By: Alfred Eastwood
In the tonic that has raised my good friend Dr. Deckard, I raise my favorites in the main categories for the Oscars. Although as I said on several occasions, I really like these awards, we must be realistic and understand that each Oscar means a lot of potential millions for a movie and is a tribute to the film industry.
Speak then of each category:
Best Picture
Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone
no doubt This year's selection is much better than previous years (especially the past in that the Academy only became Avatar and Hurt Locker). It is good quality movies mostly and I think the winner will be among Inception and Social Network. My favorite to win (being the most complete) is Inception, but I have to applaud the court including very independent films such as Black Swan and 127 hours.
Best Director for Black Swan Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell for The Fighter, Tom Hooper for The King's Speech, David Fincher for The Social Network, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for True Gift
I think more options is Fincher, who has not won even the award despite having run movies too award-winning, like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seven and Fight Club. If Fincher does not win the prize, could be for Aronofski, which makes a great movie very intimate and copyright (which is precisely what is rewarded at the Oscars) or the Coen brothers, who already won for No Country for Old men (although his new film is definitely not his best work). If you win Russell and Hooper would be a great surprise.
Best Actor
Javier Bardem Biutiful, Jeff Bridges, True Grit, Jesse Eisenberg of The Social Network, Colin Firth by The King's Speech, James Franco by 127 Hours My favorite are Eisenberg, who does it so well that no note (as should happen with good performances, which are not enforced). Firth is also a big favorite and not desmerecería the award, succeeds in presenting a character as ambivalent between the authority and fear with great skill. Bridges repeat nomination and, practically, character. About our Latin American friends: Franco does a good job on the line suggests and Bardem's character not think I have good options in a Mexican film.
Actress
Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right, Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole, Jennifer Lawrence for Winter's Bone, Natalie Portman by Black Swan, Michelle Williams by Blue Valentine
I think this is perhaps the most difficult category this year and is expected a close fight between Annette Bening, a great actress in Hollywood who still owes her award after being nominated and ready to win three times (for "American Beauty", "The Griffter" and "Being Julia") and Natalie Portman, who won this year's second Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for "Closer" sin ganarlo, y que logra una magnífica interpretación en “Black Swan” con un personaje tan perfecto como oscuro (o perfectamente oscuro). Sorprende que Nicole Kidman no haya sonado mucho, no he visto su película pero algunos amigos me dicen que es su mejor papel; tal vez le están cobrando los muchos papeles malos que ha hecho en los últimos años.
Actor secundario: Christian Bale (The Fighter) – John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) – Jeremy Renner (The Town) – Mark Ruffalo (Los chicos están bien) – Geoffrey Rush (El discurso del rey).
Christian Bale hace su mejor papel en esta película, realmente formidable, merece el premio por esta gran actuación. Geoffrey Rush's character is also highlighted, but it is not surprising, perhaps the best Australian actor of all time.
Supporting Actress: Amy Adams
(The Fighter) - Helena Bonham Carter (The king's speech) - Melissa Leo (The Fighter) - Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) - Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom).
Amy Adams does a good role in The Fighter, a character very different from the princess tale "Enchanted" or retracted nun "Doubt," his character is strong, loud and rude, but unfortunately leaves very few minutes display to be memorable. His co-star, Melissa Leo, has better appearance and his performance is superb, I'd say she probably win, but my favorite is Hailee Steinfeld, who at 14 has the full weight of "True Gift" on his shoulders. However, Carter could win Bonhan also a sober person in the midst of composure required of a queen can not hide his pain. Best Foreign Film
Unfortunately I can not talk about my favorite category, because these films do not come to our country in time and sometimes fail. My experience tells me that among them may be the best film cinematically.
My favorite (I know you do not necessarily win) are:
Best Film of the Year: 'Source' ("Inception")
Best Director: David Fincher ('The network')
Best Leading Actor: Jesse Eisenberg ("The network")
Best Leading Actress: Natalie Portman ('black swan')
Best Supporting Actress: Hailee Steinfeld ("True Grit")
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale ('The Fighter')
Best animated film 'Toy Story 3' (Lee Unkrich)
Best adapted screenplay: 'social network' (Aaron Sorkin) Best screenplay
original'Origen '(Christopher Nolan)
Best Music: 'The network' (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
Best Visual Effects: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part 1 '(' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part 1 ')
Finally, some comments on the nominees: 127 Hours
A film too underground to win a prize. In my opinion, is what the Oscar sets in the list to pose as democratic and inclusive. James Franco's performance is good, but the role requires it, it does nothing beyond what the character suggests. Definitely not the best movie of Danny Boyle, but I value his return to simplicity, escaping from the blockbuster Slumdog Millionaire. Much of the film seems a chapter of proof of all or Survivor Man and is one of those cases in which the main virtue is the story that promotes the movie (you can see youtube videos of real Aron Ralston). Boyle is my favorite by far Shallow Graves (Graves at ground level). Social Network
While not the best film by David Fincher, "Social Network" is a great example of how to be creative with a single epic creation. The founding of Facebook could lead to a movie boring and predictable, which is exactly what is this story. Choosing point of view demands against Zuckerberg and his personality restless, desperate and selfish are successes that make a simple story a great movie. Apart from the great performance of Eisenberg (that makes it so well that it seems that he was acting), it is important to emphasize in a great soundtrack and a montage formidable. The characterization of the characters, also shows us a world where more than heroes and villains, only children who become millionaires and entrepreneurs overnight. Impressive, for example, that Justin Timberlake's character seems an old man full of experience and "tanning" in the business world at age 25. Like good movies, I liked the second time I saw her.
True Gift is a remarkable return of the Coen brothers with a classic western style with some touches of humor, but without the required dose of black humor that I miss in his last film. Jeff Bridges repeats the same character he did last year's winner and most of the other characters are a little bland, except for the girl, brilliantly played by Hailee Steinfeld, 14, that is what rescues this movie more western reflective style of Eastwood's Unforgiven and No Country for Old Men the Coen themselves. The pace of the film is dull and sometimes not well understood what you have to say.
Fighter The first thing you may think when you announced this film in theaters is that maybe it's a strange "Deja Vu" because in the past five years have already seen several fighters parading across the screen, as Mickey Rourke The Wrestler and Russell Crowe in Cinderella Man All three films had the same name in Colombia: "The Wrestler." The history of boxing in film is seductive and there are several memorable as Anthony Quinn in La Strada, the Rocky deStallone, Hilary Swank as Maggie in Million Dollar Baby and Raging Bull De Niro. What is so different this fighter? In the first instance, nothing. Again it is the story of a boy from a poor neighborhood coaching to get ahead and be world champion.
The interesting thing here is the love-hate-reproach admiration and jealousy that exists between him and his brother, an old boxing glory that looks a lot (in history) to our Pambelé. In short, the best of the story has a name: Christian Bale, unrecognizable physically and acting in the role of lovable loser, worthy of pity and affection. Whalberg's performance is good, as well as Amy Adams (Oscar-nominated), but the duo Bale-Leo (another nominee) who steals the applause.
The king's speech: Another good movie whose weight falls on the performances and a great story. The story is interesting dramatically by the great weight that the fact that the most important character of the world feel insecure. As I have said many times, a character is as interesting as its most vulnerable. The performance of Colin Firth and Helen Carter Bonhan is impeccable and reflect all the pomposity of the British royal family itself in the 30's revealing hints of personal feelings of love, fear and suffering. Geoffrey Rush makes a great paper, but no more than some of his best performances (of course, Shine).
Black Swan: movie is by far the most intimate of shows and I would say that one of the most holds that status in history recent awards. We could not expect less from Aronofski, an author interested in showing emotions and awaken feelings in viewers (as it does in Pi and Requiem for a Dream). The film is a virtual acid trip of a perfectionist mentality and somewhat unhinged Portman's character, who definitely carries all the weight of history. Her character is wonderful for their range of transformation and continuous analogy between the experience of the dancer and the work of Swan Lake which she stars.
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