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Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”

Actor in a Supporting Role
Mark Ruffalo in “The Kids Are All Right”

Actress in a Leading Role
Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole”

Actress in a Supporting Role
Jacki Weaver in “Animal Kingdom”

Animated Feature Film
“Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich

Art Direction
“Alice in Wonderland” Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

Cinematography
“The King’s Speech” Danny Cohen

Costume Design
“I Am Love” Antonella Cannarozzi

Directing
“Black Swan” Darren Aronofsky

Documentary (Feature)
“Exit through the Gift Shop” Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz

Documentary (Short Subject)
“Killing in the Name” Nominees to be determined

Film Editing
“The Fighter” Pamela Martin

Foreign Language Film
“In a Better World” Denmark

Makeup
“The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)
“127 Hours” A.R. Rahman

Music (Original Song)
“I See the Light” from “Tangled” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater

Best Picture
“The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

Short Film (Animated)
“Day & Night” Teddy Newton

Short Film (Live Action)
“God of Love” Luke Matheny

Sound Editing
“Tron: Legacy” Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague

Sound Mixing
“The Social Network” Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten

Visual Effects
“Hereafter” Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojansky and Joe Farrell

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“Winter’s Bone” Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Writing (Original Screenplay)
“The Kids Are All Right” Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg

Best Picture
An Education
Up in the Air

Directing
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

Actor in a Leading Role
Morgan Freeman – Invictus

Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon – Invictus

Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

Actress in a Supporting Role
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air continue reading…

As we are rapping up the year, I have seen a movie in the theatres 300 times. The record for this year for most is Star Trek x 6, Twilight: New Moon x 5, and The Reader x 4, and many 2 and 3 timers. Here is the list of 2009 releases that I have seen (I took a list of 2009 movies and filtered it, there are some missing that I added, but I forgot every movie:)

17 Again, 2012, Adventureland, All About Steve, Angels & Demons, AstroBoy, Bandslam, Blind Date, The Blind Side, Bride Wars, Capitalism: A Love Story, Confessions Of A Shopaholic, Couple’s Retreat, Dance Flick, Did You Hear About The Morgans?, Disney’s A Christmas Carol, Drag Me To Hell, Doubt, Duplicity, Earth, Everybody’s Fine, Extract, Fame, Fanboys, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Fast And Furious 4, Fired Up, The Fourth Kind, Funny People, Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, Gigantic, The Goods, The Hangover, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Harry Potter And The Half, Blood Prince, The Haunting In Connecticut, He’s Just Not That Into You, Hotel For Dogs, Ice Age 3, I Hate Valentine’s Day, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, I Love You Beth Cooper, I Love You, Man, Imagine That, The Informant, Inglorious Bastards, The International, In The Loop, Invictus, It’s Complicated, Julie & Julia, Knowing, Last House On The Left, Trailor Park Boys 2: Countdown to Liquor Day, Love Happens, Love Hurts, Madea Goes To Jail, Mall Cop, Management, The Men Who Stare At Goats, My Bloody Valentine 3D, My Life In Ruins, My Sister’s Keeper, New In Town, New Moon, Night At The Museum 2, Nine, Obsessed, Observe And Report, The Pink Panther 2, Post Grad, The Proposal, Rachel Getting Married, The Soloist, Star Trek, State Of Play, The Reader, The Stone of Destiny, Sunshine Cleaning, The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3, The Ugly Truth, Up in the Air, The Vampire’s Assistant, Watchmen, Whip It, Year One, and Zombieland.

Despite this for 2010, I am going to attempt to cut my movies to only 100.

Comments are open, What do you think did I miss any good gems that I should see?

ACTOR, LEADING
Disagree with all the Nominations

My Choices would have been:
Will Smith in “Seven Pounds”
Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino”
Hugh Jackman in “Australia”

BEST PICTURE
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

My Choices would have been:
“Australia”
“Twilight”
“The Dark Knight”
“Seven Pounds”

ACTOR, SUPPORTING
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”

But would not be disappointed by:
Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder”

SHORT FILM, ANIMATED
Skipping as did not see any.

ACTRESS, LEADING
Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”

But would not be disappointed by:
Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”

SHORT FILM, LIVE ACTION
Skipping as did not see any.

ACTRESS, SUPPORTING
Viola Davis in “Doubt”

SOUND EDITING
“The Dark Knight”

Would not be disappointed by:
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

ANIMATED FEATURE
“Bolt”

Would not be disappointed by:
“Kung-Fu Panda”
“WALL-E”

SOUND MIXING
“The Dark Knight”

Would not be disappointed by:
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

ART DIRECTION
 “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

CINEMATOGRAPHY
 “The Reader”

SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED
 “Doubt”

Wish was nominated:
“Twilight”
“Seven Pounds”

COSTUME DESIGN
 “Australia”

Would not be disappointed with:
 “The Duchess”

SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL
 “WALL-E”

DIRECTING
 “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Skipping as did not see any.

Wish was nominated:
“Outsourced”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Skipping as did not see any.

FILM EDITING
“The Dark Knight”

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Waltz with Bashir”

MAKEUP
“The Dark Knight”

ORIGINAL SCORE
 “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Would not be disappointed with:
 “WALL-E”

ORIGINAL SONG
 “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire”

Would not be disappointed with:
“Down to Earth” from “WALL-E”

What is there to say about the movie Australia. This movie is definately on the caliber of movie with Cassablanca. This movie has aspects of almost every gents of movie it’s a comedy, drama, romance, war, western, nature, comming of age, family, real life type movie.

Even more remarkable than the fantastic acting in the moving is the calm hart-pounding score that carries you seamlessly through the story.

This movie is written in the three act style but all three acts have their own three acts it is truly a must see. CEFM Rating: 5/5