{"id":4469,"date":"2013-01-10T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2013-02-09T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T16:43:04","slug":"oscar-nominations-my-own-two-bits-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/01\/oscar-nominations-my-own-two-bits-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar nominations — my own two bits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>The Academy<\/a> has spoken, and it looks like Steven Spielberg\u2019s Lincoln<\/a><\/i> will be the big winner when the final envelopes are opened on February 24.<\/p>\n

All the usual indicators point in that direction, at any rate. It has the most nominations. It is one of only two Best Picture nominees whose directors were also nominated for the Directors Guild Award<\/a> (the other such film being Ang Lee\u2019s Life of Pi<\/i>). It was nominated for Best Film Editing<\/a>. And, perhaps just as importantly, it is a box-office hit in a year when the Oscar will probably go to a box-office hit. (More on that in a later post.)<\/p>\n

Everyone and his dog will have something to say about the top nominees in the days and weeks to come, and I\u2019d rather not duplicate all that right now. I do, however, want to comment on three trends that stand out to me this morning:<\/p>\n

First, Skyfall<\/a><\/i> is the first James Bond film since For Your Eyes<\/i> (1981) to be nominated for anything<\/i>, and it is only the second film in the series, following The Spy Who Loved Me<\/i> (1977), to receive multiple<\/i> nominations. No Bond film has actually won<\/i> an Oscar, however, since Thunderball<\/i> (1965) got one for Best Visual Effects.<\/p>\n

Second, the Hobbit<\/i> prequels now have one more thing in common with the Star Wars<\/i> prequels<\/a>, namely, whereas the original trilogy got quite a bit of attention from the Academy, the prequels are being all but ignored<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Third, the Best Animated Feature category is especially interesting this year. Disney was shut out of the category entirely last year, but this year it has three of the nominees, whereas DreamWorks \u2014 the studio that won the first-ever Best Animated Feature award eleven years ago \u2014 was left out in the cold. Not only that, but the Academy nominated three (three!) stop-motion films in this category, including the relatively little-seen The Pirates! Band of Misfits<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure other thoughts will occur to me over the next few weeks. In the meantime, here are the films that have been nominated for Oscars, ranked from those with the most nods to those with only one. The titles of those I have seen are in bold:<\/p>\n

12 nominations:<\/b><\/p>\n