2012 Oscar Nominees

The nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards were announced today, and while they did a few things right, there are numerous snubs that need to be addressed. I understand that the past year was a great year in film and making these decisions is very tough, but it's might right to undermine the Academy's choices. But first, the nominees: 

Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Full list of nominees, snubs, and analysis after the jump.

2012 Razzie Nominees

Here is the full list of nominees for the 2012 Golden Raspberry Awards, celebrating the worst in film of the past year. Adam Sandler makes his usual appearance, but Twilight: Brealing Dawn Part 2 has been nominated in every single category this year, and I expect the film to win all of them. The Razzies used to be a carefully thought out anti-Oscars, but lately they seem to be more interested in pulling stunts that get them media coverage, like last year when Adam Sandler won Worst Actor and Worst Actress for his dual performances in Jack and Jill. Twilight winning every award is just too historic of a thing to not have happen.

List of nominees after the jump.

Cinemonk's Film Rankings of 2012

Here is the complete list of movies I reviewed over the past year in order from best to worst. Coincidentally I saw an even 100 movies this year this is not something I was trying to do, it just ended up that way (If you're being technical, I saw 101 if you count Star Wars and Star Wars Uncut as two different movies, but I listed here together). This is a VERY loosely organized list. Most of the films I saw this year were good to great, this coupled with the fact that the differing genres and types of films make them very difficult to organize into such a list. So don't write to me saying that X movie is better than Y movie, because A) this is a subjective list, and B) this list is far from perfect. I did my best, and that's all you can ask of me. Each entry on this list is linked to my review of that movie so you can use my own words against me in the creation of these rankings. List after the jump.

2012 Oscar Winners

Like most years, the 84th Academy Awards went largely without any major surprises. The only real upset being Meryl Streep for Best Actress over the favored Viola Davis, but this wasn't truly that big of a surprise. I love that Jim Rash (aka Dean Pelton from "Community") and Bret Mackenzie of Flight of the Conchords won Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original song respectively. The big winners of the night, as expected, were The Artist and Hugo. The Artist won 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, Actor, and Director, and Hugo also took away 5 awards, mostly for technical achievements.


Full list of winners after the jump.

Oscar Picks 2012

The Oscars are coming up this sunday, and unlike years past many of the categories are much more closely contended with no real front-runners. Here is who I think will win, who ought to win, and a dark horse for this year's biggest categories.

Oscar Nominees 2012

Here is the full list of Academy Award nominees. Hugo leads the field with 11 nominations. Notable snubs includes 50/50 for Best Picture, Patton Oswalt for Best Supporting Actor in for his role in Young Adult, Michael Fassbender for Best Lead Actor for his role in Shame, Albert Brooks for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Drive. Some of the Academy's more curious nominations include Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for Best Picture, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon for anything. It's nice to see Bridesmaids get a few nominations, comedies have long been painfully underrepresented at the Oscars.

Best Picture

The Artist

The Descendants

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

The Help

Hugo

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

The Tree of Life

War Horse