I know that someone already answered this question and there’s a link to an to an article, but I think the simplest answer is that the category isn’t best “adapted” screenplay, it’s “Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published.” TS3 is based on the previously produced Toy Story films.
We really need a separate thread on that. I absolutely agree. It was highly over-rated. Good, but not great.
Is the category limited to three nominees? I haven’t seen Despicable Me or How to Train…, but I thought Tangled was delightful and it’s hard to imagine a total snub unless the category is limited to three, or the voters didn’t have time to see it.
I am not a teacher but I would direct you to:
http://www.thenation.com/article/154986/grading-waiting-superman
or
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false
Essentially, the movie distorts the true picture of how successful charter schools are and how bad traditional public schools have gotten. That is their contention, I have not seen the movie. But further discussion is for another thread.
Thanks, howye.
Any film that wants to be considered for this category needs to make a formal submission to the Academy. If the number of eligible entries meets a certain threshold (16?), then there are 5 nominees. If there are fewer than that, then it’s down to a final slate of 3. Tangled’s “snub” shouldn’t be too much of a mystery–the reviews were about even with its non-Pixar competitors, but it made a lot less money and that’s often enough to tip the difference for that last final slot.
I was thinking Mila Kunis would get a nod for Best Supporting Actress.
Yeah, for me she was the most interesting thing about that movie. Natalie Portman’s performance is overrated, IMO.
But then that whole movie sort of fell flat for me.
And also it lays a lot of the blame for the current state of education specifically on teachers, in one way or another, whereas there’s really plenty of blame to go around.
I am so totally psyched for this year’s slate of nominees, though I never watch the Oscars on tv. Starting 3 years ago – when I got a new computer – I began checking out all the Oscar movies of interest to me in late January/early February to feel more “plugged in” with the awards season. Each year I’d get a half-dozen or so DVDs, three or so of movies I really wanted to see and the rest being movies I figured would be watchable just to fill in some of the major categories.
This year, however, is a spectacular one for me personally. I’ve been really excited to see ten of them, and now that nominations are out I added a couple more to the list. Starting last week I’ve been watching one per day, in order:
Inception
Black Swan
The Social Network
127 Hours
Winter’s Bone
True Grit
On deck I have:
Blue Valentine
The Town
The Kids Are All Right
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
Obviously I greatly over-estimated the Oscar potential of Blue Valentine and The Town, but in hindsight I’m glad I burned them because now I’m missing no more than one entry in any of the major categories. (Picture, Director, Original / Adapted Screenplay, (Supporting) Actor / Actress)
I am genuinely excited to see ten of these, plus I’ll give The King’s Speech a try. Greatest Oscar year ever as far as I’m concerned.
So far the two movies that have stayed with me the most are Winter’s Bone and True Grit.
As long as we’re talking about the Oscars, I’ll be conducting an Oscar Trivia contest (w/prizes!) on Twitter from now until the awards ceremony. Follow my account or check out the #OscarTrivia tag for updates. I’ll average 2-3 questions a day, and if you want to be eligible for a prize, you have to DM me the answer (I’ll do my best to return follows quickly).
I’ll typically provide the answer within 48 hours of posting the question, though that will depend on how big (or small) a response comes for each question (since they will range in difficulty).
I’ve already posted the first two Questions.
Spread the word, RT your friends, and hope to see some of you playing!
(p.s. We usually have a Doper Oscar Predict the Winners Contest here, and we’ll still do that this year, too)
The Best Actor/Actress noms were such a given that in Newsweek’s article on the awards they had a panel of 6 of the nominees (and no non-nominees): Colin Firth, James Franco, Michelle Williams, Natalie Portman, Annette Benning and Nicole Kidman.
I hate the Special Olympicization of the BEST PICTURE category ("You all get a nomination just for getting made [unless you star Ashton Kutcher or any other Dude Where’s My Car? actor]). Everybody already knows which pictures don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of Best Picture so why not make it twice the honor to be nominated than it was last year and is this year?
Who woulda believed that The Wolfman would get nominated for an oscar!
I thought The Social Network was a perfect movie. It wasn’t too fast paced, you just need to break in Aaron Sorkin by watching a couple years of the West Wing first.
I love hearing nominee reactions. Some are pretty rote, but others are hilarious. I don’t know where all of these came from originally. I’m copying and pasting from The Wrap and other forums. Banksy wins the reaction contest.
It seems 127 Hours is going into wide release now. It’s about time! I saw it last October.
James Franco was on The Daily Show last night and he talked about how the Today Show wanted him in NYC for the announcement of the nominations but he turned them down because he had class yesterday morning at Yale. So he saw the nominations, had an interview, then walked down the street into class, where his nomination was not mentioned.
Colin Firth? Really? Did I miss something while watching The King’s Speech? Firth’s performance consisted of portraying a convincing stammer and being emotionally repressed. Is that all it takes to win Best Actor these days?
Yes, I’d say you missed somthing. The pain, humiliation and courage he displayed in his face without speaking a word. The frustration and shame and dignity. It was a brilliant performance even when he wasn’t stammering.
ETA: And I wasn’t particularly a Firth fan before this movie, having not seen his film last year.
There is no way on Earth I could concentrate on any subject if James Franco was in the class.
That’s like saying all Jeff Daniels did was ride a horse and act like John Wayne as played by Billy Bob Thornton, all Jesse Eisenberg did was pretend he was Freddy from I-Carly, and all James Franco did was lie on some rocks and say “ouch, that hurt”.
You know, in another example of YMMV, I saw The Kids Are All Right last night and I was underwhelmed. Annette Benning was great, and I also thought that Rufalo and Moore gave good performances. I don’t begrudge any of the acting nominations. But Best Picture? Why? Because it portrayed a lesbian couple so matter-of-factly? If Annette Benning’s character had been a man, I’m not sure how this movie would have been any different than a dozen other “spouse commits adultery but then regrets it” movies.
Also, the sex scenes were jarring not to mention unnecessarily explicit. The scene with Moore & Benning under the covers was fine but Rufalo’s sex scenes with his girlfriend and with Moore were too much. And interesting that the film was so demure about the lesbian sex but not the hetero sex.
It was a pretty good movie, but it didn’t strike me as Oscar-good.