Never passing up an opportunity to get my hands on more DVDs, I am entering the VoucherCodes.co.uk Oscar prediction competition. These choices do not reflect what I want to win, I will those tomorrow; these are cold hard predictions (that will probably all be wrong!). Any other blogger interested in entering follow this link.
- Best picture: Avatar
- Best director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
- Actor in a leading role: Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
- Actress in a leading role: Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
- Actor in a supporting role: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
- Actress in a supporting role: Mo’Nique – Precious
- Cinematography: The Hurt Locker
- Writing (adapted screenplay): Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
- Writing (original screenplay): The Hurt Locker by Mark Boal
- Foreign language film: The White Ribbon
- Best Original Song: “The Weary Kind”- Crazy Heart
- Animated feature film: Up
- Costume design: The Young Victoria
- Film editing: The Hurt Locker
- Best Documentary Feature: The Cove
- Sound editing: The Hurt Locker
- Sound mixing: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Visual effects: Avatar
Update:
How did I do? 13 correct predictions and 5 incorrect ones gives a score of 8. A quick scan through looks like most people are coming in with a score around 6 but I certainly haven’t won I can see one person with 10 and another with 14. Lets wait for the official result, well done to whoever has won.
wow. that looks like a solid list of predos Fands
i would maybe throw a few more Avatars for editing and sound and all that stuff i dont really understand, but apart from that those look solid.
a tiny part of me thinks however that there is a shock in store this Oscars
whether thats Monique losing or IB taking best pic or Tarantino taking anything i dunno, but i just have a feeling there might be one award-giving bit worth watching
I very nearly didn’t go for Jeff Bridges as I wouldn’t write-off Colin Firth. I really want The Hurt Locker to get best picture but would also be happy with Inglourious Basterds.
lot of Hurt Locker bashing this week it would appear, although the votes have already been cast. its a strange Best Picture race cos its very easy to argue against all the major contenders, even though i kinda enjoyed them all.
I have seen eight of the ten and still see it as a two horse race; you know my thoughts on the blue horse!
haha! have just noticed…
The ‘Oscar Winning Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen’
you are the height of toomuchery Fands
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen was a great movie, I only saw 99 better films at the cinema last year
i still havent seen it! will get round to it eventually im sure, Ross McD will probably make me watch it at some stage. even he said it was crap, and he knows nothing about films.
The Blue Horse… sounds like the type of drivel your mate Kevin Costner would appear in these days.
‘a tale of a suburban divorced housewife and the carpenter who moves in next door…’
it practically writes itselfs Fands, wanna share a co-writing credit?
HAHA! beaten to it
Not a problem I’m sure there is no law against having two stories with the same name. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/. As I understand it Kevin Costner was in the original http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/. If we set the remake on an alien planet that we give an imaginative name that doesn’t come with any sense of warning or foreboding, maybe we could take it from a box in Greek mythology but would have to drop the word box from the title so people don’t confuse it with this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/. Then we just borrow the story from this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/ And this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/ with a bit of this for good measure: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/. Just need a billion dollars or so and we can get it made.
nah… i liked my carpenter moves next door to middle-aged divorcee story better.
youll probably win the Oscar though. i’ll settle for a Spirit award or something
No my idea would never work. Who would be stupid enough to spend a billion dollars on it. And if they did it would never get a best picture nomination. Let’s go with your idea!
Okay, heres the pitch
Costner as the carpenter, who is in no way a Christ-like figure
Diane Lane as the divorcee (although shes probably too good for this kind of guff)
they live just out in the sticks in the US, pretty small town.
Costner moves in as he has been asked to do some work on the local high school.
they first meet when his pick-up reverses into her Chevy while shes at the grocery store – holding obligatory brown bags, of course.
while driving home in their separate vehicles together spitting fire about the prang, they find out they live beside each other – Costner is renting the old delapitated house next door.
after a few days of not liking each other, Costner comes to her rescue when her porch is blown over in a storm, rebuilding it. She offers him an iced tea and they take it from there…
not sure where the plot goes after that, but the title comes from a dream she had has a kid of riding away from all her troubles on a Blue Horse.
it will kind of be Bridges Of Madison County meets uh… i dunno, some other film for middle aged people.
not much will happen but i like films like that
we need to get Robert Duvall or Brendan Gleeson or someone to play a grizzled old store clerk
hang on, thats not half bad.
have the first draft on my desk by the start of April Fands, I’ll do the rest.
Not convinced by your casting, I think Harrison Ford for the carpenter. He can say in his Oscar acceptance speech that he did all his own carpentry for the movie. I agree with what you say about Diane Lane, she only appears in real quality films these days: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489099/