The Social Network, the highly acclaimed movie about the founding of Facebook, won 3 of 8 nominations at the 83rd Oscar Academy Awards. Unfortunately, it didn’t win Best Picture.
Despite losing to The King’s Speech for Best Picture, The Social Network won 3 Oscar Awards including Best Film Editing by the dynamic duo Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, Best Adapted Screenplay by American screenwriter, producer and playwright Aaron Sorkin, and Best original score by singer-songwriter, composer, and producer Trent Reznor.
It was nominated for 8 awards including Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin), Best Original Score (Trent Reznor), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jesse Eisenberg), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.
The story revolves around Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg, who developed a computer program that will eventually become the phenomenally successful social networking site, Facebook. It was directed by David Fincher and features a cast of young ensembles including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Joseph Mazzello, and Rooney Mara.
Check out the trailer below:
The movie is based on a great story but it’s also a big score for us in the tech industry :)
unfortunately? …….you say, unfortunately did not win?? … Why did it win anything in the first place?? In fact why was it even nominated?? *That’s a rhetorical question* It was NOT a great story, IMO, I am in amazement because to me, tstory lhe story line was pretentious and asinine as was the revolting acting, the editing was not puke-worthy at its best, I’ve seen cheap documentaries with better skills than that. What is it about this movie? Was it because it had justin timberlake? Or because everyone in this God forsaken world has a religious-and-cult-like obsession with their beloved facebook account. This puts the oscars to shame, Who doesn’t have facebook? My grandma has it! An ingenius stragedy to get people to come to your movie I must say. Just find a ‘hunk’ all the teenagers drool over, and use a phenomenon platform that speaks to everyone, and I mean everyone on an intimate personal level. If anyone wants to sit there and tell me this movie is based on a great story, just because facebook was groundbreaking does not even rationalize with it’s reasons for why it should be worshipped. People in a zombie-like state of mind, (who were already so desperate to feed their hungry unproductive empty souls and bored oxygen deprived brains generations of people who accustom to run around frantically to search for the latest trend to satisfy their endless thirst for self-righteousness), go ahead and lift up this social network called facebook to unnatural exaggerated trance-enducing proportions, to a degree which it does not constitute at all unless you’re a 15 year old. Get off your bended knees, and go get some real friends, or connect with the few you are lucky to have, you know? real? as in face to face? as in socially interact in the physical realm? (and that goes out to you as well, zuckerberg, you anti-social money-greedy scum bag sack of sh*t.) Granted, he was indeed a rain man, an idiot savant of sorts, to say the least, when it comes to his business and money making ideas. He was a smart*ss when he thought to ‘create it’ all thanks to an inspirational drunken stupor, I’ll give him that much, and also brilliant, when he thought to expand his millions by making a movie out of his spellbinding ‘creation’ although it could have been, SHOULD have been a complete and total failure, he got lucky he has so many hypontized zombies lifting their hands in the air in praise to his cheap innovations even if facebook ruined their lives. I’m so thrilled to get this off my chest, I can finally feel the blood boiling veins in my beating red throbbing forehead come down to a regular pulse. My brain wanted to burst with rage at the thought of this years academy awards even giving mention to this movies potential nominations, so of course naturally I become livid when I discover they actually won, and as the cherry topping it had to be not once, but thrice. Yes I can just imagine it now, the comments my post may influence, I am dramatic, but then again so are the oscars, this is just acting, and entertainment we’re talking about isn’t it? and if you disagree that it is justified in any realm of any universe even by rationals or irationals that are not mentioned, that’s your call, and you have the right to your opinion, just as I’ve the right to mine. Arguing it with me would be like wasting more time than you already have waisted reading my redundant post by arguing with a child-like narcissist who now finds this conversation to be irrelevant. So to less civilized for a second, I end with: **** zuckerburg, **** this movie, **** facebook, and by extention, **** the academy awards, And Even If people do not agree with my inappropriate misplaced bottled-up passion, I can easily and confidently say I am not the only one who feels that this award was wrongfully delivered. This one, and the other two as well. Ok I’m done now, This was time well spent for me :)
props to Jesse Eisenberg…. but Best Original Score? Mm…. not sure about that one.
And I haven’t seen The King’s Speech yet, but somebody told me it was about King George with a speech impediment? Sorry… I’m not sure about how that will evoke sympathy from this girl.
Inception FTW.