My 3rd Annual Oscar predictions is here!!!! This year is a better quality of film, but it seems to be a bit tricky this year, just like every year. This is what I think will win, not what I want to win, here we go.
Best Picture- The King's Speech. I would have said
The Social Network is a shoe in a month ago, but the Weinstein Machine is working overtime and it feels like
Shakespeare In Love and
The English Patient all over again. I liked
The King's Speech, but I think it's the 6th best film nominated.
Ignored: I can't really think of anything that was left out. There are still some films I haven't seen, but with 10 nomination the Academy did pretty good this year.
Best Actor-Colin Firth. I smell make up Oscar all over this one. Firth was very good in this film, but between having a speech impediment and his performance in
A Single Man last year the award is his. I was glad that Jeff Bridges and Jesse Eisenberg got nominated and I really hope Bridges wins, but he won't.
Ignored: Again can't really think of anyone, pretty weak category this year.
Best Actress-Natalie Portman. The strongest this category has been in years too bad it's a year too late and Sandra Bullock has the same amount of Oscars as Stanley Kubrick! I think Portman gives one her best performances ever, and now that she is pregnant the statue is hers. Ignored: I don't know.
Best Supporting Actor- Christian Bale. Every year this is the best category with the most talent, maybe this should go up to ten nominations. Bale was great and lets all hope for a freak out on stage.
Ignored: Andrew Garfield and (gulp) Justin Timberlake for
The Social Network. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin for
True Grit. The biggest snub and second best supporting performance is Vincent Cassel in
Black Swan. Portman and Cassel made that boat float.
Beat Supporting Actress-Melissa Leo. Even though she has been self sabotaging lately I think she squeaks this one out. I think her only real competition is Hailee Steinfeld and if Mrs.Tim Burton wins I will be pissed.
Ignored: All of the sisters from
The Fighter and Barbara Hershey and Mila Kunis from
Black Swan.
Best Director-David Fincher. Fincher finally gets his Oscar and it's about time!! It's a shame his film won't get Best Picture and again the Weinsteins get a statue while their directors are left out in the cold.
Ignored: Banksy!
Original Screenplay-The King's Speech. Not a strong category this year, probably because nobody seems to be writing and Hollywood isn't buying original screenplays nowadays.
The Fighter is a good film, but just a newer version of
Rocky. I think
Inception would have a chance if it wasn't against the Oscar favorite and if didn't seem like a sequel to
Flatliners.
Ignored: Black Swan, it's nominated for every other category why not screen play?
Adapted Screenplay- The Social Network. Better than Original Screenplay nominations this year, and Aaron Sorkin really deserves this one. I think it is very hard to write a good contemporary history screenplay that works, and every once in awhile you get a
All The President's Men or
The Insider. I don't think any screenplay this year touches
The Social Network, and it's the best thing about the movie.
Ignored: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1. Every year a Harry Potter film comes out they ignore it. It can't be easy turning a 600 page book into a 2 hour film that keeps everyone happy.
Cinematography-The Social Network. This is very hard because The Academy is never consistent on this one.
The King's Speech could win and it shouldn't have been nominated, every other film belongs.
The King's Speech may win because they link this to Best Picture and not to photography, but sometimes they do. I don't know, I'm rooting for the Roger Deakins western flick.
Editing-The Kings Speech. If this film wins editing then it wins Best Picture. I think it's a toss up between this and
The Social Network.
Ignored: Inception and
True Grit.
Foreign Film-Biutiful. I haven't seen any of the nominated films and I picked this because it has a nomination in another category.
Best Animated-Toy Story 3. What a waste of time, shouldn't this be given during the Science Awards at the local Arby's?
Art Direction,Costume Design,and Make Up-The King's Speech and The Wolfman. The Kings Speech is a period piece(instant win) and The Wolfmans got nards,ehh I mean make up monster effects.
Ignored: Black Swan
Sound Editing,Mixing, and Visual Effects-Inception. Duhhhh!!!!!
Ignored: Black Swan and
The Social Network!
Unstoppable and
Iron Man 2 shouldn't exist in this world.
Score-The Social Network. I want Trent Reznor to have as many Oscars as Sandra Bullock! I wouldn't mind Inception winning.
Song-Toy Story 3.Some years this is a nice category, but this year it's just dreadful. Now that the Academy likes Randy Newman he will win 12 Oscars.
Ignored: Any song from
Get Him To The Greek is better than this crap.
Documentary-Restrepo. The happiest I will get on Oscar night is if
Exit Through The Gift Shop wins. I think it will lose for one reason, the Academy is frightened of what Banksy will do if he wins. Too bad, because it's one of the best films of the year.
Doc Short-Killing In The Name. It's about terrorism,weddings, and religion. Nuff said.
Short Film-Wish 143. Terminally ill patient wants to lose his virginity. Nuff Nuff said.
Ignored: A Man Of His Word,or will this count towards next year Timmy?
Animated Short Film-The Gruffalo. It has star power and that's my only reason.
Okay that's it, please give me feed back, I love it!!!
Before the 2010-11 NBA season, one would be hard pressed to find a more bitter sports fan than that of the Dallas Mavericks. For over thirty years we have been teased (in every sense of the word) on every level of it's meaning. A good stretch in the mid 80s only led to one conference final and then the humiliating downward spiral of the 90s. The 2000s brought us new ownership and the rise of a legitimate superstar, but the basketball gods saw fit to toy with us for yet another decade leaving the ever-growing bitter taste of defeat we were all getting used to. If you were to bring up the '06 finals to any true fan and you would have still seen the pain of loss in their eyes....yes it still did hurt, and our window was closing. The beginning of the 10-11 season did feel different. For the first time since the early 90s we had a legitimate center and the rest of the machine was working flawlessly. However, big injuries seemed to derail the defensive mentality and by the end of the regular season, it looked like this would be another one and done postseason. Instead, our beloved Mavericks nutted up and played the greatest NBA postseason a fan could imagine. Tonight we take a break from our regular movie based banter and continue to celebrate the greatest basketball season we have ever seen.
