The 2012 Oscar Nominations Are In!

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By Nads | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | 8:55 am | 15 Comments
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The Oscar nominations are in! Hugo is the top contender with 11 nods, with The Artist trailing with 10. Let’s just say I have a lot of movie watching to do this month! The Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Billy Crystal, will be presented on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 at 7ET/4PT (live) on ABC.

Here’s the video:

The full list:

Best Picture:
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
“The Help”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“Moneyball”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”

 

Best Actor:
Demian Bichir, “A Better Life”
George Clooney, “The Descendants”
Jean Dujarin, “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 & Incredibly Close”

 

Best Supporting Actress:
Berenice Bejo, “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain, “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy, “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer, “The Help”

 

Best Directing:
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Alexander Payne, “The Descendants”
Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life”

 

Best Foreign Language Film:
“Bullhead” (Belgium)
“Footnote” (Israel)
“In Darkness” (Poland)
“Monsieur Lazhar” (Canada)
“A Separation” (Iran)

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, “The Descendants”
John Logan, “Hugo”
George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, “The Ides of March”
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, “Moneyball”
Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”

 

Best Original Screenplay:
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, “Bridesmaids”
J.C. Chandor, “Margin Call”
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation”

 

Best Animated Feature Film
“A Cat in Paris”
“Chico & Rita”
“Kung Fu Panda 2″
“Puss in Boots”
“Rango”

 

Best Art Direction:
“The Artist”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“War Horse”

 

Best Cinematography:
“The Artist”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”

 

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 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

 

Best Original Song:
“Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets,” Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio” from “Rio,” Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett.

 

Best Costume:
“Anonymous”
“The Artist”
“Hugo”
“Jane Eyre”
“W.E”

 

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 subject):
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement”
“God is the Bigger Elvis”
“Incident in New Baghdad”
“Saving Face”
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”

 

Best Film Editing:
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”

 

Best Makeup:
“Albert Nobbs”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″
“The Iron Lady”

 

Best Animated Short Film:
“Dimanche/Sunday”
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”
“La Luna”
“A Morning Stroll”
“Wild Life”

 

Best Live Action Short Film:
“Pentecost”
“Raju”
“The Shore”
“Time Freak”
“Tuba Atlantic”

 

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”

About

Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

15 Comments

  1. 1
    NotWithoutMyTV notwithoutmytv
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 10:13 am

    “Warhorse” will win the “Most horses made to run constantly during filming until they died” category.

  2. 2
    2muchbravo
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 11:34 am

    I heard “Extremely Loud…” sucked. Good to see a normal film like “Bridesmaids” get recognised but where’s friggin’ Alan Rickman!?

  3. 3
    Danielle
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    I thought I was reading the Golden Globes nominees again…what a rip off!

  4. 4
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    I disagree about Bridesmaids. Some correspondent on HLN said she was surprised that it was snubbed for best picture because it performed so well in the box office. Since when does a movie popular with the masses equal an Oscar winner? Of course, I’m probably just bitter because I found it really disappointing for what I was expecting. But I usually feel that way about movies that are so hyped up before I see them.

  5. 5
    NotWithoutMyTV notwithoutmytv
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    Bridesmaids was just Katherine Heigel away from being a disposable chick flick. Academy Awards are for real movies… like Gladiator.

  6. 6
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Not one nod to Breaking Dawn Part 1? FOR SHAME!

  7. 7
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    I heart me some old Russell Crowe NWMTV so, CHUT UP!

  8. 8
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:41 pm

    Tree of Life for Best Picture? Seriously? It ripped of Koyaanisqatsi and had freakin’ CGI dinosaurs that looked straight out of Land of the Lost. That should have Malick run out of town, not lauded.

    And I say this as someone who has actually defended The Thin Red Line.

  9. 9
    kthxbai
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    @notwithoutmytv It was a whole Melissa McCarthy away from it. Which means it didn’t even need a Katherine Heigl.

    I’m pissed that Viola Davis is going to get robbed because some fuckwaffle forgot to upgrade that Meryl Streep auto nomination software they use to the new 1 that has the Best Performance by Meryl Streep category.

    And thanks to the person who gave me my new vocabulary word fuckwaffle.
    My excuse for not remembering your name is that the site kept breaking all the time when I got it.

    Overall I’m proud of how few of these movies I watched this year.

  10. 10
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    And Michael Shannon was robbed. I know Take Shelter never got a major, wide release but he was just so amazing in it and never resorted to a Van Alden tic throughout.

    I used to love George Clooney, but he’s so far up his own ass at this point that all I see are Clooneyisms. He just runs his performances through the Clooneynator to determine how much Early Cary Grant to Late Cary Grant to Hitchcock Cary Grant to include. And just reminds that Cary Grant will always be the ultimate movie star.

  11. 11
    2muchbravo
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    @vallegirl I’d still do him (Clooney).

  12. 12
    Clair Clair
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    The Tree of Life is unwatchable. It sucked.

    Midnight in Paris was just stupid.

  13. 13
    Libithina
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    Valleygirl, if you want to laugh at Clooneyisms, check out American Dad’s Tears of a Clooney. It’s spot on. Hypnotoad knows what I’m talkin bout!

  14. 14
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    I’m kind of ashamed of this, but the only thing I really want is for Transformers: Dark of the Moon to win best visual effects.
    I don’t care about anything else.

    But I know that Tom Hanks is tight that he didn’t get a nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I’ve also heard that it wasn’t that good though. The subject matter is just really touching.

  15. 15
    TWhit
    Posted January 25, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    You know I thought was snubbed? Christoph Waltz. Had two AWESOME performances as assholes this past year in “Water for Elephants” and “Carnage”. But I guess the powers that be put a cap on Oscar winning asshole performances and he already got one, so……

    NO. I’M NOT OVER THIS. IF HILLARY SWANK CAN KEEP WINNING OSCARS FOR PLAYING UGLY PEOPLE CHRISTOPH CAN WIN MILLIONS FOR PLAYING ASSHOLES. That’s it. I’m marching. Somebody gimme a banner.

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