: final comments before the verdict For those who love cinema and is, today is the most important date in the year, the delivery of Academy Awards that reward 82 years, according to Hollywood is the best of world cinema. The name Oscar, according to legend was made by an employee dell’Accademy che notà una somiglianza tra la statuetta e suo zio Oscar. Questa cerimonia ha sempre premiato un mix di glamour, professionalità e talento, con una curiosa novità nelle ultime due edizioni, in cui le piccole produzioni hanno avuto la meglio.
È stata un’annata ricca di ottimo cinema quella del 2011/2012 e secondo me
Inception ,
The Social Network e
Black Swan sono a pari merito, con una spanna sopra, anche se preferirei che vincesse la categoria a lui più consona, quella per l’animazione. Mi piacerebbe vedere premiato come miglior film Black Swan, ma è pure science fiction. The only plausible challenge is one of The Social Network and The Speech of the King and now rooting for the former, that until the day before yesterday was my favorite.
With 12 nominations, The Speech of the King is the superfavorito these Oscar, but I hope that happens as
Cameron's film won only three of nine statuettes that had been proposed, ditto for Fincher who received 13 nominations. It's just that Fincher is compensated this year and eventually win the superfavorito only 3 or 4 awards. But I think it's more likely that the two pareggino as a statuette, with 5 each and Oscar winning The Social Network for Best Picture.
For the other categories I am speaking only on Actress and Actor.
Colin Firth will win the Oscar, but was better in A Single Man
. As for the actress's speech becomes more difficult: Annette Bening is most likely because it is more Hollywood actress and this prize would be a sort of compensation before retirement. Natalie Portman has a whole life ahead for another win and his performance is too far to be contained in an Oscar. Not to mention that the plaintiffs the coveted statuette recently has almost always turned into a conviction: just think of Reese Wetherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Helen Hunt, to name just the most recent cases of actresses that after the coveted Oscar have practically no more appropriate a film.
Now, all nominations to be read with the following legend:
bold : my personal Oscar
stressed: I think they will win.
The names are also arranged in order of probability of victory.
BEST FILM
The Social Network King's speech
Inception
The Fighter
The determination
The Black Swan 127 Hours
Toy Story 3
The boys are doing well
Winter's Bone
BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher for The Social Network Tom Hooper for the speech of the king
Joel and Ethan Coen for The Grit True Grit
Darren Aronofsky for The Black Swan
David O. Russell for The Fighter
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
SCENEGGIATURA ORIGINALE
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Seidler Inception (Warner Bros.), Written by Christopher Nolan The Fighter (Paramount) Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Eric Johnson & Paul Tamasy
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features) Written by Stuart Blumberg & Lisa Cholodenko
Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Mike Leigh
ACTOR Colin Firth
for King's speech Jeff Bridges for The Grit
Jesse Eisenberg for
The Social Network for Biutiful Javier Bardem
James Franco for 127 Hours
MIGLIOR ATTORE NON PROTAGONISTA
Christian Bale per The Fighter Jeremy Renner per The Town
Geoffrey Rush per Il discorso del re
John Hawkes per Winter's Bone
Mark Ruffalo per I ragazzi stanno bene
MIGLIOR ATTRICE
Annette Bening per I ragazzi stanno bene Natalie Portman per Il cigno nero Nicole Kidman per Rabbit Hole
Michelle Williams per Blue Valentine
Jennifer Lawrence per Winter's Bone
MIGLIOR ATTRICE NON PROTAGONISTA
Melissa Leo per The Fighter Hailee Steinfeld for The Grit
Helena Bonham Carter's speech to the king
Amy Adams for The Fighter
Jacki Weaver Animal Kingdom
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich How to Train Your Dragon by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist by Sylvain Chomet
DESIGN
King's speech Inception The Grit
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
MIGLIOR FOTOGRAFIA
Danny Cohen per Il discorso del re Wally Pfister per Inception Jeff Cronenweth per The Social Network
Roger Deakins per Il Grinta
Matthew Libatique per Il cigno nero
COSTUMI
Jenny Beavan per il discorso del re Mary Zophres per il Grinta
Antonella Cannarozzi per Io sono l'amore
Colleen Atwood per Alice in Wonderland Sandy Powell per La Tempesta
MONTAGGIO
Angus Wall e Kirk Baxter per The Social Network Tariq Anwar's speech to the king
Pamela Martin for the Fighter
Jon Harris for 127 Hours
Andrew Weisblum for The Black Swan
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Biutiful, Mexico Dogtooth, Greece
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi), Algeria
Incendies, Canada
In a Better World, Denmark
MAKE
The Way Back Wolfman
SOUNDTRACK
The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Inception, Hans Zimmer
king's speech, Alexandre Desplat
How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell
127 Hours, AR Rahman
BEST SONG
We Belong Together "from Toy Story 3 Coming Home by Country Strong
If I Rise by 127 Hours
I See the Light by Rapunzel
SOUND
Inception (Warner Bros.) Richard King True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
Unstoppable (20th Century Fox) Mark P. Stoeckinger
A morning for considerations post-ceremony!