2011 Oscar Predictions

2011 Oscar Predictions

I forget when I did this last year but I’m pretty sure I usually make it somewhere between nominations and ceremony day so that I can pick up the increased hits I get on these pages in this time in the hope of keeping the old Google rank up (it’s slid in the past few years but always worth doing my best lol). So, of course, this page will be nonsense for at least a few months, and even then it’s just a bit of fun. But for now I will crawl the net for as much info about upcoming releases that catch my eye (hint: this is a good place to start), and the comments are open for you to spew titles at me too (last year someone posted a fabulous comment full of titles).

Best Picture

  • Toy Story 3
  • The Descendants
  • 127 Hours
  • True Grit
  • Hereafter
  • The Way Back
  • Fair Game
  • Miral
  • The Tree of Life
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Best Director

  • Alexander Payne, The Descendants
  • Peter Weir, The Way Back
  • Clint Eastwood, Hereafter
  • Julian Schnabel, Miral
  • Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Best Actor

  • George Clooney, The Descendants
  • Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life
  • Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary
  • Sean Penn, Fair Game
  • Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine

Best Actress

  • Natalie Portman, Black Swan
  • Freida Pinto, Miral
  • Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
  • Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
  • Naomi Watts, Fair Game

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

  • Elle Fanning, Somewhere
  • Chloe Moretz, Kick-Ass
  • Emily Watson, Cemetery Junction
  • Jodie Foster, The Beaver

Best Original Screenplay

  • Somewhere, Sofia Coppola
  • Toy Story 3, Michael Arndt
  • The Beaver, Kyle Kinnen

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • The Descendants, Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, Jim Rash
  • The Rum Diary, Bruce Robinson
  • The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin
  • Miral, Rula Jebreal

Best Editing

  • Inception, Lee Smith

Best Cinematography

  • Stuart Dryburgh, The Tempest
  • Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life
  • Wally Pfister, Inception

Best Original Score

  • Randy Newman, Toy Story 3
  • Alexandre Desplat, The Tree of Life

Best Original Song

  • “We Belong Together” – Randy Newman, Toy Story 3

Best Animated Feature

Best Art Direction

  • The Tempest

Best Costume Design

  • Sandy Powell, The Tempest

Best Make Up

  • The Tempest

Best Sound Mixing

  • Inception

Best Sound Effects Editing

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
  • Inception

Best Visual Effects

  • Inception
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Best Documentary Feature

  • Oceans

6 Responses to “2011 Oscar Predictions”

  1. CK says:

    I wouldn’t rule out Mel Gibson as Best Actor for “The Beaver”. The potential is there.

  2. JK says:

    Have you read the script? Yes, Mel Gibson is a possibility…and Anton Yelchin for supporting! The Academy likes to recognize up and commers in that category and that is a DYNAMITE role if he can pull it off!!

  3. JK says:

    Are you gonna predict 10 best picture nominees now that they’ve changed thet playing field?

  4. Jezza says:

    I can attempt to predict a Best Original Song lineup.

    SONG ARTIST MOVIE
    We Belong Together Randy Newman Toy Story 3
    End Credits Chase & Status feat. Plan B Harry Brown
    Today was a Fairytale Taylor Swift Valentines Day
    We Dance On N-Dubz feat. Bodyrox Streetance 3D
    Alice (Underground) Avril Laveigne Alice in Wonderland

  5. Ethan says:

    Wow. No respect for Inception. The movie that SHOULD dominate the Oscars. Will it, though? The Academy Awards are famous for awarding crappy movies, that no one saw, the victories. The Dark Knight and Chris Nolan were screwed years ago, it better not happen again. It’ll just prove how useless the Academy Awards really are.

  6. Melody says:

    The MatriXistenZ? No doubt it’ll be in there, don’t panic. Just not in my list. Overrated, not nearly as complicated/original as everybody says, and certainly no Dark Knight. I’ll be fine with the 5 tech nods I listed though.

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