{"id":7043,"date":"2010-02-02T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:40:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:40:03","slug":"oscar-nominations-post-mortem-how-did-we-do-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/02\/oscar-nominations-post-mortem-how-did-we-do-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Nominations Post-Mortem: How Did We Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/29\/oscar-nominations-who-will-make-the-cut-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2525\" title=\"oscar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/oscar-144x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"300\" \/>On Friday<\/a>, we here at FilmBuffOnline handicapped the Oscar race as we saw it. As we all know, the nominations have just been released. How did we do?\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s find out. And the nominees are\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>Actor in a Leading Role<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeff Bridges in <strong>Crazy Heart<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>George Clooney in <strong>Up in the Air<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Colin Firth in <strong>A Single Man<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Morgan Freeman in <strong>Invictus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Renner in <strong>The Hurt Locker<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Number of Nominations We \u201cCalled\u201d: <\/strong>5 out of 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: <\/strong>It wasn&#8217;t too hard to get 100% correct when four of the five were gimmies. Morgan Freeman played a real-life inspirational hero, and most years that will be enough to get you the nod.<\/p>\n<h3>Actor in a Supporting Role<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Damon in <strong>Invictus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Woody Harrelson in <strong>The Messenger<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Christopher Plummer in <strong>The Last Station<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Stanley Tucci in <strong>The Lovely Bones<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Christoph Waltz in <strong>Inglourious Basterds<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Number of Nominations We \u201cCalled\u201d: <\/strong>5 out of 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: <\/strong>Again, with a perfect record, if you count picking Plummer as an outside shot as a prediction. Of course, the &#8220;playing a real-life person&#8221; factor and the &#8220;legend at in the winter of his career&#8221; factor was enough to give Christopher Plummer his first Oscar nomination. Conventional wisdom says this statue is Christoph Waltz&#8217;s to lose, but\u00a0I&#8217;m getting a feeling that Plummer could spoil, especially if he gets the &#8220;here&#8217;s a statue for lifetime achievement &#8221; sympathy vote.<\/p>\n<h3>Actress in a Leading Role<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sandra Bullock in <strong>The Blind Side<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Helen Mirren in <strong>The Last Station<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Carey Mulligan in <strong>An Education<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gabourey Sidibe in <strong>Precious: Based on the Novel \u2018Push\u2019 by Sapphire<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Meryl Streep in <strong>Julie &amp; Julia<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Number of Nominations We \u201cCalled\u201d: <\/strong>5 of 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: <\/strong>Another clean sweep! This is our best year ever! Up into this category at least!<\/p>\n<p>And I totally don&#8217;t believe this story about Sandra Bullock not expecting a phone call telling her she was nominated. She&#8217;s the favorite to win the whole thing! Pretending to be humble only works if, well, you need to be.<\/p>\n<h3>Actress in a Supporting Role<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pen\u00e9lope Cruz in <strong>Nine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Vera Farmiga in <strong>Up in the Air<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Maggie Gyllenhaal in <strong>Crazy Heart<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Anna Kendrick in <strong>Up in the Air<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mo\u2019Nique in <strong>Precious: Based on the Novel \u2018Push\u2019 by Sapphire<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Number of Nominations We \u201cCalled\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a04 of 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: <\/strong>The first surprise of the nominations, as Maggie Gyllenhall gets the honor of losing to Mo&#8217;Nique on Oscar night. So left fied was this that I picked Mariah Carey over her as a possible candidate. <strong>Crazy Heart <\/strong>seemed to be a Jeff Bridges vehicle all along, but I guess the Academy thought Gyllenhaal was worth a nod.<\/p>\n<h3>Directing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Avatar<\/strong> \u2013 James Cameron<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hurt Locker<\/strong>\u2013 Kathryn Bigelow<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inglourious Basterds<\/strong>\u2013 Quentin Tarantino<\/li>\n<li><strong>Precious: Based on the Novel \u2018Push\u2019 by Sapphire<\/strong> \u2013 Lee Daniels<\/li>\n<li><strong>Up in the Air<\/strong>\u2013 Jason Reitman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Number of Nominations We \u201cCalled\u201d: <\/strong>5 of 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: <\/strong>Again, a very predictable category. And , since there are 10 nominees for Best Picture, all five of the director&#8217;s films are nominated for Best Picture, avoiding the reoccurring controversy of one of a director being snubbed. Of course, to look at it another way, now there are five directors being snubbed.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Picture<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Avatar<\/strong> \u2013 James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Blind Side<\/strong> \u2013 Nominees to be determined<\/li>\n<li><strong>District 9<\/strong>\u2013 Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers<\/li>\n<li><strong>An Education<\/strong>\u2013 Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hurt Locker<\/strong> \u2013 Nominees to be determined<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inglourious Basterds<\/strong> \u2013 Lawrence Bender, Producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Precious: Based on the Novel \u2018Push\u2019 by Sapphire<\/strong>\u2013 Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Serious Man<\/strong>\u2013 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Up<\/strong> \u2013 Jonas Rivera, Producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Up in the Air<\/strong>\u2013 Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Number of Nominations We \u201cCalled\u201d:\u00a0<\/strong>10 of 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary:<\/strong> 100% correct, even if we thought that <strong>The Blind Side<\/strong>, <strong>District 9<\/strong>, and <strong>A Serious Man<\/strong> were long shots.\u00a0I&#8217;m happy that the Academy\u00a0gave a nod to the genre flick<strong> District 9<\/strong>. I&#8217;m very happy\u00a0that\u00a0<strong>Up <\/strong>got\u00a0a nods. There would have been a rant if it wasn&#8217;t in the list. I think it deserved a spot even if there were only\u00a0five spaces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Blind Side <\/strong>is listed by many as a surprise, but, really, there was enough Oscar buzz around it that I included it as having a chance on my list. What is surprising is that such a poorly received film got a nomination. The film received a 70% positive rating at the movie review aggregatesite, Rotten Tomatoes. That did qualify it as &#8220;Fresh,&#8221; or recommended, by the site, but was only 11 percentage points away from being classified &#8220;Rotten,&#8221; or not recommended. Of all the possible candidates I listed on Friday, only <strong>Nine <\/strong>scored lower (and abysmal 37% positive rating). All the other films listed scored at least five percentage points higher.<\/p>\n<p>This is indicative of the axiom, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The field was extended to 10 films to put to rest the controversy about good films not getting nominated. But a good number of critically acclaimed films didn&#8217;t make the cut, but the treacly, feel-good, factually inaccurate film did. If they keep this up, maybe the Academy should expand the nominees to 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">On Friday, we here at FilmBuffOnline handicapped the Oscar race as we saw it. As we all know, the nominations have just been released. How did we do?\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s find out. 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