I love the glitz and the glamour of Oscar Night. I love to watch all of the beautiful people arrive in their finest and do a personal critique of their dresses. Yes, I like to see who wins, but often that is the sideshow for me. Not so this year. Amazingly I have been able to see a few of the nominated performances this year so I am much more interested in who wins. I’ve bolded the ones I’m hoping will win.
BEST PICTURE
Armour
Argo – Sad I haven’t seen this one
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables – Good
Life of Pi
Lincoln – Good
Silver Linings Playbooks – Very good
Zero Dark Thirty – Had no desire to see it but I did and was impressed.
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – She carried a very good film
Jennifer Lawrence – Quirky and loveable.
Emmanuelle Riva
Quvenzhane Wallis
Naomi Watts – I want to see this one!
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Gets to show his talent (and his good looks)
Daniel Day-Lewis – Totally got lost in the part
Hugh Jackman – Was very good.
Joaquin Phoenix – Love him so I don’t know why I haven’t seen the movie.
Denzel Washington – He did a great job even if the movie left me feeling sad.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams
Sally Field – She was a little annoying in the role of Lincoln’s wife.
Anne Hathaway – Totally nailed it.
Helen Hunt
Jacki Weaver – Um, okay. Liked her but not what I consider one of the 5 best performances of the year.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin
Robert DeNiro – Excellent
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Tommy Lee Jones
Christoph Waltz
So, who has your vote tonight?
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I’m hosting a little Oscar party tomorrow night and am sooo excited. I only saw three of the movies but they were all great. I’m hoping for Silver Linings but I’m thinking Lincoln or Les Mis will take it.
Daniel Day Lewis
Jennifer Lawrence
Helen Hunt—she did an amazing job for an amazing film.
Robert De Niro–Amazing job as always
I wanna come to your Oscar party! Oh well, maybe next year 🙂
Don’t you love years like this with so many good choices? It’s too bad for the contenders though – many of them who would have been shoo-ins in other more mediocre years!
It really was a great year for movies.
p.s. wait – you didn’t have Gage draw the winners? LOL
my mom did suggest it but I just wasn’t up to is, LOL!
I’ve only seen 3 of the Best Picture contenders – Argo, Lincoln, and Silver Linings Playbook. Silver Linings was my favorite but I still think Lincoln will win.
I really want to see Argo!
I’ve only seen Argo and Lincoln and I reallly liked both of them. Daniel Day Lewis did AMAZING. Um going on my two watches, I’d piinkfck Lincoln ha.
2 watches is better than choosing from 1 🙂
I really really really wanted to see Silver Linings Playbook before today but it just didn’t happen. The only one I’ve seen on the list is Les Miserables but I don’t think it’ll take home the cake (though I’m pulling for Anne Hathaway). Will be fun to watch!!
Anne totally deserved it, but that dress, ACK!
I’ve only seen one nominated movie (Le Miz), I agree with Trish, I don’t think it will win. Not sure how much I will watch.
I keep meaning to do a post on Les Mis. Maybe next week!
I don’t usually watch but I like most of your picks.
It’s fun when I’ve seen a few of the movies. Some years I haven’t seen any of the nominated ones!
I have seen only Argo and Life of Pi and was so glad they both took home great awards. Life of Pi is an awesome film, cinematographically and in it’s message.
Two that I haven’t seen. I read that the tiger is 95% CGI and that it took a year to create for the big screen. It must be visually stunning.
I stayed up way too late last night watching. I didn’t think Argo should have won Best Picture. I thought it was OK but not the best. Zero Dark Thirty would get my vote. And I’m with you on Jessica Chastain but I was totally OK with Jennifer Lawrence getting it. Love her! I never did see Lincoln but every clip I’ve seen makes it seem like no one could beat Daniel Day-Lewis. It seemed almost spooky how he played that part. Anne Hathaway deserved it and got it — YAY! I would have given DeNiro the Oscar too … but I didn’t see Django Unchained either so I don’t know anything about Waltz’s performance.
I was ok with Jennifer getting it too. Given her performances in Silver Linings and Hunger Games she was a star last year 🙂 I thought DeNiro was fantastic and would have been ok with him winning, but then I didn’t see any of the other performances.
I hadn’t planned to watch the Oscars at all, but suddenly, during the red carpet walk, I thought maybe I would check in. Not sure why, but I was hooked. I missed the last hour of the show, but I caught up on the awards via Twitter. I’ve only seen three of the movies that were up for Best Picture (Argo, Les Miserables, and Zero Dark Thirty). I am happy for all the winners. Can’t say I felt strongly about any of them or their competition to feel disappointed by any of the awards given. 🙂
Once the red carpet starts I always get sucked in too. It’s like fantasy land for us regular folk 🙂
I just couldn’t stay up to watch the whole thing but always feel like I missed something. I didn’t see but two of the movies. Am looking forward to finally being able to DVD most of these!
There were so many good ones this year. Still need to see the winner, Argo.
I love watching the Oscars but never seem to get around to seeing all of the nominated movies.