There isn't one. Good lord. Here's all the winners for those that missed it (including myself)
Best Picture - The Hurt Locker
Best Lead Actor - Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Lead Actress - Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique, Precious
Best Animated Feature Film - Up
Art Direction - Avatar
Cinematography - Avatar
Costume Design - The Young Victoria
Best Director - The Hurt Locker
Documentary Feature - The Cove
Documentary Short - Music by Prudence
Film Editing - The Hurt Locker
Foreign Language Film - The Secret In Their Eyes
Makeup - Star Trek
Music (Original Score) - Up
Music (Original Song) - The Weary Kind, Crazy Heart
Short Film (Animated) - Logorama
Short Film (Live Action) - The New Tenants
Sound Editing - The Hurt Locker
Sound Mixing - The Hurt Locker
Visual Effects - Avatar
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Precious, based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire
Writing (Original Screenplay) - The Hurt Locker
Hurt Locker was the big winner this year, it looks like. Anyone else see it? I saw it at the theater I work at and while it was good cinema, I don't know if it was Best Picture good. The other five awards it can have because it deserved them right-and-proper, but Best Picture? They spend the entire film flushing out a genuinely interesting main character (played with fantastic edge by Renner), only to cheapen him as an adrenaline junkie in the last 30 seconds of the movie by giving him the power-chords-in-the-sunset treatment? That's one big misstep, one that I think should cost a Best Picture award.
Jeff Bridges and Christoph Waltz were both shoe-ins for their respective awards in my opinion. Bridges has been at this game for too long without a win to lose out on one of his most honest roles yet--and there would have been blood in the streets if Waltz didn't take Best Supporting Actor. He was simply too good as the suave-cum-fearsome jew hunter (across four languages, no less).
Anyone else have any thoughts on this year's winners? Anything that should have done better than it did? I know I can't be the only one that saw Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
imo, Star Trek really only needed to win "Most Lens Flare" and was otherwise negligible.
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