role.
I was in Meryl’s corner but after seeing The Iron Lady last night, VIOLA DAVIS for the win. Both movies are a campy mess. That said, Viola’s performance was human.
Meryl needed a director to rein her in. Her Margaret Thatcher imitation is so over the top. She veers into Faye Dunaway/Mommie Dearest territory.
JP – That has happened once and only once (at least 2 nominations for the same role) with Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way. I was glad that year when they put Winslet in the right category and got Marisa Tomei in for The Wrestler.
If Demian Bichir can get in and Rooney Mara carries Dragon Tattoo into a Best Director/Picture, I will be very satisfied.
@ Deena Jones’ wig
(a) I hope that doesn’t happen
(b) I’m obsessed with your name.
Oh dear…I finally found a DVD screener of The Artist and I’ve watched about 10 minutes so far and I’m finding it supremely annoying. Does it get better?
^
…it gets better… for about 7 minutes…
I kinda can’t stand the over-exaggerated style of this meta-silent film.
No Tree of Life?
An American film wins the Palm d’Or but it doesn’t get an Oscar nomination? What a joke!
I just wanted to be the first to say it.
The comments say it’s 6:40 something, so right now, we have around 11 hours till the nominations start, right? Please tell me, I’m lost in all those American timezones.
Especially when the story was already done once with sound!
and is a classic! No need to rehash and gimmick it up.
This year marks my 18th consecutive year of watching the anouncement of the Oscar nominations, live, by television. I remember the first name I ever heard and first image I ever saw anounced that way (can’t remember who said, unfortunely, I guess was Angela Basset and the then president of AMPAS, Arthur Hiller): Samuel L. Jackson for “Pulp Ficition” in the category of Best Supporting Actor.
lol, this scene with the coat on the hanger is just creepy…
@ K. Bown
No Tree of Life?
An American film wins the Palm d’Or but it doesn’t get an Oscar nomination? What a joke!
I just wanted to be the first to say it.
The opposite is probably gonna be true too. A French film wins the Oscar but doesn`t get the Palm D`or.
I kinda can’t stand the over-exaggerated style of this meta-silent film.
No, You Must Trust The Critics.
Oh jeez, they even modeled his wife after the woman with the annoying voice in the aforementioned classic Singin’ in the Rain!
Sasha, Ryan and all who make AwardsDaily,
before all the excitement and discussion that the nominations announcement will bring, let me once again express my respect, admiration and congrats for the work of your team. If there’s one word or expression that I could use to show my admiration, let me just say you, Awards Daily team, respect your readers. Respect our intelligence, culture and differences of opinion.
For one more year, this Brazilian nutritionist and university professor here (Pedro), has followed this team and this site, trusting in it as the very best source to gather news, opinion and the very movement of the awards season. And more: in this path, you do all the coverage with humanity, love, good (and well placed) humor, constructing with the readers a relationship filled with tender, care and love.
You all just increase our love for cinema, our knowledge of movies and our perspectives of learn how to love, admire and criticize a passion – the movies, the cinema.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Here in Brazil, we are at 12a.m. Nominations 10a.m. I’ll try to sleep, Sasha. But how hard it is.
Congrats once again, and let’s to the nominations.
Pedro.
I liked The Artist, put it at the tail end of my Top 10, but I fully acknowledge it’s this year’s Shakespeare in Love.
Bennett writes: “Meryl needed a director to rein her in. Her Margaret Thatcher imitation is so over the top. She veers into Faye Dunaway/Mommie Dearest territory.”
*****
I don’t think she overdid Thatcher at all. She and Broadbent seemed totally committed to their parts and I enjoyed watching them. But the movie around them was a mess and totally forgettable.
BAHAHA, Ryan isn’t The Greatest Show on Earth widely considered one of the worst Best Picture choices? If I recall correctly it’s not even certified fresh on RT.
It makes me so happy to know that when I wake up tomorrow the Oscar Noms will be posted and the conversation will begin… It’s not quite like Christmas morning, but pretty damn close. Maybe the first day of Hanukah type of feeling?
Um, unless this is a dream the scene where he hears all the sounds around him but can’t hear his own voice is ridiculous…
Oh good, it is dream. Thank God cause otherwise it wouldn’t be logical.
still gimmicky though :p
alright, should I stop with the play by play? lol. I’ll try not to say anything else until I’ve finished the film…
actually I have to say this first- “…and the public is never wrong”
Harry Potter anyone?
The Greatest Show on Earth widely considered one of the worst Best Picture choices?
it’s always one of the first of the worst the come to mind.
Sasha and I were tweeting about this tonight, and we think that The Greatest Show on Earth might have been something like the Avatar of its day.
Something so huge, bright, colorful, vast and lavish, it must have looked unlike anything ever seen before — (not to mention, The Must See Movie of the Year that would show audiences something they couldn’t watch at home on their state-of-the-art 17-inch b&w televisions).
“Time just gets away from us.”
My hopes for tomorrow would include the following:
Michael Fassbender, Best Actor, Shame
Kirsten Dunst, Best Actress, Melancholia
Rooney Mara, Best Actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Carey Mulligan, Best Supporting Actress, Shame
And some other surprises would be great too!
Meryl was playing to the back of a Broadway house. ACTING with a capitol A. She is at her fidgety, over-wrought, busy worst. The hair, the make-up, the teeth, the accent, the old age physicality. It’s all too much. She surely didn’t need the teeth. They’re comical. Lloyd is a stage director. What works on stage usually does not translate to film. Not every director can make that transition. Most don’t.
Meryl did a fine imitation—one fitting of Saturday Night Live—not one worthy of an Academy Award.
All actors have bad habits—even Meryl. I’d love Meryl to work with a great director again: Soderberg, Bigelow, Scorsese, Eastwood.
Pedro Cruz, Thanks so much.
Comments like that mean the world to me, and I’m sure to Sasha too.
But what the hell do I know? I’m just a struggling New York stage actor with a degree from Tisch. Meryl still has a nicer house than me.
All I ask for AMPAS is a surprise or two.
How about The Artists not get 13+ nominations. Maybe Melancholia could get some notice? How about Super 8, Harry Potter, 50/50 or Jane Eyre? Plz. Lets not make this race a foregone conclusion by tomorrow morning!
Please: Potter, Drive, DiCaprio and Fincher(Allen out).
It all comes down to this…for me, it’s going to be released in the evening (privilege of time-zones!!), and I’ll be out for my daily walk when the nominations are announced, so I’ll check ‘em out afterwards…I know it’s a sucker, but hey, why should we lose our sleep or become so anxious that we stop carrying out our daily activities simply because of the nominations? We’re not the ones who will be nominated, right?
The movie going public also needs to make up its mind about one thing – Do they really value the Oscars or not? If yes, then why do they say ‘Oscars suck’ simply because the film/person who THEY wanted to win, did not end up winning? And if the film/actor who they wanted to win, ends up winning, the main reaction is ‘A well-deserved win’. I mean, make up your minds, people. Do the Oscars ‘suck’ or are these awards ‘well-deserved and prestigious’? And if they do ‘suck’, why lose your sleep, and tear your hair apart, over a bunch of awards that ‘suck’? And why would you want your favorite film/performance/actor to actually win an award that ‘sucks’? Think about it. The fact that all of you’re so anxious about the Oscars only means that you think it’s something ‘prestigious’. Then what right do you have to say that the ‘Oscars suck’ simply because the film/actor who you wanted to win did not win? Isn’t that a sign that the movie-going public is nothing but a bunch of sore losers?
To me, these awards are just like life itself. Sometimes, things go your way (even if you don’t do much), and sometimes, no matter how much you may try or what you do (or don’t do), things just don’t work out for you. Do you stop living your life (and say ‘life sucks, that’s it, I’ve had enough my life’), simply because things don’t go your way, no matter what you do?
The worst part is going to be when the person pauses and stops reading. And it’s bound to be disappointing.
I hope Pedro announces these awards tomorrow and makes all my wildest dreams come true….so I don’t have to experience this.
Fuck. The. Artist.
xo
Alright…well by the end The Artist had won over the romantic in me and I must admit, though gimmicky it was pretty finely executed film. I hope I’m not the only one that thinks Berernice could arguably be considered lead actress. I actually wouldn’t argue with it being nominated for all of the Big 5. BTW, is it just me or does the ending pay homage to Billy Wilder’s The Apartment? And who else got The Aviator vibes from the scene where he’s sitting in his room watching his old movies, drinking, and going mad?
“To me, these awards are just like life itself. Sometimes, things go your way (even if you don’t do much), and sometimes, no matter how much you may try or what you do (or don’t do), things just don’t work out for you. Do you stop living your life (and say ‘life sucks, that’s it, I’ve had enough my life’), simply because things don’t go your way, no matter what you do?”
Some do…I almost did, and a certain character in the aforementioned film almost did.
*have
Thanks to Sasha and Ryan for the best awards coverage. you don’t need any other site than this one. and i like the way Sasha isn’t scared to put her own emotions and opinions into it, even though i might disagree at times!!
At nominations time it’s worth remembering that the AMPAS disappoints more than the delights, and that we cannot complain about it being predictable when we follow every minute of the lead up!!
Do the nominations air on television? If so, which channel? Or does every news cast at the time of announcement switch over to it? Thanks, my computer is in the shop and this iPad isn,t reliable with video streams.
The Artist-
Acting- 9.5
Script- 8.5
Sound- *
Visuals- 10
Editing- 9
Total Score = 92.5
*obviously this isn’t very relevant for this one
A bit of history regarding the nominations and the time they choose to announce them. Unlike Newt Gingrich, I am not a historian, I am merely recalling from my own life experience about how they evolved into what they are today (which hasn’t changed much)
The time they air is at 8:38 AM on the East Coast. There was a time when the morning news shows on the big 3 networks ran from 7 AM to 9 AM. The shows were all organized pretty much the same. The shows were generally divided into 4 thirty minute segments. Each segment started with a generic news recap that last a few minutes, they then went into two to three stories, usually interviews, and then ended by spending a couple of minutes with a local news anchor doing local bits.
The first thirty minutes were for hard news (imagine that!). The second thirty minutes were usually a little lighter, maybe the final story would be a celebrity interview, but it was still considered more serious. Then the 8 to 8:30 segment was back to hard news, although the bigger pieces always aired in the 7:00 hour. Then the final thirty minutes were always fluff (presumably the people who could handle hard news all went to work, the housewives were left behind so let’s give them fluff – yes, there were lots of cooking segments.)
Back before the nominations were televised, there was no internet, no Oscar blogs and the news industry took itself far more seriously than it does today. So in order for AMPAS to get the press coverage they had to adhere to the news programs requests. It had to be in the fluff timeframe, but it had to occur after the news reading segment (and after a commercial break) – So 8:38 was chosen and its been that ever since.
It has nothing to do with newspaper deadlines or reactions around the world.
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GO TREE OF LIFE!
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Ryan, we were/are indeed 24 Hour Party People (a fine, fine film from a fine, fine director.)
Here, There And Everywhere – great Beatles
Also, Andrew has it right – if we want to be surprised at the nominations, maybe we should only care about them one day a year. Many here are probably working on their final touches for nominations for next year.
And this is where I predict that Spielberg’s Lincoln will be an awards disappointment. Do you know how I know this? All Spielberg films are the same. If I can see it, then AMPAS can see it. You should be able to as well.
Lincoln will open with a gorgeous scenery shot to swelling music that’s entirely disconnected from what we are seeing. The camera will slowly pan as the music gets more urgent. We will then be treated to the shot of slaves performing backbreaking work under the direction of cruel white Southernors. The music will be obtrusive. Oh the humanity!
We will then switch to a shot of Lincoln living the high life in some 1840′s backwater bar just across the Ohio River from these atrocities. We will see a glimmer in his eye as we realize he realizes that slavery is a terrible and wrong practice.
To show us it is a terrible and wrong practive, and ten or so minutes we will see a barbaric act set to gorgeous scenery and enthralling music to remind us how awful slavery is (in case we forgot that fact during the previous 9 minutes)
And we will slowly go through his rise into politics, into the presidency, and the winning of the civil war by the courageous northernors (we the viewer will have stopped being treated to shots of slavery around 60 minutes in as we switch to brothers fighting brothers in shades of blue and grey that enhance bloodstains rather then mute them.)
One of these scenes will, of course, feature a horse caught in barbed wire.
Around 2 hours in the civil war will have been won and we will switch to a weepy Sally Field telling us that Lincoln was an amazing individual but Lincoln won’t have it, he’ll be upset that so many lives were lost. He will be in complete despair asking Sally Field how many slaves he could have freed if he has pawned his top hat.
Lincoln will go to the theater and we will be treated to close-up shots of feet approaching. Lincoln will be shot in slow motion, we will see the horrified faces of onlookers as the music demands our attention.
We will then be treated to an unneccessary scene of recently freed slaves at Lincoln’s grave thanking him for their freedom.
There will, of course, be a small minority of people clapping hysterically telling us that we are idiots if we don’t think think this is a masterpiece. But we will know better.
Can someone with a perhaps more keen eye/memory list all of the films that The Artist homages?
Ryan , Do u know what time in Thailand ?(when nominations annouce)
Can someone with a perhaps more keen eye/memory list all of the films that The Artist homages?
…keen eye/memory and patience of a saint.
Interesting- http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/the-artist-oscar-uggie-rin-tin-tin-260717
“But that’s exactly why there are no Oscars for pooches. In her new book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, Susan Orlean writes that in the first year Oscars were awarded, “according to Hollywood legend, Rinty received the most votes for best actor. But members of the Academy, anxious to establish the awards were serious and important, decided that giving an Oscar to a dog did not serve that end.”"
These are the high holy days of American pop culture!
best actress : Theron,Streep,Davis,Close and Williams
rosie,
Bangkok is usually 12 hours off from my Chicago zone, but this time of year is 13 hours because you guys don’t have Daylight Savings Time shift in winter.
So it’s 6:30 PM BKK time
I’ll double-check with my Thai partner. (you know I lived in Bangkok for 7 yrs?)
Upon further thinking I should bump up the score I gave the script a bit…sure it’s gimmicky, but it’s gotta be pretty tough to make a silent film comprehensible and entertaining without a bunch of title cards.
Do the nominations air on television? If so, which channel? Or does every news cast at the time of announcement switch over to it?
or is that more a testament to the direction?
@rufussondheim
And this is where I predict that Spielberg’s Lincoln will be an awards disappointment. Do you know how I know this? All Spielberg films are the same. If I can see it, then AMPAS can see it. You should be able to as well
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How foolish prediction. You will be snubbed next year.
I’ve been observing the ritual of watching the Academy Awards Nominations special in my home country since 1994; this year, I’ll be watching it in LA (I’m on vacation). As for the nominations itself, expect 90 percent predictable and 10 percent unexpected ones. C’est la vie! (That’s life!)
Hoping for a Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cinematography sort of surprise…but on a larger scale like maybe Supporting Actor or even Pic.
@K. Bowen
“No Tree of Life?
An American film wins the Palm d’Or but it doesn’t get an Oscar nomination? What a joke!
I just wanted to be the first to say it.”
So what. It happened before. “Sex, Lies and Videotape”, “Wild at Heart”, “Barton Fink” all were reduced to one or a couple (3 for Fink) of nominations that didn’t mean crap. Van Sant’s “Elephant” got lost very early in the race. The only true crime that an american movie that won the Palme d’Or and didn’t get anything from the AMPAS is the horrible omission of “Scarecrow”
“I liked The Artist, put it at the tail end of my Top 10, but I fully acknowledge it’s this year’s Shakespeare in Love.”
So what’t this year’s “Saving Private Ryan”?
Or does every news cast at the time of announcement switch over to it?
oh man, wouldn’t that be great? To have the National Emergency Broadcast Alert horn break into every channel to announce the Oscar nominations!
Does anybody know if it’s going to be televised on E! or ABC or what?
I know it will be televised on NBC. They will have the two stars from The Artist on. This is the station I am TiVo’ing in case I prefer to sleep (but that’s not likely)
I would wager that ABC will have them since they air the actual telecast.
And I know CNN has aired them in the past.
The trick is know which ones will air them in their entirety. In the past, some newscast broke away for 30 seconds while they did the foreign film category.
“So what’t this year’s “Saving Private Ryan”?”
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Or Hugo?
I could see either of those splitting Picture/Director with The Artist…but given what The Artist accomplishes with so little I think I have to champion Hazavicious for Best Director at least, even if his film doesn’t win the top honor.
“So what’t this year’s “Saving Private Ryan”?”
I wanna say the obvious parallel might be War Horse. But then just as fast I want to bite my tongue.
Well yeah, Ryan is right and that’s what came to mind for me first as well…but War Horse is not looking like a top contender and it’s no Saving Private Ryan either. I mean Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece.
My full predictions
I basically just went with the guilds (copy/paste is what I mostly did to come up with this)
14 for Hugo
10 for The Artist
9 for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9 for The Help – very strong in the technical categories
5 for The Descendants
3 for Midnight in Paris
0 for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – one of my absolute faves this year, I wouldn’t even count on a cinematography nod despite the ASC nom because of War Horse, I’ll just make NGNGs or wishes for this film
Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Director
Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
David Fincher – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Alexander Payne – The Descendants
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Demian Bichir – A Better Life
George Clooney – The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio – J. Edgar
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Viola Davis – The Help
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Tidla Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
Albert Brooks – Drive
Ben Kingsley – Hugo
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Berenice Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer – The Help
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants – Alexander Payne; Nat Paxon; Jim Rash
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Steve Zaillian
The Help – Tate Taylor
Hugo – John Logan
Moneyball – Steve Zaillian; Aaron Sorkin
Best Original Screenplay
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo; Kristen Wiig
50/50 – Will Reiser
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
Best Foreign Language Film
Bullhead – Belgium
In Darkness – Poland
Monsieur Lazhar – Canada
A Separation – Iran
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale – Taiwan
Best Editing
The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion; Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants – Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Kirk Baxter; Angus Wall
Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball – Christopher Tellefsen
Best Cinematography
The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo – Robert Richardson
The Tree of Life – Emanuel Lubezki
War Horse – Janusz Kaminski
Best Art Direction
Anonymous – Sebastian Krawinkel
The Artist – Laurence Bennett
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Donald Graham Burt
The Help – Mark Ricker
Hugo – Dante Ferretti
Best Costume Design
The Artist – Mark Bridges
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trish Summerville
The Help – Sharen Davis
Hugo – Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre – Michael O’Connor
Best Original Score
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Alexandre Desplat
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross
The Help – Thomas Newman
Hugo – Howard Shore
Best Song
“Coeur Volant” – Hugo
“Hello Hello” – Gnomeo & Juliet
“Lay Your Head Down” – Albert Nobbs
“Life’s a Happy Song” – The Muppets
“The Living Proof” – The Help
Best Sound Mixing
Hugo – John Midgley
Moneyball – Ed Novick
Super 8 – Mark Ulano
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Peter J. Devlin
War Horse – Stuart Wilson
Best Sound Editing
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hugo
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best Visual Effects
Captain America: The First Avenger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hugo
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best Makeup
Albert Nobbs
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Best Documentary Feature
Bill Cunningham New York
Buck
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Pina
Project Nim
Best Documentary Short Subject
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God is the Bigger Elvis
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution
Pipe Dreams
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Best Live Action Short Film
Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother)
Pentecost
The Road Home
The Roar of the Sea
Tuba Atlantic
Best Animated Short Film
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
La Luna
Luminaris
And if the Academy had these 2 categories, this will be my preferred lineup:
Best Ensemble
The Artist
The Help
Hugo
Melancholia
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Stunt Coordination
Cowboys & Aliens
Hanna
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Hmm, well I have still have 2 assignments to finish for Finite Element Analysis tomorrow so I suppose I might as well stay up to work on them and catch the nominations; kill 2 birds with one stone…
oh I almost forgot to mention…did anyone else find that song Pennies from Heaven or whatever it was really annoying in The Artist? That woman had such a horrrrible voice…
I’ve managed to wangle a ‘work from home’ afternoon so I’ll be rushing back to get home at 1pm, half an hour before the announcement (in the UK). Not sure how much work I’ll do this morning!
I loved The Artist but I’ll save my prayers for A Separation and Drive as they need them!
Actually Meryl did much more than an imitation and even though her performance has some low points, if you do a bit of a research on Thatcher, you’ll see how close Meryl got. There is real emotion in her performance and it’s brilliantly accurate. To me she should win, with Kirsten Dunst being my favorite performance, but anyway, she’s not getting nominated. Viola Davis had her moments, but what really drives me crazy is how such a broad and undetailed performance as Octavia Spencer’s is getting the buzz to win supporting. And all due respect, but I don’t really think Bigelow is even close to a great filmmaker.
thank you sooo much Ryan,really surprise for 7years in bkk!!!
Alright boys and girls. I got my “Another Brick in the Wall: Part II” guitar solo alarm cranked up for 5:20 and I will see you all on the other side. Sleep tight.
I suppose all you Eastern seaboard folks are getting back at us Angelenos for the great weather…
@Ryan
“I wanna say the obvious parallel might be War Horse. But then just as fast I want to bite my tongue.”
And you would be right to do so. “War Horse” is nowhere near “Saving Private Ryan”
@AMPASSucks
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Or Hugo?”
Nope. Non of these carries the weight and resonates so strongly with the audiences as “Saving Private Ryan” did. Hugo may come close in terms of nostalgia, but still does not have the raw power and energy that “Saving Private Ryan” did. I still remember the actual fear for the soldiers when the climax battle was about to start.
As far as “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” goes it may be the “Thin Red Line” of this years race. It’s gonna score big when it comes to noms (who know, maybe even 7) but I don’t see any category where it might pose a threat to win. I guess Original Score is the most obvious choice for GWTDT, same as Zimmer was back in the year of Shakespeare. But still, The Artist is the frontrunner, and same as in the year of Shakespeare, an unknown foreigner will swipe that one. But no sweat, Reznor and Ross got their gold last year. No harm done.
But I guess the big question right now is – CLOSE or MARA?
MARA….her performance is so crucial to the film’s success and such a perfect reflection of her director (Fincher). It’s one of the only performances this year that has truly stuck with me long after the end credits. Plus, her nomination means an entire category of first-time female nominees. Oscar loves history:)
GO Steve Zaillian
2 noms for U!
& how great (& impossibel))))
would be for Theron Olsen Mara Dunst & Felicity Jones to be nominated for best actress!
I too want to add my 2 cents of love for this site!!! you are amazing. Its the only awards site I check every day/
just to see the hours
Wouldn’t it be fun if the Artist didn’t get nominated for bp? I love it, but what if it didnt get nominated? Ah, the ways one can play pretend before the nominations are released. Then there’s just the vapour of disappointment hanging over the air. “No ____?! This sucks!”
I just want to say, good luck we’re all counting on you…
Waiting……………………..
……………..With Hope!!!!!!!!!!!
“It has nothing to do with newspaper deadlines or reactions around the world.”
Academy said years ago that the reason is exactly the WORLD. So that all countries are able to write the news within the same day. They didn’t always announce this early. Just like they didn’t always have the actual show this early. In the 70′s the show was held very late (so late that people on the east coast fell asleep before the main awards), now the stars have to be up an ready to go in the afternoon local time. They also switched from Monday to Sunday (about a decade ago) to make sure people are not too tired (aka better ratings).
Extra points to that one guy who watched an illegal downloaded copy of The Artist and posted comments in between the film. Douche.
You know, these Oscar hopefuls in Hollywood have been up all night. They lie about, though.
“I woke up when my agent called me, I couldn’t believe it.”
Bullshit. IF you have a chance to be nominated, you sure in Hell ain’t sleeping.
please let Fincher in…
After watching ‘The Artist’, I have to say that it’s terribly mediocre. Yes the entire ‘silent B&W film’ gimmicky is great and Hazanavicius deserves the accolades for creating such a film in 2011, but, let’s be honest, the screenplay is extremely poor. If I had to summarize the film, I could do it in less than a minute. The characters are underdeveloped caricatures without any substantial depth. Even Jean Dujardin’s George Valentin changed out of nowhere near the end of the film. It was filled with cliche moments and over-the-top ‘look, my film is so cute and adorable’ moments. It’s a shame that films with much much better scripts and ideas haven’t managed to gain more awards attention.
Despite all this, ‘The Artist’ definitely deserves some recognition in the tech departments. The cinematography is quite lovely, the score is unforgettable (though it gets terribly annoying at some point because of its repetitive themes), the costumes, makeup and art direction are exceptional. Also, the ensemble cast is pretty great, especially Jean Dujardin. It’s a well-crafted film with a terribly mediocre screenplay and lots of gimmicky moments. I wish it was better. It’s a nice film to go ‘awwww’ and enjoy, there’s nothing bad about this, but it is not Best Picture-material at all.
By the way, how the hell is this considered the frontrunner for Best Film Editing when we have Drive and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? I mean, seriously?
6/10
I really hope The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to be a Best Picture nominee. It’s my Oscar wish!
yeah let the right one in
ie FINCHERRR!
5 30 am @ awardsdaily will be 5 30 PM here ))) I want my working day to end with a bang!
Tree of life & Margin call better surprise!
AMPASSsucks, “Hoping for a Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cinematography sort of surprise…”
Indeed. Serra. That would make it all sort of OK. Can’t believe it would happen though.
I’m at work, typical… gotta maintain professionalism, esp if Michael Fassbender is nominated.
Jennifer Lawrence has just got out of the shower and brushed her teeth.
She’ll be with us as soon as she finds her daddy…
AMPASSucks, you’re an idiot. You don’t like The Artist, it’s ok. You like loud silly video music infused gimmicky films. The Artist is above you dude. STFU.
they moved the Awards from 9 to 8:30. Not much of a switch. It was supposed to help with ratings. It didn’t.
Same with the switch to Sunday.
If the AMPAS really cared about ‘the world’ then they wouldn’t air them at a time when Europe was asleep.
Yeah, I get it, there’s no good time to air them that makes everyone happy.
Everything about Oscars schedule is built around the East Coast of the USA, that’s where the money is for them. Anything else they say is pure spin.
Oh man…oh man…..oh man……will I be going back to bed on a cloud or a brick?
Glenn Close vs Rooney Mara – who will make it?
Rooney Mara…or my heart truly weeps. It’s the only thing that would honestly hurt me.
It would be fun also if they had to literally fight – Close is old, but she is a tough fighter too, I bet.
Fincher please…..
ELIC over Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Wow…just wow…