After seeing and reviewing the movies for his column on Vivid Life, Brent Marchant, author of Get the Picture: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies, recently predicted who he believes will take home the coveted awards.
Although he thinks all of the nominated actors were great in their roles and all very deserving, Marchant believes that in most of the acting categories, the front runners in most categories have got locks on all of the Academy Awards.
For Best Actor, he predicts the Oscar will go to Colin Firth for The King’s Speech. For Best Actress, Natalie Portman will take home the Academy Award for her role in Black Swan. The Fighter roles are slated to win Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo.
Although The Social Network won Best Picture in the Golden Globe Awards, Marchant predicts The King’s Speech, a drama about King George VI at the time of World War II, which received 12 award nominations, will take home the Best Picture Academy Award.
“I think it is probably going to go to The King’s Speech,” he said. “A lot of the early predictions were giving it to The Social Network. But I think with some of the things that have been going on recently with some of the awards competitions leading up to the Oscars, the momentum is beginning to shift in favor of The King’s Speech. Another reason is that The King’s Speech is the kind of movie that Hollywood likes to think that it makes all the time, in terms of offering grand sweeping production values, offering inspirational messages and having great performances. Those are the kinds of movies that Hollywood likes to recognize when it comes to the Oscars because they think this is typical of what they do.”
“Whereas The Social Network was a very well-made movie technically-it was well-written, well-acted, well-directed,” he continued, “the story in many ways wasn’t all that inspiring. It was telling the back story of how Facebook was formed. So much of it came down to a lot of petty bickering that went on amongst people who were involved with the initial formation of the website. There was just not a lot of inspiration to come from something like that. I think Hollywood may be backing off from that now and saying maybe we need to recognize the picture that really is the one that is going to please and inspire audiences the most. In this case I would say that maybe that would be The King’s Speech. “
The 83rd Academy Awards airs this Sunday, February 27. James Franco and Anne Hathaway will host the ceremonies this year. Franco was nominated for Best Actor for his performance in 127 Hours and Hathaway was recently cast in Christopher Nolan's next Batman picture The Dark Knight Rises. To read many of the reviews of the nominated movies, visit Marchant’s blog at http://getthepicturebrentmarchant.blogspot.com/.To hear Marchant’s thoughts on the theory of conscious creation, visit him at FengSHe on Facebook.
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