Gurus o’ Gold: Welcome To 2012
| Rank | Last Chart | Best Picture | Breznican | Ellwood | Hammond | Harris | Howell | Karger | Olsen | Poland | Pond | Stone | Tapley | Thompson | VanAirsdale | Wloszczyna | Votes | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
The Artist |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 139 | |
| 2 | 2 |
The Descendants |
3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 114 | |
| 3 | 3 |
Hugo |
2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 112 | |
| 4 | 4 |
War Horse |
4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 97 | |
| 5 | 5 |
The Help |
6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 87 | |
| 6 | 6 |
Midnight In Paris |
5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 74 | |
| 7 | 7 |
Moneyball |
7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 60 | |
| 8 | 8 |
The Tree Of Life |
9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 34 | |||
| 9 | 11 |
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo |
8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 14 | ||||||||
| 10 |
Bridesmaids |
10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 12 | |||||||||
| 9 |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | |||||||||||
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The Ides of March |
8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 10 |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
10 | 9 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
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Drive |
10 | 10 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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My Week With Marilyn |
9 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
And we asked The Gurus to predict Monday’s DGA nominations…
| Rank | Last Chart | DGA Feature Predictions | Breznican | Ellwood | Hammond | Harris | Howell | Karger | Olsen | Poland | Pond | Stone | Tapley | Thompson | VanAirsdale | Wloszczyna | Votes | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Michel Hazanavicius The Artist |
1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 65 | ||
| 2 |
Martin Scorsese Hugo |
2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 52 | ||
| 3 |
Alexander Payne The Descendants |
5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 39 | ||
| 4 |
Steven Spielberg War Horse |
4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 22 | |||||||
| 5 |
Terrence Malick The Tree of Life |
3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | |||||||||||
|
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris |
4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 10 | |||||||||||
|
Tate Taylor The Help |
4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||
|
Nicolas Winding Refn Drive |
4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| One Vote Wonders | |||||||||||||||||||
|
Bennett Miller Moneyball |
5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
The BFCA awards on Thur I think will be very informative. If Artist wins Pic and Director and Bejo win Supporting. This could get interesting.
If Pitt wins Actor, I think you’ll see the “inevitable” conversation start up.
Frankly, the only sure-bet I see is Christopher Plummer.
DGA predictions:
Hazanavicius
Scorsese
Spielberg
Allen
Fincher
http://www.dga.org/Awards/Annual.aspx
Randy Newman’s theme to We Need to Talk About Kevin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdW0UXYgZKA&feature=youtu.be
Nobody predicted David Fincher is in? Well he is! And Woody, too!
I can’t believe that the audacious brilliance of Terrance Malick was ignored!
What’s more surprising: D-Po’s overestimation of War Horse or Stone’s underestimation of The Artist?
Midnight in Paris is top 5.
And nearly $150 million worldwide from an $18 million budget.
Congratulations of Michel Hazanaviscius, who has done the almost impossible! Breaking into the inner circles of Hollywood, by directing a totally original COMEDY, Black and White and Silent! I still can’t get over it!
And Woody is nommed, too! WOW! What a great day for comedy!
And nobody predicted Fincher would get nominated! None of the GoGs I mean. Ooops!
Bold Prediction: Spielberg gets Oscar nod for directing, but not Fincher.
To the above guy linking to the youtube video lampooning Randy Newman: Know your history, dude. The guy is one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, as evidenced by his controversial, scathingly satirical albums of the early 1970s. The Pixar stuff is just gravy, but way to show utter cultural ignorance. (Sorry to be cranky, but the man is a fucking genius, and I hate to see him defined by the movie songs…)
God, I hated War Horse. Worst Spielberg film in a long time – and I saw the last Indy film. So glad its award chances are diminishing. 🙂
Not worth it.