The Oscars were quite enjoyable this year! Better than last year's production, I thought. Billy Crystal was an excellent host, told lots of very funny jokes (though I didn't really care for the awkward song he sang at the beginning). And I loved the Cirque du Soleil performance to Danny Elfman music, as well as Hans Zimmer's orchestrations for the whole awards show itself.
I was mostly satisfied with the winners, too. (As you can see below, 10 of the nominees I was rooting for took home gold.) The only thing that really disappointed me was that Harry Potter won nothing. I'm irked that it lost Best Make-Up to The Iron Lady. I think creating countless battle wounds and Voldemort's bald, creepy head look real is a greater achievement than making one actor look like someone else, but maybe that's just me...
YELLOW is the nominee I was rooting for. RED is the nominee who won.
ORANGE is the combination of both, when my favorite got the award.
Best Picture
The Artist ~Thomas Langmann
The Descendants ~Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ~Scott Rudin
The Help ~Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
Hugo ~Graham King, Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris ~Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
Moneyball ~Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt
The Tree of Life ~TBA
War Horse ~Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Lead Actor
Demian Bichir (A Better Life)
George Clooney (The Descendants)
Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Lead Actress
Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
Viola Davis (The Help)
Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)
Jonah Hill (Moneyball)
Nick Nolte (Warrior)
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
Jessica Chastain (The Help)
Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Director
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris ~Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli
Chico & Rita ~Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
Kung Fu Panda 2 ~Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Puss in Boots ~Chris Miller
Rango ~Gore Verbinski
Animated Short
Dimanche/Sunday ~Patrick Doyon
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore ~William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
La Luna ~Enrico Casarosa
A Morning Stroll ~Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
Wild Life ~Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Live Action Short
Pentecost ~Peter McDonald, Eimear O'Kane
Raju ~Max Zahle, Stefan Gieren
The Shore ~Terry George, Ooralgh George
Time Freak ~Andrew Bowler, Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic ~Hallvar Witzo
Documentary Short
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement ~Robin Fryday, Gail Dolgin
God is the Bigger Elvis ~Rebecca Cammisa, Julie Anderson
Incident in New Baghdad ~James Spione
Saving Face ~Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom ~Lucy Walker, Kira Carstensen
Documentary Feature
Hell and Back Again ~Danfung Dennis, Mike Lerner
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front ~Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory ~Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Pina ~Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel
Undefeated ~TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, Richard Middlemas
Foreign Language Film
Bullhead (Belgium) ~Michael R Roskam
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) ~Philippe Falardeau
A Separation (Iran) ~Asghar Farhadi
Footnote (Israel) ~Joseph Cedar
In Darkness (Poland) ~Agnieszka Holland
Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants ~Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Hugo ~John Logan
The Ides of March ~George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
Moneyball ~Screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ~Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
Original Screenplay
The Artist ~Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids ~Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
Margin Call ~J. C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris ~Woody Allen
A Separation ~Asghar Farhadi
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
Original Song
"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets ~Music & Lyrics by Bret McKenzie
"Real in Rio" from Rio ~Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, Lyrics by Siedah Garrett
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
Art Direction (Production Design/Set Decoration)
The Artist ~Laurence Bennett (Design), Robert Gould (Set Deco)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 ~Stuart Craig (Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Deco)
Hugo ~Dante Ferretti (Design), Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Deco)
Midnight in Paris ~Anne Seibel (Design), Helene Dubreuil (Set Deco)
War Horse ~Rick Carter (Design), Lee Sandales (Set Deco)
Costume Design
Anonymous ~Lisy Christl
The Artist ~Mark Bridges
Hugo ~Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre ~Michael O'Connor
W. E. ~Arianne Phillips
Make-up
Albert Nobbs ~Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston, Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 ~Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
The Iron Lady ~Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland
Film Editing
The Artist ~Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants ~Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
Hugo ~Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball ~Christopher Tellefsen
Sound Editing
Drive ~Lon Bender, Victor Ray Ennis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~Ren Klyce
Hugo ~Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty
Transformers: Dark of the Moon ~Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
War Horse ~Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom
Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Bo Persson
Hugo ~Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
Moneyball ~Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco, Ed Novick
Transformers: Dark of the Moon ~Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Peter J. Devlin
War Horse ~Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Stuart Wilson
Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 ~Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, John Richardson
Hugo ~Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman, Alex Henning
Real Steel ~Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor, Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes ~Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher WHite, Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon ~Dan Glass, Brad Friedman, Douglas Trumbull, Michael Fink
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