Last night was the 83rd Academy Awards, our favorite night of the year! We eagerly watched to see if our favorite films walked away winners. We only got 15 of our TYF predictions right, which isn’t too bad. You can check out the full list of winners later on in this post. Here are our thoughts on this year’s Oscar ceremony:
Gaby’s thoughts: I’m still mourning David Fincher’s loss in the Best Director category. Even though, the DGA had picked Hooper a couple weeks before as their best director, I still had hope that they would see the “ungodly artfulness” (as Sorkin described in his winning speech) that Fincher displayed in The Social Network. Tom Hooper is a great guy, and when I attended his Q&A early this year, I found him fascinating and really smart. It’s a tough decision between the two, but I felt that Fincher deserved it a little more.
However, I’m very happy with how the rest of the awards went. Social Network won deservedly in Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, and Original Score. Trent Reznor winning an Oscar, who would’ve known? lol. Also, all the acting honors went to the right people. I wish Colin Firth followed his impulses and actually bust a move on stage. After Hooper’s win, it’s no surprise that Best Picture went to The King’s Speech. I’m cool with it; it truly is a great movie. Will stand the test of time like The Social Network? Probably not as much.
Now, on to the actual ceremony itself. As I readily predicted when it was announced, Anne Hathaway and James Franco practically bombed. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great either. Anne was adorably dorky, and Franco was just…stoned? He wasn’t even adorably stoned. But they aren’t the right people to host a show like this. They should’ve had Kirk Douglas do the entire show! Joking! But I thought the banter between Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. was great, and someone from the Academy should give Kevin Spacey a call. Spacey can give off this kind of casual hilarity that would be PERFECT for a show like this. Seriously, Academy, listen to me and offer next year’s hosting gig to Spacey!
Lucy’s Thoughts:
James Franco & Anne Hathaway hosting = Never again. The Awards were just OKAY, not amazing, not the most unbearable ceremony in television. I just expected them to at least try to be funny, and apparently that was only on behalf of Hathaway. As Gaby said, PLEASE KEVIN SPACEY HOST THE AWARDS IN THE NEAR FUTURE!
Most of my predictions were correct like Natalie Portman for Best Actress, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Inception for Best Sound, Visual Effects etc BUT my first mistake came with Inception winning Best Cinematography. Still, it wasn’t an upset, it was well deserved since Inception was a feast for the eyes.
On the other hand, my biggest upset was definitely Tom Hooper winning Best Director and The King’s Speech winning Best Picture. Reasons why: 1) How come after tons of critics said that The Social Network was “the best movie of the year” somehow this statement changes in the middle of the awards season? 2) Fine. TKS was a truly beautiful and moving movie, but its the obvious choice for the Academy. I was hoping for them to surprise us and give the award to TSN. 3) Fincher shall be back at the Oscars. And he isn’t coming back only for Best Director. He’s coming back for EVERYTHING. #TSNjoke 4) At the end, we all know which movie will be remembered as probably one of the best if not THE best movie of the decade. TSN isn’t only about Facebook, its about what lies behind the creation of it. It depicts today’s world so well and how Facebook nowadays has changed society and the way we interact, perhaps forever.
YES! Trent Reznor and Atticus Rose for Best Original Score. There wasn’t a score that could take you back to a specific scene or moment in the movie as this score did. MR AARON SORKIN, *bows and claps* well deserved! Your script was absolutely astounding and powerful, if he didn’t get this award I was going to give up on cinema forever, just kidding! but I was really close LOL.
The other awards were easily predicted, except of course for the Shorts/Foreign which was in my case the most difficult. And yes, Melissa Leo’s F bomb will be remembered forever.
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Here is the full list of last night’s awards (winners are in bold):
Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem in “Biutiful”
Jeff Bridges in “True Grit”
Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network”
Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”
James Franco in “127 Hours”
Actor in a Supporting Role
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Christian Bale in “The Fighter”
John Hawkes in “Winter’s Bone”
Jeremy Renner in “The Town”
Mark Ruffalo in “The Kids Are All Right”
Geoffrey Rush in “The King’s Speech”
Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening in “The Kids Are All Right”
Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole”
Jennifer Lawrence in “Winter’s Bone”
Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”
Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine”
Actress in a Supporting Role
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Amy Adams in “The Fighter”
Helena Bonham Carter in “The King’s Speech”
Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”
Hailee Steinfeld in “True Grit”
Jacki Weaver in “Animal Kingdom”
Animated Feature Film
“How to Train Your Dragon” Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
“The Illusionist” Sylvain Chomet
“Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich
Art Direction
“Alice in Wonderland”
Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
“Inception”
Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
“The King’s Speech”
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
“True Grit”
Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
Cinematography
“Black Swan” Matthew Libatique
“Inception” Wally Pfister
“The King’s Speech” Danny Cohen
“The Social Network” Jeff Cronenweth
“True Grit” Roger Deakins
Costume Design
“Alice in Wonderland” Colleen Atwood
“I Am Love” Antonella Cannarozzi
“The King’s Speech” Jenny Beavan
“The Tempest” Sandy Powell
“True Grit” Mary Zophres
Directing
“Black Swan” Darren Aronofsky
“The Fighter” David O. Russell
“The King’s Speech” Tom Hooper
“The Social Network” David Fincher
“True Grit” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Documentary (Feature)
“Exit through the Gift Shop” Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz
“Gasland” Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
“Inside Job” Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
“Restrepo” Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
“Waste Land” Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley
Documentary (Short Subject)
“Killing in the Name” Jed Rothstein
“Poster Girl” Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block
“Strangers No More” Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
“Sun Come Up” Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
“The Warriors of Qiugang” Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Film Editing
“Black Swan” Andrew Weisblum
“The Fighter” Pamela Martin
“The King’s Speech” Tariq Anwar
“127 Hours” Jon Harris
“The Social Network” Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Foreign Language Film
“Biutiful” Mexico
“Dogtooth” Greece
“In a Better World” Denmark
“Incendies” Canada
“Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)” Algeria
Makeup
“Barney’s Version” Adrien Morot
“The Way Back” Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
“The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Music (Original Score)
“How to Train Your Dragon” John Powell
“Inception” Hans Zimmer
“The King’s Speech” Alexandre Desplat
“127 Hours” A.R. Rahman
“The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Music (Original Song)
“Coming Home” from “Country Strong” Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light” from “Tangled” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
“If I Rise” from “127 Hours” Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
“We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″ Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Best Picture
“Black Swan” Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
“The Fighter” David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
“Inception” Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
“The Kids Are All Right” Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
“The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
“127 Hours” Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
“The Social Network” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
“Toy Story 3” Darla K. Anderson, Producer
“True Grit” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
“Winter’s Bone” Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers
Short Film (Animated)
“Day & Night” Teddy Newton
“The Gruffalo” Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
“Let’s Pollute” Geefwee Boedoe
“The Lost Thing” Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
“Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)” Bastien Dubois
Short Film (Live Action)
“The Confession” Tanel Toom
“The Crush” Michael Creagh
“God of Love” Luke Matheny
“Na Wewe” Ivan Goldschmidt
“Wish 143” Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Sound Editing
“Inception” Richard King
“Toy Story 3” Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
“Tron: Legacy” Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
“True Grit” Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
“Unstoppable” Mark P. Stoeckinger
Sound Mixing
“Inception” Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
“The King’s Speech” Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
“Salt” Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
“The Social Network” Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
“True Grit” Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Visual Effects
“Alice in Wonderland” Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
“Hereafter” Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojansky and Joe Farrell
“Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
“Iron Man 2” Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“127 Hours” Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
“The Social Network” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
“Toy Story 3” Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
“True Grit” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
“Winter’s Bone” Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
Writing (Original Screenplay)
“Another Year” Written by Mike Leigh
“The Fighter” Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson;
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
“Inception” Written by Christopher Nolan
“The Kids Are All Right” Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
“The King’s Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler
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