Best Picture
Actor in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Animated Feature Film
Art Direction
Cinematography
Costume Design
Directing
Documentary Feature
Documentary Short Subject
Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
Makeup
Music (Original Score)
Music (Original Song)
Short Film (Animated)
Short Film (Live Action)
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Writing (Original Screenplay)
go to:
http://oscar.go.com/nominations
for the list of nominees; then make your selections in the comments. after the awards are presented, we'll go back and see which one of us had the most correct guesses. the winner will get to ride w/the Rockster on his motorcycle. if Roc wins, then he gets to choose who rides with him.
These are who I think will win/followed by who I'd like to win:
ReplyDeleteBest P: The King's Speech/Winter's Bone
Leading Actor: Colin Firth/same
Leading Actress: Natalie Portman/Annette Bening
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale/ either John Hawkes or Geoffrey Rush
Supporting Actress:Melissa Leo/don't care
Animated: Toy Story 3/same
Art Direction: Inception/same
Cinematography:Black Swan/same
Costumes: Alice in Wonderland/same
Directing: Darren Aronofsy(Black Swan)/Coen Bros(True Grit)
Documentary: Have NO Idea
Doc Short Subject: NO Idea
Film Editing: Black Swan/don't care
Foreign Language: Biutiful/same
Make Up: The Wolfman/same
Music(score): How to Train Your Dragon/same
Music(song): Tangled (I see the Light)/not sure
Short animated: don't know/The Lost Thing
Short live: No idea
Sound Editing: Inception/don't care
Sound Mixing: What's the difference from editing?
Visual Effects: Harry Potter
Writing (adapted): The Social Network/same
Writing (original): Inception/The Kids are All Right
Got no clues because I haven't see any of these yet. We wait till they're on Netflix or can be downloaded (I think I've ranted here before about people talking and rattling their popcorn boxes and sucking on Ju-Ju Fruits). So, I'll stay out of it, no matter how tempting a bike ride with Roc might sound.
ReplyDeleteOn my ipod today: Keith Richards and George Jones singing "Darling, Say It's Not You" from the Bradley Barn sessions. Gotta love that euphemism "a girl who spreads . . . love around."
I picture you, lfj, as one of those girls in high school who was too cool for the room.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I haven't seen ALL of the films either. But nothing stops me from having an opinion. I've seen a majority of those I consider watchable. Nothing could persuade me to see Alice in Wonderland or Wolfman. And Inception and Black Swan are off my radar also.
Here's one of the nominees for short animated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdoFqYCPLEU
Nah, I wasn't cool whatsomever. Played the bass violin in the orchestra and lived for cafeteria chili-day when we'd get peanut butter sandwiches and Apple Brown Betty.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great pic of Ryan BB!
ReplyDeleteI so wish I gave a camel's crap about the Oscars. I really just love to see Joan Rivers make a drunken fool of herself on the red carpet preshow-
There's an article in the gay press, Judes, protesting Ryan's pic because he looks about twenty years old and age 36, they say he must be major photoshopped. But that's just the way he looks. A deal with the devil, no doubt.
ReplyDeletelfj, there's cool and there's really kewl. You know you were always kewl.
FYI, Judes and I have discussing the state of our health and how we really should start walking several time a week, as soon as it gets a bit warmer, but before it gets really hot. That leaves two weeks in May and eventually a week in October. We are absolutely hopeless.
Where's our fearless leader, w4g?
i'm here working on my oscar predictions - however, if i had my way, Yogi Bear in 3-D would sweep the awards.
ReplyDeleteJudes, the pic of Ryan was compliments of his boo, Tisha.
lfj, i wasn't kewl in HS either. very shy and much the loner. didn't come out socially till i was in college. and then there was no stopping me!!! true kewlness takes time to grow and flower.
I was major shy from early on until about the age of 16, then I was still reticent and decidedly uncool and unkewl until I came out of my shell in college. But I didn't really become the loudmouth, opinionated person I am until my late 20's, early 30's. When I tell people now that I once was so shy that I would only reply in whispers and was terrrified that someone would actually speak to me, they think I'm lying.
ReplyDeleteI love how our discussions have nothing to do with our topic. Except to say that I once read, and have read again since, that many performers are shy. And I understand that. As a shy person I spent most of my time observing others, facial expressions, body language, and relationships. I became an expert on human nature and that would be an invaluable tool for a performer.
This poem is about total coolosity courtesy of my sweet friend Gwendolyn Brooks (God rest her beautiful black soul in peace):
ReplyDeleteTHE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Oh, I do so love that poem. Yes, bless her, even though I never had the honor as you did of knowing her personally.
ReplyDeletethat poem is so kewl...thanks for sharing lfj.
ReplyDeleteand i can't believe that there was a time when Tisha kept her opinions to herself!!!! sounds like a parallel universe to me...
and just think Tisha, if no else participates in the oscar predictions u will be a shoo-in for the ride of Roc's motorcycle!
ReplyDeleteGwen said that every time she gave a reading or lecture, some group of males (no matter what age) would perform the poem for her: singing, dancing, rapping, etc. Her favorite performance was a group of Chicago pre-school boys in vests and bow ties; they were absolutely deadly serious about it and that pleased her because it's a deadly serious poem.
ReplyDeleteY'r welcome, W4G!
Believe it w4g. My father tells the story that when he and my mother had their first parent teacher conference for me that he told the teacher (Sister Loretta) the following joke: Tisha is so sensitive that if she does anything wrong, punish the child next to her and she will suffer enough. Of course my father adds that he really wasn't kidding. (You see where I get it from?)
ReplyDeleteGeorge Washington's birthday. Cherry pie for breakfast!
ReplyDeleteWho's Fey Oiled-Tush?
Fey Oiled-Tush is Tom Cruise.
ReplyDeletei agree w/u Tisha.
ReplyDeleteMy gmail keeps logging me out so I'm not sure what is going through. I responded to the photo of W4G's sons this way, just in case: What precious cats. I believe that every angel in Heaven that wants one has a pet. So, when our kitties leave this world, they go straight into the open arms of a waiting angel.
ReplyDeleteWell, that makes sense since my pets have always been angels on earth...even when they get into trouble. It's not their fault that we have such un cat/un dog like conditions in which they are expected to live. (Now if I could only keep my pug from chasing mice in my flower garden, beating down the plants, and from sitting on my decorative grasses like a cushion.)
ReplyDeleteWho dat cute lil baby in da cornuh?
ReplyDeleteIs that you BB???
Let's all submit baby pix. Mine is on email.
ReplyDeletemine, also
ReplyDeletereally
ReplyDeleteJudes, You are very kind. But really, I was a bald, drooly, fat BABY wearing jewelry and my mother stuffed me and took pictures of me like I was a prize turnip at the State Fair.
ReplyDeletePictures don't lie, lfj. You cute.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet Judes was a princess. As for Roc, I will have to be shown.
Judes, you and your hubby are very attractive people! And the spawn got your red hair (which I love and envy)!
ReplyDeleteNow, we all know what each of us looks like.
Gotta say, we is ALL cute. Especially W4G!
Speaking of the Oscars, and we were speaking of the Oscars weren't we?
ReplyDeleteThey just don't make nominations like this anymore, nor presentations either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKw6su_e6Z0