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They are here! The 2012 Academy Award nominations are here! Have you ever watched the actual nominees announcement broadcast? It’s kind of like watching the actual Academy Awards if it was presented at an abandoned hotel buffet and it only lasted 30 minutes. Every once in awhile you’ll hear two people “whoo!” in the background, but that’s about it. It’s actually kind of great. Without all of the pomp and the medleys and the overlong speeches and the commercial breaks, it plugs along at a really nice clip and ends at a reasonable hour. And the best part is that everyone is still theoretically a winner! I’m not sure who the dude was standing next to Jennifer Lawrence this morning, though. Who was that dude? I’m also not sure who the dude was who gave Jennifer Lawrence her No Affect Pills. Guys, please be careful when you’re administering the No Affect PIlls to Jennifer Lawrence right before she goes on TV. She should have no affect, not NEGATIVE affect. Anyway, lots of predictable things in here: The Descendents is doing great. Everybody loves The Artist. Brad Pitt was in Moneyball. And of course, Andy Serkis for Best Director. (Just kidding, apparently the time is later. Sorry Serkis!) Tumblr will probably be very excited to hear that Kristen Wiig, Amy Mumolo were nominated for the Bridesmaids screenplay. (Melissa McCarthy nominated for Best Supporting Actress, if you’re a Reddit user. The point is, congratulations Internet.) And that brings us to the Best Picture nominees. A few years ago, they expanded the number of nominees from five to 10. The reasoning behind this was that it would draw a bigger audience to the broadcast somehow, but the defense was that it would allow more films to get the recognition they deserve. Uh, EPIC FAIL TIME. Hahah. Seriously, The Help AND Extremely Nine and Incredibly Eleven are both nominated for BEST PICTURE? Of the whole year?! Good grief. I will literally TOLERATE War Horse and Midnight in Paris on there. (War Horse, no duh it’s on there. Midnight in Paris was cute and certainly more interesting than a lot of other junk, so fine.) But those boldly straight-forward celebrations of American Racism and The Reverse Voldemort Of National Tragedies (she who must ALWAYS be named) need to get out of here with that noise. Oh well. It’s just weird that the Academy Awards would celebrate something less than artistically perfect, since they never have in the past. They’re usually nothing but completely dedicated to integrity and the advancement of the medium’s loftiest ideals. (Oh, on that note, congratulations to PUSS IN BOOTS for being an Oscar-nominated movie.)
The full list of nominees after the jump:
Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Actor
Demián Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Best Actress
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa Mccarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Best Original Screenplay
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Margin Call
Midnight In Paris
A Separation
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Foreign Film
Bullhead
Footnote
In Darkness
Monsieur Lazhar
A Separation
Best Animated Film
A Cat In Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss In Boots
Rango
Art Direction
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
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
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated
Documentary (Short Subject)
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God Is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Film Editing
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Makeup
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Iron Lady
Music (Original Score)
The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
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
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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God I hope a movie and an actress and an actor wins!
I know these awards are kind of dumb and pointless, but Gary Oldman, you guys!!
He was the tits in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Tiptoes Oldman?
I’m surprised “Tinker, Tailor,” wasn’t nominated for Best Picture, but “The Help” was. Blergh.
Believing yourself to be past surprise does not commend you to me as a friend.
It’s ok, Swinton. You still have all the oscar nominations of my heart.
Seriously, Oscars. We need to talk about Tilda.
SWINTON
I’m pretty sure Jonah Hill was added to that group of celebrated legends just to stick it to Andy Serkis. Like a way to show Serkis that his performances don’t even surpass the Superbad benchmark.
Never thought I’d see the day when the guy from Superbad became “Oscar nominated Jonah Hill.”
Well, you know how when an actor or director dies, they sometimes give him the nomination just because they’ll never get the chance again? This is the Academy doing that, but for Jonah Hill’s last film with his big body. They nominated his fat.
Moneyball is the only Best Picture nominee I saw this year. Therefore, go Moneyball!*
*This happens every year. I see one movie and then half-heartedly root for it to win. Movies be expensive, y’all.
I am so with you on that, R2, I saw Hugo, so, Go, Hugo!
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for best picture? Is there an animated GIF to describe how bad this movie is (full disclosure, I haven’t seen the movie)?
I haven´t seen it either but it is based on one of my favorite novels, so I´m rooting for it. Also, I haven´t seen any of the nominated movies… And it is not a novel mainly about 9/11 so I wonder if either they based the move very loosely on the novel or if Gabe hasn´t seen it either.
Yay one person is with me here. Hello Jonathan Safran Foer. I love your books!
how bout this old stallworth
There is, but it’s literally just an animated gif of the September 11th bombings.
Although EVEN THAT seems less exploitive than Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was.
I wikipedia’d Demián Bichir so you don’t have to. He’s the Mexican dude who plays Nancy’s love interest in later (terrible) seasons of Weeds. I have no idea what that movie is. Is it good??
anyone else feel like they just got punched in the stomach?
People know the A’s lost that year, right?
#somewhatbitterAngelsfan
people who hate billy beane…and there are plenty for no good reason who do…consistently bring this up. they didn’t win the world series….you know how hard it is to do that, and how often the best teams do not end up winning championships in great years? how bout this year’s packers? or the patriots going undefeated until they lost the superbowl? well, the A’s went on a 20 game win streak.
how many major league baseball teams can say they have done that? 2: the 1935 Cubs and the 2002 Oakland A’s.
how many MLB teams can say they have won the world series? 107.
Well, I was kinda kidding. I kid because after years of futility, my team actually won that year. I just like to bring it up because it makes A’s fans (all four of them) go all crazy.
And not to go all sportsgum, but while streaks are cool and all, they don’t fly flags for streaks. Rare ≠ great. Besides, the Angels were a better team that year anyway. Better run differential (by a lot), and a better true record over the last five months of the season.
I’ve said this before over at Stereogum and I’ll say it again – there should be a Sportsgum. HOW TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN? Honestly, if not just as a safe haven for Olli Jokinen waffle gifs
I don’t hate Billy Beane. I just hated Moneyball.
“…Plus, the sci-tech Oscars really are the most relevant…”–Andy Serkis, at a nomination-watching breakfast in his apartment
I don’t think “Drive” was the best movie of the year, but I think it was better than about half of the nominees for best movie of the year.
replace Max Von Sydow [nothing against him personally, but....] and put in Albert Brooks and I would nod approvingly at this year’s slate of nominees.
instead, I shall only terse my lips in subtle affirmation. TAKE THAT ACADEMY!
How did 50/50 not get a nomination for Best Screenplay?
Why stop at best screenplay? Aren’t there supposed to be 10 nominations for best picture? 50/50 there! Jessica Chastain’s going to win for supporting actress, so get rid of Octavia Spencer and put Anna Kendrick there! If no one knows who Demian Bichir is, no one will vote for him, so JGL there! I liked this movie a lot!
Who did these nominations though? The Help was so-so, Extremely Loud and So On looked terrible to me, Albert Nobbs has a 50% on RT and I’m not even confident it’s in theaters yet. Do these movies deserve 30% of the acting nods?
The cast of 50/50 deserves nominations as well. Especially JGL and Houston. Honestly, I haven’t seen the movies that got the other nominations in the Actor/Supporting Actress categories. I’m just more surprised by the snubbing of the writing.
And yes, why are there only 9 nominations for Best Picture when there are 10 spaces available? I actually haven’t seen any of the Best Picture nominations either. Some I won’t see (War Horse). Some haven’t come around to any theaters near me (Artist, Tree of Life). The rest I will watch so I have something to root for or against while watching the awards show.
You mean that movie about the lovable wise-cracker who has a friend with cancer?
Oh yeah the best part about Drive was definitely it’s sound editing GOOD JOB OSCARS!!
Wait are you being sarcastic, because It was, though! Drive was a beautifully edited movie, sound-wise. That was a 100% correct nomination.
I like how they toned up the sound of Gosling’s thighs as they rubbed together and chirped. It added a layer of mystery to the driver character. Why is he chirping?? He has no name???
Well yeah but you know… it kind of had other things going for it as well in it being a film, a great one at that, something i consider a reaaaaalllly visual art format.
I don’t usually care about the “Best Original Song” category, but why are there only two? Were there no other original songs in movies this year?
And they didn’t even nominate the best song from The Muppets.
At least now Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords will have an Oscar.
I agree that they did not nominate the best song from The Muppets, but I loved ALL SONGS from The Muppets. I also loved The Muppets. So… Yay Muppets!
I can’t believe they snubbed Fassbender. He was so good in literally every movie he’s ever in!
Is he still invited? I like to just see him around in suits.
Though seriously “Jane Eyre” was insanely good.
I really loved Jane Eyre.
Seriously. I mean, did the Academy even SEE X-Men: First Class?
But, for real, I can’t believe he didn’t get nominated for Shame. They could have nominated his sex grimace alone for that movie.
I am so upset about that I may just scrunch some of of the academy’s helmet WITH MY MIND.
But seriously, I have no reason to watch or care about these awards this year.
I didn’t know it was possible to express ecstasy and horror/pain at the same time.
Literally, the only words I saw here were sex and Michael Fassbender. Upvote.
The sad part is, he might have had enough total votes to get a nom, but they were spread around from Shame to Dangerous Method to (I doubledoubt it) X-Men. Used to be, you could get the nomination for having a great year overall; now it’s restricted to a single performance. And when both movies mount FYC campaigns, bad things can happen.
Poor Michael Fassbender. You can still come over and cuddle while we play Fable III.
No, I’ve got Fassbender for the night. Sorry, guys.
Remember last year when every movie that got nominated for Best Picture was actually good (some more than others, but seriously, I liked them all!)? Wah wah.
JONAH HILL
ROONEY MARA
TRANSFORMERS
RANGO
EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
REAL STEEL
NO TILDA SWINTON
TRANSFORMERS
GEORGE CLOONEY
The Academy should get nominated for best TROLLS coz they would sweep the board.
Have you watched Rango? It’s pretty great. The art direction was pretty amazing and it was fun for everyone. If Kung Fu Panda 2 deserves recognition in Best Animated Picture, than Rango does ten times over.
Oh yeah but other than that you’re spot on.
I saw Rango and I have to say I was not that impressed.
Visually…gorgeous. I can’t deny that for a second. The first 10 minutes I thought “hey…I’m really glad I’m really high right now because this is going to be great.”
But the story was not particularly enjoyable. I found all the characters grating, and I also thought the voice-work (particularly Depp) was really shoddily done. The jokes may have been funny, but they were delivered with the subtlety of a tank. Halfway through, I didn’t care at all about the visuals because I was bored and tired and annoyed.
Anyways, that’s my opinion of Rango. It was one of the very few movies I went to see in theatre this year. Visually, I can’t deny how fantastic it was, but as a movie I loathed it.
Rango was great, and deserves to be in that category. Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss and Boots do not… but freakin Tintin absolutely does! I don’t understand why it was snubbed from a shoe-in category like BEST ANIMATED FEATURE. It’s not like I’m asking for Best Picture or something… come on, Academy
Plus no Shame, no 50/50 (which had a much better chance than Bridesmaids and personally I felt was a better movie), The Ides of March got much too little, given what movies/performances were given nods, same for Drive. And no Patton Oswal!
oh by ides was really bad
I think Rooney Mara deserved her nomination. Not going to argue with anything else, mainly because I haven’t seen any of those movies.
Over Tilda Swinton tho? C’mon now son (or daughter).
Well I didn’t see Tilda’s movie but I feel comfortable that she was awesome in it. Maybe Tilda should have taken Glenn Close’s spot.
George Clooney is fine. Rooney Mara is fine. Carry on …
*Ctrl+F “Melancholia”*
*0 results*
YOU’RE FUCKING KIDDING ME
Yeah, that movie was better than all ten of those other ones. But that’s what happens when you call yourself a nazi in an interview.
But did they really have to punish Kirsten Dunst, too?
Not to mention all of the technical awards it could have gotten. The cinematography and art directions were great. And the special effects!
Phew, okay. For a moment I thought they had actually nominated that god damn Sarah Palin “documentary” The Undefeated, and I was about to throw down.
I’m still going to throw down though because this list is garbage.
Meryl Streep may as well start preparing her speech. Hopefully she doesn’t pull a Taylor Swift like the Globes. “OMG! I had no idea I was going to win. This is brand new information!!”
I don’t understand why they didn’t just take this to its extreme and nominate Jack + Jill for something.
Problem with these things is that usually i don’t see the majority of the films nominated so saying that i think one should win over the many others that i haven’t seen nor really have any interest to see seems to be a bit arragont. That said I think Tree of Life should win and Terrance Mallick should win for best director. It’s just such a powerful, personal, and unique film and I really like the messages of it, one of loss, faith, nature of existence ect. Also the Birth of the Universe sequence was the most powerful thing i have ever seen in a movie theater.
I’m at a mix of cinematography for Tree and Life and Hugo because they were just both so good. I guess i would go cinematography for ToL and visual effects and art direction in hugo.
Don’t really care for the rest.
Well that’s it for me giving a shit about the oscars. I won’t be watching them again this year, as last year not only was it so boring but they seemed to make a point to spoil the ending to every movie nominated. So good luck to everyone, have fun, plan your parties, ect.
What’s so crazy about ‘awards season’ is that a film only needs to be in a theater for one week to be eligible for award nominations, so a lot of Oscar bait is released VERY briefly (like the Christian Bale Chinese Flowers of War movie), then it nabs nominations (or not in the case of Flowers of War), all the Hollywood people are sent screeners, then the film is put out in limited or wide release, usually dependent on the successes of the awards garnered, sometime in the new year.
I think it creates a huge disconnect between the big rating tv event and the audience who tunes in. Every year so many people have similar sentiments of “I haven’t seen most of these films.”
Best Picture – War Horse
Best Actor – Brad Pitt
Best Actress – Viola Davis
Best Director – Woody Allen
Best Original Screenplay – A Separation
Best Foreign Film – A Separation
Best Animated Film – Kung Fu Panda 2
Predictions or your own personal choices?
We’ve been Rango’d.
It’s not even fun anymore to point out the poor movie selection this year, but “Academy Award-nominated Jonah Hill” is a punch in the nuts to everyone in Hollywood.
Jonah will get his award. Melted down and poured on his head.
Happy to see Christopher Plummer go for the Canadian EGOT (where the G stands for Genie award)
Jonah Hill. R e a l l y?
If you’re going to give one to Jonah Hill a nomination then give one to the dog from The Artist coz they are obviously just giving this shit away now.
lol…I care too much about this
we live in a world where transformers gets as many nominations as the tree of life, just so you know.
That movie is too long and frankly I didn’t even know what was happening half the time.
i agree. transformers sucked.
My bad joke has been neutered of its light jokiness by another joke! NOOOOOOO! whyyyyyyyeee
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If it had gotten nominated for sound editing or sound mixing, then I could see where that would be weird.
Otherwise, I look forward to seeing it. I do love the talkies, but the Artist looks fun. I hope it’s actually good, and not getting nominated just because it’s silent and black and white.
Why can’t a silent film be great? Talkies aren’t necessarily better. Especially this year.
silent films were great back when that was the only option. now it feels more like a gimmick.
True enough I suppose
I haven’t seen The Artist; it could very well be gimmicky. But a contemporary silent film doesn’t have to be a gimmick. (If it is necessarily a gimmick, then by gimmick you have to mean “contrary to norms of contemporary style or production” or something like that.)
I think The Artist was gimmicky, but it was very charming and entertaining. I would probably watch it again.
The thing is though, it doesn’t really go beyond the gimmick. It’s a story that’s been done to death and the only interesting thing about it (on a story/substance level) is that it’s silent. That’s why I’m going to be pissed when it wins Best Picture.
I’m not going to be pissed when it wins best picture because it is literally the best thing on that list, artistically, and one of the, like, three actually good movies that were nominated.
Robert Downey Jr. must be really pissed that Meryl Streep got a nomination for IronLady and he didnt for IronMan2 last year.
Good one.
You could actually make a great award ceremony based on the Academy snubs. I didn’t see every movie that people are claiming should be in, I would just like to add Hanna for best original score and Attack the Block for score, editing and visual effects at least.
Holy. Crap. Did no one voting see Drive? Or Melancholia? Or WARRIOR? OR INCENDIES? OR FASSBENDER IN EVERYTHING?? (sorry for the yelling) I feel so betrayed — unless I consider that the Oscar is just a bad thing to win and all my favorite movies are saved from some sort of Oscar curse. Like, it’s uncool to win that.
My emotions to this via: http://imgur.com/mJ36t
I think Incendies was nominated last year.
Thank you.
Drive is cool as fuck (maybe my favourite of 2011) but like Gabe said before, it has really nothing to say.
Melancholia has things to say but it does not havet any kind of wide appeal, which is kind of needed for an academy of approximately 3000 voters. It’s a niche art movie, face it.
Fassbender was great but that NC-17 rating in Shame kills it.
Whoops, I mean 6000 voters.
John C Reilly and I can both do without Lars Von Trier.
Also, Margin Call got a screenplay nod but deserved a lot more. Spacey and Irons should be duking it out for best supporting actor and it could easily replace 3/4 movies on the best picture list. And yes, I’ve seen them all minus the Help, which I refuse to see.
Oh sorry, and I haven’t seen Incredibly Loud. Wait – is that really nominated?
The only way these Oscars would be worth watching is if Glenn Close came dressed as Albert Nobbs.
(and if Tree of Life wins)
Can we all agree finally that Jennifer Lawrence is a smoking hot babe? Winter bone pun up in this.
She deserves the academy award FOR HOTNESS AS MYSTIQUE.
Is it odd that I’m totally gay for Mystique? Orion Slave Girls from Star Trek? Any hot girl, who is just a crayon colour? No? Just checking…
I was going to nitpick but there’s no point. This is just generally very bad.
This. A thousand times this.
Yeah its like you start off getting mad at the list before stepping back and saying “Ah these awards are always so dumb, who cares, I don’t” but then you start to really look at the nominees and you’re like “Oh come on now! Really?! You know what…” and then you start to formulate a thoughtful critique of all the atrocities/snubs by the Academy but once you get close to half-way through the comment, you realize you’re done with the whole thing, It’s Officially Worn You Out, so you end up just writing a meta-commentary on how you got to this point and call it a day.
Does Jennifer Lawrence ever make a different face? I haven’t seen Winter Bone, but it is hard for me to believe that she was great in it. I’ve never witnessed her face move. She’s beautiful and all, but damn girl, get some expression.
That said, Tin Tin was robbed. There is no way that lazy pop-culture and fart joke machine of a movie, Puss In Boots, was better than Tin Tin.
Yeah, I’ve never seen Winter’s Bone but seeing Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men: First Class makes it hard to believe she’s not a terrible actress.
And I think Tin Tin doesn’t count as an animated film in the Academy’s book because of the motion capture, but Puss in Boots getting in over Winnie The Pooh is our generation’s Driving Miss Daisy win/Do The Right Thing snub
Jennifer Lawrence is amazing in Winter’s Bone, and I agree that her X-Men performance was unfortunate, but (sorry guys, it has to be said) that movie was pretty terrible across the board so I feel like that was not entirely her fault?
LEAVER HER ALONE!!!
+1!1!!!11!!1!!!11!1
She really was incredible in Winter’s Bone. I haven’t seen her in anything else, but she plays determined Ozark mountain girl really well.
Best Animated Film
A Cat In Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss In Boots
Rango
I can’t believe Golden Globe WINNER Tintin is not on this list somewhere.
I can see why A Cat In Paris and Chico and Rita are nominated just by the posters- They’re traditional, hand-drawn-ish animation, like your Secret of Kell and the like. But Puss in Boots? The Academy is saying Puss in Boots, a spin-off of a quadrilogy of Shrek films, is more Academy Award-Worthy than Tintin? Okaaaaay?
Seeing as Tintin is a big mo-cap thing, Andy Serkis and all, is the Academy equating it to Avatar (which was more animation than live-action yet nominated for Best Picture instead of best Animated Film), and Tintin didn’t make the cut because the Best Picture nominees are ALL arguably better than it? That I would buy.
Or maybe I already buried the lead- Andy Serkis was involved, therefore the Oscars SNUBBED it down with Rangos and Pandas and Pusses.
That’s not a giant quote. That’s just me improperly coding my italics.
WINNIE THE POOH WAS FUCKING ROBBED LETS RIOT
Everything about this quote is excellent.
NO POOH NO PEACE
I share your rage. Apparently no one in America, including the Academy, saw Tintin, even when given free copies of it on DVD. I’m glad it absolutely killed in the international box office so we’ll be able to see at least a second film.
Can we agree that the academy did at least one thing right? They did NOT nominate Cars 2!!
#2012
Really, Oscars? Jonah Hill? Have y’all SEEN Albert Brooks in Drive???
wow this is so pathetic. like, i know that braveheart won an oscar, okay. i KNOW that. so i shouldn’t expect anything. but why are the SAME things nominated every year?
i know that brad pitt is an actor and he is very famous, but that doesnt mean his mediocre performance in everything should be nominated year after year.
george clooney- ?! dude plays himself in everything!
meryl streep IS one of the greatest actresses of our time, but everyone knows that already!
and it’s so gross that gosling continually gets snubbed and has mainstream success for his worst work.
anyway, here’s to gary oldman and fuck everyone else.
Probably one of the worst set of Oscars nominations in recent years. Even The King’s Speech wins were less unsatisfying than MOST OF THESE NOMINEES!
Wait… has there really been no mention around here of Jim Rash getting a nod for “The Descendants”??? He’s our very own Academy Award nomidean!
Now he’s a real big-time celebrity.
There is honestly not one film on this list that I would be excited to see win. The Oscars are falling short this year.