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Sunday, January 1, 2012

AWARDS SEASON 2012
Dear Academy: Your Nominees Should Look Like This


 

Top row: Kristin Scott Thomas in "Love Crime", Kim Wayans in "Pariah", Mia Wasikowska in "Jane Eyre".  Middle row:
Patsha Bay in "Viva Riva!", Sarah Greenwood's production design in "Hanna". Last row: Shannyn Sossamon in "Road
To Nowhere", Demian Bichir in "A Better Life".  IFC Films, Focus Features, Music Box, Focus Features, Monterey Media, Summit Entertainment
  
by Omar P.L. Moore/PopcornReel.com        FOLLOW                                            TWEET
Sunday, January 1, 2012

I hadn't seen The New York Times' choices for nominees for this year's Academy Awards when I decided to weigh in on who the Oscar nominees should be when they are announced on January 24.  The Academy likely won't even sniff at some of these picks but I believe the choices merit serious consideration.  It's a new year.  I'd love to see the Academy become adventurous and look in new directions.  If the Academy's annual Oscars telecast wants a wider audience  -- which they'll get by default with Billy Crystal as host -- then why not live dangerously with something off the mainstream's beaten path?

Without any further you-know-what, here are my would-be Academy nominees in 12 categories: best picture, director, actress, actor, supporting actress, supporting actor, cinematography, original screenplay, adapted screenplay, production design, original score and foreign language film.


BEST PICTURE (only going with a minimum of five)
The Tree Of Life
Shame
Certified Copy
Road To Nowhere
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy


BEST DIRECTOR
Tomas Alfredson, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Monte Hellman, "Road To Nowhere"
Abbas Kiarostami, "Certified Copy"
Terrence Malick, "The Tree Of Life"
Nicolas Winding Refn, "Drive"


BEST ACTRESS
Juliette Binoche, "Certified Copy"
Zöe Heran, "Tomboy"
Elizabeth Olsen, "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Shannyn Sossamon, "Road To Nowhere"
Mia Wasikowska, "Jane Eyre"


BEST ACTOR
Demián Bichir, "A Better Life"
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Michael Fassbender, "Shame"
Gary Oldman, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, "The Tree Of Life"
Carey Mulligan, "Shame"
Vanessa Redgrave, "Coriolanus"
Kristin Scott Thomas, "Love Crime"
Kim Wayans, "Pariah"


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Albert Brooks, "Drive"
Ryan Gosling, "crazy, stupid, love."
Jeremy Irons, "Margin Call"
Brad Pitt, "The Tree Of Life"
Christoph Waltz, "Carnage"


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"The Artist"
"Hugo"
"Melancholia"
"The Tree Of Life"
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen, "Midnight In Paris"
J.C. Chandor, "Margin Call"
Steven Gaydos, "Road To Nowhere"
Abbas Kiarostami, "Certified Copy"
Terrence Malick, "The Tree Of Life"


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Pedro Almodovar, "The Skin I Live In"
Moira Buffini, "Jane Eyre"
Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, "The Descendants"
Roman Polanski and Yasmine Reza, "Carnage"


BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Laurence Bennett, "The Artist"
Marina Djurkovic, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Dante Ferretti, "Hugo"
Jack Fisk, "The Tree Of Life"
Sarah Greenwood, "Hanna"


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Chemical Brothers, "Hanna"
Harry Escott, "Shame"
Michael Giacchino, "Super 8"
Alberto Iglesias, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Howard Shore, "Hugo"


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Certified Copy"
"Le Quattro Volte"
"Mysteries Of Lisbon"
"Point Blank"
"Viva Riva!"


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