Academy Awards Nominations Announced!

Every year the Academy Awards come and go. Brining the ultimate recognition in the form of an annual award to the best films. But if only it was truly the ultimate recognition in fairness and justice for all filmmakers and artists apart of the cinema industry. With the Academy's countless mistakes I think its about time we stopped caring. But its only up to us for things to change but also for the Hollywood elite to change their tune and boycott the Oscars as previous stars had in the past (Marlon Brando, George C. Scott). 

But why am I so critical of the Oscars? Its because its taken me many years of constantly getting riled up with their insane choices over the years. It all started when Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in Love in 1998. It continued as I was becoming more of cinema enthusiast, when I found out Hitchcock never got a Oscar, nor did Kubrick, nor did Scorsese before the Departed. But it all came down to their decisions of the past years that have shaped my mind. Not giving Eddie Murphy an Oscar for Dreamgirls, The Dark Knight not getting nominated, and their constant policy of being controversial to who gets the awards. There insistence of choosing films with special interests, avoiding unconventional films and always recognizing classic Hollywood genres and stars.

This year was no different with the King's Speech and True Grit getting the most nominations. A Hollywood historical drama and an western remake by the Coen brothers. Am I not surprised by their choices in original genres and films that don't stray away from the norm instead films like Inception fade into the dark when it comes to awards season. When films that are unconventional and groundbreaking come along the Hollywood elite just pat them on the back an say good job but your still of a lower class. Who can forget films like Fight Club and the Matrix which also were never nominated. I could go on and on with similar films but whats the point.

But this years travesty is Inception not getting nominated in two specific categories. The Oscars get literally go boink themselves with their decision of not nominating Christopher Nolan for his directing and for the editing done on the film. Inception the biggest entertainment, blockbuster and one of the most thought provoking films of the year. With incredible ideas, deep scenes within scenes gets no nomination into two integral categories that made the film great. I was expecting no awards for the film but no nominations in those categories is downright cold. In Hollywood directing a remake, a boxing drama, historical drama gets you nominated but not for directing the most climactic, intelligent and one the most original films of the year. I can really say no more.

George C. Scott

"The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade. I don't want any part of it." 

Here are the nominees for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards:

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

• 127 Hours


• Black Swan


• The Fighter


• Inception


• The Kids Are All Right


• The King's Speech


• The Social Network


• Toy Story 3


• True Grit


• Winter's Bone

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

• Javier Bardem - Biutiful


• Jeff Bridges - True Grit


• Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network


• Colin Firth - The King's Speech


• James Franco - 127 Hours

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:

• Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right


• Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole


• Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone


• Natalie Portman - Black Swan


• Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

• Christian Bale - The Fighter


• John Hawkes  - Winter's Bone


• Jeremy Renner - The Town


• Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right


• Geoffry Rush - The King's Speech

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

• Amy Adams - The Fighter


• Helena Bohnam Carter - The King's Speech


• Melissa Leo - The Fighter


• Hailee Steinfield - True Grit


• Jacki Weaver - Winter's Bone

Best Achievement in Directing:

• Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan


• Ethan & Joel Coen - True Grit


• David Fincher - The Social Network


• Tom Hooper - The King's Speech


• David O. Russel - The Fighter

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen:

• Another Year - Mike Leigh


• The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrignton


• Inception - Christopher Nolan


• The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg


• The King's Speech - David Seidler

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

• 127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy


• The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin


• Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkirch


• True Grit - Joel & Ethan Coen


• Winter's Bone - Debra Granik, Anna Rosselini

Best Animated Film of the Year

• How to Train Your Dragon - Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders


• L'llousionist - Sylvain Chomet


• Toy Story 3 - Lee Unrich

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

• Biutiful - Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu (Mexico)


• Kunodontas - Giorgos Lanthimos (Greece)


• Heaven - Susanne Bier (Denmark)


• Incedies - Denis Villeneuve (Canada)


• Hors-la-loi - Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria)

The rest of the nominations can be seen here http://www.imdb.com/features/oscars/2011/nominations