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2010 Oscar Predictions
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Written by Zach Ellman, Online Entertainment Editor
Last week, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for this year’s Oscars. From our standpoint, here are our predictions of who will take home the golden statue.
Best Picture: Avatar- Already making more than $2 billion in box office earnings, James Cameron has once again made another masterpiece to add to his collection of films. Cameron originally had the script in 1995, but decided to do it after completing Titanic. However, he didn’t start pre-production until 2005. While acquiring the money and technology to make the film possible, Cameron also hired a cast with a huge amount of talent and perfection, most of which who were unknown in Hollywood at the time.
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)- In what was said to be his comeback performance, Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake, a washed-up country singer who is in the turmoil of his career and of his life. His performance in Crazy Heart is almost like that of Mickey Rourke’s comeback performance in The Wrestler.
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) - In this uplifting story about Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher, Sandra Bullock gives her best performance yet. Bullock plays Leigh Ann Tuohy, a woman who takes in the homeless Michael Oher and enrolls him into school to play high school football. Besides the drama of the movie, Bullock also gives some of her charming humor to please the viewers, especially when she is with her youngest son in the movie.
Best Supporting Actor: Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) – Based on the novel by Alice Sebold, Stanley Tucci plays the psychopathic creepy pedophile/serial killer in Peter Jackson’s latest film, The Lovely Bones. To prepare for the role, Tucci watched numerous documentaries and read many books about catching serial killers, especially those under criminal profiler John Douglas. In addition, his appearance and mannerisms that he portrays in the film are almost like that of an actual serial killer.
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)- In Jason Reitman’s latest film, Anna Kendrick keeps the laughs going sky high in Up In The Air. Kendrick plays a dumbfounded, but hilarious, college graduate that joins George Clooney’s character traveling the country. With comments like, “No, I don’t even like him like that. He’s old,” Kendrick steals the movie with her amazing performance.
Best Director: James Cameron (Avatar)- 4 years and $237 million dollars later, James Cameron has once again painted another masterpiece. With acquiring the technology possible to film in 3-D, to getting the technology to film a majority of the movie in CGI, Cameron definitely takes home this Oscar. From any of the slightest things, Cameron makes sure that everything in the film is perfect. As a perfectionist, in a way he is kind of like the Alfred Hitchcock of our time.
Best Original Screenplay: “The Hurt Locker,” Written by Mark Boal- This amazing story will blow you away, literally and figuratively. The Hurt Locker tells the story of a bomb defusing team that is stationed in Iraq. Each time you see someone defusing a bomb, the only thing that’ll be in your head is whether or not they are going to survive and not let the bomb go off. The Hurt Locker is truly a story like no other.
Best Adapted Screenplay: “Up In The Air,” Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldo Turner- Based on the novel by Walter Kim, Up In The Air is about a man named Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) who travels constantly for pleasure and for his business of firing people at companies so that their CEOs don’t have to put up with it. Bingham also gives motivational speeches to encourage the nature of living a life free of relationships, interactions with people, etc. However, along the way, Bingham starts question this so called “philosophy” and starts to see the better picture. Also starring is Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, and Jason Bateman.
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