[Movies] Your 2011 Oscar Nominees!

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Here they are! 9 Best Picture nominees. Surprises? Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara I guess. Tree of Life got more than I would have thought! Hugo was most-nominated, 11 to The Artist's 10.

Best Picture
"The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
"The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer
"The Help" Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
"Hugo" Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
"Midnight in Paris" Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
"Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
"The Tree of Life" Nominees to be determined
"War Horse" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

Directing
"The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Alexander Payne
"Hugo" Martin Scorsese
"Midnight in Paris" Woody Allen
"The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick

Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in "A Better Life"
George Clooney in "The Descendants"
Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
Gary Oldman in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Brad Pitt in "Moneyball"

Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
Nick Nolte in "Warrior"
Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
Max von Sydow in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis in "The Help"
Rooney Mara in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Meryl Streep in "The Iron Lady"
Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn"

Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain in "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy in "Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer in "Albert Nobbs"
Octavia Spencer in "The Help"

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"The Descendants" Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
"Hugo" Screenplay by John Logan
"The Ides of March" Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
"Moneyball" Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan

Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The Artist" Written by Michel Hazanavicius
"Bridesmaids" Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
"Margin Call" Written by J.C. Chandor
"Midnight in Paris" Written by Woody Allen
"A Separation" Written by Asghar Farhadi

Animated Feature Film
"A Cat in Paris" Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
"Chico & Rita" Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
"Kung Fu Panda 2" Jennifer Yuh Nelson
"Puss in Boots" Chris Miller
"Rango" Gore Verbinski

Art Direction
"The Artist"
Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
"Hugo"
Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"Midnight in Paris"
Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
"War Horse"
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography
"The Artist" Guillaume Schiffman
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Jeff Cronenweth
"Hugo" Robert Richardson
"The Tree of Life" Emmanuel Lubezki
"War Horse" Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design
"Anonymous" Lisy Christl
"The Artist" Mark Bridges
"Hugo" Sandy Powell
"Jane Eyre" Michael O'Connor
"W.E." Arianne Phillips

Documentary (Feature)
"Hell and Back Again"
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front"
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory"
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Pina"
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
"Undefeated"
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Documentary (Short Subject)
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement"
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
"God Is the Bigger Elvis"
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
"Incident in New Baghdad"
James Spione
"Saving Face"
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom"
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing
"The Artist" Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Kevin Tent
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"Hugo" Thelma Schoonmaker
"Moneyball" Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film
"Bullhead" Belgium
"Footnote" Israel
"In Darkness" Poland
"Monsieur Lazhar" Canada
"A Separation" Iran

Makeup
"Albert Nobbs"
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
"The Iron Lady"
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (Original Score)
"The Adventures of Tintin" John Williams
"The Artist" Ludovic Bource
"Hugo" Howard Shore
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Alberto Iglesias
"War Horse" John Williams

Music (Original Song)
"Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
"Real in Rio" from "Rio" Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Short Film (Animated)
"Dimanche/Sunday" Patrick Doyon
"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
"La Luna" Enrico Casarosa
"A Morning Stroll" Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
"Wild Life" Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action)
"Pentecost" Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
"Raju" Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
"The Shore" Terry George and Oorlagh George
"Time Freak" Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
"Tuba Atlantic" Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing
"Drive" Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Ren Klyce
"Hugo" Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
"War Horse" Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
"Hugo"
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
"Moneyball"
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
"War Horse"
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
"Hugo"
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
"Real Steel"
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

 

[Dave]

Is "The Tree of Life" this year's totally unknown movie that the critics love that I would hate? There's always one that is completely unfathomable to me.

Of course, there's always some that I never get to see before the awards thanks to living in a wasteland of the Midwest where movies don't show in limited release...

 

[Piotyr]

Yes, Dave, that's the one. I still haven't decided whether the movie is just the director's way of dicking with the audience.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

The Tree of Life could be described as weird arthouse snobbery. When I saw it, which was in a tiny/not multiplex theater, most of the audience either walked out early or trashed it when it went to black. Sean Penn (who was in the movie) also commented that he didn't understand it at all or why he was in the movie period. It's not necessarily "oscar bait", but it's definitely different from most movies. I'm honestly not sure if you'd like it or not. 2/3 of it is fairly conventional/normal, but there's a couple long really.... well, not sure exactly how to describe it, but maybe film impressionism? sequences in the middle.
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If it makes you feel any better, it has absolutely 0% chance to win Best Picture.

I was even incredibly surprised that it was nominated for anything other than Cinematography.

 

[Piotyr]

One interesting thing to me is that despite Pixar movies winning the animated feature category every year since its inception, Cars 2 wasn't even nominated in the category this year.

Which is good, because Cars 2 was bad.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Is "The Tree of Life" this year's totally unknown movie that the critics love that I would hate? There's always one that is completely unfathomable to me.

Cinema Snob said it was the hardest movie he had to sit through in all of 2011. I'm amazed it's even nominated.

"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer

They made a movie of that? Oh, now I'm scared to see it after how badly JSF's other book was botched on film.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I can't believe that "Hugo" and "Tintin" did not get nominated for best animated film. Or is there a motion capture snobbery out there?

 

[strawman]

I'm amazed it's even nominated.

It was probably nominated so they can maintain the pretense of films as art.

 

[Hailey Knight]

I'm kind of proud of myself, because aside from Rise of the Planet of the Apes getting a sound editing nod and "Man or Muppet" getting a song nomination, I've seen NONE of the other nominated movies this year.

 

[sixpackshaker]

They made a movie of that? Oh, now I'm scared to see it after how badly JSF's other book was botched on film.

Max von Sydow and Tom Hanks... in supporting rolls. I just don't know if I can handle the subject matter.

 

[strawman]

I can't believe that "Hugo" and "Tintin" did not get nominated for best animated film. Or is there a motion capture snobbery out there?

Historically animated pictures do not appear in the other categories. If you want your film to be available for "best picture," for instance, you can't submit it to the academy as an animated feature.

They are still segregated.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Historically animated pictures do not appear in the other categories. If you want your film to be available for "best picture," for instance, you can't submit it to the academy as an animated feature.

They are still segregated.

That's not true; Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Picture. Or do you mean that when a film is nominated for animated, it immediately is excluded from winning in other categories, so Tintin and Hugo couldn't go for that one if they wanted to win others?

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Hugo is live action, you dolts.

Also, Tintin's animators said they don't want motion capture to be considered as animation, so there was no campaigning/submission/whatever I don't think.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

One interesting thing to me is that despite Pixar movies winning the animated feature category every year since its inception, Cars 2 wasn't even nominated in the category this year.

Which is good, because Cars 2 was bad.

Eh, it was light and fun, but like the first Cars, it's a much lesser quality compared to all the other Pixar movies. Still good because, you know, it's Pixar, but it pales in comparison to the rest.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Eh, it was light and fun, but like the first Cars, it's a much lesser quality compared to all the other Pixar movies. Still good because, you know, it's Pixar, but it pales in comparison to the rest.

Light and fun and VIOLENT FIERY CAR MURDER.

EDIT: Or was the "light" part a pun for cars being set alight?

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Is it now!

 

[Espy]

Tree of Life is my second favorite film next to Drive this year. It's an amazing movie. My wife and were blown away by it and she generally hates Terrance Malicks work.

 

[strawman]

That's not true; Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Picture. Or do you mean that when a film is nominated for animated, it immediately is excluded from winning in other categories, so Tintin and Hugo couldn't go for that one if they wanted to win others?

Beauty and the Beast was nominated prior to the animated feature category being created, and was an outlier anyway.

You won't get nominated for both the animated feature and for best picture - although Wall-E demonstrated that you can get nominated for both animated feature and other categories, so I'm mostly wrong anyway. It's just so rare that you see an animated feature film appear in other categories, especially best picture.

I'm on the fence about animation that was motion captured not being considered animation. It's a cross between CGI and puppetry.

I guess it's not unlike the dark crystal - except that the "costumes" were digitally created rather than hand made and filmed.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Hugo is live action, you dolts.

Doh.

Some other movie besides Hugo came out in November that was animated and people said was a good family film, right? There's something I'm forgetting that I mistook for Hugo.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

ugggggggggggh I think you're confusing "Arthur Christmas" with "Hugo" which makes my heart hurt

 

[evilmike]

You won't get nominated for both the animated feature and for best picture - although Wall-E demonstrated that you can get nominated for both animated feature and other categories, so I'm mostly wrong anyway. It's just so rare that you see an animated feature film appear in other categories, especially best picture.

Unless, of course, you're Up.

 

[Frank]

Not even critics liked ELIC.

How did that get nominated?
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Tintin not getting an animated nod is fucking horseshit, especially in a category with Kung Fu Panda 2.

 

[strawman]

Unless, of course, you're Up.

Huh. Well now I just feel stupid. There are several examples of great animated films sneaking into, and winning, other categories - including best picture.

 

[Frank]

Drive not getting a cinematography or art direction nod is pretty fucking shitty too.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Not even critics liked ELIC.

How did that get nominated?
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Tintin not getting an animated nod is fucking horseshit, especially in a category with Kung Fu Panda 2.

I guess 5% of the academy was all nostalgic for some 9/11 or somethin

As I said earlier - the crew/company in Tintin didn't want to get nominated for animated feature.

ALSO, the biggest snub is Albert Brooks not getting even a nom for Drive. He won a LOT of the guild Best Supporting Actor awards. Not just nominated, but outright WON.

 

[Espy]

Drive not getting a cinematography or art direction nod is pretty fucking shitty too.

Yup. I mean "The Help" over "Drive"? Shoot me now. Hell, that manipulative 9/11 piece of shit got a best film nod.

 

[Frank]

As I said earlier - the crew/company in Tintin didn't want to get nominated for animated feature.

I didn't see that. That's pretty silly of them. It was an animated feature.
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This is the first time in probably a decade where I haven't seen ANY of the best picture noms. I wanted to see some of them, but wasn't able to.

 

[Espy]

Also, no soundtrack nom for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"? That soundtrack takes what Ross and Reznor did on the social network and just blows it up.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

The soundtrack/score/song categories are so weird and have so many crazy and stupid rules. I have no idea how they work, and I love awards show dorkisms.

I can't wait to watch EL&IC and The Artist so I can get mad at all their nominations/wins.

 

[kaykordeath]

Also, no soundtrack nom for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"? That soundtrack takes what Ross and Reznor did on the social network and just blows it up.

Am I missing something? I only see Song and Score...no Soundtrack category at all....

Is there one? Was there one?

 

[Covar]

I've seen none of the best picture nominees and am only wanted to watch one, Moneyball.

Seems like a typical year.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

There is no soundtrack, I think Espy confused Score with Soundtrack.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Am I missing something? I only see Song and Score...no Soundtrack category at all....

Is there one? Was there one?

He must mean score, because there's no soundtrack category.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Charlie.

 

[HowDroll]

Apparently they'll give anybody an Oscar nowadays. Bridesmaids? Kung-Fu Panda 2? REALLY?

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Bridesmaids and Kung-Fu Panda 2 have not won any Oscars yet.