We won’t be live-blogging the Academy Awards this year, for various reasons. But that doesn’t mean we can’t pick the winners, now does it? So over the next few days, we’ll look at Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor (Thursday), Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress (on Saturday), and finally Best Director/Best Film (on Oscar Sunday).
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Javier Bardem in Biutiful. Didn’t see it, but he was really creepy in No Country for Old Men. I'm sure he's equally effective here. Plus he's Penelope Cruz's baby-daddy. Ain't no moss growin' on him.
Jeff Bridges in True Grit. You sir, are no John Wayne. Besides you won last year. Don’t be greedy. And oh, yeah...Tron: Legacy. I think you owe US points.
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network. Same Jesse Eisnenberg I saw in Zombieland. He wasn’t worthy of an Oscar nomination in that one, either. Talking fast and being a dick doesn’t necessarily warrant an award these days. If it did, I’d have a mantle full of gold. If I had a mantle.
Colin Firth in The King's Speech. Best Actor for 2010, and much more deserving than that piece o’ crap he was nominated for last year. Besides, in Love Actually, he married the cute Portuguese housecleaner. That’s award-winning in my book. I mean, she didn't even speak English.
James Franco in 127 Hours. If James Franco kept gnawing off parts of himself, there would be much more of him lying around to overexpose. He can be on General Hospital, One Life to Live, AND Saturday Night Live all in the same week, when he’s not writing books and curing cancer.
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christian Bale in The Fighter. Make no mistake, Christian Bale is the real star of The Fighter. The Academy will never give him an Oscar for donning cape and cowl (even with bat ears), so here’s their chance to reward him.
John Hawkes in Winter's Bone. You know, in this film, one Ozark meth dealer pretty much looks like every other Ozark meth dealer, even the one who is the lead character’s uncle. Brother? Boyfriend?
Jeremy Renner in The Town. The bug-eyed Renner’s appeal kind of escapes me, although he was good in this. And maybe those bug eyes will come in handy as Hawkeye in The Avengers in summer 2012.
Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right. A bit too earthy-emo for me in this one, but once he’s done playing Bruce Banner in The Avengers, how about a big-screen Columbo starring him?
Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech. Rush would be the winner if it wasn’t for Bale. If he does win, that's a major early sign that Sunday night is The King's Speech's night.
Bummer that you're not doing the "Live" Oscar blogging this year. For me, it was like watching the show and having coffee with you.
Posted by: Shell | February 24, 2011 at 07:47 PM