Thursday, January 27, 2011

Who Is This "Oscar", Anyway?

If I had an award show/ceremony and/or statuettes to hand out for movies from the last year I would nominate the following and grant them thusly (winner in bold-face):




Best Picture:
Black Swan
The Kids Are All Right
Let Me In
Mother and Child
Please Give
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone




Best Director:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right
Joel & Ethan Coen - True Grit
Claire Denis, White Material
David Fincher, The Social Network
Rodrigo Garcia, Mother and Child
Nicole Holofcener, Please Give
Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World





Best Lead Actor:
George Clooney, The American
Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Ewan MacGregor, The Ghost Writer
Edgar Ramirez, Carlos





Best Lead Actress:
Annette Bening, Mother and Child
Isabelle Huppert, White Material
Catherine Keener, Please Give
Hye Ja-Kim, Mother
Joey King, Ramona and Beezus
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World





Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Pierce Brosnan, The Ghost Writer
Vincent Cassel, Black Swan
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Samuel L. Jackson, Mother and Child
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech





Best Supporting Actress:
Cecile de France, Hereafter
Greta Gerwig, Greenberg
Chloe Grace-Moretz, Let Me In
Rebecca Hall, Please Give
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Naomi Watts, Mother and Child
Kerry Washington, Mother and Child





Best Screenplay:
Black Swan
Let Me In
Monsters
Mother and Child
Please Give
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
White Material





Best Animated Picture:
Despicable Me
How To Train Your Dragon
Tangled
Toy Story 3





Best Cinematography:
The American
Let Me In
Mother and Child
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Social Network
True Grit
White Material





Best Editing:
The Ghost Writer
The Kids Are All Right
Mother
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Social Network
True Grit
White Material
Winter's Bone





Best Visual Effects:
Black Swan
Inception
Monsters
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Tron Legacy





Best Score
Black Swan
Inception
Night Catches Us
Shutter Island
Tron Legacy
True Grit





Best Debut Feature
Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture
Gareth Edwards, Monsters
Tanya Hamilton, Night Catches Us





Best Documentary
Catfish
Exit Through The Gift Shop





Best Foreign Language Film
Carlos
Mother
White Material


End Note #1: Obviously (hopefully it's obvious) this is based solely on what I saw, which was about 50-55 of the year's movies.
End Note #2: Most of the movie titles are from the back half of the alphabet, most of the actors/directors names are from the front half of the alphabet. Cosmic symmetry.

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