Sunday, February 26, 2012




OSCAR SUNDAY IS HERE!!!!!! Below are my pics for the awards tonight. It was an honor to get to walk the red carpet and just be down there... #the best is yet to come

Feel free to add your picks!


BEST PICTURE
*The Artist
Thomas Langmann, Producer
The Descendants
Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor,
Producers
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Scott Rudin, Producer
The Help
Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and
Michael Barnathan, Producers
Hugo
Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
Midnight in Pa ris
Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
Moneyball
Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt,
Producers
The Tree of Life
Nominees to be determined
War Horse
Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy,
Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir
A Better Life
George Clooney
The Descendants
*Jean Dujardin
The Art ist
Gary Oldman
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt
Moneyball
Actor in a Supporti ng Role
*Kenneth Branagh
My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill
Moneyball
Nick Nolte
Warrior
Christopher Plummer
Beginners
Max von Sydow
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close
Albert Nobbs
*Viola Davis
The Help
Rooney Mara
The Girl with the Dragon Tatt oo
Meryl Streep
The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams
My Week with Marilyn
Actress in a Supporti ng
Role
Bérénice Bejo
The Art ist
Jessica Chastain
The Help
Melissa McCarthy
Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer
Albert Nobbs
*Octavia Spencer
The Help
official Nominee List
Animate d Feature Film
A Cat in Pa ris
Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
Chico & Rita
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Kung Fu Pa nda 2
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Puss in Boots
Chris Miller
*Rango
Gore Verbinski
ART DIRECTION
*The Artist
Production Design: Laurence Bennett
Set Decoration: Robert Gould
Harry Potter and the Deat hly Hallows
Pa rt 2
Production Design: Stuart Craig
Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Hugo
Production Design: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Midnight in Pa ris
Production Design: Anne Seibel
Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
War Horse
Production Design: Rick Carter
Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist
Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tatt oo
Jeff Cronenweth
*Hugo
Robert Richardson
The Tree of Life
Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse
Janusz Kaminski
COSTUME DESIGN
Anonymous
Lisy Christl
*The Artist
Mark Bridges
Hugo
Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre
Michael O’Connor
W.E.
Arianne Phillips
DIRECTING
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
*Hugo
Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Pa ris
Woody Allen
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
*Hell and Back Again
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
If a Tree Fa lls: A Story of the Earth
Liberat ion Front
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
Pa radise Lost 3: Purgat ory
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Pina
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
Undefeat ed
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Documentary Short
Subject
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot
Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
God Is the Bigger Elvis
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
Incident in New Baghdad
James Spione
*Sav ing Fa ce
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
FILM EDITING
*The Artist
Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants
Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tatt oo
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
Hugo
Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball
Christopher Tellefsen
Foreign Language Film
Bullhead
Belgium
*Footnote
Israel
In Darkness
Poland
Monsieur Lazhar
Canada
A Separat ion
Iran
MAKEUP
Albert Nobbs
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and
Matthew W. Mungle
*Harry Potter and the Deat hly Hallows
Pa rt 2
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
The Iron Lady
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score)
The Adventures of Tintin
John Williams
The Artist
Ludovic Bource
Hugo
Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Alberto Iglesias
*War Horse
John Williams
Music (Original Song)
*Man or Muppet
The Muppets
Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio
Rio
Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown
Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Short Film (Animate d)
Dimanche/Sunday
Patrick Doyon
The Fa nta stic Flying Books of
Mr. Morris Lessmore
William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
La Luna
Enrico Casarosa
*A Morning Stroll
Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
Wild Life
Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Short Film (Live Action)
*Pentecost
Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
Raju
Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
The Shore
Terry George and Oorlagh George
Time Freak
Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic
Hallvar Witzø
SOUND EDITING
Drive
Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
The Girl with the Dragon Tatt oo
Ren Klyce
Hugo
Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
*War Horse
Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
SOUND MIXING
The Girl with the Dragon Tatt oo
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and
Bo Persson
Hugo
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
Moneyball
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and
Ed Novick
*Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush
and Peter J. Devlin
War Horse
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and
Stuart Wilson
VISUAL EFFECTS
Harry Potter and the Deat hly Hallows
Pa rt 2
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and
John Richardson
*Hugo
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and
Alex Henning
Real Steel
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and
Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White
and Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and
John Frazier
Writing
(Adapted Screenplay )
*The Descendants
Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon &
Jim Rash
Hugo
Screenplay by John Logan
The Ides of March
Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and
Beau Willimon
Moneyball
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
Story by Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
Writing
(Original Screenplay )
The Artist
Written by Michel Hazanavicius
*Bridesmaids
Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call
Written by J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Pa ris
Written by Woody Allen
A Separat ion
Written by Asghar Farhadi

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Ok guys... Welcome to my blog. It is my hope and wish that you will be entertained and walk away feeling even better about the movies that you have gone to see. If we look closely, we can find the message in every movie. I hope that you learn to love the movies as much as I do. Let's discuss and find out what it is that you like about each and every movie that you see!