Best Picture
4.7 Django Unchained
4.6 Life of Pi
4.5 Amour
4.4 Zero Dark Thirty
4.2 Beasts of the Southern Wild
4.2 Argo (睇好)
4.0 Silver Linings Playbook
3.9 Lincoln
3.8 Les Misérables
Directing
4.7 Life of Pi - Ang Lee
4.6 Amour - Michael Haneke
4.5 Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
4.3 Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
4.3 Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
4.5 Silver Linings Playbook - Screenplay by David O. Russell
4.5 Life of Pi - Screenplay by David Magee
4.5 Argo - Screenplay by Chris Terrio
4.4 Beasts of the Southern Wild - Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
4.3 Lincoln - Screenplay by Tony Kushner
Writing (Original Screenplay)
4.7 Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino (Afterthought: The best acceptance speech this year)
4.7 Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
4.7 Amour - Michael Haneke
4.5 Flight - John Gatins
4.5 Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal
Actor in a Leading Role (Afterthought: the four nominees are equally gooooooood!)
4.5 Denzel Washington in Flight
4.5 Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook
4.5 Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
4.5 Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
3.8 Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables
Actor in a Supporting Role
4.4 Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (Afterthought: I screamed when he won.)
4.4 Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master
4.1 Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook
4.1 Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln
3.5 Alan Arkin in Argo
Actress in a Leading Role
4.7 Emmanuelle Riva in Amour (aged 84 - the oldest-ever Best Actress nominee)
4.5 Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook (睇好)
4.4 Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty
4.2 Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild (aged 9 - the youngest-ever nominee)
3.8 Naomi Watts in The Impossible
Actress in a Supporting Role
4.3 Helen Hunt in The Sessions
4.2 Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables
4.1 Sally Field in Lincoln
4.1 Amy Adams in The Master
3.6 Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook
Foreign Language Film
4.4 Amour (Austria)
3.9 War Witch (Canada)
3.7 Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile) - Not Yet Seen
A Royal Affair (Denmark) - Not Yet Seen
Animated Feature Film
4.5 Wreck-It Ralph
4.3 ParaNorman
4.3 Frankenweenie
Brave - Not Yet Seen (Afterthought: I have to watch it. The other 3 animated films are superb!)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Not Yet Seen
Film Editing
4.4 Argo
4.4 Life of Pi
4.3 Zero Dark Thirty
4.3 Silver Linings Playbook
3.6 Lincoln
Music (Original Score)
4.5 Life of Pi - Mychael Danna
4.3 Lincoln - John Williams
4.3 Skyfall - Thomas Newman
4.2 Argo - Alexandre Desplat
4.2 Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli
Music (Original Song)
4.5 Skyfall from Skyfall
4.5 Suddenly from Les Misérables
4.4 Pi’s Lullaby from Life of Pi
4.4 Everybody Needs A Best Friend from Ted
Before My Time from Chasing Ice - Not Yet Seen
Production Design
4.5 Lincoln
4.5 Les Misérables
4.3 Anna Karenina
4.3 Life of Pi
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Not Yet Seen
Cinematography
4.7 Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda
4.6 Django Unchained - Robert Richardson
4.5 Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey
4.5 Skyfall - Roger Deakins
3.9 Lincoln - Janusz Kaminski
Visual Effects
4.8 Life of Pi
4.7 Marvel’s The Avengers
4.7 Prometheus
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Not Yet Seen
Snow White and the Huntsman - Not Yet Seen
Costume Design
4.4 Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran
4.3 Lincoln - Joanna Johnston
4.3 Les Misérables - Paco Delgado
Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka - Not Yet Seen
Snow White and the Huntsman - Colleen Atwood - Not Yet Seen
Dear all, there are indeed MANY GOOD films this year and
I am thrilled at this great occasion in the movie industry.
Since it is often criticized that the results are political and
some movies e.g. Cloud Atlas, Flight, etc, are snubbed,
I am more interested in what films are nominated than what the results are.
Anyway, please rank the Best Picture nominees. It is subjective, but fun! ^-^
P.S. The underlined films = winners
P.S. Every singing performance in the show deeply touched me and brought tears to my eyes.
P.S. My likes are similar to the ones of the Oscars this year!
P.S. Quentin Tarantino is right. The screenplays this year are superb.
P.S. Ang Lee made a mistake by saying he did not want to waste time thanking every member in the cast, but I thought he did not mean it.
P.S. Ang Lee thanked the "Movie God", instead of "God"!!!
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姊有情永在 Sister - 4.3 / 5
誣網 The Hunt - 4.4 / 5
皇家風流史 A Royal Affair - 4.2 / 5
私房嚇 Stoker - 3.8 / 5
乾旦路 My Way - 4.2 / 5
And exhausting to watch 4 Oscar films in two days ... zzz
回覆刪除Tommy Lee Jones is good in Lincoln. I also like Jessica in 030. Her performance is impressive.
[版主回覆02/23/2013 13:22:01]True! That's why I don't have the time to think about what HKIFF films I wanna watch. I will do so in the coming week. I love Jessica and the movie is very exciting and realistic. I love it. As for the best supporting actor, Christoph Waltz steals the thunder and I love the chemistry between the two male leads.
很多戲未看，評不到，不過我個人很喜歡life of pi, 希望李安攞最佳導演，男配我支持Christopher Waltz. 雲圖我不是特別喜歡(不過看得很開心啦)。想不到它沒有提名。
回覆刪除[版主回覆02/27/2013 20:47:40]1. It is really a pity. At the age of 84, she may not have another chance to get an Oscar. Besides, her acting is very convincing. 2. I have not seen Brave, but many people say that it is just average. The other three animations that I have watched are very impressive. I would say this is a year of animations. I really do not understand why it gets the Oscar and Golden Globe.
[inanna回覆02/27/2013 01:50:33]emmanuelle riva 取不到女主角，很可惜。最不服氣是"brave"贏最佳動畫，pixar在後steve jobs年代每況愈下，"brave"跟"up" & "toy story 3"差了十萬九千里，"wreck-it ralph"就要比它好得多。
[芝回覆02/26/2013 22:41:37]我還猜中最佳電影和女配角。可惜冇買
[版主回覆02/26/2013 12:25:27]I also hoped they would win and they did. I was so excited.
[inanna回覆02/26/2013 01:41:44]christoph waltz是大熱win，李安卻是黑馬，半冷跑出。阿芝呢條連贏位應該分到八倍。
[版主回覆02/25/2013 22:59:02]Me too. I am so happy!!! I screamed when Christopher Waltz won. QT? Really? I am still watching the re-run.
[芝回覆02/25/2013 20:59:27][如未知結果唔好睇住]
好開心，Ang Li同Christopher Waltz都獲獎。QT也獲獎呢！
[版主回覆02/23/2013 13:34:33]Two weeks ago, I watched Life of Pi again and after further understanding the message of the film, I fell in love with it. I also hope that he will get the best director award. As for Cloud Atlas, it consists of six stories of different genres, which is fun. The editing, production design and make-up are superb. The magnificent music score which fits the ambitious theme simply blows me away. What touches me most is the big message of the movie. Human beings keep making the same mistakes i.e. discrimination. It is really a pity that it does not have any nomination.
最佳電影獨欠AMOUR未睇,我會咁揀.
回覆刪除最佳電影幾套都好Close,最後揀ARGO.
男角支持Denzel Washington多過Daniel Day-Lewis
女角Jessica Chastain
男配Christoph Waltz
女配Anne Hathaway (另外Sally Field都演得出色)
[版主回覆03/04/2013 12:24:29](Written by an IMDB user) I love this movie because you'd think coming to the theatre that this would be a celebratory movie about the defeat of UBL but instead the whole movie collapses to a life of a very sad woman. It's really sad to see that this Maya character have been so consumed to chase this terrorist that she hasn't made a life of her own which is to have friends or have a family. The ending really tells us something about the consequences of vengeance and that revenge ultimately hurts us more than it gives us satisfaction in life. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
[版主回覆03/04/2013 12:02:38](Written by an IMDB user) Considering that it was strongly implied the CIA recruited her out of high school to do one task, once that task was finished she basically no longer had a career. Sure, they might reassign her somewhere else, but it still was her entire professional life.
[版主回覆03/04/2013 12:01:00](Written by an IMDB user) Her crying expression was darker and way more depressing than an athlete cry after wining a competition. The last show meant to represent a kind of sadness and emptiness that was caused by obsession and going over the DARK side to achieve that obsession. zero DARK thirty means 12:30 am, but it also has a second meaning.
[版主回覆03/04/2013 11:57:54](Written by an IMDB user) It seemed to me more like the main character didn't have a life outside of pursuing Bin Laden. After she had gotten what she wanted she had nothing else in her life. The hunt was over and she had nothing to go back to.
[版主回覆03/04/2013 11:57:26](Written by an IMDB user) This film had a very similar ending as the Social Network Work: The main character finally gets what she wants but not what she needs. she is sitting alone in an airplane crying her eyes out. Mark in Social Network Work gets what he wants and he is the most successful man of his on earth, yet he is sitting alone in a room refreshing facebook. Both characters were obsessed with something while crossing morality lines that would eventually make them not feel good about their successes.
[版主回覆03/04/2013 11:49:20]Perhaps... but when she sees the corpse, she does not cry. It seems to me that she gets confused. The man with bombs dies on the spot and she is not sure if taking revenge is meaningful. In front her is just a corpse she has been working very hard for years in order to see.
[The Teacher回覆03/04/2013 00:49:17]I interpreted her tears at the end as tears of joy...
[版主回覆02/23/2013 16:37:12]True! I love both performances indeed. (SPOILER WARNING) I love the last scene in Zero Dark Thirty. Her crying shows that she loses the purpose in life and perhaps she is wondering if his death can end all the sufferings and terrorists' attacks. At least she can never bring her best friend back. A moving performance right.
[Hudson回覆02/23/2013 14:08:33]Jessica Chastain與Jennifer Lawrence;如論角色後者的空間發揮比較廣闊,由外靜內剛帶點神經質,到最後發覺喜歡Bradley Cooper那份忐忑不安俱掌握得好好; 前者則演得自然一致,由初期入去的內歛到中段因同事的遭遇後的心理改變,那份決心到最後目標已達,同時卻失去精神寄托那份內心戲又是十分出色. 兩者俱好.
[版主回覆02/23/2013 13:45:40]男角支持 Denzel Washington 多過 Daniel Day-Lewis - totally agree!!! Bradley Cooper and Joaquin Phoenix are very good too. Still, Daniel Day-Lewis is very experienced and influential. It is likely that he will win, which is not what I want to happen. I hope more recognition can be given to to other three actors.
Jessica Chastain is very good, but so is Jennifer Lawrence, who has got the SAG's nod and the Golden Globe Best Actress Award. At the age of 84, Emmanuelle Riva in Amour blows me away.
Christoph Waltz simply steals the thunder. I wish him all the best.
Life of P~~~我最喜歡
回覆刪除[版主回覆02/25/2013 13:02:03]I also like the first story because it is magical. However, I personally think the second story is true.
[愚回覆02/24/2013 21:52:42]i like first story
[版主回覆02/24/2013 01:10:29]I was confused by the ending for the first time. After I watched it again, I fell in love with it. The ending can be interpreted in two different ways. If one believes in the first story, one has faith in a religion. That something cannot be scientifically proven does not mean that it does not exist. If one believes in the second story, it means one is a non-believer who is willing to accept the cruel reality. Which story do you prefer? It is up to you. I like this message.
I saw Zero Dark Thirty and Hitchcock consecutively. Exhausting...
回覆刪除[版主回覆03/04/2013 01:32:32]He was creative, but film makers copy his styles which are no longer new to people nowadays.
[The Teacher回覆03/04/2013 00:57:18]That's just the talk of Hollywood shortly after he died. There's no authoritative confirmation. The guy was brilliant. He's the only director who scared the hell out of audience without resorting to blood and guts, but by camera angle and background music.
[版主回覆03/03/2013 21:45:07]Really? Interesting!!! So he was impotent?!!! It is not shown in the movie though.
[The Teacher回覆03/03/2013 21:16:02]The word around Hollywood at the time was that he was impotent, so he tried to cover it up by drooling over all his female leads.
[版主回覆03/03/2013 20:59:10]I do not know much about Hitchcock, but it does not stop me from feeling, in the movie, his passion for movies and love for his wife. ^^
[chestnut girl回覆03/03/2013 07:47:35]I love Psycho, both the book and the film :)
[The Teacher回覆03/02/2013 23:31:15]Ha! you look to young to know about Hitchcock, but then again, you're film buff, just like my pal the Chestnut. So I guess you'd know. By the way, i saw the original psycho on TV one night, and it scared the hell out of me.
[版主回覆03/02/2013 22:39:10]Both are good movies. The first one is exciting and realistic. The second one is romantic and engaging. It is definitely exhausting to watch two movies in one go, especially because the first one last more than 2.5 hours.
最佳電影與導演絕對是我2012最愛的頭兩位心水呢.
回覆刪除至於影后, 要後天入場才可定奪她是否實至名歸!
[版主回覆03/09/2013 18:11:51]I think the screenplay is above average. It is a rom-com with a cliched ending, but I like the story in which two people with bipolar disorder help each other and the dad and mum try their best to help their boy. It is uplifting, but it does not sound very realistic. Still, there have been too many sad endings these days and a happy ending is sometimes good haha. As for the leading actress, I do like JL's performance. She plays a patient with bipolar disorder and I am totally convinced. The reason is that I know a colleague with bipolar disorder in my real life and their symptoms are very similar. Of course, as I have said Riva in Amour is better though. Please watch Amour in your spare time. I highly recommend it to you.
[小黃部屋回覆03/09/2013 03:03:57]hv watched Silver Linings Playbook, quite disappointed, JL is not worth winning the Oscar Best Female Leading Role.
The story line is quite weak.
[版主回覆03/04/2013 01:31:00]Enjoy the movie. Riva should have won!
奧斯卡的司儀很重要, 今次的是個悶蛋, 我懷念Billy Crystal, 口好似"浪"過油, 由頭帶到落尾全無冷場. 一流!
回覆刪除[版主回覆03/09/2013 18:14:11]I think the host is cute and sings well, but his words are sometimes offensive.
Thanks for the info. I'd know where to have a quick rundown of who won what at this year's Oscar. The HKIFF will be on shortly. Hurry if you haven't booked the tickets yet. But merely from the program, this year's fare seem a bit less enticing to me than those of last year. But we'll see.
回覆刪除[版主回覆03/12/2013 11:17:43]Welcome. Thanks to my friend, the tickets have been bought. I agree that the HKIFF films this year are less attractive.
Emmanuelle Riva是我心目中的2013 Oscar影后....
回覆刪除[版主回覆03/20/2013 14:25:14]She definitely is!!!