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| Youngest Best Actress and first time nominee, Quvenzhane Wallis. Photo courtesy of zimbio.com |
Bright and early this morning, this year’s Oscar
host, Seth MacFarlane and star of the upcoming movie, The Gangster Squad, Emma Stone announced the nominees for this
year’s Oscars. If the nomination
ceremony was any indication, audiences and nominees alike should be on the edge
of their seat for what’s to come from Seth on awards night.
The nominations were pretty straightforward, although
there were a few pleasant surprises and some surprising snubs. In the Best Actress race is Quvenzhane Wallis
for Beasts of the Southern Wild. She becomes the youngest nominee ever in her
category! This is Wallis’ feature film debut and she’s a PHENOMENAL actress. Best of luck and congratulations to her! She is joined by Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook, Jessica
Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty,
Emmanuelle Riva for Amour, and Naomi
Watts for The Impossible. Beasts
of the Southern Wild is the debut for director Behn Zeitlin who is nominated
for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Though it was all good for the first timers, such
as, Riva, who is the oldest nominee in her category for the Michael Haneke
film, Amour, others were unfortunately
passed up; the first of them being Leonardo DiCaprio.
After seeing “Django Unchained,” I must say that
though I liked all of the performances, I LOVED Leonardo DiCaprio! With the screenplay, Tarantino’s direction,
and Leo’s natural talent, his role as slave master, Calvin Candie, was his moment
to shine and break away from the usual, “tortured, serious, pensive, man with a
permanent scowl on his face” roles. For
the first time, in a long time, I enjoyed and was interested in his
performance. Comedy suits him well and I
hope to see a future DiCaprio/Tarantino collaboration. Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a stellar
performance and it is unfortunate, much like last year with Michael Fassbender
in Shame, that it is greatly
overlooked. Okay, rant done. The
nominees for Best Supporting Actor, which unfortunately does not include,
DiCaprio is: Robert De Niro (my Bobby D!) for Silver Linings Playbook, Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master, Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained, Alan Arkin for Argo, and Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln.
The next two entering snub city are directors Ben
Affleck for Argo and Kathryn Bigelow
for Zero Dark Thirty. Though I have not seen these two films, many
critics predicted Affleck and Bigelow to pull nominations for Best
Director. This would have been Bigelow’s
second time to be nominated for Best Director and it would be the most
nominations for a woman director.
Instead, the category saw, Steven Spielberg for Lincoln, first time nominee Behn Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Michael Haneke for Amour, Ang Lee for Life of Pi, and David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook .
Despite these snubs, I am excited to see the
happenings of the Oscars. Will the neck and
neck race between Anne Hathaway and Sally Field in the Best Supporting Actress category, be a first win for Hathaway and a
third win for Field? Or, will the Academy hear the hoofs of a dark horse approaching? Either way, it’ll be…interesting. Here’s a link to the full list of nominees:
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