2010 Oscar Predictions
Best Picture: The King’s Speech
Best Actor: Colin Firth
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale
Best Actress: Natalie Portman
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo
Animated Film: Toy Story 3
Art Direction: The King’s Speech
Cinematography: True Grit
Costume Design: The King’s Speech
Directing: The Social Network
Documentary: Inside Job
Documentary Short: Poster Girl
Film Editing: The Social Network
Foreign Language Film: Biutiful
Makeup: The Wolfman
Original Score: The Social Network
Original Song: Toy Story 3
Animated Short: Day & Night
Live Action Short: The Crush
Sound Editing: Inception
Sound Mixing: Inception
Visual Effects: Inception
Adapted Screenplay: The Social Network
Original Screenplay: The King’s Speech
#1 The Social Network
“If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.”
Despite it being a weak year for movies, our top movie of the year will very likely be in the top 10 of the decade based on how well-made it is, as well as it’s cultural relevance.
#2 Blue Valentine
“In my experience, the prettier a girl is, the more nuts she is, which makes you insane.”
#3 The King’s Speech
” …Timing isn’t my strong suit.”
#4 Black Swan
“I just want to be perfect.”
#5 Inception
“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”
#6 Somewhere
“Hi, Cleo.”
My favorite part of Sofia Coppola’s 4th movie, besides the performance by the 11-year-old Elle Fanning, which somehow did not get the Oscar attention that the performances of Jennifer Lawrence and Hailee Steinfeld did, was the moment at a party where a model is inconspicuously drinking Sofia Coppola in a Can, the canned champagne from the Francis Ford Coppola vineyard.
#7 Winter’s Bone
“Never ask for what oughta be offered.”
#8 True Grit
“You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.”
#9 Biutiful
“You and I know the dead suffer if they leave debts behind.”
#10. Easy A
“The rumors of my promiscuity have been greatly exaggerated.”
The Oscars are just a week away, so it’s time for the annual NY Citybilly (or Online Journal or Possum Holler or Jersey Snore…) movies of the year list! The length of the list tends to change from year to year. This year I’m going to go with, oh, let’s say, 10. It wasn’t a spectacularly great year for movies, though that’s not the reason my #10 movie makes the list. It makes the list because it was a really, really good and fun movie; it’s an early front-runner for best teen comedy of the twenty-teens.
The list will continue throughout the week, with Oscar Prophecies coming on Oscar Day!
Oscar Predictions
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Deserves it, but I really liked Colin Firth)
Best Supporting Actor: Cristoph Waltz
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (Vomit)
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique
Animated Film: Up
Art Direction: Avatar
Cinematography: Avatar
Costume Design: Coco Before Chanel
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Best Documentary: The Cove
Documentary Short: China’s Unnatural Disaster
Film Editing: The Hurt Locker
Foreign Film: The White Ribbon
Make-up: Star Trek
Original Score: Up
Original Song: The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart (I love this song)
Animated Short: A Matter of Loaf and Death
Live Action Short: The Door
Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker
Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker
Visual Effects: Avatar
Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air
Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds (a close call with The Hurt Locker)
1. A SINGLE MAN
Simple. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. The fact that it was not nominated for Best Picture in a year where 10 films were chosen baffles me.
2. THE WHITE RIBBON
A close second. Number one and Oscar predictions tomorrow!
