Rather than choose between a book and a comic, I’m going to choose one of each.
Winona Ryder starred in the film, but it was Angelina Jolie’s coming out party, and she took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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And The Oscar Goes To
Tonight is the 84th annual Academy Awards. Here are my predictions:
Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Of the nominated films, Moneyball is the only one I’ve seen. I think The Artist takes home the award. It is definitely the type of film the Academy likes to reward.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir for A Better Life
George Clooney for The Descendants
Jean Dujardin for The Artist
Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt for Moneyball
Again, Brad Pitt’s performance in Moneyball is the only one I’ve seen. Clooney seems to have some momentum on his side.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
2010 Review – Movies
A likely part of the reason I only made it through 8 books last year was the 119 movies I saw, making it the 5th most prolific year of my life.
Amy Adams, Mila Kunis, and Nicolas Cage each starred in 4 films I saw, tying for the yearly lead. Bruce Willis starred in 2, giving him the all time lead with 27.
For fun, here’s a quick review of the films and what recollection, if any, I have of them. They are listed in the order I saw them.
District 9 (2009)
Aliens invade South Africa. One of the surpise hits of ’09.
Extract (2009)
Mila Kunis works with Jason Bateman at a spice factory.
Moving McAllister (2007)
Mila Kunis is some muckety-mucks daughter and some dude helps her move to get in good with the dad.
Welcome (2007)
Streak (2008)
Spleenectomy, The (2008)
Three shorts I downloaded from iTunes. Anna Faris pretended to be a doctor in the last one.