The Oscar Nominations just concluded and not without some surprises. The final list will be out shortly, but for Best Picture the nominees are: Avatar, The Blind Side, An Education,The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air.
That a nomination did not go to Star Trek was a shock to many on the Facebook Livestream, which indicates how the public's going to respond to the news of the list. But with that, Emeryville-based Pixar scored a Best Picture nomination for its animated movie, Up. And in general, I can't remember a Best Picture list that included so many science fiction and animated movies: Avatar, District 9, and Up.
Congratulations to the compelling movie Precious, where Director Lee Daniels, Gaborney Sidibe, Mo'Nique, and the movie itself were honored with nominations in the Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Film Editing, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture categories.
Other Best Picture surprises were for The Blind Side, the excellent story about Baltimore Ravens Offensive Tackle Michael Oher and the family who adopted him. While the story is largely around Sandra Bullocks great performance, some forget that without Michael Oher there would be no The Blind Side.
More updates, soon.
I don't know how Hurt Locker got nominated, but I thought that movie was bla at most...30min into it I wanted to stop but thought to myself that's it's almost over so i'll just finish it...well what do you know, it was 2hrs! I shoulda paid attention to the play time
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