Thursday 4 March 2010

Oscars 2010: The Splice Sweep

Its that time once again when a Mars bar is up for grabs as a pair of bloggers duel it out to see who guesses the best about semi obscure Oscar categories. To be honest, its hard as anything nut its also a great time to be a movie fan.


BEST PICTURE
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker (Red) (Although I've got a sneaking suspicion they're going to go with Avatar)
Inglourious Basterds (Ruud)
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air


BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron (Avatar) (Ruud)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) (Red)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)


BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) (Red)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus) (Ruud)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)


ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) (Red)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia) (Ruud)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) (Red) (I think Waltz deserves it though)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) (Ruud)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious) (Ruud) (Red)


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos - The Secret of Their Eyes (Argentina) (Ruud) (cos I have actually seen this!)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophete - A Prophet (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany) (Red)


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) (Red)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) (Ruud)
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy (Up)


BEST ANIMATION
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up (Ruud) (Red) (Should give this Best Picture and give this award to one of the first two)


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop)
Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) (Ruud) (Red)


BEST ART DIRECTION
Avatar (Ruud) (Red)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar (Ruud) (Red)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon


BEST SOUND MIXING
Avatar
The Hurt Locker (Ruud) (Red)
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen


BEST SOUND EDITING
Avatar (Ruud)
The Hurt Locker (Red)
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up


BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Loin de Paname from Paris 36 by Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas
Take It All from Nine by Maury Yeston
The Weary Kind (theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett (Ruud) (Red)


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Avatar (James Horner) (Red)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
Up (Michael Giacchino) (Ruud)


BEST COSTUMES
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel (Ruud)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria (Red)


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Ruud) (Red)
Which Way Home


BEST 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 (Ruud)
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin (Red)


BEST FILM EDITING
Avatar (Red)
District 9 (Ruud)
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious


BEST MAKE-UP
Il Divo
Star Trek (Red)
The Young Victoria (Ruud)


BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) (Red)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death (Ruud)


BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The Door (Red)
Instead of Abracadabra (Ruud)
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar (Ruud) (Red)
District 9
Star Trek

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