The 82nd Academy Awards are tonight, and the best, brightest and beautiful of Hollywood will gather yet again to honor the year that was in cinema. Below are my predictions for who will win the hardware tonight.
Fill out your Oscar pools carefully. (And as a reminder, here is a full list of the nominees in all the major categories.)
Best Picture – The Hurt Locker
Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actor – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress – Gabourey Sidibe, Precious (IF THERE WILL BE A SURPRISE ON OSCAR NIGHT THIS WILL BE IT. If all goes to predictabilty, congratulations, Sandra Bullock.)
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Original Screenplay – Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
Best Adapted Screenplay – Up in the Air, Jason Reitman
Animated Feature – Up
Art Direction – Avatar
Cinematography – Avatar
Costume Design – The Young Victoria
Documentary Feature – The Cove
Film Editing – Avatar
Foreign Language Film – The White Ribbon
Makeup – The Young Victoria
Original Score – Up
Original Song – “The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart
Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker
Sound Mixing – The Hurt Locker
Visual Effects – Avatar
(Disclaimer: I have no clue whatsoever on these final three.)
Documentary Short – The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Animated Short – A Matter of Loaf and Death
Live Action Short – The New Tenants
Related Topics:
2010 Academy Awards,
A Matter of Loaf and Death,
Academy Awards,
Alec Baldwin,
Avatar,
Christolph Waltz,
Crazy Heart,
Gabourey Sidibe,
Inglorious Basterds,
Jason Reitman,
Jeff Bridges,
Kathryn Bigelow,
Precious,
Quentin Tarantino,
Steve Martin,
The Cove,
The Hurt Locker,
The Last Truck,
The New Tenants,
The White Ribbon,
Up,
Up in the Air
The other night, I watched Fight Club and the haiku scene spoke to me:
First off, it emphasizes the mundane routines that most of us trudge through each day, but more poignantly, seventeen syllables really sum up the theme of the movie. That said, I figured I’d go through this year’s Best Picture nominees and see if I could capture each one’s essence through haiku:
Avatar
poorly insured vet
wooed by evil white men to
ruin blue harmony
An Education
don’t weep, poor David
humbert humbert grew madder
Roman had to flee
The Hurt Locker
some people love war
diffuse suicides with ease
cereal aisle boggles
The Blind Side
homeless and broken
white guilt builds great left tackle
i want an Oscar
Up
dreams of adventure
lost in one and only love
dreamt again in—squirrel!
District 9
a swiss cheese story
a wasted allegory
a craving for shrimp
Up in the Air
blame can be outsourced
reality: relative
get behind asians
Inglourious Basterds
{thump!} knells the Bear Jew
credits roll an inferno
bon joor no hitler
Precious: based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire
rolling hills of flesh
suffocating grief and pain
no redemption here
A Serious Man
i haven’t seen it
i hear it’s about a jew
can’t roll on shabbos
Related Topics:
A Serious Man,
An Education,
Avatar,
District 9,
Fight Club,
Inglourious Basterds,
Precious,
The Blind Side,
The Hurt Locker,
Up,
Up in the Air
