My Oscar 2012 Prediction

A few hours from now, American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts or Sciences (AMPAS) or simply called the Oscar will be recognizing the movies of 2011 from directing, writing, acting to technical achievements. Oscar Award has been an annual gathering of known actors and movie personalities since 1929 and since then it has been dubbed as the mother of all the film awards. For movie geek like me it is just too hard to miss the show or not be informed about the winners. Due to US simulcast I often time miss the live award, but thanks to online blogs and news that feature the result real-time. So without further ado here is my own list of Oscar Winners.

Best Picture is "Hugo"

This is the first Oscar that I was able to watch all the Best Picture Nominated films before the actual award. I took time watching all of them and despite the mixed reviews of critics and movie-sites users I still fine all the nine films nominated worthy of the award (yes even the least favorite Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close). Due to other awards given the multi-awarded nearly-silent French film "The Artist" is most likely to run home with the biggest award, but I'd still like Martin Scorsese's Hugo to win. It's because I like the entirety of the film, a real output of Scorsese's passion in film making can be seen. It touches the important aspects of life; purpose, change, love and passion. No other film from the list that has shown what Hugo presented. Here is my ranking of the all the nine films: 1. Hugo 2. Midnight In Paris 3. The Artist 4. War Horse 5. The Help 6. The Descendants 7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 8. Moneyball 9. Tree of Life

Best Director is Martin Scorsese

Best Actor is George Clooney

Best Actress is Viola Davis

Best Supporting Actor is Christopher Plummer

Best Supporting Actress is Octavia Spencer

Best Original Screenplay is A Separation

Best Adapted Screenplay is Hugo

Best Animated Film is Rango

Best Foreign Film is A Separation

Best Cinematography is War Horse

Best Editing is The Artist

Best Art Direction is The Artist

Best in Costume Design is The Artist

Best in Makeup is Albert Nobbs

Best in Original Score is War Horse

Best in Original Song is The Muppets

Best in Sound Mixing is Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best in Sound Editing is Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best in Visual Effects is Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Hugo Is A Precious Gift From Martin Scorsese

At last for quite a while now a movie has finally inspired me to write a full review again. I just couldn't let all the positive thoughts about this film pass me by without sharing it. I'm talking about a splendid creation of a movie legend Martin Scorsese called Hugo. Unlike his other movies, Scorsese took another path of making magic in film creation and he did it with dashing style, something panache as the word even uttered in the movie itself.

The story centers on a little boy Hugo Cabret (starred by Asa Butterfield) as he finds the message of his deceased father (Jude Law) from a broken automaton. He spends his day searching for the missing piece of the machine while winding the clocks on the train station where he lives and met Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), the granddaughter of a toy shop owner George Milies (Ben Kingsley). Hugo and Isabelle soon discovered something extraordinary that lead to his father's work.

Besides the mystery of the automaton, the movie features another great piece of work that made the whole thing more than a masterpiece. It's the story of a person behind the acclaimed 1902 film A Trip To The Moon which I actually watched several months ago. I appreciate the classic film more after watching this movie and made me admire Scorsese even more. Everything in this film will really linger, each character even the small ones will be remembered as it served its purpose, big or small just like what the whole message of the film is all about. Just what Isabelle said in the film "Thank you for the movie today, it was a gift", Hugo is a precious gift that we always be thankful of, and for hundred of years the magic of this film will always remain.