OSCARS TIME!

It is that time of year again; THE OCSARS TIME! Who will win a shiney golden statue? Stay up until 1:30am on Monday morning to find out...

We tried to film a podcast for Film Trance (blatant plug) about The Oscars but it went horribly wrong. So yeah, I just fancied making some predictions for the big show on here. There is too many different awards to go through, so I've just picked out what, in my opinion, are the six of the top awards. Let me know what you think and who you reckon will will/should win.

Right...

 

BEST DIRECTOR:

Who I want to win: Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

Who I think will win: Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

With the surprise exclusion of Ben Affleck from this catagory as well as the shameful snub of Tom Hooper, Spielberg is free to pick up his latest Oscar with biopic Lincoln.

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Who I want to win: Anne Hathaway (Les Mis) or Sally Field (Lincoln)

Who I think will win: Anne Hathaway (Les Mis)

Hathaway has had a very successful awards season and no-one is looking past her to pick up yet another award tomorrow night. Yes she was only on screen for fifteen minutes, but by heck, it was a good fifteen minutes! Sally Field also deserves recognisition for her role in Lincoln as Mary-Todd Licoln. Her vunerability counterbalanced DDL's portryal of Lincoln extremely well.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Who I want to win: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Who I think will win: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)


Hans Landa x2. If you loved him in Inglorious Basterds like I did, you will love him in this. A top class performance. Suave, but deadly.

 

 

 

 

Best LEADING ACTRESS:

Who I want to win: Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Who I think will win: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

Naomi Watts' performance in The Impossible was EMOSH. However, I reckon we will be seeing the oldest ever Oscar winner come Sunday evening/Monday morning in Emmanuelle Riva.

BEST LEADING ACTOR:

Who I want to win: Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) or Denzel Washington (Flight)

Who I think will win: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Bradley Cooper was the man in SLP. He tackled a tough issue and brought sensitivity with a touch of light hearted humour to the role. Denzel was just superb in Flight. The pain, the self-loathing... Brilliant. I think everyone is excpecting DDL to walk away with it though. A worthy winner, but not my personal favourite performance.

BEST FILM:

Who I want to win: Les Misérables

Who I think will win: Lincoln

I love Les Mis. I loved the stageshow and I loved the film. I'm not going to compare the two, as they're different artforms, but I felt Hooper delivered bigstyle. Powerful, emotional and the songs were performed (and shot) brilliantly. Argo has cleaned up this catagory during awards season, but with Affleck not being up for best director I feel there may be a surprise on the cards.






If you can stay awake, it is being shown on Sky Movies at just before 1:30am. I think it is is on the special Oscars channel they have created.

Walk da' Walk (Update One)

Hello all.




*BLATANT PLUG ALERT WITH ADDED WEIRD FACIAL EXPRESSION*

Yes, the name of my blog has changed yet again. Why, no one asks? Well, it will no longer be a film blog (that latest long) and I will now use it for blatant plugging for the charity hike I am undertaking in the summer. Apologies in advance.

With just over four months to go until the hike I thought I'd best start doing some good ol' fundraising. Twitter, Facebook and begging are the methods I will be using most often to attempt to reach the goal of £550, which is going to be really tough. There is the possibility that me and a friend, who is doing a charity hike too, will be co-hosting a charity event later in the year, but that is yet to be determined. So, anyways...

It had been a rather wet and windy day in Cumbria...

This year it appears I will be on my own for the hike. My best friend Adam has joined me the last two years, whilst my brother and his fiancee kindly joined us last year to do the Hadrian's Wall Trek. I really enjoyed doing the treks the previous two years, albeit last years was spoilt by the horrible weather. Doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks was great the year before. The views were fantastic and despite being bitten to pieces, it was well worth it. I think this will be my last one for a while as I feel bad asking for money each year off of you lovely people. We've really appreciated the support over the past two years. One more big push would be greatly appreciated though! The UK 24 Hour Three Peaks Challenge is something I have wanted to do for a while and I'm really excited that I get the chance to do it for Mind. It's a fantastic cause and something that is very close to my own heart, so I'm chuffed that they are putting it on and I can't wait to get going with it.

Ben Nevis

The walk itself takes place between the 14th-16th June. The aim is to climb the biggest peak in each of Scotland, England and Wales inside 24 hours. I will be meeting the mini-bus at Chester Train Station on the Friday where we (the gang of us representing Mind) will all then head up to Scotland to spend the night ahead of attempted to hike up Ben Nevis the following morning. After completing the biggest of the three peaks we will then be heading South to Cumbria to climb Scafell Pike, which will have to be completed during the night. The final part of the challenge will see us head to Wales for a bright and early 4am (approximately) start to climb Snowdon, of which I have been told the views are spectacular. We are hoping to be finished for before 9am so we can have a nice celebratory breakfast and then head back to the train station. So yeah, the trek will consist of approximately 25 miles of hiking (11,000ft altogether), 3 countries and approximately 480 miles of driving in 24 hours. Good times!

This will get some plugging off of me over the coming months, so get ready for it. Any support would be great and I'd love you forever if you donated. Mind really is a fantastic charity who do an awful lot to help people who are suffering with mental health issues. Retweets on Twitter, shares on Facebook and so forth would be greatly appreciated as well. As you will see below I'm making the most out of the age of social networking. Please give my Facebook page a like and check out my fundraising page. I will also be filming the walk and any fundraisng events prior to the trek, so I will upload those to my YouTube page. If anyone has any ideas over ways I could fundraise then please let me know! So yeah, that's about it. I'm considering writing a piece for Mind closer to the time, but I might yet bottle that. Thank you for taking the time to read this and many thanks to those who have already donated/agreed to donate.



Fundraising Page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=Milkwasabadchoice&isTeam=true

(Yes, I did name my fundraising page after an Anchorman quote, and yes I do regret it.)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MattdoestheUKThreePeaksChallenge

YouTube: MattWatson91

Mind: http://www.mind.org.uk/

Thank you.

Matt.