Final Day for Oscar Ballots – “Dear Oscar, Hear My Plea.”
If you want to send a message to an Academy member about what films or people you’d like to see win, go ahead and throw a coin into the fountain. The ballot deadline is today at 5pm.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea—
Dear Oscar, hear my plea, vote for Moneyball for best picture. Then immediately go and slap yourself hard for not nominating The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in the first place.
kthnxbai
Dear Oscar, hear my plea —-
please give Meryl Oscar Number 3!
YAY Kylie!
Rooney Mara for Actress!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea —-
Please give Meryl Streep her 3rd Oscar!
DEMIAN DEMIAN DEMIAN
AND MICHELLE FOR THE WIN
Dear Oscar, hear my plea —-
Please view Hugo not as an elaborate children’s movie, but as a masterpiece from a visionary director worthy of your vote for Best Picture.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea. Give Gary Oldman the Oscar that he so much deserves. The Artist is a really good, charming film, but please, honor the one film that honors film history in a way we can all identify. Honor Hugo as the Best Picture of the year. Honor Scorsese as the Best Director of the year, as he is. Give Moneyball some love. Give Midnight in Paris some love. Give Girl with the Dragon Tattoo some love. Give The Descendants some love. Last year, you spread the love among many films, even if your 2 most important awards were absolutely wrong (King’s Speech / Tom Hooper) This time, you have the chance to spread it rightly between many deserving films. Just prove us that your still relevant. Prove us WRONG!
Dear Oscar, please hear my plea!
Rename the pretentious category Best Original Score to just plain Best Score. Honestly, there was nothing original about using excerpts from the Deadwood TV series theme in Babel, which won the Oscar, and so, as the score to The Artist will surely win, I think it scandalous and disgusting that one of the greatest movie scores in history from Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo, is used in that movie, and will win “Original” Score?
It’s a misleading title to a category. Unless there is to be a new category labeled Best Adapted Score, please relabel the category Best Score.
Thank you.
P.S. Hugo wins Best Picture, please?
Dear Oscar, hear my plea –
Don’t overlook the brilliance of Brad Pitt in Moneyball. If you may, award The Artist everything else but Pitt deserves to be rewarded for asuch a subdued, layered performance.
Thank you for your time.
Deare Oscar, hear my plea,
Meryl Streep deserves her third for being so crafty,
Awarding Tree of Life or Malick would be right and balsy,
Don’t let The Artist take everything with glee
Dear Oscar, I hope you can agree.
Hear my plea.
Give best actor to Gary, actress for Michelle, and Harry Potter it’s three awards to honor the series then slap yourself for not nominating HP for best picture and supporting actor and also for no Melancholia love.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea – vote for Hugo, vote for Gary. That’s all.
Hear my plea
Yes we all know you are going to choose The Artist for Best Picture, but please give Scorsese the best Director for what is arguably his best film of the last decade.
My plea is, instead of pretending that The Artist invented complex silent storytelling, just hand out post-dated Oscars to The General and City Lights. Then give The Artist all of its awards at once and go home. Move on to 2013.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea:
give Melissa Mc Carthey an Oscar for a perfomance that is already a classic!
The Decendants for BP and BD! Harry Potter for Visual Effects. Viola. Octavia. Tree of Life for BC. Woody for BOS.
Dear oscar, hear my plea:
Give oscar for Meryl, for Brad and for Hugo. Thanks!!
Dear generic Academy member
You haven’t seen A Separation but it’s proper good. Pop it on your ballot for us.
Thx
Dear Oscar, hear my plea,
Tree for pic
Brad for Actor
Viola for Actress
Malick for Director
Thanks!
Dear Oscar hear my plea…. grant Hugo a well deserved sweep!
Descendants, Tree of Life or Moneyball for Best Picture! A Separation for Screenplay! And please — some surprises in the acting categories.
And do not fail to give Figwit his first Oscar!!
Martin Scorsese for “Hugo” to win Best Achievement in directing.
Michelle Williams for “My Week with Marilyn” to win Best Performance by an Actress in a leading Role.
George Clooney for Best Actor.
My plea: don’t vote like sheep and check the Artist off in each category just because you like it that much.
Midnight in Paris has a better script. Brad Pitt gave a better performance. Moneyball is flawlessly edited. Those are my pleas.
And Meryl for Best Actress
Nobody gave a braver, more unique performance this year that Melissa McCarthy. Hear my plea and hand her the Oscar!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea,
Please reward “Tree of Life” with each award it’s nominated for so that you might be remembered for rewarding a true landmark and singular achievement in cinema.
Dear Oscar, I just want to know why you are so scared of Harvey Weinstein.
Also, if you could split in half and give yourself to both Viola Davis and Meryl Streep, you’d be killing a lot of birds with one stone.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea:
Vote for Viola and Spencer. A separation in original screenplay. Harry Potter in her 3 nominations or at least in one. And Jane Eyre in costumes.
Pray that Mother Delores of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, age 73, gets her ballot in on time. Yes, she’s a voting member and helps explain why The Artist has been a lock since forever.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea –
Give Michelle Williams Best Actress
Let Chastain or Bejo win Best Supporting Actress
Don’t let anything beat The Artist for Best Picture
Dear Oscar,
Don’t give The Artist best score. Please.
The movie’s great, but any score that relies on the work of someone else to do the heavy lifting in THE SCENE of a movie should not win.
You did the right thing last year by not letting The King’s Speach win, do the right thing again.
Dear Oscar, here my plea.
Rooooneeeey!
Got a little carried away, sorry. But yeah, let’s see Rooney’s vibrant intensity get some love and while you’re at it, throw us a curveball and bring Moneyball to the podium a few times.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea!
Honour Mary Louise with number 3!
Tick Hugo everywhere, as it should be!
Make history with Dujardin, and hear ‘oui oui’!
Merci!
Please give the Award to Viola, Brad, and Octavia.
Dear Oscar,
Hear my plea
Please don’t let A Separation go away empty handed, let it win Screenplay and Foreign Film. Bestow Meryl her third Oscar, surprise us all with Terrence Mallick winning Director and Gary Oldman winning his first Oscar.
P.S.
Please let Conan O’Brien host for next year
Give Meryl her third oscar I mean 29 years is as long as it took Patti LuPone to win her second tony, like LuPone Streep is the best we have and she really deserves for all her previous nominations as weel as her amazing protrayel this year as Thatcher
Dear Oscar,
Spread the love this year. No sweeps for a single film. I love to be surprised. Prove me wrong when I say that Sunday night’s show will be an incredible bore.
Carson
Dear Oscar voters, please vote for these nominees and don’t ask any questions!
Best Picture: The Tree of Life
Director: Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
Actress in a Leading Role: Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
Actor in a Leading Role: Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Actress in a Supporting Role: Jessica Chastain (The Help)
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Orignal Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi (A Separation)
Adapted Screenplay: Steve Zallian and Aaron Sorkin (Moneyball)
Film Editing: Anne Sophie-Bion and Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezski (The Tree of Life)
Original Score: Howard Shore (Hugo)
Animated Feature Film: “Not Rango or Puss in Boots”
Sound Editing: Hugo
Sound Mixing: Hugo
Costume Design: Michael O’Connor (Jane Eyre)
Art Direction: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2
DEAR OSCAR,
don’t listen to us!
forget the guilds!
forget the critics!
simply vote for what you like!
it’s your award. you vote for it! so do what you wanna do, not what you’re told to!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea. Be a man that’s muppety.
La Streep, Bichir and Lubezki.
It’s probably too late- but a win for Hugo for best picture or director would make my day.
Dear Oscar,
Please give Dragon Tattoo, Moneyball, and Tree of Life what they so rightly deserve.
It’s the week before Oscar and all thru our lands
come pleas that your votes put him in the right hands.
We tried this before, when you made your short list,
but you must not have heard because some names were missed:
Where’s Colman and Swinton and Fassie and Ryan?
What? No Hardy, no Redgrave, no Serkis or Shannon?
When you consider who’s left, please think hard and go deep -
Don’t choose anyone that will cost us all sleep.
Your tradition is grand and your history long;
these decisions shouldn’t come from bottle or bong.
Those passed over will return in the years to come -
to miss them again would make you look dumb.
So “on Fincher, on Refn, on Tate and McQueen!’”
We look forward to living your visions and dreams.
And, Oscar, I know this is will cause you some strife,
but please, for Best Picture, know it’s Tree of Life.
First of all Steve50 .Great !
And now Academy hear my plea….
Gary Oldman for Best Actor -he deserves it and I ´d love to see Natalie ( Matilda ) Portman giving the Oscar to Gary ( Stansfield ) Oldman .Epicness !! LOL
La Streep
Kenneth Branagh ( sorry Mr. Plummer)
That´s all ,sincerly yours ..
Dear Academy Members:
Martin Scorsese for best director.
Edit :
If you awarding Mr. Oldman you ´ll have the most succesful summerblockbuster with the most Oscar winners / nominees on hand -The Dark Knight rises .
Caine ,Bale ,Cottilard ,Freeman ,Oldman,Hathaway ,Nolan ,Pfister….
Dear Oscar, don’t miss a golden opportunity to recognise a true living legend while he is still very much in his prime. Don’t let Terrence Malick, the boldest visionary currently working in American cinema, go the same way as Stanley Kubrick. Years from now, cineastes will still revisit and debate The Tree of Life. It is the one true modern classic in the race, a work of rare ambition and naked emotion. The Best Picture and Best Director prizes should be the least you can do to acknowledge the miraculous feat of producing such a film in such conservative times.
Oh, and Best Cinematography has to go to Emmanuel Lubezki as well.
Thanks.
Dear Oscar,
Hear my plea:
- A Separation for Best Foreign Film
- Woody Allen for Best Original Screenplay
- Meryl Streep for Best Actress; and
- The Tree of Life for Best Cinematography.
Thank you Oscar.
Now that voting has ended, I’d like to say this prayer:
Hail Meryl, full of grace, the Oscar is with thee…blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy labor.
Holy Meryl, mother of acting, pray for them AMPAS voters, now and at the hour of their deaths. Amen
That’s my plea!
Woody for Original Screenplay
Martin for Best Directing
Meryl for Best Actress
The rest will be quite good and well deserved!
@ Mathira
I’m rolling on the floor! Good stuff!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea: reward both Jessica Chastain and The tree of Life’s cinematography!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea,
Meryl for Best Actress. Your last award to Bullock over Streep was a major embarrassment. Time to award our greatest living actress once more for an acting clinic in The Iron Lady…
Oscar, Oscar,
please go home with Mr. Gary Oldman. He seems very nice.
Thank You
Marty for Director
Oldman for Best Actor
Williams for Best Actress
And Howard Shore for Score
Dear Oscar, hear my plea, give The Help best picture, best actress and best supporting actress.
Give Dujardin, Hazanavicious, Plummer, Lubeski & Wigg true gold.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea,
Give The Artiat Best Picture but give Martin Scorsese Best Director. Give Best Actor to George Clooney or Gary Oldman and best Actress either Meryl or Michelle.
Dear Oscar, Hear my Plea:
Please honor HUGO best picture and best director.
Please honor George Clooney Best Actor.
Thank you.
Please give Hugo the awards for Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing and Art Direction, and maybe just give Supporting Actor to Kingsley even though he was somehow (accidentally I’m sure) not nominated.
Actor should either go to Pitt or Oldman, and it would be cool if Rooney Mara took Actress. Supporting Actress is a toss up for me, so do what you want with that one. Consider it a gift from me for doing right by all these other categories.
Oh yeah and RANGO for Animated Feature!!!!!!!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea:
It’s me. It’s been a while since my last confes… er, I mean comment. I know that this is your preferred awards coverage website, but every time I went on, it kept crashing my browser.
Now it works just fine. I promise to keep coming to chu… er, I mean AwardsDaily.com and leaving comments.
Now for my plea. Please award Jim Rash the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for “The Descendants”. That way he can get on stage in front of millions of viewers and demand that NBC put Community back on the air.
Thanks.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea:
*A Separation deserves those two statues. No elaboration necessary.
*Pitt is the best of the Best Actor crop this year, reward him as such.
*Hugo will be long remembered as a love letter to cinema by a true master of the form, not to mention one of his very best. The Artist will be a footnote, the answer to a trivia question in a few short years, as will The King’s Speech before it. Best Pic/Director/Art Direction/Costume/Editing/Sound/Visuals should go home to the train station.
*Tree of Life rightly awarded for cinematography, and the only just spoiler for the big ones.
*Viola made that movie better than it had any right to be, or even seemed to want to be. She’s earned it.
*Chastain, not just for her incredible year, but for a finely tuned, rich, comic and genuine performance that never rang the slightest bit false.
*For the love of all that we hold dear as film lovers, please let The Artist be what it is.
A well-executed trifle with charming performances (how I’d also describe Midnight in Paris, a far better film). To award it above Hugo, Tree of Life, Moneyball, or The Descendants (or A Separation or Drive for that matter) cannot stand. Even though that ship seems to have sailed (the trick is not minding), say it ain’t so.
Dear Oscar Voter,
Please vote for Harry Potter for Art Direction. Stuart Craig has done consistent work throughout the whole decade, constructing sets from the imagination, unable to base them off of real life things. That takes real skill.
Same goes for the Visual Effects team. This is stuff that no one knows what they look like, so there’s no reference.
And vote for the Make-up. It’s certainly far better than the other two nominees. Those goblins in Gringotts? Yeah, they were all Make-up.
Any of my four favorites (The Descendants, Hugo, The Tree of Life, or Midnight in Paris) winning Best Picture, and Oscar number two for Marty.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea,
please give Meryl Oscar Number 3 +1
Viola Davis for Best Actresss;
Brad Pitt for Best Actor;
Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress;
Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor
Best Picture: “The Help”!!!!
Dear X,
Hello…today’s the deadline, dear! You forgot? Never mind, please vote, ask Elsa to mail it right away, don’t go shopping first. Take the car please!
Don’t ask me who to vote for again, if you don’t know leave it blank, and don’t ask them, you know who I’m talking about–but anyway, can you please give them a ring, remember they forgot a few times? Big hug and thanks!
Remember, LEAVE IT BLANK if you don’t know. Please don’t ask that neighbour, he’s so opinionated and his wife is worse!
Love and see you in summer,
Aubrey
my plea:
actor: oldman
actress: mara
s actress: mccarthy
Please…please…please…Streep and HUGO all the way!!
Dear Oscar, Hear My Plea,
Scorsese.
Hugo.
Terence Malick for Most Beautiful, But Failed, Attempt to Present Something Meaningful.
Dear Oscar,
Please give A Separation Original Screenplay, Its earned it and truly deserves it.
Also bestow an award to the breakout performer this year, Jessica Chastain who has captivated us in so many ways this year.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea,
Best actor for Gary, please, please, please! And if you cannot do that, then give it to Brad.
Give best movie to The Help
I tried to watch The Artist 3x on my way to Paris and back and I couldn’t help it but fall asleep so… It is time to move on dear Academy members…
Scorsese, Bichir, A Separation X 2.
Dear Oscars-
*go fuck yourselves for not nominating TGWTDT for Best Pic!
*give Meryl her third Oscar already, what the hell? R u waiting until she’s dead or something?
*give War Horse the win for BP, its epic!
*Dujardin for Best Actor
*Award McCarthy, shes fucking hilarious
Please, please, PLEASE:
Martin Scorsese wins Best Director for Hugo.
Brad Pitt or Gary Oldman win Best Actor.
Thelma Schoonmaker wins Best Editing.
And Hugo wins Best Picture for being, you know, the best picture of the year.
Dear Oscar voters, prove yet again that these awards have little to do with merit and everything to do with feeling good about yourselves. Baaaaa, sheep.
Dear Oscar, hear my plea….
Make us wait no longer to see Meryl get number 3!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea and give Emmanuel Lubezki his first Oscar as Cinematographer (this is his fifth nomination and “The Tree of Life” is an amazing piece of cinematography).
If you’re in good mood, please give Demian Bichir his deserved recognition for his moving performance. Nowadays, maybe more than ever, Mexico needs good news and your recognition of these great Mexican artists would be as great as winning the Soccer’s World Cup!
Dear Oscar, hear my plea and give in to the majority of the pleas here: LA STREEP for Best Actress.
Dear OScar i DON’T expect you to hear my plea for you are headed down a path for which i and many others refuse to follow and other than the public debate and endless tearing apart of your credibility by the public as a consequence of your self interest laden actions is the only reason majority of the public are disenchanted with you like never before.
The fact a bare minority on this post esp have made clear they prefer any film to win but the Artist highlights how out of touch, arcane you are.
I want you to hear everyone else’s plea for mine is embodied and implied through the variouos other comments.
It not a plea lest pleas are considered but i warn you for your OWN BLOODY INTEGRITY TO THE PPLE THAT GIVE FILMS THEIR LIFE THEIR ENTERTAINMENT VALUE US THE CINEMA GOING PUBLIC DO NOT VANISH INTO CULTURAL IRRELEVANCE DO NOT MAKE YOURSELF SO OBSCURE TO THE PUBLIC THAT YOU ARE NO GREATER IN SIGNIFICANCE TO THE WORLD THAN BOLLYWOOD SHOW YOU STILL HAVE CREDIBILITY SHOW YOU HEAR THE PUBLICS VOICE AND ABOVE ALL EMBRACE WHAT THE PUBLIC ,CRITICS AND YOURSELF SHOW YOU THE REASON WHY THE PUBLIC ONCE CELEBRATED YOU YEARS AGO SINCE OSCAR’S INCEPTION PROVED TO US THAT THIS PHASE OF INSANITY OF MADNESS THAT PLAGUES OSCAR IS JUST A BLIP ON YOUR RADAR THAT YOUB WILL REDEEM YOURSELVES IN THE EYES OF YOUR HISTORY FOR IT IS OSCAR’S EXECUTIES THEIR POLITICALLY SELFISH DELUSIONAL BOARD THAT ARE TO BLAME SHOULD YOU KEEP UNDERMINING THE PUBLIC, THE FILM INDUSTRY AND FILMMAKERS.
I don’t expect you to hear my plea just prove to us the public a REASON why we should all care at all.
There a reason oscar i don’t post much on this site and less than last time guess? it is you and YOUR FAULT and you have blood on your hands the blood of rejection you have rejected us prove your glory days are not behind you, show us we are invaluable as our input and our attendance is what makes film exist always jhas been always will be.
Then maybe i consider it worth my while to invest more time and energy discussing films in relation to awards ceremonies.
Meryl oscar 3. And then she can win 4 next year and 5 for Orange Osage county!
Dear Oscar, Hear My Plea (Oh God, I only have 13 minutes left to influence you old bastards):
- Give Gary Oldman the Best Actor Oscar.
- Give “The Tree of Life” the Best Picture Oscar.
- Give Terrance Malick the Best Director Oscar.
- Give Jessica Chastain the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
- Give Viola Davis the Best Actress Oscar.
- Give Christy Lisl the Best Costume Design Oscar.
Dear Oscar, Hear My Plea, please…
Give the Oscar for Best Director to Martin Scorsese.. (Even though I’m rooting for Michel Hazanavicius)
Give the Best Actress Oscar to Meryl Streep! When will she get her third Oscar – even Hilary Swank has two Oscars and it’s shame that they are in equal position when it comes to Oscars!
Give the Best Actor Oscar to Jean Dujardin!
Give the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Octavia Spencer!
Plummer for Best Supporting Actor
And Please, give the cinematography Oscar to our Lubezki.
Editing Oscar to Thelma Schoonmaker, Documentary Feature to Pina.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening to the majority of the pleas here. Thank you for Meryl’s win