84th Annual Oscar Nominations Are In And THE ARTIST Isn't Nominated For Everything (But The Academy Still Snubs Good Movies)!

Earlier today, The Academy came out with their nominations for their prestigious Oscar awards.
And usually we don't care too much about these, but for the sake of being legit, we figured we'd include some thing about it.

 Hit the jump to hear our thoughts.

Javi: If anything, my personal fascination with the Oscars is seeing how "safe"(that is still giving love to Oscar baits) they play it, and yet The Academy wants/tries to appeal to the mainstream audience with movies they might have heard of. What's funny is that when I talk to people that think COWBOYS AND ALIENS was a good movie, they tell me that most of the time they never pay attention to the Oscars. With that being said, just like money does not equal popularity, the Oscars don't mean always mean quality since they are mired by politics. The nominations are both surprising and, for the most part, very safe.

It's a very conflicting stance, not caring while at the same time wanting to root for your favorite movie. I for one am very excited for the inclusion of HUGO in just about every other category. But not much else. The thing with the Oscars is that people are only interested as long as THEIR movies are the ones that are winning. Already on the Internet you hear of Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling snobs, and I say lighten up dudes because most REAL movie fans don't care for these awards. Think about how THE SOCIAL NETWORK, BLACK SWAN, and other movies that actually became more culturally prominent instead of last year's winner THE KING'S SPEECH. That's one of the reasons why I have gone from disdain to apathy. I'll probably be drunkenly live-tweeting this nonsense, mostly because it's tradition at this point. Apart from, that I won't be caring too much.


Jonesy: I would love to say that I was shocked at some of the nominees this year, but really, I wasn't. Looking at the movies themselves, most are the typical, boring films that the Academy loves. I could rant and rave at all the nominations I think are ridiculous or the snubs (nothing for 50/50 or MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE? Okay I'm finished), but instead I'll focus on the ones that I am thoroughly joyed are there.

First, I'm thrilled the Academy cut the Pixar cord because really was no coherent reason for CARS 2 to come anywhere near this list. Even though I haven't seen TINKER TAILOR, the simple fact that Gary Oldman is nominated is enough for me. He's one of the best character actors working that does not get the love he deserves. And I'm with my cohort in that I'm thrilled HUGO is leading the batch with 11 nominations.

And the final hell yeah from the nominations was for a foreign language film, BULLHEAD. Now, it's not so much the film that merits excitement (because I haven't seen it, so I don't have an opinion yet), but the distribution studio behind it, Drafthouse Films. Drafthouse Films is an arm of The Alamo Drafthouse, a wonderful movie theatre that we love based out of Austin. Even though the studio is less than two years old, they already seem to have a knack for finding hidden gems already. Though my favorite part of the ceremony the past couple years has been reading my twitter feed and the snarky comments from fellow bloggers. 

Full list of nominations: 

• Best Picture
• THE ARTIST
• THE DESCENDANTS
• EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
• THE HELP
• HUGO
• MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
• MONEYBALL
• THE TREE OF LIFE
• WAR HORSE
• Best Director
• Michel Hazanavicius, THE ARTIST
• Alexander Payne, THE DESCENDANTS
• Martin Scorsese, HUGO
• Woody Allen, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
• Terrence Malick, THE TREE OF LIFE
• Best Actor In a Suppporting Role
• Kenneth Branagh, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
• Jonah Hill, MONEYBALL
• Nick Nolte, WARRIOR
• Christopher Plummer, BEGINNERS
• Max von Sydow, EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
• Best Acress In a Supporting Role
• Berenice Bejo, THE ARTIST
• Jessica Chastain, THE HELP
• Mellisa McCarthy, BRIDESMAIDS
• Janet McTeer, ALBERT NOBBS
• Octavia Spencer, THE HELP
• Best Actor in a Leading Role
• Demian Bichir, A BETTER LIFE
• George Clooney, THE DESCENDANTS
• Jean Dujardin, THE ARTIST
• Gary Oldman, TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY
• Brad Pitt, MONEYBALL
• Best Actress in a Leading Role
• Glenn Close, ALBERT NOBBS
• Viola Davis, THE HELP
• Rooney Mara, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
• Meryl Streep, THE IRON LADY
• Michelle Williams, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
• Animated Feature Film
• A CAT IN PARIS, Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli
• CHICO & RITA,Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
• KUNG FU PANDA 2, Jennifer Yuh Nelson
• PUSS IN BOOTS, Chris Miller
• RANGO, Gore Verbinski
• Cinematography
• THE ARTIST, Guillaume Schiffman
• THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Jeff Cronenweth
• HUGO, Robert Richardson
• THE TREE OF LIFE, Emmanuel Lubezki
• WAR HORSE, Janusz Kaminski
• Foreign Language Film
• Belgium, BULLHEAD, Michael R. Roskam, Director
• Canada, MONSIEUR LAZHAR, Phillippe Falardeau, Director
• Iran, A SEPARATION, Asghar Farhadi, Director
• Israel, FOOTNOTE, Joseph Cedar, Director.
• Poland, IN DARKNESS, Agnieszka Holland, Director
• Music (Original Song)
• "Man or Muppet" from THE MUPPETS, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
• "Real in Rio" from RIO, Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, Lyric by Siedah Garret
• Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
• THE DESCENDANTS, Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
• HUGO, Screenplay by John Logan
• THE IDES OF MARCH, Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
• TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY, SCreenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan
• Writing (Original Screenplay)
• THE ARTIST, by Michel Hazanavicius
• BRIDESMAIDS, by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
• MARGIN CALL, by J.C. Chandor
• MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, by Woody Allen
• A SEPARATION, by Asghar Farhadi
• Art Direction
• THE ARTIST, Laurence Bennett (Production Design); Robert Gould (Set Decoration)
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2: Stuart Craig (Production Design); Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
• HUGO; Dante Ferretti (Production Design); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration)
• WAR HORSE: Rick Carter (Production Design); Lee Sandales (Set Decoration)
• Costume Design
• ANONYMOUS, Lisy Christl
• THE ARTIST, Mark Bridges
• HUGO, Sandy Powell
• JANE EYRE, Michael O’Connor
• W.E, Arianne Phillips
• Documentary Feature
• HELL AND BACK AGAIN
• IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT
• PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY
• PINA
• UNDEFEATED
• Documentary Short
• THE BARBER OF BIRMINGHAM: FOOT SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
• GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS, Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
• INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD, James Spione
• SAVING FACE, Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• THE TSUNAMI AND THE CHERRY BLOSSOM, Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen.
• Film Editing
• • THE ARTIST, Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
  • THE DESCENDANTS, Kevin Tent
  • THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
  • HUGO, Thelma Schoonmaker
  • MONEYBALL, Christopher Tellefsen
•  Best Makeup
• ALBERT NOBBS, Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2, Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
• THE IRON LADY, Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
• Music (Original Score)
• THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN, John Williams
• THE ARTIST, Ludovic Bource
• HUGO, Howard Shore
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, Alberto Iglesias
• WAR HORSE, John Williams
• Short Film (Animated)
• DIMANCHE/SUNDAY  Patrick Doyon
• THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE, William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
• LA LUNA, Enrico Casarosa
• A MORNING STROLL, Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
• WILD LIFE, Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
• Short Film (Live Action)
• PENTECOST, Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
• RAJU, Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
• THE SHORE,  Terry George and Oorlagh George
• TIME FREAK, Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
• TUBA ATLANTIC, Hallvar Witzø
• Sound Editing
• DRIVE, Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
• THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Ren Klyce
• HUGO, Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
• TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
• WAR HORSE, Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
• Sound Mixing
• THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
• HUGO, Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
• MONEYBALL, Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
• TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
• WAR HORSE, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
• Visual Effects
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2, Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
• HUGO, Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
• REAL STEEL, Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
• RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
• TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Dan Glass, Brad Friedman, Douglas Trumbull and Michael Fink

The Oscars will be airing Sunday, February 26th 7P EST/ 4 P.

Source: Oscars

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