Awards Daily

AD reader Andrew has devised another great system of charts to help us navigate the swampy morass we’ve all sailed into together. Contenders in each category are ranked according to points earned from over 50 critics groups, with handy bar charts to illustrate whose dick is biggest which movie dominates.

It’s basically a slightly modified total number of wins and noms an entry got, but it takes some factors into account, like whether the noms came from small or large awards groups, and whether they were wins, noms, or came in 3rd place, 8th place, etc…

We’ll let Andrew explain the details and answer questions in the comments. Check out the links to 5 detailed charts after the cut, along with notes outlining the process and a few of his observations about the results.

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We’re not doing a full fledged Oscar nomination prediction contest but we are doing just the ten Best Picture nominees. We figure there is a pretty good chance you can get all ten so we had to throw in a tie-breaker question of what film will get the most nominations. And even then, it’s probably not that hard.

But let’s just see who can get them all right, shall we? CLICK HERE.

It’s a bit of a tradition around here to post the annual Inoca nominations — Inoca is a group founded by Awards Daily’s forum.

Nominees are announced today. 82 ballots were submitted for 9th Annual International Online Cinema Awards(INOCA) . You can find the list below. Black Swan leads with 12 nominations. Inception got 11, The Social Network got 9 nominations.

BEST PICTURE
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Inception
A Prophet
The Social Network
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The Social Network will get its first real challenge with the preferential ballot at Saturday night’s PGA awards. Up until now, it has not lost a single major award it has been up for. Inception has won a few critics awards, Black Swan won Austin, but other than that, The Social Network is to this year’s Oscar race what Secretariat was to the Belmont Stakes the year he not only won the Triple Crown, but finished by 25 lengths in the final race.

If the Oscars were a horse race, that is, which they aren’t.

Last year, the Producers Guild went 8 for 10 with the Oscars for identical Best Picture nominations. Last year, we assumed at the time that the preferential balloting was the reason for this and that Avatar would have won in a weighted ballot scenario. Will that logic work against The Social Network this year? Would a weighted ballot give The Social Network a better chance at a win? Or can it still win under the preferential balloting? If it’s mildly close at all, as in – The Social Network does not come in at number one for the first round, another film could win. Black Swan, or maybe Inception, or maybe The Fighter. It’s hard to say — we still don’t know if we’re looking at an out and out sweep (like Slumdog) or a mix n’ match, like Crash v. Brokeback.

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The story broke yesterday that Beyonce will team up with Clint Eastwood for another remake of A Star is Born. We were slow with the uptake and much of the shock value of it is gone by now, but people keep asking me what I think the Oscar prospects are, and whether I think Beyonce is a good choice. She’s not a bad choice, I don’t think. She’s not an audibly groan-worthy choice, right? Although I guess I don’t know why they didn’t just go ahead and have Jay Z direct it. As a fan of Clint Eastwood’s movies I look forward to his take on the Hollywood myth of an older mentor being upstaged by a pretty young thing who then rules the world.

1937 — Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, 7 nominations (Actor, Actress) – 2 wins
1954 — Judy Garland and James Mason, 6 Oscar nominations (Actor, Actress) – No wins.
1976 –Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, 4 nominations, 1 win.

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MPSE nominations in 7 categories. (Thanks Loyal)

Best Sound Editing: Feature Film Music

Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Get Low
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1
Inception
Let Me In
The Losers
The Social Network

Best Sound Editing: Feature Film DX & ADR

Black Swan
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1
Inception
The Kids Are Alright
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Tron: Legacy
True Grit

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It was exciting to hear the news yesterday, that Christopher Nolan, for his next film in his Batman series, was casting Tom Hardy. But it was also news that Anne Hathaway was going to be the new Catwoman. Since Hathaway will host the 83rd Academy Awards, one cannot help but mind meld the three together somehow.

The general consensus on Twitter seemed to be, regarding Hathaway, that fans were prepared to trust that Christopher Nolan knew what he was doing.

Catwoman is a difficult icon to topple, but apparently everyone said the same thing about Heath Ledger who then went on to win a posthumous Oscar for playing the Joker.

Whatever Nolan is thinking with Hathaway, there will be that same genius twist on a character. Then again, there aren’t many Heath Ledgers around. My personal preference has been Michelle Pfeiffer’s take on the felicon. I would have been totally down with Marion Cotillard. But What think you?