Ok, so it’s on. Just 33 days till Oscars and nominations are now out. Nothing really surprising for the most part. So lets quickly go over my expectations from what I’ve seen last year.

The Social Network should and will most probably take home Oscar for best adapted screenplay, director, music and probably editing. As far as best movie goes, I’ll abstain myself from any predictions there. Most of the nominees have deserved it (tho I’m still doubting about Kids Are All Right after seeing it few days ago, but w/e).

My second favorite this year Black Swan will probably earn Oscar for Natalie Portman… and sadly thats about it. Tho I love it to bits, its more like heart and mind thing - your mind says it won’t be the one. But, oh, how I would like to see Daren Aronofsky going home with Oscar this year. He has never disappointed me.

The Kings Speech will most definitely get an Oscar for Colin Firths amazing performance as stuttering king George IV and also most probably one for Geoffrey Rush in supporting role. Those two made one of the best on screen duos this year. Tho I wouldn’t be to disappointed if Christian Bale won it for his role in The Fighter.

Another of my favorites, True Grit. Well, I see it earning Oscar for Hailee Steinfeld as best supporting actress, and possibly for best art direction and costume design. Tho both those nominations are rather… unimpressive.

Lastly onto special effects category, which leaves me bit lost. Only possible winner is see here is Inception. Other had either mediocre effects or… or… I don’t know. I mean, Alice In Wonderland and Iron Man… Yawn. Where’s Tron: Legacy and Scott Pilgrim? And, actually, where’s Scott Pilgrim in film editing category? But anyhow - when it comes to special effects it wouldn’t be the first time for some weird choices when it comes to academy. Remember the year Golden Compass won over Transformers?

There are some more categories, but this was what I mostly had to say about it all. Looking forward to another Oscar night on big screen this year.

According to latest press release from FOX they are releasing some of their screeners, namely 127 Hours, Black Swan and Conviction on iTunes for SAG members to download. While I pretty well know all three of those movies have leaked already, I sure as hell would like to see Black Swan in highdef and with at least some 100’000 members having access to those screeners I’m thinking there will be at least one dare devil/moron to his version up on torrents or whatever.

Oh man, oh boy, oh man, oh boy. Black Swan was perfect… It was perfect. On pretty much every level. To the point that I almost felt the discomfort of loosing ones mind. Even tho it’s only been few hours since I saw it, I have a feeling it’ll haunt me for the next few days at the least, like every Aronofsky’s movie. And as such it definitely rates as one of (I would even say “the”) this years most impressive movies for me. Also kinda predict at least Oscar nomination for Portman as every little detail about her performance was flawless.

Just came to conclusion that as I’m overtly happy these days, I should organize Aronofsky movie marathon…

Oh, and, of course, lets not forget that scene ^^