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[Wade Barrett 1979]

Give [REC] a watch. Trust me, that will wash the found footage bad taste right out of your mouth.

[REC] is a particular favourite of mine. This is what annoys me so much about films like V/H/S and Paranormal Activity, they are destroying a good film genre with their half arsed, boring, badly written twaddle.

[wrestlingfan66513]

Oscar nominations are in

Best Picture
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Amour"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln"
Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables"
Joaquin Phoenix - "The Master"
Denzel Washington - "Flight"

Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva - "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis - "Beasts of Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"

Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin - "Argo"
Robert De Niro - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"
Christoph Waltz - "Django Unchained"

Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams - "The Master"
Sally Field - "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables"
Helen Hunt - "The Sessions"
Jackie Weaver - "Silver Linings Playbook"

Animated Feature Film
"Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"ParaNorman"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"

Directing
"Amour" - Michael Haneke
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Benh Zeitlin
"Life of Pi" - Ang Lee
"Lincoln" - Steven Spielberg
"Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell

Writing - Original Screenplay
"Amour" - Michael Haneke
"Django Unchained" - Quentin Tarantino
"Flight" - John Gatins
"Moonrise Kingdom" - Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
"Zero Dark Thirty" - Mark Boal

[wrestlingfan66513]

Writing - Adapted Screenplay
"Argo" - Chris Terrio
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
"Life of Pi" - David Magee
"Lincoln" - Tony Kushner
"Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell

Music - Original Song
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," music and lyrics by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted," music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," music by Mychael Danna, lyrics by Bombay Jayashri
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall," music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Suddenly" from "Les Miserables," music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Foreign Language Film
"Amour" (Austria)
"Kon-Tiki" (Norway)
"No" (Chile)
"A Royal Affair" (Denmark)
"War Witch" (Canada)

Cinematography
"Anna Karenina"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Costume Design
"Anna Karenina"
"Les Miserables"
"Lincoln"
"Mirror Mirror"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Documentary - Feature
"5 Broken Cameras"
"The Gatekeepers"
"How to Survive a Plague"
"The Invisible War"
"Searching for Sugar Man"

Documentary - Short
"Inocente"
"Kings Point"
"Mondays at Racine"
"Open Heart"
"Redemption"

Film Editing
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Makeup And Hairstyling
"Hitchcock"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"

Music - Original Score
"Anna Karenina"
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Production Design
"Anna Karenina"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"

Short Film - Animated
"Adam and Dog"
"Fresh Guacamole"
"Head over Heels"
"Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'"
"Paperman"

Short Film - Live Action
"Asad"
"Buzkashi Boys"
"Curfew"
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"
"Henry"

Sound Editing
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Skyfall"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Sound Mixing
"Argo"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Visual Effects
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Life of Pi"
"Marvel's The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

[akbar]

No love for DiCapiro? I thought he was far better than Waltz as the supporting actor in Django. (Not that Waltz wasn't great)

[wrestlingfan66513]

No love for DiCapiro? I thought he was far better than Waltz as the supporting actor in Django. (Not that Waltz wasn't great)

I loved Waltz a lot but felt like his role was a little to close to Inglorious Bastards but DiCaprio and Jackson killed it in Django.

On a side note, has Jackson's best parts (excluding voice acting) been in QT movies or is it just me?

[akbar]

I loved Waltz a lot but felt like his role was a little to close to Inglorious Bastards but DiCaprio and Jackson killed it in Django.

On a side note, has Jackson's best parts (excluding voice acting) been in QT movies or is it just me?

Well to me his best role was in Pulp Fiction but other then that I'm not really a Samuel L Jackson fan.


Oh I also liked him in Coach Carter, but I just have general love for that film anyways.

[wrestlingfan66513]

Really surprised Bigelow did not get nominated for Best Director, same with Hooper but I guess since they are both recent winners, they wanted to give someone else a chance. Nice to see Amour get recognition thought, it was one of my favorites this year.

[clrj3514]

I finally watched Lawless yesterday & wasn't disappointed. I'm a big fan of Tom Hardy & love seeing him as a badass. I thought Guy Pearce did a really good job of making you hate him. The rest of the cast was great too. This was the first movie I've watched on Blu-ray so I was very impressed with the quality!

On another note: Is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy worth watching? I was completely bored with the first 15-20 minutes but I've considered trying again.

[magglis]

Travesty is what i say about DiCaprio not getting an Oscar nomination.

[Iron Ape]

Samuel L. Jackson was way more deserving of a nod than DiCaprio was. And really, if there was going to be a villain getting an supporting actor Oscar nomination this year, Javier Bardem was more deserving than DiCaprio, too.