And on with PART II...
Best Documentary
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg
and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home
A heavily stacked category, but I’m going with The Cove, a clandestine examination of annual Japanese slaughter of dolphins and the efforts that former Flipper-trainer Ric O’Barry has taken to expose the practice.
Best Documentary - Short Feature
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Lost Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin
A tough category again, especially since I haven’t seen any of these, and know little about them, but I’m going to go with China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province.
Best Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
My gut is with Basterds again, if for no other reason than the dread-filled build-up of the cabin scene at the beginning of the film. It would be nice to see The Hurt Locker or District 9 on the podium as well.
Best Foreign Film
Ajami, Israel
El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
The Milk Of Sorrow, Peru
Un Prophete, France
The White Ribbon, Germany
Some dark and heavy subject matter in the foreign films category this year. I’m leaning towards The White Ribbon, but I think it’s a pretty tight race.
Best Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria
Star Trek by a hair, although this category often favours period makeup over creature prosthetics, so…
Best Original Score
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Sherlock Holmes
Up!
Michael Ginacchino for Up! Zimmer had some fun with Sherlock Holmes and Fantastic Mr. Fox is playful, but Up! Has it all for the win.
Best Original Song
"Almost There", The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
"Down in New Orleans", The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
"Loin de Paname", Paris 36, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas
"Take it All", Nine, Maury Weston
"The Weary Kind", Crazy Heart, Ryan Bingham & T-Bone Burnett
"The Weary Kind". Not sure why I like it for the win, but that’s my call.
Best Animated Short Film
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
A Matter of Loaf and Death, created by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, UK (my former stomping grounds). For those of you unaware, it’s a Wallace and Gromit short, which is always a good thing.
Best Live Action Short Film
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
I don’t see The Lake on this list… Weird. Again, I never know with this category, but I’m going to go with Kavi.
Best Sound Editing
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Up!
It will probably be Avatar, although there isn’t a bad pick in the bunch. The Hurt Locker or Star Trek could pull an upset, but this one is Avatar.
Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Just to shake things up, I’ll go with The Hurt Locker on this one. Go ahead, tell me I’m hedging my bets, but that’s my call.
Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Avatar. Loved the work done in District 9, but Cameron spent 10 years getting this one right and really did create a whole new world.
Make sure you come back on March 8 for my recap. I’m shooting for an A+ this year…
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