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Comment by MultiTool on February 3, 2011 at 4:16am

Well, it's really only Firth's second nomination, it's surprising to me he doesn't have an Oscar already, he's quite the actor.

Comment by Army1601 on February 2, 2011 at 5:13pm

@31 Yuppp I am Fanboy, Hey it was an awesome movie! While it may not be Oscar bait, it definitely deserves recognition for proving Hollywood can still have an original idea or two for every terrible sequel or cliche filled train wreck. And the Social Network realistically could win the awards. Its not just that it was a facebook movie, it more so just featured the making in it, the story was toyed around with so that it could feature themes of humanity and transformation of how people communicate to each other. Thats something the academy typically digs.

 

@thejon93rd couldnt agree with you more about it being overrated, however Colin Firth was amazing. I would like for Franco to win for his emotional performance but the fact that Firth has been nominated many times for the award and has finally come on top with a performance that EVERYBODY is talking about makes me think realistically he'll win the award. And yea the best parts were the Firth and Rush scenes, the rest was putting me to sleep.

Comment by thejon93rd on February 2, 2011 at 9:33am

'The King's Speech' is the most overrated film of the year and I hope that James Franco can pull off the win over Colin Firth because Franco made the audience truly care for the character and we wanted to see him get out of that terrible situation. With Firth in 'The King's Speech', he makes a would be over-the-top performance subtle. I wouldn't mind, at all, if Colin Firth won. However, seeing the award called out to James Franco would be great. [Plus, 'The King's Speech' incredibly disappointed me upon walking out. The chemistry between Firth and Rush was solid, but the rest felt boring and had a "been there, done that" kind of attitude to it.]

Comment by 31 on January 31, 2011 at 8:36am

as for best picture, i think itll go to either The King's Speech (which is prob gonna win), or True Grit. in the last decade, the academy has been liking cowboy movies.

 

with your picks, i just cant see them giving best picture to a facebook movie, i just cant. Toy Story 3 wont win because the academy is still years away from letting a animated movie win best picture, let alone a sequel animated movie. Inception wont because its just not that type of movie. and Black Swan wont because regardless of it being a good movie, its too freaky of a movie.

Comment by 31 on January 31, 2011 at 8:31am

clearly someone is an Inception fanboy. yes its a good movie, is it oscar worthy? ehh not really. the only two i think it should honestly win is cinematography and original score. original score because i have seen so many movies or trailers now that copy Inception so blatantly. though these movies may have not intently done this, Inception did beat everone to the punch. 

Cinematography hands down should go to inception, it was the focus of the movie! thats what it was about!

 

but i like your picks, but i agree with Caliban

Comment by Caleb Kahn on January 29, 2011 at 10:29pm

When it concerns Best Supporting Actor, it brings to mind the notion that three of the nominees are already or will be known as big name superheroes (Bale as Batman, Renner as Hawkeye, and Ruffalo as Hulk). Perhaps the reason Garfield was snubbed and Hawkes was nominated over him was because the Academy wanted to highlight the actor who hadn't gotten one of the most coveted roles in Hollywood: Spider-Man in this case (yet again another superhero affiliated actor)! The Academy will just have to get used to the fact that superheroes are now the big thing and hopefully will be for a long time after! Now, Hawkeye is more unknown to the general public (as of now) while the Hulk (who is a household name) is appreciated and loved by the general public but not on the same level as say a Batman or a Spider-Man or a Superman (even though he could be damned close). So, the Oscars would nominate Renner and Ruffalo for those reasons and also because Ruffalo is a great actor who's time for an Oscar has been a long time coming and Renner is sort of like the new flavor of actor among audiences and critics with the roles he picks. They wouldn't nominate Garfield probably because either way, he's got an iconic superstar role like Spider-Man and they know that if he's successful with that, they'll feel they'll have plenty of time to give him an Oscar and delay his chances even more for future endeavors.

 

While I do love Renner and Hawkes for their performances in both films, I thought both of these guys well deserved a nomination at least, I do feel bad for Garfield in this case. Then again, if I was the president of the Academy, I would bring back the old Best Cast category which existed at one point in time because nowadays, it's getting to the point where every member of the cast is bringing their A-game to films which just shows how amazing the directors are with the actors. But Bale will undoubtedly win because he's proven long before he got Batman, that the Batman stigma doesn't rub well with him! He's like Robert De Niro 2.0 (I'd even go so far as 3.0 given the way De Niro's career has been lately) and with The Fighter, it seems like the Academy has found the perfect Oscar film for them to give an award to Christian Bale for and that's The Fighter. American Psycho was too controversial and polarized. The Machinist was again too controversial and unseen for the Academy to accept. 3:10 to Yuma was too much of an action movie for them to see Bale's performance properly. The Dark Knight was more focused on Heath Ledger (and for the right reasons this time). But now, The Fighter is the safest movie to give Bale an award for because without Bale in the movie, I'm sorry it would've just been another seen-it-before boxing movie. He made that movie as great as it was! I just also find it weird because ever since 2007 with No Country for Old Men, there's always been one performance nominated for Best Supporting Actor where everyone knew it was a foregone conclusion of who would win (Bardem for Old Men, Ledger for Dark Knight, Waltz for Basterds, and now Bale for Fighter)!

Comment by Edward Norton Hears A Who on January 29, 2011 at 10:58am

Thank you Robert colyar. While inception was a good movie it wasn't that great. It was overhyped and there are better movies that deserve to win.

Comment by Caliban on January 29, 2011 at 10:06am

I love Nolan films, but they're not Oscar material. They're not the sort of thing they're looking for.

Especially Inception, his films are always similar in style, not that most directors' aren't, but his style is beautiful and engaging, but it's not so revolutionary or academic.

I would be very surprised to see Inception win anything beyond special effects, sound, and soundtrack. 

Nolan makes the greatest, most intelligent summer blockbusters, but he doesn't create Oscar films.

Comment by Joe's the name on January 28, 2011 at 7:12pm

The reason Chris Nolan never wins anything at the Oscars is because he puts his movies out in the Summer.  July usually.  Personnally, I don't think he should give two shits about the Oscars because his last 3 movies have been in the Top 10 grossed of the year.  TDK and Inception were both in the Top 5.

 

In hollywood, Money is more important then Awards.

Comment by Chris Bartel on January 28, 2011 at 2:26pm

@robert Colyar

yeah there are better directors out there but how many have put out consistent films that were impressive on a technical level like chris nolan has done with almost every film he has made?   I personally like chris nolan movies for there technical aspect and the continued way they almost ask us to think and not just watch his movies.   

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