84th Academy Awards Nominations (2011)
The nominations have been announced. I'm still looking for the remaining nominations, but here are my initial thoughts on the currently available list: Extremely Loud managed to hang on long enough to earn a Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor nomination, but didn't make it in Best Director. Other shocks: The Tree of Life held on and stayed in the race despite a lot of failures. While Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy surged, it didn't get the nomination it most deserved: Best Picture. The Adventures of Tintin was rejected by the Academy's animation branch giving Rango the unequivocal lead in that race.
Terrence Malick made it into the list of Best Director nominees, but Steven Spielberg and Stephen Daldry did not. Demian Bichir and Gary Oldman made it into Best Actor, but Michael Fassbender did not. Rooney Mara is in Best Actress, but Tilda Swinton is not. Von Sydow took the place of critic's darling Albert Brooks. Melissa McCarthy managed to make it all the way through, but Shailene Woodley unfortunately did not. 50/50 and Win Win were ignored in favor of Bridesmaids and Margin Call. The Ides of March hung on to a nomination in Adapted Screenplay over The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Help was shockingly ignored, blocking it from any chance of winning Best Picture (if the lack of Best Director didn't already guarantee that).
(UPDATE 1: The full nominations list is here, but missing one nominee in Art Direction.)
(UPDATE 2: The tallies are posted. Still no word on the missing Art Direction nominee.)
(UPDATE 3: Found the missing Art Direction nominee. The nominations list is now complete.)
Nomination Tallies
(11) Hugo
(10) The Artist
(6) Moneyball / War Horse
(5) The Descendants / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(4) The Help / Midnight in Paris
(3) Albert Nobbs / Harry Potter / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Transformers / The Tree of Life
The Nominations
Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Best Director
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants – Alexander Payne
Hugo – Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
Best Actor
Demian Bichir – A Better Life
George Clooney – The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Best Actress
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis – The Help
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Nick Nolte – Warrior
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress
Bérénice Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer – The Help
Best Original Screenplay
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Margin Call
Midnight in Paris
A Separation
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Original Score
The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Best Original Song
"Man or Muppet" - The Muppets
"Real in Rio" - Rio
Best Editing
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Best Cinematography
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Art Direction
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
Best Costume Design
Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.
Best Makeup
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
The Iron Lady
Best Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Best Sound Editing
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Best Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best Foreign Language Film
Bullhead - Belgium
Footnote - Israel
In Darkness - Poland
Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
A Separation - Iran
Best Documentary Feature
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated
Best Documentary Short
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God Is Bigger Than Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Best Animated Short
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Broom of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
Best Live Action Short
Pentecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic
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January 24th, 2012 - 09:26
I’ MISSING TILDA SWINTON BEST ACTRESS FOR WE NEED TO TALK ABAUT KEVIN.
January 24th, 2012 - 09:25
No nomination for J. Edgar? (!) And why the hell Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for best picture? But I’m glad The Tree of Life got its deserved nominations.
January 24th, 2012 - 09:04
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is one of the least loved by critics that manage to get a nomination for best picture EVER (that I can remember of)
January 24th, 2012 - 09:03
whos Demian Bichir anyway?
January 24th, 2012 - 09:10
If you’ve seen the TV show Weeds, he’s the Mexican drug lord Nancy has a fling with and who becomes the father of her baby.
January 24th, 2012 - 15:18
That show never got to Italy I’m afraid…
Sometimes Oscar can be more unconventional than it may appear…
January 24th, 2012 - 08:52
I haven’t seen Drive, but I was surprised that Albert Brooks didn’t get nominated, considering his many precursor wins. I guess the lack of a SAG nomination was telling.
Christopher Plummer is poised to become the oldest Supporting Actor winner, and Max won Sydow becomes the second oldest Supporting Actor nominee after Hal Holbrook.
The DGA and SAG will perhaps hint at the Artist/Hugo and Davis/Streep contests. Looks to me like the awards will be pretty spread out this year. I see The Descendants and Moneyball splitting the Actor/Adapted Screenplay awards – and it can go either way.
With all the theorizing about preferential ballots, they still came pretty close to 10 nominees after all.
I’m not much into Animated films, but weren’t there surprises and omissions there?
Congrats to Gary Oldman on finally getting a nomination.
January 24th, 2012 - 08:43
Should I be the one to point out the fact that The Tree of Life got as many nominations as Transformers: Dark of the Moon?
January 24th, 2012 - 08:58
Yes it dit, but there is a big difference in being nominated for Visual Effects and sound than being nominated for Best Picture, Director and Cinematography
January 24th, 2012 - 08:42
The Artist, Rango and A Separation will be the winners. Period.
January 24th, 2012 - 08:19
Many personally favorite performances and other categories were snubbed
But I’m glad I got The Tree of Life for Best Picture and Director right, I loved that film
We can’t complain about the Oscars being predictable this year. There were many surprises
January 24th, 2012 - 08:09
The oddest category: Best Original Song
Only two nominees. Why bother having the category at all if that’s what the new rules wind up producing?
January 24th, 2012 - 08:19
And a shitty list of nominees to boot. Both other original songs from The Muppets were better. Obviously they need a new, better nominating system.
January 24th, 2012 - 08:07
There are now officially only three films that can win Best Picture: The Artist, The Descendants and Hugo. These are the only three films to appear as nominees for Directing and Editing.
January 24th, 2012 - 08:14
More often true than not but not a real rule as the producers of Driving Miss Daisy can attest to.
The other oft-quoted non-rule is that the film with the msot nominations wins, which would favor Hugo over The Artist, but I dont think that will happen. The Artist has it in the bag.
January 24th, 2012 - 08:20
Firstly, if Driving Miss Daisy, one of only three films to ever win without a Best Director nomination is the most recent choice, the statistic isn’t insignificant. Nor is the Best Editing stat, which goes back to 1980′s lack of Editing nomination for Ordinary People as the last time that occurred.
As for most nominations wins? In the last ten years, 4 films have won without being most nominated. That statistic doesn’t hold much weight anymore.
January 24th, 2012 - 16:11
That’s a good barometer, but an even stronger one is adding a screenplay nomination between Directing and Editing. Finally, after Editing include Acting nominations as a nice to have but not essential. So, looking at the nine Best picture nominees with an eye on these other nominations, here’s how they would be eliminated:
War Horse: No Director, No Screenplay, No Editing, No Acting
E. L. & I. C.: No, No, No, 1 Supp. Actor
The Help: No, No, No, 1 Actress, 1 Supp Actress
The Tree of Life: Director, No, No, No
Midnight in Paris: Director, Screenplay, No, No
Moneyball: No, Screenplay, Editing, 1 Actor, 1 Supp. Actor
Hugo: Director, Screenplay, Editing, No
The Descendants: Director, Screenplay, Editing, 1 Actor
The Artist: Director, Screenplay, Editing, 1 Actor, 1 Supp. Actress
This doesn’t change your prediction since all three also have a screenplay nomination. Moneyball would have to pull a Driving Miss Daisy, and since the early years, only Hamlet won Best Picture with only two of the four other nominations. It wasn’t nominated for Screenplay or Editing.
January 24th, 2012 - 16:32
I don’t think it really counts the fact. Firstly, if you look solely at how frequently each of those occurred in recent years (not going all the way back mind you), you’d find far more Best Picture winners who did so without an acting nomination and a few that won without a screenplay nod.
Where as Director you have to go back to 1989 and Editing back to 1980. Those are far longer spans of accuracy than acting or writing, which is why I mentioned those specifically. And it was the one key element that should have told us Brokeback Mountain wasn’t going to win Best Picture. No editing nomination.
January 24th, 2012 - 08:03
Pete…… kudos to you for keeping that long titled film alive on the board despite the constant abuse hurled at you. Lol
January 24th, 2012 - 08:00
The missing nominee in Art Direction is Midnight in Paris
January 24th, 2012 - 07:56
I don’t see Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as “hanging on”. Like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy it’s surging in recognition.
They may have nominated Melissa Mccarthy for shitting in that sink, but at least they had the good taste not to nominate her film for Best Picture.
January 24th, 2012 - 07:47
Some nice surprises, I think. I’m just bummed 50/50 didn’t get anything. That’s my favorite movie so far this year.
January 24th, 2012 - 07:44
All I have to say is: “Holy Shit”
January 24th, 2012 - 07:21
Jack and Jill is missing from your Best Picture list. What gives?