2012 Oscar Nominations Announced

I said in yesterday's post of my predictions that correctly predicting this year's nominess would be difficult and this morning I was proven right with significant surprises in virtually every category, especially in Best Picture category.   While I didn't exactly fare terribly, I still didn't do as good as last year.  But enough of that here's a list of this nominees and if I didn't post about the categories you're interested I recommend looking for a full list on either Rotten Tomatoes or Collider.

Best Picture 

The Artist

The Descendants

War Horse

Moneyball

Midnight in Paris

Tree of Life

Hugo

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


Surprise Nominess:  Tree of Life and Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

Surprise Snub: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


Best Director

Woody Allen- Midnight in Paris

Martin Scorsese- Hugo

Terrence Malick- Tree of Life

Michel Hazanavicius- The Artist

Alexander Payne- The Descendants


Surprise Nominee- Terrence Malick

Surprise Snub- David Fincher- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


Best Actor

George Clooney- The Descendants

Brad Pitt- Moneyball

Gary Oldman- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Jean Dujardin- The Artist

Demian Bichir- A Better Life


Surprise Nominee- Demian Bichir

Surprise Snub- Michael Fassbender- Shame


Best Actress

Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs

Viola Davis, The Help

Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn


Surprise Nominee- Glenn Close

Surprise Snub- Tilda Swinton- We Need To Talk About Kevin


Best Supporting Actor

Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn

Jonah Hill, Moneyball

Nick Nolte, Warrior

Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


Surprise Nominees- Nick Nolte and Max Von Sydow

Surprise Snubs- Albert Brooks-Drive and Patton Oswalt-Young Adult


Best Supporting Actress

Berenice Bejo, The Artist

Jessica Chastain, The Help

Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids

Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs

Octavia Spencer, The Help


Surprise Nominee- Janet McTeer

Surprise Snub- Shailene Woodley- The Descendants

2012 Oscar Nomination Predictions

2012 Oscars

Tomorrow morning the 2012 Oscar Nominations will be announced and months worth of speculation will finally be over. While correctly predicting the results of award shows has always been a bit of a crap shoot, this year's Academy Awards have been a little harder to anticipate especially considering the new rule change set on Best Picture category. There can now be no less than five and no more than ten nominees but my personal guess is that this year it's going to be eight. That being said, it's a pretty safe bet that I won't be batting 1.000 on this but I'll give it the old college try anyway. I'll be sure to post the actual nominations tomorrow to see how I did.

Best Picture
The Artist

The Descendants

Moneyball

Midnight In Paris

The Help

Hugo

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

War Horse

Best Actor
Brad Pitt- Moneyball

Michael Fassbender- Shame

George Clooney- The Descendants

Jean Dujardin- The Artist

Gary Oldman- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy


Best Actress
Viola Davis- The Help

Meryl Streep- The Iron Lady

Michelle Williams- My Week With Marilyn

Tilda Swinton- We Need To Talk About Kevin

Rooney Mara- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo


Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer- Beginners

Albert Brooks- Drive

Kenneth Branagh- My Week With Marilyn

Jonah Hill- Moneyball

Patton Oswalt- Young Adult


Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo- The Artist

Jessica Chastain- The Help

Shailene Woodley- The Descendants

Octavia Spencer- The Help

Melissa McCarthy- Bridesmaids


Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius- The Artist

Woody Allen- Midnight In Paris

Alexander Payne- The Descendants

David Fincher- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Martin Scorcese- Hugo