Academy Award Nominations

Best film – Hannah Montana The Movie

Best Actor – Leonardo De Caprio

Best Actress – Miley Cyrus

Best Supporting Actor – Joseph Gordon Levert

Best Supporting Actress – Emily Osment

Best Director – Stephen Spielberg

Best Original Screenplay (script) - UP

Best Screen Adaptation – Winnie The Pooh

Best Cinematic Photography – The Last Song

Best Editing -

Best Special Effects - Avatar

Best Original Score (music) -

Best Costumes / Wardrobe – Hannah Montana The Movie

Best Title Sequence / Credits

Best Short (film)

Special Award for Services to the Cinema Industry, the motion picture business, the dream

factory, the movie world.

3. Think about these questions.

a. Which clip from a particular film would you never tire of seeing? When Jason Earles from Hannah Montana gets pecked in the face by an ostrich.

b. What trailers have you seen recently that really made you want to go and see the

film? – The Town

c. Can you think of any scenes from films you think should have been cut? Or can you

think of any entire film you think should have been banned? – The Human Centipede

d. Which of these features do you, in general, like a film to have:

1. a happy ending? yes

2. a complicated plot or a simple storyline? I like both

3. lots of action? Depends on the story line

4. a political or social message? social

5. totally naturalistic dialogue? Don't care

6. larger than life or true-to-life characters? depends on the story-line

7. (in the case of foreign films) subtitles or dubbed dialogue? I don’t watch foreign films

8. lots of close-up shots of people’s faces? If they are attractive

9. long sequences of desert, jungle etc.? No

10.a fair number of stars or a cast of unknowns’? stars

e. What can the cinema offer that the theatre can’t – and vice versa? Surround sound, and gold class

f. Which plays have you seen which you have also seen the film of? How did the two

versions compare? None

g. Would you let your ten-year-old son go off to Hollywood to be in a film, with or

without you there? Yes, with or without me, but i'd prefer to come