The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were released this morning. If you haven't seen them, then allow me to get you the rundown on the morning. First off, we see a big snub to The Avengers, the biggest movie of the year that was also critically praised when it came out. Next, there's no love for the sci-fi Looper which at the least should have been nominated in the screenplay category. And finally, Ben Affleck was not nominated in the Director category for Argo.
Now for the best chances, Lincoln and Life of Pi walked away with the top nominations while Beasts of the Southern Wild surprisingly came up in almost every major category. It will be interesting to see if this little unknown movie can take home the gold. Given that the Academy likes to award good movies with little box office, it's not that big of a surprise to see it being nominated.
As for the biggest mix of a win goes to the Directing category where the winner has the best chance of winning the Best Picture award at the end of the night. Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, and David O. Russell return to fight for the top stop, while Michael Haneke and Benh Zeitlin arrive to try and crash the party. Given that the latter two are festival favorites with little box office reception, look for them to sweep out from under the rug and take the gold man home.
Looks like everybody who thought Les Miserable was going to get the top honors turned out disappointed, but none more so than Zero Dark Thirty which hasn't received a whole lot of nominations which could hurt its box office this coming weekend as it gets a wide release. Still, I find the lack of nominations for comedic movies rather disturbing. I think we can all agree that TED and 21 Jump Street were two stand out comedies of this past year. I'll even throw in Magic Mike for you.
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