The Oscar Nominations For 2012

[Brendon Connelly]

I have used bold to highlight the films I expect to win, not those that I wish to win.



Best Picture

• The Artist - Thomas Langmann, Producer
• The Descendants - Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Scott Rudin, Producer
• The Help -Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
• Hugo - Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
• Midnight in Paris - Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
• Moneyball - Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
• The Tree of Life - Nominees to be determined
• War Horse - Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role

• Demián Bichir - A Better Life
• George Clooney - The Descendants
• Jean Dujardin - The Artist
• Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Brad Pitt - Moneyball

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kenneth Branagh - My Week with Marilyn
• Jonah Hill - Moneyball
• Nick Nolte - Warrior
• Christopher Plummer - Beginners
• Max von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Actress in a Leading Role

• 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

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Bérénice Bejo - The Artist
• Jessica Chastain - The Help
• Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
• Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
• Octavia Spencer - The Help

Animated Feature Film

• A Cat in Paris - Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
• Chico & Rita - Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
• Kung Fu Panda 2 - Jennifer Yuh Nelson
• Puss in Boots - Chris Miller
• Rango - Gore Verbinski

Art Direction

• The Artist - Production Design: Laurence Bennett, Set Decoration: Robert Gould
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Production Design: Stuart Craig Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
• Hugo - Production Design: Dante Ferretti, Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
• Midnight in Paris - Production Design: Anne Seibel, Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
• War Horse - Production Design: Rick Carter, Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography

• The Artist - Guillaume Schiffman
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Jeff Cronenweth
• Hugo - Robert Richardson
• The Tree of Life - Emmanuel Lubezki
• War Horse - Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design

• Anonymous - Lisy Christl
• The Artist - Mark Bridges
• Hugo - Sandy Powell
• Jane Eyre - Michael O?Connor
• W.E. - Arianne Phillips

Directing

• The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
• The Descendants - Alexander Payne
• Hugo - Martin Scorsese
• Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
• The Tree of Life -Terrence Malick

Documentary Feature

• Hell and Back Again - Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
• If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front - Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory - Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
• Pina - Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
• Undefeated - TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Documentary Short Subject

• The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement - Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
• God Is the Bigger Elvis - Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
• Incident in New Baghdad - James Spione
• Saving Face - Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom - Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing

• The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
• The Descendants - Kevin Tent
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
• Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker
• Moneyball - Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film

• Bullhead - Belgium
• Footnote - Israel
• In Darkness - Poland
• Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
• A Separation - Iran

Makeup

• Albert Nobbs - Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and
• Matthew W. Mungle - Harry Pott er and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
• The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (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

Music (Original Song)

• Man or Muppet, The Muppets - Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
• Real in Rio, Rio - Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Short Film (Animated)

• Dimanche/Sunday - Patrick Doyon
• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
• La Luna - Enrico Casarosa
• A Morning Stroll - Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
• Wild Life - Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action)

• Pentecost - Peter McDonald and Eimear O?Kane
• Raju - Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
• The Shore - Terry George and Oorlagh George
• Time Freak - Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
• Tuba Atlantic - Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing

• Drive - Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Ren Klyce
• Hugo - Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
• War Horse - Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
• Hugo - Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
• Moneyball - Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
• War Horse - Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
• Hugo - Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
• Real Steel - Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

Writing (Adapted Screenplay )

• The Descendants - Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
• Hugo - Screenplay by John Logan
• The Ides of March - Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
• Moneyball - Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Story by Stan Chervin
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Screenplay by Bridget O?Connor & Peter Straughan

Writing (Original Screenplay )

• The Artist - Written by Michel Hazanavicius
• Bridesmaids - Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
• Margin Call - Written by J.C. Chandor
• Midnight in Paris - Written by Woody Allen
• A Separation - Written by Asghar Farhadi

What an odd lot.

[syvyn11]

Jonah Hill up for a Oscar? It is the end times!

[Andy]

Brilliantly illegible! Hope your html-fu saves the day, Brendon!

[Evan Meadow]

Only two nominees for original song? Thankfully one of them was from the Muppets, which should win that one easily.

But 50/50 not nominated for Original Screenplay? You're kidding.

[jephd]

is this the first time a pixar movie failed to even get nominated? Jack black will be made up

[Leandro Damasceno]

I agree on most bets, but I think Michelle Williams takes best leading actress.

[popbomb]

Schiffman over Lubezki for "Tree of Life"? Not a chance.

[Brendon Connelly]

Schiffman over Lubezki for "Tree of Life"? Not a chance.

Lubezki will get loads of votes from DOPs and directors, but I see a "tick everything that says The Artist" move coming from plenty of other Academy members.

[Birmy]

While The Artist is undoubtedly a good movie, I think people are letting the successful delpoyment of its gimmick influence their estimation of its quality.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? Isn't that a laughingstock already? How did that get in there? Is the Hanks-Bullock-9/11 axis really that strong?

Yeah, I'm sure he's fine in Moneyball, but "Oscar-nominee Jonah Hill" does sound very wrong.

How weak were the songs that only TWO made it? Enjoy your Oscar, Muppets.

Glad to see Cars 2 NOT present; it's nice to know that not everything Pixar puts out is an automatic lock for the Animation category. A weak category, anyways; I wouldn't mind seeing one of those dark-horse foreign nominees swoop in and show the likes of Kung-Fu Panda 2 how it's done.

I imagine Paradise Lost 3 will get it, if only because the Academy will see its winning as a triumphant final note to the West Memphis Three saga (and thereby give an Oscar to the director of Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows).

Also, isn't Berenice Bejo the female lead in The Artist? How do you figure that's "supporting"?

[Joe Kalicki]

A truly awful year for movies, as if any further proof was needed.