Thursday, February 04, 2010

Oscar-Time Is Coming!

The nominations for this year's Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday. We have some of the nominated titles for Best Picture in our collection already, as well as books that some of the films were based on!

The nominated titles for Best Motion Picture of the Year are:

Avatar.

The Blind Side. The film is based on Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis [796.332 LEW]


District 9.

An Education.

The Hurt Locker. [DVD HUR]

Inglourious Basterds. [DVD ING]

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire. Yes, that is the film's title! No, we don't have it yet on DVD, but we do own the novel [F SAP].

A Serious Man. This will be released next Tuesday on DVD; we have it on order.

Up. [DVD UP]

Up in the Air. We have the original novel, of the same name, by Walter Kirn [F KIR].

4 comments:

Julie Larios said...

Just saw THE HURT LOCKER. Whoa - what a brilliant movie, but so difficult to watch. Compelling and horrifying, and definitely Oscar-worthy! I can feel myself avoiding INGLORIOUS BASTERDS just because Tarantino has been such an adolescent lately - I don't trust his name on things anymore. Really want to see A SERIOUS MAN - thanks for the heads-up about it coming out on DVD.

Gosh. I love movies. Wish I could find someone to pay me to watch them. Not review them. Just watch them. Heaven.

Diane Mayr said...

The Hurt Locker is on my coffee table right now. I hope to watch it this weekend.

Yes, wouldn't it be great to watch movies without having any other obligation!

I'm curious, what's your all-time favorite movie?

Julie Larios said...

Ooh - one all time favorite? That's hard. Right now, off the top of my head, here are a dozen (there would be a different list, I think, each day):
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA
THE DRESSER
VERTIGO
ELLING
WINGS OF DESIRE
ROMAN HOLIDAY
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
THE GRADUATE
BREAD AND TULIPS
PERSUASION (the version with Amanda Root)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
MAN ON THE TRAIN

How about you? What are your favorites?

Diane Mayr said...

My all-time favorite is Enchanted April;
after that I have a whole bunch more including:
Room with a View
The Commitments
Love Actually
(I'm a big Hugh Grant fan)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Born Yesterday (the original)
Billy Elliot
Babette's Feast
The Seventh Seal
An Ideal Husband
Midnight Run