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82nd Oscar Ceremony
Hosts: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
Producers: Adam Shankman, Bill Mechanic
Director: Hamish Hamilton
Music: Marc Shaiman
Pedro Almodovar
Ampas Breakdown
Actors-1,205
Producers-462
Executives-436
Sound-405
Writers-382
Art Directors-373
Directors-375
Public Relations-370
Members at Large-254
Shorts/Feature Ani-335
Visual Effects-272
Music-233
Editors-227
Cinematographers-201
Original Score-234
Documentary-145
Makeup-115
Total Voting Members -approx 5,777
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82nd Oscar Ceremony
Hosts: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
Producers: Adam Shankman, Bill Mechanic
Director: Hamish Hamilton
Music: Marc Shaiman
Pedro Almodovar - Tuesday, December 1, 2009: Official Screen Credits forms due
Monday, December 28, 2009: Nominations ballots mailed
Saturday, January 23, 2010: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT
Tuesday, February 2, 2010: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, February 10, 2010: Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 15, 2010: Nominees Luncheon
Saturday, February 20, 2010: Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, March 2, 2010: Final polls close 5 p.m. PT
Sunday, March 7, 2010: 82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation -
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“While I’m obviously not ruling it out, I don’t think Avatar will win Best Picture, and the new preferential voting system is precisely why. Had they stuck with just having each member vote on their favorite of the nominees, it might have won, but something tells me that there are a lot of people within the Academy who are part of the backlash against the film, and will therefore place it at #10 on their ballots. You have to keep in mind that from now on, the movie with the most #1 votes is not necessarily the movie that wins. It’s easy to imagine Avatar will get a lot of #1 votes, but it’s equally easy to imagine it will get a lot of #10 votes as well, and that will really hurt it.
So you kind of have to think more along the lines of which movie will have the least against it, rather than the most for it. The Hurt Locker will undoubtedly get a lot of #1 votes as it is the frontrunner, and while I’m sure there will be those who put it at or near the bottom of their ballots, it seems to me that it will have a lot less low-end placements than Avatar will, and so The Hurt Locker easily has the edge over Avatar in that respect.
Inglourious Basterds also seems like the kind of movie that will split voters. It’ll get a lot of #1 and #2 votes, but probably also a lot of #9 and #10 votes. So I don’t think it’ll win (though again, I’m not ruling it out). Precious will probably get less 9’s and 10’s, but I frankly don’t think it will get enough 1’s and 2’s to pull off a win. I think it’ll get mostly mid-range votes. Same goes for Up in the Air, though I imagine even that will get more 1’s and 2’s than Precious will.
So to sum it up, I think The Hurt Locker, while not an absolute, no-turning-back lock, is still the clear frontrunner in this race. If we’re talking about a potential upset though, why not really factor in the new preferential voting system and try to imagine how much that could end up benefiting a film like, say, Up? While it might not get too many #1 votes, I can easily see it getting a lot of 2-4 votes, and who know? If the frontrunners all develop strong enough backlashes, then it could be that this year’s Best Picture will go not to the movie that is the most liked, but rather the movie that is the least DISliked. Just saying.”
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NBR Winner+/top ten*
LAFCA Winner+
BFCA Critics Choice Win+/Nominee*
NYFCC Winner +/*
SEFCA Winners+/*
Golden Globes Nominee+/*
SAG Winner+/Nominee*
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Writers Guild Nominees*
American Cinematographers Society*
American Cinema Editors*
Cinema Audio Society*
BAFTA Nominations*
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker*+++**+++******
Avatar*+********
Inglourious Basterds***+****
Up in the Air+*+*******
Precious******
District 9*****
A Serious Man*****
An Education*****
Up****
The Blind Side
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart++++*
George Clooney, Up in the Air+*++***
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker**+*
Colin Firth, A Single Man****
Morgan Freeman, Invictus+***
Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side+++
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia++++**
Carey Mulligan, An Education+****
Gabby Sidibe, Precious****
Helen Mirren, The Last Station**
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds+++++++*
Woody Harrelson,The Messenger+***
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones****
Matt Damon, Invictus***
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station*
Best Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique, Precious+*+++++*
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air+****
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air****
Penelope Cruz, Nine**
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy HeartBest Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker++++*++*
Jim Cameron, Avatar*+**
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds****
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air***
Lee Daniels, Precious**Best Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds+*
Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man+*+*
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker***
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Up*
Oren Moverman, The Messenger
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air+++++*
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop+
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious**
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9**
Nick Hornby, An Education*
Best Editing
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron, Avatar+**
Chris Innis, Bob Murawski, The Hurt Locker***
Julian Clarke, District 9**
Joe Klotz, Precious
Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds**
Best Cinematography
Mauro Fiore, Avatar+**
Christian Berger, White Ribbon+++*
Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker***
Robert Richardson, Inglourious Basterds***
Bruno Delbonnel, Harry Potter
Best Art Direction
Avatar+**
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus*
Nine*
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
Best Sound Mixing
Avatar+**
The Hurt Locker***
Star Trek* **
Inglourious Basterds
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen*
Best Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Up
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
Best Costume Design
Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria +*
Catherine Leterrier,Coco Avant Chanel*
Janet Patterson, Bright Star**
Colleen Atwood, Nine*
Monique Prudhomme, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Best Original Score
Michael Giacchino, Up+*
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker!
James Horner, Avatar*
Alexandre Desplat, The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes*
Best Foreign Language Film (submissions)
A Prophet, France+*
The White Ribbon, Germany**
El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
Ajami, Israel
The Milk of Sorrow, Pru
Best Documentary Feature
The Cove++**+
Food, Inc.**
The Beaches of Agnes++*
Burma VJ*
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Which Way Home
Best Animated Feature
Up+++**
The Fantastic Mr. Fox+*+***
Coraline****
The Princess and the Frog***
The Secret of Kells
Best Visual Effects
Avatar+*
District 9* *
Star Trek**
Best Makeup
The Young Victoria**
Star Trek*
Il Divo*
Best Song
The Weary Kind – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham, Crazy Heart ++
Down in New Orleans, The Princess and the Frog
Almost There – Randy Newman, The Princess And The Frog***
Loin de Paname, Paris 36
Best Live Action Short
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
Best Animated Short
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Best Documentary Short
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
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8 Responses for "Quantum of Solace trailer"
Was wondering what was going on there. November 14th? I thought that this came out at the end of October. Then I realised, that is the USA release date. Ahahaha, brilliant.
Looks like Oscar material. Just my thoughts.
This looks like a continuation of the more ’serious’ Bond. I get the feeling he’s now being modeled after Jason Bourne. Compare if you will to the Brosnan ‘cartoon’ Bond films.
Loooooove.
This looks absolutely incredible. The perflect blend of espionage and action, exactly what Ian Fleming intended. And there can be no doubt that Daniel Craig is the second coming of Steve McQueen. Yes, there are similarities to the Bourne series, but Bond has always taken after popular franchises and genres. That’s how it stays fresh. Hence Live and Let Die (blaxploitation), Moonraker (Star Wars), License to Kill (80’s action movies), etc.
@Mimi Rogers: I loved Casino Royale and this trailer looks great but no matter how good this will be, it won’t even be nominated in any category at the Oscars. Sad but true.
I’m expecting a Best Actor nomination for Daniel Craig’s naked chest.
As to the Bourne/Bond shit….yeah the BOURNE movies influenced heavily the 007 reboot, but you know what?
If anything, current action cinema could arguably be influenced from all the way back to 1995, when some people were wowed with the methodical ass-kicking by the characters in Michael Mann’s HEAT*. Then cut to 1999 with THE MATRIX and Hollywood actors actually doing complicated kung fu shit not done by Seagal-esque editing or body doubles.
Then BOURNE IDENTITY, when Doug Liman and scripter Troy Gilroy figured out how to encompass those two into one awesome package.
Of course Liman hasn’t done jack shit** since then, while Gilroy was a scripter on the BOURNE sequels and got two Oscar nods for MICHAEL CLAYTON. Good job dude.
Anyway, the difference between Bourne and new Bond is that if Bourne’s ass-kicking/evading is his automatic knee-jerk reactions (and thus why some deride him as a human robot), then Bond is just from some hardcore training and being simply awesome through hard Protestant work.
*=And what was the #1 movie of this year in THE DARK KNIGHT influenced by? HEAT! It’s a masterpiece bitches.
**=JUMPER was ass on a stick.
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