Snagged this Banksy near 4th and La Brea. Perhaps,a nod to artist Jeff Koons and the Oscars?
Bear with me while I overwhelm you some lists. Here's the first: Tolstoy, Proust, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Borges. These are authors who never received the Nobel Prize for Literature, though the Swedish committee had numerous opportunities to recognize them. Here's another: the Beatles' "white" album, Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Aretha Franklin's Lady Soul, the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet. These are albums released the same year that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave the Grammy Award to Glen Campbell's By the Time I Get to Phoenix. My point, the good shit doesn't always win.
With that, I'm going to save you three hours and give you my own rundown on who the real winner should be:
Picture: True Grit
Life becomes one long act of remembering in this instant classic. Resurrecting and updating cinema's most time-locked genre, it lingered in my mind weeks after it was seen.
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
I love Darren Aronofsky but these smart-asses have bugged me since I saw their first feature more than 10 years ago. But only by one- Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man- their movies swallow up my computer's disk space, and True Grit may be as terrific as anything they've done. Honorable mention to David Fincher's dazzling The Social Network.
Actress: Natalie Portman
Portman remains the year's most intrepid and audacious performance physically, emotionally, and psychologically lifting Darren Aronofsky's certifiable phantasmagoria to another level.
Actor: Colin Firth
Ok, I didn't see this film. But everyone is saying Colin Firth, so I'll just jump on the bandwagon.
Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo
Anchoring a great movie that can be as good as she is, Leo commands every moment as fully as her character means to. But it could be a close call because Hailie Steinfeld (True Grit) and Amy Adams, whose bar girl in The Fighter, have grit of their own. Let's hope Leo didn't KO her chances with those ads.
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale
One one else else come close, expect perhaps the quietly powerful John Hawks in Winter's Bones.
Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin
Every good movie depends on a good script, but this movie in unimaginable without one. Sorkin is a rarity: a writer of ideas as well as a master of dialogue. Most impressive accomplishment is the creation of a central character, Zuckerberg, who sounds and thinks like no one else.
Cinematography: Black Swan
The delirious nature of Black Swan is a wonder to watch. Matthew Libatique and Aronofsky are pure magic together.
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