Oscar Nominee Reactions
Viola Davis, The Help
“It’s an honor to be nominated a second time, it is a personal accomplishment and triumph for women and women of color. I’m so glad the film has been recognized, it was a labor of love from the moment it was conceived and it is rewarding to see the impact it is having.”
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
“I’m overwhelmed for having my name among those incredible actors. This could have never happened if Chris Weitz had not been the head of this film. He is my brother and I thank him deeply. Hopefully more and more people will jump into iTunes and Netflix to see our film. That will be the biggest reward we could get. I dedicate this nomination to those eleven million human beings who make our lives easier and better in the US.”
Meryl Streep, Best Actress for The Iron Lady:
“I am honored to be in company with such beautiful artists, and touched deeply by my fellow actors for their generosity in giving me this acknowledgment.”
Thomas Langmann, Producer, The Artist
“I am very humbled by this morning’s nominations. This must be how my father felt back in 1965 when he received his first Oscar nomination. ‘The Artist’ was a labor of love from writer/director Michel Hazanavicius to pay homage to Hollywood, and to see all the love that the Academy has given it this morning is overwhelming.”
Bernice Bejo, Supporting Actress, The Artist
“I’m overjoyed and filled with happiness. I can’t believe that a year ago I was learning how to tap dance and today I am nominated for an Academy Award. It was a thrill to work on a project as ambitious as ‘The Artist’ and I am happy to share this moment with our visionary director, Michel Hazanavicius.”
Michel Hazanavicius, Best Director, The Artist
“I am so honored for this nomination. Filming ‘The Artist’ in Los Angeles was a dream come true, and to receive this recognition today is far beyond what I ever imagined. I couldn’t have done this film without the incredible cast of actors and outstanding crew whose heart and souls were poured into this project.”
Wim Wenders, PINA, Best Documentary
“It’s fantastic to be nominated for Best Documentary for the second time after “Buena Vista Social Club”, especially as it is the first time for a 3D film to be given that honor. All the dancers and collaborators of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, together with the crew and the production company Neue Road Movies, are extremely honored. With our journey into the magical kingdom of the great German choreographer Pina Bausch we wanted to raise a monument to this pioneer of modern dance. The worldwide success of PINA and now this Oscar nomination are fantastic rewards and recognition of our common work.”
Philippe Falardeau’s MONSIEUR LAZHAR, Best Foreign Language Film
“What is happening to the film is galaxies away from what I had initially hoped for. I say this, of course, in a good way. I rejoice in the fact that such an intimate film can find its way alongside Hollywood productions, proof that there is not only one path to artistic and public recognition. I am thrilled and I want to share this moment with all the members of Monsieur Lazhar’s team, wherever they are right now. This is also their nomination. I also have a special thought at this moment for my family.”
Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“My sincere thanks to my colleagues at the Academy. It is wonderful. I don’t know what to say – I am dumbfounded.”
Asghar Farhadi writer / director / producer of A SEPARATION
“This is cheerful news for me and for the family of cinema in Iran, specially the nomination for the best original screenplay. It seems that although people speak different languages around the world but there is one common universal language which everyone understands: The Language of Cinema.”
Mike DeLuca, Producer of MONEYBALL
“On behalf of the entire MONEYBALL team, I must express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the Academy for this incredible honor and recognition, and to our brilliant director Bennett Miller for making this possible. This is an extra innings game winning homer for us!”
Rachael Horovitz, Producer of MONEYBALL
“Its an extraordinary honor after 25 years in the business and particularly meaningful as I mourn the death of my beloved mentor Bingham Ray who always encouraged my ideas and whose last words to me were literally “Will you please stop worrying about MONEYBALL?!”
Steven Zaillian, nominee with Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin for Adapted Screenplay/MONEYBALL.
“I’m honored, and I’m pleased for all the writers nominated.”
Anne Seibel, “Midnight in Paris” BEST ART DIRECTION
“The magical effect of romantic Paris has captured the attention of the Americans, I feel that I’ve been in a dream that started when Woody gave me the chance to enter his world and create an empire of enchantment for him which led me to this nomination and has been embraced by the world.”
- Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Director, “Kung Fu Panda 2″
“The year of the dragon is off to a great start! Today’s nomination
is a huge boost of encouragement for the hundreds of dedicated cast
and crew that have created such a beautiful film. I am deeply proud
of what we have achieved together and honored by the Academy with this recognition.”
- Chris Miller, Director, “Puss in Boots”
“Am I still dreaming? What an absolute honor to be nominated. Thank
you to the Academy on behalf of the entire cast, crew, cat and boots!
This is beyond a thrill…and I’m pretty sure I’m awake.”
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Demian Bechir — beautiful nomination, so deserved. What a wonderful peformance and eloquent statement. This was truly a personal film and performance, in every way. GREAT CALL for the Academy — truly excellent and in my view, the best performance this year alongside Michael Fassbender.
I reached out to Marshall Curry. Trying to get a quote. I’m so happy he has a 3rd documentary nomination. He is my favorite documentarian.
Sasha, it’s Bérénice, not Bernice. You will all have to check your spelling of French names from now on.
LOVE
- Hugo has the most nominations ! Too bad none in acting, actors RULE the Academy after all…although not having an acting nomination definitely didn’t hurt Slumdog Millionaire or The Return of the King…
- The outstanding cinematic achievment that is ‘The Tree of Life’ recognized in picture, director, cinematography…if there is any justice, Lubezki will win…so he probably won’t.
- The Oscar-comebacks of Oscarless Acting Legends : Glenn Close and Max von Sydow haven’t been nominated since the 1988/1989 Season…yes, their last nominations were in the same year! I know that is ‘SOO 1988 of the Academy’….
- Glenn Close’s passion project receiving 3 (!) nominations AND that includes Janet McTeer whose outstanding turn was bound to get snubbed because the film wasn’t that well-received, but the Academy got it right.
- Gary Oldman FINALLY scored his first Oscar-nomination, and in lead nonetheless. Brilliant !
- The remarkably talented Kristen Wiig is an Academy Award Nominee. As much fun as it would have been to see something completely NOT Oscar in the bp-race, in the end it got the two nominations it REALLY deserved. And on that note, how refreshing it is to see a 100% COMEDIC performance in a female acting category. No dramedy-bs, pure COMEDY GOLD !
- One of the most promising new talents of recent years, Jessica Chastain didn’t cancel herself out !
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo pulled off Best Actress, Editing, Cinematography, Sound, Sound Editing…but where the HELL is picture, director, screenplay ?
-Margin Call scored a semi-unexpected original screenplay nomination !!! YAY ! Completely deserved !
HATE
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was snubbed in picture, director, adapted screenplay. And the most interesting part….Rudin can’t complain at all : his OTHER film got in. I would have knocked out Woody Allen for David Fincher without ANY hesitation. ‘Midnight in Paris’ is lovely…but ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is a modern masterpiece…there I said it, sue me ! I would have given it War Horse’ slot in bp, too…
- Harry Potter didn’t get picture OR screenplay, sure those were expected, but not even sound/sound editing ? Oh, I see, they needed the place for Transformers III…the thought of these two getting the same number of nominations makes me sick.
- Fassbender and Leonardo Dicaprio snubbed AGAIN. They delivered two of the greatest male performances last year. The sole reason I can accept this, is that it took Gary Oldman DECADES to land that crucial first nomination and it took around the same time for Demian Bichir to land a great role…meanwhile we all know that DiCaprio and Fassbender will be nominated in the next few years. Although now that the Academy snubbed DiCaprio’s ridiculously impressive turns in Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island and now J. Edgar, I’m starting to think they have a problem.
- Although I think ‘The Artist’ is a good/great film, I do NOT think it deserved the original screenplay-nomination. Sure, the execution of the story was great, but the story itself ? Shockingly unoriginal.
- Jonah Hill got in without a hitch, over Albert Brooks, Viggo Mortensen, Patton Oswalt, Andy Serkis, Alan Rickman, Tom Hardy…and the list goes on. I just don’t get his performance, I guess. I REALLY don’t think he did anything awards-worthy in Moneyball. In my opinion, he was perfectly acceptable…no more, no less.
- The Help didn’t get a screenplay-nod. I know, I know, don’t even start. I just think it was a very well-structured script and an excellent adaptation, even if the source material was clearly far from perfect…but in my opinion, the adaptation to screen WORKED perfectly. That’s all. Oh, and I REALLY enjoyed the melody of ‘The Living Proof’ and expected it to become a major player in the song-category…how the hell it didn’t even land the nomination, is beyond me.
- Where the hell is PGA/Golden Globe winner ‘Tintin’ ?
- No Alexandre Desplat ?
BOUND TO HAPPEN
- Albert Brooks and Shailene Woodley had the critics AND even Golden Globe/Critics Choice nominations…but HFPA/BFCA voters do NOT vote for the Oscars, SAG/BAFTA voters – or at least a lot of them – do…and they failed to score nominations from either. Same goes for ‘Drive’…
- As much as I LOVED Tilda Swinton’s performance AND the precursor-love she received (SAG-BAFTA-GG-BFCA + several critics awards), I knew she wouldn’t make it : there were 3 locks (Streep, Williams, Davis), then there was Close who has been campaigning and has the ‘story’ (Oscar-comeback, passion project, wrote the screenplay and the original song etc.) AND Mara whose timing was so utterly perfect, it was impossible to miss her : she started building real buzz (raves, BO, strong guild-love for her film etc.) EXACTLY when the voting went down, in those two weeks or so.
- Although they had their passionate supporters, I think it was rather obvious that 1. there won’t be 5% who will consider Bridesmaids as THE best film of the year 2. Shame will be too much for the Academy, even if Fassbender and Mulligan gave DEFINITELY top5-worthy performances.. Having said that, I expected Fassbender to make the cut, but clearly his character masturbated one too many times for the Academy’s taste…too bad, he really did deliver an outstanding performance in ‘Shame’…and ‘A Dangerous Method’…and ‘Jane Eyre’…and ‘X-Men : First Class’.
WHY THE NEW RULE RULES
The Tree of Life will go down in film history as not only one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time BUT also a Best Picture Nominee !
WHY THE NEW RULE SUCKS
The Girl with the Dragon Tatttoo couldn’t deliver the 5% No1, but considering it received 5 (!) nominations including Actress and Editing, there was definitely strong support there…and would have made it in the old-10-slot-voting-system.
Ugh, I meant that the Drive-snub was expected because of the lack of guild-love…the BAFTA-nominations gave us some hope and made it at least a viable contender again, but it clearly wasn’t enough…just like it didn’t land Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a bp-nod, either IN SPITE of acting/writing nods.
Don’t the Guilds and Academy voters overlap? Tree of life got snubbed by all the Guilds but gets Oscar nominations. Extremely Loud also snubbed by the guilds but gets Oscar nominations. J Edgar gets two Sag nominations but was shut out by Oscar. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo gets guild nominations but only Mara who ironically was not nominated by Sag gets the Oscar nomination. I though Dragon Tattoo would get a best picture nomination with so much guild support.
Also how come only two songs got nominated? That is a farce.
GARY OLDMAN
“You may have heard this before, but it has never been truer than it is for me today: It is extremely humbling, gratifying, and delightful to have your work recognized by the Academy, and to join the celebrated ranks of previous nominees and colleagues. Amazing.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16699960
Nice summation there, Phantom. I don’t agree with your opinions on some of the films, and you fail to mention the wonderful news of A Separation getting a screenplay nod! That, for me, shows that sometimes the Academy is really up for the task of selecting the best, even if it’s coming from left field (well, Iran, is very left field in this regard!)
As much as I hate Fassbender, I am shocked at his snub. Glenn Close and Rooney Mara over Swinton? Unbelievable. I knew Melissa McCartney was going to get the sympathy fat girl vote so I am not surprised. It was a painfully one-dimensional performance and this whole Bridesmaids charade represents awards season at its worst.
Besides that, I am satisfied with the nominations. Satisfied with the love for The Artist and Malick. Not sure how I feel about Hugo but it is not a bad movie so I have no complaints. Not satisfied with Woody Allen getting a director’s nom for a cliche-ridden and trite comedic piece like Midnight in Paris. People seem eager to award him for finally making a decent movie in decades. What they fail to understand is that VCB was a much more superior movie. Happy The Help was shut out of major categories besides acting and best picture. I guess it does not have the steam bloggers were claiming it had.
Also, it is Bérénice Bejo not Bernice Bejo. So happy for my girl. I remember when she was nothing but eye candy in OSS 117 and now this? felicitations!!
The guilds do overlap with AMPAS voters, but each branch of membership of AMPAS only represent a small fraction of the entire membership of a guild.
For example, only a small fraction of DGA members are Oscar voters, about like 250 some directors, and they are mostly DGA members, so the guilds could give you a direction of the race, but not absolute. That is why you have Brokeback Mountain that won DGA, PGA, WGA, but still lost best picture.
Terrence Malicks is also a good example. Failed at DGA, PGA, WGA, but he still scored a directing nomination. I was totally wrong and I should not have counted him out.
Yeah, I am thrilled that Kristen Wiig got her first Oscar nomination, and I love the surprises from the acting categories. I am sorry that Drive was totally shut out.
Sorry about Fincher, but I kind of had a feeling he might be this year’s Nolan anyway.
Tin Tin’s shut out is a surprise. We have a PGA winner that failed to get an Oscar nomination. That is pretty rare.
Oh well, I still believe The Artist will prevail and walk away with at least 4 or 5 awards(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Score, Best Costume or possibly Best Art Design).
But what do I know? I was so sure that Malicks was gong to be shut out, I was so convinced, and guess what, I was totally wrong. Anyway, but I do believe Hugo has a small chance of upsetting The Artist for best directing. We shall see, Payne also has a small chance as well, but my money is still on The Artist’s small scale sweep.
I was talking about the nomination process, sorry.
When it comes to voting, everybody votes.
gary oldman ”This afternoon in Berlin I have learned that I was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Actor. You may have heard this before, but it has never been truer than it is for me today, it is extremely humbling, gratifying, and delightful to have your work recognized by the Academy, and to join the celebrated ranks of previous nominees and colleagues. Amazing”
Stephen Daldry: “I am a fucking hack. There is nothing artistic, intellectual or articulate in my films. Just plain bullshit. I don’t know how these old hags eat it up every time. But thanks anyway.”
@Deena Jones’ Wig: sympathy fat girl vote??? :faints:
Did Demián Bichir get in on the sympathy Latino/undocumented-worker vote?
I was pleasantly surprised by Oldman’s nomination, but was totally shocked by the exclusions of Brooks, Fassbender, Swinton and The Living Proof.
I’m really happy for Glenn’s 6th nomination too. How could anyone predict a snub for her? I mean, she wasn’t gonna be IGNORED, Dan!
I love it when veterans aside from Streep get noticed every now and then. So boring when all we have are first-timers and actors that become known because of the nomination. I know Glenn won’t win this time, but I pray that she can return…
They’re jealous of Michael Fassbender’s big talent.
Why Why Why:( How could they not nominate The Dragon Tattoo! It was ten times better than moneyball, midnight, ELIC, and Tree of life!
julian, I didn’t mention ‘A Separation’, because I haven’t seen it yet. Hopefully I can get a screener soon, seeing the reviews, I am definitely intrigued !
So happy for Berenice — she was a joy to watch.
God will punish Academy for snubbing Tintin.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
People, Remember This Datas – 1981(Picture, Director),1982(Picture,Drector), 1985(no nominee), 1986(no nominee), 1998(picture), 2011(animated). Robbing Oscars From Great Steven Spielberg. They stole at least 8 Oscars from Spielberg during his career.
phantom, A Separation is already available as DVD via Amazon UK.
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/01/24/harry-potter-oscars/
“It wasn’t just the fans that prayed for a big night on Oscar night. Warner Bros. made a big push for award consideration with their ubiquitous “Consider” ad campaign. Many held out hope for a Best Picture nomination and perhaps recognition, at long last, for Alan Rickman and Severus Snape.
Alas, “Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ did not make the cut, despite a relatively long list of nine Best Picture nominees, one less than the maximum. But were the awards dreams just fan delusions that got out of hand?
When a movie makes more than one billion dollars world-wide, you should pay attention. When a movie earns some of the most unanimous praise of the year from critics, you should pay attention. Despite both of these enormous factors, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ scored only three nominations, all in technical categories.
The snub reveals the supreme stubbornness of the Academy, and two highly superficial and trivial factors led to Harry’s disappointing morning.
First, for Academy voters, the “Harry Potter” films fall into two of Oscar’s least favorite genres: the children’s film and fantasy. There are notable exceptions for each, however. Just this year, “Hugo,” a “children’s film” earned the most nominations of any movie, but without its auteur director behind the camera, we would have seen a very different outcome. And despite its fantasy setting, “The Lord of the Rings” earned Best Picture nominations for each installment, but their dark and epic tone from the get-go made them more Oscar-friendly.
Secondly, “Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ was the eighth film in a series and the second half of one complete story. Superficial things like numbers after a title can make the difference and spell disappointment for even the most qualified film. If you strip away the context and focus on the actual merits of the film, you’d have a hard time arguing that a movie like “Avatar,” one with a comparable scale and box office haul, deserved the recognition that “Deathly Hallows” didn’t get.
The Academy’s oversight would have been more understandable had the nominee pool been stronger this year. Aside from “The Tree of Life,” this year’s Best Picture contenders make up the safest and most Oscar-friendly field of nominees in recent memory. A nomination for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ would have defied Academy stereotypes and shook up a race that is destined to leave many viewers snoring.
Thanks, Stefan ! Paid, ordered, waited for
This is honestly the first year that I will be incredibly happy if any three of Best Actress noms win. Meryl, Viola or Glenn-anyone of them will have me jumping up in the air and cheering on Oscar night! Kudo’s to all those great ladies.
*sigh* expecting, not exprecting….
How proud I am of ASGHAR FARHADI and A SEPARATION and for all of Iranian cinema. This is truly a beautiful reward for a country who has so many restrictions on the freedom of the people, how lovely to see great work rewarded.
Super sad that the following got snubbed,
- Michael Shannon and Take Shelter
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- Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in Shame
- Vanessa Redgrave and her multiple brilliant portrayals this year
- Jessica Chastain getting in for mediocre Help and not for Tree of Life or Take Shelter
- Drive, Hossein Amini’s screenplay and direction by Nicholas Winding Refn
- Tilda Swinton for her harrowing performance in We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Maria Djurkovic’s amazing production design of Tinker Tailor
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross brilliant score to Girl with Dragon Tattoo
- Chemical Brothers amazing score of Hanna
- Sareh Bayat for best supporting actress for A Separation (I know I was too optimistic
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was produced by Scott Rudin, obviously this movie was critically unsuccessful, it will go down as the worst picked as best picture nomination in history! Yes critics are critics and people feel different than the critics do. I have not seen this movies, so I am ignorant and I admit that but really from what I am looking at this movie looks like a Netflix film I would watch on a Saturday evening with family. Obviously this is a push for Rudin to make money for the film. The film itself was a 70 million dollar budget and it’s only 10 million so far. So he must of known a lot of people to get this film nominated. This is why the Academy Awards will forever be unsuccessful because political power does control everything. I don’t know what type of trade offs he did to get this pushed but whatever it was it must of been “sweet” to the other voters. This itself should be ban from Academy Award voting process. I also think they should go back to the classic five film process. I hate this 10 film 8 film 9 film nomination thing, it doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t work. As you can see that the ratings have gone down and there about to go down further. Thank you Scott Rudin and the voters for ruining the 2011-2012 Oscar season.
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close
Niles,
EL&IC/War Horse are the type of films that work best with the new system, they both didn’t work that will with critics, but people that loved any of them really LOVED them, I mean best films of the year love! That’s the problem with the new system, while you’ll find a masterpiece in the list, Tree of Life, you’ll also find a very sentimental film that worked well with some but not so well with the others, EL&IC.
And that’s why a film such as the girl with the dragon tattoo wasn’t nominated, despite being an excellent movie, it wasn’t the number one for almost all of the voters, even though it worked well in other categories (5 nominations!).
To be honest, EL&IC wasn’t as bad as the reader and that movie was nominated when there was only 5 movies in the list .. so I don’t really care.
@mel
Sorry I didn’t make myself clear, I wasn’t talking about the better performance. Just Oscars. And Mara, performance aside, has had all the promotion you can have, from day one to the breast showing teaser poster. I’m sure she does a good job with the character. It’s a meaty part, difficult to screw up.
There’re two hot girls in the Best Actress category and three well respected mature actresses. Which one will win? Sadly, I think one of the two hot girls or Meryl Streep.
Still thinking about Woody Allen, who has only one Oscar for Best Direction for Annie Hall, ages ago. Why actors can have multiple Oscars, but directors aren’t considered overdue when they have only one with the career Allen has had? Midnight in Paris isn’t my favourite Allen movie, but it would be great if he could pull an upset in the director category, in case there’s a split The Artist/director.
Oops, wrong thread.
Oddly enough, the nominees and those films that won for best poster and trailer are almost identical… Heres the link to the 2011 TFI Awards… http://thefilminformant.com/2011-tfi-awards/
Just shows that when you produce quality marketing material, you tend to produce good movies…
Only that way they could make Tintin out of win. Fucking Academy.
Next year they will nominate hardcore pornographic animated film.
Good:
Demian Bichir in
Gary Oldman in (at last!)
Max Von Sydow in
Spielberg out
Tree of Life and Malick in
Bad:
Extremely Close & Incredibly Loud in
Drive out
Albert Brooks out (WTF!)
Sadly Predictable:
Tilda out (She needs to make a movie with Harvey)
Fassbender out
Redgrave out (For once Harvey undersells a movie)
I still think more than 5 BP nominees is a disaster.
Any BP nominee without a Director nom is dead in the water. DRIVING
MISS DAISY being the exception that proves the rule.
So, at most, only 5 movies are in the running. The rest is just
dead weight that dilutes the BP category.
Albert Brooks: “I got ROBBED. I don’t mean the Oscars, I mean literally. My pants and shoes have been stolen.”
and Albert Brooks: “And to the Academy: ‘You don’t like me. You really don’t like me.’”
and more Albert Brooks: “Looking forward to the State of the Union tonight. Hope the new Axis of Evil includes Hollywood.”
To be honest I’m getting absolutely sick of Stephen Daldry slipping in there undeserved, albeit he only got a BP nom this time. The whole 9 nominees is a bit ridiculous for what was not a particularly strong year for Hollywood. Clearly we can’t trust the Academy with this voting system when Dragon Tattoo can’t make a cut of 9. Sure, it’s great to see Malick and Tree of Life there, a dream come true in fact. But the sheer joy of hearing it announced was quickly and unexpectedly replaced by the disgust of hearing EL&IC. Please, just go back to 5 nominees. Pretty much every other category is a mess too, I’m really baffled by some of these decisions this year. Disappointing.
Is anyone really surprised that Tintin didn’t get an Animated Feature nod? It didn’t even make the shortlist. I was surprised it even qualified to begin with, since it’s motion capture and mo-cap alone isn’t an animation technique according to the Academy rules.
For me, the good things — Tree of Life for BP and BD! Gary Oldman FINALLY getting recognized! — outweigh the bad this year. I’m pretty content with the nominees overall this year.
Is anyone really surprised that Tintin didn’t get an Animated Feature nod?
Turns out the animation branch has better taste than the Academy at large. No, not surprised.
Pleased for Viola Davis, see Birchir in a new light after seeing his comments, disagree that Woodley deserved a nomination. Twenty-year olds rarely ever reach their full potential as actresses, why reward them so early?
The rest of my reactions can be found at my link on my name
Animators are full. Greatest snub of 2012, Sasha
I think that, with the exception of Supp Actress, this may be the year of overdue Oscars.
Also, horrible to end the day this way, but RIP Angelopoulos. Very sad way to go, and apparently he was location scouting at the time.
Now I’m in doubt. A website here in Brazil said this afternoon that according to the rules of the AMPAS Tintin wasn’t eligible because of the use of Motion Capture. Isn’t it true Sasha?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpaYLCb90qA has proof that alot of people respect Harry Potter’s last film.
Filipe – it was definitely eligible. I don’t think the animators like motion capture….
That’s so sad, I went to the cinema to see it for a second time this afternoon. It deserves recognition. I just don’t understand. I don’t understand why its US box office wasn’t higher either. Thanks for the answer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP7yYNt90U&feature=related
I don’t understand why its US box office wasn’t higher either.
Filipe, the answer we hear most is that most American kids never heard of Tintin before now. He’s an international comic adventure around the world but not in the US.
I know him well because my partner grew up loving him in Thailand and he had 3 or 4 of the vintage comics, got me to read them a few years ago.
It’s making enough money overseas that there will most surely be sequels. Somebody in discussions here a few days ago said they hoped more American kids would discover it on Bluray this year. So the sequel could perform better.
@Ryan Adams I understand for Harry Potter’s last film, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Kung Fu Panda, SMurfs, X-Men, but I just don’t understand why not Tin Tin?
OCO300, There are a hundred things I don’t understand about today’s nominees.
We all got pieces of our hearts hurt today. But most of us can find a few things to be happy about too, as consolation.
We know you’re dedicated to one movie more than any other — just want to help you get past this awful day and look forward to other things, if you can, ok?
I got your point Ryan. That’s true. I really hope that people there get to know more and more about the character and the movie.
I never thought it would be an american hit. But with the marketing (the 3-D, the sequences full of great visual effects shown in the trailers, etctera)I had just thought it would’ve made more than $ 72 million by now. But I’ll save my hopes for the future and be happy with the success in the overseas market. Here in Brazil it’s the #1 movie! =)
sasha – didnt you love Extremey Loud? are you happy with its nominations?
I have been doing Academy Award Predictions actively since I first had the thrill of being the only person at my Oscar Party to correctly pick Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan (even though it was an inferior movie). This year is FAR AND AWAY the strangest I have EVER experienced. Every year gives us a few surprises (usually a couple in Acting, maybe a Director or Writer), but I have identified A DOZEN this year that stand out…
A Dozen Surprises (in order of WOW factor)…
Best Picture… Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close … I had a dozen films “Ahead” of it on my Board… (Alphabetical Order) Bridesmaids, Drive, 50/50, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows Pt. 2, The Ides of March, J. Edgar, Melancholia, My Week With Marilyn, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Win Win, and Young Adult.
Lead Actress… Rooney Mara in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo nominated over Tilda Swinton in We Need To Talk About Kevin.
Animated Feature… A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita nominated over The Adventures of Tintin (plus Arthur Christmas).
Supporting Actor… Max von Sydow (ZERO Pre-noms) in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close nominated over Albert Brooks in Drive.
Lead Actor… Demian Bechir in A Better Life and Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy nominated over Michael Fassbender in Shame and Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar.
Documentary Feature… Hell and Back Again and If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front nominated over Project Nim (Shortlisted) and Cave of Forgotten Dreams & Senna (Neither even Shortlisted).
Original Screenplay… Margin Call (ZERO Pre-noms) nominated over 50/50 and Win Win.
Music (Score)… The Adventures of Tintin nominated over The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (plus Drive).
Music (Original Song)… “Real in Rio” from Rio nominated over “Hello Hello” from Gnomeo and Juliet, “Lay Your Head Down” from Albert Nobbs, “Life’s A Happy Song” from The Muppets and “The Living Proof” from The Help.
Film Editing… Moneyball nominated over Drive and War Horse.
Costume Design… W.E. nominated over My Week with Marilyn.
Adapted Screenplay… The Ides of March nominated over The Help.
Other “Notable Absences”…
Nicolas Winding Refn for Directing Drive
Shailene Woodley for Supporting Actress in The Descendants
Drive for Cinematography
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for Art Direction
Super 8 and War Horse for Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Pt. 2 for BOTH Sound Categories
My Week with Marilyn for Makeup
Pina for Foreign Language Film (It was nominated for Documentary Feature instead)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-2012-nominees-reactions-academy-awards-284209
BEST ACTRESS: ROONEY MARA, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
“I was sleeping and my phone started going crazy,” recalled Rooney Mara. The movie had been skirting around the edges of the awards season and was one of those question marks on pundits’ radar. “I knew there was a small chance, but I wasn’t expecting it. I don’t know about the politics of (awards), but it came late in the game and it seems to me that a lot of the movies that got the awards came out early. I feel really honored and humbled to be on the list.” One of the first people she talked to was Tattoo director David Fincher. While Mara kept most of the details of the conversation to herself, she revealed that she told him, “I could not have done it without him and he should feel responsible for the nomination and take pride in it.” — Borys Kit
I love her. So humble and giving Fincher all the credit.
expect some blowback from gossip-mongers for saying Rooney is humble.
a few people wander in with rumors from TMZ. They’re hung up on the assumption that all girls from rich families must be Paris Hilton.
As if they can’t just look at her demeanor and listen to her words to see she’s thoughtful and serious.
She gives some of the most thoughtful and bullshit-free interviews around. She does not try to charm or be anyone she isn’t….which is actually charming if you value real people. David Fincher has called her a “weirdo” and that should tell you something since he’s one himself.
Something else I loved, so it’s not all Rooney. I saw some pics last week of people leaving the WME party the night before the GGs. Everyone was walking out of the party in their cool trendy designer clothes and Octavia Spencer was straight up marching out of there in mom jeans and a sweater. LOVE IT. And I’m not being sarcastic.
Tintin was all action, no soul or heart.
Rooney Mara deserved the nom. She was the best thing about the movie.
Fassbender and Mulligan snub makes me hate on the ACADEMY.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close to Tom Hanks or Sandra Bullock or all the other actors who appear in it. SHIT.
TREE OF LIFE – Yes! Though Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain should have been nominated for this.
Rooney is lovely flawless beautiful humble nice down to earth & super sweet!
BAwlll I need sequels for TDWTDT!!!
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i wonder if these non nominations made them less possible
These are great nominations to support sequels. Studios never need Oscars before they go forward with sequels. But a Best Actress nomination is terrific for prestige. The sequels will happen, I feel very sure.
“I was sleeping and my phone started going crazy,” recalled Rooney Mara.
Normally I would call this complete bullshit, but Mara seems like someone who actually doesn’t care so much. I believe she WAS sleeping.
@Ryan Adams I am but i don’t know about other people from youtube, facebook, etc.