84th Academy Awards. The Artist takes 5 top Oscars. Hugo wins 5 more.
- Best Picture: The Artist
- Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
- Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
- Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
- Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help
- Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
- Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne & Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants
- Best Foreign Language Film: Iran, A Separation
- Best Documentary Feature: TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay & Richard Middlemas, Undefeated
- Best Animated Feature: Gore Verbinski, Rango
- Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson, Hugo
- Best Film Editing: Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo, Hugo
- Best Costume Design: Mark Bridges, The Artist
- Best Original Score: Ludovic Bource, The Artist
- Best Sound Editing: Philip Stockton & Eugene Gearty, Hugo
- Best Sound Mixing: Tom Fleischman & John Midgley, Hugo
- Best Visual Effects: Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman & Alex Henning, Hugo
- Best Makeup: Mark Coulier & J. Roy Helland, The Iron Lady
- Best Documentary Short: Daniel Junge & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Saving Face
- Best Animated Short: William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
- Best Live Action Short: Terry George & Oorlagh George, The Shore
- Best Original Song: Bret McKenzie, Man or Muppet
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The Artist will finish with 7 Oscars.
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Happy Oscars to you Sasha, Ryan and all other regular commenters to the site. Enjoy the ride!
daveinprogress — thanks so much, my man.
it’s always great to have you with us
all you guys and gals, ladies and gentlemen : Happy Oscar Night !
Enjoy, everybody. Look forward to the post mortem.
Back to breathing in and out of the paper bag in anticipation of the first award (cinematography)
Those are both working for me, Ryan! You’re a lifesaver! Can’t find any way to watch from Paris except online…
Thanks for a great year!
Oh, look, The Artist won best picture!
Wait. Am I too early?
Feel free to move this post down to the correct place when it happens.
Gentlemen (and ladies)…
Here we go!
T.
I’m going to play Skyrim and not watch the Oscars this year. But I still love your blog!
Thank you, Sasha and Ryan for putting up with us for yet another year. I hold no malice towards anyone but an Academy that was royally exposed in the LA Times and which answered a lot of questions as to why AMPAS went rogue the way they’ve done the past 4 years in particular.
Thanks for setting this all up, Ryan. I just hope Sasha’s not freezing at the Oscars.
You guys do an incredible job, all season & all year round – it needs to be said. I don’t underestimate how taxing a task it can be. You provide immeasurable insight, opportunity & robust discussion. Thank you.
I wish for all of us, that there are some genuine and pleasing results to assuage our expectations of this big event. Passion, advocacy and belief. These qualities prevail. They can never be taken away from any film lover.
I’m nowhere near as excited as I usually am, despite there being so many categories still undecided
Damn boring Best Picture race
Congratulations to Awards Daily for covering this season. Hope 2012/2013 is much better!
13 minutes and it’s on bitches!
With Cinematography, Art Direction & Costume up first we should know pretty soon if it’ll be an Artist tour-de-force
Thank you Sasha, thank you Ryan, and all the people around here. Awards Daily is one of my favorites places on the web.
And I hope that if “Rio” wins Song that the AMPAS has a portuguese translator on the stage, because composer and singer Carlinhos Brown (nominated along Sergio Mendes) likes to talk a lot, a lot, a lot, with no strings attached. And probably they will cut him in the middle of his speech
too slow for me. any other links?
its bound to be a predictable show and im so over this season already lol…but it still gives me something to talk about for 3 hours so ill guess ill tune in?–anyway thanks for the links!!
Livetvcafe.net & ilive.to
I got to tape my grin in place as I pretend to enjoy a washed-up 60 year old b-list actor sing self-aware, inside-joke Musical film parodies.
Go Hugo, Tree of Life & Potter!
My final predix with last minute changes:
Best Picture: The Artist
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Best Actress: Viola Davis
Best Actor: Jean Dujardin
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer
Best Original Screenplay: Midnight in Paris
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Descendants
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best Documentary Feature: Undefeated
Best Animated Feature: Rango
Best Cinematography: Hugo
Best Film Editing: The Artist
Best Art Direction: Hugo
Best Costume Design: Hugo
Best Original Score: The Artist
Best Sound Editing: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best Sound Mixing: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best Visual Effects: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Best Makeup: The Iron Lady
Best Documentary Short: The Tsunami and Cherry Blossom
Best Animated Short: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Best Live Action Short: The Shore
Best Original Song: Man or Muppet
owel, links still slow
Well, at least Sissy Spacek was in the opening.
Oscar, oscar…. YAY!
And so the ceremony finally gets underway. Last year at this time I thought the 2012 Oscars would be between WAR HORSE and THE IRON LADY – and whilst both films are nominated, it’s HUGO and THE ARTIST which are the two main contenders. Back in Feb. 2011 no one had seen or heard of THE ARTIST and HUGO was just a kid’s film Martin Scorsese was making.
I still think Streep has a chance of winning Best Actress – the reason being she’s playing a real-life person and over the past decade the following have won Oscars: Jim Broadbent (John Bailey), Nicole Kidman (Virginia Woolf), Cate Blanchett (Katherine Hepburn), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Truman Capote), Reese Witherspoon (June Cash), Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth II), Forest Whittaker (Idi Amin) Marion Cotillard (Edith Piaf) , Sean Penn (Harvey Milk) and Colin Firth (King George VIth).
However, Davis has the advantage of being in a Best Picture nominee whereas Streep isn’t, and that always helps.
I just hope there are some surprise winners – like Scorsese for Best Director (I mean he has won the Golden Globe and the Fellowship at BAFTA, so there may be a chance).
I’m missing most of Billy Crystal’s opening on this shit live stream, does anyone have any decent ones?
No links
Tom Hanks is narrating shit that no one cares about.
cine hugo crap
HUGO FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY!?! wow..nobody saw that coming. Poor Lubeski.
They’re really throwing everybody with the order of awards this year. Interesting choices…
is it Hugo night or what?
One award, and one upset: cinematography to HUGO, not TREE OF LIFE
HUGO! HUGO! HUGO!
Two for Hugo. Wow.
Yeah! Hugo!
The tvpc.com post at beginning of this thread is working, but poor quality.
LOVE the Hugo-love ! Keep it up, Academy ! I’ve just seen it this afternoon, it was only the third time I actually appreciated 3D (Avatar, How to train your dragon were the other two), and it was REALLY a masterpiece…I would give it a hard 9…I would give ‘The Artist’ a solid 7…
OK, Bob Richardson is an amazing cinematographer. but f… Luzbeki was robbed.
OMG! Meryl looks the best ever! I can’t believe Tree of life lost cinematography!
The Academy loves to troll Lubeski and Deakins, don’t they?
Two for Hugo! Wow…. good start! BUT Y U NO HONOUR TREE OF LIFE FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY?
Hugo 2!!! I can sleep happy tonight! (Sad for Lubezki however).
I see the academy wanted to flush their credibility down the drain especially early this year.
what does Lubeski have to do to win one! First, Children Of Men, and now this? Already angry.
And the avalanche its going to Hugo… I told ya!!?
Hugo baby!! 2 for 2!!
I know, the Hugo Cinematography win wasn’t great. It had Art Direction in the fucking bag, at least give Cinematography to Emmanuel Lubezki at last!!!
And I hate to say, but the fill up “Hugo” with techs and probably will snubed on Screenplay, Directing and Movie.
Go Hugo! Fab start! Is some big upset looming? Hope so….
Thank god, The Artist didn’t win Cinematography. I knew Hugo would win those two awards!! Maybe Scorsese would pull an upset, but i would not count on it.
@phantom
You only saw HUGO today? D: *bites phantom*
Didn’t last year begin with several losses for The King’s Speech
Lubeski its a Master and don’t worry he will be next Year with Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity!!!
They put the band in the boxes? WTF?
This is really an audio disaster..
i cant believe we dont have any decent links.
Decent stream from UK Sky Movies – Stream 2 on this link:
http://www.stream2watch.me/live-tv/abc-live-stream
It’s about 2 or 3 seconds delayed, but who cares? It barely makes a difference.
Why is Twilight in an Oscar montage? Not enjoying the ceremony or Billy so far. But nailed those two awards, 2 out of 2
T.
Most pointless montage ever.
I almost blew a vocal chord yelling “You can’t handle the truth!” lol
This is fun.
In case too few people had seen this year’s Best Picture winner, that movie montage was the most commercial montage I could (n)ever have imagined. Fs.
It is shameful that The Tree of Life lost cinematography. I should turn this pos off (I won’t). Not rewarding what could possibly be the most beautifully shot film in history is so sad.
The Artist for costume? Really…? Its winning everything from this point on, people….
T.
Alright, The Artist train just pulled into the Parisian station. Costumes should have gone to…anything else.
Meryl looks like and oscar…
Oh Cameron and Jennifer, they so funny LOL
Harry Potter deserved make-up! The work they put into the movie was so much more than the lipstick and shit they smothered on Meryl Streep.
Demian Bichir looks amazing… I hope he win the oscar…
The Iron Lady for Make-Up – great choice. I would’ve preferred Harry Potter, but only by a whisker. Both films featured great make-up; as did Albert Nobbs!
Ugh. Hugo is a beautiful film and worthy, but The Tree of Life is just awe inspiring.
The only thing that would almost make up for Lubezki getting snubbed is if Malick somehow won best director.
And since that has no chance of happening, I kind of feel like watching Days of Heaven instead of this.
ugh did they have to give the artist best costume:/
Antoinette
I was lucky I could see it pre-Oscars, it was a PRE-premiere screening nonetheless
What can I say, my country’s film distributors SUCK timing-wise.
please any new links?????
I was sure Tree of Life would get Cinematography, but Hugo’s was great. Art Direction was 100% going to be Hugo, no contest. Haven’t see Artist, but its costumes do look great. Make-up should have gone to Potter, I can’t believe Iron Lady took it.
Great taste Phantom – i rated Hugo a 9.5 and The Artist a solid 8! Glad you got to enjoy the wonders of Hugo in time
Fucking Sky Movies panel of nobodies don’t have a clue.
Their predictions for Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy and Jessica Chastain. Yup. Well done there.
A Separation, thank GOD.
@phantom
Okay. You’re forgiven. *unbites*
A SEPARATION! YEAH!!!!
I went out on a limb and predicted In Darkness there – couldn’t be much happier to be proven wrong
Thankfully they got foreign film right for a change. yay.
i’m in tears, so happy 4 a seperation!
She’s literally shaking! love her..
standing o for octavia
Oh Octavia gets a wee standing O!
Octavia Spencer, gets a standing ovation!
Bravo Octavia Spencer…. First standing O!!!
The first major swing category coming up: Editing…
Spencer, no surprise there. Best of the nominated roles. My fave was Chastain for Tree of Life however.
She thanked Spielberg for changing her life
Everyone else in that category, save for Berenice, would have been a more just winner.
Sorry, I found the acting in The Help adequate, but nothing Oscar worthy.
T.
Actually, Bejo would have been my first choice. I haven’t seen McTeer, though.
Some seriously good actresses there – McTeer, Chastain, and the charming Bejo, the hilarious McCarthy and the scene stealer Spencer. Shaileen Woodley and Carey Mulligan would have made it even more competitive. Good year for S.Actress.
so happy for octavia. shes comes a long way from playing minimal nurse roles to being cut up in halloween 2(LOL) to now being an oscar winner. so happy for her.:)
They’re keeping the ceremony very simple tonight – broad-themed montages, lots of Billy Crystal – I like it!
What a beautiful Cinderella story. We all have seen Octavia before but, maybe didn’t know her name yet appreciated her performances!
They’re busting on the Academy. XD
daveinprogress
Thanks, I actually had to TRAVEL and check into a hotel, so I could catch this pre-premiere screening. I REALLY wanted to see it…clearly even more so, than the ceremony…fortunately I found a good stream…weird it doesn’t really work for others. Nothing against ‘The Artist’, sure, good film, but even before I saw ‘Hugo’, I considered SEVERAL other film considerably better.
Yes!!! Spencer gave the gave far and away the best performance in her category!
Surely, Octavia Spencer got a standing ovation because of her performance alone, right. Being black is just a coincidence.
Go moneyball.. Pleaseeee
the girl with the dragon tattoo! YEAHHHHHHHH
GIRL!
Dragon Tattoo… they got it right!!!!!!
gwtdt omg
WOWOWOW Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? This is just great!!
And the Editing goes to…THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO !!! TOTALLY DESERVED, I don’t care if they were stupid enough NOT to nominate it in picture, director, screenplay!
OMG GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO GETS AN OSCAR FOR EDITING
“We weren’t expected this…”
Quote of the night.
HOLY SHIT! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! YES! BAXTER / WALL YES YES YES!!!
WOW WOW WOW Go Aussie editor!
Seeing Rooney Mara right now it seeems she is shy, not blasé as some said
Editing is a great surprise.
To make it a great night – can Drive get an oscar in the only category it was nominated in
It`s official: The Artist is NO Slumdog Millionare!
hugo!
Rooney Mara!!!
Hu go.
No, hu go.
LOL
Glad that Hugo took Sound Editing.
3rd Oscar for HUGO !!! This is getting better and better.
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo winning editing! Didn’t see that one coming.
Sasha must be going nuts at the Oscars after that Dragon Tattoo win…
4 for hugo! awesome!
HUGO AGAIN!! TGWTDT for Editing!!
Wow, I’m loving this Oscars!!!
And sound mixing as well. I figured Hugo could sweep techs.
Hugo with it’s fourth oscar (three being expected).
Artist will likely be a 4-oscar winner (Picture, Director, Actor, Costumes)
Will Hugo pull off the big upset tonight?
and Score – so 5 potential wins for the Artist tonight
Morgan, never mind Sasha, I’m flipping out with happiness!!!
4 oscars and counting! Wunderbar!
Could there be a Hugo upset in the making? Hmmm?
I hope Rooney Makes a surprise…
Is it just me, or is this the MOST BORING OSCAR TELECAST. EVER.
Could it be? Could it be?
*jumps up and down*
Marty could seriously win this baby. I’d still bet on Haz but I would have expected The Artist to have more than 1 at this point.
4th Oscar for HUGO !!! INCREDIBLY HAPPY !
No ‘The Artist’ sweep, then.
Still can’t believe Dragon Tattoo won Film Editing…some awesome selections so far by the Academy how very unexpected.
I actually prefer The Artist for picture and actor but costume? really? come on……
The Artist will still get the big ones, but I’m overjoyed at a tech sweep for ‘Hugo’!
Hopefully it can nab Visual Effects too…
Hugo-fans, before getting our hopes up, let’s all REMEMBER 2004….’The Aviator’ won 5 Oscars within the first what, 45 minutes ? And we all know how that one ended.
Temper your expectations, we completely expected Hugo to get those three, Cinematography was the only surprise.
Dragon Tattoo won Editing being the other surprise.
Artist still has Picture, Director, Actor, Score locked up. Just like King’s Speech had Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay last year.
4 for HUGO, do I smell an upset over The Artist? I would not count on it.
The editing award for TGWTD was totally unexpected, wow
Am I the only one who thinks Octavia Spencer is one of the weaker members of her category? Chastain was better. McCarthy was better. McTeer was better.
Go Scorsece for BD!!! I have hopes now.
Happy for Dragon Tattoo also! Didn’t expect that. Amazing choice.
Hugo >>>>>> The Artist
Ryan, good on ya for being one of the very few who picked the editing Oscar – it takes a brave being to predict a film that was not up for Best Picture as well. This bodes well (or badly depends how you interpet it) for future theories on editing/picture/director match ups. Amazing stuff – winning 2 years in a row!
Hugo can pull the upset:) im lovin it!!!
http://www.livesport21.com/0227/1e.html I don’t know if it’s trusted but works for me..
Go HUGO!! 4 Oscars already!! I was hoping Thelma would win Best Editing. I love that clip they showed for Hugo during the sound awards!! And I love Howard Shore’s original score!! I have it on repeat on my iPod!
This ratings…. well…. are as expected as The Artist`s win.
No, Rex, you’re not the only one.
Oops, one of the cirque’s performes fell! Much like this telecast production so far
the best thing of night is that everybody mentions Spielberq. This is real achievement
I am still sadly betting on The Artist, but HUGO has won 4. It will be nice if it pulls a huge upset.
This cirque du sogay thing is lame. Didn’t we get rid of random dancing back in the Debbie Allen years? I’m gay so I can say cirque du sogay.
On a night when TGWTDT pulls an upset, I think all bets are now off.
wow!
@ mecid
Probably a preview of the Oscars 2013! Spielberg is coming to take everything next year.
thank god for cirque to soleil, the best part of a mediocre telecast.
This show keeps getting better! Always loved Cirque du Soleil.
I like Billy. The Oscars need to stick to this. Trying to be “hip” will only end catastrophically.
yes, great hopes for LINCOLN
Gwyneth’s dress loses something without the cape.
Billy Crystal is superb! Every year please!
Yeah this gwyneth and robert thing is a fail.
Gwyneth should have kept the cape. On the other hand, she and Robert Downey Jr. do have great chemistry, even when not in Iron Man.
i agree
“Probably a preview of the Oscars 2013! Spielberg is coming to take everything next year.”
The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games say hi.
Undefeated…nice
My alternatives keep winning! Richardson, A Separation, Undefeated…
Undefeated: gross
Yey fucking! Finally something interesting. Swear words!
The Hunger Games? Spielberg and Harvey give a big laugh about this. I think it will be good but… if HP was not oscar material, don`t think Hunger Games will be.
LOL @ Chris Rock ‘a donkey or a zebra’
Chris Rock. SHUT UP!
I still hold out hope for A Cat in Paris – That film is adorable
Rango – shocking. Decent film though
I hope Hugo Makes a good surprise…
I hated Rango, but it was expected to win so I’m not surprised.
The disconnect between the technical and the big prizes will continue this year. For 2 years in a row the best picture winner is not the best edited film. Nor photographed. The old and the new are possibly going different ways producing mixed bag of results. I know its early this year – but The Kings Speech = 4 out of 12. I predict a similar disconnect this year, as it is looking.
I am rooting for The Shore and A Morning Stroll for the “short” categories
Time to consider the Best Original Song category. It isn’t just in terminal decline – it’s on it’s last legs. The heyday was the 1940s to the 1980s when winners and nominees in this category included: White Christmas, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Mona Lisa, the Look of Love, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, the theme from Shaft, Live and Let Die, Fame, Arthur’s Theme, Eye of the Tiger, Up Where We Belong, I Just Called to Say I Love You and many many others. Contrast those with the past decade when the winners have been one turgid and forgettable song after another. Tonight that category will be contested between just two songs, the likely winner being ‘Man or Muppet’ – a song whose lyrics appear to comprise of ‘Am I a man or muppet, a muppet or a man’ repeated over and over again. And to think 50 years ago the winner for Best Song was Moon River.
Tufas, what did he say? (besides fuck)
Dear Chris Rock, animation is freaking easy for you voice actors but it’s tremendous work for the people who work on frame by frame for it. Please show some respect.
Not liking Billy and the jokes – I think he’s really too old to host. Did I just say that out loud?
Chris Rock was hilarious, much funnier than Billy Crystal.
IF IT WAS TINTIN.
Ryan, was just “fucking”, used as an adjective. Dont know about in the US but it wasnt bleeped out here in Portugal
Love the cut to Cameron Diaz, who got paid sickening money to voice that shrek princess.
Chris Rock = fingernails on a chalkboard.
And I thought we voted to keep animated characters from presenting – that includes muppets in my opinion. The Cirque du Soleil number was not good either unless you are there in person. I don’t like the montages either. So far I am only 7 out of 11 – but I plan to get better with my predictions when The Artist starts winning.
Dear Luke
Lighten up
Emma Stone, stop squinting.
I love Emma!!! She’s so great!
Emma Stone!!! Love Her!!!
Ben Stiller looks orangina.
Ok Emma was fun. Finally someone funny! You go girl. Terrible dress tho
T.
Heck Emma Stone’s good at this shit!
Is she good at everything or is it just me…?
I keep forgetting how much potential this Emma chick has. She has potential to be great.
Hugo!!! Wow!!! Now thats a race…
Man these guys love Hugo enough to give it Visual Effects over Harry Potter and Rise of the Planet of the Apes?
Great night for Hugo.
Rise should hav won. BOOOOO
And yet again, the Academy fucks itself right up the bum in its Visual Effects choice!
HUGO VISUAL, WHY NOT APEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS?
Emma Stone and Ben Stiller, next year’s hosts.
Hugo swept! Potter, 8 movies. 0 Wins. Can’t believe it, but Hugo was deserving in these categories!
I love Hugo but I’m getting really pissed off…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes was ROBBED big time.
Emma Stone was there? All I saw was an escaped bolt of red material.
Another Hugo win!! 5 Oscars baby!!
5 Awards for HUGO already. It is upsetting? If The Artist didn’t win Best Original Screenplay, and Scoresese won Best Directing, HUGO could upset!!
Melissa Leo looks beutiful…
Hugo…. 5 OSCARS!!!! But Visual Effects was clearly undeserving and as much as I am not a really big fan of The Tree of Life, It`s a showcase of cinematography. But Lubezki is in the same place as Roger Deakens and Alexandre Desplat is in soundtrack. One day he will have his Oscar I hope.
If Dujardin doesn’t win – then we can say that The Artist may not win. Otherwise it’s still on track to be a 5-oscar winner even with Hugo’s great night.
Everyone should be boycotting the Oscars like me and I hope they have the worst audience ratings in the history of the show…maybe that’ll teach them to pay more attention to what the fans like. This year could have been great. If they’d stuck with the system of the last few yrs the BFCA 85+ rule of thumb probably would have held and the Best Picture lineup would probably have been something like this…
Drive
The Artist
Hugo
The Descendents
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help (yes, it was 85+ and probably would have got the “Blind Side” spot still)
Looks a lot more like the diverse offerings of 2009 and 2010 doesn’t it? All that’s missing is an animation, of which I hear there weren’t any great ones last year. It should be noted The Ides of March and A Seperation could have been other possiblities as they passed the 85+ test, but Ides of March didn’t make the end of year Critic’s Top 10 lists and A Seperation is a foreign film, of which very few ever crack the big category (Now you might be saying, but isn’t The Artist a French film? Well sorta…it had a lot of American/British collaboration though)
Incidentally that lineup would have matched up far better with movie fan’s opinion as well. See, take a look at moviegoers Top rated…
IMDB:
1. A Separation (2011)
2. The Artist (2011)
3. Untouchable (2011)
4. Warrior (2011)
5. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
7. Hugo (2011/II)
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
9. Drive (2011)
10. The Help (2011)
11. 50/50 (2011)
12. Shame (2011)
13. The Muppets (2011)
14. X-Men: First Class (2011)
15. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)
16. Midnight in Paris (2011)
17. Moneyball (2011)
18. Take Shelter (2011)
19. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
20. The Skin I Live In (2011)
21. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
22. The Descendants (2011)
23. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
24. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
25. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Flickchart:
1. Drive
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. 50/50
5. Super 8
6. Midnight in Paris
7. X-Men: First Class
8. The Artist
9. Moneyball
10. The Tree of Life
11. The Muppets
12. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
13. Hugo
14. Source Code
15. Attack the Block
16. The Descendants
17. Warrior
18. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
19. Captain America: The First Avenger
20. Thor
21. Bridesmaids
22. Hanna
23. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
24. Rango
25. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Anyways, until the AMPAS decides they want to be relevant again and tune in to reality I won’t be watching!
BTW, Just got back from seeing The Descendents…at least they picked that one right. Disgusted that Shailene Woodley was left out of Best Supporting Actress though, not even did she have a greater presence then Octavia Spenser, she was much better. That’s not to say Octavia wasn’t good though. Oh BTW, Clooney should no doubt win Best Actor! He was amazing!
Straight men unrewarded for decades playing gay? Oscar’s in the bag
No#5 for Hugo !
What a lot of people forgot last year, that Emma Stone gave a great lead performance in ‘The Help’, too.
And probably THE most visually stunning franchise of all time said its farewell WITHOUT even ONE Oscar in ANY categories, not even technicals.
Yeah Tom Hardy. Remember that guy? lol
I loved Emma Stone.
OMG! Hugo with 5! ROTPOTA was robbed!
Oh well.
of course it’s Plummer, but I was hoping for an upset by Sydow. I knew it wouldn’t happen, but I hoped it would.
Scorsese fanboys are chugging shots right now.
Wow 82 and first time oscar winner congrats to Mr. Plummer!!!
Predictable, but great nevertheless. Loved seeing Max von Sydow as happy as anyone else in that audience
Great speech from Plummer.
He has been so good about thanking Ewan McGregor every time. Nice man.
@ phantom
“And probably THE most visually stunning franchise of all time said its farewell WITHOUT even ONE Oscar in ANY categories, not even technicals.“
Potter will have his revenge tomorrow when the ratings come out. We can`t always get what we want. Nor the Academy.
I can’t say the Apes were robbed. Terrific, but there were moments when you could tell they were fake, whereas in Hugo everything worked well, and though we knew it wasn’t real it flowed perfectly.
Emma Stone is really funny
Anyone noticed an audio feed problem. I can hear almost a honking sound when people are speaking. It’s bizarre.
JP
LOL! I feel like the ratings will be catastrophic to be honest. Even for someone like, I had no desire to watch. In fact, I just started watching like 20 minutes ago.
Shocked that Apes didn’t win Visual Effects, but once again can’t complain about the Hugo win. Very good speech by Plummer as well.
Greg- Yes! What is that??
Melissa Leo opened the envelope before all nominees were on screen. Is she dumb or what?
And so Harry Potter leaves Oscar forever with 0 wins….
So glad I’m not the only one hearing the audio feed problem. The honking is driving me crazy!
Finally an Oscar for Plummer! No upsets in the acting categories so far. Can’t wait for Best Actor and Best Actress! Clooney and Streep, I hope!!
I agree Emma and Bill Stiller next time; or should they make a movie instead?
How many MAJOR awards have been given out? How much longer is the show?
Hey! Melissa Leo didn’t say the f word!
I love Emma Stone – so many great performances in a 2 year period – but less is more on the Oscar stage – she stayed a little too long with the shtick – but she is one to watch in the future.
Capt VON Trapp finally gets the Oscar – great movie – beautiful screenplay
this has been way better than I expected
Well, I’ve crunched the numbers. It took me awhile…Hugo 5 wins!
Everyone, please check my data
Oscar Winners
5:40: Cinematography. – Hugo
5:43: Art Direction. – Hugo
5:52: Costume Design. – The Artist
5:54: Makeup. – The Iron Lady
6:03: Foreign Language Film. – A Separation
6:07: Supporting Actress. – Octavia Spencer (The Help)
6:20: Editing. – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6:23: Sound Editing – Hugo
6:26: Sound Mixing. – Hugo
6:37: Documentary Feature. – The Undefeated
6:41: Animated Feature. – Rango
6:49: Visual Effects. – Hugo
6:53: Supporting Actor. – Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Billy aint too bad, he keeps it moving along.
Eh…That “segment” was very unfunny
Morgan, it’s something that Billy has done in the past, just like the opening. It’s a retread.
Score, Doc Short, Live Short, Ani Short and Picture, Actor, Actress, O Screenplay and A Screenplay to go.
You guys are hearing honking? It just seems like the sound goes out a little for me.
The problem is not Billy Cristal. The problem is just that the movie material of 2011 is not telecast-friendly.
So, Hugo has 5 so far to Artist’s 1. Interesting…
That must be the biggest smile Angelina Jolie has ever managed!
Morgan, it’s something that Billy has done in the past, just like the opening. It’s a retread.
Those stage productions look Expensive!
I think it’s time for Uggie to go to rehab.
At BAFTA HARRY POTTER won Visual effects and everyone else has been tipping RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES for the Oscar. Big, big surprise about HUGO. But then that sort of thing makes Oscar night interesting.
nice work, Mattoc
I could’ve had a 90 minute power nap
but I would’ve missed all the HUGO, fuck yeah, HUGO
Owen Wilson’s voice is so grating. Ugh!
I think The Artist is still getting BP. Who are we fooling? I think Marty could surprised with Director, though.
Felicitations The Artist. Well deserved.
That’s okay, Howard. You’ve already done the best one.
I was hoping Hugo took score home too! I think it’s such a beautiful score. Haven’t seen Artist though.
He shook John Williams’s hand!
I’m sure Kim Novak is very happy right now.
Poor Uggie looked really pissed off.
Why The Artist?
Bernard Hermann just won an Oscar.
My buddy tweeted that Kim Novak just got Lisbeth Salandered.
Uggie is pissed off because it`s 5 x 2 to Hugo… but he will still make the final acceptance speech and thank Harvey Weinstein.
Best song. Please, let Muppets win. I haven’t seen the film, but I don’t want Carlinhos Brown winning an Oscar.
This Muppet song is the most bizarre thing that ever won that category and that says a lot.
YEAH!
Ahaha Kim Novak just got fucked right up!
OH NO, Rio was cheated! The Muppet song? Give me a break.
yeah! Muppets!
I love that Brett from the Conchords has an Oscar.
This is the second song nom for Siedah Garrett for Rio….she can’t get a break! That was highway robbery or bribery!
They just showed a preview of upcoming presenters and the Angelina Jolie clip was from The Tourist.
Yes I wanted Siedah to win
But love the sexy Kiwis – cool dude!
Glad the Muppet song won. I am now 11-4 and going strong with my predictions.
Plummer the oldest person to win an acting oscar. Also the youngest to fill out the ballot.
Watching this from Auckland, New Zealand…fuck yeah. Go Bret!
Bret McKenzie: Oscar Winner. lol
LOL Mattoc too true!
Yeah. I didn’t get any popcorn. *files a complaint*
Live stream anyone – the one posted above has shut down on me and wont let me back in – Grrrrrr – always when the biggies are due!!!
12-3 so far on predictions so far.
Wow Angelina, put your leg back in your dress!
Yeah gurl! Werk that skirt slit!
Angelina, what’s up with the leg honey? girl, too tacky.
And THAT is why I strongly dislike Angelina Jolie.
@ Glenn UK
Stream 2 on this:
http://www.stream2watch.me/live-tv/abc-live-stream
Onya Morgan – from Dave in Sydney – across the ditch! Kia – ora!
YEAH! The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo won an Oscar!!
yeah!
http://www.justin.tv/channel420#/w/2672643056/3
Glenn, does this work?
Descendants get on the board with the screenplay win.
Hugo didn’t get up for the major award.
DEAN PELTON DEANING! STREETS AHEAD!
Damn it why didn’t they cut to Angelina’s reaction as Alex, Nat and Jim mocked her?!?!
Yeah boi! Werk that pant leg!
Alexander Payne sounds exactly how I would expect someone from Omaha to sound. Is that nativist?
Go Bridesmaids!!
Even Billy Crystal can’t save the show … the show is so boring it’s almost too embarrassing to watch. I’m thinking this years telecast should’ve been broadcast on A&E or something.
OMG Woody!!
Darn, my one big holdout was Wiig taking it.
Wooooooooddddy.
Woody Allen and Alexander Payne add one more Oscar to their collections. They should have more Oscars.
Glad Woody Allen won for Original Screenplay. Love Midnight in Paris.
There was no way Hugo would win screenplay over Payne/ Sorkin and a silent film over Woody Allen.
Woody!
Though A Separation would have made my week.
Go descendants! But A Seperation should of beat Midnight in Paris!
Woody!!! the descendents!!!
Why is Adam Fucking Sandler talking about what makes a great movie? He’s the enemy people! The ENEMY!!!
Woody’s win makes Hugo the biggest winner of the night regardless of what happens next.
“Even Billy Crystal can’t save the show”
Frankly, Crystal was part of the problem. Chris Rock made me laugh more in one minute than he did in the entire night.
Thank god the original screenplay didn’t go to The Artist.
BAFTA, you can try to stop influencing the Oscars.
Hopefully, there will be upsets, but I would still bet on The Artist.
I am finding it one of the better telecasts and academy choices for many a year – Billy is a drawcard – have loved him since ‘Soap’ in the late 70′s. Even when he fucks up, he retrieves it and is funny. Also i don’t recall Angelina ever looking that gorgeous.
I love Angelina… Shas soo sexy and i love Her leg… Very Bad taste what the team descendents did…
Thank you Paddy M !!!!!!!!!!!
No screenplay Oscar for THE ARTIST. It is not sweeping the board. In past years THE KING’S SPEECH, THE HURT LOCKER, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE all won the screenplay Oscar as well as Best Picture… Though I still think it a dead cert for Best Film.
Was very tempted to pick The Artist for the Original Screenplay win…am very surprised it hasn’t swept tonight…can’t complain about Payne or Allen taking home the Screenplay awards the Academy has made some pretty decent choices tonight.
I’ve muted my laptop when that Sky Movies panel is talking, it’s making me want to commit suicide having to listen to them…
Why does people keep asking for streaming?? Don’t you own a fucking TV??
The Artist will end up with no more than 5 Oscars, a small number for a period film that has wide dominated this awards season. But, just like The King`s Speech, is poised to win the major categories.
I quite liked the Bridesmaids intro for the short awards there…
Luis, not everyone lives in a country in which the Oscars are broadcast on free TV channels. Don’t you have a fucking brain?
Now, now!
Terry George has an Oscar!!! Very deserving! Hotel Rwanda is amazing and Don Cheadle should have beaten Jamie Foxx.
Luis, The Artist and Hugo can still tie for 5 each, right?
[EDIT: oh, Joe Clinton already said that]
The Shore!!!! Yes!!!!!!
Go on the Belfast boy!
Oh my, now I’m actually rooting for the Clooney so that Hugo can rule the night!
YES!!!! I love the Books short. Amazing!!!!
YEAH! I aced the short categories.
@John W. Clooney’s easy to root for. Even though The Descendants was far from my fave he’s been so great for the last 15 years, taking on tough roles in smaller movies.
I also aced the shorts, but was rooting for A Morning Stroll
Glad I didn’t predict the shorts – I would have been 0-3. Too unpredictable, I tell you!
Strap yourselves in folks – we’re about to ramp it up!
I’d give anything to hear Gary Oldman’s name called out tonight. If not him hopefully Pitt.
How The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo could’ve won Best Picture
1) Rewrite script
2) Instead of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, call it “The Iron Lady and The Dragon Artist Taboo”
Recast Meryl Streep as Lisbeth Salander … but change her name to Edith Samson
Change the location and timeframe of the movie to Britain in the early 1900′s.
Give Lisbeth a stuttering problem to overcome
Instead of hacking computers she learns to read
She falls in love with a really old man. (who’s the oldest academy member?)
The old man was banished for drawing paintings of dragons when he was really young
There is no suspense, no one to find, no one does any killing, there is no revenge
At the end, the old man gives Meryl Streep a tramp stamp of a large dragon which is taboo … but they are in love so it’s all good … The End
Ryan, yes I forgot it has already two wins on the bag.
Paddy, it’s the Oscars. It’s telecast all over the world. Don’t be ignorant.
Best Director!!!
Transformers was robbed in Visual Effects. Hugo would not be winning so many awards if its director weren’t Martin Scorsese
And now the big ones. I would be only shocked if
- ‘The Help’ won bp (SAG-love?)
- Malick won bd
- a TIE or a ‘lucky third’ scenario occured in the Best Actress Race
- ‘The Tree of Life’ voters got behind Pitt and secured him the victory
My broadcast is gone
Can someone post a link, pls
Yay!!!! for the Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore! That is without a doubt one of my favorite animated shorts of all time. Right up there with “Hedgehog in the Fog.”
The Artist train has just taken off!
Mmm… Iuckkkkk
Yep broadcasts down again for the biggies!!! How the hell do they do that?
Bummer wanted Marty! also bummed for my chicken! at least he won a bafta!
Oh well this is over. Was secretely hoping for Malik
Michel Hazanavicius thanked Malcolm McDowell. He was in it for, like, 30 seconds! He didn’t even have any lines!
Oh wait…
YAY! Scorsese not winning Best Director again for a lesser film! May he keep challenging himself so that he can reach the standard of Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas!
@ alfred
Stream 2 on this link:
http://www.stream2watch.me/live-tv/abc-live-stream
Hopefully Malick will win someday…
Does anyone else get the Critics Choice Awards tweets? They’re actually acting like the Oscars are copying them.
Anddddddddddddd it’s over…was hoping for more surprises but I think we’re done for the night….can’t complain about Hazanavicius winning though The Artist is a wonderful film.
At Paul H:
Absolutely right
@ Antoinette
I noticed that too! The Critics’ Choice slapping themselves on the back for copying the Oscars a few weeks in advance. Who couldn’t have done that? BFCA, it’s the other way around, k?
@ Antoinette
So we are all just copying the Oscars. Just like them, we are all getting most of our predictions right.
No it isn’t, Lenny; The Artist winning is a slap in the face/kick in the nuts to every film that went the extra mile in, like, having talking and dialogue in it.
The best thing about this show is that it will probably end on time, for the first time in years. Let’s shoot for the under-3-hour record!
They ought to have brought the Governors’ Award winners out on stage again. Having them stand up from their seats is embarrassing, standing ovation or not.
Out of all the directors that were nominated, Malick is the one that doesn’t deserve an oscar. He is already a legend, artist, and visionary. He,Scorcese, and Fincher are beyond the academy’s abilities
Now cheering for Jean Dujardin so The Artist can win at least as many as Hugo.
There is justice in the world, Scorsese didn’t win Best Director for Hugo.
3 of the past 4 Best Director Oscars have gone to Europeans (Danny Boyle, Tom Hooper and Michel Hazanavicious).
C’Mon a surprise, please! I don’t know, Gary Oldman, or Glenn Close, just something to shock us.
Where was Theo Angelopoulos in the tribute???
wow cant believe the shows almost over lol…been so forgettable so far that time flies…
Meryl Streep presenting means that she will probably not win. It would mean 15 losses. It is close between Clooney and Duhardin though.
And now I’ll start the ball rolling on who was left out of the In Memoriam section of the telecast…
Theo Angelopoulos
(Good on ya Luis for catching that too!)
so we know whats going to happen next
Jean for best actor
Viola for best actress
The Artist for best pic
woopeedoo.
Yuh, anno. Lovely In Memoriam but, as ever, cue the inevitable complaints about those left off. For me, it’s Theodoros Angelopoulos and (Oscar winner) Eiko Ishioka. Also Erland Josephson, although they can’t be blamed for not fitting him in in time. And anyway, this always happens/ They can’t fit everybody in, and everybody else will always have differing views on who ought to have been included.
I thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman was out of focus but he’s just fuzzy. lol
The worst things that could happen to an Oscar ceremony happened in the same year:
- lack of surprises.
- lack of public-friendly material.
The ceremony itself has not been bad but there`s nothing they could do to change this two things I listed.
Oh crap. Here it is. *freaks out*
Hmmm not liking these actor introductions by the presenter.
+1, JP. You nailed it.
Jean looks GOOD. Damn.
Yup, there’s that ‘SILENT’ film The Artist.
Or not.
Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak!
Well….
What happened? Why was he yelling? Did Uggie give him rabies?
Frak! is right! Clooney should of won!
I’ll be 20 out of 24 if Viola and Artist win.
Meryl? Viola? Rooney? Omg!!! I cant wait!!!
He is one hot fella that Dujardin! Whooooooooooo.
clooney… LOL
I LOST MY STREAMING. DAMN!
if i not mistaken, DUJARDIN is first French actor to win
The moment of truth!!!
Stinkin’ Frenchie…at least his POS film didn’t win Original Screenplay, but Pitt acted circles around Dujardin.
So he said the F-word in french?
I’ve already prepared myself to hear Viola Davis’s win…sigh
STREEP
OMOMO MERYL WINS!
MERYL STREEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Bravo Meryl!!!
OMG! meryl
MERYL!
Oh my FUCKING god
YES
YES
Meryl!!!!!
And hopefully the last Frenchman to win.
It’s Meryl Streep! OMFG!
OMFG!!!!!
MERYLLLLLLLLLLL YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.
biggest shock of the night…wow
and now she’ll never be nominated again….
Paul H, I don’t like your tone at all. It’s offensive and vulgar.
I am so happy she won. Meryl!!!
Yay Meryl!!!
Finally! Poor Viola though. But I think we can all agree that she will be getting her first Oscar very soon.
Something went right! C’est incroyable.
Meryl came as an oscar and she walk away with another… Love Her… Beutiful speech…
PaulH
I am THIS close to being banned for what I could say to you. But I won’t. I’m not quite that thick. Perhaps unlike yourself…
thank goodness Streep didn’t pull her usual winners’ shtick this time
It’s because of that speech it should have always been HER, go meryl!
Tom Cruise?
Going 21/24 over my predictions including Meryl’s third win… I’m excited with the DVD prize(s) though…
Meryl was very moved but her speech disapoints me a bit. Maybe it was the emotion.
IM GLAD THAT OLD LADY STREEP WON OVER VIOLA, AND THE GOOD THING IS THAT FINALLY THE OLD LADY FANS ARE GOING TO STOP WITH THEIR OBCESSION, AND SHE IS A DAMN CLASSY OLD LADY AND THE QUEEN OF THE ACTING.
Viola is amazing and unlike many her think, I guess she will win in a near future. But I`m so happy. I`ve never seen Meryl Streep winning an Oscar. This is a historical moment for a generation that follows the awards season.
OMG!! OMG!!! OMG!!!!! I AM SHAKING AND CRYING YOU GUYS. I AM SHAKING AND CRYING AND HYPERVENTILATING!!! OMG!!! QUEEN MERYL. WE ARE NOT WORTHY. I CANNOT BREATHE YOU GUYS. I AM CRYING SO HARD RIGHT NOW. I CANNOT BREATHE.
if Viola wins, it’ll more likely be in supporting — she’ll have a lot harder time getting good lead roles than Streep does.
I hope I’m wrong about that.
No one cares what you’d say to a silly, nationalist moron. You’re giving him the attention he wants.
I’m so happy to be alive to see Meryl Streep win an oscar. I wasn’t born when she was won the previous years, but I am so happy she won now. MERYL YOU DESERVE IT!
To all the haters, Oscar got it exactly right tonight and Meryl Streep won for the best performance of the year! Yay Meryl. Congratulations!!!! The national nightmare is over.
Meryl freakin’ Streep!!!!
The Artist wins Best Picture.
Hugo and The Artist 5 oscars each.
The Iron Lady 2 oscars each.
Descendants, Midnight in Paris, The Help, Dragon Tattoo, Muppets, Rango, A Separation, Undefeated et al. 1 oscar each.
Nothing for Moneyball. Nothing for the Tree of Life. Nothing for War Horse. Nothing for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Iuckkkkk…. Well seeya next Year…
Hey I just found 5 bucks some papers. Woohoo!!
Oh wait. What won? lol
For saying Frenchie? OK, I take that back. That was out of line. But the wrong guy won lead actor IMO
Viola Davis WILL win an Oscar one day!!!!
BUT I am very happy Meryl finally won her second leading role Oscar and I can finally have closure on this subject and move on! Off to bed now. is almost 6 am in Germany!
ew. thank god this year is done.
Meryl`s win is the kind of upset that saves this awards season system we follow very year, we complain but we are here again in december so that it starts all over again.
DO’H!
(under some papers) lol
meryl yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss i never stopped believing!!!
everyone i wanted to win in big categories won, jean , michel and meryl
BRAVO THE ARTIST!!!!
“Finally! Poor Viola though. But I think we can all agree that she will be getting her first Oscar very soon.”
@Adam,
Viola’s a dependable character actress. Her Oscar track record’s for deserved nominations (The Help and Doubt). She’ll get her Oscar “in due time” (just ask Meryl)…
Biggest winner of the night: Harvey Weinstein (5 for The Artist, 2 for The Iron Lady, and 1 for Undefeated)…
Meryl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best Oscars ever!
OMG!!!!!MERYL!!!!!!!!
I’m so happy!!!!!
Yes! Meryl!
Meryl Meryl Meryl, WOW!!!
Bittersweet victory…I am very happy that Meryl Streep finally won…I just wish it were for a good film…I also hope Viola Davis WILL get baity, Oscar-worthy lead roles in the future and ‘The Help’ wasn’t her one and only shot at Best Actress.
Congratulations to all the winners. Too bad for Davis, I still she she delivers the best performance. See you all next year! It has been fun.
Meryl Meryl Meryl, Yeah Baby!
Wow overall this has been a dull show but I’m really glad Meryl Streep won
Yup, best Oscars everrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
How does The Iron Lady finish with the 2nd most awards on the evening…Meryl Streep was terrific in it but the film itself is crushed under the weight of its own ambitions.
That being said, congratulations to The Artist on winning Best Picture of 2011
Definitely some awesomely surprising choices by the Academy tonight, still stunned by the Davis loss to Streep though not as much as the Dragon Tattoo win for Film Editing.
This is the 2nd year in a row that the frontrunner has collected very few technical awards in the first half of the broadcast but still manages to win the big awards later on. I don’t know what that signifies I just find it very curious.
Too bad HP didn’t even win an Oscar
And that is all FOLKS!!!!!!!
I’m fuckin’ so happy for meryl yahoo!!! Very well deservrd! I’m so glad the academy got it right this time for her
Congratulations to all the winners, Congratulations to all the AD fans of all the winners.
I want to ask a favor. Be happy and celebrate without gloating, ok?
Be happy for the victories but please bear in mind that others are hurt by the defeats.
Zero tolerance for anybody who tries to rub salt in the wounds.
Thanks in advance for being sensitive to my hypersensitivity.
Seriously. Look at this nonsense: https://twitter.com/#!/CriticsChoice/status/173989709117263872
Biggest upset win of the night: Meryl Streep!!! FINALLY!!! A well-deserved win!!! It makes up for Hugo not winning Best Director and Best Picture but happy with 5 Oscar wins for Hugo!!! Congrats to all the winners!!! Until next year!!!
well, I got just over 25% correct this year–my worst results ever. And I even followed (mostly) what the prognosticators have been saying. Ah well. Here’s looking to see what this year’s crop brings for next year’s awards.
As much as I love Sandra Bullock, her victory over Meryl 2 years ago pretty much sold the deal that they needed to give Streep an Oscar the next time they could.
Deena, I know how you feel, I am with you.
I JUST FINISHED TWO BOXES OF TISSUE. I CAN’T STOP CRYING YOU GUYS. MERYL, I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU BB. WELL DESERVED!!! I CAN’T GET IT TOGETHER.
I wish Glenn Close had won But I finally saw “Iron Lady” three days a go, and thinks is a much better movie than the average opinion about it.
i also never saw meryl win an oscar before, so this was great for me!
best actress ever!!! next up another oscar maybe before eventually getting her lifetime achievement award in the next 20yrs!!!
and the king gave the iron lady her statuette! she and oscar were matching tonight! i’m glad viola didnt win for the most fluff reason you can think of, i didnt feel like she dressed the part of someone who believed they were winning tonight!
once i saw meryl on the red carpet i said to myself “damn she came for her man tonight”!!! LOL so happy !
purée loulou a un oscar, j’y crois pas c’est incroyable!!! jean is so freaking handsome!!!
@ Antoinette
And Meryl? kkkkkkk They got it wrong wrong wrong this time. The Globes aced the acting Oscar result again and the Critics Choice Awards didn`t.
“Iron Lady” has two or three scenes (Thatcher first election, that crucial meeting in the end) with bravura filmmaking (editing, camera pacement).
I wait until the end to express my sadness…
Good lord, The Artist wins for Worse Everything… Actor, Director and Picture… Pick any other nomination, they’re still more deserving… At least, it didn’t sweep everything.
I’m happy for Marty and Hugo… Well deserved…
And biggest surprise and biggest happiness for Madame Meryl… She’s the star today… Her win is the only thing justifying for the the loss of Clooney or Hugo or anything else…
NOW WE HAVE PREDICTIONS FOR 21 DECEMBER 2012 AND NOT-YET READY PR. FOR OSCAR 2013. (hOPE LINCOLN WILL BE GOOD MOVIE AND SWEEP OSCARS)
seeing how standard and boring the evening was, I truly stopped believing that they’re going to give it to Meryl!!!
and when Colin THE GOD pronounced her name, I SCREAMED, I REALLY DID, and I know I woke up the neighbors!!!
She gave a terrific speech! And I know in my heart that no win has been as celebrated as this one in a long long time!
Congratulations, you wonderful, fascinating actress!
I’m shocked, ecstatic, frenetic, and ABSOLUTELY THRILLED that Meryl Streep won for her historic portrayal of The Baroness Thatcher. As I’ve said to some, you know a performance is damn good when someone mentions a living person and the first thing that comes to mind is the face of the actor or actress who portrayed her or him.
Brava! Meryl Streep!
Agreed, JP. There’s only so many times you can have someone be the runner-up – in Meryl’s case, the last 3 or 4 times she was nominated – and not gaward her. Same thing with Zellewegger – after 3 years in a row, they just had to give her the Oscar.
Was glad the night went as it did. Loved the Artist winning and seeing little Uggie there.
Great to see Jean and Meryl win. It almost seemed strange to see Meryl win after so many losses. She deserved it!
The show moved along quickly and had some great moments. Melissa and Billy were terrific together.
Sorry, for double posts, but I forget to mention, Viola, I love her performance and I feel sad for her but I know she is happy for Meryl and she will obviously win an Oscar or 2 for another roles…
Sasha and Ryan, please, do not let the disapointmente about Viola, and with this tepid season, make you lose your mojo to continue to make this site the great source of entertainment and knowledege that it is.
Congrats to all the winners – well-played, in every sense.
Hugo did very well, Meryl has #3 – finally, Tattoo – fuck, great surprise.
Meryl Streep – AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Dujardin, Hazanavicius, “The Artist”, Allen, “A Separation”.
The worst decisions they made: cinematography and visual effects.
Well, now that that’s over….Where the Most Anticipated of 2012 poll at!
I thought The Artist would sweep
but YAY Meryl:)
Sasha and Ryan, it has been a pleasure following your site this Oscar season. Great work – smart, insightful, witty, angry, frustrated, delighted – all in entertaining measure. Kudos.
I was trembling when Meryl won. I love you Academy!!! What a fantastic night!
Good work.Till next year.
Thank the gods the 2011 awards season is over. Now to talking Oscar chances for The Dark Knight Rises, The Hunger Games, The Hobbit, and other hopefully great populist films that will win over critics, too. The Academy likes boxoffice bombs, too *coughHugocough*; 175m budget, less than 80m domestic tally. Would it have even won 5 Oscars had it been directed by, say, Dennis Dugan? Transformers was robbed of visual effects, and maybe both sound categories. Dujardin can’t even win best actor in his own damn country…
[and just like that, Anthony, poof, you're gone.]
Clooney was robbed! Seriously, I mean DuJardin was fantastic, but Clooney was better (and actually had lines to deliver!) and I think people forget that Clooney has only won once and it was for supporting actor, so it’s not like he’s got his due already. He’s had multiple deserving lead roles.
Ahhh it’s pretty crazy how happy I was when I saw Meryl winning. One of the best moments Ill remember. Her speech, fantastic! I felt it in the air during the show, when Octavia won and the recognition she got. I somehow knew that there wasn’t going to be a repeat of that with Viola. It was meant to be, with Firth presenting and all.
I hope both Viola and Meryl have more chances to compete.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo pulling a SHOCK in editing was the second highlight. That completely came out of nowhere.
Billy Crystal? Meh.
Wow, wow. Meryl Streep won.
See Ryan, is it ok for people to bash the Artist like Vu Dinh? I hope not, otherwise it will be hypocritical. So people can bash the Artist but they can’t say why they don’t like Hugo. Otherwise, it makes it hard NOT to gloat. I’m happy about the choices, but from my top 5 films, only the Tree of Life was even nominated.
Meryl fanbear here so thrilled for her!!!!!!!!
Imagine that, The Iron Lady won more Oscars than The Help. Congratulations Meryl Streep. Most deserved.
Congrats to Hugo.
Meryl’s fanboys and fangirls are happy but also I’m happy because we will never see her name again thanks GOD. Meryl is over.
Next year The Hobbit sweep baby! Thats my wish and a batman bp nomination!
Oh and biggest robbery of the night, pretty clearly: Cinematography. How Lubezki missed out AGAIN is beyond me.
At least Tree of Life didn’t win anything! I get the last laugh on that one :p
@PaulH
When we see the ratings, I think the Academy will know that they need some more populist choices to give an upgrade to the ratings. I highly expect The Hobbit to take a BP nomination. The Dark Knight needs great reviews because it`s a july film but I can see they giving it an excuse nomination since it was the film that motivated all the changes in the BP category.
But the 2 big players right now look like Lincoln and The Master.
I don’t know why… but if fucking hurts (more than I thought it would) that Viola didn’t win. I don’t care it was Streep, she will be nominated 3 before Viola ever does again. If at all. The academy will regret this one.
watching a behind the scene doc about jean dujardin on canal+, from the moment he won best actor at cannes they’ve been following him around on the media train , festival etc …he really did it from cannes to oscar! nice!!
To the haters and naysayers, look on the bright side: You won’t hear from us Meryl Streep fans ever again. And I believe her nomination ratio will also significantly decrease after this as well. Don’t you just love it?
Great show! LOVED the MERYL,HUGO,and GIRL TATTOO surprises…thought the Cirque du Soleil act was pretty classy and adored the sweet speeches of the winners…and Billy Crystal is still Billy Crystal;)
Now you guys promise to post the article about the abysmal ratings in the morning, right? Surely the public is going create a shitstorm over the biggest franchise in history being completely shut out of the Oscars during it’s decade long run!
And Lubeski losing again??? Are they serious? What does it take for a Mexican to win a fucking oscar.
Sad for Viola
the academy only rewards ppl of colour when they play aggressive/evil in a film, its so sad but the truth.
On the other hand WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT….. im over the moon happy for the greatest actress ever, MERYL STREEP
Come to think of it,the only thing I didn´t like was Apes not winning…
Oh, and here’s to returning to the 2009/2010 format that the TDK shitstorm resulted in!
I’ve started wonder what will be nominated in 12 months time. LES MISERABLES, ANNA KARENINA, THE GREAT GATSBY, LINCOLN? Will THE HOBBIT sweep everything before it? I suspect next year’s Best Picture will be none of those.
Will Christopher Nolan finally get a Best Director nomination for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES? Will Sasha Baron Cohen be an unlikely Best Actor nominee for THE DICTATOR (I think his campaign began tonight).
Oh come on Alper, I’m sure you’ll miss making fun of us.
“Imagine that, The Iron Lady won more Oscars than The Help. Congratulations Meryl Streep. Most deserved.”
Not surprised. The Iron Lady was a better movie.
And from now fans of Dark Knight begin to talk about winning BP in 2013.
I never understand why people love this film (Maybe because of Ledger”s death) but i know that it will not be Oscar material. (at least HP.P2 was not)
Remember the time The Artist won best picture? I nearly parked a quiche.
I wanted Davis to win but Streep deserved it too. I was one of those individuals who thought it sounded kind of bad that Hilary Swank (a hardworking dedicated actress in her own right but come on) has two Best Actress Oscars while MERYL STREEP only had one. So it was nice. Thank goodness the Academy had the sense not to throw most of the awards in The Artist direction. The shocker for me was film editing…Did not see that coming. I was most satisfied with the screenplay winners especially Woody Allen’s win.
Next year The Hobbit sweep baby! Thats my wish and a batman bp nomination!
Samesies.
Congrats to all the winners tonight.
For a moment it seem as though Hugo was gonna sweep, but that all end once the major categories came along. I am happy for Meryl, but I just hope that someone will give Viola a great LEADING role real soon. She will almost have to work with a top director to get another nomination in the leading category.
Meryl winning was only an upset to the liberal elitist coastal enclave. To those of us living in Middle America with a sense of reality, it was the most likely occurrence. Globe+BAFTA=win. No actress has lost the Oscar who has won that combo since the BAFTA moved to pre-Oscar.
I held the WHOLE time that you all were CRAZY for thinking Davis was the favorite. She wasn’t. She never was. She was never going to win this. Nixon talked about a silent majority. This time, the silent majority held that it should take more than skin color to win an award. I am DAMN proud to live in a country that judges you not by the color of the skin or the homeland of your ancestors, but by the quality of your work. Go Meryl, you deserved it, and not even Sasha can argue with that fact.
@ TB
The answer to your question is working on Pan`s Labyrinth. Just kidding but the Mexican actually have a much better showing in the Oscars than Brazilians, for example, who never won.
Lubeski is, like Roger Deakens and Alexandre Desplat, one of the people who are more overdue of an Oscar.
JP: “When we see the ratings, I think the Academy will know that they need some more populist choices to give an upgrade to the ratings.”
Hopefully the LA Times piece will have sufficiently shamed the Academy enough that now every moviegoer in America who saw the article knows what AMPAS is made of, they’ll give more than a cursory thought to TDKR, THG and The Hobbit. But the bottom line, rightfully so, each one of these has to knock it outta the park. Even if these hardcore arthouse films are allowed past the usher ahead of everyone else, no matter their quality or lack thereof.
I really want to do something that rhymes with GOAT, but I’ll heed Ryan’s warning and just sing,
Row row row your boat
gently down the stream
MERYL STREEP MERYL STREEP MERYL STREEP MERYL STREEP
life is like a dream!
Your life is indeed like a dream Meryl, congratulations!
i predict Lincoln for at least 14 OSCARS
Desplat was robbed for Potter part 2.
Meryl, you deserved it, and not even Sasha can argue with that fact.
we’ll see about that.
I’ll leave you with your ass hanging out, mdb, because I’d like to see it get kicked.
I am happy for Meryl Streep. But I am happier the “Streep is overdue” thing is now put to rest. At least for another 29 years.
Sad to see Glenn Close join Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter as the biggest losing actress. Each with 6 nominations and no win.
Viola Davis needs to slap Sandra Bullock and take her Oscar
I really feel ashamed of The Artist winning Best Picture but the Oscars have not been on yey since i live in Australia! I really wanted The Decendents to win all of their Oscars that would’ve been really good if that happend but it did not i feel very bummed right now!!!!!
@Alper, I think you’re confused. Sandy Botox is the one who will never sniff an Oscar nomination ever again in her life. Meryl will win again for Orange: Osage County. She’s been nominated for over 40% of her performances. That isn’t changing.
Although I am sad for Viola, I think that the academy finally got it right in awarding Meryl for a 3rd Oscar…….however, I feel she should have won for “Doubt”; her role in “Julie/Julia” was not enough screen time, which may have actually hurt Viola in the end……plus Meryl had Weinstein Co. behind her this year and she finally realized that campaigning like all the recent beauty queen winners (Winslet, Bullock, Witherspoon, etc.)was going to be the only way she were to win again.
Even though I feel that Meryl’s mannerisms were somewhat mocking Thatcher, her scenes as the elderly Margaret were dead on with someone suffering from dementia, which my mother suffered from and she honestly was terrific in those scenes; the movie, itself, was all over the place and hard to follow.
Viola and Michelle will likely win Oscars in the upcoming years. Glenn may win an Oscar if she can get “Sunset Boulevard” to the screen.
I think I’m more happy that the critics got it COMPLETELY WRONG and Meryl actually won, and deservedly so. Next up, August: Osage County.
@DruggyBear, we can agree. Bullock is unquestionably the least deserving actor to win an Academy Award in my lifetime. If Harvey had been campaigning for Meryl, she never would have lost that one.
Davis should have won for Doubt. Cruz was good but not as good.
the liberal elitist coastal enclave
What’s that? It sounds like fun. Can I join? (only if they have satin jackets, tho)
@Gage Creed
I’m really happy. now Meryl has 3. but sorry for Viola.
who else thinks “The Help” people got greedy by pushing Viola in lead instead of supporting?
Now, come to think of it, who’d think Meryl Streep’s 3rd win would be considered a surprise??
@manrico
Sadly I don’t think that Streep fans will feel that 3 Oscars are enough…so no, the overdue thing will never go away.
“i predict Lincoln for at least 14 OSCARS.”
Or, it’ll be next year’s True Grit (0 for the Oscars).
Viola Davis can thank the media’s brainwashing Sandra Bullock campaign 2 years ago for her defeat now.
@Caitlin – mee too!
Hopefully we’ll get a different result tonight!?!
Lesson of the night
on’t vote against Harvey Weinstein:
Now you guys promise to post the article about the abysmal ratings in the morning, right?
Reform the Academy,
If that’s the news, we’ll cover it. I like the new ID you’ve chosen.
@mdb
Who do you think you are? All the praise Viola got is NOT BECAUSE SHE’S BLACK! Gawd. You’re comment is infuriating and smug. You give Meryl fans a bad name.
The only shocker was Dragon Tattoo taking editing. Couldn’t be happier. But fuck, poor Viola. When will she have a chance again????? Meryl will year after year. So fucked up.
@ JP
Guillermo del Toro did not win for Pan’s Labyrinth.
MKing, I can’t speak for all my fellas, but 3 is enough for me. No, really, I promise.
@mdb
Osage County will be her next nomination I Know but then?
I love the win for Meryl but I can’t understand how an individual ::Weinstein:: can persuade so many people to vote for his films?!?! What is in it for these voter to vote for his films? Does he have billions of dollars to give to people who “say” they’ll vote for him. Can’t they just vote for something else behind his back either way? I just don’t understand, please enlighten me how this machine works!!
bravo weinstein too, you did good ,great campaign effort that paid off royally! best of luck next year with your picks may your best horse win!
I’m usually not one for getting weepy over awards speeches. Never have and I usually like it when actors keep it succinct…but my god, Meryl Streep brought me to tears. So much humility and grace and loved how she seemed truly grateful for everyone who has helped her make the career she has. I know it’s cheesy, but I’m 22 years old and am so happy that I got to see her FINALLY win an Oscar for a very deserved role.
The only thing I was slightly disappointed about was Emmanuel Lebezki’s loss in cinematography. That was a bummer, but Robert Richardson was my second choice.
Jean, Meryl, Octavia, Christopher, Michel Hazanavicius, Woody Allen, Alexander Payne…congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees!
Thank you Ryan & Sasha for the continuous, hard-working coverage this past season. You make me cheer, you can sometimes make my blood boil, but nevertheless this is always a fascinating and passionate film awards website to visit. Congratulations on the great work and I look forward to the coming year!
So people can bash the Artist but they can’t say why they don’t like Hugo.
Lars, we never said that.
Share any opinion you want about any movie.
What we don’t like is a “nyeh nyeh nyeh” or “toldjaso”
no finger-wagging and no getting up in any other reader’s face.
Say what you want about movies. Anyone who doesn’t understand the boundaries will find out soon enough if they cross one.
Hazanivicius has more Oscars than Scorsese.
@ TB
Pan`s Labyrinth won 3 Oscars. The cinematographer and the art directors were mexican as far as I remember.
@SC8 hey just because Harry Potter didn’t win an Oscar for 10 years foesn’t it’s not the worst franchise of all time, not a kiddie film, or a stupid rippoff of Lord of the Rings, Wizard of Oz, or Avatar…..only a complete idiotic nimrod would think that.
Harry Potter (film series) is the most success and possibly and arguably the popular film franchise of all time and all the films have been a success financially and critically (just like their last ever film which should’ve been nominated for Best Picture of 2011). Alot of people think the academy is notorious for thumbing its nose at the fantasy genre, but six films with no wins is an outrage. None of the actors in six of the most popular films of all time has been nominated for an Oscar for their “Potter” roles. It’s not surprising that the young leads — Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint — have been passed over; the academy prefers to nominate children in supporting roles and even then only in such scrappy emo-heavy indies as “The Piano” or “Little Miss Sunshine. Unfortunately, while the academy loves a good high-brow costume drama, it has never been too fond of fantasy, especially in the acting category. “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” may have cleaned up in 2004, but none of its actors were even nominated.It’s ironic, or infuriating, depending on what side of the screen you’re on, because the key to great fantasy is characters who are both extraordinary and utterly human. It’s one thing to play a serial killer or a corrupt company gal; it’s another when that character also has to be believable as an evil wizard or officious witch. Putting real meaning into an actual curse is way tougher than uttering an expletive, and waving a deadly wand in all seriousness takes more guts — and more acting finesse — than firing a gun.
For 10 YEARS it worked hard to get where it was, but it what did it get them, sure maybe major BP nods in PUBLIC award shows but what with critics…just some Hi Tech awards.
But me and to a few people HP: DH2 and Harry Potter film series will always be the most popular, financial, more reviews and great scores, and arguably the most respectec film of 2011 and respected film franchise of all time.
@Blue,
I know who I am. I never said all the praise is because she’s black. I myself have praised Davis’s performance. I think it definitely deserved to be nominated. I think Davis is a great actress and deserved to win an Oscar for Doubt. That said, I was very uncomfortable with Sasha’s arguments this season that Davis deserves to win because it’s harder to get roles as a black woman. I personally don’t think race matters and I don’t think it should figure into our evaluation of an award of merit. Streep’s role was more complicated and she was technically flawless in it. By any measure of acting, Streep deserved to win. I am very proud that the Academy recognized that and didn’t give into the affirmative action line of reasoning.
@brandz:
“I think I’m more happy that the critics got it COMPLETELY WRONG and Meryl actually won, and deservedly so. Next up, August: Osage County.”
Who got it wrong?
The people predicting Viola? Yes, we got it wrong.
The people preferring Viola? Well, no. Really nothing has changed regarding the performances themselves.
Can Scorsese hire Lezbeski so he can finally win an Oscar?
@ Daveylow
Actually not. Hazanavicius was not the producer of the film. He won just directing.
I wonder what the results for this year’s Best Actress would have been in a complete vacuum. No racial context, no historical precedents, no Meryl fanbase, no box office info…Just, who gave the very best performance? You really have to divorce yourself from a lot of information to make an unbiased choice.
I`m just imagining how fantastic it would be to see this moment in a year: two gods of acting together. Meryl giving Daniel Day-Lewis his third Oscar for Lincoln.
Where the Most Anticipated of 2012 poll at!
Ready to go.
As soon as the dust settles.
@Gage Creed
Hahaha I’ll take your word on that for now. If she won anymore I wouldn’t be upset. After all, I have a special place in my heart for Queen Streep…..not as much as my queen Blanchett though.
I want to put statistics forward as evidence of the REAl AND ugly truth of Hollywood’s lack of accountability and credibility in the near total LACK of support for expanding a film like the Artsist’s appeal.
But at the same time i want to condemn as is implied by the huge majority of members on this brilliant site through simple fact of LACK OF PUBLIC ENTHUSIASM, AND HENCE, LACK OF PUBLIC MENTION FOR ACKNOWLEDGING ‘THE ARTIST’S’ WIN
There is a credibility crisis of epic proportions there is a disenchantment indeed disillusionment with oscars of unprecedented proportions.
That this once revered and seriously a campaign by the conservatives who are pushing political motivation ahead of the legitimate best outstanding film to win best picture and major categories of the year which was with no doubt in my mind ‘hugo’ of all the nominees this year easily!
Who do backroom board deals so that for some ludicrous insance unjustified reason, oscar goes from revering and celebrating both the democratic or public input balanced with the critics choice as they always did clear majority of times up until the post mid 90′s to suddenly turning oscar into little more than the financial support for the cause of independent films.
And it really has to be seriously asked is oscar todate, becoming little more than a funding body for independent cinema?
OScar is a byproduct itself of the broader culture, indeed in its own right Hollywood population and it has never been and nor should it ever have descended into the role of financial assistance.
Yet the questions out of this farce of a race the most farcical without doubt in at leeast a decade in its result the most farcical race prob. ever in oscar’s history. Is why IS OSCAR TAKING RESPONSIBILITY AND ROLES FOR WHICH OTHER ORGANISATIONS AS PART OF HOLLYWOOD’S MAKEUP SHOULD BE DELIVERING.
I LIKE TO KNOW IF ANYONE KNOWS WHO ALLOCATES FUNDING TO LESSER INDEPENDENT STUDIOS AND WHO’S RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO PROVIDE THAT FINANCIAL SUPPORT? INCONSEQUENTIAL OF WHETHER OR NOT AN INDEPENDENT FILM IS TRULY THE BEST OF THE YEAR WHETHER IT IS EVEN INDEPENDENT OR NOT WHY IS THERE NOT A MORE BALANCED FINANCIAL SYSTEM WHICH WOULD ELIMINATE OSCAR’S SELF INTEREST IN FINANCING THE CAUSE OF INDEPENDENT FILMS?
Oscar is supposed to represent the best film that the entire world loves the most rhere is a reason why gone with the wind, sh9icndler’s list, ben hur, lord of the rings, bridge over river qai, sound of music etc are regarded as the finest oscar winners of their respective eras and why? because the public had a chance to voice their views and hence the public views were more often than not in uniform agreement with critics they fed off each other exchanged ideas and this inturn fuelled the above ambitious andc reative projects films that were made for the people by the people and reviewed by critics who views were shaped by public opinion.
How and why Oscar turned their back overwhelmingly and overall in favour of sympathizing with smear campaigns (beautiful mind of course) or attacks of morality and rejection reovlutionary filmmaking (the battle of ’98 between the war film and the lovy duvvy film) or the slew of independent films crying out for support who through no fault of their own had no choice but to turn to oscar and consequently an oscar win i am NOT saying all independent films dont deserve to win it needs to be assessed on its own merit, the extent to the significance that it delivers at both international and public acclaim. As well as ADVANCING INNOVATION AND BREAKTHROUGHS IN CINEMA.
But by oscar going down the path of the ‘embrace more of the same type mentality after not doing so in a long time in ‘the artist’ does NOTHING to advance breakthroughs and innovation in cinema.
Yes it agreat for a frenchman to be the first ever winner of an acting oscar. but in order for oscar to expand on the world stage it needs to urgently strengthen its pbulic respect in its foundations at home in america to the pbulic to the people with which it owes a great debt.
The oscar split will ensure as progressives push harder for internal reform and as dare i say it the once respected elders influence diminish this outcome and indeed the structure of this oscars will only serve to compouind the problem and if oscar’s or any insitutions public appeal crumbles at home it has no hope for sustaining a life outside its borders.
The split will have a chance for oscar to reevaluate its attitude and structure embracing films that celebrate past nostalgia but do nothing to advance cinema in its entirety is not the answer.
I am glad that The Descendant at least won the Best Adapted Screenplay. Glad HUGO got all the tech awards. Sorry for Davis and Clooney, but glad Dujadin and Streep won.
I guess The Artist represents something different and unique. It is an unusual Oscar winner. Hopefully there will be something interesting next year. Like Ryan said, don’t gloat, just celebrate, I am even guilty of gloating sometimes, but anyway, congratulations to all the fans of whoever or whatever you were rooting for!!!
Oh, and great comment Aaron, nothing cheesy about it.
Biggest shock of the night: Cinematography
Among the 30 industry and media groups to give a cinematography award this year, Emmanuel Lubezki had 24 wins and 28 nominations out of a possible 30 (with one still pending). Robert Richardson’s only win was the big one tonight.
Hugo – Robert Richardson
1 win* / 18 nominations – AA*, AFWJ, ASC, BAFTA, Boston, Chicago, Critics Choice, Golden Satellite, Houston, Indiewire, London, NSFC, Ohio, Online, Phoenix, San Diego, Southeastern, Washington DC
The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
24 wins* / 28 nominations – AA, AFWJ*, Austin*, ASC*, Boston*, Chicago*, Chlotrudis (pending), Critics Choice*, Dallas*, Florida*, Golden Satellite, Houston*, ICS*, Indiewire*, Las Vegas*, Los Angeles*, Next*, New York*, NSFC*, Ohio*, Online*, Phoenix*, San Diego*, San Francisco*, Southeastern*, St Louis*, Utah, Washington DC*
After brilliant cinematography in The New World and Children of Men … and with three more Mallick films and one more Cuaron film in the works … he’s bound to win sometime in the next couple years.
“But me and to a few people HP: DH2 and Harry Potter film series will always be the most popular, financial, more reviews and great scores, and arguably the most respectec film of 2011 and respected film franchise of all time.”
I think youre riding on nostalgia bro, only 2 of those movies are even remotely good. the books are good but not the flicks
God,
I really wish we could know how many votes each got.
“Hopefully the LA Times piece will have sufficiently shamed the Academy enough….”
The LAT also just posted a piece talking about how over-rated Streep is…..
Joao Mattos,
Greatly appreciated.
Likewise there’s no reason for everybody to jump ship and row off in lifeboats.
heck, The Huger Games are about to begin. In more ways than one.
Mamma Meryl wins it. I am sooooooooooooooooooooo (To Infinity+ 1) HAPPY
That Viola defeat cost me a lot of money. Still ended up with a profit. 20/24, decent, but not the highest I guess. Should have gone for Hugo for both sound cats.
And not to mar the good cheer but Angelina, you are tacky? Do you really have to try that hard? Good for Jim Rash (Love him on community) for mocking your needy ass. I mean come on. Almost every man thinks you’re hot. Tone it down.
Well Ryan, I hope no one is going to stoop to that low with the finger-waggin etc. It will be truly childish. But I was very disappointed about your site this year. The disappointment stems from the passion you guys have for certain movies, but this year I’ve noticed the tone sometimes gone to dismissive and hostile. I’m watched the forums where people get berated and put down because they don’t like Hugo or Dragon Tattoo. yes, most of the comments are downright ignorant and silly. However, I still admire the depth of knowledge and passion the writers have for this blog. That’s why I still come back to here, even though not as often. To me, I think I’ve began to get to the stage of not minding. The only thing I’m upset is The Tree of Life NOT winning cinematography. I hope instead of promoting just one or two film, maybe celebrate more great and diversity in films instead of putting other films down or engaging in hostile conversation with idiots who are just here to fan the flames.
Had Meryl won in 2010 or had The Departed at least lost BP in 2007, we would probably have 3 changes in this year`s final result. One choice changes everything that comes later. And let the 2012/2013 season begin!
And Meryl Streep, thank you for everything you`ve done to movies, for inspiring people all over the world! And for those who, just like me, are under 35 years old, this is the first time we see her winning an Oscar. It`s historical for all of us.
I sincerely hope you guys are watching Jimmy Kimmel. XD
Hugo deserved cinematography, 3D was amazing and the ending is a marvelous achievement. The only major disappointment of the night was The Shore winning short film. Glad to see an upset in editing.
could it be they just agree with him for the most part on some categories!!!
I was REALLY baffled when I saw all those people predicting Viola Davis to win and ignoring a Drama Globe + BAFTA combo for Streep as if it meant nothing.
Don’t ever underestimate any of the 4 major precursors, as each of them can reflect the Oscar’s thoughts their own way. Sometimes they lean towards the Globes, or BAFTA, or Guilds. You can’t really tell when.
Besides… The Help had a very shy showing among the nominations. Or, at least, it got less nominations than expected. That should’ve told you something. It probably wouldn’t have made the Best Picture cut if we had only 5 slots.
As for Viola, what about the movie “Won’t Back Down”? Whaddya guys think?
I’m watched the forums where people get berated and put down because they don’t like Hugo or Dragon Tattoo.
Lars, the AD Forums are their own separate universe. I don’t even venture there myself (not sure I’m welcome).
If by forums you mean the comments pages, I don’t believe I’ve ever “berated or put down” anybody who doesn’t like any movie or filmmaker. I try not to — because I don’t like be scolded if I do.
You’ll find 100 people who berate me and Sasha and put us down for what we like. Maybe that’s what you mean. Because yes, that happens. When it does, I don’t roll over and play dead. I don’t pick fights, but woe to anybody who picks a fight with me.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA MERYL STREEP WON HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!
Good night, and God bless Meryl Streep.
And why are some people saying that Michel H has more Oscars than Scorsese? They have the exact same number of Oscars… ONE
I am ecstatic for Meryl, but sad for Viola (if that makes sense). They both would have been happy for the other one (and it was palpable). Viola also looked stunning (yet again). I hope both are nominated again and again. Viola will win hers one day, of that I am certain. (And so will Michelle, for that matter. Oh, and Michelle also rocked her gown.) But after 29 years, you just gotta give it up for the … Iron Lady!
For all those Streep fans taunting Sasha. Knock it off.
I know Sasha can take care of herself, but I just need say something.
There’s probably no bigger Streep fan than her, but then she commits the apostasy of preferring another actress’s performance once, and suddenly she get’s tarred and feathered in the comments.
Sasha and Ryan are generous enough to allow your comments on their blog.
It’s amazing than Streep, by all evidence a nice lady, can have such crass and petty fans.
Conclusion: It’s always good to have Harvey Weinstein’s support. He scored three major wins at the Oscars (The Artist, Iron Lady 2/2 and Undefeated). What a year it was for him. I wrote on another forum that if the first award of the night (Cinematography) goes to Hugo, then The Artist and Hugo will split the awards among them and so it happened. 5 – 5 sounds pretty reasonable to me, taking into account the number of nominations these movies had. The real shocker was Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for editing. I wanted it to win, but I didn’t thought it would make it.
I am very sad that The Tree of Life goes home empty-handed, Lubezki was robbed again. Not to mention the Apes losing, although I pretty much saw that one coming. And I have to say, in the end I was surprised by Meryl’s win. I was going with Viola all along, especially because of her SAG award. So Iron Lady is the third movie in terms of Oscar wins? That’s quite interesting.
The victory I enjoyed the most was Jean’s. I was rooting for him for the very start and I am glad he managed to have the edge. I am also happy for Undefeated. Paradise Lost 3 didn’t have the pedigree of an Oscar winner, it felt like one of those documentaries you could catch on Discovery.
The awards weren’t that predictable after all, I blew 4 categories. What bothers me the most is that I was going with Hugo in Visuals, yet I thought they will be more impressed in the end by the Apes. Feinberg was right.
[ Imaginary gloat quote. ]
“Hey Sasha! And actress who you said gave a good performance beat the actress who you said did uh, a better performance! Yeah! So, uh, take that! You and all the free content you provide every day can eat it because, uh, like, MERYL WON! And not…Viola….Neither of whom I know personally but, you know, like…one’s better…to me…but not you…so you suck…And Ryan sucks ’cause….he said Rooney was good and I didn’t, like, agree. So everyone sucks! Except, like, MERYL! And Harry Potter 8.”
This one’s for Christopher Plummer; the whole night was worth it to see his speech.
I loved Dujardin winning; the guy was just a delight.
My favorite film of 2012, The Artist, walked away with the prize tonight, and that warms my heart. It’s nights like tonight that, for me, make it worth it.
On a separate note, based on how the night was going, was anyone else expecting Scorsese to pull the upset? Hugo got rolling early in the tech categories.
Crystal was great. He was just having fun up there. Loved it. The production was also 20 times better this year than last year. What a fun show…
Now, when’s ‘The Hobbit’ coming out?
The Academy is ugly
Good night all. I know it’s over but i’m sure the Viola loss will stick with me for a good while. I feel so sorry for her. I really felt she really, really wanted this one. I know everybody does, but her, in this role, would have been special.
Nah, I wasn’t smelling an upset. Same thing happened last year. Inception and TSN were winning technical awards and then – pam! Original Screenplay, Actor, Director and Movie go to The Social Network. I thought I will be annoyed by some The Artist winnings (Cinematography, Screenplay), but in the end I thought that two of Hugo’s awards were in the wrong places.
Guys, cut it out with Meryl vs Davis. Can’t you simply enjoy Meryl’s win without mocking Sasha and Ryan? It’s not like they never took her into consideration for the award. Besides, since when isn’t subjectivity allowed here? Everybody is free to have his own preferences. If they liked x more than y, so what? I loved The Artist, yet I didn’t mind the criticism it received here, I didn’t take it personal, since it wasn’t my movie.
I, for instance, disliked The Descendants, yet I am not looking for trouble with the movie’s fans. You must have gotten some predictions wrong that you were certain about too, yet nobody is teasing you. If I were Meryl, I would be ashamed of such vicious fans. Ok, she won, congratulations. Can’t you celebrate her win without attacking others? Learn to respect each other and to stop mistaking opinions for facts and to stop getting angry when a certain opinion doesn’t match yours.
Thank you for such a delightful evening. See you next year!
Ouups, I meant The King’s Speech, not the Social Network. Sorry guys, it’s 8 AM here and I stayed awake all night for the Oscars, please have mercy.
Take aways from this season for me:
1. People grossly overestimate the British effect. The idea that Meryl Streep won the BAFTA because she played a British prime minister was silly. She beat Davis at 3 of the 4 big awards. The British Academy probably isn’t made up of Thatcher fans anyway. The truth is, the BAFTA is a very accurate predictor of the Oscars, though not perfect.
2. Similarly, people overestimate SAG. SAG is usually right, but it isn’t gospel. When BAFTA and SAG differ, BAFTA is usually right.
Meryl’s win was in plain sight. I’m not really sure why we thought otherwise. Davis won one big precursor and one critics award.
@Slim Some people probably didn’t find out yet that Michel lost screenplay and editing. Three Oscars on one night were too much after all…
@Alexandra: Nicely said. Besides, Meryl and Viola were both so great that we were all basically ranking Beatles albums.
And thanks for the edit, Ryan.
You know what the saddest thing of Meryl’s win is… If the academy where to vote for Bullock in TBS or Davis in TH, Davis would win in a landslide. But Bullock won the oscar against Streep for a much better role than TIL and now she beat out Davis. Go figure. The fucking trick is not minding. I still trying to learn that trick.
A curiosity for the Hugo fans: only 3 films in Academy Awards history won more tech Oscars than Hugo (and they obviously are Titanic, Ben Hur and Return of the King). It tied The English Patient, The Last Emperor and a couple of others.
MERYL STREEP!!!!!! And she was tearful at an awards’ show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THREE TIME OSCAR WINNER MERYL STREEP!!!!!
@manrico @jesse et. al. Let’s not romanticize this site. Sasha and Ryan write the blog for a living. Advertisers pay them because we read the blog and write comments. Google is free too, but we don’t go telling people not to criticize Google, do we? I read awards daily because it has the best Oscar coverage on the web. I do have major complaints, namely the open and aggressive liberal political bent of the site and the very unprofessional way in which Sasha and Ryan deal with their detractors. I wish I were treated more like a customer than an enemy. Ryan and Sasha can either continue to do business as they have been, in which case I will move my eyeballs to another site with equally good coverage but less politics should one come along, or they can adopt to the complaints of their customers, retain more of them, and make more money.
Congrats to all the winners. Better luck next time, Oldman.
Hopefully The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises, Django Unchained, and Lincoln live up to expectations this yer.
I won’t laugh at Sasha or at any Davis fan, I’ll just say Streep deserved this more than anyone. She lost this damn award 14 times and for mesmerizing performances like in The Bridges Of Madison County, Adaptation, A Cry In The Dark, Out Of Africa, One True Thing and many many others. She’s been constantly making a lot of people happy, while Davis was in her first lead role (arguably lead BTW) and you can’t say she’s due because of her one-scene performance in Doubt. I really hope she gets better roles because she’s a fine actress.
I know The Iron Lady is very flawed, but Meryl was perfect in it, and the role was more demanding than Davis one in The Help. Streep had to carry all the movie by herself, and to watch her making three different performances as the young Thatcher, the Thatcher in power and the old Thatcher, was just mind-blowing.
Everyone was talking about black people don’t win here much, and they’re right. But the Oscars are not a humanitarian award, they should go to the best of the year, and Mery did gave the best performance. For once, they got it right and they chose to reward the best instead of going for what “cool” like when they rewarded Bullock, Paltrow, Winslet (for a wrong movie), Berry and many more.
@ TB
I`m really not sure. Sandra Bullock is really popular. She may be the most popular actress in the industry. They love her. Truly love her. And although Viola is obviously a much better actress than Bullock, (I will say something that I said all over this season that I know some agree and some not) she was lead in The Blind Side. You may still consider Viola lead but Emma Stone is “leader“ than her. What happened is that Stone did not have a showy character (the same happened in Inglorious Basterds, where Pitt was lead but it was a really great cast achievement).
Nikki Finke’s blog tonight: “Hollywood thinks Weinstein instructed the winners not to kudo him out of fear that the film community will hate him more than it already does. (“It’s Harvey’s world, and we must live in it,” movie mogul Tom Rothman was overhead saying from his seat inside the Kodak. How trafically true.)”
@TB I agree that Davis was much more deserving than Bullock. I disagree that J&J was more deserving than TIL. Meryl wasn’t even the lead in J&J. The story was about Julie, not Julia. The screen time was split. It was a tough loss to swallow, but it definitely wasn’t a traditional Oscar winning performance.
Well, Ryan, let’s just say you and I have a different opinion about idiots. I would choose to ignore them. And if I moderate a site, I would ban them immediately. Instead of wasting my time to fight with those people, I would spend time discussing films with other people and introducing them to other lesser-known films. We’ll agree to disagree:)
My list (I didn’t really see a lot of films unfortunately):
Picture: The Tree of Life
Director: Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) and Lars von Trier (Melancholia)
Actor: Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Michael Fassbender (Shame) and Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
… Actress: Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer (Beginners–I think this will be a match)
Supporting Actress: Sareh Bayet (A Separation)
Foreign Picture: A Separation (no contest)
Original Screenplay: A Separation
Adapted Screenplay: Moneyball
Animated Film: Rango
Cinematography: Emmauel Lubezki
Most Fun: The Artist (thank god, no big huge explosion)
Probably not opening very soon: A Simple Life (by Ann Hui)
Most Overrated: Hugo and The Descendants
Most Underrated: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Want to see but didn’t have time: Take Shelter
I’m happy for Meryl but the defining win of the night for me was Jean Dujardin. I think his performance will be the performance that people remembers when they think of this year. So deserving of that award.
Viola was brave to choose to go lead and she probably knows that she would be an Academy Award winner now if she had gone supporting, but I actually think Meryl deserved for the performance.
Meryl, you deserved it, and not even Sasha can argue with that fact.
we’ll see about that.
I’ll leave you with your ass hanging out, mdb, because I’d like to see it get kicked.
Ryan – How can Sasha possibly argue against Meryl’s win? The Academy has made its choice and any argument made by Sasha against it does NOT matter.
I was definitely shocked (though happy) that Dragon Tattoo won best film editing. That usually goes along with a Best Picture win (or at least a nomination)
Also why is someone’s ass being kicked just because they thought Meryl is deserving?
going to sleep, so sweet to see the news in france this morning lol
they’re over the moon with the artist wins! especially jean dujardin!
So happy that Meryl and Plummer won, the rest of the show was OK as I had no other favorites or films I was supporting.
HUGO & THE ARTIST – 5
THE IRON LADY – 2
THE REST – 1
OH YEAH!
mdb, let’s clarify a couple of things.
Google doesn’t have comment pages where people can hang out and tell Google to suck it. Anybody who does that at any site will soon find they are not welcome at that site. If you think The New York Times, HuffPo, or Hollywood Elsewhere allow readers to be persistent pests, you’re wrong. A few sites might. That’s their business.
I’m not fond of aggressive conservatives, but I don’t bring it up out of the blue. mdb, If I ever knew you were a conservative, I forgot it. Thanks for reminding me, but so what? You’re free to be proudly conservative. I don’t complain it, do I? Go right ahead and have your complaints. It’s not going to make me any less aggrrrrrrressively liberrrrrrrrral. grrrrrrr. Somplaints have to opposite effect of taming me, and Sasha too.
You’re not enemy, but don’t kid yourself that you’re a customer. Customers buy stuff. With money. You’re a visitor. You’re a guest. You’re welcome if you don’t cause anybody any hassle. But even if this was a restaurant and you bought a $200 bottle of wine, you’d be kicked out if you aggravated the owners. They’d be glad to be rid of you. Do you go to the library and announce to everybody: “I’ve held the WHOLE time that you all were CRAZY!” (quote unquote) Dude, don’t try it. The librarians will call the cops.
“Adopting to complaints” — yeah, actually, don’t hold your breath. Will Sasha “continue to business” as she’s always done for over a decade, more and more successfully every year? Yes, that you can count on.
I’m quite sad about the Best Actress / Best Supporting Actress this year… No doubt Meryl Streep was the best LEAD actress, but if Viola just would stayed in SUPPORTING both would be winners already… I’m so sick about the category fraud and hypocrisy… watching the year in retrospective I’m quite sure the three THE HELP girls would be nominated as supporting and Viola would swept every award because let’s face it, was by far the BEST performance by an actress this year but a SUPPORTING one… and she was placed leading just because she’s black, by no ways a I found her character leading, the lead is emma stone, overshadowed of course by the stunning portrayal of Viola. It makes me angry studios do this bull**t every year trying to get more and more awards. In 50 year or so when young oscar buffs & cinephiles do research they will find ridiculous that in 2011 Viola Davis was considered lead, Michelle Williams comedy/musical and Berenice Bejo got a supporting nomination
@newyorker27:
“Ryan – How can Sasha possibly argue against Meryl’s win? The Academy has made its choice and any argument made by Sasha against it does NOT matter.”
Following your logic:
How can anyone possibly argue against Sandra’s win? The Academy has made its choice and any argument made by anyone against it does NOT matter.
How can anyone possibly argue against THE KING’S SPEECH win? The Academy has made its choice and any argument made by anyone against it does NOT matter.
Guys, can we leave 2011 behind us starting tomorrow. I don’t know why but this season was really mean and full of fights. It wasn’t like that before. Maybe if we just allow everyone their own opinion without having to prove that we’re right, we can all go back to the way it was before. Okay?
@mdb: I live across the street from retirement high rise where people die continuously and I’m too much of a surly cad to maintain lasting relationships with women.
This site and baseball provide all the romance I’m gonna get.
@Ryan, on the internet, customers do not buy stuff. Facebook makes money selling ads, but ads sell because of facebook users. Facebook has no value apart from its users, just as AD has no value apart from its readers. The value of AD is directly proportional to the size of its reader base. I am not ignorant of that fact. Your example of the restaurant isn’t exactly accurate. People lodge complains at restaurants all the time. The most successful chains and the best reviewed restaurants tailor their business to the needs of the customer. That’s how you make money. Of course, if someone is belligerently drunk and yelling obscenities, he will most likely be escorted off the premises, but even then, the owner will likely do so respectfully.
I’m not sure that the library example is apropos, given that libraries are supported by tax dollars and are not for-profit businesses the way AD is.
As for the quotation that you cited, I didn’t say that you were crazy in general. I said that people were crazy to believe Davis was an overwhelming favorite when she hadn’t won the most important predictive awards. The adjective depended on the modifying clause (also, fyi, the saying is “quote, end quote”.)
Blockbuster had a decade of ever increasing profits. It didn’t save them. Capitalism operates by creative destruction. Businesses that fail to adapt to changing needs will die eventually. That’s a certainty.
As for my conservatism, I don’t talk about it because it is divisive and offensive to people who disagree with me, and it’s not important to my love of film. I think avoiding politics is the most considerate thing to do in mixed company.
@ Checko
I think it was a Viola decision to go lead just like with Fences at the Tonys. She would surely win Best Supporting Actress but although I think she was brave to go lead, I never thought she was the lead. And this probably hurt her a bit in race so close like this one. If she and Berenice Bejo just swept their category placement..
Antoinette–it was worse last year.
I’m curious to see how many people will think Streep’s win was due to being part of the Weinstein machine and not the fact that she was the most deserving in her category and that the Academy felt bad of snubbing her three times in a row?
A Separation’s win was also very well deserved, and his speech was pretty powerful.
I think all of the actresses deserved to win. I just feel awful for Viola b/c who knows when she will have a chance again.
@mdb:
“@manrico @jesse et. al. Let’s not romanticize this site. Sasha and Ryan write the blog for a living. Advertisers pay them because we read the blog and write comments. Google is free too, but we don’t go telling people not to criticize Google, do we? I read awards daily because it has the best Oscar coverage on the web. I do have major complaints, namely the open and aggressive liberal political bent of the site and the very unprofessional way in which Sasha and Ryan deal with their detractors. I wish I were treated more like a customer than an enemy. Ryan and Sasha can either continue to do business as they have been, in which case I will move my eyeballs to another site with equally good coverage but less politics should one come along, or they can adopt to the complaints of their customers, retain more of them, and make more money.”
Are a customer? Do you pay a membership? No. You are a guest.
Sasha has been very explicit: This is a dictatorship. You have no rights here.
If anything, Sasha and Ryan are too nice. They allow such rudeness.
I have expressed many times my reservations about Meryl Streep in this blog. The only disrespect I have received is from people like you, not Sasha or Ryan.
It was a great show, leaps and bounds better than the preceding 10. Billy Crystal’s raison d’être is to host the Oscars.
Not once was Hazanavicius’ name pronounced correctly. Even the French can’t pronounce that because it’s Lithuanian (I think).
I pity the Cirque du Soleil acrobat who fell in the 8-man flipping sequence.
Robert Downey and Gwyneth’s banter fell really flat. Loved Emma Stone and the Billy Crystal/Melissa McCarthy dressing room skit.
Meryl’s speech was really great but it ended so abruptly, wish she didn’t mind the time limit, they would have allowed her all night to speak.
Hugo, my favorite film of the year, won 5, fantastic, I feared it would only win 1.
I didn’t know Amanda Plummer was Christopher Plummer’s daughter. I’ve seen her in several films but could only visually remember 2, Pulp Fiction and The Fisher King.
I’m thinking all the wins were agreeable. I’m particularly ecstatic over Meryl, Christopher, Jean, and Hugo’s wins.
Most gorgeous star of the night: Emma Stone.
I only got 19/24, not enough to win I guess.
@ Nik
“I’m curious to see how many people will think Streep’s win was due to being part of the Weinstein machine and not the fact that she was the most deserving in her category and that the Academy felt bad of snubbing her three times in a row?“
It`s curious that no one her seems to think that No Country For Old Man won more because of the heavy Scott Rudin campaign than the films own merits, which are very big of course but the campaign was very heavy… don`t know which is bigger. Rudin is no Weinstein. Nobody is. Rudin is the 2nd best campaigner there.
Also why is someone’s ass being kicked just because they thought Meryl is deserving?
first, nobody’s actual ass will be actually kicked.
The same way mdb probably doesn’t think “EVERYBODY IS CRAZY” who believed Viola would win.
But he said we are. And I expect he knows he’ll get an argument about that. So it does little good for him to pre-emptively say “not even Sasha can argue with that fact.”
Because he knows full well he might as well say “HEY, CRAZY PEOPLE! I’M LOOKING FOR AN ARGUMENT!”
don’t worry. the ‘ass-kicking’ just means: Hi, Welcome to Fight Club.
(although, just like Lisbeth, yeah, I’m kinda crazy sometimes.)
Slim–Hazanivicius has two Oscars, for producing and directing.
Scorsese only has one for directing and he had to wait 27 years to get that. Hazanivicius won two on his first try. Hopefully the Academy will reward Scorsese again soon because he isn’t getting any younger.
Daveylow,
Hazanavicius did not win for BP. Thomas Langman is the only producer.
Ryan – How can Sasha possibly argue against Meryl’s win?
We’re not going to argue that she won. I think we all saw it happen.
But anybody CAN argue what mdb claims we are unable to argue:
Namely: Whether or not she deserved it. Yes, that’s arguable.
I was so overwhelmed when Meryl won that tears came to my eyes. Historical! Beautiful words! And the look of Sandy with tears in her eyes didn’t makee the things easier for me
Fascinating night of mixed results. Oldest acting winner in Oscar history, surprising set of wins in editing and cinematography, the crowning of the greatest living actress after nearly 30 years between awards, the first Frenchman to win an acting award, 2 films get 5 each – putting them both into movie history, and a great return performance by the brilliant and funny Billy Crystal. It’s not perfect, but they did their stuff. They are the Academy. We never get what we want.
Thanks Ryan for navigating tonight. Cheers to you and to the other commenters for your company and chat. Sleep well.
@Daniel B: That’s sweet.
Meryl looked genuinely shocked to have won and she’s so charming in interviews and Q&A’s. She reminds me of Bill Clinton in that she manages to completely control a room while seeming to talk on the same level to everyone. While ANY win is arguable, what’s inarguable is how well Meryl and Viola handled the awards process this year.
mdb,
Let’s not argue about how much influence you should have over how the site is run, ok? I can give you a rough estimate of the extent of your influence: not much.
I’m tellin’ you. You’re not a customer here. I’m not even a formal employee, but I know you’re not a customer.
You are a guest. A visitor.
You can visit Yellowstone Park and complain that you’re a customer. But they will escort you right out if they don’t want you there. In fact, when troublesome visitors are gone, it makes the park a more peaceful place for the millions of people who don’t come to the park to listen to a few malcontents nagging the park rangers.
The proportion you’re ignorant about is the one-in-a-million ratio of you to the number of page hits we get in peak season.
If you leave, nobody will notice. Least of all the advertisers.
Happy for you to stay, so long as you don’t annoy anybody. But it’s not going to crush us if you go.
Do you think if you go there’s nobody else on the internet who can replace you?
Once the noise dies down a bit and post-Oscar conversations thaw out to after thoughts, I have a feeling some people will re-watch The Iron Lady and not feel so bad that Streep won her third Oscar for it. I can understand how some might feel that Davis was also deserving, and the amount of love she has gained from this campaign should surely be able to land her another meaty role that would unarguably be lead, but how one could say that Meryl Streep did NOT deserve it would be a true brain twister.
“I can almost feel half of the people going..UGH! NOT HER! AGAIN? .. but you know, whatever” – one of the lines of the night.
Oh yeah need to comment on the best presentation: Emma Stone (who looked absolutely gorgeous) and Ben Stiller. So funny the both of them, really.
Robert Downey’s doc thing was pretty good too, but Gwyneth was cramping his style a bit.
Dear Sasha and Ryan,
Thank you for your sincere and meaningful coverage, writing, and provoking advocacy throughout this Awards season.
Also, I appreciate the amount of effort and fairness involved in moderating and running this website, by yourselves and collaborators.
Ryan, especially for your painstaking surveys, where results will definitely be of worth in accurately showing the zeitgeist of today’s internet generation. And your replies too, sharp in every way, and your patience to read mine and others.
Love, Aubrey
Just don’t get angry right now! it was Streep all the time, and you knew it!!!! Anyway, congrats on the (almost) 100% accuracy.
And today Mark Wahlberg is looking like an idiot who’d make anything for a little publicity.
Of the categories he mentioned and he mentioned picture, directing, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, cinematography, costume design and art direction, he was wrong about two – Meryl and costume design. The other were locks and a single right guess (and probably he voted that way – cinematography for Hugo).
I wish Harvey Weinstein didn’t dominate the show like he did. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was bribery involved. Even though Meryl Streep is my #3 favorite actress of all-time, I’m very upset that Viola Davis didn’t win. We all know that Meryl will be nominated again for “August: Osage County”. If Viola Davis would’ve won, I’m sure she would’ve given the most memorable acceptance speech of the night.
@Antoinette everyone should follow her clarion call!
I for one don’t try to be forceful with my opinions but by the same token i reasonabkly don’t expect to abuse me if they disagree this site is great cos the webmasters Ryan and Sasha CLEARLY give everyone a chance nobody should infringe on or begrudge the hosts or other members in general on any forum or site just cos one has different views to others.
This sit has been more tolerant and understanding and appreciative of a greater diversity in opinion than other forums. Frankly if you all must know i got (shamefully) booted off other forums cos i was ‘too dominating’ yet the amusing thing was individuals have a choice they didn’t have to take it out on me just cos i have an unorthodox and at times cluttered way of saying things nobody is perfect and they could not accept that hence i know from a friendi made from that forum it shuyt up shop because of the extent of its intolerance for varying writing styles.
In the end that fact i took issue with some opinions of Sasha and Ryan a bit more than in past years, and yet the fact I take a stand for our hosts understanding and can appreciate their tolerance for such that to all of us should be tenfold more important than expecting others to agree with everyone.
I for one and a lot of others i think do not expect them to agree with what they say- sure i prefer it but it really doesn’t phase me.
Focusing back on films now i think there is more democracy at work with the forums that debate awards season than there is in awards season esp the Academy itself.
Even to those who are upset that Ryan or Sasha don’t agree with you you really should be most grateful that as humans being do are given opportunities to debate their views regardless how different they are.
I just a generic member, but to those who question Ryan and Sasha right to be critical of others pples views i say this why should it matter what anyone thinks? we all entitled to an opibnion right? I don’t begrudge the fact pple may have a grudge against me indeed i can see my opinions can be laborious but i tried to be consistent with my views and beliefs and i prouid to put my view out there why should anyof us ever worry what others think of our views? or expect others to conform to our view?
I been a member on awards daily for a few years and i be and AM NOTHING but proud to be part of such a diverse, educated and intelligent culture of a level of insights and diversity that is what represents democracy at work when at least in my opinion anyway and i do bel9ieve i not alone on it our input to oscar’s considerations is so easily disregarded.
I finally WANT TO SAY and it the largest compliment i can give to Sasha and Ryan- i rarely heard such passion and conviction as what sasha and ryan express regardless whether we agree or not and the extent of passion to which we are able to express freely- but as in all manner of civility, within reason.
for the bloggers who underestimated meryl, for they will rue the day. but, whatever. that’s all.
Thanks, Aubrey —
but hey, listen, you guys. Great movies come along year-round. In just a few weeks, Sasha is flying off to Cannes again.
We’ll all be in lot more relaxed and playful mood in the middle of the year when we don’t have so many heated battles going on between Team This and Team That.
So, all I’m saying, don’t be a stranger until next September/October.
You think it was fun seeing a few of us lose our minds over Fincher, think of the madcap antics we’ll all get into when John Hillcoat, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, Joss Whedon, and Tim Burton start dropping movies left and right between now and May.
Stick around, or at least drop by to see what new bonfires are burning.
Well, I am going to have to change the status of “AMPAS hates Emmanuel Lubezki” from rumor to fact. I love Robert Richardson, but he deserved his third Oscar for Inglourious Basterds over Avatar, not here. Aside from the disappointing note the evening began on, I was not overly upset or shocked by anything that happened. 18/24 for me.
“You know what the saddest thing of Meryl’s win is… If the academy where to vote for Bullock in TBS or Davis in TH, Davis would win in a landslide. But Bullock won the oscar against Streep for a much better role than TIL and now she beat out Davis. Go figure. The fucking trick is not minding. I still trying to learn that trick.”
MOMENTUM HONEY, MOMENTUM. As a matter of a fact it’s the bloggers fault (not this blog in particular but others around the net) about the Viola Davis buzz.
Sasha and Ryan. Have been watching the Oscars since ‘ 66 as a child. Also been reading and loving this site and you two for years. Never, never felt the need to post, until this year. Worst Oscars ever. Yeah, a few surprises. Hugo taking cinematography and then Thelma snubbed. Where’s the logic? Where’s the sense? Hugo would be my choice for BP, but Luzbezki was robbed and so was Thelma. It did, for a moment make things interesting. Fully,expected every win “The Artist” got. Not a huge Meryl fan, but thought she was robbed for several films, most recently “Doubt” as Viola. The only bright spot I expected tonight was Viola winning. What a sin! I was devastated. A new low watermark for Oscar. Meryl deserved to win several times, before this. Guess all it takes is to sell your soul to the devil aka HW to win. Not her fault she won (maybe). On the other hand not one shout out to Viola; “Nice speech Eve…I mean Meryl …but why don’t you put that award where your heart ought to be” Whoops, guess she sold it to Harvey. Meryl did the best she could and more with a mess of a film. Viola gave an extraordinary performance. the best of the year along with the not nominated Michael Shannon. “Hugo” capture the joy and history of film far better than “The Artist” So sick of HW buying and manipulating the Academy. So much to say. He could have probably bought “BrokebacK” the Oscar it deserved from those narrow minded, tunnel visioned hypocrites. The whole HW thing is so out of contol. Nothing against Meryl (maybe), but Viola not wining is a a crime. It reflects everything that is wrong with the Oscars and Hw’s reign of terror. Personally, I feel this was even worse than ‘Crash” winning. Also,felt that “The Help” and Pitt and Clooney may have spiked viewing numbers this year. Most people I know either have not heard of “The Artist” and those that have don’t want to see it. A perfectly fine film, but with so many better films that are far more accessible, and yes, reflective of American cinema, there’s only one reason that it won. Perhaps its not HW, but the lack of values by the Academy. I can honestly say it will take a lot to make me watch next year. What they did to Viola and why is an absolute crime. Perhaps if HW had backed it. Sad, Sad, when a petty tyrant continually buys the souls of the soulless. Viola: you are the winner in my heart. Sasha and Ryan, love this site. Keep up the great work!
I thought this year’s show was a much better production compared to last year. I loved the Cirque du Soleil performance. I loved Billy Crystal’s mind reading segment; his Nick Nolte growls made me laugh.
As for the Meryl vs Viola competition, my gut told me that Viola would win, but I’m not surprised it was Meryl. She is a living legend. I liked both performances and am happy for both actresses.
I loved The Artist! I was not a fan of Hugo for because its storytelling and characterizations did not resonate with me, but it was impeccably crafted and I love its technical merits. Glad to see Dragon Tattoo pick up an award. Octavia Spenser and Christopher Plummer were foregone conclusions. I am happy for all the winners even though I personally disagree with some of the results.
Thank you AwardsDaily for another great year of awards coverage! I love this site! I look forward to seeing the best that 2012 has to offer.
Academy, if you’re looking for a star to host, Emma Stone! She was hilarious. I loved it. It was over the top, naive and silly but it was really entertaining!!
On Meryl: Of course it’s arguable. Every winner is. Can you look at a single winner and say: Hey, the clear winner! I can’t. Because every time I watch Plummer’s performance, I’m reminded of the great work of Hunter McCracken in The Tree of Life and Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life. And of course Max von Sydow did wonders with what he was given in ELAIC. Same about Meryl. There are Kirsten and Juliette. There is Tilda Swinton. There is Viola Davis. There is Rooney Mara. There is Michelle Williams. There is Glenn Close. There is Charlize Theron.
Of course I’m happy. But I’m not here to make others feel bad. I feel happy for Meryl but I felt soo bad when she was snubbed in the past and now I feel I have the right to feel happy. And to everyone who was rooting for Davis – tomorrow is another day and she has a movie coming out in 2012, so anything could happen!
)) And please somebody give Glenn Close a terrific part! But statistically, nothing really beats Globe + BAFTA + major critics’ award.
And of course: I’m grateful for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO winning. Such a surprise happens once a decade! The last film without an Eddie to win the film editing Oscar was 11 years ago!!!
Anyway I had my piece of disappointment. When will Lubezki take an Oscar???
@ Antointette, who said – I don’t know why but this season was really mean and full of fights. It wasn’t like that before. Maybe if we just allow everyone their own opinion without having to prove that we’re right, we can all go back to the way it was before. Okay?
You’d like that wouldn’t you. Everyone being civil and respectful to each other, while having fun and making great friends. Typical.
I think this year’s telecast is the best one in three years. I think Billy is a perfect host, the show is tight, and there’re a lot of surprising funny moments. The stage I think is gorgeous, and the whole show is a beautiful visual experience
I do miss the best score composing and a muppet performance, but still, it’s much better than last year’s and I think is right there with the year Hugh Jackman hosts.
Tumbleweed….tumbleweed…oh, a dinosaur….tumbleweed…
@Raleigh
I’m pretty sure they keep saying ”Lubezki…. oh no wait, he will going to have his own standing ovation when he wins his honorary oscar decades from now so let’s give the oscar to another fella”
I think tonight was the worst scenario..
a) Viola wins: she gets more baity roles, some blockbusters, a fashion lebel contract & Meryl gets more and more awsome roles because everyone is so obsessed with her winning a third oscar and she keeps making movies like it’s complicated, julie & julia, mamma mia which wouldn’t exist without her because hollywood hates older women even if they’re beautiful and because we all know she got hot attention thanks to her nomination in The Devil Wears Prada, that’s when all the Meryl’s overdue affair began.
b) Meryl wins: I’m telling you people having an oscar always give the ladies backlash so I’m hearing in months or a pair of years the Meryl = Lame everytime just because she has an oscar already, as long she’s not winning the people is going to nominate her for everything but with a victory, her haters are going to rise and dominate the awards world & Viola would be so robbed so the next time she’s around she is SO winning an oscar.
for Viola was a win win situation, for Meryl wasn’t…
Speaking of dyslexia, Tom Cruise walked into a gay bra…
Tom Cruise’s non-creepy youthfulness damn near validated Scientology.
I went to a meeting once. He slid in in his socks and a Klingon mask. Very compelling.
Tom Cruise’s non-creepy youthfulness
he’s not entirely non-creepy. though he’s no more creepy that many genuinely youthful and noticeably creepy youths.
“He slid in in his socks and a klingon mask. Very compelling.”
How did Harry Potter not come away with a technical award for the final film? 11 years, 12 nominations, and ZERO Oscars? We all know the HP films aren’t all that ‘magical’ when it comes to plot, acting, or script… but the production values really are the best that Universal has to offer.
Hugo was indeed a beautiful film, so I understand why it took V.E. and A.D. but how in the world did Iron Lady take Makeup? The entire movie was just Meryl Streep in pasty-face blush. Both Albert Knobbs and Harry Potter were FAR more deserving.
Two weeks ago I was just plain laughing at Dan Radcliffe for calling the Academy a bunch of snobs due to the lack of a Best Pic nomination…… but really, after Sunday night’s boring-arse show, I think I actually agree with him. The makeup teams in HP truly deserved recognition. For the Academy to disregard their amazing work in favor of Iron Lady showed a total lack of respect.
Oh, there’s certainly a small creepiness to Tom Cruise, like an inability to quite connect to people. But I mean that despite looking younger than his age, he doesn’t seem stretched out or botoxed.
Actually, the few people I know who’ve met him say he’s a really friendly guy, so I kind of root for him despite his bizarre statements.
oh I see what you mean. no, you’re right. appearance-wise, he’s very… realistic.
@ Jim-best makeup J.Edgar. At least you could see it.
Anyone think Armie looked a bit like grandpa in Texas?
Mattoc, if you’re not on Twitter you need to be.
You craft these phrases that would fit into 140 characters like a finger-glove.
Just please don’t stop sharing them here.
Armie’s make-up was fine after he’d suffered the stroke. The sort of weird, washed-out quality of his skin made sense but it was distracting before-hand. DiCaprio’s and Watts’ looked fine, though.
“Mattoc, if you’re not on Twitter you need to be.
You craft these phrases that would fit into 140 characters like a finger-glove.
Just please don’t stop sharing them here.”
Totally. You crack me up every night.
#ificreateatwitteraccountwillthetreeoflifewin?
Btw – you are both very kind, Thanks you and the feeling is more than mutual. We should get together, I ‘ll makes sandwhiches.
Mattoc,
#twowaysthroughlife
#onewayvoyageoftime
#anotherwaylawless
Meryl won and should have won this year. The same must be said about “The Artist”, Hazanavicius, Dujardin. They really rarely make so great choices and you – instead of being happy – whine as always.
I’m exctatic about the editing win for Baxter and Wall. So well deserved. Did you know the last movie that won only the oscar for editing and wasn’t nominated for best picture was “Bullitt”
It was really painful to see Lubezki lose again. It was the biggest travesty of the night. It was expected though. I actually predicted Hugo would win because ToL lacked an Art Direction nomination. Academy members see a beautiful looking film with great art direction and they automatically think it has better cinematography than one that is less showy. That’s the reason why Pan’s Labyrinth won over Children of Men.
My only wish now is that Lubezki wins next year for Gravity if his work there is at least as good as his previous works.
Er…I predicted no wins for Team Tinker Tailor, but still it hurts.
The worst part of this awards season was Meryl fanatics whining about her third Oscar that I felt she didn’t deserve. But she finally got it, so congrats, it’s been 30 years anyway, and now that she got her #3, hopefully we don’t see any more whining from Meryl fanatics on this site or any other Oscar blog I go to. I really do hope she won’t get another Oscar nomination for many years to come, just because I never ever want to see the kind of meanness we’ve seen this season again. This is how those fanatics made me feel, despite my love for Streep herself. How sad.
Do I think Viola Davis would get more baity ‘leading’ roles any time soon? I’m not freaking sure! I didn’t even like The Help much, but it was sadly the only commercially successful and popular movie where she was clearly a lead. (Streep fanatics wanted to believe it’s supporting but she’s a lead. Duh.) Do I think Davis has another Oscar chance in a leading role? I honestly don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon. Of course it’s the industry’s fault, but man, she delivered the best performance among all the nominees. (Williams was better in Meek’s Cutoff. I wish Swinton and Coleman had been nominated.) It was clear to me even seeing the nomination clips.
Christine in two years time meryl is up for her 4th
oscar for august:osage county the role of violet weston
is very oscar baity!
#thanksryanifeelbetternow
@Someone – as far as I can see no one is whining, so stop it. I’m making my world famous Kung pao chickens now and I don’t need the the aggravation.
I’m still shocked and shaking over Meryl’s win.
It’s beyond words, really…
Simply unbelieveable she could win with so many disadvantages (no BP nod, no great director, annoying Weinstein campaign ect.), but she really did!
And hell yes I’m so glad she did!
NO
MORE
“NEXT TIME”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really wouldn’t mind seeing Viola winning and I was so sure she would til the very last minute.
I really still can’t believe the film so many predicted Meryl to fail was at the end the one that let her shine bright again!
Never give up hope!
And never understimate Weinstein!
lucy
Then I will pray she won’t get nominated.
See? I’m being unnecessarily bitter, and Meryl fanatics are very good at making me so.
But of course, if Meryl delivers a better performance in a better movie, then why not.
But I am already shuddering to think Meryl fanatics like you, Lucy, spamming all comments sections and whining about her #4.
Mark stop whining!about viola’s loss, she could have won the oscar if she was campaigned supporting, whoever campaigned her as lead is so ambitious and greedy, i love viola she could have been supporting, plus meryl streep gave a far superior performance than davis the only actresses who could have challenge streep for the oscars is anna paquin in margaret yet she wasn’t even nominated!
It’s all right christine i’m not here to fight you or anyone i’m just stating a fact, anyway congrats to all the winners
Sonja if there’s only one actress who coul defy those factors it’s only the great meryl streep
Christine – Viola Davis doesn’t get baity roles. She makes them baity. Like Meryl, she was handed a ham sandwhich and turned into some kind of performance that we could appreciate. In any case, Charlotte Gainsbourg delivered the greatest performance of the year. Completely irrelevant but it felt sooooo good typing it,
Oh Gainsbourg (and Dunst) was one of the finest last year. I’d have taken out Streep, Close and probably Mara, and nominated any three among Swinton, Colman, Gainsbourg, Theron, Williams (Meek’s Cutoff), and Olsen. Oh well. The season’s over.
@busterbron ‘I think youre riding on nostalgia bro, only 2 of those movies are even remotely good. the books are good but not the flicks”
1) Well Goblet of Fire was great and it did get into the Guinness Book of World Records.
2) Deathly Hallows Part 2 did better than any HP film (not counting it was their last ever film), it had more respect, it made over a billion dollars and broke alot of box office records not only inand was seen by …like every Harry Potter film, it got almost better scores and more reviews than any film this year/it had POSITIVE reviews and universal critical acclaim, ranked one of the best films and best reviewed films of the year, and not only me but alot of people here thought this film should’ve or might have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars…..I mean why not cause it’s a fantasy film, cause it had young or didn’t had any actors that won an Oscar, had a big budget, wasn’t directed by Steven Speilburg? Cause I know alot of films that had that and was nominated for Best Picture, I mean for David Yates, some people say he’s a bad director for changing some HP scenes not according to the book, BUT if he’s a bad director those 4 Harry Potter films would’ve gotten all bad reviews, not be nominated for any awards including in England, and would’ve been doing terribly worse at the box offfice.
But 2 questions come to mind without no buts, however, although, etc; Does everyone think after reading those reviews, looking at the grades and votes it got on Broadcast Film Critics Association, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDB don’t you think Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 should or would’ve been nominated for Best Picture at not only the Oscars but at the Golden Globes and all those critic society award shows?
And is it more respected than any other Harry Potter film?
Let me see Octavia wins (rightfully so), but this is the 3rd oversized black woman to win best supporting. Is there a pattern there? And Streep won over Viola — GOOD! Now the media will shut up about how many times she’s been nom’d and not won. And won’t be nom’d again!
Loved the Focus Group skit. Loved Cirque, but it was probably more fascinating to see it live than on TV.
Solid list of winners!
Best speeches: Plummer, Asghar Farhadi and Hazanavicius
Happy to see a little film from my native Northern Ireland win the Oscar, Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, In The Name Of The Father) is a fantastic filmmaker who does us proud!
I’m kinda torn. I think Meryl deserved a third oscar, but I didn’t think this years performance was that special, so for me it’s the wrong movie.
I thought Davis was better, but I also felt she was supporting. So I guess I also wouldn’t have liked Davis winning that much.
I don’t really see how “the critics got it wrong” by awarding Davis since Streep won. Call me naive, but I like to think some of them are actually NOT trying to predict the oscars, but are just awarding the ones they liked best this year.
@OCO300
1) your right is should’ve
2) it might not of won and Oscar but it won the Golden Tomato, the People’s Choice Award for Best Film, and an honorary BAFTa award for greatest achievement in british film-making.
3) Awesome news the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games announced it had selected the London Symphony Orchestra who recently recorded soundtracks for Twilight: New Moon as well as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parts 1 and 2)or to many people the Harry Potter Orchestra to record the core orchestral soundtrack for the 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremonies.
Dammit!
When is Meryl gonna win her 4th Oscar?
Some guys are thinking that Hazanavicius also won as The Artist’s producer since he gave a second speech at the end. He is not a producer and the reason he did that was he forgot to thank his wife Berenice during his best director acceptance speech. How many times has that happened? Hilary Swank forgot to thank husband Chad Lowe and then some years later they divorced.
On Best Actress competition, the bloggers and critics were like lemmings this year. They blindly followed each other off the cliff. LOL, they were COMPLETELY WRONG. Streep deserved to win because she gave the best performance of the year. Her performance was astounding. I’m glad she finally has three, and I’m hoping for a fourth!
@SC8Official Wow that’s great! Now I can see that’s one reasons why the Harry Potter film series is really popular worldwide.
Hey no offense speaking hypothetically would the orchestra get thrown out if they wore HP costumes/T-Shirts or even announcing worldwide at the Olympics “We would like to dedicate this to JK Rowling and to Harry Potter may it always be remembered.”?
I am so utterly delighted that Meryl got it! At last, and I’d be the first to say that I didn’t think this was her year. She is, quite simply, in a class of her own.
Viola will have her time (as will Michelle and Glenn).
Gawd the same old Meryl fanatics have started spamming again. And these same names are spamming (always same names, same comments) other Oscar blogs I go to too. They really make me feel like hoping she won’t get another nomination for another 30 years. She probably won’t, anyway. I’d have been happy with her win if those fanatics weren’t such trolls. The same old Meryl fanatics, you guys should realize you’re giving Meryl and her other fans a bad name.
Oco, why the he’ll would they do a tribute to HP at the Olympics????
-Koleś says:
February 27, 2012 at 1:48 am
I’m exctatic about the editing win for Baxter and Wall. So well deserved. Did you know the last movie that won only the oscar for editing and wasn’t nominated for best picture was “Bullitt” -
The last movie to win Editing without a BP nom was The Bourne Ultimatum in 2008, but that also won both sound awards and you said ‘only the oscar for editing’, so maybe doesn’t count
By the way, it was one of the 3 awards I fucking jumped out of my set when they announced it (the others being Hugo for cinematography and Chris Plummer, even if he was the frontrunner, I was totally expecting a Von Sydow upset)
out of my seat*
It’s just a vicious circle. Streep won because she was “due”, because she should have won some years ago.
And 5 years from now, Davis or Williams will win for a performance that perhaps wasn’t that spectacular, but because they were due, since they hadn’t won this (or previous) year(s). Probably beating someone like Elizabeth Olsen who was better that year, but hey, she will win in 10 years.
Reviews are in, and they are borderline disastrous:
The Wrap: http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/oscars-review-brett-ratner-dodged-bullet-35752?page=0,1
Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/review-oscars-Billy-Crystal-boring-The-Artist-Hugo-295309
HitFix: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/review-academy-awards-telecast-and-host-billy-crystal-lean-heavily-on-nostalgia
NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/movies/awardsseason/at-the-oscars-even-the-jokes-had-wrinkles.html?_r=2&hp
Indiewire: http://blogs.indiewire.com/carynjames/oscar-21012-review
The Oscars were an AARP rally? That’s probaby the most cutting comment of any media review so far.
Apologies to all — Hazanivicius was holding an Oscar when he spoke at the end when The Artist won best picture. So I thought he won two Oscars. But he only won one of the awards. I was confused by that. Why was he talking at the end holding an Oscar. Very strange.
@Christine
I agree with you about Viola not getting any great lead role(s) anytime soon, HELL, she barely got this one, and on top of that it’s a civil rights film. It’s only so many civil rights movies she can make that will get her nominated. Maybe just maybe she will land a role thats not so stereotypical. I don’t think she will have a problem winning a supporting Oscars. I am not trying to put down the supporting cast, but Viola is much more than a supporting actor, she needs to start getting lead roles. I truly believe that she can go toe to toe with some of the greats like Meryl, Kate, Cate, Tilda, Judi etc…
@Corran
You maybe right about Davis and Williams winning down the line because the “due” factor, but GAWD do I hate win a actor/actress win a “due” Oscar. It’s soooo demoralizing in a way. Example being Winslet winning for a role that she could have done in her sleep, hell, even the women nominate that same year could have done her role in their sleep. It’s just one of those tings that makes my skin crawls…at lease pick the one she did with Leo, that one had somewhat of a special meaning behind it. Her win would have made more sense for that role then The Reader. I just hate “due” Oscars because the better performance always seem to get the bad end of the stick that year. So anyway, small rant over.
All in all, pretty good Oscar night.
LOVE
1. Hugo won 5 Oscars.
2. Meryl Streep finally won her 3rd.
3. At least one actress of the (IMO) greatest ensemble of 2011, WON.
4. Christopher Plummer is now an Academy Award winner…considering he was the male lead of Best Picture winner ‘The Sound of Music’ almost 50 years ago, it was about DAMN time.
5. The Descendants didn’t go home emptyhanded.
6. The Artist did NOT win Best Original Screenplay.
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo won the VERY important Best Editing Oscar.
8. A Separation (a film I only saw a week ago) won Best Foreign Language film…it was one of THE best films of 2011.
HATE
1. Hugo only won 5 Oscars and only technical categories, I was rooting for Scorsese in Best Director.
2. Moneyball DID go home emptyhanded…I think Pitt should have won.
3. Viola Davis didn’t win even with the BP-nomination and all that SAG-love.
4. The Academy ONCE AGAIN snubbed Emmanuel Lubezki…’Hugo’ was a solid choice, but Lubezki’s work was utterly brilliant in ‘The Tree of Life’.
5. The Iron Lady – a film I did NOT consider even good – won 2 (!) Oscars. Bottom line : I CAN be happy for Streep, but I can NOT be happy for the Oscar-success of ‘The Iron Lady’…even though, I do admit, the makeup was flawless, so was Streep.
6. ‘The Artist’ won costume…solid choice, but there were stronger contenders in the category
7. Probably THE most consistent and visually stunning franchise said its farewell WITHOUT even one Oscar, not even in a technical category.
8. Glenn Close once again had to go home emptyhanded.
Sad, Sad, when a petty tyrant continually buys the souls of the soulless.
The wonders of the internet’s allowance for free speech never cease to amaze me. Meryl winning is proof that Harvey is the devil and soulless AMPAS members blindly follow the dollar because they’re the epitome of all evil. And they smell. Something like that right?
In the words of Lisbeth Salander … please.
Chastain may have been snubbed, Nolte’s powerhouse performance may have suffered from bad luck on the sidelines and Gary Oldman’s overdue nomination wasn’t met with the proper recognition (had Natalie Portman read out his name, it would of been so perfect I think the telecast would of been disrupted from “overload of awesome”) but Meryl Streep’s win was, next to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Editing and Farhadi’s A Separation, the most deserved win of the night.
Yea, I’m sure having Weinstein in her corner helped. But if you heard his interview with Pierse the night before you would have noticed that he didn’t look at all optimistic about her chances. His main objective for the night was The Artist. It’s the Oscars and, as has been stated on this site and others, half the fight is done in the campaign ring. So don’t be sore losers, I seriously doubt Viola is, and don’t go blaming Harvey for everything that’s wrong with the Oscars.
Whatever got her to the win, it was deserved because she was the best out of the five. Had Viola campaigned as a supporter in her film, the bloggers and the pundits wouldn’t be buzzing that she should of been lead but would of accepted her as supporting because the line is so thin with that character/role.
And I also thought it strange at first that Meryl didn’t mention Viola or the other nominees, but then seeing her as happy as she was being grateful to everyone made me realize that this is her Oscar moment, she thinks she won’t have it again (and is probably right) and wanted to make it her own. Her speech was genuine, heartfelt and very moving.
Christine, the one who whines about Meryl fanatics: it’s a shame that these people you don’t know get to you so much. Though you making them out to be crazier than what they’ve shown so far here puts your own comments in murky waters.
Hugo and the Artist walked away with five apiece. That’s going to make a lot of people happy, the wealth was shared where it was due: Hugo swept major technical awards for being technically brilliant, The Artist swept the three major awards because it’s the “it” darling of Hollywood right now. Many are peeved because of this, I am not because I genuinely enjoyed the film and took it as it was: an entertaining and comical ode to Hollywood’s humble beginnings.
The Tree of Life was robbed but it’s the type of movie that AMPAS would of usually completely ignored so the nominations can be taken as wins and that’s fine. Lubezki has great projects still in him.
Did anyone predict Dragon Tattoo for editing? What a fantastic moment.
Harry Potter deserves an honorary Oscar, in my opinion. Actually, it deserved at least one that it was nominated for but.. what are ya gonna do?
And am I the only one who liked Rooney Mara’s performance better than Viola Davis’s? Didn’t see Iron Lady, but I was surprised that all the awards were going to Davis. Mara’s performance was much better.
It was no secret, I was rooting for Viola! I also made it no secret that Meryl Streep is one of my favorite actresses. But, when her name was called, I felt as though the wind had been knocked from me.
First, let me say, I am a black actor, however, that doesn’t mean I always root for the black actor to win (hence me root for Meryl instead of Gabourey) I root for the performance that resonates and moves me most; Viola did that for me. Not only did I want her to win because I think she gave the best performance, but I needed her to win because, lets face it, she may never be nominated again. It will probably be decades before another black actress is nominated for Best Actress again.
So, all of the bloggers saying “Viola will win one down the line”, thanks, but wake up!!!
It is also my belief that if Viola wasn’t in the Best Actress category, they would have given it to Michelle Williams, lets be real!!
And at last it has happened. Meryl Streep won and it was AMAZING. Even though I plugged for her all season long, I honestly did not expect it and with all the last-minute Viola Davis talk, I thought that she would lose. But she didn’t. She won. And it is so deserved. For those saying “But Viola should have won, this could be her last chance…” that is the same kind of thinking that made voters give it to Bullock over Streep in 09, and Winslet in 08- the whole “Streep will be back but they won’t” notion is getting tiresome. Finally the voters go with who they thought truly gave the best performance, and it was Streep. Davis was good in The Help, but she was not a lead and she didn’t really stretch it, not to mention she played a very similar character as the one she did in Doubt- same mannerisms, same inhibited rage, same hollow expressions. Streep won because she was the best. We should also come to the fact that when you win Drama Globe + BAFTA + New York Film Critics, you are not to be taken lightly. Davis won SAG and Broadcast, that’s it. Streep had her trumped from day one, but no one wanted to believe it. I’m glad the truth is out- hail Meryl, 3-time Oscar winner.
REALLY surprised Tree of Life didn’t get cinematography.
“REALLY surprised Tree of Life didn’t get cinematography.”
I had long been predicting Hugo to take the best cinematography because AMPAS voters have long been given the best cinematography to bigger, pretty films like Avatar and Inception, they always vote differently from ASC.
The ARTIST DESERVED the 5 oscars it won. I think it should won editing. I thought tol was the weekest of the bp nomination it should won cinematography and Hugo deserved art direction and the 2 sound awards but not visual effects.
I agreed with the academy on all 4 acting awards. None of the 5 lead actress were in great movies. Meryl was in the worst of the bunch she deserved to win because without her the film would have been a complete disaster .
TO PaulH , I do not care that The Hurt Locker and The Artist had small box office they were the best pictures 2009 and 2011. Your reasons for hating The ARTIST made no Artistic sense. Maybe next oscar season we will we agree. The OSCAR should be about art not commerce this is not the peoples choice awards.
Nik Grape
I specifically mentioned those fanatics are posting the same comments in the same names on the other Oscar blogs I go to too throughout the whole season, for months. Filmexperience, In-Contention, the same names, the same comments. Just seeing those comments on the other blogs I like makes them look more fanatical than you think I make them out to be. Maybe you’re not, I’m not calling out all Meryl fans, as I said, those fanatics give Streep and her other fans a bad name.
What’s up with the honorary Oscars being handed out at a banquet and not at the actual show? Soon only the big 5 Oscars will be given out at the show.
You know the only reason why there were only reason why there were 9 BP nominees instead of 10 is beacuse of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows part II. I mean think about it
1)It’s the highest grossing, the most anticipated, and one of the best reviewed films of the year.
2) It had universal critical critical getting positive grades from RT, MetaCritic, BFCA, and IMDB.
3) It doesn’t nominate sequels or prequels; Godfather 1,2,3, Toy Story 3 and LOTR 1,2,3,