Thursday, January 26, 2012

The 84th Annual Academy Awards Nominations


The nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards have recently been released. The motion picture nominations are as follows:

BEST PICTURE
The Artist
Thomas Langmann, Producer

Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Scott Rudin, Producer

Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers

Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers

Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers

Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers

Nominees to be determined

War Horse
Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Demián Bichir
A Better Life

George Clooney

Jean Dujardin
The Artist

Gary Oldman

Brad Pitt
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Kenneth Branagh

Jonah Hill

Nick Nolte
Warrior

Christopher Plummer

Max Von Sydow
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Glenn Close

Viola Davis

Rooney Mara
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Meryl Streep

Michelle Williams
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Bérénice Bejo
The Artist

Jessica Chastain

Melissa Mccarthy

Janet McTeer

Octavia Spencer
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
A Cat in Paris
Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli

Chico & Rita
fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal

Kung Fu Panda 2
Jennifer yuh Nelson

Puss in Boots
Chris Miller

Gore Verbinski


ART DIRECTION
The Artist
Production Design: Laurence Bennett Set Decoration: Robert Gould

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2
Production Design: Stuart Craig Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan

Production Design: Dante ferretti Set Decoration: francesca Lo Schiavo

Production Design: Anne Seibel Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil

War Horse
Production Design: Rick Carter Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist
Guillaume Schiffman

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jeff Cronenweth

Robert Richardson

Emmanuel Lubezki

War Horse
Janusz Kaminski


COSTUME DESIGN
Anonymous
Lisy Christl

The Artist
Mark Bridges

Sandy Powell

Jane Eyre
Michael o’Connor

W.E.
Arianne Phillips

DIRECTING
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius

Alexander Payne

Martin Scorsese

Woody Allen

Terrence Malick


DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Hell and Back Again
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner

If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky

Pina
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel

Undefeated
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

FILM EDITING
The Artist
Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius

Kevin Tent

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall

Thelma Schoonmaker

Christopher Tellefsen



FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Bullhead
Belgium

Footnote
Israel

In Darkness
Poland

Monsieur Lazhar
Canada

A Separation
Iran

MAKEUP
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin

Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland


MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
The Adventures of TinTin
John Williams

The Artist
Ludovic Bource

Howard Shore

Alberto iglesias

War Horse
John Williams

MUSIC (Original Song)
"Man or Muppet"
The Muppets
Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie

"Real in Rio"
Rio
Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garret



SOUND EDITING
Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Ren Klyce

Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty

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

Tom fleischman and John Midgley

Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick

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

Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning

Real Steel
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg

Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett

Scott farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

WRITING
(ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat faxon & Jim Rash

Screenplay by John Logan

Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon

Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin

Screenplay by Bridget o’Connor & Peter Straughan

WRITING
(ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Artist
Written by Michel Hazanavicius

Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig

Margin Call
Written by J.C. Chandor

Written by Woody Allen

A Separation
Written by Asghar Farhadi


To view the nominations by film order, visit this link - 84th Oscar Nominees by Picture, and click 'View by Film'.

To view the nominations press release, watch the Press Release video below...


Some of these nominated films have already been reviewed or rated - search for them using the 'tags' section or the search box. From now until the Awards ceremony on February 26th (27th in Aus), jhunterfilmreviews will attempt at reviewing the rest of the 46 nominated films.

To view the 84th Academy Awards trailer, watch it below...