So you might have noticed I’m an Oscar fan. This is the last weekend to see the Oscar-nominated animated & live action shorts at the E St. Theatre, and I highly recommend the animated shorts if you want some levity in your life right now. If serious, formal cinema is more your thing, check out National Geographic’s (1600 M St.) Global Glimpses series, where you can see the Oscar nominated foreign-films (though many of them are selling out fast!)
But watching movies in preparation for next Sunday’s Oscars isn’t the only thing I want to recommend to you, dear readers! We’re throwing an Oscar party here at the Blo’! You have until noon, March 7th, the day of the 82 Annual Academy Awards, to email me at kat@foboblo.com with the provided Oscar ballot filled out. If you win the pool, you win a $25 gift certificate to E St. Theatre. If we have a tie, then I will randomly select the winner from the top contenders. So get to filling out the ballot and enter to win! Tell all your friends! Only 8 days left!
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BEST PICTURE
[ ] Avatar
[ ] The Blind Side
[ ] District 9
[ ] An Education
[ ] The Hurt Locker
[ ] Inglourious Basterds
[ ] Precious
[ ] A Serious Man
[ ] Up
[ ] Up in the Air
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
[ ] Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
[ ] George Clooney, Up in the Air
[ ] Colin Firth, A Single Man
[ ] Morgan Freeman, Invictus
[ ] Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
[ ] Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
[ ] Helen Mirren, The Last Station
[ ] Carey Mulligan, An Education
[ ] Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
[ ] Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
[ ] Matt Damon, Invictus
[ ] Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
[ ] Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
[ ] Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
[ ] Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
[ ] Penélope Cruz, Nine
[ ] Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
[ ] Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
[ ] Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
[ ] Mo’Nique, Precious
DIRECTOR
[ ] Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
[ ] James Cameron, Avatar
[ ] Lee Daniels, Precious
[ ] Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
[ ] Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
[ ] Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
[ ] Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, The Messenger
[ ] Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
[ ] Pete Docter, Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy, Up
[ ] Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
[ ] Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche, In the Loop
[ ] Neill Bloomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9
[ ] Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
[ ] Nick Hornby, An Education
[ ] Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
ANIMATED FEATURE
[ ] Coraline
[ ] Fantastic Mr. Fox
[ ] The Princess and the Frog
[ ] The Secret of Kells
[ ] Up
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
[ ] El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina)
[ ] Un Prophete (France)
[ ] The White Ribbon (Germany)
[ ] Ajami (Israel)
[ ] The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
[ ] Burma VJ
[ ] The Cove
[ ] Food, Inc.
[ ] The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
[ ] Which Way Home
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
[ ] China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
[ ] The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
[ ] The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
[ ] Music by Prudence
[ ] Rabbit à la Berlin
SHORT FILM – ANIMATED
[ ] French Roast
[ ] Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
[ ] The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
[ ] Logorama
[ ] A Matter of Loaf and Death
SHORT FILM – LIVE ACTION
[ ] The Door
[ ] Instead of Abracadabra
[ ] Kavi
[ ] Miracle Fish
[ ] The New Tenants
ORIGINAL SCORE
[ ] Avatar
[ ] Fantastic Mr. Fox
[ ] The Hurt Locker
[ ] Sherlock Holmes
[ ] Up
ORIGINAL SONG
[ ] “Almost There,” The Princess and the Frog
[ ] “Down in New Orleans,” The Princess and the Frog
[ ] “Loin de Paname,” Paris 36
[ ] “Take It All,” Nine
[ ] “The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart
ART DIRECTION
[ ] Avatar
[ ] The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
[ ] Nine
[ ] Sherlock Holmes
[ ] The Young Victoria
CINEMATOGRAPHY
[ ] Avatar
[ ] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
[ ] The Hurt Locker
[ ] Inglourious Basterds
[ ] The White Ribbon
COSTUME DESIGN
[ ] Bright Star
[ ] Coco Before Chanel
[ ] The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
[ ] Nine
[ ] The Young Victoria
MAKEUP
[ ] Il Divo
[ ] Star Trek
[ ] The Young Victoria
SOUND MIXING
[ ] Avatar
[ ] The Hurt Locker
[ ] Inglourious Basterds
[ ] Star Trek
[ ] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
SOUND EDITING
[ ] Avatar
[ ] The Hurt Locker
[ ] Inglourious Basterds
[ ] Star Trek
[ ] Up
VISUAL EFFECTS
[ ] Avatar
[ ] District 9
[ ] Star Trek
FILM EDITING
[ ] Avatar
[ ] District 9
[ ] The Hurt Locker
[ ] Inglourious Basterds
[ ] Precious
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