My Reaction to the Oscar nominees

A couple of weeks ago, I predicted that Avatar would win the Best Picture prize at the Academy Awards. Hollywood likes to reward its big films that are well received critically. The last two films to cross the billion dollar mark, and that were nominated for Best Picture, won the award. (Titanic and Return of the King.) This does not mean that there is some kind of formula that creates best picture material. If so it would look like this:

Large Budget+3 hour Epic+$1billion Worldwide=BEST PICTURE

Well that is what happened last time anyway.

As far as the other nominees, they were pretty predictable. The only one that was kind of a surprise was The Blind Side obviously. It came as a surprise because this is not the kind of film the Academy has nominated since well, Seabiscuit. The Blind Side has not been nominated for many precursor awards. It was just a film American Audiences embraced throughout the year. It had been Oscar's tradition to be the intermediary between the Critics and Audiences. So choosing the blind side falls into that tradition.

I would liked to have seen Star Trek in the mix, but they already had two very strong Science Fiction Films in there. If it were up to me it would have been Avatar, Star Trek, District-9, and Moon up for Best Picture. This was a strong year for sci-fi as it was for animation.

Among the animated films, there was a surprise nominee. The Secret of Kells. I saw the trailer for this much more interpretive animated piece, and I want to see it. The rest were expected to be nominated.

So, being that "Blind Side" was nominated in the Best Picture category, I'm going to count on Sandra Bullock winning a very deserving award. Her competition would be Meryl Streep.

I respect their pics this year, as I do most years. I would have loved to see all of the amazing science fiction movies on the top Ten list. (Avatar, Moon, District 9, and Star Trek) They were all my favorite of the year.

I also don't understand why nobody liked The Lovely Bones. More on that in the coming days.

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