2012 Awards Season: Live Blogging the Oscars... Best Picture... The Arist
February 26, 2012
It's Oscars night. (Actually, it's 3:43 in the morning as I'm typing this, but I thought I would get a jump on the celebration.) As I do every year, I will follow the announcements live and update our list of Oscar winners. However, this year I will be doing it a little differently and the list of nominees below will include the favorites as picked by our readers in Italics and as picked by me in Bold. So you can watch live and tell when I'm out of the running for our Oscar contest. (I figure it will take at least 17 wins out of 24 to come out on top. Maybe even 18 or 19 wins.) So, will The Artist be the big winner tonight as our readers predict? Or will Hugo score the upset? Stay tuned to fine out.
The categories and nominations are...
BEST PICTURE
And now on to the actual winners...
After a particularly poorly timed computer crash, live blogging begins now.
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION
SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
Notes and Reactions...
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTING
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
BEST DOCUMENTARY - FEATURE LENGTH
On a side note, I'm having a really bad night as far as prognosticating is concerned. I'm quite embarrassed.
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
BEST WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION
BEST DOCUMENTARY - SHORT FILM
SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
DIRECTING
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
BEST PICTURE
And that's it for the night. The Artist won five awards, just ahead of Hugo, but it won more prestigious awards and has to be seen as the big winner of the night.
Filed under: Awards Season, Hugo, Rango, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Beginners, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Descendants, Midnight in Paris, War Horse, The Help, The Iron Lady, The Muppets, Pina, Jodaeiye Nader az Simin, The Artist, Undefeated, Monsieur Lazhar