Love them, hate them – or only tune in to catch the absurd celebrity wardrobe choices – the hype is inescapable. The Oscars are coming up on Sunday. The Takeaway’s Movie Date team weigh in on which nominees for Best Picture, Best Actress/Actor, and Best Supporting Actor/Actress will take home statuettes? Or, more importantly, who will be snubbed. Rafer Guzman is film critic for Newsday, and co-host of the Takeaway’s Movie Date Podcast. Kristen Meinzer is culture producer for the Takeaway and also co-hosts the Movie Date podcast.
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2012 Oscar Nominees (Full List)
Best Picture “The Artist” “The Descendants” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” “Hugo” “Midnight in Paris” “The Help” “Moneyball” “War Horse” “The Tree of Life”
Best Actor Demian Bichir, “A Better Life” George Clooney, “The Descendants” Jean Dujardin, “The Artist” Gary Oldman, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Brad Pitt, “Moneyball”
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”
Best Supporting Actor Kenneth Branagh, “My Week With Marilyn” Jonah Hill, “Moneyball” Nick Nolte, “Warrior” Christopher Plummer, “Beginners” Max Von Sydow, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Best Supporting Actress Berenice Bejo, “The Artist” Jessica Chastain, “The Help” Melissa McCarthy, “Bridesmaids” Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs” Octavia Spencer, “The Help”
Best Director Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris” Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist” Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life” Alexander Payne, “The Descendants” Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”
Best Original Screenplay Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris” JC Chandor, “Margin Call” Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation” Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist” Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, “Bridesmaids”
Best Adapted Screenplay Alexander Payne, Nat Faxton, Jim Rash, “The Descendants” John Logan, “Hugo” George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon, “The Ides of March” Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, “Moneyball” Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughn, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Best Animated Feature “A Cat In Paris” “Chico & Rita” “Kung Fu Panda 2” “Puss in Boots” “Rango”
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Bullhead (Belgium) Footnote (Israel) In Darkness (Poland) Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) A Separation (Iran)
Original Score “The Adventures of Tintin,” John Williams “The Artist,” Ludovic Bource “Hugo,” Howard Shore “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Alberto Iglesias “War Horse,” John Williams
Best Original Song “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets; Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie “Real in Rio,” Rio; Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Best Achievement in Art Direction “The Artist” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” “Hugo” “Midnight in Paris” “War Horse”
Best Achievement in Cinematography “The Artist” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” “Hugo” “The Tree of Life” “War Horse”
Best Achievement in Costume Design “Anonymous” “The Artist” “Hugo” “Jane Eyre” “W.E.”
Best Documentary Feature “Hell and Back Again” “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” “Pina” “Undefeated”
Best Documentary Short Subject “The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement?” “God Is the Bigger Elvis” “Incident in New Baghdad” “Saving Face” “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
Best Achievement in Film Editing “The Artist” “The Descendants” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” “Hugo” “Moneyball”
Best Achievement in Makeup “Albert Nobbs” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” “The Iron Lady”
Best Animated Short Film Dimanche/Sunday The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore La Luna A Morning Stroll Wild Life
Best Live Action Short Film “Pentecost” “Raju” “The Shore” “Time Freak” “Tuba Atlantic”
Best Achievement in Sound Editing “Drive” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” “Hugo” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” “War Horse”
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” “Hugo” “Moneyball” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” “War Horse”
Best Achievement in Visual Effects “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” “Hugo” “Real Steel” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
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