When the movie was first released it was a quirky movie about multiverse jumping, coinciding with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, but here we are nearly a year later and the movie is doing well in the awards season and is nominated for 11 Oscars.

The movie is nominated in the following categories

• Best Motion Picture of the Year
• Best Achievement in Directing
• Dan Kwan
• Daniel Scheinert
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
• Michelle Yeoh
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
• Stephanie Hsu
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Ke Huy Quan
• Best Original Screenplay
• Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
• Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
• Best Achievement in Costume Design
• Best Achievement in Film Editing

Its good to see a movie like this getting recognition for its creative flair and anti-blockbuster independent look and feel.

Michelle Yeoh gets recognitions in a lead actress role although Cate Blanchett is also nominated for Tar and is the current favourite.

Jamie Lee Curtis gets her first ever nomination but Angela Bassett also get a nomination for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which is the current favourite.

Here is a list of all the movies up for best picture of the year

1. All Quiet on the Western Front
2. Avatar: The Way of Water
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Elvis
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. The Fabelmans
7. Tar
8. Top Gun: Maverick
9. Triangle of Sadness
10. Women Talking

Its interesting seeing both Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick on the list, 2 of the highest grossing movies of the last 12 months, Oscar does not normally award big budget, high grossing blockbusters, although neither will probably get the award!

In the lead actor category Colin Farrell gets a nod for The Banshees of Inisherin but the hot favourite is Brendan Fraser in The Whale who is the one to beat.

The most wide open category is best director which has no out and out leader, Steven Spielberg is an Oscar darling and must be a favourite for The Fabelmans, but then Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan must also be in with a shout for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The ceremony takes place on Sunday March 12th and the full list of nomination can be found on the Oscars Website.

Yesterday Internet was alight with news that Paramount has announced that the release date for Transformers 3, a follow up to this years yet to be released Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen, would be July 1, 2011, but the director Michael Bay seems to have other ideas which he's expressed on his Website.

In a statement on his Website he seems to be correcting Paramount saying he wants to take a year off and make the 3rd movie in the series for release on 2012.

Maybe planning so far ahead is a bad idea, especially for film which are not even in pre-production, your bound to get at least some information wrong.

This reminds me of an advert for a film I saw in the trade press once, the film starred Annette Benning and the advert for the film proudly announced "starring Annette Benning, Catwoman in the new Batman Movie", now we all know that Benning didn't star in that Batman movie and was off having a baby instead.

Now I know studios have to plan ahead, but do they have to shout about it and get the hype going so far in advance, especially for a film like Transformers that 1) is being hyped enough already for the film that is not even at cinemas yet and HAS been made, and 2) will generate enough buzz of it's own during the 18 months before hand.