• Avatar
  • An Education
  • District 9
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Invictus
  • Precious
  • A Serious Man
  • Up
  • Up in the Air

Sad that the year the Academy decides to implement it’s ten picture category is a year where 10 Oscar-y films are actually hard to come by. My reasoning: in what other year would a film like Star Trek be a contender (I still don’t think it would make it because three sci-fi best pic nominees is a stretch because the Academy doesn’t even usually go for one. I would even say that even if it were just five, there’s still aren’t enough films! The locks are of course Avatar (or as it’s more fun to say “Aaavadar”), Hurt Locker, Basterds, Precious and Up in the Air.  The rest is totally filler. Also, I’m not going to bother predicting acting/writing etc awards because I don’t see any surprises. I hope I’m wrong.

Possible: Star Trek (what?! WHAT!!!), The Hangover, Julie and Julia, The Blind Side. Damn.

Hoping for: Well, only three of seven probable nominees are any good so how about anything other than what’s here. Oh, maybe there’s four good ones, I’m a closeted “Precious” fan.