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Here's the deal. You think the Academy is bound to get it wrong. They always do. Well, now it's our turn.

I want you to post up your 5 favorites in ten major categories-- Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Animated Feature (a new SLA category!... and no, Freddy, for the sake of these awards, Avatar does NOT count as an Animated Feature).

I would also like you to rank these from best to worst-- 5 points for your favorite, 1 point for your 5th favorite. If you don't have 5 you enjoyed in a category, rank the ones you did find praiseworthy (example: Best Actress isn't the deepest field, so if you have only three performances you dug, give out 5, 4, and 3 points to those three).

I realize many of us live in cities that get limited release films much later, so you have up until the end of the month to post your official selections. I will then add up the votes, The official Spilled Latte winners will be announced the day before the actual Oscars, so that we can brag the next day about how much better our list is.

By the way, PLEASE ONLY MAKE ONE LIST! Multiple amendments make it very very difficult for the person keeping track-- me. So wait if you want to... just don't dick me around with tons of changes.

Also, I'm gonna be deleting extraneous posts that have nothing to do with rule clarification or declaration of list formation. So if the post count suddenly drops, you'll know why, lol. Just clearin out the clutter to make my job easier.

Let's see them lists, people. Choose em, rank em, throw em up.

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Best Feature-Length Film
(the best film- documentary, experimental, or fiction- over 70 minutes)
1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. Gomorrah
3. Revanche
4. Summer Hours
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. The Hurt Locker
7. 35 Rhums
8. Sugar
9. Inglorious Basterds
10. Avatar

Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Michael Fassbender - Hunger
2. Joahannes Krisch – Revanche
3. Jeremy Renner – Hurt Locker
4. Max Records – Wild Things
5. Alex Descas – 35 Rhums

Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Carey Mulligan – An Education
2. Penelope Cruz – Broken Embraces
3. Melanie Laurent – Inglorious Basterds
4. Maria Onetto – The Headless Woman
5. Zoe Saldana - Avatar

Best Supporting Performance, Male
1. Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Basterds
2. Alden Ehrenreich - Tetro
3. Anthony Mackie – Hurt Locker
4. Zach Galifianakis - Hangover
5. Christian Bale – Public Enemies

Best Supporting Performance, Female
1. Irina Potapenko - Revanche
2. Maribel Verdu - Tetro
3. Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
4. Ursula Strauss - Revanche
5. Diane Kruger – Inglorious Basterds

Best Direction
1. Matteo Garrone - Gomorrah
2. Spike Jonze - Wild Things
3. Gotz Spielmann - Revanche
4. Wes Anderson – Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Olivier Assayas – Summer Hours

Best Screenplay
(Original)
1. Gotz Spielmann - Revanche
2. Olivier Assayas - Summer Hours
3. Quentin Tarantino - Inglorious Basterds
4. Ryan Fleck/Anna Boden - Sugar
5. Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker

Best Screenplay (Adapted)
1. Matteo Garrone (et al) - Gomorrah
2. Wes Anderson/Noah Baumbach – Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Nick Hornby - An Education
4. Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers - Wild Things

Best Cinematography
1. Gomorrah
2. Wild Things
3. Revanche
4. Tetro
5. Public Enemies

Best Music
1. Karen O & the Kids – Wild Things Soundtrack
2. Tindersticks - 35 Rhums
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. An Education
5. A Single Man

Best Ensemble Performance
1. Gomorrah
2. Mr. Fox
3. Wild Things
4. Summer Hours
5. Public Enemies

Best Picture:
5. Up
4. Black Dynamite
3. Star Trek
2. Up in the Air
1. Public Enemies

Best Director:
5. Killa Cam - Avatar
4. Lee Daniels - Precious
3. Scott Sanders - Black Dynamite
2. J.J. Abrams - Star Trek
1. Michael Mann - Public Enemies

Best Actor:
5. Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
4. Matt Damon - The Informant!
3. Sam Rockwell - Moon
2. Colin Firth - A Single Man
1. Adam Sandler - Funny People

Best Actress:
5. Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
4. Carey Mulligan - An Education
3. Marion Cotillard - Public Enemies
2. Zoe Saldana - Avatar
1. The GOAT - Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor:
5. Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
4. Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
3. Anthony Mackie - The Hurt Locker
2. Zachary Quinto - Star Trek
1. Alfred Molina - An Education

Best Supporting Actress:
5. Mo'Nique - Precious
4. Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
3. Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
2. Marion Cotillard - Nine
1. Penelope Cruz - Nine

Best Adapted Screenplay:
5. Up in the Air
4. Precious
3. The Informant!
2. A Single Man
1. An Education

Best Original Screenplay:
5. Up
4. The Hurt Locker
3. Inglourious Basterds
2. Black Dynamite
1. (500) Days of Summer

Best Cinematography:
5. Nine
4. Avatar
3. Inglourious Basterds
2. Where the Wild Things Are
1. A Single Man

Best Animated Feature:
5. Up
4. Coraline
-100. Monsters vs. Aliens

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if it's not too late. Originally had no desire to see the Basterds but all the Christoph Waltz talk has me intrigued so I'm trying to squeeze that one in too.

Best Picture:
10. An Education
9. Up In The Air
8. Sugar
7. Avatar
6. Star Trek
5. Adventureland
4. A Serious Man
3. The White Ribbon
2. Inglourious Basterds
1. The Hurt Locker

Best Director:
5. Neill Blomkamp - District 9
4. Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
3. Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon
2. James Cameron - Avatar
1. Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

Best Actor:
5. Sharlto Copley - District 9
4. Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
3. Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
2. Nicolas Cage - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
1. Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

Best Actress:
5. Zoe Saldana - Avatar
4. Melanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds
3. Marion Cotillard - Public Enemies
2. Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
1. Carey Mulligan - An Education

Best Supporting Actor:
5. Anthony Mackie - The Hurt Locker
4. Jackie Earle Haley - Watchmen
3. Stanley Tucci- The Lovely Bones
2. Alfred Molina - An Education
1. Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress:
5. Julianne Moore - A Single Man
4. Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air
3. Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air
2. Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
1. Monique - Precious

Best Adapted Screenplay:
5. Crazy Heart
4. Star Trek
3. District 9
2. An Education
1. Up In The Air

Best Original Screenplay:
5. Adventureland
4. The Hurt Locker
3. Sugar
2. A Serious Man
1. Inglourious Basterds

Best Cinematography:
5. The Hurt Locker
4. The White Ribbon
3. Broken Embraces
2. Nine
1. A Single Man

Best Foreign Film:
4. Police, Adjective
3. Broken Embraces
2. Mother
1. The White Ribbon

>Best Picture:
>5. Inglorious Basterds
>4. Avatar
>3. Goodbye Solo
>2. An Education
>1. Black Dynamite
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>Best Director:
>5. Spike Jonze- Where the Wild Things Are
>4. Quentin- Inglorious Basterds
>3. Lone Scherfig- An Education
>2. Ramin Bahrani- Goodbye Solo
>1. Sam Mendes- Away We Go
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>Best Actor:
>5. Jeff Bridges- Crazy Heart
>4. Matt Damon- The Informant
>3. Souleymane Sy Savane- Goodbye Solo
>2. Patton Oswalt- Big Fan
>1. Viggo Mortenson- The Road
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>Best Actress:
>5. Maggie Gyllenhaal- Crazy Heart
>4. Carey Mulligan- An Education
>3. Michelle Monaghan- Trucker
>2. Meryl Streep- Julie & Julia
>1. Gabourey Sidibe- Precious
>
>Best Supporting Actor:
>5. Christoph Waltz- Inglourious Basterds
>4. Zach Galifianakis- The Hangover
>3. Stanley Tucci- The Lovely Bones
>2. Brad Pitt- Inglorious Basterds
>1. Michael K. Williams- The Road
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>Best Supporting Actress:
>5. Melanie Laurent- Inglorious Basterds
>4. Monique- Precious
>3. Charlize Theron- The Road
>2. Vera Farmiga- Up in the Air
>1. Anna Kendrick- Up in the Air
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>Best Adapted Screenplay:
>5. The Informant!
>4. District 9
>3. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
>2. Where The Wild Things Are (Eggers)
>1. An Education
>
>Best Original Screenplay:
>5. Inglorious Basterds
>4. The Hurt Locker
>3. A Serious Man
>2. The Brothers Bloom
>1. Black Dynamite
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>Best Cinematography:
>5. Where The Wild Things Are
>4. An Education
>3. Inglorious Basterds
>2. Avatar
>1. The Hurt Locker
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>Best Animated Feature:
>5. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
>4. Up
>3. Coraline
>2.
>1.

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Do foreign films never win or even get nominated for the top gongs because there's a separate foreign film category, or because the judges are ignorant fools?

Cos if it's the latter I want to SERIOUSLY promote both The White Ribbon and A Prophet for top gongs. Oh and Mesrine should be up there too. And Let The Right One In. Fuck, this is why foreign films don't get considered, they'd totally dominate if it was done fairly.


Oh and the BAFTA's last night - embarrassing. An Education and The Hurt Locker dominated. Two below average films. If that happens at the Oscars I'll be pissed. So it probably will happen.

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Best Picture:
5. A Prophet
4. The White Ribbon
3. Black Dynamite
2. A Serious Man
1. Avatar

Best Director:
5. Jacques Audiard - A Prophet
4. Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon
3. James Cameron- Avatar
2. Neil Blomkamp - District 9
1. Jean-Francios Richet - Mesrine

Best Actor:
5. Tahar Rahim - A Prophet
4. Vincent Cassel - Mesrine
3. Andy Serkis - Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
2. Jeff Bridges- Crazy Heart (based on nothing - I haven't seen it. But he looks the business in it)
1. Christian Friedel - The White Ribbon

Best Actress:
Unfortunately I really can't think of outstanding female performances off the top of my head. Maybe I'll come back to it.

Best Supporting Actor:
I might come back to this too, need to stew over it a little more.

Best Supporting Actress:
As above

Best Adapted Screenplay:
5. Let the Right One In
4. In The Loop
3. Mesrine
2. District 9
1. Just for jokes - Avatar (Pocahontus)

Best Original Screenplay:
5. A Prophet
4. The White Ribbon
3. Inglorious Bastards
4. A Serious Man
5.

Best Cinematography:
5. The White Ribbon
4. Avatar
3. Il Divo
2. Hunger (even if I didn't really enjoy the film as a whole)
1. I'm gonna presume A Single Man without seeing it (looks stylish as hell)


Best Animated Feature:

Bad year, only notable was Up and even that wasn't all that great. I suppose Avatar sorta counts. Oh and I really like the look of Fnatastic Mr Fox but haven't seen it yet.

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...I don't know HOW you can say this was a bad year for animated film when it was potentially the best in the history of animation, lol. That's for another post, I suppose.

But yeah. Unless you fix that ballot to be only films you've seen, I can't count it.

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It's not like me to put in things I haven't seen, I was kinda doing a combination on the things that likely should win and what I think should win. I'll put it together properly.

Oh and you're dead wrong about this being the best year ever for animation. Dead wrong. Not one film released this year will go down in animation history in my opinion. Year on year we have Ratatouille, Toy Story, Spirited Away, Persepolis etc etc.

Up was quite good, nothing special. Coraline, overrated. What elese is there? I mean it really wasn't all that. Fact.

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Between Up, The Princess and the Frog, Coraline, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Ponyo, Ice Age 3, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and 9, you have eight films that are in my opinion worthy of 3 out of 4 stars or more. Never before has there been this high a quantity of this high a quality.

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I like making outlandish claims and following it with "fact", it really pisses people off. Probably doesn't translate as well on message boards!

And I disagree. None of the films you mention are 5 star films. Here are some:

Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaa
Princess Mononoke
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Pinocchio
Snow White
Fantasia
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast
Jungle Book
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Finding Nemo
The Lion King
Cinderella
The Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Ratatouille
Persepolis
Cowboy Bebop
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Belleville Rendez-Vous



Every year films of that quality come out. Often in 2's or 3's. This year I wouldn't add anything to that list (well I haven't seen Mr Fox, but it looks more fun than unbelievable).

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That's the kicker. It would be that and then Shrek 2.

While not 'classic' they were all good to great animated films, all in one year. I can't think of a time that's happened...usually you get 2 at best.

This year you had a bunch of 3 star movies competing with each other. Every year you get a handful of those, usually against 1 or 2 outstanding films.

I mean let's look at them:

Ponyo - I'm the biggest Miyazaki fan out there, but this was plain disappointing
Coraline - quirky ok film
Princess and Frog -meh -> doesn't really stick in your mind as one of the reats
Up - after being lauded as Pixar's best it really fell waaaay short. Pixar top 10, not top 5.
Fox - haven't seen, but nevertheless looks more quirky than a great (presumed).

At the end of the day I will watch any of the films I listed above again and again on DVD. I don't think I even want to watch any film from this year again. From my point of view that makes it a bad year for animation.

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>Ponyo - I'm the biggest Miyazaki fan out there, but this was
>plain disappointing

Even if it's not Spirited Away, it still has a lot of magic.

>Coraline - quirky ok film

Definitely better than okay in my book.

>Princess and Frog -meh -> doesn't really stick in your mind as
>one of the reats

It's easily the best since Hercules.

>Up - after being lauded as Pixar's best it really fell waaaay
>short. Pixar top 10, not top 5.

It's not hard to be Top 10, since there've only been 10. And anything above Pixar Top 7 is a 4-star classic in my book.

>At the end of the day I will watch any of the films I listed
>above again and again on DVD. I don't think I even want to
>watch any film from this year again. From my point of view
>that makes it a bad year for animation.

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You got me on Pixar! I really thought there were more than that!

Anyway overall we'll just have to agree to disagree. I didn't enjoy this year for animation, you did.

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>Best Picture:
>5. A Prophet
>4. The White Ribbon
>3. Black Dynamite
>2. A Serious Man
>1. Avatar
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>Best Director:
>5. Jacques Audiard - A Prophet
>4. Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon
>3. James Cameron- Avatar
>2. Neil Blomkamp - District 9
>1. Jean-Francios Richet - Mesrine
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>Best Actor:
>5. Tahar Rahim - A Prophet
4. Hideo Nakaizumi - Nanjing! Nanjing! City of Life and Death
>3. Vincent Cassel - Mesrine
>2. Andy Serkis - Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
1. Christian Friedel - The White Ribbon

>Best Adapted Screenplay:
>5. Let the Right One In
>4. In The Loop
>3. Mesrine
>2. District 9
>1. Just for jokes - Avatar (Pocahontus)
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>Best Original Screenplay:
>5. A Prophet
>4. The White Ribbon
>3. Inglorious Bastards
>4. Black Dynamite
>5. Nanjing! Nanjing! City of Life and Death
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>Best Cinematography:
>5. The White Ribbon
>4. Avatar
>3. Il Divo
>2. Hunger (even if I didn't really enjoy the film as a whole)
>1. Nanjing! Nanjing! City of Life and Death
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I deleted some categories, I'm just struggling to think of really deserving winners. I mean I could just put up the best 5 I've seen, but I don't really feel it would be right.

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But mine are 5 for best, 1 for worst

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Other categories feel like work to think about. Also, I didn't really think it was a great year for movies, so I just ranked the ones I enjoyed most, so take this list with a grain of salt:

1. Adventureland
2. Funny People
3. Zombieland
4. In the Loop (I really regret playing a game of Scrabble during this. Will have to watch with full attention)
5. An Education

Animated

1. Ponyo
2. UP
3. Coraline
4. 9

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Some noteworthy ones still escape(d) me: Inglourious Basterds, Munyurangabo, Still Walking, Precious, The Blind Side, The Maid, Moon, etc.

01 = most favorite and so on . . .

Best Picture.
01.The Garden
02.In the Loop
03.The Messenger
04.Where the Wild Things Are
05.A Single Man

Best Director.
01.Tom Ford (A Single Man)
02.Louie Psihoyos (The Cove)
03.Coen Brothers (A Serious Man)
04.Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are)
05.Neill Blomkamp (District 9)

Best Actor.
01.Matt Damon (The Informant)
02.Colin Firth (A Single Man)
03.Ben Foster (The Messenger)
04.Joaquin Phoenix (Two Lovers)
05.Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

Best Actress.
01.Carey Mulligan (An Education)
02.Abbie Cornish (Bright Star)
03.María Onetto (The Headless Woman)
04.Maya Rudolph (Away We Go)
05.Kristen Stewart (Adventureland)

Best Supporting Actor.
01.Peter Capaldi (In the Loop)
02.Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker)
03.Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
04.Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover)
05.Alfred Molina (An Education)

Best Supporting Actress.
01.Samantha Morton (The Messenger)
02.Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
03.Marion Cotillard (Public Enemies)
04.Julianne Moore (A Single Man)
05.Rosamund Pike (An Education)

Best Adapted Screenplay.
01.In the Loop
02.Where the Wild Things Are
03.The Informant

Best Original Screenplay.
01.The Messenger
02.A Serious Man

Best Cinematography.
01.A Single Man
02.A Serious Man
03.Bright Star
04.Where the Wild Things Are
05.Sin Nombre

Best Animated Feature
01.Up
02.Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs


EDIT: Noticed I left out Spike Jonze in director category. Done.

just to avoid confusion, 5=my favorites.

Best Picture:
1-Where the Wild Things Are
2-District 9
3-Hurt Locker
2-Up n the Air
1-Inglorious Basterds

Best Director:
1-Kathryn Bigelow-Hurt Locker
2-Tarantino-Inglorious Basterds
3-James Cameron-Avatar
4-Neill Blomkamp-District 9
5-Spike Jonze-Where the wild things are
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>Best Actor:
1-Viggo Mortenson-The Road
2-Max Records-Wild Things
3-Jeff Bridges-Crazy Heart
4-Jeremy Renner-Hurt Locker
5-Sharlito Copley-District 9t
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>Best Actress:
1-Zoe Saldana-Avatar
2-Melanie Laurent-Inglorious Basterds
3-Marion Cotillard-Public Enemies
4-Penelope Cruz-Broken Embraces

>
>Best Supporting Actor:
1-Zach Galifianakis-Hangover
2-Jackie Earl Haley-Watchmen
3-Anthony Mackie-Hurt Locker
4-Christoph Waltz-Inglorious Basterds

>Best Supporting Actress:
Couldn't think of many...I'll try to get back to it

>Best Adapted Screenplay:
1-The Road
2-Up in the Air
3-District 9
4-Where the wild things are

>Best Original Screenplay:
1-Sin Nombre
2-Hurt Locker
3-Inglorious Basterds

>Best Cinematography:
1-Sin Nombre
2-Broken Embraces
3-Inglorious Basterds
4-Where the Wild Things Are
5-Avatar

>Best Animated Feature:
Didn't see any....my niece keeps forgetting to bring me Up and Coraline when she visits

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got it?

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It was supposed to look like this

Best Picture:
1-Where the Wild Things Are
2-District 9
3-Hurt Locker
4-Up in the Air
5-Inglorious Basterds

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My format is Points - Picture/Performance/Script. I'll add in names if I can cram and leave blanks in a reply.

Best Picture:

5 - Inglourious Basterds
4 - The Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 - The Hurt Locker
2 - Up In The Air
1 - Avatar

Best Actor:

5 - Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
4 - Matt Damon, The Informant!
3 - George Clooney, Up In The Air
2 - Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
1 -

Best Supporting Actor:

5 - Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
4 - Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
3 - Jackie Earl Haley, Watchmen
2 -
1 -


Best Actress:

5 - Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
4 - Zoe Saldana, Avatar
3 - Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
2 - Gab...Gabri....um, Precious.
1 -

Best Supporting Actress:

5 - Mo'Nique, Precious
4 - Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air
3 -
2 -
1 -

Director:

5 - James Cameron, Avatar
4 - Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
3 - Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
2 - Jason Reitman, Up In The Air
1 - Spike Jonze, Where The Wild Things Are

Adapted Screenplay:

5 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

Original Screenplay:

5 - Inglourious Basterds
4 - The Hurt Locker
3 -
2 -
1 -

Cinematography:

5 - Avatar
4 - The Hurt Locker
3 - Inglourious Basterds
2 - Where The Wild Things Are
1 - Public Enemies

Ensemble Performance:

5 - The Hurt Locker
4 - Inglourious Basterds
3 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
2 - Up In The Air
1 - Avatar

To be completed...

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5 = my favourite of the five

Best Picture
5. The Brothers Bloom
4. A Serious Man
3. The Road
2. Adventureland
1. Moon

Best Director
5. Rian Johnson - The Brothers Bloom
4. The Coen Brothers - A Serious Man
3. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck - Sugar
2. Duncan Jones - Moon
1. Marc Webb - 500 Days of Summer

Best Actor
5. Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 500 Days of Summer
4. Sam Rockwell - Moon
3. Nicolas Cage - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2. Matt Damon - The Informant!
1. Viggo Mortensen - The Road

Best Actress
5. Rachel Weisz - The Brothers Bloom
4. Carey Mulligan - An Education
3. Zoe Saldana - Avatar
2. Maya Rudolph - Away We Go
1. Marion Cottilard - Public Enemies

Best Supporting Actor
5. Martin Starr - Adventureland
4. Matthew Gray Gubler - 500 Days of Summer
3. Robert Duvall - The Road
2. Chris Messina - Away We Go
1. Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actress
5. Charlize Theron - The Road
4. Alison Janney - Away We Go
3. Maggie Gyllenhaal - Away We Go

Best Original Screenplay
5. Rian Johnson - The Brothers Bloom
4. The Coen Brothers - A Serious Man
3. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck - Sugar
2. Greg Mottola - Adventureland

Best Adapted Screenplay
5. Scott Z. Burns - The Informant!
4. Joe Penhall - The Road
3. Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Cinematography
5. Dante Spinotti - Public Enemies
4. Lance Accord - Where the Wild Things Are
3. Richard Deakins - A Serious Man
2. Robert Richardson - Inglorious Basterds
1. Steven Soderbergh - The Informant!

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Picture
1 point - Still Walking
2 points - Revanche
3 points - Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
4 points - The Secret of the Grain
5 points - 35 Shots of Rum


Director
1 point - Sergei Dvortsevoy - Tulpan
2 points - Cary Fukunaga – Sin nombre
3 points - Lee Isaac Chung - Munyurangabo
4 points - Claire Denis – 35 Shots of Rum
5 points - Kim Longinotto – Holde Me Tight, Let Me Go


Actor
1 point - Michael Jai White - Black Dynamite
2 points - Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
3 points - Michael Fassbender - Hunger
4 points - Matt Damon – The Informant!
5 points - Johannes Krisch – Revanche


Actress
1 point - Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy
2 points - Kim Ok-bin - Thirst
3 points - Mati Diop – 35 Shots of Rum
4 points - Tilda Swinton - Julia
5 points - Kelly Macdonald – The Merry Gentleman


Supporting Actor
1 point - Tenoch Huerta – Sin Nombre
2 points - James Gandolfini – Where the Wild Things Are
3 points - Robert Duvall – The Road
4 points - Gregoire Colin – 35 Shots of Rum
5 points - Michael K. Williams – The Road


Supporting Actress
1 point - Alycia Delmore - Humpday
2 points - Alice Houri – The Secret of the Grain
3 points - Mo’Nique – Precious…
4 points - Nicole Dogue – 35 Shots of Rum
5 points - Farida Benkhetache – The Secret of the Grain


Adapted Screenplay
1 point - Reitman and Turner – Up in the Air
2 points - Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 points - Scott Z. Burns - The Informant!
4 points - Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. – Me and Orson Welles
5 points - Armstrong, Blackwell, Iannucci, et al – In the Loop


Original Screenplay
1 point - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Lorna’s Silence
2 points - Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck - Sugar
3 points - Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Scott Sanders – Black Dynamite
4 points - Hirokazu Koreeda – Still Walking
5 points - Abdel Kechiche – The Secret of the Grain


Cinematography
1 point - Sean Bobbitt – Hunger
2 points - Yutaka Yamasaki - Still Walking
3 points - Martin Gschlacht - Revanche
4 points - Greig Fraser – Bright Star
5 points - Agnes Godard – 35 Shots of Rum


Animated Feature
1 point - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2 points - Coraline
3 points - Up
4 points - Ponyo
5 points - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Some with just one choice to add as my voting, since I don't have a ton to go on...

Best Picture
District 9
Up
Avatar
The Hangover
Zombieland

Best Actor
Dude from District 9, District 9

Best Supporting Actor
Jackie Earl Haley, Watchmen
Zach Galiafanakis, The Hangover
Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Woodie Harrelson, Zombieland

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Best Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique, Precious
Woman who got choked by Waltz in IG, Inglorious Basterds

Best Cinemotography
District 9
Avatar

Best Animated Feature
Up

Best Original Screenplay
District 9
Up
The Hangover
Zombieland

Best Adapted Screenplay
Precious
The Blind Side

Best Director
James Cameron, Avatar

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5 - Avatar
4 - Up
3 - Zombieland
2 - District 9
1 - The Hangover

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the numbers = points, so the higher numbers are better. don't know if we can have ten picks for best picture, but i'll let longo sort it out. notable films i haven't seen are crazy heart, a serious man, the blind side, a bunch of indies, and pretty much all the animated films, so apologies to jeff bridges and the coen brothers. purposeful snubs include up in the air, in the loop, and an education. really glad to see sharlto copley and maya rudolph getting love in a few other people's rankings. wish i would have pushed paulina gaitan early on too, but i didn't catch sin nombre till earlier this week.

BEST PICTURE
10 - avatar
9 - inglourious basterds
8 - where the wild things are
7 - precious
6 - district 9
5 - sin nombre
4 - up
3 - star trek
2 - 500 days of summer
1 - zombieland

BEST DIRECTOR
5 - james cameron, avatar
4 - spike jonze, where the wild things are
3 - quentin tarantino, inglourious basterds
2 - lee daniels, precious
1 - neill blomkamp, district 9

BEST ACTOR
5 - sharlto copley, district 9
4 - daniel day lewis, nine
3 - colin firth, a single man
2 - joseph gordon-levitt, 500 days of summer
1 - matt damon, the informant

BEST ACTRESS
5 - gabourey sidibe, precious
4 - maya rudolph, away we go
3 - paulina gaitan, sin nombre
2 - meryl streep, julie and julia
1 - zoe saldana, avatar

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
5 - christoph waltz, inglourious basterds
4 - matt damon, invictus
3 - anthony mackie, the hurt locker
2 - zach galifianakis, the hangover
1 - jackie earle haley, watchmen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
5 - mo'nique, precious
4 - melanie laurent, inglourious basterds
3 - marion cotillard, nine
2 - catherine keener, where the wild things are
1 - amy adams, julie and julia

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
5 - where the wild things are
4 - precious
3 - district 9
2 - let the right one in
1 - a single man

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
5 - inglourious basterds
4 - avatar
3 - 500 days of summer
2 - zombieland
1 - up

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
5 - avatar
4 - where the wild things are
3 - nine
2 - a single man
1 - the hurt locker

"i smack clowns with nouns, punch herbs with verbs..."

so i apologise for the weakness of my list especially in the actress categories

Best Picture
1. Thirst
2. 500 Days Of Summer
3. In The Loop
4. Let The Right One In
5. Avatar

Best Director
1. Duncan Jones - Moon
2. Park Chan-Wook - Thirst
3. Neill Blomkamp - District 9
4. Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
5. James Cameron - Avatar

Best Actor
1. Joseph Gordon Levitt - 500 Days Of Summer
2. Sam Rockwell - Moon
3. Song Kang-Ho - Thirst
4. Sharlito Copley - District 9
5. Michael Fassbender - Hunger

Best Actress
2. Zooey Deschanel - 500 Days Of Summer
3. Alison Lohman - Drag Me To Hell
4. Zoe Saldana - Avatar
5. Kim Ok-Bin - Thirst

Best Supporting Actor
1. Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Watchmen
2. Tom Hollander - In The Loop
3. Peter Capaldi - In The Loop
4. Anthony Mackie - The Hurt Locker
5. Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress
2. Chloe Moretz - 500 Days Of Summer
3. Marion Cotillard - Public Enemies
4. Diane Kruger - Inglourious Basterds
5. Melanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds

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Best Picture - how did everyone forget wild things and district 9?
5. up in the air
4. where the wild things are
3. district 9
2. the hurt locker
1. single man

Best Director - considering effort and quality, I go with Jonze.
5. where the wild things are
4. the hurt locker
3. up in the air
2. district 9

Best Actor - this close to going with Viggo, but Clooney takes it.
5. george clooney - up in the air
4. viggo mortenson - the road
3. Colin Firth - single man
2. woody harrelson - the messenger
1. dude from - the hurt locker

Best Actress - how many more years can Streep win by default?
5. meryl streep - julie and julia
4. young girl in precious
3. older woman in - up in the air
2. Ms. Mulligan - An Education

Best Supporting Actor - surprisingly light field imo
5. Christoph Walz - inglorious basterds
4. Zack galifaknadliajdfhadfos - the hangover

Best Supporting Actress - no contest.
5. mo'nique - precious
4. young girl in - up in the air

Best Adapted Screenplay - c'mon man, adapted from a 50 word book!
5. where the wild things are
4. the informant
3. precious
2. state of play

Best Original Screenplay - 500 was a great script.
5. 500 Days Of Summer
4. the hangover
3. district 9
2. inglorious basterds

Best Cinematography - sue me, but this shit was weak this year.
5. a single man

Best Animated Feature - only 2 ani's worth winning awards this year.
5. up
4. 9

I'm gonna end up doing an "all 2009 films" marathon in a couple months. But as it stands now, I wasn't too impressed this year.


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You'd think as the years progress, we'd get MORE people to participate in this shit, not significantly fewer.

I'll tally it up and do the ceremony this weekend.

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