Oscars Prediction Thread

[Bucharest]

These are who I think will win......I'll note which ones I think should win if they differ.

Best Film - The Hurt Locker (Personal choice would be Inglorious Basterds)
Best Actor - Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz (This has to be one of the bigger cakewalks I've ever seen, and if he doesn't win, it's an absolute joke....he was outstanding)
Best Actress - Meryl Streep
Best Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique.....or however you spell it. (Personal choice would be Anna Kendrick)
Best Director - James Cameron (Personal choice would be Quentin Tarantino.....not sure how often Best Picture and Director are different, but maybe Cameron wins simply for the technical achievement and amount of work that went into Avatar....I don't know....this one is tough)

Random Category:
Best Writing (Original Screenplay) - Inglorious Basterds (Tough call between this and "A Serious Man" as the writing was genius in both, but this one will be interesting.....especially when neither of them get it and I look stupid)

[txlonghorn47]

I hope Bingham wins for Original Song.

[Makaveli]

Sandra Bullock looks like a lock to win Best Actress.

Original Screenplay: Inglorious Basterds
Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air
Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Picture: A Coinflip between Avatar and The Hurt Locker...it's too close...if you made me pick I'd guess The Hurt Locker.

[U2-Horn]

Sandra Bullock looks like a lock to win Best Actress.

Original Screenplay: Inglorious Basterds
Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air



Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Picture: A Coinflip between Avatar and The Hurt Locker...it's too close...if you made me pick I'd guess The Hurt Locker.

6-6 on the big ones

[HornMafia]

The story behind the "Kanye" moment at the Oscars.

[Bucharest]

I gotta' be honest.....I really liked The Hurt Locker, and thought it was super-suspenseful and whatnot.....but when it comes to Best Picture, I just don't see it. The scenes between those great super-suspenseful scenes just didn't have enough meat or quality dialogue for me.

The scene where they're getting drunk and hitting each other.......ehhh???

The scene where he goes into the city looking for "Beckham's" house.....sure???

The structure was much like a porn imo......a bunch of weak filler between AWESOME action scenes.

Again, don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the movie.....for what it was......a suspenseful war movie. However, when it came to dialogue and writing, it didn't touch the ball-sweat of either Inglorious Basterds, A Serious Man or Up in the Air.....which made the best screenplay category even more disappointing.

[AtlLonghorn]

Inglorious Basterds went downhill fast after the opening scene which was incredible. I was hoping they'd shoot me in the dick during the bar scene rather than the Nazi guy that's how bad that scene was.

[Bucharest]

That's funny......that was my favorite scene in the movie.....to each his own I guess.

[12ozLongneck]

Still haven't watched The Hurt Locker, but I'm surprised as hell that the Academy didn't give the Best Picture Oscar to Avatar even though it sucked. One Avatar-esque success can finance countless vanity projects and tons of Oscar-bait movies like An Education, so you'd figure that the Academy would want to give a bright shiny statue to the guy who keeps the gravy train rolling.

[U2-Horn]

I'm shocked that The Hurt Locker only made $15,000,000 domestically.

That is seriously low.

[Makaveli]

I never thought I was watching an "Oscar Picture" when I watched The Hurt Locker. I probably overrated it at 8, in fact already decided that was too high after seeing The Informant!, which was much better but definitely not worthy of more than "8" itself.

So I still have a bunch of stuff to watch, and several others that I have to watch the end of cause I fall asleep all the time now....

But the success of The Hurt Locker in the Oscars is really surprising, even though I predicted it I guess..... especially the Direction category, it's really crazy to think thats a better job than Cameron did with Avatar.

I look forward to watching "Up in the Air", but other than the hope I hold out for that....this was a really bad year for films....probably the worst I can think of since at least the late 1980's.