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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