83rd Academy Awards LIVE THREAD

27 February 2011 | Dolly Howard/DollyCali

[hattend]

Hattend’s prediction of winners for the 83rd Academy Awards

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Actor in a Leading Role

•Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”

Actor in a Supporting Role

•Geoffrey Rush in “The King’s Speech”

Actress in a Leading Role

•Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”

Actress in a Supporting Role

•Hailee Steinfeld in “True Grit”

Animated Feature Film

•“Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich

Art Direction

•“The King’s Speech”
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr

Cinematography

•“True Grit” Roger Deakins

Costume Design

•“True Grit” Mary Zophres

Directing

•“The King’s Speech” Tom Hooper

Documentary (Feature)

• Beats Me

Documentary (Short Subject)
• Beats Me

Film Editing

•“The King’s Speech” Tariq Anwar

Foreign Language Film

• Beats Me

Makeup

•“The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)

•“The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Music (Original Song)

•“If I Rise” from “127 Hours” Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

Best Picture

•“The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

or

•“True Grit” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
(Really? Ten movies vying for Best Pic? C’mon!)

Short Film (Animated)
• Beats Me

Short Film (Live Action)
• Beats Me

Sound Editing

•“True Grit” Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey

Sound Mixing

•“True Grit” Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Visual Effects

•“Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

•“True Grit” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Writing (Original Screenplay)

•“The King’s Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler

[Borges]

I don’t follow. The Oscars are an industry award that has been around for about 85 years. Most Best Picture winners tend to be on the conservative side.

[Borges]

Actors only nominate other actors. Only four of the Oscars go to actors.

[windcliff]

Ping

[JoeProBono]

[llmc1]

Your “hate the Oscars” thread is cute! I can’t help but look forward to the big show, though.
Some of my guesses:
King’s Speech (best pic)
Toy Story (best anim)
Inception (vis eff)
How to Train Dragon (score)
Alice in Wonderland (costume)

It’s a tough year for predictions.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I don't follow that you don't follow.

Are you saying that Hollywood is conservative?
And the only focus is so-called “Best Pictures”?
And that the Left would have no problem with the scenario I presented?

[Borges]

I’m saying your analogy doesn’t hold because AMPAS is often rather conservative. Look at the Best Picture choices. They are what people remember.

[MasterGunner01]

I looked at the actors and the movies and I discovered I’d never heard of most and I don’t care. Kiss off, Hollywood.

[Gena Bukin]

For the big six, my predictions are:

Colin Firth
Christian Bale
Natalie Portman (with Annette Bening as a possible upset)
Hailee Steinfeld
David Fincher
King's Speech

[dfwgator]

And as for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, I’m with Bill Murray, Who cares?

[Berlin_Freeper]

For every minute you can remotely identify as conservative, I am confident that I can easily show 2 minutes that are easily liberal.

My analogy is about awards night, you are lost in some imaginary detail.

[Borges]

Every minute of the show or every minite of Oscar winning films?

[Borges]

Keep up with cinema much?

[MasterGunner01]

Yup. Just like Bubonic Plague.

[Borges]

There’s lots of bad books and music out there too. Don’t read or listen to music either?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Most observers would agree that Oscar night is a big night for Liberals. Your attempt to narrow it down to a Conservative moment is a huge fail, and suspect in my eyes.

You said you don’t get it, I accept that.

[dfwgator]

Whoopi: Republicans are so stupid. [the crowd laughs] I hate Republicans. [the audience laughs] Republicans are so stupid. [the audience laughs]

[MasterGunner01]

Very true about the bad books and music. I am very picky about both. I've been around long enough to determine what I like, the amount I like, and the kinds I like.

Suffice to say, most contemporary music has ‘way too much bass and the lyrics are unmentionable in polite company. Some of it sounds like two tomcats with tails tied together and thrown over a clothes line.

The music field does have very good pieces and vocals, but mostly not by the current group of performers. Lots of good listening to choose from besides contemporary.

I like techno thrillers that are well written and plausible. Vince Flynn and Tom Clancy get it right 99% of the time. I like the sci-fi masters from the golden age of sci-fi writing and older fantasy writers; current sci-fi and fantasy writers are very hit and miss; mostly miss. I like most nonfiction about tech, historical, and political stuff. Human behavior is remarkably consistent over the centuries and era to era. Nonfiction, not so much.

So, what's your genre?

[Yaelle]

Cool thread. I love the academy awards, maybe because I was born in Hollywood. I love the clothes and I love ripping the stupid liberal comments the actors make, and it’s just plain fun to watch.

Sadly, my son has a huge athletic competition during Oscar time today so I have to watch it tomorrow! Bummer.

I assume a lot of the ladies have been scrambling in the past few days to find wraps for their gowns. It’s a beautiful sunny day but freezing (for us) with a high of 50 in LA today, which means that by 3 pm it will be less than 50. Highly unusual for here so we are freezing. Tonight it will get down into the 30s again.