Some Academy award favorites this year…..

“Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.”
-Eric Buttterworth

Some of the great movies will compete for this year for Oscars which is to be held on 27^th February……but as usual only few will have the pleasure of carrying the trophy home…..i would like to share my favorites for this years award…..but that will be solely my opinion, so you can share your opinion by participating in the poll, to choose your favorite……….

BEST PICTURE

There are ten nominations for this category…

Black Swan

The king’s Speech

Inception

127 Hours

The Fighter

 The Social Network

The kids Are Alright

Toy Story 3

True Grit

Winter Bone

But I think the real competition for this award will be between Inception,The king’s speech,The Social Network and Black swan…..with Inception having slight edge over the others…….

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Javier Bardem –Biutiful

James Franco-127 Hours

Jeff Bridges-True Grit

Colin firth-The King’s Speech

Jesse Eisenberg-The Social Network

For this category my favorites are Colin Firth for portrayal of role as King George 6 and James Franco……..

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Christian Bale-The Fighter

John Hawkes-Winter's Bone

Jeremy RennerShare My PickShare My PickShare to Facebook Share to Twitter -The Town

Mark RuffaloShare to Facebook Share to Twitter -The Kids Are All Right

Geoffrey Rush-The King's Speech

This could be decided between Christan Bale and Geoffrey Rush…..

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Annette Bening-The Kids Are All Right

Nicole Kidman-Rabbit HoleShare My PickShare to Facebook Share to Twitter

Jennifer Lawrence-Winter's BonShare My PickShare to Facebook Share to Twitter

Natalie Portman-Black Swan

Michelle Williams-Blue Valentine

Although I haven’t seen all the movies in this particular category, yet I have supreme confidence in my choice for best actress in leading role…..Natalie Portman……for her role in movie “Black Swan”…..after watching the movie its hard to imagine the kind of effort Natalie would have endured for the preparation of such a actress centric role, which requires demanding dancing abilities in proportion to the acting skills for portraying the character of “Nina”….

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Black Swan-Matthew Libatique

Inception-Wally Pfister

The King's Speech-Danny Cohen

The Social Network-Jeff Cronenweth

True Grit-Roger Deakins

Real competition will be between Wally Pfister(Inception) and Matthew Libatique(Black Swan)………

 

DIRECTING

Black Swan-Darren Aronofsky Share My PickShare to Facebook Share to Twitter

The Fighter-David O. Russell

The King's Speech-Tom Hooper

The Social Network-David Fincher

True Grit-Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

It would  be toughest to pick any one particular director from the above five nominees(so close is competition)and judges will surely have hard time choosing one…….so I have no particular favorite in this category…..

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Exit through the Gift Shop-Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz

Gasland-Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic

Inside Job-Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

Restrepo-Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

Waste Land-Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley

“Exit Through The Gift Shop”…..after watching this documentary one can realize that how there is sometime joke on art or how media hype and word of mouth can create significant buzz for not so significant things, this is funny yet intelligent documentary and fabulous direction by Banksy an street artist himself…..only rare chances are there that it’s director will attend the awards due to his secretive and hidden identity……anyway it will remain my favorite……

There are other categories also but it would to be too lengthy to discuss all of them…..but it’s easily predictable that this years awards will be dominated by movies like-

The King’s Speech...Inception ...Black Swan.....The fighter......The social network

I will keep my fingers crossed till 27^th……….