See the speculated Oscar nominees on satellite TV
This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences completed its annual duty to kick off Oscar season. With the festivities officially ‘kicked off’, nominating votes are open, with a membership of nearly 6,000 people. These prestigious awards often have a controversial outcome, but for true Oscar fans, that’s just part of the fun of speculating and preparing for the lengthy awards show each year. Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of possible contenders who could be up for best picture, only ten will have the honor of a nomination, and only a select few actually have a chance of winning. Spending some time watching satellite TV before the Oscars race, especially the major award-winning movie channels, will produce a slew of movies that network officials believe have a fighting chance. Seeing the ‘big show’ is more fun when you’ve seen the movies being talked about, isn’t it? Most people don’t have time to watch all the nominated movies in the short time before they are released and the Oscars event, that means it’s time to start some speculation. With only about a month between award nominations and actual awards, there’s never a time like the present to crouch down in front of the TV and watch some of these top movies in satellite high definition.
Coming from the Disney camp, there has been a lot of push behind two movies specifically, Secretariat and Toy Story 3. Critics are generally rooting for the movie that was, and somehow still is, more anticipated than the box office numbers. I would believe The Social Network. While it may not have been a fan favorite at the movies, the internet generation and mainstream audience are probably to blame for simply downloading pirated versions of the movie and calling the movie over. Other big favorites for Best Picture include Hereafter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, Love & Other Drugs, Miral, Somewhere, The Tree of Life, The Way Back, Rabbit Hole, True Grit, Fair Game and London Boulevard. . . That list alone is a project that needs to be completed before the end of February, but if you’ve already seen most of this year’s most acclaimed movies, it may be time to move on to other lists.
The anticipated Best Director nominees aren’t throwing up anything that isn’t already on the Best Picture list, but the Best Actor and Actress categories have the likes of Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine, and Natalie Portman in Black Swan. Best Supporting Actor features some originals with Bill Murray in Get Low, Rebecca Hall in The Town and Naomi Watts in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
As with any other Oscar year, there are a number of iterations that make the list of what to watch more manageable. Just to make sure you don’t miss a thing, try a combination of Internet and satellite TV research, looking for the best movie channels. Within a week or two, you will have seen every possible Oscar nominee on the list and can declare yourself a true Oscar expert!