The Academy Award nominations are out. For Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, I think there's no doubt in my mind that
The Artist will sweep. There's an outside chance that George Clooney has enough pull as a heavy hitter in Hollywood to get Best Actor for
The Descendants, but he won't deserve it -- Jean Dujardin deserves it, period. (The only performance I haven't seen is Demián Bichir in
A Better Life.)
For Best Actress, I frankly haven't seen the movies, so it's hard for me to guess who will win, but I hope it won't be Meryl Streep for
The Iron Lady, because I don't like what I've heard about the film's treatment of Margaret Thatcher's Alzheimer's. If I had to bet, I'd bet on Michelle Williams playing Marilyn Monroe as the type of biographical role that the Academy will like:
Still, not as good as the original:
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