Thursday, January 16, 2014

2013 Oscar Nominations

2013 OSCAR NOMINATIONS



The Oscar nominations for 2013 are being released this morning. As well as linking to all of the noms when it is available*, we'll note some of the geek-friendly ones here.




BEST PICTURE



* Gravity

* Her



Left out



* Frozen

* Saving Mr. Banks



BEST DIRECTOR



* Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity



Left out



* Spike Jonze for Her

* John Lee Hancock for Saving Mr. Banks



BEST ACTOR



Left out



* Joaquin Phoenix for Her



BEST ACTRESS



* Sandra Bullock for Gravity



Left out



* Emma Thompson for Saving Mr. Banks



BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR



Left out



* Tom Hanks for Saving Mr. Banks

* Paul Giamatti for Saving Mr. Banks

* Colin Farrell for Saving Mr. Banks

* George Clooney for Gravity



BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS



Left out



* Scarlett Johansson for Her



BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY



* Her



Left out



* Saving Mr. Banks



ANIMATED FEATURE FILM



* The Croods

* Despicable Me 2

* Ernest & Celestine

* Frozen

* The Wind Rises



CINEMATOGRAPHY



* The Grandmaster

* Gravity



COSTUME DESIGN



* The Grandmaster



FILM EDITING



* Gravity



MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING



* The Lone Ranger



ORIGINAL SCORE



* Gravity

* Her

* Saving Mr. Banks



Left out



* Frozen



ORIGINAL SONG



* Happy from Despicable Me 2

* Let It Go from Frozen

* The Moon Song from Her



PRODUCTION DESIGN



* Gravity

* Her



SOUND EDITING



* Gravity

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug



SOUND MIXING



* Gravity

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug



VISUAL EFFECTS



* Gravity

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

* Iron Man 3

* The Lone Ranger

* Star Trek Into Darkness



Full list:Observations:



* No nom for Tom Hanks (with two strong possibilities)? Saving Mr. Banks was also shut out in acting noms

* The Lone Ranger was nominated twice

* Not much love for Her, the purest science fiction movie we've seen in some time: no acting or directing noms (although it did get a song nom and a deserved Production Design nom and original screenplay)

* Not even technical noms for the highest domestic grossing movie of the year, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire?

* Pixar: not nominated for Animated Feature

* No nominations at all for Lee Daniels' The Butler

* The nominated movie you haven't seen yet, but that you'll have to see to be acompletest: Alone Yet Not Alone



We also track movie box office. What 2013 Oscar nominated movies were also box office successes? Here are the results for the top ten (at time of writing some movies are still growing their domestic grosses):



* Iron Man 3 (#2, behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) got one nomination (Visual Effects)

* Despicable Me 2 (#3) got two (Animated Feature, Original Song)

* Frozen (#4) got two (Animated Feature, Original Song)

* Gravity (#7) gotten (Best Picture, Best Actress, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Music - Original Score, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects)

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (#8) got three (Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects)



Shut out: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (#1); Man of Steel (#5); Monsters University (#6); Fastand Oz the Great and Powerful (#10)



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