The Oscars start today at 5pm PST and it has the potential to be a good show. I’m looking forward to see how James Franco and Anne Hathaway, two of the youngest hosts to ever present and the first onstage male-female pairing, perform. Franco can be hilarious when he wants to be; Hathaway is a good actress but a question mark as a host. And you never know how the Academy Awards writing team will botch their potential.
Expect lots of “I should win for 127 Hours jokes” and “Love and Other Drugs not being nominated jokes” from the pair.
But more importantly, there are some great films competing for top honors. Despite The Social Network‘s dominance through much of Oscar season, buzz has shifted to The King’s Speech – which has the potential to run the table. As a reminder, in our top ten movies of 2010, we selected The King’s Speech as our #2 film only behind Black Swan – and The Social Network at #7. We’ll know early on whether The King’s Speech will rule the day, but if it doesn’t there are some categories that have the potential to be competitive (they also have the potential to be predictable, too).
Here are FilmJabber’s Oscar predictions for 2011:
- Best Picture – The King’s Speech
- (but Black Swan deserves to win)
- Best Director – David Fincher, The Social Network
- (but Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan, deserves to win)
- Best Actor in a Leading Role – Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Natalie Portman, Black Swan
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Christian Bale, The Fighter
- (but Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech, could pull off an upset)
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
- (but Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit, deserves to win)
- Best Original Screenplay – The King’s Speech
- Best Adapted Screenplay – The Social Network
- Best Foreign Language Film – Incendies (this category is just a wild guess)
- Best Documentary, Feature Length – Exit Through the Gift Shop
- Best Animated Picture – Toy Story 3
- (but How to Train Your Dragon deserves to win)
- Best Art Direction – Inception
- (but I fear Alice in Wonderland might win this category)
- Best Cinematography – Inception
- Best Costume Design – Alice in Wonderland
- Best Film Editing – The Social Network
- (but 127 Hours deserves to win)
- Best Makeup – I have no f**king clue (The Wolfman?)
- Best Original Score – The King’s Speech
- Best Original Song – Toy Story 3
- Best Sound Mixing – Inception
- Best Sound Editing – Inception
- Best Visual Effects – Inception
- (if Hereafter wins I’m going to kill myself and then you)
- Best Documentary Short – I plead the fifth (no, that’s not a movie title)
- Best Animated Short – Day & Night
- Best Live-Action Short – The Confession
View a full list of 2010 Academy Award nominees.
