Posts Tagged ‘Up in the Air’
Friday, January 1st, 2010
MOTION PICTURES
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
AVATAR
Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox
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BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
THE HANGOVER
Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. – SHERLOCK HOLMES
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
MERYL STREEP – JULIE & JULIA
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BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
JAMES CAMERON AVATAR
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
SANDRA BULLOCK – THE BLIND SIDE
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
JEFF BRIDGES – CRAZY HEART
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
MO’NIQUE – PRECIOUS
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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
UP – Walt Disney Pictures/PIXAR Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
CRAZYHEART
Music & Lyrics by: Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
MICHAEL GIACCHINO – UP
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BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
JASON REITMAN, SHELDON TURNER – UP IN THE AIR
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BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE WHITE RIBBON (GERMANY)
(DAS WEISSE BAND – EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE)
Wega Films; Sony Pictures Classics
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
CHRISTOPH WALTZ – INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
TELEVISION
BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
GLEE (FOX)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
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BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
MAD MEN (AMC)
AMC
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES -COMEDY OR MUSICAL
TONI COLLETTE – UNITED STATES OF TARA
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES,
MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
JOHN LITHGOW – DEXTER
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
MICHAEL HALL – DEXTER
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
JULIANNA MARGULIES – THE GOOD WIFE
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BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
GREY GARDENS (HBO)
Specialty Films and Locomotive in association with HBO Films
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
KEVIN BACON – TAKING CHANCE
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
DREW BARRYMORE – GREY GARDENS
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES -COMEDY OR MUSICAL
ALEC BALDWIN 30 ROCK
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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
CHLOË SEVIGNY – BIG LOVE
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Picture
Up In The Air
Actor
George Clooney, Up In The Air
Actress
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Supporting Actress
MoNique, Precious
Director
Jason Reitman, Up In The Air
Screenplay
Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, (500) Days of Summer
Cinematography
Mauro Fiore, Avatar
Foreign Language
Sin Nombre
Animated Feature
Up
Documentary
The Cove
Breakout
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Golden Orange
No Award
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Best Film
Up
Best Director
Pete Docter, Up
Best Actor
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Best Actress
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Ensemble
The Hangover
Best Breakthrough Performance
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
The Detroit Film Critics Society comprises 20 critics from print and broadcast working within a 150-mile radius of Detroit. News film critics Tom Long and Adam Graham are both members.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Top Ten Films of 2009
1. Up in the Air
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Precious
4. Up
5. An Education
6. A Serious Man
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. District 9
9. Avatar
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Film
Up in the Air
Best Director
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Best Actor
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Foreign Language Film
Sin Nombre
Best Documentary
The Cove
Best Animated Film
Up
Best Screenplay
Up in the Air
Best Cinematography
The Lovely Bones
PRECIOUS won the Russell Smith Award, named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
BEST PICTURE
The Hurt Locker
BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow–The Hurt Locker
BEST ACTOR
Jeremy Renner–The Hurt Locker
BEST ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan–An Education
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz–Inglourious Basterds
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo’nique–Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal–The Hurt Locker
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner–Up in the Air
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The White Ribbon
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Up
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Barry Ackroyd–The Hurt Locker
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Up–Michael Giacchino
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Carey Mulligan–An Education
MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Neill Blomkamp–District 9
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Best Animated Movie
Up
Best Comedy Movie
The Hangover
Best Action Movie
Avatar
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Best Original Screenplay
Inglourious Basterds
Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air
Best Acting Ensemble
Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges
Best Actress (tie)
Meryl Streep & Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Young Actress
Saoirse Ronan
Best Documentary
The Cove
Best Foreign Language Film
Broken Embraces
Best Score
Up
Best Song
The Weary Kind
Best Costume Design
The Young Victoria
Best Make-Up
District 9
Best Cinematography
Avatar
Best Visual Effects
Avatar
Best Art Direction
Avatar
Best Editing
Avatar
Best Sound
Avatar
2009 Nominations
The Press Release is here.
BEST PICTURE
Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air
BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges – “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney – “Up In The Air”
Colin Firth – “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman – “Invictus”
Viggo Mortensen – “The Road”
Jeremy Renner – “The Hurt Locker”
BEST ACTRESS
Emily Blunt – “The Young Victoria”
Sandra Bullock – “The Blind Side”
Carey Mulligan – “An Education”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
Gabourey Sidibe – “Precious”
Meryl Streep – “Julie & Julia”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon – “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson – “The Messenger”
Christian McKay – “Me And Orson Welles”
Alfred Molina – “An Education”
Stanley Tucci – “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard – “Nine”
Vera Farmiga – “Up In The Air”
Anna Kendrick – “Up In The Air”
Mo’Nique – “Precious”
Julianne Moore – “A Single Man”
Samantha Morton – “The Messenger”
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jae Head – “The Blind Side”
Bailee Madison – “Brothers”
Max Records – “Where The Wild Things Are”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Road”
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In The Air
BEST DIRECTING
Kathryn Bigelow – “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron – “Avatar”
Lee Daniels – “Precious”
Clint Eastwood – “Invictus”
Jason Reitman – “Up In The Air”
Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal – “The Hurt Locker”
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – “A Serious Man”
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – “(500) Days Of Summer”
Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – “Up”
Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach – “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – “District 9”
Geoffrey Fletcher – “Precious”
Tom Ford, David Scearce – “A Single Man”
Nick Hornby – “An Education”
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – “Up In The Air”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Barry Ackroyd – “The Hurt Locker”
Dion Beebe – “Nine”
Mauro Fiore – “Avatar”
Andrew Lesnie – “The Lovely Bones”
Robert Richardson – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ART DIRECTION
Dan Bishop – “A Single Man”
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg – “Avatar”
John Myhre, Gordon Sim – “Nine”
Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. – “The Lovely Bones”
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST EDITING
Dana E. Glauberman – “Up In The Air”
Sally Menke – “Inglourious Basterds”
Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – “The Hurt Locker”
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar”
Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith – “Nine”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Colleen Atwood – “Nine”
Janet Patterson – “Bright Star”
Sandy Powell – “The Young Victoria”
Anna Sheppard – “Inglourious Basterds”
Casey Storm – “Where The Wild Things Are”
BEST MAKEUP
Avatar
District 9
Nine
The Road
Star Trek
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
2012
BEST SOUND
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Star Trek
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess And The Frog
Up
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
BEST COMEDY
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland
BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Gifted Hands
Grey Gardens
Into The Storm
Taking Chance
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
BEST SONG
“All Is Love” – Karen O, Nick Zinner – “Where The Wild Things Are”
“Almost There” – Randy Newman – “The Princess And The Frog”
“Cinema Italiano” – Maury Yeston – “Nine”
“(I Want To) Come Home” – Paul McCartney – “Everybody’s Fine”
“The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – “Crazy Heart”
BEST SCORE
Michael Giacchino – “Up”
Marvin Hamlisch – “The Informant!”
Randy Newman – “The Princess and the Frog”
Karen O, Carter Burwell – “Where The Wild Things Are”
Hans Zimmer – “Sherlock Holmes”
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Best Picture
Hurt Locker
Best Actor
Jeremy Renner for Hurt Locker
Best Actress
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker
Best Screenplay
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
Best Cinematography
Barry Ackroyd for Hurt Locker
Best Documentary
The Cove
Best Foreign-Language Film
Summer Hours
Best Animated Film
Up
Best Film Editing
Bob Murawski and Chris Innis for Hurt Locker
Best New Filmmaker
Neill Blomkamp for District 9
Best Ensemble Cast (tie)
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Star Trek
Best Use of Music in a Film
Crazy Heart
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Top 10 Films
1. The Hurt Locker
2. Star Trek
3. Up
4. A Serious Man
5. Up in the Air
6. Avatar
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. District 9
9. Where the Wild Things Are
10. (tie) Moon, The Messenger
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actor
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Best Actress
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Best Original Screenplay
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Cinematography
The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd
Best Original Score
Up, Michael Glacchino
Best Foreign Language Film
Sin Nombre, Cary Fukunaga
Best Documentary Film
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Best Animated Feature
Up
Breakthrough Artist Award
Christian McKay, Me & Orson Welles
Best First Film
District 9, Neill Blomkamp
Best Austin Film
Me & Orson Welles
Top 10 Films of the Decade
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. There Will Be Blood (2007)
3. The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
6. Kill Bill (2003/4)
7. No Country for Old Men (2007)
8. The Incredibles (2004)
9. Children of Men (2006)
10. (tie) Memento (2000), The Departed (2006)
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
EDA ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Best Film:
The Hurt Locker
Best Animated Film:
Up
Best Director:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Best Screenplay, Original:
(500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
Best Screenplay, Adapted:
Up In The Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Documentary:
The Cove
Best Actress:
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Best Actress In Supporting Role:
Mo’Nique – Precious
Best Actor:
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Basterds
Best Ensemble Cast:
The Hurt Locker
Best Editing:
Sally Menke – Inglorious Basterds
Most Beautiful Film:
Bright Star
Best Non-English-Language Film:
Summer Hours
EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS
Best Woman Director:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Best Woman Screenwriter:
Jane Campion – Bright Star
Best Animated Female:
Coraline in Coraline
Best Breakthrough Performance:
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Women’s Image Award:
Kathryn Bigelow
Perseverance Award:
Agnes Varda
Actress Defying Age and Ageism:
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia and It’s Complicated
Sexist Pig Award:
Robert Luketic for The Ugly Truth
This Year’s Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry:
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Agnes Varda
AWFJ Award For Humanitarian Activism:
Rebecca Cammisa for Which Way Home
EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award:
Robert Luketic – The Ugly Truth
Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent:
Hilary Swank
Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn‘t:
Amelia
Unforgettable Moment Award: (Tie)
Inglorious Basterds – Shoshanna (Melanie Laurent) burns down the theater
Precious – Mary (Mo’Nique) admits the abuse
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction: (Tie)
An Education – Carey Mulligan and Peter Saarsgard
It’s Complicated – Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin
Sequel That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award:
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
The Remake That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award:
Land of the Lost
Cultural Crossover Award:
District 9
Bravest Performance Award:
Mo’Nique in Precious
Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man
and The Love Interest Award:
Whatever Works – Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood (40 years difference)
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Anyone who thinks Jason Reitman might have played fast and loose with the character Ryan Bingham — the dispassionate “termination facilitator” portrayed by George Clooney in Up in the Air — hasn’t been paying attention to the New York gossip rags. Six weeks after the film debuted at Telluride, Gawker and Page 6 reported that the esteemed editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, pulled a disappearing act similar to the one employed by the cowardly bosses in Reitman’s movie.
In October, after being ordered to issue pink slips to 20 of his minions, Carter found a convenient way to avoid getting his hands dirty. He paid a visit to his trendy Midtown restaurant, the Monkey Bar, and then hopped a private jet heading to balmy Bermuda. No pain, no strain.
If Carter, a notorious celebrity hound, had seen Up in the Air, he might have called up Jason Bateman, at Career Transition Counseling, and asked for Clooney to head to New York on the first American Airlines jet leaving Omaha. As it was, the pompous twit merely provided fodder for two days’ worth of smarmy items in the gossip columns. Any repugnance over his behavior likely will have dissipated by the time the magazine’s annual Oscar party rolls around and his former employees lose their medical benefits.
Up in the Air is that rare Hollywood movie that can be savored equally as a topical drama, black comedy, offbeat romance and character study. As a former employee of the Chicago Tribune and other endangered publications, it reminded me of the many people I know who have been laid-off, bought-out and outright fired from jobs they loved. Only a few have found gainful employment in what is being generously characterized as a buyer’s market for writers and editors. If any compassion had been shown to them by a Clooney surrogate, it wasn’t noted in our e-mail correspondence.
Neither did I recognize any of my former comrades in the parade of employees who would be fired by Bingham and his feisty apprentice, Natalie Keener, although their opinions would have been interesting to hear. If those faces were familiar, it’s because they actually did belong to non-actors, most of whom had recently lost jobs in St. Louis and Detroit. They had responded to ads seeking input for a documentary on the effects of the recession, and, once there, were encouraged to treat the camera as if it were the person who fired them.
The conceit added a level of verisimilitude that would have been difficult to achieve, if the venting had been scripted. The anguish and anger, which could be read in both the expressions and mannerisms of the “characters,” looked real because these were people who actually had been marginalized and made redundant. And, anyone in the audience who didn’t think the same thing could happen to them was fooling him- or herself.
In his first feature, 2005’s Thank You for Smoking, Reitman targeted the ties that have historically bound corruptible politicians to lobbyists with wallets full of money contributed by special-interest groups. Much of the film’s strength came from came from commercials and ads promoting one lethal poison or another. Hence, even at their most satirical, the characters and events fictionalized in Thank You for Smoking seemed no more unlikely than what’s revealed daily in the few newspapers left to report on such atrocities. (Forty-three years after its release, Paddy Chayefsky’s caustic send-up of television news, Network, seems more a blueprint than parody.)
One way to lend a patina of truth to a theatrical film is to add brands, logos and products that are familiar to audiences and carry some psychic weight. The authorized placement of products is a practice almost everyone in the cinematic food chain, by now, takes for granted. Everything from beer to breath mints is pimped, er, pitched to studios as a means to save money or lend an air of legitimacy to a project.
For all of its good points, though, the preponderance of plugs for American Airlines, Hilton Hotels and Travelpro luggage throughout the 109-minute course of Up in the Air has an effect that inevitably evolves from merely jarring to unnerving and numbing. In fact, an atypically large amount of brand-consideration was necessary to remind viewers of Bingham’s ultimate goal of attaining 10 million of American’s frequent-flyer miles. His “loyalty” to Hilton was adequately explained, as well.
Still, even the least-seasoned tourist wouldn’t be convinced by Bingham’s narrative that American Airlines is the only worthwhile carrier navigating the skies above the U.S. That’s because we’ve heard all of Jay, Dave and Conan’s jokes about airplane food and cramped seating, and listened to the horror stories told by friends and relatives. Hilton Hotels may be one of this country’s most trusted brands, but there’s a huge difference in price and amenities between such flagship properties as the Hilton Chicago and Waldorf Astoria and your average airport crash pad.
How oppressive was the logoization? If Up in the Air ever attains cult status, a very good drinking game could be built around the number of times an American Airlines or Hilton Hotel logo flashed on the screen. Participants, however, likely would be pie-eyed after the first half-hour.
Plugging airlines on film and TV is nothing new, of course. It would be the rare baby boomer who didn’t learn what it took to become a TWA pilot or flight attendant while watching aMickey Mouse Club serial, and that it was Pan Am’s Orion III Space Clipper that shuttled passengers from the Earth to the moon, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. We get it. Product-placement is a win-win for everyone, except maybe a few oversensitive pundits.
With a multi-state production itinerary and an estimated budget of $30 million, Up in the Airneeded some help from its friends in the way of free lodging and locations. This it got, in spades.
Presumably, the producers also were assured Bingham wouldn’t have to suffer the indignity of having to sit on a runway for three hours, while the terrorist in the middle seat was trying to ignite his underwear. Or, the computer ate his hotel reservation.
In exchange, Hilton and American Airlines were accorded the status of “integrated-marketing partner,” and all the attendant cross-promotional rights that come with that distinction. Along with “official luggage partner,” Travelpro, they’re running separate sweepstakes on their websites and on Paramount’s interactive sites. By comparison, the plugs for Caesars Palace, in The Hangover, were subtle.
In November, the airline also provided a 767 jet for a cross-country press junket, with about 50 writers on board. During the six-hour flight from New York to Los Angeles, the reporters were able to watch the movie and interview co-star Anna Kendrick. (The boondoggle may represent the last time the R-rated version of Up in the Air would be seen on any airplane with its salty language, buttocks, side-boobs and airline logos intact.)
None of this would be worth mentioning if Up in the Air weren’t such a significant player in this year’s awards campaigns. Apart from being an excellent entertainment, it may be the only studio-nurtured contender with a visible conscience. For all of Clooney’s animal magnetism, and Ryan Bingham’s understated compassion, however, it would be impossible for some of us to ignore on whose broken dreams those 10 million frequent-flyer miles were earned.
A budget of $30 million is barely a drop in the bucket compared with what was spent on Avatar and the summer blockbusters. Indeed, it’s entirely possible that twice or three times that amount will have been invested in marketing when Up in the Air enters general release and the tab for those “consideration” ads is tallied.
A couple of questions need to be asked in advance, however.
First, if Up in the Air does win Best Picture, and score significant acting awards, could Hollywood resist the temptation to lard its serious mid-budget titles with product plugs and cross-promotions? And, second, if it loses to Avatar or The Hurt Locker, will studios even bother trying to trump the indies at their own game next year?
– Gary Dretzka
December 31, 2009
Tags: Up in the Air
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
It has been a long, odd Oscar race already this year. The first major change was the new 10 Nominees rule, the first time since 65 years ago that we will have so many nominees for Best Picture.
(Charts are from December 17, 2009) (more…)
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar, Awards Watch | Comments Off on 11 Weeks To Go Chances To Make History
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
74 Critics . 125 Films. 20 New to the List.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens | Comments Off on The Top Ten Chart for December 29, 2009
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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Up in the Air |
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2
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1
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1
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3
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1
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13
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120
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2
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3
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Avatar |
5
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2
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1
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1
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3
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4
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3
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2
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1
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3
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2
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1
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1
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1
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3
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13
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117
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3
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2
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The Hurt Locker |
3
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3
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3
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3
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1
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2
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2
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3
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2
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2
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3
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2
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3
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2
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2
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13
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113
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4
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4
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Precious |
1
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4
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5
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6
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4
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9
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4
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5
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5
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4
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6
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4
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13
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80
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5
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5
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Inglourious Basterds |
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8
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4
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4
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8
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5
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5
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5
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5
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7
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5
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7
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5
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13
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75
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6
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Up |
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6
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9
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6
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7
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6
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13
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59
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7
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6
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Invictus |
7
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6
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7
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5
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3
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7
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6
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7
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8
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9
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4
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6
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5
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5
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7
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12
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54
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8
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9
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An Education |
8
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7
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8
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9
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10
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8
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8
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8
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7
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6
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8
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9
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13
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41
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9
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8
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Nine |
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9
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29
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10
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10
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A Serious Man |
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10
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10
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The Last Station |
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The Messenger |
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12
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A Single Man |
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This is It |
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12
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The Blind Side |
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9
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The Lovely Bones |
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It’s Complicated |
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Is Up In The Air better than 50% to win Best Picture at this time? |
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Is The Hurt Locker better than 50% to win Best Picture at this time? |
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Is Avatar better than 50% to win Best Picture at this time? |
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Is Nine still a legit possibility to win Best Picture? |
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Is Inglourious Basterds the hard-driving dark horse for BP at this time? |
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Can you imagine a film aside from the five in Questions 1-5 winning BP as of this time? |
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Are Mo’Nique‘s chances to win being hurt in a real way by bad media buzz at this time? |
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Can an actor doing a motion capture performance, like Zoe Saldana in Avatar, get a shot for an acting nomination at this time? |
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Do the “precursors” mean more with 10 BP slots? |
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Has having 10 BP nominees made the season more exciting so far? |
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Ajami, An Education, Avatar, Burma VJ, Coraline, Crazy Heart, District 9, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, In the Loop, Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers, Nine, Paris 36, Precious, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The Milk of Sorrow, The Princess and the Frog, The Road, The Secret of Kells, The White Ribbon, The Young Victoria, This is It, Un Prophete, Up in the Air, Which Way Home
Posted in Awards Watch, Gurus o' Gold | Comments Off on December 23
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens | Comments Off on The Top Ten Chart for December 23, 2009
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens | Comments Off on The Top Ten Chart for December 20, 2009
Friday, December 18th, 2009
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Inglourious Basterds |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Jason Reitman
Up in the Air |
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James Cameron
Avatar |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Precious |
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An Education |
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Nine |
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Julie and Julia |
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An Education |
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Precious |
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The Blind Side |
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The Last Station |
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The Lovely Bones |
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Bright Star |
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The Young Victoria |
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Jeff Bridges
Crazy Heart |
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George Clooney
Up in the Air |
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Colin Firth
A Single Man |
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Invictus |
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Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker |
2
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Viggo Mortensen
The Road |
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A Serious Man
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Christoph Waltz
Inglourious Basterds |
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Stanley Tucci
The Lovely Bones |
3
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The Messenger |
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Christopher Plummer
The Last Station |
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Matt Damon
Invictus |
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Alfred Molina
An Education |
2
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Alec Baldwin
It’s Complicated |
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Me and Orson Welles |
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An Education |
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Peter Capaldi
In The Loop |
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Mo’Nique
Precious |
1
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4
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15
|
72
|
2
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2
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Anna Kendrick
Up in the Air |
3
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1
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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15
|
57
|
3
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3
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Julianne Moore
A Single Man |
4
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5
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15
|
36
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4
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5
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Vera Farmiga
Up in the Air
|
2
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5
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31
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Penelope Cruz
Nine |
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Marion Cotillard
Nine |
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Samantha Morton
The Messenger |
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Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side |
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Mark Boal
The Hurt Locker |
1
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1
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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15
|
73
|
2
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4
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Quentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds |
3
|
2
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1
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2
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4
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3
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2
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3
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14
|
42
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3
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3
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Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
A Serious Man |
5
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4
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4
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3
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14
|
36
|
4
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2
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Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
Up |
4
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5
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2
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3
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4
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2
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2
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5
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3
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2
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2
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5
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2
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14
|
29
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5
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5
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Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
500 Days of Summer |
2
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3
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3
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5
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1
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4
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4
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12
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Nancy Meyers
It’s Complicated |
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Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
The Messenger |
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3
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1
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3
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Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
District 9 |
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5
|
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1
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James Cameron
Avatar |
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5
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1
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Armando Iannucci & Armstrong, Blackwell, Roche, Martin
In The Loop |
– |
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1
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1
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Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Up in the Air |
2
|
1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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2
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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15
|
72
|
2
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2
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Geoffrey Fletcher
Precious |
1
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5
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2
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2
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2
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3
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2
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2
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3
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3
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3
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2
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4
|
4
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2
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14
|
50
|
3
|
3
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Nick Hornby
An Education |
4
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2
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3
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4
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4
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5
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3
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3
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1
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1
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2
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3
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2
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3
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3
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13
|
47
|
– |
|
5
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Tom Ford
A Single Man |
–
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–
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4
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3
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4
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4
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5
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Julie and Julia |
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Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
District 9 |
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Invictus |
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In The Loop |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers
Where the Wild Things Are |
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Michael Hoffman
The Last Station |
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Ajami, An Education, Avatar, Burma VJ, Coraline, Crazy Heart, District 9, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, In the Loop, Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers, Nine, Paris 36, Precious, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The Milk of Sorrow, The Princess and the Frog, The Road, The Secret of Kells, The White Ribbon, The Young Victoria, This is It, Un Prophete, Up in the Air, Which Way Home
Posted in Awards Watch, Gurus o' Gold | Comments Off on December 18
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
BEST ACTRESS
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Actress – Film
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Comment
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Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia |
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Carey Mulligan – An Education |
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Helen Mirren – The Last Station |
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Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
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Marion Cotillard – Nine |
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Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria |
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Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side |
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Shohreh Agdashloo – The Stoning of Soraya M |
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Abbie Cornish – Bright Star |
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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Actress – Film
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Comment
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Mo’Nique – Precious |
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Penelope Cruz – Nine |
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Julianne Moore – A Single Man |
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Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air |
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Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air |
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Sigourney Weaver – Avatar |
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Susan Sarandon – The Lovely Bones |
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Amy Adams – Julie & Julia |
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Patricia Clarkson – Whatever Works |
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Kate Hudson – Nine |
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Actress Chart
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
BEST ACTOR
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Actor – Film
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Comment
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George Clooney – Up in the Air |
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Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart |
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Peter Sarsgaard – An Education |
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Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker |
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Tobey Maguire – Brothers |
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Viggo Mortensen – The Road |
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Morgan Freeman – Invictus |
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Colin Firth – A Single Man |
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Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine |
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Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man |
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Christopher Plummer – The Last Station |
His proper category… could change |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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Actor – Film
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Comment
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Christopher Walz – Inglourious Basterds |
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Christopher Plummer – The Last Station |
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Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones |
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Alfred Molina – An Education |
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Woody Harrelson – The Messenger |
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Alec Baldwin – It’s Complicated |
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Peter Capaldi – In The Loop |
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Quinton Aaron – The Blind Side |
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Peter Sarsgaard – An Education |
His proper category… could change |
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Actor Chart
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
BEST DIRECTOR
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Director
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Picture
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Comment
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The Frontrunners For Nomination |
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James Cameron
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Avatar |
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2
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Kathryn Bigelow
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The Hurt Locker |
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3
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Jason Reitman
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Up In The Air |
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4
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Quentin Tarantino
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Inglourious Basterds |
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5
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Lone Scherfig
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An Education |
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Clint Eastwood
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Invictus |
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Lee Daniels
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Precious |
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Rob Marshall
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Nine |
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Pete Docter
Bob Petersen
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Up |
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Michael Hoffman
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The Last Station |
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The Coen Bros. |
A Serious Man
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Director Chart
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
BEST PICTURE
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Picture
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Studio
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Director
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Stars |
Comment
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The Frontrunners For Nomination |
1
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7
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Dec 18
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Avatar |
Fox
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Cameron
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Saldana
Weaver
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2
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6
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open
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The Hurt Locker |
Sum
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Bigelow
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Renner
Mackie
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3
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2
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open
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Up In The Air |
Par
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Reitman
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Clooney
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4
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3
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open
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An Education |
SPC
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Scherfig
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Mulligan
Sarsgaard
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5
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4
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open
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Precious |
LG
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Daniels
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Sidibe
Mo’Nique
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6
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1
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open
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Up |
Disney
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Docter
Petersen
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7
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5
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Dec 25
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Nine |
TWC
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Marshall
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Day-Lewis
Cotillard
Cruz
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8
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10 |
open
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Inglourious Basterds |
TWC
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Tarantino
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Waltz
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9
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9
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open
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Invictus |
WB
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Eastwood
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Freeman
Damon
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10
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8
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The Last Station |
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Hoffman
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Plummer
Mirren
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open
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The Blind Side |
WB
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Hancock
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Bullock
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open
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A Serious Man |
Focus
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Coens
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Stuhlbarg
Kind
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Dec 25
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The Lovely Bones |
Par/DW
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Jackson
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Ronan
Tucci
Sarandon
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open
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Julie & Julia |
Sony
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Ephron
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Streep
Adams
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–
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–
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open
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A Single Man |
TWC
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Ford
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Firth
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open
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The Road |
TWC
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Hillcoat
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Theron
Mortensen
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Picture Chart