Best Picture - Okay so we all know that Avatar has become some kind of freaking worldwide sensation but I really don't know what all of this hype is about, but I will say I haven't seen the movie so maybe I am in the dark. From what I hear the movie is just visually beautiful the story and the acting are terrible. I mean in my opinion if you don't have any actors nominated for their performance or aren't nominated for the screenplay award how can you be best picture? Shouldn't Best picture be the whole package it has to represent this year forever! Quick digression this is why I was so pissed when T-Swift won album of the year at the Grammys. Continuing on, The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds were two of my favorite movies from this year both are visually beautiful, the acting is great, and stories are compelling. I'm Team Bigelow/Tarentino!! Oh and before I forget HOW THE HELL IS UP NOMINATED!! I'm sorry but the second movie ever to be nominate for best picture should not be UP, there is no way in hell it can even be placed in the same category as the first animated movie to be nominated for a best picture Oscar, Beauty and the Beast. Also I feel bad for Precious it was such a touching movie but it came out in the wrong year.
* “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
* “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
* “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
* “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
* “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
* “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
* “A Serious 
* “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
* “Up in the
Actor in a Leading Role - What can you say about this category, Jeff Bridges has one all the other awards leading up to this and there is no doubt in my mind he will take the Oscar home as well. I will say though that I feel really bad for Colin Firth, "A Single Man" is beautiful and his performance is awesome.
* Jeff Bridges in “Crazy
* George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
* Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
* Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
* Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”
Actor in a Supporting Role - Let's just be blunt here, Christoph Waltz betta take the mutha fuken Oscar home because none of the other nominees had a performance like him.
* Matt Damon in “Invictus”
* Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
* Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
* Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
* Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”
Actress in a Leading Role - 2009 was the year of Sandra when it comes to leading ladies with the Proposal and The Blind Side grossing over 200 mil she was the highest paid woman in Hollywood this year. The critics loved her in The Blind Side because i mean hey who else can go from adorable boss pretending to be engaged to bad ass southern wife. I won't be upset when she wins because I love her and any movie she does I'm a fan of, I will say I think Gabourey Sidibe should deff be watched. Her performance as Precious was moving and definitely touched your heart, in a few years i think she'll be following Halle Berry's footsteps if she keeps it up.
* Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
* Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
* Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
* Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
* Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”
Actress in a Supporting Role - Do I really need to explain my choice here? This woman made me cry, hate and love all in the same movie, sorry to say this but those other girls should just stay home cause they ain't gonna touch that stage. I still love you Penelope baby, just avoid doing another shit job like Nine, kay?
* Penélope Cruz in “Nine”
* Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”
* Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
* Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”
* Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Animated Feature Film - Okay now this is where I'm really passionate. I love animated movies they are my favorite thing to watch and this year I feel like the award is going to go to the wrong movie. Okay yes we all know "Up" is good but it's not amazing! Yeah they told 30 minutes of the movie with no sound and it still touched you but some of these other nominees were ground breaking. Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" was utterly amazing I will say that he nearly achieved his masterpiece with this one. I've seen it three times and it never gets old. "The Princess and The Frog" this is who the Oscar belongs too. Disney finally returned to its roots of beautiful 2D animation and it seemed as if they never stopped. The movie could easily be shown with Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and fit perfectly yet at the same time it has the essence of 2009. Let's not forget that it gave little African American girls around the country their own princess to look up to. A princess that is not stuck in a tower asleep, not locked away by an evil step mother, a princess that has a mind and is persistent and under stands hard work and wants to achieve something outta life. Oh and lets not forget the music! Randy Newman did a fabulous job, I was singing all the songs right outta the theater. Pixar is gonna take home the Oscar but if by some chance "The Princess in the Frog" takes home that award you will hear my screams of joy on the other side of the country.
* “Coraline” Henry Selick
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson
* “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements
* “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore
* “Up” Pete Docter
Art Direction - OMFG don't be so shocked, yes I want "Avatar" to win this. I'm still a film student people and I recognize great art direction when I see it.
* “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
* “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
* “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
* “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
* “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Cinematography - I'm pretty sure we all know "Avatar" will win every award relating to editing, art, or sound but cinematography is an interesting category for me. How can "Avatar" win this award if the entire movie was recreated digitally. The camera operators never had to work with shadows, lighting issues, etc. So can it really win this award? IDK. But the cinematography in "The Hurt Locker" is awesome it has my vote.
* “Avatar” Mauro Fiore
* “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel
* “The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd
* “Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson
* “The White Ribbon” Christian Berger
Costume Design - Make a period piece = win costume design Oscar, It's not rocket science people.
* “Bright Star” Janet Patterson
* “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
* “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
* “Nine” Colleen Atwood
* “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell
Directing - OH HO HO HO HO!! Once again "Avatar" will probably take home the award but let's not forget that Kathryn Bigelow did an amazing job with "The Hurt Locker". She deserves this award because you can see all the hard work she did with the actors and crew to make sure each shot was able to deliver those lines properly, to make sure that we were in Iraq with these soliders. There were no 3D glasses but I felt like I was with them over there and that's a good director in my opinion.
* “Avatar” James Cameron
* “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
* “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels
* “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman
Documentary (Feature) - I'm kinda bias because I hate documentaries after the pain I went through senior year to create one as part of my graduation process so I never watch them, but I've heard great things about "The Cove"
* “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
* “The Cove” Nominees to be determined
* “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
* “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
* “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa
Documentary (Short Subject) - I have not seen any of these, nor have I heard of any of them so I don't feel good making a prediction. Sorry...
* “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
* “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
* “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
* “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
* “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Film Editing - He invented a new technology for the movie! I told I'll give credit when it's due! Stop judging me with those eyes!
* “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
* “District 9” Julian Clarke
* “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
* “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz
Foreign Language Film - Beautiful movie, I don't know a lick of german and I didn't have subtitles but it is definitely worth seeing if you haven't yet.
* “Ajami” Israel
* “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina
* “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru
* “Un Prophète” France
* “The White Ribbon” Germany
Makeup - Make a movie with aliens and monsters = Make up Oscar. It's not brain surgery
* “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
* “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
* “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Music (Original Score) - I'm not even going to comment on "Up" winning this because I think we all know why it's gonna take home this award.
* “Avatar” James Horner
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat
* “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
* “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer
* “Up” Michael Giacchino
Music (Original Song) - I have not heard "The Weary Kind" but I do know that all the critics love it apparently cause it has been snatching up all the awards. I will say that they totally picked the wrong song for "The Princess and The Frog" "Almost There" is good and would probably win if not for "The Weary Kind" but "Down in New Orleans"?? What the hell were they thinking there are so many better songs! If "Dig A Little Deeper" or "Going Down the Bayou" were nominated "The Weary Kind" would probably not take home that award, just sayin ya'll
* “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
* “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
* “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
* “Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
* “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Short Film (Animated) - I'm so bad I haven't seen any of these either =[
* “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert
* “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
* “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia
* “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
* “A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park
Short Film (Live Action) - I'm so bad I haven't seen any of these either =[
* “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
* “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
* “Kavi” Gregg Helvey
* “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
* “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Sound Editing - No comment I hope they just take the Oscar and get off the stage.
* “Avatar” Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
* “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
* “Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman
* “Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
* “Up” Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Sound Mixing - Transformers? Oh gawd now they can put that on the bow when it comes out on DVD, I can hear it now "Academy Award nominated Transformers" YUCK! Gag me with a spoon!! Hmmm this one is a little tricky to me but "Avatar" will probably win because it is "Avatar" but I'm still Team Bigelow!
* “Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
* “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
* “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
* “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
* “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Visual Effects - Did they really need to nominate someone else for this category? Just give Cameron his award so he can go start on the sequel before he dies.
* “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
* “District 9” Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
* “Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Now I never read the original version of "Up in the Air" but according to Katherine, they changed alot and made the story so much better, so kudos to them. I, however, think "Precious" could win because the movie did get alot of stir from this tiny independent movie to Academy Award nominated.
* “District 9” Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
* “An Education” Screenplay by Nick Hornby
* “In the Loop” Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
* “Up in the Air” Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Writing (Original Screenplay) - What Avatar isn't nominated for this award? Oh yeah that's right because a 7 year old with down syndrome could write a better story. Sorry Cameron maybe spend 15 years on the story for the sequel instead of the visuals. Tarantino you know how to write a good story go get yo award!
* “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
* “Inglourious Basterds” Written by Quentin Tarantino
* “The Messenger” Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
* “A Serious Man” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
* “Up” Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
There you have it folks! My predictions for the Oscars, love em or hate em it is what I think. We'll find out who the winners are on March 2!
Peace, Love and Chicken Grease
Philly
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