Oscarz 2012 **long, loud, frappy fart noise**

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Best Picture:
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
"The Help"
"Hugo"
"Midnight in Paris"
"Moneyball"
"The Tree of Life"
"War Horse"

Best Actor:
Demian Bichir, "A Better Life"
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Jean Dujarin, "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 & Incredibly Close"

Best Supporting Actress:
Berenice Bejo, "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain, "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy, "Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs"
Octavia Spencer, "The Help"

Best Directing:
Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Alexander Payne, "The Descendants"
Martin Scorsese, "Hugo"
Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life"

Best Foreign Language Film:
"Bullhead" (Belgium)
"Footnote" (Israel)
"In Darkness" (Poland)
"Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada)
"A Separation" (Iran)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, "The Descendants"
John Logan, "Hugo"
George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, "The Ides of March"
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, "Moneyball"
Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"

Best Original Screenplay:
Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, "Bridesmaids"
J.C. Chandor, "Margin Call"
Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
Asghar Farhadi, "A Separation"

Best Animated Feature Film
"A Cat in Paris"
"Chico & Rita"
"Kung Fu Panda 2"
"Puss in Boots"
"Rango"

Best Cinematography:
"The Artist"
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
"Hugo"
"The Tree of Life"
"War Horse"

Best Sound Editing:
"Drive"
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
"Hugo"
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
"War Horse"

Best Original Score:
"The Adventures of Tintin," John Williams
"The Artist," Ludovic Bource
"Hugo," Howard Shore
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," Alberto Iglesias
"War Horse," John Williams

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 Film Editing:
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
"Hugo"
"Moneyball"

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"

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the fantastic Drive got as many nominations as Real Steel and Transformers. what a joke.

[one weak]

damn, yet again there are far too many movies for best picture. why is this necessary?

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especially when they're turds.

[lostpilot]

'The Help' was brilliant!

[chick de la lynch]

I know the Oscars are a complete joke, and essentially a waste of time but I'm rather angry Fassbender didn't get any recognition for his performance in Shame. Hands down the best performance of the year. Ebert was right, though. The Academy doesn't want to honor a performance about a chronic masturbator.

I'm still a little confuzzled about Bridesmaids getting recognition. I enjoyed it, yes, but it was it really one of the best screenplays of the year? Probably not. I will give Melissa McCarthy the best supporting actress nod. She was pretty awesome in it. Goes to show to the Apatow gang that women do it better.

I love Max Von Sydow and glad he got some love from the Academy even though it was in one of the worst films of the year that--shock! Got nominated for Best Picture, which is just a fucking joke all in itself. Oh, and who ever thought Jonah Hill would EVER grab an Oscar nomination? I haven't seen Moneyball, but  it still amuses me he is a contender.

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I've seen Moneyball, and it's Oscar-bait. It was a cool story in real life, but the film itself was just mediocre and nothing really special.

The only movie nominated for the main awards that I think deserved it was Midnight in Paris. Just give Woody Allen everything this year.

Also, why isn't the horse from War Horse nominated for best actor?

[chick de la lynch]

Because the Academy doesn't like horse faces.

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no wonder I haven't seen Sarah Jessica Parker at the Oscars. Ever.

[theis]

Probably the most boring list of nominees ever.

[defskull]

I guess Oscar voters didn't see 50/50? That movie/script/acting took a huge shit on Bridesmaids.

I've heard a lot of people say that 2011 wasn't a good year for movies, but that's not true. It's just that all the good ones aren't getting the recognition they deserve. I'll take a mediocre Cronenberg movie over most of these movies any day.

[chick de la lynch]

I felt the least 50/50 should have gotten was Best Screenplay. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance was nothing to sneeze at, either and that boy is overdue for a nomination. I think at the end of the day mixing comedy with a drama about cancer just went over the Academy's heads.

It seems like every year people say the same thing-- "There were no good films this year" but if we keep having things like the Oscars dictate what was actually good, then yeah there were no good films this year.

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Well said. I thought 50/50, Drive, Ides of March, Hesher, Dragon Tattoo, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and even the Muppets were all better than anything nominated for best picture.

[one weak]

man, this is awesome. i was going to come here and post basically the same things everyone else has. i liked bridesmaids a lot, but oscar worthy? no way.

[one weak]

no wonder I haven't seen Sarah Jessica Parker at the Oscars. Ever.

booya

[Inkblades]

Meryl Streep had a bowel movement today. It's gaining some serious awards buzz.

[chick de la lynch]

Don't get me wrong, I love Meryl Streep but I heard The Iron Lady was a mediocre film and many critics thought it didn't really use her to its full advantage. But Streep is always Oscar bait, so no shock there she was nominated.

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