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randall 
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Montgomery 
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 Posted - 01/23/2007 : 15:56:22
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Here is the full list of Academy Award nominations for 2007
Best Picture: Babel, The Departed,Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen.
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond; Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson; Peter O'Toole, Venus; Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness; Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland.
Actress: Penelope Cruz, Volver; Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Helen Mirren, The Queen; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada; Kate Winslet, Little Children.
Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine; Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children; Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond; Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls; Mark Wahlberg, The Departed.
Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, Babel; Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal; Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine; Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls; Rinko Kikuchi, Babel.
Directing: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel; Martin Scorsese, The Departed; Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima; Stephen Frears, The Queen; Paul Greengrass, United 93.
Foreign Language Film: After the Wedding, Denmark; Days of Glory (Indigenes), Algeria; The Lives of Others, Germany; Pan's Labyrinth, Mexico; Water, Canada.
Adapted Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men; William Monahan, The Departed; Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children; Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal.
Original Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga, Babel; Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima; Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine; Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth; Peter Morgan, The Queen.
Animated Feature Film: Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House.
Art Direction: Dreamgirls, The Good Shepherd, Pan's Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Prestige.
Cinematography: The Black Dahlia, Children of Men, The Illusionist, Pan's Labyrinth, The Prestige.
Sound Mixing: Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Dreamgirls, Flags of Our Fathers, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Sound Editing: Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Original Score: Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla; The Good German, Thomas Newman; Notes on a Scandal, Philip Glass; Pan's Labyrinth, Javier Navarrete; The Queen, Alexandre Desplat.
Original Song: I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth, Melissa Etheridge; Listen from Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven; Love You I Do from Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett; Our Town from Cars, Randy Newman; Patience from Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger and Willie Reale.
Costume: Curse of the Golden Flower, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Marie Antoinette, The Queen.
Documentary Feature: Deliver Us From Evil, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, My Country, My Country.
Documentary (short subject): The Blood of Yingzhou District, Recycled Life, Rehearsing a Dream, Two Hands.
Film Editing: Babel, Blood Diamond, Children of Men, The Departed, United 93.
Makeup: Apocalypto, Click, Pan's Labyrinth.
Animated Short Film: The Danish Poet, Lifted, The Little Matchgirl, Maestro, No Time for Nuts.
Live Action Short Film: Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea), Eramos Pocos (One Too Many), Helmer & Son, The Saviour, West Bank Story.
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Poseidon, Superman Returns.
HONORARY AWARD (Oscar statuette): Ennio Morricone
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD (Oscar statuette): Sherry Lansing
DREAM GIRLS WAS ROBBED OF BEST PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!
My money is squarely on The Departed now!!!!!
EM :)
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Sal[Au]pian
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 16:04:02
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My preferences:
Best Picture: Little Miss Sunshine
Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Actress: Penelope Cruz, Volver
Foreign Language Film: Volver!!!
Adapted Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - because he deserves something
Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Animated Feature Film: Happy Feet
Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematography: Children of Men
Costume: The Devil Wears Prada
Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth - the film states the obvious but since this apparently wasn't obvious to many people, good for Gore
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth.
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
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Cheese_Ed 
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 16:42:16
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No acting nomination for Sacha? 
Is it just me, is this a weak year for movies? |
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Sal[Au]pian
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 16:48:11
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
No acting nomination for Sacha?
Yep, it's really unfair - just an anti-comedy stance. I think it would be better if they had Best Actor/Actress for Drama and for Comedy, like some of the other awards. |
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Little Old Lady from Dubuque
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 18:13:18
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Yes, but Shasha got nominated for a writing award ... that's the Academy's consolation prize. "We're wimps and not gonna give you an acting prize, but you were good so here's a little something ..." Comics don't win Oscars! (but comic writers do!) 
Kind-a reminds me of what happened to Affleck/Damon in "Good Will Hunting" (kind-a, 'cause they weren't gonna get acting noms, but still ...)  |
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Montgomery
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 18:20:17
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quote:
Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
No acting nomination for Sacha?
Is it just me, is this a weak year for movies?
I think there were better movies, but the Academy only has a memory of about 2 months, so any good movies from earlier in the year are out of luck.
EM :) |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 18:23:47
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It was only wishful thinking to hope for Cohen as a Best Actor nominee. My guess is that Forest Whitaker will take the statue, unless sufficient people feel Peter O'Toole has suffered enough.
But, as has been noted, nice comedy jobs sometimes do get the writing statue -- and at least this assures us that Cohen [and his lovely Isla...] will be present for the ceremony! |
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Montgomery
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 20:57:46
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I was looking at a Rolling Stone article and they mentioned A Scanner Darkly for Best Animated film.
Is this category limited to 3?
What about Over The Hedge? Was that in 2006? I liked that.
And I definitely thought A Scanner Darkly was very cool.
EM :) |
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Paddy C 
"Does not compute! Lame!"
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 22:06:56
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
No acting nomination for Sacha?
This would be a gripe of mine too... Sacha Baron Cohen, Aaron Eckhart and Jack Nicholson ignored for some reason, and Leo gets another nod. I agree with Randall though, Forest Whitaker will surely win it for 'Last King of Scotland'.
My other gripe is the 'foreign language' category. Iwo Jima is shot entirely in Japanese. Why can that get nominated for 'Best Picture', while 'Pan's Labyrinth' misses out?!  (I know why by the way, it's just exasperating!) |
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Paddy C
"Does not compute! Lame!"
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 22:08:36
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Originally posted by Montgomery
I was looking at a Rolling Stone article and they mentioned A Scanner Darkly for Best Animated film.
And I definitely thought A Scanner Darkly was very cool.
EM :)
I couldn't agree more! 'Cars' but not 'Scanner Darkly'? Ach, the Oscars are losing it!! |
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turrell
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 22:19:39
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GHcool
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 22:24:25
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Best Picture:
My preference: The Departed
I haven't seen the other four.
Best Actor:
My preference: Forest Whitaker
I haven't seen the other four.
Best Actress:
My preference: Penelope Cruz
I haven't seen the other four.
Best Supp. Actor:
My preference: Eddie Murphy
Best Supp. Actress:
My preference: Jennifer Hudson
I haven't seen the other four.
Best Director:
My preference: United 93
Best Orig. Screenplay:
My preference: Pan's Labyrinth
I haven't seen the other four.
Best Adapted Screenplay:
My preference: Children of Men
What shouldn't have been nominated: Borat (while certainly very funny and clever, too many real screenplays were written this year that deserve recognition)
What should have been nominated in its place: The Last King of Scotland
Best Cinematography:
My preference: Children of Men
Best Art Direction:
My preference: The Prestige
Best Film Editing:
My preference: United 93
What shouldn't have been nominated: The Departed
What should have been nominated in its place: Dreamgirls
Best Visual Effects:
My preference: Pirates of the Carribbean
Best Score:
My preference: Pan's Labyrinth
I haven't seen the other four.
Best Sound Editing:
My preference: Pirates 2
I haven't seen the other four.
Best Sound Mixing:
My preference: The Danish Poet (if you ever get the chance to see this beautiful film, take it!)
EDIT: I just saw Children of Men and thought it was fantastic! |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 22:41:37
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Originally posted by turrell
What did Sacha adapt from, a bunch of cocktail napkins?
Nope, from the spontaneous responses of his victims. |
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turrell
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 22:43:44
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quote:
Originally posted by Randall
quote:
Originally posted by turrell
What did Sacha adapt from, a bunch of cocktail napkins?
Nope, from the spontaneous responses of his victims.
Yeah - funny movie but I doebt there was much actual writing involved. |
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Sean
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 22:55:55
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Yikes, the only movie from that lot I've seen is Water!  The pitfalls of living Downunder where we get movies months after the Northern Hemisphere, and then a few months later before the DVD comes out, and then a while after that until it comes to the front of my netflix queue. So, I don't think I'll be bothering to supply an "Oscar guess list" this year.
Many of those are on my "to view" list, but many others I won't be bothering with.  |
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