Tonight is the Oscars and I feel I need to weigh in with my tuppence worth. I've got my Ballot Page from here and now you lucky people get to see what i thought was good this year. (The Number after thge Category is how many of the films in the category I've seen)
Best Motion Picture (8/10)
I'd love to be cheering for the British Film but as much as I liked The King's Speech, there were others I enjoyed more and with me enjoyment tends to be the final arbiter in my judgement on a film, after everything else is considered. I'm plumping for Black Swan as after an intial viewing which would have seen True Grit taking this one, I saw it again and it blew me away. I picked up on alot more on the second viewing than I had in the first and the intensity was more what I was expecting. On first viewing it wasn't intense enough but on second viewing I could appreciate it for what it was. I know this is a controversial choice as this film seems to divide folk down the middle but its my blog so deal with it. In reality I think King's Speech will win
Best Actor (4/5)
Saying it wasn't my favourite film I am going to go for Colin Firth for Best Actor, simply as I've seen him in more stuff and he is different in this one, although maybe a bit similar to A Single Man, which was great anyway. Bridges did manage to not seem like the Dude in True Grit (Unlike in Tron: Legacy bt more about that trainwreck another day) but still not sure if he had enough material to work with, to show a broad range of the character.
Best Actress (1/5)
I only saw Natalie's performance so by default she gets my vote.Although I did think it was stunning how she went from butter wouldn't melt to *Spoiler Alert* cold blooded murder *Spoiler End* and made it convincing.
Best Supporting Actor (1/5)
Another default win here for Geoffrey Rush.
Best Supporting Actress (2/5)
I'd like to give this to Amy Adams (mainly due to my crush on her) but I havn't seen The Fighter so can't really. Instead its going to Hailee Steinfeld from True Grit beating out Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen Mum. I'd argue Steinfeld was the lead character in True Gritand it is only her age which sees her in this category.
Best Director (4/5)
Aronofsky as Why not? (I'm always a bit hazy on how I'm meant to judge this not knowing how much the whole package makes an impact upon direction)
Best Original Screenplay (2/5)
The King's Speech as Inception wasn't quite as clever as everyone made out, as brilliant as it was.
Best Adapted Screenplay (4/5)
True Grit
Obviously Toy Story 3 will win Best Animated Film. The rest I'd be shooting in the dark even more so than with Best Director so I shall leave them.
And after all this so called "High-brow" discussion I'm going to try and see Drive Angry in 3D this evening. Or maybe The Fighter
