2011 Oscar Nominations List

The List As Provided By Huffington Post:

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids are All Right
The King's Speech
The Social Network
127 Hours
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

Best Documentary Short Subject
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

Best Short Film (Animated)
Day & Night Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let's Pollute Geefwee Boedoe
The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois

Best Short Film (Live Action)
The Confession Tanel Toom
The Crush Michael Creagh
God of Love Luke Matheny
Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143 Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Achievement in Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit

Achievement in Cinematography
Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
Inception (Wally Pfister)
The King's Speech (Danny Cohen)
The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)
True Grit (Roger Deakins)
Achievement in Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi)
The King's Speech (Jenny Beaven)
The Tempest (Sandy Powell)
True Grit (Mary Zophres)

Achievement in Directing
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

Best Documentary Feature
Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)
Gasland Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)
Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)
Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)
Waste Land Lucy Walker, director (Almega Projects)

Achievement in Makeup
Barney's Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman

Achievement in Film Editing
Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)
The Fighter (Pamela Martin)
The King's Speech (Tariq Anwar)
127 Hours (Jon Harris)
The Social Network (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Hors la Loi (Algeria)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat)
127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)
The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
"Coming Home" from Country Strong Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
"I See the Light" from Tangled Music and Lyric by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Achievement in Sound Editing
Inception
Toy Story 3
TRON: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Inception
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit

Achievement in Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2

Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle)
The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini)

Original Screenplay
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
The Fighter (Paul Attanasio, Lewis Colich, Eric Johnson, Scott Silverand Paul Tamasy)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
The Kids are All Right (Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko)
The King's Speech (David Seidler)

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/oscars-2011-nominees-list-academy-awards-nominations_n_813399.html

Film Society Showing Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 19th 6 PM At The Goodwin Library

January is Appalachian Trail month at the Goodwin Library. The library very excited to be able to show Southbounders with special permission from film maker Ben Wagner. This is a realistic and original look at the world of long distance hiking through the eyes of Olivia, a young woman, who decides to confront her fears by hiking the 2,170 mile Appalachian Trail alone. Come along on this journey and meet some of the characters along the trail heading south to Georgia and north to Maine.

The Official Site:

http://www.southbounders.com/traditional.htm

IMDb Page:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463032/

Golden Globes- Winners List 2011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/16/golden-globes-winners-2011_n_809676.html#s225014&title=Golden_Globes_2011

 

http://www.goldenglobes.org/

Spirit Awards 2011-Nominee List

2011 Nominee List Link:

http://www.spiritawards.com/files/SA_11_nomonesheet.pdf

 

 Spirit Awards Website:

 

http://www.spiritawards.com/

Film Society Film of the Month: Southbounders

The Official Site:

http://www.southbounders.com/traditional.htm

IMDb Page:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463032/

Later this month see it at the Farmington NH Film Society showing at the Goodwin Library. The showing is free. Keep you eye on the Farmington Film Society Blog  for the date and details.

The Best Family Holiday Movies

Follow the link to take a look at the list:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/24/the-best-family-christmas-movies_n_799988.html#s213410

Benny and Rafi Fine-50 Christmas Movie Spoilers In Three Minutes

Five Indie Films Worth Seeing This Month-A List By Leonard Maltin

Follow the link to see what Leonard has to say about each film on Huffington Post. You can also watch his video reviews for the last two of the five films.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonard-maltin/offhollywood-the-five-ind_1_b_790700.html

TINY FURNITURE

I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS

 
WASTE LAND

 WINTER'S BONE

Winter's Bone | Leonard Maltin | Leonard Maltin's Secret's Out | Movie Trailer


COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | Leonard Maltin | Leonard Maltin's Secret's Out | Movie Trailer

Film Society Showing Tomorrow- Winter's Bone, 6PM, Goodwin Library

Winter's Bone Website: http://www.wintersbonemovie.com/

Film Review-Cash McCall

Cash McCall was one of the films in the Natlaie Wood movie collection we recently purchased and it was not one we had seen before. It was about what I expected from a romantic comedy from this era. I really enjoyed it, but many people will not enjoy it nearly as much as I did. I have to be honest the romantic elements of the film are thin, the comedy is dry and very dated, and the drama is contrived. This film gives you a very idealistic, isolated view of the nation at the time. Family values, traditional paradigms, and WASP visions of home and marriage dominate many of the rom-com films of the fifties and sixties and this one is not any different. Natalie Wood and James Garner make this film and give it modern relevance it would not have without them. The supporting cast is wonderful and has many greats from the time including Dean Jagger, Nina Fox, E. G. Marshall, and Henry Jones. Natalie Wood is Lory Austen in the film, a young and up and coming illustrator and the daughter of a well respected inventor and plastics manufacturer, who decides to sell his plastics company. James Garner is Cash McCall, a young, successful businessman, whose character is in question, as he has built his fortune by buying, retooling, and then selling companies. Cash McCall decides to buy Lory’s father’s company. It is fun to watch the predictable story take its’ odd path and watch the Lory/Cash romance unfold, though the romance is a bit strange. The costumes in Cash McCall highlight the styles and paint a beautiful fashion snapshot of the time. The sets are scaled well, fit each character like a glove, and reflect high décor prevalent in pop culture of the time. If you like romance films from the fifties or early sixties, give this one a try. I did and I do not regret it at all. 4 stars out of 5

Find out about Cash Mccall on IMDb here.

Film Review-Coco Chanel

I was expecting much more from Coco Chanel. This Lifetime biopic is about one of France’s most famous fashion designers, where is the drama? Coco Chanel clawed her way to her iconic status after being abandoned as a child, how much more dramatic a base could you have for a film? This is the woman who created one of the world’s signature perfumes, Chanel No. 5 and gave birth to idea of the little black dress. She was witty and funny and difficult, and was equally revered and disliked by her contemporaries. Unfortunately, this story, as written, is very tame; it does not have any bite. It shows nothing of the style and grace of the woman, only the elegance of her creations and her ideas. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed seeing the magnificent clothes, and the art design of the film couldn’t be better. From furniture, to appliances, from sets, to the details of each costume, this film is a visual feast. The personal relationships in the film are dead and the emotions are lifeless. The script isn’t a mess, but it is not pulled together in a fashion that makes the story pull you in. Shirley MacLaine was an admirable addition to the film, but she does not get much screen time compared to the rest of the cast. This film is worth watching to see Shirley or if you have an interest in clothing design or Coco Chanel. For everyone else, I think it is safe to say you can leave this one out of the queue. 3 stars out of 5.

Find out about Coco Chanel on IMDb here.

Film Review-Star Trek

I am a huge fan of the Star Trek franchise and I have always been entranced by Gene Rodenberry's vision of humanity's future. I saw the cast and knew JJ Abrams was to direct; both gave me good reason to believe the franchise could have life again and a new generation would know the characters I grew up with and now hold dear to my heart. Nothing could prepare me for the emotional impact the film would have or the incredible sensory rollercoaster ride it would take me on. This new version of Star Trek was not just a great film for Star Trek fans and science fictions aficionados; this film was everything a film should be, in one, tightly wrapped, mind-blowing package. This film uses equal amounts of carefully measured character development, glorious special effects, and steam rolling action. The talented cast brought every character forward and they give you a reason to have interest in them. Every character is enhanced, bigger and better than they have ever been. Not only did this film stay close to Roddenberry's vision, but it is also one of the best science fiction movies that I have ever seen. It is better not to tell you the story, that should be a surprise, but I will say this incarnation does have some differences and I like them. Those differences do not over shadow the lore or the characters; both remain squarely intact, though many die hard Trekkers like myself may not like the differences. The script only has a few holes I could see, but the average viewer would never know what to look for, so it does not matter. The CGI is spectacular, but it is JJ Abram's use of traditional cinematography effects, that really makes what is on the screen special. The DVD extras are well worth watching; they give tremendous insight into the actors, the script, the director, the costumes, and the special effects. This film will revive the franchise, a franchise that now deserves a second chance. 5 light speed stars our of 5.

See the official trailer here.

Find more info about Star Trek on IMDb here.