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Best Documentary feature Most likely winner : Exit Through the Gift Shop by Bansky and Jamie D'cruz. A very strange film about street art and the evolution of Mr. Brainwash. Some issues as to whether it's a real documentary but thoroughly entertaining nonetheless. Backup Pick : Gasland by Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic. About natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing and the effect on communities. Seems like it'd be dull with those topics but isn't. The green movement should love it Most deserving (My pick): Exit through the Gift Shop is a great film. I don't even care about street art and I liked it. Nothing should stop it from winning except the aura that the film is about a well-engineered con. Best Foreign Language Film Most likely winner : In a Better World (Denmark) in Danish and Swedish by Susanne Bier. Won at the Golden Globes. Got that whole refugee, emotional drama thing going for it. Seems set. But this award is usually the least predictable. Backu...

Best Director Most likely winner : David Fincher for The Social Network . Not easy to direct a film where everybody has an idea of how the characters should be, which is inevitable for real, famous people as the subject. David Fincher gets the entire aura of impatience, assured-ness and brilliance, all tinged with irony, to show up . Backup Pick : Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan . Boldness. That's the word for the direction of the film. Because you can't make a film like this without wanting to create something spectacular that makes a statement. And Aronofsky does, indeed, put out a strong statement about competitiveness. Most deserving : David Fincher for The Social Network . Difficult to driect. I was completely convinced the movie would be junk before I saw it. It's nice to be proven wrong. And I just can't give this film enough praise. Best Adapted Screenplay Most likely winner : The Social Network by Aaron Sorkin from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezri...

Criteria: My list, my rules. As always. The artist/band has to have two albums from which songs can be picked (off as a minimum). Then a reference lyric will be used. The list - Probably not that much in order. 35. Avenged Sevenfold - Noisy, brash, loud, dark and gloomy. Probably going to get even gloomier with the passing of The Rev Album 1 : City Of Evil -2005 (a) Seize The Day - " Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost.It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over" Album 2 : Avenged Sevenfold - 2007 (a) Dear God - " A lonely road crossed another cold state line.Miles away from those I love, purpose hard to find" 34.Wilco - In the later albums , most of the time I have no idea what they're on about. So I guess it's depressing music more than lyrics. Album 1 : A.M. - 1995 (a) Box Full of Letters - " You'll come back again. And I'll still be your friend" (b) Should Have been In Love - " Your life...

Criteria: My list, my rules. As always. The artist/band has to have two albums from which songs can be picked (off as a minimum). The songs can't be the only depressing song on a happy album (i.e Where is the Love on Elephunk by The Black Eyed Peas , possibly their only good song.) To block that the album needs a minimum of two depressy songs on it, but a max of four or half of 'A rush of blood to the head' will have to be listed. I'm not going to justify why the songs are depressing,I'll just find youtube links. The list - Probably not that much in order. 35. Avenged Sevenfold - Noisy, brash, loud, dark and gloomy. Probably going to get even gloomier with the passing of The Rev Album 1 : City Of Evil -2005 Reference Tracks (a) Seize The Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8m0i67O_c (b) Bat Country http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZy3I6colo Album 2 : Avenged Sevenfold - 2007 Reference tracks (a) Dear God http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0kmnmxuRH0 (b) Afte...

Criteria: My list, my rules. As always. The artist/band has to have two albums from which songs can be picked (off as a minimum). The songs can't be the only depressing song on a happy album (i.e Where is the Love on Elephunk by The Black Eyed Peas , possibly their only good song.) To block that the album needs a minimum of two depressy songs on it, but a max of four or half of 'A rush of blood to the head' will have to be listed. I'm not going to justify why the songs are depressing,I'll just find youtube links. The list 30. Keane - Slow, mournful and piano-y. Occasionally angry yet somehow still slow and mournful. Album 1 : Hopes and Fears Reference Tracks: (a) We Might as Well Be Strangers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82n2b4Mk8Zc (b)She Has No Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG40MBNyexU&feature=related (c) Bedshaped http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRjfP2EJsw&feature=related (d) This Is the Last Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdzD5C-1vv...