Monday, March 8, 2010

If I Could Choose Who Won the Oscars... 2010


Selections in GREEN are the nominees I was rooting for. RED are the actual winners. BLUE means whoever I rooted for DID win!

Even though a lot of the people I was rooting for didn't end up winning, I was happy with all of the awards that were given. In particular, I'm glad Avatar didn't get anything it didn't deserve--though I'm a little on the edge on whether it should have won for Cinematography.

The only race that really mattered to me this year was Best Director. I REALLY, REALLY wanted Katherine Bigelow to win. I'm SOOOO glad she did.



Actor in a Leading Role:

Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"
George Clooney in "Up in the Air"
Colin Firth in "A Single Man"
Morgan Freeman in "Invictus"
Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker"

Actress in a Leading Role:
Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side"
Helen Mirren in "The Last Station"
Carey Mulligan in "An Education"
Gabourey Sibide in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia"

Actor in a Supporting Role:
Matt Damon in "Invictus"
Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger"
Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station"
Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones"
Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"

Actress in a Supporting Role:
Penelope Cruz in "Nine"
Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air"
Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart"
Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air"
Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

Directing:
James Cameron for "Avatar"
Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker"
Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds"
Lee Daniels for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air"

Art Direction:
Avatar (Art Direction: Rick Carter & Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Art Direction: Dave Warren & Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith)
Nine (Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim)
Sherlock Holmes (Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
The Young Victoria (Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray)

Costume Design:
Bright Star (Janet Patterson)
CoCo before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme)
Nine (Colleen Atwood)
The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)

Make Up:
Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano)
Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow)
The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore)

Cinematography:
Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel)
The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd)
Inglourious Basterds (Robert Richardson)
The White Ribbon (Christian Berger)

Visual Effects:
Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones)
District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken)
Star Trek (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton)

Film Editing:
Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron)
District 9 (Julian Clarke)
The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski, Chris Innis)
Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (Joe Klotz)

Sound Editing:
Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
Inglourious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
Star Trek (Mark Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin)
Up (Micheal Silvers, Tom Myers)

Sound Mixing:
Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson)
The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett)
Inglourious Basterds (Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano)
Star Trek (Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson)

Original Score:
Avatar (James Horner)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
Up (Michael Giacchino)

Original Song:
"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Music/Lyric by Randy Newman)
"Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Music/Lyric by Randy Newman)
"Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Music by Reinhardt Wagner; Lyric by Frank Thomas)
"Take It All" from "Nine" (Music/Lyric by Maury Yeston
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Music/Lyric by Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett)

Animated Feature Film:
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
The Princess and the Frog (John Musker, Ron Clements)
The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore)
Up (Pete Docter)

Animated Short Film:
French Roast (Fabrice O. Joubert)
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan, Darragh O'Connell)
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) (Javier Recio Gracia)
Logorama (Nicolas Schmerkin)
A Matter of Loaf and Death (Nick Park)

Live Action Short Film:
The Door (Juanita Wilson, James Flynn)
Instead of Abracadabra (Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjellstrom)
Kavi (Gregg Helvey)
Miracle Fish (Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey)
The New Tenants (Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson)

Documentary Short:
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill)
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher)
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)
Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett)
Rabbit a la Berlin (Bartek Konopka, Anna Wydra)

Documentary Feature:
Burma VJ (Anders Ostergaard, Lise Lense-Moller)
The Cove (Nominees TBA)
Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Judith Ehrlich, Rock Goldsmith)
Which Way Home (Rebecca Cammisa)

Foreign Language Film:
Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophete (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

Best Picture:
Avatar (James Cameron, Jon Landau)
The Blind Side (Nominees TBA)
District 9 (Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham)
An Education (Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey)
The Hurt Locker (Nominees TBA)
Inglourious Basterds (Lawrence Bender)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness)
A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Up (Jonas Rivera)
Up in the Air (Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman)

Adapted Screenplay:
District 9 by Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell
An Education by Nick Hornby
In the Loop by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, & Tony Roche
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire by Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air by Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

Original Screenplay:
The Hurt Locker by Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger by Alessandro Camo & Oren Moverman
A Serious Man by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Up by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter (Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, & Tom McCarthy)

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