As you’d know if you read this blog regularly, I love movies – I watch movies religiously…I watch 1-2 movies almost every night of the week. And after the Oscars, if I haven’t seen ALL of the nominations (not just the winners) I try and watch them.
I did pretty well with the 2010 nominations even managing to watch some of the the foreign entries like Un Prophète and White Ribbon.
This time around though, I’ve been pretty slack..with the house buying, renovation, bit of travel, lot of work and moving I’ve not even watched half of the Best Picture nominations. I’ll just cover my thoughts on the main categories.
Best Picture
Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham-Carter – how can King’s Speech not win? I was under no illusions The Social Network would win, and with the Oscars crowd Inception didn’t stand much of a chance either.
And well a lot of 2010 nominations haven’t been released here yet or are only hitting the screen now in the 2nd month of 2011. The top three I want to watch that I haven’t yet has to be Black Swan, The Fighter and True Grit.
Best Actor
Mr Darcy ftw! Haven’t seen the others yet except for Jesse so I can’t comment.
Best Actress
Hot Grits! Natalie Portman, I totally endorse the win and LOVE everything she’s been in way back since Leon: The Professional. She’s got 3 more big movies coming out in 2011 so I think it’s going to be a great year for her.
Best Director
Poor old Christopher Nolan has been left out in the cold when it comes to Best Director, he didn’t even get nominated. But it tends to be that way, sci-fi directors or directors of movies with heavy special effects often get snubbed. Just like it took years for the Oscars chaps to accept Steven Spielberg.
It’s won by Tom Hooper – who personally I’ve never heard of. But he’s the director of King’s Speech which won Best Picture…so there you go. Looking at his history he started off directing Byker Grove and Eastenders so I would have never expected him to get an Oscar!
Those are the categories that matter to me anyway, let me know what are your thoughts on the 2011 Oscars – any movies that you saw and loved that you think were passed over. And conversely of course if you’ve seen any of the nominations/winners and hated them.
