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The D@2 Academy Awards Predictions

Feb 3rd

Posted by Benutty in Posts by Benutty

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Dinosaurs, everyone in the world thinks the Grammys sucked BFD and so we’re moving on and looking ahead to the cream of the crop when it comes to awards season – los awardos academios. Each of us saw every single movie nominated in every single category this year so we know what we’re talking about. But let’s see who at D@2 can get the most predictions right (we left out all the snooze-fest categories like sound editing)!

We’ve marked our predictions for who we think will win this year at the Oscars — (please keep in mind that these votes don’t necessarily coincide with who we think should win, we have better taste than our predictions might represent).

Best Picture

  • Avatar – nick gary jr.
  • The Blind Side
  • District 9
  • An Education
  • The Hurt Locker – benutty
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • A Serious Man
  • Precious
  • Up
  • Up in the Air

Best Director

  • Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) – benutty gary jr.
  • James Cameron (Avatar) - nick
  • Lee Daniels (Precious)
  • Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
  • Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Actor

  • Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) – benutty gary jr.
  • George Clooney (Up in the Air)
  • Colin Firth (A Single Man) – nick
  • Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
  • Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress

  • Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) – benutty nick
  • Helen Mirren (The Last Station) – gary jr.
  • Carey Mulligan (An Education)
  • Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
  • Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Matt Damon (Invictus)
  • Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
  • Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
  • Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) – nick
  • Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) – benutty gary jr.

Best Supporting Actress

  • Penélope Cruz (Nine)
  • Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
  • Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
  • Mo’Nique (Precious) – benutty nick gary jr.

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal) – nick
  • Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) – benutty gary jr.
  • The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)
  • A Serious Man (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
  • Up (Bob Peterson and Pete Docter)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
  • An Education (Nick Hornby)
  • In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche)
  • Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher) – nick
  • Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner) – benutty gary jr.

Best Animated Feature

  • Coraline
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox - gary jr.
  • The Princess and the Frog – nick
  • The Secret of Kells
  • Up - benutty

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Ajami (Israel)
  • El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
  • The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
  • A Prophet (France)
  • The White Ribbon (Germany) – benutty nick gary jr.

Best Documentary Feature

  • Burma VJ
  • The Cove – benutty
  • Food, Inc. – nick gary jr.
  • The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
  • Which Way Home

Best Original Score

  • Avatar (James Horner) - gary jr.
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat) – benutty
  • The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Beck Sanders)
  • Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
  • Up (Michael Giacchino) – nick

Best Original Song

  • “Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman) – nick
  • “Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman)
  • “Loin de Paname” from Paris 36 (Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas)
  • “Take It All” from Nine (Maury Yeston)
  • “Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart (Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett) - gary jr. benutty

Best Art Direction

  • Avatar – nick
  • The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  • Nine – benutty gary jr.
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • The Young Victoria

Best Cinematography

  • Avatar
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • The Hurt Locker – benutty
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • The White Ribbon – nick gary jr.

Best Makeup

  • Il Divo
  • Star Trek – benutty nick gary jr.
  • The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design

  • Bright Star – benutty
  • Coco Before Chanel – gary jr.
  • The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  • Nine – nick
  • The Young Victoria

Best Visual Effects

  • Avatar – benutty nick gary jr.
  • District 9
  • Star Trek

GOOD LUCK, WHOREBAGS!

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The Scrammys

Feb 1st

Posted by Benutty in Posts by Benutty

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Ok, we all agree that the Grammys this year were bullshit. No one believes that Saylor Twift really deserves Album of the Year. And I’m still trying to figure out who the fuck Kings of Leon are — when I Google their name all I get are Twitter feeds about how #gagawasrobbed. Oh, and although I am (and I think I stand alone on this one here at D@2) a fan of Beyonce, I don’t think Single Ladies should have even been nominated for Song of the Year — it should have been Record. Blah.

But the most disappointing part of the whole thing comes in two parts. Part 1: GaGa gets shut out of the Big 3 categories. Part 2: They didn’t even air the categories she did win in! Hello, the only reason anyone watched was to see GaGa’s performance and to check out her outfit while she gave a shout out to her gay fans in her acceptance speech! Frankly, GaGa was treated poorly by the producers of the show and they should all be shot.

Highlights?

Obvi, GaGa’s amazing performance with Elton John. Still a little disappointed that GaGa and Beyonce didn’t perform Telephone together, but it’s crazy that I never thought of putting Elton and GaGa together. It truly was magical, and enlightening to see how clearly Speechless is inspired by Elton’s music. Let’s face it, all these other bitches are fake GaGas trying to wear their faux Haus of GaGa outfits and their space-age rip-off performances (see: Black Eyed Peas backup dancers in red GaGa suits).

Bullshit.

Pink tore it up, too. Loved when she pissed all over the audience.

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