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84th Academy Awards Nominations (2011)

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The nominations have been announced. I’m still looking for the remaining nominations, but here are my initial thoughts on the currently available list: Extremely Loud managed to hang on long enough to earn a Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor nomination, but didn’t make it in Best Director. Other shocks: The Tree of Life held on and stayed in the race despite a lot of failures. While Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy surged, it didn’t get the nomination it most deserved: Best Picture. The Adventures of Tintin was rejected by the Academy’s animation branch giving Rango the unequivocal lead in that race.

Terrence Malick made it into the list of Best Director nominees, but Steven Spielberg and Stephen Daldry did not. Demian Bichir and Gary Oldman made it into Best Actor, but Michael Fassbender did not. Rooney Mara is in Best Actress, but Tilda Swinton is not. Von Sydow took the place of critic’s darling Albert Brooks. Melissa McCarthy managed to make it all the way through, but Shailene Woodley unfortunately did not. 50/50 and Win Win were ignored in favor of Bridesmaids and Margin Call. The Ides of March hung on to a nomination in Adapted Screenplay over The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Help was shockingly ignored, blocking it from any chance of winning Best Picture (if the lack of Best Director didn’t already guarantee that).

(UPDATE 1: The full nominations list is here, but missing one nominee in Art Direction.)

(UPDATE 2: The tallies are posted. Still no word on the missing Art Direction nominee.)

(UPDATE 3: Found the missing Art Direction nominee. The nominations list is now complete.)

Nomination Tallies

(11) Hugo
(10) The Artist
(6) Moneyball / War Horse
(5) The Descendants / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(4) The Help / Midnight in Paris
(3) Albert Nobbs / Harry Potter / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Transformers / The Tree of Life

The Nominations

Best Picture

The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Best Animated Feature

A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango

Best Director

The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants – Alexander Payne
Hugo – Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick

Best Actor

Demian Bichir – A Better Life
George Clooney – The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt – Moneyball

Best Actress

Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis – The Help
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor

Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Nick Nolte – Warrior
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Best Supporting Actress

Bérénice Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer – The Help

Best Original Screenplay

The Artist
Bridesmaids
Margin Call
Midnight in Paris
A Separation

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Descendants
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Original Score

The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

Best Original Song

“Man or Muppet” – The Muppets
“Real in Rio” – Rio

Best Editing

The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball

Best Cinematography

The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Best Art Direction

The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse

Best Costume Design

Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.

Best Makeup

Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
The Iron Lady

Best Sound Mixing

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

Best Sound Editing

Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

Best Visual Effects

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Foreign Language Film

Bullhead – Belgium
Footnote – Israel
In Darkness – Poland
Monsieur Lazhar – Canada
A Separation – Iran

Best Documentary Feature

Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated

Best Documentary Short

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God Is Bigger Than Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Best Animated Short

Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Broom of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life

Best Live Action Short

Pentecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic

Academy Awards Data

Year Founded: 1927
First Awards: 1927/28 (84)

Comments

24 responses to “84th Academy Awards Nominations (2011)”

  1. rafael Avatar
    rafael

    I’ MISSING TILDA SWINTON BEST ACTRESS FOR WE NEED TO TALK ABAUT KEVIN.

  2. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    No nomination for J. Edgar? (!) And why the hell Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for best picture? But I’m glad The Tree of Life got its deserved nominations.

  3. Almasy Avatar
    Almasy

    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is one of the least loved by critics that manage to get a nomination for best picture EVER (that I can remember of)

  4. lallolupo Avatar
    lallolupo

    whos Demian Bichir anyway?

    1. Wesley Lovell Avatar
      Wesley Lovell

      If you’ve seen the TV show Weeds, he’s the Mexican drug lord Nancy has a fling with and who becomes the father of her baby.

      1. lallolupo Avatar
        lallolupo

        That show never got to Italy I’m afraid…
        Sometimes Oscar can be more unconventional than it may appear…

  5. Mike Kelly Avatar
    Mike Kelly

    I haven’t seen Drive, but I was surprised that Albert Brooks didn’t get nominated, considering his many precursor wins. I guess the lack of a SAG nomination was telling.

    Christopher Plummer is poised to become the oldest Supporting Actor winner, and Max won Sydow becomes the second oldest Supporting Actor nominee after Hal Holbrook.

    The DGA and SAG will perhaps hint at the Artist/Hugo and Davis/Streep contests. Looks to me like the awards will be pretty spread out this year. I see The Descendants and Moneyball splitting the Actor/Adapted Screenplay awards – and it can go either way.

    With all the theorizing about preferential ballots, they still came pretty close to 10 nominees after all.

    I’m not much into Animated films, but weren’t there surprises and omissions there?

    Congrats to Gary Oldman on finally getting a nomination.

  6. Hollywood Z Avatar
    Hollywood Z

    Should I be the one to point out the fact that The Tree of Life got as many nominations as Transformers: Dark of the Moon?

    1. Almasy Avatar
      Almasy

      Yes it dit, but there is a big difference in being nominated for Visual Effects and sound than being nominated for Best Picture, Director and Cinematography

  7. lallolupo Avatar
    lallolupo

    The Artist, Rango and A Separation will be the winners. Period.

  8. Almasy Avatar
    Almasy

    Many personally favorite performances and other categories were snubbed

    But I’m glad I got The Tree of Life for Best Picture and Director right, I loved that film

    We can’t complain about the Oscars being predictable this year. There were many surprises

  9. Peter J Patrick Avatar
    Peter J Patrick

    The oddest category: Best Original Song

    Only two nominees. Why bother having the category at all if that’s what the new rules wind up producing?

    1. Wesley Lovell Avatar
      Wesley Lovell

      And a shitty list of nominees to boot. Both other original songs from The Muppets were better. Obviously they need a new, better nominating system.

  10. Wesley Lovell Avatar
    Wesley Lovell

    There are now officially only three films that can win Best Picture: The Artist, The Descendants and Hugo. These are the only three films to appear as nominees for Directing and Editing.

    1. Peter J Patrick Avatar
      Peter J Patrick

      More often true than not but not a real rule as the producers of Driving Miss Daisy can attest to.

      The other oft-quoted non-rule is that the film with the msot nominations wins, which would favor Hugo over The Artist, but I dont think that will happen. The Artist has it in the bag.

      1. Wesley Lovell Avatar
        Wesley Lovell

        Firstly, if Driving Miss Daisy, one of only three films to ever win without a Best Director nomination is the most recent choice, the statistic isn’t insignificant. Nor is the Best Editing stat, which goes back to 1980’s lack of Editing nomination for Ordinary People as the last time that occurred.

        As for most nominations wins? In the last ten years, 4 films have won without being most nominated. That statistic doesn’t hold much weight anymore.

    2. Mike Kelly Avatar
      Mike Kelly

      That’s a good barometer, but an even stronger one is adding a screenplay nomination between Directing and Editing. Finally, after Editing include Acting nominations as a nice to have but not essential. So, looking at the nine Best picture nominees with an eye on these other nominations, here’s how they would be eliminated:
      War Horse: No Director, No Screenplay, No Editing, No Acting
      E. L. & I. C.: No, No, No, 1 Supp. Actor
      The Help: No, No, No, 1 Actress, 1 Supp Actress
      The Tree of Life: Director, No, No, No
      Midnight in Paris: Director, Screenplay, No, No
      Moneyball: No, Screenplay, Editing, 1 Actor, 1 Supp. Actor
      Hugo: Director, Screenplay, Editing, No
      The Descendants: Director, Screenplay, Editing, 1 Actor
      The Artist: Director, Screenplay, Editing, 1 Actor, 1 Supp. Actress

      This doesn’t change your prediction since all three also have a screenplay nomination. Moneyball would have to pull a Driving Miss Daisy, and since the early years, only Hamlet won Best Picture with only two of the four other nominations. It wasn’t nominated for Screenplay or Editing.

      1. Wesley Lovell Avatar
        Wesley Lovell

        I don’t think it really counts the fact. Firstly, if you look solely at how frequently each of those occurred in recent years (not going all the way back mind you), you’d find far more Best Picture winners who did so without an acting nomination and a few that won without a screenplay nod.

        Where as Director you have to go back to 1989 and Editing back to 1980. Those are far longer spans of accuracy than acting or writing, which is why I mentioned those specifically. And it was the one key element that should have told us Brokeback Mountain wasn’t going to win Best Picture. No editing nomination.

  11. Reza Said Avatar
    Reza Said

    Pete…… kudos to you for keeping that long titled film alive on the board despite the constant abuse hurled at you. Lol

  12. Reza Said Avatar
    Reza Said

    The missing nominee in Art Direction is Midnight in Paris

  13. Peter J Patrick Avatar
    Peter J Patrick

    I don’t see Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as “hanging on”. Like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy it’s surging in recognition.

    They may have nominated Melissa Mccarthy for shitting in that sink, but at least they had the good taste not to nominate her film for Best Picture.

  14. Mike Furlong Avatar
    Mike Furlong

    Some nice surprises, I think. I’m just bummed 50/50 didn’t get anything. That’s my favorite movie so far this year.

  15. Wesley Lovell Avatar
    Wesley Lovell

    All I have to say is: “Holy Shit”

  16. Mike Furlong Avatar
    Mike Furlong

    Jack and Jill is missing from your Best Picture list. What gives?

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