Thursday, January 16, 2014

2013 Oscar Nominations Reaction


Best Picture
Mostly as expected. Inside Llewyn Davis didn't pan out.

112 Years a Slave
2. Gravity
3. American Hustle
4. Captain Phillips
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. Nebraska
7. Her
9. Dallas Buyers Club
11. Philomena

8/9

Directing
Paul Greengrass is the omission from the DGA five, replaced by Academy favourite Alexander Payne.

1. Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
2. Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
3. David O. Russell, American Hustle
5. Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
6. Alexander Payne, Nebraska

4/5

Actress in a Leading Role
I didn't foresee the Academy snubbing Emma Thompson.

1. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
2. Sandra Bullock, Gravity
4. Judi Dench, Philomena
5. Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
6. Amy Adams, American Hustle

4/5

Actor in a Leading Role
Redford was indeed left out, but so was Tom Hanks in a surprising move that I somehow half-expected.

1. Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
3. Bruce Dern, Nebraska
6. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Christian Bale, American Hustle

3/5

Actress in a Supporting Role
Sorry, Oprah! My beloved Sally Hawkins finally made it in.

1. Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
2. Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
4. Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
5. June Squibb, Nebraska
6. Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

4/5


Actor in a Supporting Role
Brühl missed out, and Cooper makes American Hustle the second Russell film in a row (after Silver Linings Playbook) to get a nomination in all four acting categories. That's some achievement.

1. Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
2. Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
3. Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
5. Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
7. Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street

4/5

Original Screenplay

1. American Hustle
2. Nebraska
3. Blue Jasmine
4. Her
7. Dallas Buyers Club

4/5

Adapted Screenplay

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Captain Phillips
3. Philomena
4. Before Midnight
5. The Wolf of Wall Street

5/5

Cinematography
In a surprising move, 12 Years a Slave was left out, with a somewhat surprising nomination from The Grandmaster.

1. Gravity
3. Nebraska
4. Prisoners
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. The Grandmaster

4/5

Editing
And the surprise was Thelma Schoonmaker missing out and Dallas Buyers Club making it in.

1. Gravity
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Captain Phillips
4. American Hustle
10. Dallas Buyers Club

4/5

Production Design

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. The Great Gatsby
4. Gravity
5. American Hustle
8. Her

4/5

Costume Design
The Grandmaster makes another surprising inclusion here.

1. The Great Gatsby
2. American Hustle
3. 12 Years a Slave
4. The Invisible Woman
- The Grandmaster

4/5

Makeup and Hairstyling
The love for American Hustle didn't spread here, with The Lone Ranger making it in.

2. Bad Grandpa
3. Dallas Buyers Club
5. The Lone Ranger

2/3

Original Score
12 Years a Slave missed another one here.

1. Gravity
3. The Book Thief
4. Saving Mr. Banks
7. Her
8. Philomena

3/5

Original Song
"Young and Beautiful" was snubbed in favour of the obscure "Alone Yet Not Alone". I should check it out!

1. "Let it Go" from Frozen
3. "Ordinary Love" from Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom
4. "Happy" from Despicable Me 2
5. "The Moon Song" from Her
- "Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone

4/5

Sound Mixing
So Lone Survivor did end up in the mix for both categories. I knew I should have predicted it.

1. Gravity
2. Captain Phillips
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Lone Survivor
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

3/5

Sound Editing
As usual, not my best category.

1. Gravity
2. Captain Phillip
4. All is Lost
7. Lone Survivor
8. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

3/5


Visual Effects
Now here's a snub: Pacific Rim is missing here.

1. Gravity
2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
4. Iron Man 3
5. Star Trek Into Darkness
10. The Lone Ranger

4/5

Foreign Language

1. The Hunt
2. The Broken Circle Breakdown
3. The Great Beauty
4. Omar
- The Missing Picture

4/5

Animated Feature Film
Pixar actually missed out this year, with Monsters University failing to make the grade.

1. Frozen
2. The Wind Rises
4. Despicable Me 2
5. The Croods
6. Ernest and Celestine

4/5


Documentary Feature
In a rather shocking move, both Blackfish and Stories We Tell are left out.

3. The Act of Killing
4. 20 Feet from Stardom
6. The Square
- Cutie and the Boxer
- Dirty Wars

3/5


So this was one of my better years, with a grand total of:
82/107


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