Live from Oscar Noms

aka Extremely Loud and Incredibly Whack

Stephen Daldry's 4th movie didn't bring him his 4th Oscar nomination, but his film somehow snuck in to one of 9 Best Picture nominations, despite some poor reviews.  Also, a surprise to see War Horse up over The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, especially because it isn't up for any other major awards (aka it has no shot at winning).

All of my wildcard projections were right, however, the Oscars still managed to make it exciting, putting up surprise SAG noms Démian Bichir for A Better Life and Nick Nolte for Warrior.


As for Animated Feature, The Adventures of Tin Tin had it's short affair with awards end at the Globes and PGA last week, it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar.  Instead, we've got; a French noir mystery, A Cat in Paris, and a Spanish dream chasing story Chico and Rita.

Nailed the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy noms (as shameless boil-over from the British schmoozing from last year), and I was (I swear) about to call out Margin Call for Best Original Screenplay, it did pretty well with the Critics, I thought they might give the smaller, debut feature some attention.

Too bad Shallene Woodley couldn't make it on for The Descendants, this may be a sign that the film is losing steam for the other races.  Instead Janet Mcteer was nominated for no other reason other than the fact that she is British and older.  Clooney is still the front runner for Best Actor, but his lead slowly grows smaller as the SAGs approach.

I'll get all the noms posted later today, The Artist is the current front-runner for Best Picture, but we could see a replay of the Globes where everything ends winning something.
In the meantime here's a link to the noms:
http://a.oscar.go.com/media/2012/pdf/nominees.pdf

Getting it in

soooo brad pitt didn't win... this is awkward.

listen, the Globes were pretty predictable, but the comedy/drama split kept all the races alive.
Best Actor is still between Jean Dujardin and George Clooney, Best Actress is close between Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams.

Not to mention Best Picture is still up in the air.  The PGA gave their nod to The Artist, but The Descendants is close behind, and don't forget about Hugo (that might be my pathetic attempt to put in my favorite in the race).

Anyway, my next post will be at 5am tomorrow so be awake, my nomination predictions are posted, but I'm actually hoping that I'm wrong (no too wrong please), but I'm hoping for some big nomination surprised tomorrow.

Until then, I'm out.

Live from the Globes

Chillin at the Hilton, I had to rush back to see the show.  Usually I can charm the red carpet security to let me in.
I guess weak award seasons make me weaker...

Anyway, the globes are on now, just a few awards in and Ricky Gervais gave perfect example of how stoned off crack the HFPA is.  Only to be topped by Laura Dern winning Best Actress in a Comedy Series.  The HFPA's wanking will probably come to a quaking climax when Brad Pitt is giving his acceptance speech (oh God, too late to turn back on that now...).

Anyway, the DGA noms are posted, I'll post the Globe winners after the show.

Unless Tilda Swinton wins -_-,
If there's two things that irk me, it's a Brit winning over a bunch of Americans and Tebow.
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