At the Golden Raspberry Awards before Oscar ceremony, Sandra Bullock surprisingly showed up to accept her Worst Actress award for “All About Steve”. But the next night, as we has known, she took home Best Actress for “The Blind Side” at Oscar. Sandra Bullock is the first person to won both Oscar and Golden Raspberry at the same year. And it was also a slick move for Sandra Bullock to show up at the Razzies. “It is cool. That’s the way she is.”, Forest Whitaker said.
“Avatar” was the hottest film before Sunday’s Oscar ceremony and was expected to be the biggest winner at Oscar. But it turned out that “The Hurt Locker” took home the most awards – six – with director Kathryn Bigelow making Academy Award history by becoming the first woman to win best director, while “Avatar” with nine nominations same as “The Hurt Locker” only get three awards. “The Hurt Locker” beat out “Avatar”, and Kathryn Bigelow beat out her ex-husband, James Cameron. I haven’t saw these two films but I like the subject of “The Hurt Locker” better than sci-fi thriller “Avatar”. I’m planning to have a look at “The Hurt Locker”. It is sure that Oscar is good direction to our choices of films.
The Hurt Locker:
Best Picture
Directing
Writing – Original Screenplay
Sound Mixing
Sound Editing
Film Editing
Avatar:
Art Direction
Visual Effects
Cinematography
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Directing
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Basterds
Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Actress in a Supporting Role
Mo’ Nique – Precious
Animated Feature Film
Up
Cinematography
Avatar
Writing – Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker
Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Precious
Music (Original Song)
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” – Crazy Heart
Music (Original Score)
Up
Visual Effects
Avatar
Art Direction
Avatar
Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker
Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker
Short Film (Live Action)
The New Tenants
Short Film (Animated)
Logorama
Makeup
Star Trek
Foreign Language Film
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
Film Editing
The Hurt Locker
Documentary Short
Music by Prudence
Documentary Feature
The Cove
Costume Design
The Young Victoria
If you don’t have enough time to see most of the movies of the year, you can have a look at the best picture nominees of Academy Awards for reference. In 2010, the shortlist for the Academy Award 2010 for best picture has been expanded to a 10-strong field.
Best Picture(Go to see the whole nomination list)
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
I have seen “Up in the Air”. It plays out in departure lounges and chain hotels, and spotlights a world that we are all just passing through in search of home. I like George Clooney and Vera Farmiga very much, and am glad to see both of them are nominated respectively as Actor in a Leading Role and Actress in a Supporting Role. But I don’t think they will be the last winners. George Clooney just acts out his own unique characteristics, and the role Vera Farmiga has in the film is not very outstanding even as Anna Kendrick who are nominated as Actress in a Supporting Role for “Up in the Air” as well. I just like the mature temperament of Vera Farmiga, which make her much appealing in the film. Anyway they are the winners in my heart.
Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
Directing
James Cameron – Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels – Precious
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Basterds
Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious
Animated Feature Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up
Cinematography
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
The White Ribbon
Writing – Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up
Writing – Adapted Screenplay
District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious
Up in the Air
Music (Original Song)
“Almost There” – The Princess and the Frog
“Down in New Orleans” – The Princess and the Frog
“Loin de Paname” – Paris 36
“Take It All” – Nine
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” – Crazy Heart
Music (Original Score)
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up
Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
Short Film (Live Action)
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
Short Film (Animated)
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria
Foreign Language Film
Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon
Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Documentary Short
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin
Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home
Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria
The American Beauty, Brittany Murphy has been gone for a while now. And if I may, I’d say I do really miss her on the screen, and I think the best way to mourn her is to watch her movie with a sincere heart. So here’s The Ramen girl, my favorite movie of hers!
When her boyfriend leaves her high and dry in Tokyo, spoiled American tourist Abby (Brittany Murphy) finds solace in a neighborhood ramen noodle house run by a cantankerous old chef (Toshiyuki Nishida), who agrees to take her on as an apprentice cook. But will the dirty grunt work and endless criticism drive Abby away before she discovers the serene beauty in the perfect bowl of soup — and in herself? Robert Allan Ackerman directs this comedy.
Her romance is on Pins and Noodles, I found my tears falling down coming out of nowhere when she made the bowl of noodle that made everyone cry. Yes, I know “Clueless” and “8 miles” are great, but just found myself more obsessed with this one, when the modern west meets the mysterious east, when the two different culture clashed there’s a lot of creation and moving!
Throughout this new year season, check out every cinema’s “most hit movie” list, you’ll find Avatar right there, on the top of the list. Looks like everyone is looking forward to this so called “epic” movie, since there’s so many applause and criticism, here’s a little introduction, as for the rest, you’ll have to find out yourself.
According to 20th century fox, Avatar is a story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making, Avatar marks Cameron’s return to feature directing since helming 1997’s Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars including Best Picture. WETA Digital, renowned for its work in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong, will incorporate new intuitive CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters. The main casts are Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver.
And as many has said, It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron’s singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.
Well that all I’ve got, now rush to your favorate cinema and see for yourself!
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