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Ah. Awards season. It’s the only time of the year when we can get away with mercilessly critiquing celebrities judgment in fashion, dates, and decorum. With each award show comes the inevitable lists of the best and worst dressed in addition to the lists of stars that collected awards throughout the evening.
But here at Yahoo! Answers we think that a room full of celebrities shouldn’t decide whether or not another room full of celebrities deserves even more awards. Instead, we think YOU, the community should decide who the award goes to!
But that got us thinking- with the Academy Award nominations coming out tomorrow, how does one get nominated for an Oscar?
In short: according to “Rule Two” of the Academy you must be nominated by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and, your film must have premiered between January 1st and December 31st of Los Angeles County, California to qualify.
While the Oscars has a long history, it hasn’t always been as glamorous as it is today- the first Academy Awards drew just 270 people and cost just $5 to attend. Oh what a difference 81 years and a bit of celebrity glitz and glamour makes.
But before the nominees are announced at 5:30am on Tuesday, feel free to speculate on the nominees in the comments section below. Once the official nominees have been announced, we’ll update this post with a link to the list.
UPDATE: and the nominees have been announced! Stop by Yahoo! Movies for the full list.
Here are a few categories to get you started:
- Best supporting actor
- Best supporting actress
- Best actor
- Best actress
- Best director
- Best picture
- Best original score
- Best song
- Best visual effects
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I am such an avid fan of the Oscars that I am considering skipping first period history to see the nominees as soon as they come out (I live on the east coast, so they come out at 8:30am, right when I begin classes.) Here are my nominees for the three main categories (Best Actor and Actress and Best Picture)
BEST PICTURE
The Hurt Locker
Precious
(500) Days of Summer
Inglorious Basterds
Avatar
Up in the Air
District 9
An Education
Crazy Heart
A Single Man
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney for “Up in the Air”
Jeremy Renner for “The Hurt Locker”
Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart”
Morgan Freeman for “Invictus”
Colin Firth for “A Single Man”
BEST ACTRESS:
Gabourney “Gabby” Sidibe for “Precious”
Emily Blunt for “Young Victoria”
Carey Mulligan for “An Education”
Meryl Streep for “Julie and Julia”
Katie Jarvis for “Fish Tank”
I think that Christoph Waltz will win for best supporting actor. I hope he does. He was brilliant.
I’ve been watching the Oscars since I was six years old and my friends and family think I love it a little too much. Well in over two decades of oscars I have seen some pretty amazing things but I’m pretty excited that they are allowing ten movies in the best picture category this year. Now this might have something to do with how smaller type movies seem to win a lot or maybe they are trying to diversify the category so to bring on more viewers as the numbers have been down.
I have had some small issues myself with the oscars over the years. There was the year that Russell Crowe should have won for A Beautiful Mind but he punched out his producer in a hotel room and instead people voted for Denzel Washington. Now Denzel did a great job in Training Job but I can guareentee you that if the drama with Russell hadn’t happened he would have won instead. I take the awards seriously and I don’t think a persons personal life should enter into the award at all. It should be based on their proformance 100% so I was annoyed that the awards were so tainted.
Then there were the last few years. The awards just seem to have become a little dry and somewhat boring. back when billy crystal and names like that were hosting the awards were exciting and fun.I think that the awards will be good this year because of how diverse the choices are. I have watched almost every movie nominated with only a handful left to watch and a month to see them in. I can’t wait to see how many of my nominations match tomorrows list. Last year I had all but five right which is pretty damn good because last year I watched most of them after they were announced.
I don’t watch sports so for me and many like me this is our grey cup.
If Christopher Waltz doesn’t win, it’ll be a travesty.
I think increasing the list for Best Picture is a huge mistake. It’s going down the path that the adult film awards went down, which is to make sure everyone who advertises in the trades gets a nomination somehow, somewhere.
And what is with District 9? What a piece of garbage. Was is because of the extremely vague social commentary? That movie was one of the biggest disappointments ever, and serves to demonstrate the potential facts behind my assumption.
Best singer
Beyoncé
Alicia keys
Shakira
Some funny things: did you know that James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, who are now pretending to get Oscar for best director, were husband and wife some years ago? By the way, Bigelow would be the first woman to win in the category.
What is more, Meryl Streep has broken her own record for most Oscar nominations for acting. Now the number is 16. She has also broken the record for most acting nominations in a leading role. This time was thirteenth.
BEST ACTOR
Morgan Freeman for “Invictus”
I used to watch them. I was looking at the singers that won at the Grammy’s, and while photos were taken, and I am very sure those beings must look better someday, I was very embarrassed that humans look like they do to get those awards. Good thing one of them said, “That singing isn’t about competion”, when obviously it is. I remember when it was a big night to watch the Academy Awards. Now I think they would look like the singers that won, and that is simply a social embarrassment. I’m not a sour grape. I don’t waste money on trash. Truly.
Yay!
I’ll watch the Oscars with special interest this year, because our film “El secreto de sus ojos” (The secret of their eyes) is competing in the Foreign Language Film category!
By the way, it is a superb movie so I recommend it to everyone, no matter whether it wins or not
And the award goes to Me the person who made award
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I love the Acadamy Awards. I’m a huge movie and music buff and love to see my fav’s get picked. Have a great day