Jeff, Who Lives with Gollum

The night is dark and full of terrors.

Best Picture – The Artist

Best Actor – Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Best Actress – Viola Davis, The Help

Best Supporting Actor – Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress – Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best Director – Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Best Original Screenplay – The Artist

Best Adapted Screenplay – The Descendants

Best Foreign Film – A Separation

Best Animated Film – Rango

Art Direction – Hugo

Cinematography – The Tree of Life, Emmanuel Lubezki

Costume Design – Hugo, Sandy Powell

Documentary (Feature) – Hell and Back Again

Documentary (Short Subject) – Saving Face

Film Editing – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Makeup – Albert Nobbs

Music (Original Score) – The Artist

Music (Original Song) – “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie

Short Film (Animated) – “La Luna” Enrico Casarosa

Short Film (Live Action) – “The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George

Sound Editing – Drive

Sound Mixing – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Visual Effects – Rise of the Planet of the Apes

“Harry Belafonte Lyrics…”

I have never read the books, but I have seen (most of) the films. This part is confusing/ridiculous to me:

Voldemort “zaps” Harry Potter with his wand during their confrontation in the woods. Harry appears to be dead.

Voldemort: “I have spent, like, 18 years or whatever of my life dedicated to finding and killing Harry Potter. I am the most powerful and intelligent evil wizard that has ever existed pretty much. Now that I just zapped Harry Potter with my super wand, I am just going to ask gray-haired Malfoy lady to cruise over there about 10 feet away and check to see if Harry Potter is for sure dead or still alive, because I cannot tell because obviously I would not ask someone else to check for me were I 100% certain he was dead.”

Malfoy Mommy: “He’s dead.” (Liar!)

Voldemort: “Awesome, that’s good enough for me. Let’s head back to Hogwarts and declare victory and brag about the end of the world as we know it. I am not going to use my basic non-evil-wizard senses or simple perceptive skills to double check to see if he is really dead or anything, I have only been trying to do this for like 18 years and my whole evil existence depends on it NO BIG DEAL. I am not going to bother with a double tap (double tap with super wand?) or chop his head off or wait for him to disintegrate into wizard dust or or conjure up some “is-he-really-dead” confirmation spell or simply lean in myself to see if he is really breathing or anything. Just let his giant buddy pick him up and carry him back as is, that’s cool. Let’s roll, can’t waste time now.”

WTF? Or am I guilty of some criminally obvious oversight? Anybody?

Best Picture
The Social Network

Best Actor
Colin Firth–The King’s Speech

Best Actress
Annette Bening–The Kids Are All Right

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale–The Fighter

Best Supporting Actress
Hailee Steinfeld–True Grit

Best Director
Tom Hooper–The King’s Speech

Best Original Screenplay
Inception

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network

Best Foreign Film
Dogtooth (Greece)

Best Animated Film
Toy Story 3

Art Direction
Dyas (Production Design); Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)-Inception

Cinematography
Matthew Libatique-Black Swan

Costume Design
Antonella Cannarozzi-I Am Love

Documentary Feature
Exit through the Gift Shop

Film Editing
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter-The Social Network

Sound Editing
Richard King-Inception

Sound Mixing
Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten-The Social Network

Visual Effects
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb-Inception

Children of the Cornucopia

Dr. Mundane-Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Lip) Balm

Being John Malkovich

You have my seemingly insignificant Master of Arts in Media Studies degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Margo(t)

“Shit literally just got real”

Duquan in Sixty Seconds