Announcement: 2012 Academy Awards Nomination List! (with Surprises & Snubs)
Here they are, folks, your 2012 Academy Award Nominations list! Announced this morning by Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence and President of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Tom Sherak at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA. Some of these are still in theaters, some are on DVD or Netflix Watch Instantly, but these are the cream of the crop for 2011, so check them out! Linked will be the available Keeping It Reel reviews for all nominated films.
The winners will be announced during the telecast of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Billy Crystal on February 26, 2012.
Enjoy! And feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below!!
BEST PICTURE
- The Artist
- The Descendants
- Midnight in Paris
- The Help
- The Tree of Life
- War Horse
- Moneyball
- Hugo
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Surprises: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Snubs: Drive
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ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
- Brad Pitt – Moneyball
- George Clooney – The Descendants
- Jean Dujardin – The Artist
- Demián Bichir – A Better Life
- Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Surprises: Demián Bichir & Gary Oldman
Snubs: Michael Fassbender – Shame & Michael Shannon – Take Shelter or Ryan Gosling – Drive
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ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
- Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
- Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
- Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
- Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Viola Davis – The Help
Surprises: Rooney Mara
Snubs: Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
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ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
- Christopher Plummer – Beginners
- Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
- Jonah Hill – Moneyball
- Nick Nolte – Warrior
- Max Von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Surprises: Max Von Sydow
Snubs: Albert Brooks – Drive & Patton Oswalt – Young Adult
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ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
- Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
- Jessica Chastain – The Help
- Octavia Spencer – The Help
- Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
- Bérénice Bejo – The Artist
Surprises: none
Snubs: no Carey Mulligan – Drive or Shame
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DRECTING
- Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
- Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
- Alexander Payne – The Descendants
- Martin Scorsese – Hugo
- Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
Surprises: none
Snubs: Bennet Miller – Moneyball
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Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
- The Descendants – Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
- Hugo – Screenplay by John Logan
- The Ides of March – Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
- Moneyball – Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
Writing (Original Screenplay)
- The Artist – written by Michel Hazanavicius
- Bridesmaids – written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
- Margin Call – written by J.C. Chandor
- Midnight in Paris – written by Woody Allen
- A Separation – written by Asghar Farhadi
Surprises: Margin Call
Snubs: Will Reiser – 50/50
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ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
- A Cat in Paris – Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
- Chico & Rita – Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
- Kung Fu Panda 2 – Jennifer Yuh Nelson
- Puss in Boots – Chris Miller
- Rango – Gore Verbinski
Surprises: Uh, the first two – but that’s cool!
Snubs: The Adventures of Tintin
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Art Direction
- The Artist – Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Direction: Robert Gould
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Direction: Stephenie McMillan
- Hugo – Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
- Midnight in Paris –Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
- War Horse – Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
Surprises: none
Snubs: The Tree of Life
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
- The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
- Hugo – Robert Richardson
- The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
- War Horse – Janusz Kaminski
Surprises: none
Snubs: Meek’s Cutoff
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COSTUME DESIGN
- Anonymous – Lisy Christl
- The Artist – Mark Bridges
- Hugo – Sandy Powell
- Jane Eyre – Michael O’Connor
- W.E. – Arianne Phillips
Surprises: W.E. – um, the video game console? Say What?!?!
Snubs: Meek’s Cutoff
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DOCTUMENTARY (FEATURE)
- Hell and Back Again – Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
- Pina – Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
- Undefeated – TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Surprises: yes – the amount of docs that got snubbed!
Snubs: The Interrupters & no Herzog!!
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Documentary (Short Subject)
- The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
- God Is the Bigger Elvis – Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
- Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione
- Saving Face – Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
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Film Editing
- The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
- The Descendants – Kevin Tent
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
- Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
- Moneyball – Christopher Tellefsen
Surprises: The Descendants
Snubs: Drive
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Foreign Language Film
- Bullhead – Belgium
- Footnote – Israel
- In Darkness – Poland
- Monsieur Lazhar – Canada
- A Separation – Iran
Surprises: none
Snubs: Le Havre
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Makeup
- Albert Nobbs – Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
- The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Surprises: none
Snubs: J. Edgar – KIDDING!!
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Music (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
Surprises: none
Snubs: Cliff Martinez – Drive & Michael Giacchinio – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol or Super 8 & Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo
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Music (Original Song)
- “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets – Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
- “Real in Rio” from Rio– Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Surprises: Only two?!?! Why bother?
Snubs: “Life’s a Happy Song” – The Muppets
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Short Film (Animated)
- Dimanche/Sunday – Patrick Doyon
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
- La Luna – Enrico Casarosa
- A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
- Wild Life – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
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Short Film (Live Action)
- Pentecost – Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
- Raju – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
- The Shore – Terry George and Oorlagh George
- Time Freak – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
- Tuba Atlantic – Hallvar Witzø
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Sound Editing
- Drive – Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Ren Klyce
- Hugo – Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
- War Horse – Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
Surprises: Drive – just the fact that it’s the only nom for the film!
Snubs: Super 8 & Captain America: The First Avenger
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Sound Mixing
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
- Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
- Moneyball – Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
- War Horse – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
Surprises: none
Snubs: Drive & Super 8
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Visual Effects
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
- Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
- Real Steel – Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier
Surprises: none
Snubs: The Tree of Life & Attack the Block
A few disappointments (snubs):
Drive – Best Picture (It was my favorite of 2011)
Albert Brooks – Best Supporting Actor
Ryan Gosling – Best Actor (Drive… or I’d even accept it for Crazy Stupid Love)
Am I being too Drive-centric?!
Also snubbed:
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Best Picture
Patton Oswalt – Best Supporting Actor
David Fincher – Best Director
I need more time to review and absorb all of the nominations, but those (above) were my initial reactions.
clearly, the Academy was going for nostalgia waxing this year – especially over artfully done violent/controversial films.
That best actor category is some weak cheese, dude
I woulda switched out the bottom two for Fassbender and Shannon, for sure.
No room for Elizabeth Olsen? Your thoughts?
I woulda chosen Olsen over Mara or Close, indeed.
I agree with most of the posted snubs, but the song thing boggles my mind. 2 songs in a year of movies?? Nothing exposes how whack the academy voting rules are more then that. It’s also stupid because live music performances aren’t the only thing that gets ratings, but they might help, more so if a star is performing. Crystal won’t be bringing in the youth to watch this years awards!
Hey Steve – with only two nominees in this category, they might as well just have a face-off, or flip a coin or just give it to “The Muppets”. In the past, both “Dreamgirls” and “Enchanted” received at least two nominations in this category. So why couldn’t they throw in another Muppets song? It’s just silly and a waste to have zero competition in this category. I guess they wanted to make the show shorter and less entertaining.
And it just seems like the song category is a softball for the academy to get more kids watching their show with a song by a pop artist. They annually change hosts and cry about lower ratings. Now I guess they’ll have more time for Some academy octogenarian to get up and put hundreds of us to sleep early with some looong show killing speech about the return of the good ole days before talkies.
The fact that they snubbed Ben Nichols’ “Shelter” in the song category is a travesty.
Just watched “Hell and Back Again”. Up for a Best Documentary Oscar. Have you seen it? Nice to have a little inlook into a soldier’s life, but the story arc was kinda weak, and it seemed to have a lot of filler. It’s hard to believe that there aren’t DOZENS of better documentaries out there that could have beat it out of the nom.
I did see it as well recently and thought it was alright, but not Oscar-worthy. I liked that they stuck with one soldier, but I felt like I’ve seen it before with all the documentary coverage of soldiers over the years – especially white soldiers from the South. I had a hard time going back and forth from the war images (from his head? actually footage?) to his assimilation back into real life. It seemed like there was more of a story back home in North Carolina – what with the various reactions to his injuries from other physically unscathes soliders and the expected tension between him and his family. And yes – there were indeed far better docs in 2011.
Is there something odd about the rules for voting on the Doc category? It seems like for the last few years (maybe dating back to Hoop Dreams?) almost none of the most popular OR critically fave docs make it into the nominees. With a few exceptions. This year it seemed like Project Nim and Interrupters were huge faves until the nominations came out
There is certainly an uproar about the changes made that go into the qualifying factors for documentaries. When Steve James’ “The Interrupters”, “Project Nim”, “Senna”, or either of Werner Herzog’s two docs didn’t make the Oscar shortlist of 15 films (!!) – many were baffled and outraged. Time Magazine called the omission “preposterous” and “egregious.” The New York Times – noting that James’ masterwork “Hoop Dreams” was similarly snubbed in 1994 – cited it as an example of how “the Oscars never get it right.” James reflects on this here: http://www.indiewire.com/article/exclusive-the-interrupters-director-steve-james-weighs-in-on-the-new-doc-rules
Steve James film “Stevie” is probably my all-time favorite documentary. I’m gonna guess it got overlooked, too?
You know it – although it did win best doc at Sundance and the Independent Spirit Awards.