JASON'S BEST: If I Voted For The Oscars 2010 (Return to Jason's Best Main Page)


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Here's the detailed list of my Oscar choices for 2010, if I were allowed to vote -- my choice for the winner is in bold -- in addition, I have also included a few additional categories worth mentioning...


The Social Network, The Best Film of 2010

BEST PICTURE
Black Swan
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The Social Network
Toy Story 3

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges in True Grit
Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine
Colin Firth in The King's Speech
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
James Franco in 127 Hours

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine
Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale in The Fighter
Andrew Garfield in The Social Network
Jeremy Renner in The Town
Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams in The Fighter
Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Mila Kunis in Black Swan
Blake Lively in The Town
Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
David Fincher for The Social Network
Christopher Nolan for Inception
Ben Affleck for The Town
David O. Russell for The Fighter

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Black Swan
The Fighter
The Kids Are All Right
Inception
The King's Speech

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Shutter Island
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
Winter's Bone
The Town

BEST MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
Clint Mansell for Black Swan
Atticus Ross for The Book of Eli
Alexandre Desplat for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
Daft Punk for Tron: Legacy
Hans Zimmer for Inception
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network

BEST MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
"Alice" from Alice in Wonderland -- Performed by Avril Lavigne
"Bound to You" from Burlesque -- Performed by Cristina Aguilera
"Be The One" from The Next Three Days -- Performed by Moby
"I Remain" from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time -- Performed by Alanis Morissette
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours -- Performed by Dido & A.R. Rahman
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 -- Performed by Randy Newman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan
Inception
Shutter Island
The Social Network
True Grit

BEST FILM EDITING
Black Swan
Inception
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
Shutter Island
The Social Network

BEST ART DIRECTION
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Inception
Shutter Island
The King's Speech

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
The King's Speech
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
True Grit

BEST MAKEUP
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1

BEST SOUND MIXING
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
Inception
Shutter Island
The Social Network

BEST SOUND EFFECTS EDITING
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
Inception
Tron: Legacy

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
Inception
Iron Man 2
Tron: Legacy

BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
The Fighter
Inception
Shutter Island
The Social Network

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Toy Story 3

BEST SCENE OR SEQUENCE IN A 2010 MOTION PICTURE
The spinning hallway fight in shifting gravity in Inception
Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) continually hitting refresh after friend requesting the woman he once dated at the end of The Social Network
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) comforting Hermione (Emma Watson) with a dance in the midst of the madness in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1
Nina (Natalie Portman) in her final performance, actually becoming the Black Swan on stage in Black Swan
The toys starting a new life with the young girl as they watch Andy's car drive off at the end in Toy Story 3

BEST FILM QUOTE OF THE YEAR
"Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange" from Inception
"Dating you is like dating a StairMaster. It's exhausting." from The Social Network
"Because this isn't about connection for you. This isn't even about sex for you. This is about finding an hour or two of relief from the pain of being you. And that's fine with me, see, because all I want is the exact same thing." from Love and Other Drugs
"Youth is wasted on the young. I'd go further. I'd go: Life is wasted on people." from Greenberg
"Marriage is hard... Just two people slogging through the shit, year after year, getting older, changing. It's a fucking marathon, okay? So, sometimes, you know, you're together for so long, that you just... You stop seeing the other person. You just see weird projections of your own junk. Instead of talking to each other, you go off the rails and act grubby and make stupid choices." from The Kids Are All Right

BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
Black Swan
The Book of Eli
Inception
Iron Man 2
The Social Network

BEST MOVIE POSTER
Black Swan

Inception
Inside Job
Love & Other Drugs
The Social Network

DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR: BEST INDEPENDENT FEATURE FILM/DOCUMENTARY
Inside Job
Restrepo

DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR: BEST INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM
Idiot with a Tripod aka Man in a Blizzard (directed by Jamie Stuart)
Tokyo/Glow (directed by Jonathan Bensimon)