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Title: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: trekgeezer on January 25, 2007, 08:27:29 AM
and here they are...


Best Picture
"Babel"
"The Departed"
"Letters from Iwo Jima"
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"The Queen"

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio for "Blood Diamond"
Ryan Gosling for "Half Nelson"
Peter O'Toole for "Venus"
Will Smith for "The Pursuit Of Happyness"
Forest Whitaker for "The Last King Of Scotland"

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Penélope Cruz for "Volver"
Judi Dench for "Notes On A Scandal"
Helen Mirren for "The Queen"
Meryl Streep for "The Devil Wears Prada"
Kate Winslet for " Little Children"

Best Director
Clint Eastwood for "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Stephen Frears for "The Queen"
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu for "Babel"
Paul Greengrass for "United 93"
Martin Scorsese for "The Departed"

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin for "Little Miss Sunshine"
Jackie Earle Haley for "Little Children"
Djimon Hounsou for "Blood Diamond"
Eddie Murphy for "Dreamgirls"
Mark Wahlberg for "The Departed"

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza for "Babel"
Cate Blanchett for "Notes On A Scandal"
Abigail Breslin for "Little Miss Sunshine"
Jennifer Hudson for "Dreamgirls"
Rinko Kikuchi for "Babel"

Best Animated Feature Film
"Cars"
"Happy Feet"
"Monster House"

Best Foreign Film
"After the Wedding " (Denmark)
"Days of Glory" (Algeria)
"The Lives Of Others" (Germany)
"Pan's Labyrinth" (Mexico)
"Water" (Canada)

Best Screenplay - Adapted
Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines,
Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer for "Borat"
Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton for "Children of Men"
William Monahan for "The Departed"
Todd Field & Tom Perrotta for "Little Children"
Patrick Marber for "Notes On A Scandal"

Best Screenplay - Original
Guillermo Arriaga for "Babel"
Iris Yamas**ta for "Letters from Iwo Jima"
Michael Arndt for "Little Miss Sunshine"
Guillermo Del Toro for "Pan's Labyrinth"
Peter Morgan for "The Queen"

Best Art Direction
"Dreamgirls"
"The Good Shepherd"
"Pan's Labyrinth"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
"The Prestige"

Best Cinematography
"The Black Dahlia"
"Children of Men"
"The Illusionist"
"Pan's Labyrinth"
"The Prestige"

Best Costume Design
"Curse of the Golden Flower"
"The Devil Wears Prada"
"Dreamgirls"
"Marie Antoinette"
"The Queen"

Best Documentary Feature
"Deliver us from Evil"
"An Inconvenient Truth"
"Iraq in Fragments"
"Jesus Camp"
"My Country, My Country"

Best Documentary Short
"The Blood of the Yingzhou District"
"Recycled Life"
"Rehearsing a Dream"
"Two Hands"

Best Film Editing
"Babel"
"Blood Diamond"
"Children of Men"
"The Departed"
"United 93"

Best Make-Up
"Apocalypto"
"Click"
"Pan's Labyrinth"

Best Musical Score
"Babel"
"The Good German"
"Notes on a Scandal"
"Pan's Labyrinth"
"The Queen"

Best Original Song
"I Need to Wake Up" -- An Inconvenient Truth
"Listen" -- Dreamgirls
"Love You I Do" -- Dreamgirls
"Our Town " -- Cars
"Patience" -- Dreamgirls

Best Short Film (Animated)
"The Danish Poet"
"Lifted"
"The Little Matchgirl"
"Maestro"
"No Time For Nuts"

Best Short Film (Live-Action)
"Binta and the Great Idea"
"Helmer & Son"
"One Too Many"
"The Saviour"
"West Bank Story

Best Sound Editing
"Apocalypto"
"Blood Diamond"
"Flags of our Fathers"
"Letters from Iwo Jima"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"

Best Sound Mixing
"Apocalypto"
"Blood Diamond"
"Dreamgirls"
"Flags of our Fathers"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"

Best Visual Effects
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
"Poseidon"
"Superman Returns"

     


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: ulthar on January 25, 2007, 09:04:05 AM
CARS is the only movie on that whole list I've even seen. In recent years, I've taken a small amount of pride in saying that I've NOT seen the Oscar condenders.

I spent 2006 happy with Netfilx and getting caught up on some oldies-but-goodies.  These include BULLITT, THX-1138, DARK STAR, IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, MISSILE TO THE MOON, etc.  I even watched a couple of lesser known 2006 movies that were quite enjoyable.


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: trekgeezer on January 25, 2007, 10:13:48 AM
The only thing on here that I'm happy for is Pan's Labyrinth. I haven't actually seen the movie yet, but del Toro deserves some recognition. He has done excellent genre work .

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Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: Pilgermann on January 26, 2007, 01:10:11 PM
The only film nominated for best picture that I've seen is Little Miss Sunshine, and it doesn't deserve that nomination at all.  It's a very good movie, just not great.  I'd like to see the other films but I haven't had the time.

One of the only categories I can weigh in on is best animated, and that should go to Monster House.  It reminded me of goof 80's kids films.  Happy Feet is okay, but has a handful of weak spots, and Cars was the first Pixar film I haven't liked.  Why didn't A Scanner Darkly get nominated?  I haven't seen it but from what I've heard it's quite good.

Best makeup?  How the hell did Click get nominated?!  The only makeup effects I remember were a fat suit and Adam Sandler looking old, neither of which were particularly good.  Pan's Labyrinth needs to win this one for sure.

Pirates of the Caribbean will win visual effects.


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: JaseSF on January 26, 2007, 02:44:36 PM
I've heard mostly good stuff about "Apocalypto". Surprised it wasn't nominated for more awards. Definitely great to see Del Toro get recognized. Wouldn't be surprised if his film isn't better than all these best film nominees. Is it just me, or have the Oscars gotten less and less relevant? Most of their best film winners the last five-six years seemed at best average to me.


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: ulthar on January 26, 2007, 03:04:55 PM
Its not just you.  To me, personally, the Oscars are completely irrelevant.  I just don't care about what others think are 'good movies.'

Let's see, last few Best Picture nominees (winner shown in caps):

2005 -  "CRASH," "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Munich"  (I haven't seen any of these)
2004 -  "MILLION DOLLAR BABY," "The Aviator," "Finding Neverland," "Ray," "Sideways" (I haven't seen any of these; want to see RAY)
2003 -  "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING," "Lost In Translation," "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," "Mystic River," "Seabiscuit"  (I've seen RotK, MaC, MR and Seabiscuit)
2002 -  "CHICAGO," "Gangs of New York," "The Hours," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," "The Pianist" (slept through most of The Two Towers, not seen the others)
2001 -  "A BEAUTIFUL MIND," "Gosford Park," "In the Bedroom," "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Moulin Rouge" (saw ABM and TLofR, none of the others)
2000 -  "GLADIATOR," "Chocolat," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Erin Brockovich," "Traffic"  (Saw some of GLADIATOR and did see ERIN BROCKOVICH, none of the others)

No doubt there are some good films on the list that I have missed.  But, I have finite time, so choose what I watch based on what interests me at the moment.  Plus, I cannot stand to watch a movie just because it is hyped or everyone is raving about how great it is.  I'm nearly always disappointed when I do that.

Now, with CORPSE GRINDERS, I was pleasantly surprised by a movie funner to sit through than I was led to believe.  It was still painful, though.   :smile:


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: JaseSF on January 26, 2007, 05:07:21 PM
"Lord of the Rings" and "Gladiator" are the only films I'd consider as maybe deserving winners there. I've heard great stuff about "Good Night and Good Luck", "Finding Neverland", "Master and Commander" and I did enjoy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" although I don't think it deserved Best Picture nomination.


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: dean on January 27, 2007, 01:31:08 AM

Purely based on the fact that Crash one last year over the much-hyped Brokeback Mountain, do I think there is still hope for the Oscars.  Say what you will about it, Crash is definetly the best 'good film' up for nomination that year, and I was quite surprised to hear so many people being shocked that it won.  Maybe because it was an early release and wasn't fresh in people's 3 second memories...

Anyways, out of all the films listed this year I've only seen Borat, Children of Men, Happy Feet, Superman, Pirates and Pan's Labyrinth.

All great in their own ways.  ]

Anyways, here are some of my tips based on my loose viewing schedule [that is not watching them all]

I skipped some sections because I'm lazy...


Best Picture
I kind of want Little Miss Sunshine to win, but hey, I don't think it will. 

Best Director
Martin Scorsese for "The Departed"  - I want Scorsese to win even without having seen it myself, just based on that he deserves one.

Best Animated Feature Film
"Happy Feet"  Go George Miller.  The Director of Mad Max deserves a film for this excellent animation.

Best Foreign Film
"Pan's Labyrinth" (Mexico)  Can't go wrong.  Just a great film.  The others would have to be pure bottled genius to beat this film.

Best Screenplay - Adapted
I really don't want Borat to win [based on the fact that I don't think that as an improv film it should count] but hey it was funny so I'd forgive it.

Best Art Direction
Pan's Labyrinth.  I'm a big fan of this film [so far the best I've seen this year] and even more so based on some of the very haunting sets it had.

Best Cinematography
Children of Men had some incredible cinematography, and I even watched it on a crappy VCD, so that must be even better in reality.  Pan's Labyrinth was also excellent.

Best Film Editing
Children of Men.  It probably won't win, but I haven't seen the others, and Children of Men had some really incredible editing sequences which just flowed so well.

Best Make-Up:
Pan's Labyrinth.  Even without seeing the others, some of the makeup effects in this film were just fantastic.  The only reason why I can imagine them losing is because of maybe [maybe] being aided by visual effects/CGI etc.

Best Musical Score:
Not sure about the rest but Pan's Labyrinth had a great score.  It doesn't sound like a winner, but it was a beautiful mix nonetheless.

Best Short Film (Live-Action)

My vote goes to "The Saviour" based on the fact that it's an Aussie film, and we need all the glory we can get.

Best Visual Effects

I want Superman to win based on the fact that it was filmed in Australia, and I met some of the people involved in some of the physical effects [explosions etc] and those guys are just plain awesome.

But my gut tells me that Pirates will win.


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: Scott on January 31, 2007, 10:35:35 AM
The only film I've seen from this list is BORAT.

The only ones I'm currently interested in seeing from the list are:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Departed
Superman Returns
Little Miss Sunshine
United 93
The Queen
Apocalypto
Flags of our Fathers
Marie Antoinette
The Good Shepherd
The Illusionist



Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: raj on January 31, 2007, 02:58:18 PM
Good listing, Ulthar.  From that, I have seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Master and Commander.  That's it.


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: CoreyHeldpen on February 10, 2007, 12:47:37 PM
The only thing on here that I'm happy for is Pan's Labyrinth. I haven't actually seen the movie yet, but del Toro deserves some recognition. He has done excellent genre work .

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Pan's Labyrinth- #65 on IMDb's top 250 list. It goes without saying that PL is a very good movie.


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: Poogie on February 10, 2007, 04:05:30 PM
I never even heard of Crash until last years oscars.....So we saw it, it's a very good movie. I would suggest seeing it.   :smile:


Title: Re: Oscar nominations are in.......
Post by: CheezeFlixz on February 10, 2007, 04:19:46 PM
Of the all nominations, so far I've seen  ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest :thumbup:
Little Miss Sunshine
Flags of our Fathers :thumbup:
The Illusionist :thumbup:
The Devil Wears Prada :thumbdown:
Cars :thumbup:
Click