So 9 best film nominees this year. Has The Descendants nailed it already? Does The Artist have a shot? Do War Horse and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close deserve to be here? Did Drive deserve a nod?
Why on earth is there no Transformers 3? Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Hugo
Moneyball
War Horse
The Help
Midnight In Paris
The Tree Of Life
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Battle of the big boys: Best Director (No women again!) Can Hazanavicius snatch this from the heavyweights?
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Woody Allen - Midnight In Paris
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Terrence Malick - Tree Of Life
Best Leading Actress: a.k.a The Meryl Streep award
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
Best Leading Actor: Can Dujardin beat Clooney? Who the hell is Demian Bichir and where the hell did he come from?
George Clooney - The Descendants
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Demián Bichir - A Better Life
Best Supporting Actress: Go McCarthy... that would be brilliant!
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Best Supporting Actor: Does Plummer have any real competition here?
Kenneth Brannagh - My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill - Moneyball
Christopher Plummer - Beginner
Nick Nolte - Warrior
Max Von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Best Foreign Language Film: A Seperation is probably the shoe-in here is it not? Anyone seen any of the others? will the voters have seen any of the others?
A Separation
Bullhead
Monsieur Lazhar
Footnote
In Darkness
Best Animation: Please please please give it to Rango!
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss In Boots
Rango
A Cat in paris
Chico & Rita
There's many more categories but that's all I've got time for. I'm off to see The Grey a.k.a. Liam Neeson VS The Wolves. Shame it came out now, it coulda been a contender!
