Who Hacked the 2010 Oscars?
February 3rd, 2010 by BarakAnd the Oscar Goes To… (Find Out Here First)
The Oscar nominations have been announced! But here at Jinni, we got our hands on the list of winners!! It wasn’t that difficult, we just told the guy with the envelope to look over there. While he was busy looking for something extraordinary, we opened the envelope, took out the list, copied it with our cell phone (smart and slick, we know) and put it back in the envelope. He never noticed.
So there you have it. More than a month before everyone else, we give you the list of winners:
Best Movie: Avatar
The Academy went with the people and chose Avatar as Best Picture. Saying that Avatar is not a good movie these days is like saying that Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts aren’t tasty. Avatar is about to receive, or maybe already received, the status of sacred cow. Nevertheless, I dare to say The Hurt Locker is a way better movie and so are Inglourious Basterds, Up in the Air and The Blind Side. I think that Avatar is a genocide movie in 3D, visually amazing but with too-obvious political criticism and a general lack of plot and acting.
Best Actor: Morgan Freeman
I disagree with this pick too. Freeman is a great actor, one of the best ever, but he wasn’t at his best in his portrayal of Nelson Mandela in Invictus. It’s like he did us a favor and made a really slight effort to make a decent South African accent. It could be his most unconvincing acting to date. I guess it’s a Scorsese-type Oscar: He deserved one for many of his previous works (The Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy), so the Academy is giving it to him this time as a compensation prize. The winner should have been George Clooney for his excellent role in Up in the Air.
Best Actress: Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep was brilliant in Julie and Julia. Some say she resembled Julia Childs even more than Julia Childs, but I think it’s a real shame that the Oscar didn’t go to Sandra Bullock, who might have to content herself with a Razzie . Bullock gave the performance of her life in The Blind Side. I fell in love with the character she played. And while Streep will probably receive more nominations and prestigious awards in future, this was kind of a one-time opportunity for Sandra Bullock. Meryl Streep is becoming the Michael Jordan of the best actress category: She is nominated almost every other year. So I guess that makes Sandra the Karl Malone of this year: Truly great, but Streep (Jordan) is the greatest.
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
The Academy members didn’t miss the chance to make history, and Kathryn Bigelow is the first female director to receive the Oscar for best achievement in directing! She managed to create a truly tense, realistic and captivating movie with The Hurt Locker. Of the many movies that dealt with the Gulf war (Jarhead and The Messenger, to name just a few), The Hurt Locker is indeed the best.
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
For many, Inglourious Basterds marks the return to form for Quentin Tarantino. Who can alter history in such a way and get away with it? Only Quentin the mad-genius / movie-geek / child-trapped-in-an-adult-body Tarantino. You can be offended by Inglourious Basterds, you can say it’s cruel and too violent, but there is one thing you can’t do: You can’t take your eyes off the screen. Also worth mentioning: The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man. The dialogue is really clever, and I enjoyed their dark, mean humor.
Best Adapted Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious
This is a good choice. Precious is a brave movie that talks about “the other,” the social misfit. Precious deserves the win – and it’s quite a surprise, with Up in the Air the obvious favorite in this category.
We all knew Up was going to win. The announcement that it actually won is just for protocol, like election results in Iran. Fantastic Mr. Fox was well-received critically, but financially it pretty much failed. With no Oscar in hand, Wes Anderson’s movie can be considered something of a flop.
Best Foreign Film: The White Ribbon
I started watching this movie and stopped after three minutes and seven seconds. It’s in black-and-white and just too German and slow for me (at least the first three minutes and seven seconds). Ajami, my favorite in this category, is a captivating, rough movie about a poor urban neighborhood in Israel called Ajami. It’s up there with City of God, Amores Perros and Tsotsi.
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Bingo! No competition here. A brilliant performance by Waltz as the most charming Nazi villain (saying “Nazi villain” is kind of like saying “fat overweight guy”) of all time. You know you have to hate him – he’s a Nazi – but you just can’t.
Best Supporting Actress: Vera Farmiga
At the age of thirty-six and after superb roles in Running Scared, The Departed and Up In the Air, it’s now safe to say that Vera Farmiga is a big Hollywood star. She has quality written all over her.
P.S. Note that in the competition between the ex-couple Cameron and Bigelow, (each had 9 nominations), Bigelow wins, but not with a knockout (More wins to Bigelow, but Avatar did get the best pic prize).
Think the Academy was wrong? Think we’re bluffing and don’t really possess the list of winners? Comment and let us know.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 11:48 am
At times we are really surprised on the academy awards.
I personally do not know what is the yardstick for nominating a movie or the actor/actress. It is felt that the general opinion of the movie watchers count a lot.
It has been observed many times the masses expect a particular actress or an actor to be the best person for the award, but then we are surprised.
It happens everywhere. Perhaps personal propensities play a role..
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February 3rd, 2010 at 1:06 pm
The longer you stick with the White Ribbon, the pace quickens, the drama starts to sear, and that Hanecke sickness starts to shine in maybe the first Palm d’Or winner in a decade to deserve the award.
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February 4th, 2010 at 3:23 am
lol the list is fine for me.. i guess
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February 5th, 2010 at 9:21 am
The White Ribbon is a very important somehown very disturbing film. Most people don’t understand the purpose of this film, but even thou it’s slow in telling it’s story, a soon you get what’s going on, you won’t even think its “too german” and the black and white brings just the perfect atmosphair
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February 6th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
I’m curious if this is accurate. I would think it’d be a big deal if so. Otherwise you guys are going to look like real jackasses for making that corny cover story up. no?
But I’m not doubting you. I’m confident. money on it.
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February 9th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Ha. You guys are full of bullshit. The awards have probably not even been voted on.
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February 21st, 2010 at 10:19 am
That Avatar was even nominated for Best Picture still boggles the mind. That it seems to be the front-runner is enough to induce catatonia. We’ve turned into a nation of children that thinks of movies the same way we think of amusement parks.
The copy on the posters should have read: A visually stunning film, written by a twelve-year-old. If this is what 13 years between pictures get us, James Cameron needs to take 20 years for make his next “masterpiece”.
Unobtainium anyone?
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
All I can say is that no one knows who’s gonna win the Oscar until it will be declared. I’m betting the best of the best will be surely seen there. :)
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March 18th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Can this website please go away it’s completely, it’s now almost a month since the Oscars and they were wrong about alot of the movies. Who’s paying to have this site left up?
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May 9th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
It has been observed many times the masses expect a particular actress or an actor to be the best person for the award, but then we are surprised.
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