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Oscar Reactions – Best Picture
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

Tom Hanks, rushed for time, strode onto the stage and announced that The Hurt Locker won the big prize: Best Picture of 2009.

I disagree with this very strongly. The Hurt Locker was a good film, but I don’t think it deserved…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Director
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

It was perhaps the second-closest race of the night, but Best Director finally came to a close with one of the two logical winners taking home the statue-ette. Ex-spouses James Cameron and Katherine Bigelow fought it out for Avatar and The…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Actress
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

After a rambling introduction by Sean Penn, who presented the award, the Academy Award for Best Actress went to Sandra Bullock for the film The Blind Side. While I’m not a huge fan of the film (I consider it to…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Actor
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

Tonight has not really been a night of surprises, and this continues that trend. Jeff Bridges won the award for Best Actor for his performance in Crazy Heart, as I predicted he would. I think Bridges deserves the award, especially…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Supporting Actress
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

This was one of the gimme categories. Unsurprisingly, Mo’Nique won for her role in Precious, in which she portrayed the terrifying Mary Jones, mother of the title character.

“I’d like to thank the Academy for showing it can be about the…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Adapted Screenplay
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

Geoffrey Fletcher just won Best Adapted Screenplay for Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire. I know it wasn’t what I predicted, but I’m still fine with it. I would have preferred that District 9 would have won, simply because…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Original Screenplay
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

And, finally, the first disappointment of the night. Mark Boal won for The Hurt Locker. While I’ll agree that this film was very good, that goodness wasn’t necessarily reliant on the screenplay. I felt that Inglourious Basterds was much, much more…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Animated Feature
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

Like Christoph Waltz’s win before it, Up’s win was so obvious that they might as well have handed Pete Docter the award as he walked through the door. It was preceded by a nice little set of “interviews” with animated…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Supporting Actor
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

I think we all knew this was coming, but  it’s no less satisfying to see Christoph Waltz take home the statuette for Best Supporting Actor. He was fantastic as the “Jew Hunter,” Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds. Waltz had already…


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Oscar Predictions – Best Picture
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

And finally, the big one. This year’s Best Picture nominees were even more numerous than ever, due to the expansion of the category into ten slots instead of just five.

Of course, despite that there are ten slots, the race is…


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Oscar Predictions – Best Director
Posted by Sam McPherson on March 7th, 2010

The first of these final two races is a clencher, due to the fact that all of the nominees are really deserving. However, as good as Quentin Tarantino (my favorite director), Lee Daniels, and Jason Reitman are, the race is…


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Oscar Reactions – Best Supporting Actor

Oscar Reactions – Best Supporting Actor

I think we all knew this was coming, but  it’s no less satisfying to see Christoph Waltz take home the statuette for…

Oscar Predictions – Best Picture

Oscar Predictions – Best Picture

And finally, the big one. This year’s Best Picture nominees were even more numerous than ever, due to the expansion of the…

Oscar Predictions – Best Director

Oscar Predictions – Best Director

The first of these final two races is a clencher, due to the fact that all of the nominees are really deserving.…

Oscar Predictions – Best Actor

Oscar Predictions – Best Actor

This year’s Oscars have a healthy mix of clenchers and no-brainers, and the Best Actor award is one of the n0-brainers. Jeff…

Oscar Predictions – Best Actress

Oscar Predictions – Best Actress

As much as I hope Sandra Bullock doesn’t get it (on principle more than anything else), she most likely will win the…

Oscar Predictions – Best Supporting Actor

Oscar Predictions – Best Supporting Actor

Like the Best Supporting Actress award, this year’s Best Supporting Actor award is a giveaway — it’s going to Inglourious Basterds’s Christoph…

Oscar Predictions – Best Supporting Actress

Oscar Predictions – Best Supporting Actress

It’s silly to think that anyone other than Mo’Nique will win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. After her moving acceptance speech…

Oscar Predictions – Best Original Screenplay

Oscar Predictions – Best Original Screenplay

As a writer, this is perhaps my favorite category. As I said about the Best Adapted Screenplay, though, you can’t really tell…

Oscar Predictions – Best Adapted Screenplay

Oscar Predictions – Best Adapted Screenplay

Predicting the screenplay categories is very difficult, especially considering the fact that we haven’t actually read any of the screenplays being nominated…

Oscar Predictions – Best Animated Feature

Oscar Predictions – Best Animated Feature

In this part of our Oscar preshow, we’re going to take a look at the five nominees for Best Animated Feature, and…

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