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
