Posterized: The Oscar Nominees (In Order of Release)
Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 4:26PM Since you all were happy about the return of "Posterized" last week, we should do it weekly as intended. So herewith, the current Oscar nominated field (links go to reviews or articles of note or Oscar charts). It's 38 movies wide.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU SEEN? And did you see them in anything like chronological order or release?
Mirror Mirror - March 30th, 1 nom (Costume Design)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - April 27th, 1 nom (Animated Feature)
Marvel's The Avengers - May 4th, 1 nom (Visual Effects)
Moonrise Kingdom - May 25th, 1 nom (Original Screenplay)
5 Broken Cameras - May 30th, 1 nom (Documentary Feature)
Snow White and... - June 1st, 2 noms (Visual Effects, Costume)
Prometheus- June 8th, 1 nom (Visual Effects)
Brave - June 22nd, 1 nom (Animated Feature)
The Invisible War - June 22nd, 1 nom (Documentary)
Beasts of the Southern Wild - June 22nd, 4 noms
(The Earliest and Shortest Best Picture: Picture, Director, Actress, Screenplay)
Ted - June 29th, 1 nom (Original Song)
Searching for Sugar Man - July 27th, 1 nom (Documentary)
ParaNorman - Aug 17th, 1 nom (Animated Feature)
The Master - Sept 14th, 3 noms
(Earliest Release with Multiple Acting Nods: Actor, Supp. Actor, Supp. Actress)
How to Survive a Plague - Sept 21st, 1 nom (Documentary)
Frankenweenie - Oct 5th, 1 nom (Animated Feature)
Argo - October 12th, 7 noms
(Pic, Screenplay, Supp. Actor, Editing, Score, Sound Categories)
The Sessions - October 19th, 1 nom (Supporting Actress)
Flight -Nov 2nd, 2 noms (Actor, Screenplay)
Wreck-It Ralph - Nov 2nd, 1 nom (Animated Feature)
Skyfall - Nov 9th, 5 noms
(Most Nominated Bond Picture of All Time: Cinematography, Score, Song, Sound Categories)
Lincoln - Nov 9th, 12 noms (Nomination Leader!)
A Royal Affair -Nov 9th, 1 nom (Foreign Film)
Chasing Ice - Nov 9th, 1 nom (Original Song)
Anna Karenina -Nov 16th, 4 Noms (Eye & Ear Candy Prizes)
Silver Linings Playbook - Nov 16th, 8 Noms
Hitchcock - Nov 21st, 1 nom (Makeup)
Life of Pi - Nov 21st, 11 noms
(Most Nominated Ang Lee Picture Ever)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dec 14th, noms
Amour - Dec 19th, 5 noms (Pic, Dir, Screenplay, Actress, Foreign)
The Impossible - Dec 21st, 1 nom (Actress)
Zero Dark Thirty - Dec 21st, 5 noms
Django Unchained - Dec 25th, 5 noms
Les Misérables - Dec 25th, 8 noms
the rest are sort of 2013 movies but Oscar has lots of complicated rules involving documentaries and foreign films. These release dates are tentative. Particularly with foreign films they are sometimes never released (especially if they lose the Oscar)
The Gatekeepers - Feb 1st, 1 nom (Documentary)
No - Feb 15th, 1 nom (Foreign)
War Witch - Mar 1st, 1 nom (Foreign Film)
Kon-Tiki - April 19th, 1 nom (Foreign Film)
Do you try to see all of the Oscar nominees each year?
Reader Comments (28)
Anna Karenina was only nominated for 4 Oscars.
Great article, some really interesting posters this year :)
I've seen them all but Chasing Ice, The Gatekeepers, and The Hobbit, the last of which I'm having an existential crisis about. I've never seen as many of the nominees as I have this year and I'm so close to being an Oscar completist but I just have no desire to watch a 169 minute set-up to the action of the second and especially third movies. What to do?!
Only seen 23. I'm mostly missing docs, foreign language and animated nominees. Snow White, Ted and The Hobbit are the only English-language dramatic features I've yet to catch up with.
Sorry to nitpick, but you said the earliest film to be released with acting nominations is The Master, but in fact it's Beasts.
I've seen 22. It took me until now to realize I'm lightest in the Animated Category (only saw Brave). And Docs, always Docs. Sigh.
Also I'll take this opportunity again to tell everyone to see No when they get the chance.
When I saw that nom tally for ZD30 again and it said five, I just got riled up all over yet again. The Academy is brain-dead.
Only 12, but 7 of those are Best Pictures. Missing "Amour" and "Beasts". I have a lot of On Demand movies to watch for the Animated and Special Effects ones. And 2 of my co-workers are in love with Seth MacFarlane and cannot BELIEVE I haven't seen "Ted". Must do that one too.
My Fav posters: Beasts, Moonrise, No, Kon Tiki, The Impossible (so much better than the other version), ted, and Amour.
Joe: Um, I think he means earliest release to pull multiple acting noms. Beasts would have also had that honour only if Dwight Henry managed to end up in the field.
I've seen 28 and I don't try to see all of the nominees, even if I say I might. There's usually one acting nom I miss, though oddly enough none this year.
I've seen 14..."Kon Ti Ki" looks very interesting... how come "Magic Mike" wasn't nominated for anything?
I've seen everything except for Chasing Ice, The Gatekeepers and No. Yay me!
I've seen 26. I'm missing the Doc nominees (which isn't really my thing), the four foreign films that aren't by Haneke, Mirror Mirror, Snow White, and Pirates (the latter three all of which I'm watching in the next week).
The only ones I'm missing are Chasing Ice & The Master, I must say the later is the most inaccesible movie of 2012, was in theaters like for two days, no DVD release yet or streaming not even an online screener on the web, seriously by christmas even les miserables & django were on the internet like wtf is wrong with guilds & critics but what happen to the Master is still a mistery to me
I've seen all the best picture nominees. I also try to watch all the performances and I'm pretty regular with documentaries, but not so much with animation.
I've seen 29, missing The Master, Chasing Ice, all the documentaries and 3 of the foreign films (No, Kon Tiki and War Witch).
26. I haven't seen any of the docs. I haven't seen most of the foreign language nominees. I missed The Master (the DVD release is in a week or two, right?) and Mirror Mirror is on the slate for Saturday or Sunday.
I do try to see all the nominees each year, but it rarely happens before the ceremony. I'll get to most of the docs by Oscar night. Three are on Netflix streaming and one is at RedBox. I'll get to The Gatekeepers if I wind up having to go into NYC before Oscar night. It's not scheduled to come out near me, which is odd considering how many Academy members live in the suburbs by the one multiplex. Pina 3D played this multiplex for over two months, multiple screenings a day, to try to pick up extra votes.
Curiosity, has a film ever released in January (not expanded from a limited December release) ever been nominated for an Oscar?
@Peter
The most recent film released in january that was nominated for a oscar is 'Angels and Insects' for costume design in 1996
if I'm correct is the only one in 30 years to do so.
I've seen 18, will probably catch a couple more on DVD before the holy night (Prometheus, Frankenweenie, Pirates)
Out of the 9 best pics, I've seen 8. The one left is Silver Linings Playbook. Shall I wait for DVD?
As for The Hobbits, don't we all have excuses now that Nathaniel won't see it?!
I've seen 33 and completed 12 of the 24 categories, probably the most I've ever seen at this point. My column this week details which ones I've seen: http://bit.ly/U3xcqM. If all goes as planned, I will have seen all but 8 by the time the awards are handed out, but I'm still working on getting screeners for some of the documentary shorts and foreign films.
Peter, yeah. it's slim pickings. I'm sure it happened more in the past before the modern template for campaigning. Several February releases have been nominated for things though over the years including some real biggies with multiple nominations: Silence of the Lambs, Cabaret, etcetera.
I try to see every movie, but it usually takes me a whole year. I live in Belgium and most nominated films have yet to be released (some never will). I'm usually finished watching all the films right before the new Oscar nominees are announced, and I have to start all over again.
Casabanca kind of counts for a January release, even though it was also kind of a December of the previous year release.
I've seen 24. Missing four from the doc category, three from animation and foreign, and then random stragglers like Life of Pi, Hitchcock and Mirror Mirror. I am not by any means a completist, but I'll definitely see some of these over the next few months as they come out on blu ray.
two
but i'm still working my way through the 2010 line up
I've seen 19. I still need to see ZD30, I have Paranorman and Frankenweenie right now from Netflix that I still have to watch and even though I won't see all the docs I still really want to see How to Survive a Plague. I'd also like to see Snow White at some point.
Moonrise Kingdom Poster. <3 <3 <3