Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan - Aronofsky is a very respected director with great movies like Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler in his amazing body of work and, now, it seems that he finally has a great chance to be recognized by the Academy. Black Swan was a sensation in Venice Film Festival, receiving a lot of critical praise and the director received raves too, specially because of the complexity of his amazing work with an awesome result. The movie seems by far one of the best movies of the year and has a nod in the Best Picture category almost guaranteed, but everyone knows that behind a good movie is a good director. So, let's see if it is in this race that Aronofsky will get his Best Director Oscar nod, but he has to face a strong competition with a couple of a-long-time-overdue-for-a-win directors... Let's see if he will be one of the five choosen by the Academy... I would vote for him.
Lisa Cholodenko for The Kids Are All Right - being the director and writer of one of the most acclaimed movies of the year, Lisa Cholodenko may see her work being recognized by the Academy for The Kids Are All Right. In fact, she wrote a very good script (but we're not talking about screenplays yet) and made good actors shine like they never did before. A good director is the one who, besides being able to make a good movie, is able to make his/her movie's cast deliver good performance, which means that a good actor must have a lot of sensibility and Cholodenko proved that directing a sucessful and acclaimed indie movie like The Kids Are All Right. Last year, the Academy awarded a female director, I think they won't be affraid to deserve another one when she deserves it...
David Fincher for The Social Network - the same director who brought to the audiences incredible movies like Se7en, Fight Club or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button seems to be on fire in this Oscar race in the directing category due to his critically acclaimed masterpiece The Social Network, known also as "The Facebook Movie". At the first time, The Social Network was seen as a joke for some people who don't understand about cinema, because they couldn't think one simple think: David Fincher is directing it. In fact, Fincher's direction was raved by the critics and the movie also received commercial sucess and is on the race as the main contender to take the Best Picture Oscar home, alongside The King's Speech. At the moment, I think Fincher is the strongest contender to a nod and to a win, not only because of his work in The Facebook Movie, but also because of how respected he is in the cinema industry. Go Fincher! Go!
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech - to be completly honest, I didn't know Hooper's work until the day I heard that The King's Speech got a lot of critical praise. In fact, Mr. Hooper may benefit from all the buzz his latest work is getting in the Best Picture category and it may give him an Oscar nod of Best Director. He has no GREAT body of work and he isn't overdue for a nod or for a win, so, I can say that if he will get nominated it won't happen because of the things he did in the past but only because of his work. He seems to have a guaranteed place between the final five, but will the Academy give his chair to an overdue director? I think that it won't happen!
Christopher Nolan for Inception - the director of the Summer movie of the year. Nolan is overdue for an Oscar nod for directing after such amazing movies like Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige or The Dark Knight and Inception rules as an high-grossing and highly critically acclaimed movie with an amazing directing work! He is already an Oscar nominee man, but in the Best Screenplay category thanks to the disturbing/strange/innovative Memento. This year, Nolan's directing work won't be snubed by the Academy, almost for sure, specially when his work received both commercial and crittical sucess.
Lisa Cholodenko for The Kids Are All Right - being the director and writer of one of the most acclaimed movies of the year, Lisa Cholodenko may see her work being recognized by the Academy for The Kids Are All Right. In fact, she wrote a very good script (but we're not talking about screenplays yet) and made good actors shine like they never did before. A good director is the one who, besides being able to make a good movie, is able to make his/her movie's cast deliver good performance, which means that a good actor must have a lot of sensibility and Cholodenko proved that directing a sucessful and acclaimed indie movie like The Kids Are All Right. Last year, the Academy awarded a female director, I think they won't be affraid to deserve another one when she deserves it...
David Fincher for The Social Network - the same director who brought to the audiences incredible movies like Se7en, Fight Club or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button seems to be on fire in this Oscar race in the directing category due to his critically acclaimed masterpiece The Social Network, known also as "The Facebook Movie". At the first time, The Social Network was seen as a joke for some people who don't understand about cinema, because they couldn't think one simple think: David Fincher is directing it. In fact, Fincher's direction was raved by the critics and the movie also received commercial sucess and is on the race as the main contender to take the Best Picture Oscar home, alongside The King's Speech. At the moment, I think Fincher is the strongest contender to a nod and to a win, not only because of his work in The Facebook Movie, but also because of how respected he is in the cinema industry. Go Fincher! Go!
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech - to be completly honest, I didn't know Hooper's work until the day I heard that The King's Speech got a lot of critical praise. In fact, Mr. Hooper may benefit from all the buzz his latest work is getting in the Best Picture category and it may give him an Oscar nod of Best Director. He has no GREAT body of work and he isn't overdue for a nod or for a win, so, I can say that if he will get nominated it won't happen because of the things he did in the past but only because of his work. He seems to have a guaranteed place between the final five, but will the Academy give his chair to an overdue director? I think that it won't happen!
Christopher Nolan for Inception - the director of the Summer movie of the year. Nolan is overdue for an Oscar nod for directing after such amazing movies like Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige or The Dark Knight and Inception rules as an high-grossing and highly critically acclaimed movie with an amazing directing work! He is already an Oscar nominee man, but in the Best Screenplay category thanks to the disturbing/strange/innovative Memento. This year, Nolan's directing work won't be snubed by the Academy, almost for sure, specially when his work received both commercial and crittical sucess.
in consideration: Danny Boyle (127 Hours); Ethan and Joel Cohen (True Grit); Debra Granik (Winter's Bone);
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