Starting off with Best Picture, consider some feathers ruffled. My uber-confidence in The Tree of Life has certainly waned now that I've seen it - I doubt its ability to stick with voters with its surrealistic nature. In other news, the Weinsteins are stepping up their game by snatching up big-name awards bait such as The Artist, The Iron Lady, and W.E. Artist may just be the strange little anomaly that ends up with 10 nominations. Which begs the question that I've plagued with - which seemingly ordinary movie is going to encounter sudden end-of-year success both financially and critically and land 10 nods a la True Grit?
And of the ladies actressing for the best of 2011 status, everyone's constantly talking about the showdown between Glenn Close and Meryl Streep... but what of Keira Knightley? That new trailer is telling me that she could be the Portman spoiler to Close/Streep's Bening. I don't think voters are really over their obsession with youth yet. Plus that Knightley scene looks meaty to the max.
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- Interesting Top 10. It's very tough to tell at this point with only two potential Oscar contenders released (Tree of Life and Midnight in Paris)
- Again, I find it interesting that you would have Midnight in Paris in the top 10 instead of having Woody Allen among the contenders for director. I would think it would be more likely than Midnight in Paris getting a Best Picture nod.
- While her scenes are out of context in the trailer of A Dangerous Method, judging from comments on the web, Keira Knightley is the laughing stock of the internet. Everyone is mellow and dramatic and then she suddenly appears amped up to the max, it's absolutely hilarious.
I really like Knightley ... don't understand the backlash against her at all.
Oscars ... Dear God .. so far away.
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