Exactly. Which certainly helped it when it came down to choosing the nominees.
Because the rules as I understand them seem to make it helpful for something like Tree of Life which provokes strong reactions in people (both very positive and very negative).So, for it to get a lot of no. 1 votes isn't surprising. I know it would be my #1 film of 2011.
Hoping that rule helps it out to win but I dont know. Seems odd it isnt nominated for editing also since I thought it was one of the best edited and easy to watch films of last year.

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Interesting that there are only two song nominees. On the positive side, that drastically reduces the musical numbers (except for Billy Crystal's, which will probably be good).

And as for animation: Never heard of A Cat in Paris or Chico & Rita, but I guess the academy really didn't want Rio or Tintin.

Well, I guess I'll be seeing Extremely Loud today...ugh. Redboxed Midnight in Paris, so after those two I'll have seen all the BP noms.

Exactly. What, do people want her to just accept shitty roles for the paycheck like De Niro's been doing for the past 15 fuckin years?

With Andy Serkis and Tintin both left off the list, is it safe to say that the Academy really doesn't like motion capture technology?

What does Stephen Daldry have on the Academy? He gets all of his movies nominated for best pic. I can't really bitch about this too much since I love Billy Elliot and The Reader floored me, but ELEC looks horrible.

Yep. It's not her fault for being so damn good and working pretty steadily. I mean...heaven forbid Daniel Day-Lewis chose a lot more work. That fuck would be winning a lot. Which I'd enjoy to see more films w/ him as time goes on...but he's selective. Also...I'm pretty sure he's going to get nominated the fuck out of for being Abe Lincoln. Spielberg will get nominated..the film will too..who knows what else. It's the DDL effect...usually.

Easily the best nominations were: Gary Oldman (with his first, shockingly) and Nick Nolte (easily deserves a win).

Worst snub: Tilda Swinton.

Also, looks like Woody finally gets another director nomination - one that he deserved in 05 for Match Point.

Yeah, at this stage in her career she should be able to pick and choose what she wants

i know it was a long long shot, but would have been nice for Serkis to have been nominated.

I and many others understood it fine. While I do appreciate the beauty of Malick's film making, that doesn't make up for what was just an overall boring (yet visually stunning) movie to watch, for me of course.

Jesus people I didn't criticize Streep's acting. It just feels like some of these roles she takes are for Oscar gold only.

The Help and that dumb 9/11 movie?



Fail

Agreed. I was pulling for him.

Would have loved to also see Tom Hardy get some love for Warrior in Supporting Actor.

Kind of annoying how Melissa McCarthy got nominated for Bridesmaids, which I did think she was good in, but not compared to Shailene Woodley in The Descendents.

From the wrap:
"Hugo" received the most nominations, with 11. "The Artist" received 10.

"Moneyball" and "War Horse" received six each, while "The Descendants" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" each got five.

Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" only received three nominations, but all were in marquee categories: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography.

Concerning The Tree of Life

Shocked but very pleased to see Demian Bichir get a nomination for "A Better Life". He was did an amazing job.

How the hell did Extremely Lame and Incredibly Contrived get nominated for Best Picture????

And no Supporting nom for Albert Brooks ("Drive")?

F' you Academy.

I didn't see Tintin, but definitely surprised no Animated Picture nomination.

He was indeed great but I don't think he was that great. Like the movie itself

With Tintin out hopefully Rango can get the Oscar it so deserves.

Sometimes the subject matter is more important than how bad the film is... ie. you increase your odds if you make a Holocaust film.

Did Tintin not qualify as an animated film?

Avatar got 9 noms, so no prob with movies that use it. They just have a hard time with the acting aspect. How much of it was actor-created and how much was computer-created.

Thought it was funny how Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close broke up the 8 nominee symmetry and caused a person or two to gasp in surprise. I was surprised too, haven't seen it though.

Huge surprises in the Better Life actor, Brooks' snub and no Tintin in animated. I thought the latter two should have happened, pulling for Rango now. And even if Brooks' was nominated, I think Nolte should win. Plummer was excellent as well. Also surprised Bridesmaids got that writing nom, didn't think it deserved that.

Moneyball, The Help and Midnight in Paris were good, but I didn't think they were great. Tree of Life I expected to get nominated, I thought it was just ok. From the noms I've seen, I honestly like War Horse best. Still have to see Artist, Descendants, Hugo, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close of the BP noms, will soon hopefully. I thought Girl with the Dragon Tattoo would get a nomination for BP too. Got snubbed on score as well. AND director.

I usually watch the acting nominees early, but both Albert Nobbs and Iron Lady look incredibly boring to me. Jessica Chastain was nice to see, she was probably the best part of The Help

No idea why Jonah Hill is nominated, he really didn't stand out. Glad Oldman was nominated even though Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was really disappointing. I still have a lot of non noms I wanna see, like Shame, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Young Adult, A Dangerous Method and Rampart

Must suck for Brooks, Andy Serkis and Kirsten Dunst right now too. Seemed like they had a lot of hype (less so Serkis). Wish there was some 50/50 and The Guard love. So far 13 Assassins is still the best movie of 2011 to me though. And only 2 songs for best song? Weird.

Wow, sorry for the novel.

Oh it did. It was just terrible so they didn't nominate it. Much like Cars II