Best Picture
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor – Viggo Mortensen
Best Actor/Supporting Actor – Kodi Smit McPhee
Best Supporting Actor – Robert Duvall
Best Supporting Actress – Charlize Theron
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography
Best Sound
Best Sound Mixing
Best Editing
Best Visual Effects

Why is nobody else pissed that THE ROAD was not nominated for anything?

Oh and it sells itself to every demographic possible, heh.

It won't win best pic.

But we can agree that Tim Burton rocked the stop-motion animation, right?

In regards to me, right now, I think that motion-capture technology is being used to make a more sophisticated, but still animated, movie. To me the actor gets lost, not in the character but in CGI-space, and then there's nothing for me watch and no one for me to relate to to truly get the experience.

Unless I'm REALLY missing it, there wasn't any stop motion animation in Avatar, or any movie made in the last 10 years not directed by Tim Burton, lol. Ok, I'm sure there were some, but those were intentional because they wanted that style, but most of the rest of the movies simply use CG…

No. I don't think that Andy Serkis amazingly grew shorter and threatenly thin to play Gollum. But if people can't construct a reasonable argument against my theory of “Avatar” as an animated movie and just merely throw around ridiculous accusations like I think that “The Lord of the Rings” must be animated too, then I am simply going to manipulate their poorly constructed argument to better my own side.

What I meant by Gollum being played and not voiced is that Andy Serkis was on set, in a blue screen suit, acting alongside Elijah Wood and Sean Astin. I haven't seen or heard anything saying that Zoe Saldana filmed her scenes the same way and not just as a voice in a booth reading a script with motion sensors on her face. That was the main point of that comment.

Uuuuhhhh, you realize that Gollum and Nytiri were played by their actor counterparts in the exact same manner right??? Meaning both were motion captured and digitally put into the movie… No, Gollum was not the actor in body paint after getting shorter and losing weight… Did you really think that?? LOL

Anyway, do you know how many movies now-a-days use completely CGI scenes? So if you want to consider Avatar an “animated” movie, where do you draw the line for whether a movie is considered animated or not? I think the difference is the fact that all of the main roles in Avatar was acted out by human actors, not “animated” by someone behind a computer. Like with Up, they just had some people doing the voices while all of the characters' movements were animated by computer animation specialists. While with Avatar it was all motion captured so all of it required the human actors to be present for more than just the voices.

I then replied that that must mean they didn't capture the actors at all, but merely used their voices and that makes it even more animated than before. Nothing was said definitively of how the movie was filmed.

And please let me know what movie your watching in which you've seen a computer-generated creature feel as real as a human being. That's not possible… because its a computer-generated image and therefore not able to be felt.

And does motion-capture technology really capture the eyes? This is a serious question… where do they put the electrodes for that?

“Avatar” is easily over 70% animation. That well exceeds any CGI I have seen in a sci-fi movie recently.