The 82nd Annual Academy Awards Nominees

[RagnaToad]

Yeah it can. I didn't expect Jeff Bridges to receive Best male actor though, as I'd seen that the movie only got a 2/4 stars in a newspaper.

It's all for show mostly anyway. Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges got one because 'it was time', in my opinion.

Have you seen all the movies that got major awards?

[Walter Sobchak]

Yeah it can. I didn't expect Jeff Bridges to receive Best male actor though, as I'd seen that the movie only got a 2/4 stars in a newspaper.

It's all for show mostly anyway. Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges got one because 'it was time', in my opinion.

Have you seen all the movies that got major awards?

Jeff Bridges won the Critics' Choice Award and the Golden Globe. No one else had any traction. It certainly was his time. Both Clooney and Freeman have won in the last seven years, Renner is new, and Firth will be back again.

I saw nine of the Best Picture nominees, absent the Blind Side, which I will never see. I saw Crazy Heart, which was what Bridges won for. I saw the documentary winner The Cove, and likely runner-up Food Inc. I did not see the foreign language winner, only because four of those nominees did not even come out in the United States in 2009 (The White Ribbon did, and I saw it). I saw Streep in Julie & Julia, which should have won. I did not see The Messenger, with an acting and screenplay nomination, or The Last Station, with two acting nominations. I did see In the Loop, the other screenplay nominee that was not a nominee for Best Picture.

[RagnaToad]

I saw nine of the Best Picture nominees, absent the Blind Side, which I will never see.

Why not? Because of the alleged 'racist' tone of the story?

I saw Crazy Heart, which was what Bridges won for.

Was it good?

[Walter Sobchak]

Why not? Because of the alleged 'racist' tone of the story?
Was it good?

In the case of The Blind Side, it is by all appearances one of the worst movies ever made. Regarding Crazy Heart, it is a textbook mediocre character-driven drama. You literally see every turn coming twenty minutes before it comes. If it had been nominated for Best Picture, it would be better than The Blind Side, Avatar, District 9, and Precious.