Today is the last day of the rest of your life that you will not be inundated with hype about the 2011 Oscar nominees, which will be announced tomorrow morning and which have been preceded by an avalanche of predictions.
The only things I care about (that aren’t already a lock, like a Best Actress nomination and likely win for Natalie Portman):
*Best supporting actress nomination for True Grit‘s Haylee Steinfeld!
*Best supporting actress nomination for Black Swan‘s Mila Kunis!
*And while it’s certain that Colin Firth will be nominated for Best Actor for his work in The King’s Speech, I DO NOT WANT HIM TO WIN. He should’ve won last year for A Single Man, but he’s probably going to win this year for playing a wimpy king that stutters and then stops stuttering. It’s cool how Firth learned to stammer for the role, but the climactic scene where he gets his stammer under control? CEASING A MANUFACTURED STAMMER SHOULD NOT BE CAUSE FOR AWARDS.
Check back for a whiny post-nomination-announcement AA Meeting tomorrow.
But darling Colin only took this fucking stammering Masterpiece Theater role to get a goddam Oscar for A Single Man! Do not FOIL HIM.
It’s too bad Blue Valentine and I Am Love will get no love at the Oscars.
He broke my fucking heart in A Single Man. I had to pause it a couple times because I couldn’t see the screen through my torrent of tears, and I couldn’t hear the dialog over my own blubbering!
I’m exaggeration a little of course, but not by much. I have emotional problems, but that was a fantastic film.
I will not watch a movie about a king, because I don’t care about the problems of kings. Most privileged people I meet are formless masses of ignorance and contempt no matter how well educated. Every royal person I’ve met has been an unrepentant monster. I’m prejudiced, I know. I’m sure the king was a nice guy and stuff. Whatever. I’m also sure no one is reading this because it’s long and rather boring, but work is slow, and I write as a desperate attempt to keep my brain from melting from disuse.
Firth is going to win, because the only other really, really good performances were Gosling and Franco in movies almost nobody saw. And while Eisenberg is fantastic in Social Network, it’s perceived as a Sorkin/Fincher thing more than an actor thing (though Timberlake has a small shot at supporting actor).
God, people really liked A Single Man? That was dreck.
Fish Wrench, you sell yourself short…of course we’re reading it! I agree with you in the “use it or lose it” brain dept., and is really the only reason one should feed trolls, to keep the debating skills nice and snarky. If you’re bored at work, you do know Nick Holmes, right? (Apologies if I’m the last person to discover him…)
http://nickholmes.tumblr.com/
gus, both the academy and the gods of slog would be wise to listen to you…nobody messes with our Colin.
“I will not watch a movie about a king, because I don’t care about the problems of kings.”
You know, I thought that as well. But this was a great film about a person (actually a prince, then a not-by-his choice king) who had a terrible personal problem. It probably would have gone unknown except within his family and friends but, with the advent of radio and the terror that was Hitler and his feckless older brother, he became a king and had to support and lead his nation.
To do that, he needed a voice and he overcame his personal issues to be that leader.
It’s a pretty good story with great performances. Don’t judge a book by its cover.
It’s it crazy how no one knows whether Haylee Steinfeld will be nominated for supporting or lead actress? And maybe neither because of this confusion? She’s basically True Grit‘s only remaining chance and they’re bungling the campaign.
Apparently *yesterday* was the last day I would not be inundated with Oscar hype. But now you’ve gone and started it early.
Instead of watching these “stars!” pat their own backs, I’ll just post an ad on CL for a bukkake seen of my own importance. I like to call them “snowstorms”.
I’m glad Jeff Bridges will be ignored because I don’t think I heard one thing he said in True Grit. I understand that this one eye and filthy underpants = the fake nose on Nicole Kidman from a few years back but he bores the pants off me.
I agree about the Kings and the Colin Firth and Ryan Goosegg. Ryan does deserve a nod for Blue Valentine because he’s loathsomely loveably pathetic for adult children of alcoholics.
I would love Annette to win but ONLY if she makes a Sean Penn type acceptance speech about marriage equality. Othewise, she can keep on waiting with her trans daughter and slut husband and Natalie Porthole can climb on stage and grab the award while pulling black feathers out of her back and ripping the foetus from her womb as proof of her chops.
Yes – Firth should have received an Oscar for “A Single Man” last year – but he didn’t. Just as Elizabeth Taylor should have received an Oscar for either “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” or “Suddenly Last Summer” but she didn’t – so they gave her one for “Butterfield 8” – not her best work. It’s how the mindless Academy works. It’ll be the same for Annette Bening who should have won for “American Beauty.”
‘ natalie porthole can climb on stage…while pulling black feathers out of her back and ripping the foetus from her womb’
good god man ! did THAT happen in ‘black swan’ ? i’m very glad i didn’t go see that one.
@8 Regardless of whether she’s the lead female character or not, there’s no way they’d nominate her against Natalie Portman if they can possibly not, so if they’re pushing her, it’ll be in the supporting slot.
I’m a big Colin Firth fan, and while I really liked his performance in A Single Man, as a film I much preferred The King’s Speech.
Long shot prediction: Cyrus, Never Let Me Go, Please Give, Let Me In, and I Am Love will sweep the Oscars. Swinton and Reilly will dance on the stage together in celebration. There will be cutaway shots showing Portman crying and Jonah Hill clapping, which will then get re-posted and re-mixed on the internets the following day.
@15, in all seriousness, I Am Love deserves Oscar love. Tilda could give a speech in Italian!
@16: Italian with a Russian accent? Or just Italian with a British accent?
And in all seriousness, all the ones I listed deserve an Oscar for one reason or another.
I agree that Colin Firth should have won last year, which is exactly why he’ll win this year as Rhett Oracle @12 smartly pointed out. Jeff Bridges won last year, and I don’t know that his performance in True Grit is enough for back-to-back Oscars. @4 is correct in that Eisenberg’s performance may be perceived as just a great delivery of a great script. 127 Hours is still a bit under the radar (that might change if it gets into the 10 Best Picture nods) for co-Oscar show host James Franco. Robert Duvall might get nominated for Get Low (deservedly so) but even less people seem to have seen that than 127 Hours, and it won’t even be out on DVD until February 22nd. I think Firth is a lock.
@18: Get Low played on a domestic flight I was on at the end of December. I thought that was odd.
Dude… spoiler alert?
20: You win!
The dresses… oh..
The Dresses!!
For heaven’s sake, a good third of all Oscars given are given because the guy should have won it the previous year. Now, 80 years in, we’re going to get all righteous about it?
Ironic that you’re complaining about undeserved Oscars the same year that TRUE FUCKING GRIT is a likely contender.