And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to..

[Thanee]

While I believe that Hurt Locker is the better movie, Avatar is my bet for the oscar.

It wouldn't be completely undeserved... Avatar is a very good movie.

It's already pretty much clear that it will get best special effects, I suppose.

Bye
Thanee

 

[GrayLinnorm]

I'm amazed that they were able to fill 10 nominations without stooping to nominate Transformers 2 or Twilight 2.

Of course, both of these films will get nominated for MTV Movie Awards.

Needless to say, I'm not looking forward to the MTV Movie Awards this year

 

[jaerdaph]

It's a long shot, but I'd love to see Precious get the Oscar this year. I'd be surprised if Avatar won over The Hurt Locker though. I just can't see the Academy getting past that much CGI.

 

[Thanee]

Nice!

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Celtavian]

Nice!

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow!

Bye
Thanee

Pretty amazing that she is the first female director to ever win an Oscar. Congratulations to her.

 

[Thanee]

"Well, the time has come!"

Bye
Thanee

 

[Mallus]

You know, I'm a little sad Avatar/Cameron didn't win a major award. Say what you will about the simplicity of it's story and theme, but the film was spectacularly successful in realizing a longstanding goal of the cinema of the fantastic, heck, of cinema in general: transporting viewers to another world.

It's almost as if they needed a new Oscar for Avatar. Best Picture/Director seems like too much, but Art Direction/Effects seems too little.

I'm also bummed that Up beat Fantastic Mr. Fox. Up had one of the greatest opening sequences, well, ever (essentially it's own incredibly moving short film) and a terrific central conceit/metaphor, but, in the end, Fox was just as heartfelt and more honest. Both films were wise, but Wes Anderson's was wiser, and, of course, it had the better soundtrack.

 

[Krug]

Well Cameron has won Best Director and Film before with Titanic, so I doubt if he's crying in the corner. Furthermore, Avatar has US$2.6 billion in the box office, compared to about US$21 million for The Hurt Locker. I don't think THL is a great film (I disliked the main protagonist's cowboy behaviour), but it's a better film than a lot of the other Oscar winners from previous years (cough, Crash, cough).

 

[RigaMortus2]

Pretty amazing that she is the first female director to ever win an Oscar. Congratulations to her.

Also, it is the lowest grossing movie to ever win an Oscar.

 

[Orius]

I voted for Hurt Locker.

Of course that was two minutes ago, so I cheated.

Why is the poll still open?

Anyway, it's not too surprising Hurt Locker got it. The academy basically thinks sf movies are mostly for the various technical awards.