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http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38197/
The only way San Diegans have had a chance to see the works of Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain (Tony Manero, Post Mortem) was at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. The Academy's nomination of Larrain's latest, No, for best foreign film will in the least alert the general film-going public of his presence. Getting them to risk $11 on a film where the talking is written at the bottom of the screen is another story.
So much for my personal silver linings playbook. What a cornucopia of crap the Academy has gifted us with. How awful must it be if I'm rooting for a spielberg film to take home best adapted screenplay and a Bond picture to win best cinematography?
Lincoln led the pack with a dozen nominations including one for cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski. (John Wilkes Booth was a better shooter.)
Nominating the frightfully amateurish Beasts of the Southern Wild for anything other than best actress proves that the guilt-stricken Academy feels just terrible about what happened with this Hurricane Katrina mess.
Forget about snubbing Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck: Taylor Swift didn’t receive a nomination for The Hunger Games. What are the remarkable pigs at the Academy thinking?
The ceremony will air Feb. 24. Who better than Seth MacFarlane -- to date his sole contribution to the art of cinema has been a potty-mouthed CGI Teddy Bear -- to host the show?
Here is the complete list of nominees. My favorites (not the ones I think are going to win) are in bold. If no titles are in bold, it means I didn't see enough of the nominated films or I have zero interest in the category.
Picture
Director
Actor
Supporting Actor
Actress
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Supporting Actress
Cinematography
Adapted Screenplay
Original screenplay
Costume Design
Documentary Feature
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38205/
Documentary Short
Editing
Foreign Film
Makeup and Hairstyling
Original Score
Original Song
Production Design
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38204/
Animated Feature
Animated Short
Live Action Short
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCrgbIcaRnU
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38197/
The only way San Diegans have had a chance to see the works of Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain (Tony Manero, Post Mortem) was at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. The Academy's nomination of Larrain's latest, No, for best foreign film will in the least alert the general film-going public of his presence. Getting them to risk $11 on a film where the talking is written at the bottom of the screen is another story.
So much for my personal silver linings playbook. What a cornucopia of crap the Academy has gifted us with. How awful must it be if I'm rooting for a spielberg film to take home best adapted screenplay and a Bond picture to win best cinematography?
Lincoln led the pack with a dozen nominations including one for cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski. (John Wilkes Booth was a better shooter.)
Nominating the frightfully amateurish Beasts of the Southern Wild for anything other than best actress proves that the guilt-stricken Academy feels just terrible about what happened with this Hurricane Katrina mess.
Forget about snubbing Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck: Taylor Swift didn’t receive a nomination for The Hunger Games. What are the remarkable pigs at the Academy thinking?
The ceremony will air Feb. 24. Who better than Seth MacFarlane -- to date his sole contribution to the art of cinema has been a potty-mouthed CGI Teddy Bear -- to host the show?
Here is the complete list of nominees. My favorites (not the ones I think are going to win) are in bold. If no titles are in bold, it means I didn't see enough of the nominated films or I have zero interest in the category.
Picture
Director
Actor
Supporting Actor
Actress
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38203/
Supporting Actress
Cinematography
Adapted Screenplay
Original screenplay
Costume Design
Documentary Feature
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38205/
Documentary Short
Editing
Foreign Film
Makeup and Hairstyling
Original Score
Original Song
Production Design
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38204/
Animated Feature
Animated Short
Live Action Short
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCrgbIcaRnU