Happy Oscar week! Time for another one of Movieline’s virtual awards roundtables , this time featuring nominated filmmakers behind this year’s contenders for Best Foreign-Language Feature. Meet our distinguished panel:
We’re a little more than half a day away from learning who and what will compete for the 84th annual Academy Awards — an elite class through which Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics had combed for four months in its fail-safe, fool-proof and bracingly handsome Oscar Index . This calls for one last sweep through each of the Academy’s categories (with the exception of live-action, animated and documentary short, about which even our pointiest-headed Oscar wonk cannot speak yet with authority); check our team’s work against your own, and drop back by Movieline tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT as we deliver nominations, reactions, analysis and more. [Nominees listed alphabetically by film] BEST PICTURE The Artist The Descendants The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Help Hugo Midnight in Paris Moneyball War Horse BEST DIRECTOR Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Alexander Payne The Descendants David Fincher, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Martin Scorsese Hugo Woody Allen Midnight in Paris BEST ACTRESS Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Viola Davis, The Help Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin BEST ACTOR Jean Dujardin, The Artist George Clooney, The Descendants Brad Pitt, Moneyball Michael Fassbender, Shame Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Berenice Bejo, The Artist Shailene Woodley, The Descendants Jessica Chastain, The Help Octavia Spencer, The Help Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christopher Plummer, Beginners Albert Brooks, Drive Jonah Hill, Moneyball Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn Nick Nolte, Warrior BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Will Reiser, 50/50 Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni, Win Win BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants Steven Zaillian, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Tate Taylor, The Help John Logan, Hugo Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, Moneyball BEST ART DIRECTION Laurence Bennett, The Artist Donald Graham Burt, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stuart Craig, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Dante Ferretti, Hugo Maria Djurkovic, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Guillaume Schiffman, The Artist Jeff Cronenweth, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Robert Richardson, Hugo Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life Janusz Kaminski, War Horse BEST COSTUME DESIGN Mark Bridges, The Artist Michael O’Connor, Jane Eyre Sandy Powell, Hugo Jill Taylor, My Week with Marilyn Jacqueline Durran, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BEST FILM EDITING Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion, The Artist Thelma Schoonmaker, Hugo Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Christopher Tellefsen, Moneyball Michael Kahn, War Horse BEST MAKEUP Albert Nobbs Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 The Iron Lady BEST ORIGINAL SCORE The Artist The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Hugo Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy War Horse BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Lay Your Head Down,” Albert Nobbs “Hello Hello” Gnomeo & Juliet “The Living Proof,” The Help “Life’s a Happy Song,” The Muppets “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets BEST SOUND EDITING The Adventures of Tintin The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Hugo Transformers: Dark of the Moon BEST SOUND MIXING Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Hugo Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Transformers: Dark of the Moon War Horse BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Hugo Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Rise of the Planet of the Apes Transformers: Dark of the Moon BEST ANIMATED FILM FEATURE Rango Puss in Boots The Adventures of Tintin Kung Fu Panda 2 Rio BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Bill Cunningham New York Buck If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Project Nim BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE Bullhead , Belgium Footnote , Israel In Darkness , Poland Monsieur Lazhar , Canada A Separation , Iran [Top photo via Shutterstock ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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