When looking at these, make sure have a list of the 2011 Oscar winners with you on a different internet page.
Best Picture
Well I definitely saw this one coming after Hooper undeservingly won the Oscar for Best Director. It was a shame that the Academy still has yet to really award a film about the aspects of our modern society of technology, but beside the point. The film was just okay, wasn't bad but I've seen this type of film like over a 100 times literally, it just never really got awarded until now. I will say that the acting was great but that was it. The Social Network offered a lot more when it came to creative filmmaking and being a better picture and I'm still glad I cast my vote for it and that I went down with the ship instead of predicting a movie that I didn't want to win. All I can say is shame on you Academy for refusing to recognize true significance in modern filmmaking and go with Harvey Weinstein's bribes instead. It's just like How Green Was My Valley vs. Citizen Kane all over again.
Best Director
This was when my mind yelled "WHAT?!?!?!". I mean I could understand a split between Best Picture and Director cause I really thought David Fincher had this one even if The King's Speech still took home Best Picture. That would've been an acceptable result, but instead they give it to the most undeserving off all, Hooper. Here's a question I'm sure a lot of people are asking, how on earth did Hooper do a better job at directing than Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, David O. Russell or even Darren Aronofsky? That just makes no sense. Yes I know what the director does in his line of work and Tom Hooper was mediocre at best compared to the others, especially Christopher Nolan. How was he creative? What was new that he did that other films haven't done? I've seen nothing new and I've watched this film twice, good acting, set design, writing was okay, but nothing special from the direction. One of the most undeserving wins for Director in a long time.
Best Actor
I thought Colin Firth was deserving of this award. In my opinion, not the best performance compared to James Franco or Jesse Eisenberg but he's done so much in his career to finally get the recognition he deserves. I didn't really listen that much to his speech mainly cause I've already heard so many of his these past couple months and the fact that I was eager to get the Best Picture award over with. At least I'm now happy to say that Colin Firth is now an Oscar winner.
Best Actress
Yeah I saw this one coming as well, Natalie Portman is a great actress no doubt, but I didn't really like her performance in this. I mean it's not mediocre but it's such a one note performance, I mean I know it took her awhile to learn how to dance which I know wasn't easy, but the way she read out her lines and her facial expressions I did not find impressive, she did good but they didn't seem original or unique. At least she does have an Oscar now so at least I won't hear people bitching anymore about how she's SO overdue, cause she's not at this point.
Best Supporting Actor
Okay, NOW we're getting down to business. A fine performance by Christian Bale earned him a well deserved Oscar. What else can I say? Well I was glad to see the real Dicky Eklund in the back standing up cause knowing how much that guy's been through, he deserves the fame and recognition. What else? Well it was kind of awkward he forgot the name of his wife in his speech, I mean I could tell he was nervous, but jesus... well hope he lives it down and can't wait to see him play Batman again for the third time, should be fun.
Best Supporting Actress
All right! F-bomb dropping Melissa Leo finally got her statuette. I know that she's really only known for two films, The Fighter and Frozen River, but you should be able to tell that she's worked for DECADES to get to where she finally got to last night. A few f-bombs shouldn't hurt. Hilarious, awkward but no problem for me.
Best Original Screenplay
It was kind of cool to see a man who used to stutter but over came it receive an Oscar for a movie about overcoming stuttering. Not only that, to be the new oldest screenplay winner ever now. I will say it wasn't the best "original" screenplay knowing it was telling the story of someone's life which the Academy chose instead of a new concept like Inception. He just got lucky there was no adapted material about King George VI cause otherwise Sorkin would have beat him for sure. Also I didn't think there was good character development in the film, but that's just a minor issue in my opinion. Other than that, I just wish Inception had won.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Well I am GLAD that the most deserving individual contender of the night got his Oscar knowing he'd gone years without having been nominated until now. It's a dream come true... finally. I mean with his snappy dialogue, not just in his movies and TV shows, but in his speech he gave, he knows how to label the Academy in the best terms. Even though The Social Network didn't win Best Director (still hate that) or Best Picture, it at least won it's most deserving nomination of all. Thank you Aaron Sorkin for a fantastic script that will be remembered for generations.
Best Cinematography
YES! The one I thought didn't have as good of a chance at winning ACTUALLY WON! That was awesome because Wally Pfister had been overdue for awhile now and I'm glad Christopher Nolan kept him on the job for all his films cause I somehow knew that he would win an Oscar for a Nolan film. Thankfully it caught me my surprise that it was for Inception (Nolan's best film to date). I still feel bad for Roger Deakins who still has yet to win again, I mean jesus! 9 nominations, 0 wins?! Give the guy his frickin Oscar already Academy, unless you secretly hate the man for some reason. I don't know but mainly because of his loss True Grit went home completely empty handed, guess they must be tired of the Coen Brothers but if that's the case, why did you nominate them instead of Nolan for directing? Yes that still baffles me, I mean if you're not gonna award the most anticipated Oscar for True Grit to Deakins and instead give it to Inception, it would seem like you guys either thought Inception was a better movie or you just hate Deakins. I don't know, but congrats to Wally and I hope you get one someday Deakins you're as deserving.
Best Art Direction
Talk about the first shock of the night, I didn't think Alice in Wonderland was gonna get any. At least we know not to judge movies by their release date, of course I should already know that when Gladiator came out in May of 2000 advertised as a blockbuster but it also managed to win Best Picture, I still despise that to this day. Anyways I am glad Tim Burton managed to do it again. Two movies of his in a row win Best Art Direction, wonder what his next film can pull off. I did want Inception to win this, but when it won Best Cinematography right after, I thought that was a good trade.
Best Costume
Well I guess I was wrong, The King's Speech was not getting at least one tech category and once again, this March release managed to win more Oscars than half the Best Picture nominees. I am glad that The King's Speech didn't sweep. In fact it was this win right here and Social Network's win for Best Score that really gave me hope that TKS wouldn't win Best Picture, too bad. Guess, Weinstein saved all his bribe money for the top 4 awards instead of a sweep. Other than that, congrats to Colleen Atwood for your third Oscar.
Best Film Editing
That's satisfying. The best film of the year managed to receive Best Editing. Personally, (and I know most people would agree) I thought Inception was the real winner for Best Editing which still made no sense to me why it was snubbed. I still do give my full respect to Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter's win no doubt, but I was wondering why Inception was snubbed for Editing after it won Best Cinematography cause it seemed they really liked this film a lot to give it as many awards as The King's Speech, so what the hell did they find wrong with the editing? That to me is actually a bigger question than Nolan's snub for director quite honestly. Well either way, it did go to a truly deserved film which is still the true Best Picture winner in my opinion.
Best Sound
After seeing The Social Network win Best Score, I was wondering if its chances were increasing to win Best Sound Mixing, but of course it went to the obvious and more deserving film in this category. Inception had great sound and I'm glad a Christopher Nolan managed to double its wins from his last film by getting awards for categories they should've had for his previous films, The Dark Knight especially.
Best Sound Editing
Once again, Nolan dominates this category by hiring the best and then receiving the awards for being the best. As selfish and arrogant as that sounds, Inception was too great of a film to ignore.
Best Visual Effects
This was probably the most deserving award among all of Inception's nominations (it wouldn't be if Nolan was nominated for best Director though). It was great to see a Christopher Nolan film FINALLY get the Best Visual Effects award after making how many films? Well either way, it got what it deserved and I'm happy with that.
Best Makeup
I didn't really care much for this category especially knowing I never saw any of the nominees, but of course I went with my prediction of The Wolfman, and I got it right. Kind of interesting how about half the tech awards went to movies that were released really early in the year of 2010. It shows anything is possible.
Best Score
I loved all the nominees that I was happy no matter who won, thankfully it went to the most unique score. I was happy for Trent Raznor, mainly due to the fact that I can now say the guy from Nine Inch Nails is an Oscar winner. I was wondering if Inception would win this after its surprising win for Cinematography or The King's Speech who's score I really enjoyed by the way surprisingly. Either way, I was happy with the results.
Best Song
I'm glad Randy Newman got another Oscar after about 20 nominations total and the fact that a Toy Story movie finally won Best Song. I loved all the song nominees as well, I would've been happy no matter who won, glad it was Randy Newman. Nice speech by the way, Randy.
Best Animated Film
I'm not gonna lie, I was a little hesitant that an upset could occur after all the surprising wins in the beginning, but thankfully it went to Toy Story 3 which once again, I am glad a Toy Story movie won an Oscar for a category it should've had long ago. Not much else to say except thank God there wasn't an upset for this category.
Best Documentary
Good news I got this prediction right, bad news I don't get to see what Banksy looks like now. That would be funny if it turned out Justin Timberlake was Banksy like he said earlier and that if the movie had won that he would've gone up on stage saying "Seriously I wasn't joking." That would have been great. I'm still happy for Inside Job winning cause it does talk about an important subject that needs to be shown in every economics class at every high school. Congrats for the win.
Best Foreign Film
I guess Ebert and Roeper and I were wrong, but do I really care? I never saw any of these movies that were nominated, so... congrats to Denmark's win for A Better World. Good job guys.
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