Best Place to Wander #CentralPark #NYC #home
A Good Start #breakfast #smoothie #pick
Peggy’s Cove #atlantic #canada (at Peggys Point Lighthouse)
The Academy Awards were a week ago already, and I failed to post anything movie related this year. This is late but I still wanted to share my thoughts on the films of 2012 by posting who I would have nominated this season. As usual, I don’t always see eye-to-eye with the Academy.
(Nominees are listed alphabetically.)
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Best Picture
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Argo
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Les Miserables
ParaNorman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Skyfall
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Best Director
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Ben Affleck - Argo
Tom Hooper - Les Miserables
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight Rises
Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski - Cloud Atlas
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Best Actor in a Leading Role
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Steve Carell - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
John Hawkes - The Sessions
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Logan Lerman - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suraj Sharma - Life of Pi
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Best Actress in a Leading Role
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Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Leslie Mann - This is 40
Aubrey Plaza - Safety Not Guaranteed
Juno Temple - Killer Joe
Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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Tom Cruise - Rock of Ages
Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
Ezra Miller - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Eddie Redmayne - Les Miserables
Ben Whishaw - Cloud Atlas
Bruce Willis - Moonrise Kingdom
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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Samantha Barks - Les Miserables
Judi Dench - Skyfall
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Emma Watson - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Best Animated Feature
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ParaNorman
Pirates! Band of Misfits
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Best Original Song
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“Big Machine” by Ryan Miller - Safety Not Guaranteed
“Skyfall” by Adele and Paul Epworth - Skyfall
“Suddenly” by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg - Les Miserables
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Best Original Score
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Cloud Atlas - Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer
Life of Pi - Mychael Danna
The Master - Johnny Greenwood
ParaNorman - Jon Brion
Skyfall - Thomas Newman
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Best Original Screenplay
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Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino
Flight - John Gatins
Looper - Rian Johnson
Safety Not Guaranteed - Derek Connolly
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World - Lorene Scarfia
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Best Adapted Screenplay
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Cloud Atlas - Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
The Dark Knight Rises - Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
Life of Pi - David Magee
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Skyfall - John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade
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Best Achievement in Cinematography
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Cloud Atlas - Frank Griebe and John Toll
The Dark Knight Rises - Wally Pfister
Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda
Moonrise Kingdom - Robert Yeoman
ParaNorman - Tristan Oliver
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Best Achievement in Editing
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Cloud Atlas - Alexander Berner
The Dark Knight Rises - Lee Smith
Life of Pi - Tim Squyres
Looper - Bob Ducasy
Les Miserables - Chris Dickens and Melanie Oliver
Fog/Focus
My most played songs of the year were:
“What More Can I Say?” - William Finn
“Helpless” - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
“Tell Me a Lie” - One Direction
“One Tree Hill” - U2
“Waterloo Sunset” - The Kinks
“What Makes You Beautiful” - One Direction
“One Thing” - One Direction
“Santa Fe (Prologue)” - Broadway Cast of Newsies
“Santa Fe” - Broadway Cast of Newsies
“Trouble” - Cat Stevens
“The Cloud Atlas Sextet for Orchestra” - Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil & Gene Pritsker
“You Can’t Win (iTunes Sessions)” - Kelly Clarkson
“Up All Night” - One Direction
“I Will” - The Beatles
“Seize the Day” - Broadway Cast of Newsies
“How Will I Know” - Glee Cast
“Have a Little Faith In Me” - Mandy Moore
“I Wish” - One Direction
“Stand Up” - One Direction
“Bein’ Green” - Damian McGinty
“My Life Would Suck Without You (iTunes Sessions)” - Kelly Clarkson
“Crazy Love” - Van Morrison
“Lovers In a Dangerous Time” - Barenaked Ladies
“Carrying the Banner” - Broadway Cast of Newsies
“Watch What Happens” - Broadway Cast of Newsies
“King of New York” - Broadway Cast of Newsies
“Rubylove” - Cat Stevens
“Hey Girl” - Zooey Deschanel
“Hasn’t Hit Me Yet” - Blue Rodeo
“Since U Been Gone (iTunes Sessions) - Kelly Clarkson
Beautiful Start to the Holiday #Christmas #travel
Highlights of Las Vegas
October 3. Skipped right over autumn. #snow #mountains #cold (Taken with Instagram)
I am at work sitting at the driving range. There is a line of guys whacking balls into the dense mountain fog. There is no possible way they know where their balls are landing. On the bright side, they have no idea where their balls are landing!
Golfers Be Golfin’ #alberta #rockymountains #september (Taken with Instagram)
Lake Huron Horizon #Great #ontario #water #sky (Taken with Instagram)
Early Morning in Hilton Beach #Camp #Ontario #island #summer (Taken with Instagram)
Livin’ The Cosmopolitan Life
(Taken with Instagram)
