The 85th Annual Academy Awards.

[j7wild]

Dang!

The only movies I've seen on the following list in any category are Skyfall, The Hobbit, Snow White and the Huntsman and Prometheus.

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Nominees:
Amour (2012): To Be Determined
Argo (2012): Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald
Django Unchained (2012): Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone
Les Misérables (2012): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life of Pi (2012): Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
Lincoln (2012): Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Silver Linings Playbook (2012): Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, Jonathan Gordon
Zero Dark Thirty (2012): Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Nominees:
Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (2012)
Hugh Jackman for Les Misérables (2012)
Joaquin Phoenix for The Master (2012)
Denzel Washington for Flight (2012/I)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Nominees:
Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Emmanuelle Riva for Amour (2012)
Quvenzhané Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Naomi Watts for The Impossible (2012)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Nominees:
Alan Arkin for Argo (2012)
Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master (2012)
Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln (2012)
Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained (2012)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Nominees:
Amy Adams for The Master (2012)
Sally Field for Lincoln (2012)
Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012)
Helen Hunt for The Sessions (2012)
Jacki Weaver for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Best Achievement in Directing

Nominees:
Michael Haneke for Amour (2012)
Ang Lee for Life of Pi (2012)
David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Steven Spielberg for Lincoln (2012)
Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Nominees:
Amour (2012): Michael Haneke
Django Unchained (2012): Quentin Tarantino
Flight (2012/I): John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom (2012): Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty (2012): Mark Boal

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Nominees:
Argo (2012): Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi (2012): David Magee
Lincoln (2012): Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook (2012): David O. Russell

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Nominees:
Brave (2012): Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie (2012): Tim Burton
ParaNorman (2012): Sam Fell, Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012): Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph (2012): Rich Moore

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Nominees:
Amour (2012)(Austria)
War Witch (2012)(Canada)
No (2012/I)(Chile)
A Royal Affair (2012)(Denmark)
Kon-Tiki (2012)(Norway)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Nominees:
Anna Karenina (2012/I): Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained (2012): Robert Richardson
Life of Pi (2012): Claudio Miranda
Lincoln (2012): Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall (2012): Roger Deakins

Best Achievement in Editing

Nominees:
Argo (2012): William Goldenberg
Life of Pi (2012): Tim Squyres
Lincoln (2012): Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook (2012): Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty (2012): William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor

Best Achievement in Production Design

Nominees:
Anna Karenina (2012/I): Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012): Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, Simon Bright
Les Misérables (2012): Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi (2012): David Gropman, Anna Pinnock
Lincoln (2012): Rick Carter, Jim Erickson

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Nominees:
Anna Karenina (2012/I): Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables (2012): Paco Delgado
Lincoln (2012): Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror (2012/I): Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012): Colleen Atwood

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Nominees:
Hitchcock (2012): Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012): Peter King, Rick Findlater, Tami Lane
Les Misérables (2012): Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Nominees:
Anna Karenina (2012/I): Dario Marianelli
Argo (2012): Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi (2012): Mychael Danna
Lincoln (2012): John Williams
Skyfall (2012): Thomas Newman

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

Nominees:
Chasing Ice (2012): J. Ralph("Before My Time")
Les Misérables (2012): Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer("Suddenly")
Life of Pi (2012): Mychael Danna, Bombay Jayshree("Pi's Lullaby")
Skyfall (2012): Adele, Paul Epworth("Skyfall")
Ted (2012): Walter Murphy, Seth MacFarlane("Everybody Needs a Best Friend")

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

Nominees:
Argo (2012): John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, José Antonio García
Les Misérables (2012): Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes
Life of Pi (2012): Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Drew Kunin
Lincoln (2012): Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Ron Judkins
Skyfall (2012): Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Stuart Wilson

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Nominees:
Argo (2012): Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained (2012): Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi (2012): Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton
Skyfall (2012): Per Hallberg, Karen M. Baker
Zero Dark Thirty (2012): Paul N.J. Ottosson

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Nominees:
The Avengers (2012): Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, Daniel Sudick
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012): Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White
Life of Pi (2012): Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott
Prometheus (2012/I): Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012): Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Phil Brennan, Neil Corbould, Michael Dawson

Best Documentary, Features

Nominees:
5 Broken Cameras (2011): Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers (2012): To Be Determined
How to Survive a Plague (2012): To Be Determined
The Invisible War (2012): To Be Determined
Searching for Sugar Man (2012): To Be Determined

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Nominees:
Inocente (2012): Sean Fine, Andrea Nix
Kings Point (2012): Sari Gilman, Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine (2012): Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan
Open Heart (2013): Kief Davidson, Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption (2012/V): Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

Best Short Film, Animated

Nominees:
Adam and Dog (2011): Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole (2012): PES
Head Over Heels (2012): Timothy Reckart, Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Paperman (2012): John Kahrs
The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare (2012): David Silverman

Best Short Film, Live Action

Nominees:
Asad (2012): Bryan Buckley, Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys (2012): Sam French, Ariel Nasr
Curfew (2012/I): Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (2012): Tom Van Avermaet, Ellen De Waele
Henry (2011/III): Yan England

[j7wild]

4 of those Best Picture nominated films I've never heard of:

Argo, Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Silver Linings Playbook

I don't think they'd even played here.

I look at Fandango.com and Cinemark.com every Thursday and Friday to see what's new for the week and I don't remember seeing them:

[ClaytonMG]

Argo and Silver Linings Playbook were actually pretty big movies. In fact both of them are talked about a lot due to their amazing reviews...

Not sure about Beasts of the Southern Wild (I think I've seen a poster for this) or Amour. Actually Amour is a foreign film, isn't it?

[j7wild]

Life of Pi is a movie I will never watch.

Why?

Because the featurette trailer turned me off to it!

How?

I went to see Prometheus on June 18 at the IMAX.

As usual we had the trailers and the concession promotion and the turn off your cell phone and please stop talking message.

Then we had the 3D projection trailer and the IMAX sound system trailer.

This is where the movie starts - at least with every IMAX movie I'd ever seen.

But nooooo, not this time.

Next thing they showed is this kid on a boat in the middle of the ocean with a tiger.

There was no studio card and no green MPAA trailer card in front of it.

I thought it was another sound system trailer so it should be over in 1 minute but it wasn't.

It went on forever and ever; fishes flying at the boat, the tiger trying to catch the fishes, boat rolling around in the ocean waves (hurry up and capsize so we can't get this over already), etc etc

Then after all that, we are told it's Life of Pi.

What is Life of Pi?

I never heard anything about it until that moment.

I frequent movie websites several times a day every day.

I am up to date on everything that's in production, pre-production, this week's release, next week's release, releases scheduled for months down the line, direct to video release but I never heard of Life of Pi.

Not one ioda of it.

I understand FOX wants to promote the movie and I can appreciate their efforts to do so;

I know a movie costs millions to produce nowadays and the thin line between box office flop and success is very slim.

But FOX execution was all wrong.

Put in in front of Prometheus with no advance warning.

At least we are told in advance when the Dark Knight Rising exclusive trailer will play in the IMAX theater and which movie it will be attached to.

Not one word from FOX.

I wouldn't (and I am sure I wasn't the only one in the audience thinking the same thing) so upset about it if they put it in front of Prometheus but before the 3D projection trailer and the IMAX sound system trailer instead.

Everyone was settled in their seats, thinking "This is it! Prometheus is going to start now" and instead we get Life of Pi.

Furthermore, again at the time, I am sure I wasn't the only one to also think "Are we in the correct auditorium? Is this the Prometheus showing? It has to be. There are 24 screens here and this is the ONLY IMAX auditorium!"

FOX SUCKS!

I still haven't forgotten them for cancelling some of the BEST TV series ever, at least a couple dozen of them in the past 20 years, without giving them a chance to become successful;

many of them were cancelled after only one season or less.

[ClaytonMG]

lol seriously... I... even respond to that lol

I will agree about them cancelling the best TV shows though. You can pretty much count on Fox cancelling any show people like.

[j7wild]

Tomorrow is my day off.

I think my wife and I will go see Zero Dark Thirty after lunch.

The grandparents can baby sit for a few hours and it will be easier for them then because that's the children's nap time.

[Haazhel_Thorn]

Life of Pi is a movie I will never watch.

Why?

Because the featurette trailer turned me off to it!

It's your decision, but you'll miss something. For me "Life of Pi" is the best 3D-movie so far and the cinematography, the acting and the VFX are amazing. The only negative was it was not in HFR.

I frequent movie websites several times a day every day.

I am up to date on everything that's in production, pre-production, this week's release, next week's release, releases scheduled for months down the line, direct to video release but I never heard of Life of Pi.

Then your information system seems to not yet be complete.

[j7wild]

Then your information system seems to not yet be complete.

One of those websites I go to every day, several times a day, is Movie-List.

I didn't see Life of Pi on here prior to seeing it on IMAX before Prometheus and I look at the trailer forum every day for new trailers.

[j7wild]

Jessica Chastain

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1567113/

Where did she come from?

I've only seen a couple of her movies (The Debt, Texas Killing Fields) but it seems she is coming out of nowhere, or as the saying goes out of left field, to garnish attention.

There is already talk about how she is the favorite to beat Jennifer Lawrence for the Best Actress Oscar win for her role in Zero Dark Thirty, which by the way Jessica did win the Best Actress Golden Globes for, last Sunday.



Surprisingly, the two top box office draw this past weekend are both Chastain's starring vehicles: Zero Dark Thirty and Mama, a PG-13 horror movie which earned $28.1 million to gain the #1 spot.

It's like Jennifer Lawrence when she was nominated 2 years ago for Best Actress for her performance in Winter's Bone.

That was the only movie I've seen her in;

granted it was a good movie and a good performance from her but I didn't think it was worthy of an Oscar nomination.