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2012 84th Oscar Academy Awards

I love the Oscar's because I love movies! I'm a member of a local film society, I watch a lot of independent films, and I hardly miss a year at the Sundance Film Festival. I like to see how movies rate with the Academy each year. Below are some of this year's nominees with a few of my own opinions on some of the movies. This list doesn't include all of the categories, just a few of my favorites. Cheers!

Best Motion Picture of the Year: 1-5

My personal prediction was for The Descendants or War Horse. However, the winner was The Artist. I saw this movie on the morning of the Oscars. I really liked the movie and thought the actors all did wonderfully. It was a treasure to watch a film without a lot of talking and there was a lot of substance to the movie. However, it felt a bit lacking in human emotion to me. I didn't really connect to the characters. To me, a good movie is one that makes me feel something deeply, where I resonate in the story. I think The Descendants should have one.
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Best Motion Picture of the Year: 5 - 9

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Best Flick Winner?

Hugo
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

I predict Glenn Close will win this one, and I was wrong. Meryl Streep won the award for the movie, The Iron Lady. Although I didn't see this movie, I do plan on it.
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Best Leading Lady Poll

My Week with Marilyn
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Best Performance of an Actor in a Leading Role

I haven't seen all of these movies, so I can't give a fair prediction. However, I'm cheering for George Clooney....hee, hee.....blushing.....and I was wrong again! Jean DuJardin won the award for his performance in The Artist. I did see this movie and Jean did an outstanding job, but I just didn't connect to this movie or the characters. I know alot of people feel the George Clooney's character wasn't believable, but it was too me because I know business people and I know 'haoles' from Hawaii. I thought he did an outstanding job of being the character.
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Who's Your Best Man?

Brad Pitt in Moneyball
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Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

I was cheering for Rango and was so happy to see it won the award. I thought it was clever, whitty and amusing. Anything Johnny Depp does is golden. Rango has a perfect balance of kid and adult humor and every person should have a copy of this movie in their home. Really...go get it. :)
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Best Animated Feature Poll

Kung Fu Panda 2
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Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

The winner was The Artist. I definitely agree with this as the music is what made the movie and what spoke for the characters....GOOD ON YA, THE ARTIST!
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Listen to the Music Poll

The Artist
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Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Hugo was the winner in Visual Effects. I thought this was a great choice and I thought it would have been Hugo or Harry Potter. Hugo was so whimsical and I almost felt like a child in awe of what I saw on the screen during this movie.
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Visual Effects Master!

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
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Best Achievement in Art Direction

Hugo was the winner in this category to which I agree and thought would win although I thought War Horse could have easily won it too. However, there was something so magical in Hugo that resonated deeply.
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Artsy Fartsy

Harry Potter
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  • soniazahan Mar 22, 2012 @ 8:48 am | delete
    Great lens. Thanks for sharing this topic.
  • TTMall Mar 21, 2012 @ 3:10 pm | delete
    Wonderful and informative lens. Very well done!
  • JoshK47 Mar 8, 2012 @ 5:25 pm | delete
    I actually did pretty well this year with my predictions - nicely done on this lens!
  • Spook Mar 7, 2012 @ 3:47 pm | delete
    I love the Oscars too. But, this year I missed it all for some reason and welcome to Squidoo.
  • VillaDejaBlue Mar 4, 2012 @ 2:39 pm | delete
    Nice lens.
  • sukkran Mar 4, 2012 @ 12:58 pm | delete
    very interesting presentation.
  • SudokuNut Mar 3, 2012 @ 12:54 pm | delete
    Meryll deserved her Oscar, watching her play Thatcher makes my skin crawl as much as watching the real thing in action did. I still haven't seen any of the others to even comment, none of them make me want to jump up and rent them. 2011 was quite weak for decent movies I thought.
  • alicanas Mar 2, 2012 @ 7:29 am | delete
    fine lens.
  • webkangaroo Mar 1, 2012 @ 11:18 pm | delete
    Good compilation of lists -- why not tell us your own opinion of these films? We're all ears!
  • queenofduvetcovers Feb 27, 2012 @ 9:29 am | delete
    Nice lens!! =)
  • Duane_Jackson Feb 24, 2012 @ 10:33 pm | delete
    Hi!...Nice lens! I also thank you for visiting mine on the 'Best Picture' Oscar award!gooplook
  • SereneSea Feb 22, 2012 @ 11:27 pm | delete
    I love watching the Oscar nominations and the clips of the films they show in the awards.
  • glowchick Feb 21, 2012 @ 11:33 am | delete
    Great lens :)
  • Rankography Feb 20, 2012 @ 5:09 pm | delete
    Great lens. I will add it to my plexo on a couple of my lenses.
  • reasonablerobinson Feb 20, 2012 @ 5:03 pm | delete
    Fun lens there is some real talent here
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