I've done this on other forums and it's gotten some positive buzz but I feel like it could do even better here given the size of the forums (plus you're all such wonderful people!), so I thought I would make a thread here (I hope it's allowed!). First, I'm going to do nominations. Pick, at most, three picks for each category (you don't have to put in a nomination for each category if you don't want to), I think I'll collect all of the nominations and make a poll in Google Docs or something at the end of January or the beginning of February. Also, feel free to debate the films chosen by your wonderfully handsome/beautiful peers. The categories are as follows:

Best Movie
Best Director*
Best Actor*
Best Actress*
Best Supporting Actor*
Best Supporting Actress*
Best Screenplay
Best Visual Effects
Best Animated Movie
Best Blockbuster
Best Comedy
Best Music (can be a score or soundtrack)
Most Surprising
Most Disappointing
Most Overrated
Most Overlooked
Worst Movie
Most Anticipated Movie of 2012

*Please include the name of the film the actor/actress performed in along with his/her name.

My nominations:

Best Movie: Attack the Block (if you haven't seen it go see it it's great), Cowboys and Aliens and The Green Hornet (can't think of another one lol)
Worst: The Hangover 2
Most Anticipated: Iron Sky

Best Movie - Rango
Best Director - Matthew Vaughn - Xmen First Class
Best Actor - Andy Serkis - Rise of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
Best Actress - Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Hiddleston - Thor as Loki
Best Supporting Actress - Vera Farmiga - Source Code as Colleen Goodwin
Best Screenplay - Moneyball
Best Visual Effects - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Best Animated Movie - Rango
Best Blockbuster - Xmen: First Class
Best Comedy - Horrible Bosses
Best Music (can be a score or soundtrack) - Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Most Surprising - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Most Disappointing - Green lantern
Most Overrated - Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Most Overlooked - Drive / Source Code
Worst Movie - Green Lantern
Most Anticipated Movie of 2012 - The Hobbit

I haven't see as many new movies this year as I have in previous years.

Edit: Changed Best Actress

Best Movie - The Artist
Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
Best Actor - George Clooney (The Descendants)
Best Actress - Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
Best Supporting Actor - Nick Nolte (Warrior)
Best Supporting Actress - Jessica Chastain (she was in a bunch of really good movies)
Best Screenplay - Win Win
Best Visual Effects - Harry Potter (just cuz)
Best Animated Movie - Rango
Best Blockbuster - MI4
Best Comedy - Bridesmaids (though 50/50, the Artist, and the Allen movie were better, they're cross genres)
Best Music (can be a score or soundtrack) - Drive (even though I'm a music guy, I don't pay attention the first watch)
Most Surprising - 50/50 (I really thought it would svck)
Most Disappointing - War Horse
Most Overrated - War Horse
Most Overlooked - Take Shelter (Michael Shannon is fantastic, as is the film - watch this movie)
Worst Movie - Red Riding Hood
Most Anticipated Movie of 2012 - Prometheus!!!!

Iron sky you will be hoping, its been in production for a long time, they were asking people for money to keep it funded, it went from Europe where it was being made to Australia, and havent heard much of it for along time.

I guess I haven't watched alot of new movies this year, afterall I only saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Horrible Bosses in theatre and didn't find too many movies that I felt required a rental or purchase but I guess I would have to 2nd Horrible Bosses as Best Comedy. It had a lot of moments that were truly hilarious and I felt that the casting was fanstastic. One scene that really got me excited and into the movie was ( I can't remember which scene it was) either the car chase or the hit planning scene where they used that excellent song " How do you like me now" by The Heavy, aka the same song used in the Las Vegas Kia Super Bowl commericial . The song and scene gave that reckless, crazy adventure feel, much in the way the first Hangover movie used " Joker and the Thief". I also saw a trailer for a game that used the same song by The Heavy and I really enjoyed it. All the performances in Horrible Bosses were great, Jennifer Aniston was super sixy, Kevin Spacey always excellent as a crazed ( but still relatively subtle psychopath), Colin Farrel as a the cokehead batchelor, and of course the pairing of the 3 friends. It evoked a similar feel as the first Hangover ( a movie which I considered the best comedy of that year). I guess movies that use a group of actors as a group of friends tend to stike a chord with me...

Best Movie: Warrior
Best Director: David Fincher - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Best Actor: Tom Hardy - The Warrior
Best Actress: Rooney Mara - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Best Supporting Actor: Nick Nolte - The Warrior
Best Supporting Actress: Carey Mulligan - Drive
Best Screenplay: Moneyball
Best Visual Effects: Hugo
Best Animated Movie: The Adventures of Tintin
Best Blockbuster: Mission Impossible 4
Best Comedy: Crazy, Stupid, Love
Best Music: Hugo
Most Surprising: Drive
Most Disappointing: In Time
Most Overrated: Tree Of Life
Most Overlooked: Midnight In Paris
Worst Movie: Abduction
Most Anticipated Movie of 2012: Django Unchained

I thought The Tree of Life was simply a masterpiece, although I suppose it could be considered boring by you . . . commoners.

They should call it Tree of Crap.

Can't think of winners for all them, so here are a few:

Best Visual Effects - Hugo
Best Animated Movie - Either Rango or Tintin, I can't decide
Worst Movie - Alvin and the Chipmunks - Chipwrecked
Most Anticipated Movie of 2012 - The Dark Knight Rises

svcker Punch, Attack the Block and Harry Potter are probably in there somewhere. I have no idea which the best movie is. 2011 wasn't great for films, looking back.

Best movie: Melancholia
Best director: Lars von Trier (Melancholia)

Was a slow new-movie-year for me, missed alot of new potentially good releases (although, I'd probably still would've picked Melancholia and von Trier). The new planet of the apes flick was quite wathcable, though.

no u

Melancholia was a beautiful film with some gorgeous imagery and fantastic performances by Kirsten Dunst and Charlette Gainsbourg. They'll probably both be ignored by AMPAS (Dunst has a small chance) which is a damn shame.

Best Movie: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Worst Movie: Jack and Jill

I find it difficult to pick worst movies because I try to avoid the ones that look terrible like Jack and Jill or I am Number 4. Then the Green Lantern side swiped me.

Best movie: dragon tatoo
Worst movie: immortals
Best commady;'decedents
Best fx: immortals
Most overlooked: hobo with a shotgun

Get those nominations in, guys!

I think I'm gonna tally up the votes on January 26, so anyone else who wants to put in nominations can do so.

Best Animated: Rango

So much smoking in that movie, though.

I made some changes to my picks.

I need to watch that movie again. And the smoking is one of the reasons I think Rango was actually meant for advlts . . . you know, aside from the jokes about lisbians and rectal exams and whatnot.

uhm... I think I watched like 5 new films in 2011 so I don't know if I can fill out that list

Do as much as you can.

http://oscar.go.com/nominees

BEST PICTURE
The Artist
War Horse
Moneyball
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Tree of Life
The Descendants
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
The Help

BEST DIRECTOR
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Michael Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, The Descendants
Demián Bichir, A Better Life
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

BEST ACTRESS
Viola Davis, The Help
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Octavia Spencer, The Help

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Margin Call
Midnight in Paris
A Separation

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Descendants
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

BEST ANIMATED PICTURE
Puss in Boots
A Cat in Paris
Rango
Kung Fu Panda 2
Chico & Rita

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse

BEST ART DIRECTION
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
War Horse
The Artist

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Pina
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Undefeated

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

BEST FILM EDITING
The Artist
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Descendants
Moneyball

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Bullhead (Belgium)
A Separation (Iran)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
Footnote (Israel)
In Darkness (Poland)

BEST MAKEUP
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Iron Lady

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
War Horse
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets
"Real in Rio" from Rio

BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Dimanche/Sunday
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Pentecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic

BEST SOUND EDITING
Drive
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Moneyball

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Why isn't Drive nominated for more stuff?

I'm getting so tired of hearing about the Artist, I just hope once the oscars are over people here will finally move on and stop talking about it. Bérénice Bejo is great, though, I'd like to see her win if it meant she'd be cast in more movies.