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You want outrage? Fine.

If Avatar or The F***ING Blind Side so much as touch Oscar gold, I will sacrifice a virgin to the gods of war (and virgins) to see it that the streets run red with the blood of academy voters and film producers.

But hey, at least they remembered District 9, right?

Actually, I'm pretty content with this list.

What about best editing? When does that get announced? IT'S IMPORTANT TOO, Academy!

No, really. What the fuck is The Secret of Kells? Clearly, it's the token artsy/foreign animated film in the category, so how have I never heard of it before? Who distributed it? When was it released? And why was I not informed?

Full nominees here including editing, Lauren.

Dear James Cameron and Academy Voters,

Just because a movie is all preachy, has pretty sparkly blue kittenchimps with freaky love muscles and pterodactyly-dragony thingys, in which a few really good actors and some definite C to D listers appear, and is SO DAMN PRETTY AND THE EFFECTS ARE SO OHMYGOD that you have to wear eyegunk infected spectacles and makes a bazillion dollars....it is NOT Best Picture material.

It is, however, great pop-up book or coloring book material.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,
General Public

YES! Up got a nod for Best Film! Oh my God, I bet the Academy was just fucking FUMING about having to acknowledge that cartoons are movies too.

Also YAY for: District 9! YAY!
Jeremy Renner for Best Actor! YAY!

And BOO for: Sandra Bullock. Seriously, WHAT. THE. FUCK.

YES YES YES!! I have never been so happy at 6am!

ChristianH You're welcome for making your day :) I don't comment much, I tend to get lost in the shuffle.

I'm ok with it.

Sandra Bullock for Best actress is a bit much to stomach, with Tilda Swinton going unnoticed for Julia (wait- that was this year, right?) And I really hope she doesn't actually win, but whatever. I can't say I'm surprised.

I'm not even going to try to pick a Best Picture out of the crazy field of 10 and the impossible to anticipate effect of billion-dollar baby Avatar in the mix.

Jeff Bridges
anyone but Bollocks
Christoph Waltz (no contest)
MoNique
my inner fanboy wants to pull for Tarantino but I'm just glad he's nominated.
ditto for screenplay, but I can never predict the writing categories so I'll stop here.
Up will win for best animated feature unless the Best Picture nom really siphons off a lot of votes.

Anyway, if the Oscars ever had any credibility, they lost it in 2004 with Crash. That movie suuuuuucks. And would somebody PLEASE FIND FLANAGAN! *barf*

Eh, what would you give to Away We Go? A token Best Picture nod? I don't think so. I was surprised (but not that surprised) that Nine didn't get one, and happy it went to District 9 instead.

Best actor or actress? Nah, I don't think so. Screenplay? Maybe. I like Eggers and would have been happy for him but I don't think it was really deserving of any nominations. Decent film but not award-worthy. Especially not from the Oscars. I just don't see it.

boilerplate stuff. i'll content myself by rooting against " avatar "
which probably guarantees a victory for the gimmick geeks.
the expansion to 10 films assured tarantino and the coen brothers
recognition for subpar efforts.
the most disappointing oversight was " the hangover " and the
wisest was " crazy heart ".
let the hype begin !!!

Yay for my fellow German Christoph Waltz! I'm already looking forward to his acceptance speech. I thought the one for the Golden Globes was very good. Am sad though that Gabourey will probably not get the deserved statue.I'm in on the sacrifice, ChristianH, should what you fear come to pass...

And Monique probably does not stand a chance either, looking at the track record for black actresses at the oscars. Sigh, I'll just have to rewatch Halle's acceptance speech again...

God. District 9 for the win.

A guy can dream can't he.

Super happy for the lads who made The Secret of Kells look so goddam beautiful channeling all the best from the last 2 decades of 2d animation.

More like a piece of animated illustration.

Now hopefully some inestment for the guys to give us more of the same with better story n voice work please :D

At best “The Blind Side” is nothing more than an after school special. I saw “The Hurt Locker” and wasn’t really impressed, nor was I impressed with “District 9.”

You know what? I hope "Avatar" wins Best Picture AND Best Director. I hope the academy decides last minute to write in James Cameron for Best Actor. I hope Meryl Streep wins Best Actress, but becomes overcome with guilt and calls James Cameron up on stage to give the Oscar to him because, "She is only a woman; she knows her place." I hope Kathryn "Duece" Bigelow becomes so enraged at their judgement, that she needs to be carted away on a trolly, strapped down as if on her way to a lobotomy.

And where will I be? Oh, I'll be sitting comfortably on my large sofa sipping a wee glass of Glenlivet, occasionally nibbling on some Hershey's Milk Chocolate, gleefully grinning at the sound of popping corn from all over Pajiba, which will actually be the sound of aneurysms exploding.

And when the sound finally dies down, as the credits roll and the U-Haul is brought in to help Cameron carry away his Smurf village of Oscars, a new noise will be heard. The noise of my maniacle, villainous laughter.

Hmm...ha...haha...HAHAHA...MUUUUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Superasente, I place a curse on you!

SERGIO!

The noise of my maniacle, villainous laughter

superasente - is that at all related to a monocle? And what does eyewear have to do with laughter, villainous or otherwise?

Tamatha, you don't think maniacal laughter is made all the better with a monocle?

It is one part monocle and one part maniac. It's a monocle that's giving you a dirty look.

superasente - shouldn't it give you a crazy look, rather than a dirty one?

transported - sounds great, but can you work in the other meaning too, and make him somebody's uncle?

I actually don't mind Sandra Bullock for the Oscar. I'm also rooting for Steven Segal next year for "Snowball in Hell".

I think my made up word needs a "c".

Coincidencalopus.

Is he shackled by societal oppression? He could be the maniacle manacle.

transported - Hmm. Nothing against the Philly crime boss, Manayunkle, angle--all superheros need an arch nemisis, of course, but it's not quite the same thing. Perhaps the mystical monocle could have belonged to a maniacal uncle?

I love Colin Firth, so I'm good with him being nominated. In the leading actress, it's either Dame Mirren or the Streep. That girl from Precious could pull off the upset.

... and I hope she does.

Oh hell, that reminds me that "The Messenger" never came around to our theaters. Now must keep maniacle monocled eye on the DVD releases.

Otherwise, Oscar, to quote Tommy Lee Jones in "The Fugitive":

I ... Don't ... Care.

I don't know who this transported man is, but I like the cut of his gib. Someone green light his project and give it an independent distributor so that he can get a ton of hipster cred, only to squander it later by doing a franchise that's "too fucking studio, man."

You'll be hip then shit in no time!

Dustin:

I think you got the Best Motion Picture of the Year nominees wrong. They are:

Up in the Air
Up Avatar
Up Precious
Up Education
Up Hurt Locker
Upglourious Bastups
The Up Side
District Up
A Serious Up
Up

No Melody, he could only be considered a douche if he yelled out his last name then his first name or refer to himself in the third person.

Only when he's not yelling, "I'm king of the world!"

And then shortly after finishing, "That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over. What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"

Then the weeping begins.

I agree that Away We Go has been completely snubbed this year in awards. But then, it doesn't seem like there was much campaigning for it either, so...such is life in show business.

FWIW, I think it was worthy of at least a Best Screenplay nod (although that was a pretty crowded field this year) and maybe a nod for Maya Rudolph, who was really surprising.

"James Cameron wants you to know this is the best sex James Cameron has ever produced! This will change fornication forever! I am KING OF THE COCK!"

The inclusion of Bullock is really the only nomination I take as an insult.

Why do so many of my Pajiba friends hate The Bullock?

For I doth love her so and, believe me, it breaketh my heart to read such anger for The Bullock.

I swear now in front of my Pajiban brethren, I would marry The Bullock if given the chance. She just seemeth so fucking cool.

*downs another Advil Cold & Sinus with a swig of whiskey and a chaser of Nyquil*

Of course that could just be the cold medicine and alcohol talking.

*considers...*

Nope, even if I were sober right now I'd still declare my intentions to marry The Bullock and be her Bitch for life.

I see your baynis

Posted by: admin at February 2, 2010 11:39 AM

You must not be wearing your 3D GLASSES.

Yay for Jeremy Renner & The Messenger getting nods, but nothing for 500 Days of Summer? Wow. I thought that would be up here a few times.

Is it just me, or do Anne's chesticles need more sparkle?

Oooh yes! I hope Neil Gaiman brings along Amanda Palmer again. Her stories about the Golden Globes was fantastic, I hope she dishes out about the Oscars.

Kelly - It's not hate, more like indifference. she's just bland and not particularly talented. There's nothing offensive about Bullock appearing in formulaic and unimaginative box office fodder chasing a 100M release and decent DVD sales, but I don't expect to see her mentioned at awards season. I know it's a bit hard to define what qualities a nominated performance should have, but it's hard for me to see any metric by which Bullock would be rated one of the five best of 2009.

I enjoyed Avatar, bu I hope it loses every category it was nominated for except Best CGI or whatever. Popcorn flicks do not deserve an Oscar. And Dustin was right about Sam Rockwell, totally snubbed. Dammit.

On a completely tangential note, I accessed Pajiba via the mobile site! Woo-hoo! I still have to comment on the HTML site, but it's a nice start.

Kelly - It's not hate, more like indifference. she's just bland and not particularly talented. There's nothing offensive about Bullock appearing in formulaic and unimaginative box office fodder chasing a 100M release and decent DVD sales, but I don't expect to see her mentioned at awards season. I know it's a bit hard to define what qualities a nominated performance should have, but it's hard for me to see any metric by which Bullock would be rated one of the five best of 2009.

I cannot argue with this logic. In fact, I kind of agree with it. But I would still marry the Bullock.

Yes, yes I would.

I'm actually less insulted by Bullock getting a nomination than by Gyllenhaag getting one for "Crazy Heart." I'm no fan of Bullock, but Mags sucked serious ass in that movie.

*pulls on stomping boots*

Ok DaftSteampunk, now all I need are directions to your house.

I’m really happy for you…I’ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best movies of all time! Didn't you motherfuckers see Obsessed? That was the shit!!!!

Damn, since the horse is dead from me beating it, I have no ride home....

Lively comments! A few are included in movie critic David Elliott's story about the Oscar noms at http://tinyurl.com/yhuteac

Fuck you, The Blind Side!

FUCK YOU!

Sooooooo Karen O & The Kids get no Oscar noms for their heartbreaking Where The Wild Things Are songs, yet that hack Randy Newman gets two noms for his Nola-by-way-of-Applebee's jingle Disney tripe? Yup. Still waiting for the boomers to die off it seems...

And yeah yeah yeah I "get" Newman's 'master satirist' pose. You see, the lyrics say ONE thing when you can tell he feels the OPPOSITE way. It's fucking genius. (rolls eyes)

Has anyone seen the Secret of Kells? I found the trailer on youtube. The voice over was talking on and on about how there's a secret book called the Book of Kells and one kid has to go on a secret mystical journey to find out how the story ends and destroy the One Ring of Voldemort in the pit of the little makers, etc. What sticks in my craw, though, is that the Book of Kells is an illuminated version of the four gospels. I'm not a Christian, but I am a historian and a stickler for fact. Anyone know if this is a situation where the trailer fucks it up, or did the production team really decide that no one's ever read the bible?

Am on cold medicine.

Posted by: figgy at February 2, 2010 12:02 PM
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Is that what they call 180-proof grain in Tejas?

Rowen: I had the same thought regarding BOK! I was thinking "The Book of Kells...a secret? I saw that shit at on display at Trinity!"

I agree that "Away We Go" should've gotten at least some acting nods. No, it's not a perfect movie, but the leads did a terrific job, even if you found them insufferable.

I loved Meryl in "Julie and Julia", but I don't know if her performance was all that great. Julia Child just happens to be fascinating is all.

Ok, I have to say that Avatar in no way deserves even a nomination for best movie. I can see best directing. The shots were amazing and Cameron has always been (even at his worst) a good director. But the story and some of (not all) the acting just cripple the movie way too much for it to be worthy. It is emotionally manipulative, rolling the Pochahontas(sp?), the Lion King, and Fern Gully (though I haven't actually seen the third) all into one effectively making a high budget modern day animated Disney re-hash...I suddenly understand my generations appeal to this movie (I am a millennial) they are reliving their childhood; that doesn't change my opinion of it...the Oscars will burn(!) if it gets best picture.