Okay, normally I sick to just comedy, but here and there I post something that’s going to get my website a bunch of hits. Well turns out all of America wants to see who did the best job pretending to be someone else. And I’d like to capitalize on the high search volume. So in the exact order that I found on another website–which I plan to beat in SEO ranking–these are the nominees.
Complete list of 84th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:
- Best Picture: “The Artist,” ‘’The Descendants,” ‘’Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” ‘’The Help,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’Midnight in Paris,” ‘’Moneyball,” ‘’The Tree of Life,” ‘’War Horse.”
- Actor: Demian Bichir, “A Better Life”; George Clooney, “The Descendants”; Jean Dujardin, “The Artist”; Gary Oldman, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”; Brad Pitt, “Moneyball.”
- Actress: Glenn Close, “Albert Nobbs”; Viola Davis, “The Help”; Rooney Mara, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”; Meryl Streep, “The Iron Lady”; Michelle Williams, “My Week With Marilyn.”
- Supporting Actor: Kenneth Branagh, “My Week With Marilyn”; Jonah Hill, “Moneyball”; Nick Nolte, “Warrior”; Christopher Plummer, “Beginners”; Max von Sydow, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.”
- Supporting Actress: Berenice Bejo, “The Artist”; Jessica Chastain, “The Help”; Melissa McCarthy, “Bridesmaids”; Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs”; Octavia Spencer, “The Help.”
- Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”; Alexander Payne, “The Descendants”; Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”; Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”; Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life.”
- Foreign Language Film: “Bullhead,” Belgium; “Footnote,” Israel; “In Darkness,” Poland; “Monsieur Lazhar,” Canada; “A Separation,” Iran.
- Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, “The Descendants”; John Logan, “Hugo”; George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, “The Ides of March”; Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, “Moneyball”; Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
- Original Screenplay: Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”; Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, “Bridesmaids”; J.C. Chandor, “Margin Call”; Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”; Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation.”
- Animated Feature Film: “A Cat in Paris”; “Chico & Rita”; “Kung Fu Panda 2”; “Puss in Boots”; “Rango.”
- Art Direction: “The Artist,” ‘’Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’Midnight in Paris,” ‘’War Horse.”
- Cinematography: “The Artist,” ‘’The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’The Tree of Life,” ‘’War Horse.”
- Sound Mixing: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’Moneyball,” ‘’Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” ‘’War Horse.”
- Sound Editing: “Drive,” ‘’The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” ‘’War Horse.”
- Original Score: “The Adventures of Tintin,” John Williams; “The Artist,” Ludovic Bource; “Hugo,” Howard Shore; “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Alberto Iglesias; “War Horse,” John Williams.
- Original Song: “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets,” Bret McKenzie; “Real in Rio” from “Rio,” Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett.
- Costume: “Anonymous,” ‘’The Artist,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’Jane Eyre,” ‘’W.E.”
- Documentary Feature: “Hell and Back Again,” ‘’If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” ‘’Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” ‘’Pina,” ‘’Undefeated.”
- Documentary (short subject): “The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement,” ‘’God Is the Bigger Elvis,” ‘’Incident in New Baghdad,” ‘’Saving Face,” ‘’The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom.”
- Film Editing: “The Artist,” ‘’The Descendants,” ‘’The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’Moneyball.”
- Makeup: “Albert Nobbs,” ‘’Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,” ‘’The Iron Lady.”
- Animated Short Film: “Dimanche/Sunday,” ‘’The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,” ‘’La Luna,” ‘’A Morning Stroll,” ‘’Wild Life.”
- Live Action Short Film: “Pentecost,” ‘’Raju,” ‘’The Shore,” ‘’Time Freak,” ‘’Tuba Atlantic.”
- Visual Effects: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,” ‘’Hugo,” ‘’Real Steel,” ‘’Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” ‘’Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”
Now back to my normal blogs,
Daniel Dickey
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the airport). We ate the country’s traditional dish (casado) in an open breezy restaurant and then trekked around for several miles until we found our hostel (if you’re looking for traditional cuisine always avoid the restaurant filled with tourist. Odds are any restaurant filled with white people is the Fuddruckers of that county). That night we continued to gorge ourselves on local foods all while getting drunk on Imperial beer and shots of guaro (liquor made from sugar cane) for 
Day Three: After a long night of one of the girls trying to convince us that we all needed to sleep in the same bed to ward off spiders, we were up at 7:00am to catch a ride to Monteverde (the land-boat-land for $18 was booked, so we took a city bus for $2-$3). It stops in Tilaran for two hours. Tilaran is a really small town and might have been the place they film The Hills Have Eyes, but we managed to survived, all while switching from Imperial beer to Pilsen–another local made brew (it tasted like Miller Lite with a Spanish accent). Tilaran was another two hours of farm land and mountains to Monteverde, but totally worth it. Instead of doing a tour that day we hiked around on our own and took pictures of a sloth hanging around on telephone wires. That night was in downtown Monteverde (downtown is two and a half streets) debating which restaurant to eat at and which ones to wish we ate at after we were already full. I think we drank wine after that.
we needed a night away from hostel bugs). The cabin had bigger bugs than any place we stayed on the trip (well, except for the five-inch grasshopper I found and saved at the airport). We hopped on another bus and started driving out of the mountain towards Liberia. Thirty minutes later our bus broke down. We waited for a second bus and ten minutes after getting on that bus, it too broke down. From there all I remember is smoking pot with some nine-year-old Costa Rican boys and waking up in a hotel four hours north of where our second bus broke down. There was only one bed–obviously another way to fend off spiders–and a bathroom with a window by the shower. I showered while looking out for peeing Tom’s. (In Spanish countries is it peeing Jaun’s?) And then the girls and I, tired from the last four 18-hour days, dressed and walked to the nicest Burger King we’ve ever seen in our lives and ate chicken tenders until our stomachs exploded.
