[Sportsguy]

I'm bored and feel like posting this, see if we can get a discussion started.

Best Director Nominees

Michael Haneke- Amour
Ang Lee- Life of Pi
David O Russell- Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg- Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin- Beasts of the Southern Wild

Who should win?: BEN FUCKING AFFLECK. Seriously, go fuck yourself Academy. When you pull your heads out of your collective asses you'll see you missed the 3! best directing performances of the year: Affleck, Tom Hooper and Kathryn Bigelow.

Who's going to win?: Spielberg, even though he should immeadiately mail it to Affleck's house.

Best Supporting Actor Nominees

Tommy Lee Jones- Lincoln
Robert De Niro- Silver Linings Playbook
Phillip Seymour Hoffman- The Master
Christoph Waltz- Django Unchained
Alan Arkin- Argo

Who both Should and Will Win: If you want to make a case for Jones, I won't argue too strenuously with you. But, and I'm taking all bias out of this, most of you know De Niro is one of my 5 favorite actors of all time and he deserves the statue here.

Best Supporting Actress Nominees

Anne Hathaway- Les Miserables
Sally Field- Lincoln
Helen Hunt- The Sessions
Amy Adams- The Master
Jacki Weaver- Silver Linings Playbook

Who Should and Who Will win: Field, Weaver and Hunt all gave outstanding performances, but this is Hathaway's year.

Best Actor Nominees

Daniel Day Lewis- Lincoln
Bradley Cooper- Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman- Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix- The Master
Denzel Washington- Flight

Who Should Win?: Everyone in the English speaking world knows who's going to win this, but in my opinion, I didn't see a single better performance on screen in 2012 than Bradley Cooper.

Who's going to win?: Daniel Day Lewis, duh.

Best Actress Nominees

Jennifer Lawrence- Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain- Zero Dark 30
Emanuelle Riva- Amour
Naomi Watts- The Impossible
Quvenzhane Wallis- Beasts of the Southern Wild

Who Should and Who Will win: It's a coin flip between Chastain and Lawrence, both were fucking fantastic. I'm going Chastain just barely because I (and I think the Academy voters will) want to give something to Zero Dark Thirty.

Best Picture Nominees

Argo
Silver Linings Playbook
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Amour
Beasts of the Southern Wild

Who should win?: (Whedon Fanboyism) Really? You couldn't give the tenth slot to the Avengers?(/Whedon Fanboyism)

Who's going to win?: Argo, deservedly

[Deadly]

Christoph Waltz should ABSOLUTELY win Best Supporting Actor.

[Road Warrior Shark]

I saw exactly 0 of those movies.

[Sportsguy]

Feb 17, 2013 14:45:21 GMT -5 Deadly said:

Christoph Waltz should ABSOLUTELY win Best Supporting Actor.

I love Waltz, but he outright stole DiCaprio's nomination for the same movie.

[Deadly]

DiCaprio did a fine job, but Waltz was much better.

[Sportsguy]

This is more of a problem with Tarantino's writing (Boy, never thought I'd type THAT) than with Waltz's performance but: I hated Waltz's character doing something completely out of the blue towards the end of the film and basically becoming a hypocrite

[The Jewish Cunthead]

My problem with the Waltz nomination was that King was more of a lead than supporting. Right up until Candieland, that was his movie as much as it was Django's. DiCaprio was EXCELLENT and never gets any credit for being a really good actor.

I don't think the Academy is going to give anything to ZDT. They don't have the balls to back a movie that implies torture can lead to positive results. The critics loved it but Hollywood is scared to death of it.

Picture - Argo (probably my favorite movie from 2012)
Director - Spielberg (only because Affleck wasn't nominated)
Actor - DDL (duh)
Actress - Lawrence (I really liked Playbook and see above re: ZDT)
Supporting Actor - Waltz (I'm ok with any of the 5 winning. They were all great.)
Supporting Actress - Hathaway (I didn't see it but she's won everything else)

[creepy]

Feb 17, 2013 14:50:47 GMT -5 Road Warrior Shark said:

I saw exactly 0 of those movies.

I saw one movie in the theatre last year. Just couldn't not join Tuesday when she saw those teenagers offing each other.

Still want to see that Django movie.

[Habs]

I usually had seen 75% of the movies nominated in the different categories, but this year I saw Django (awsome) and ZDT (also really good)

I need to cut on beers and go more to the movies.

Also in unrelated news, I'm going to the game tonight!