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Your favorite of the Best Picture nominees?
Atonement
  
20% [ 1 ]
Juno
  
40% [ 2 ]
Michael Clayton
  
0% [ 0 ]
No Country for Old Men
  
20% [ 1 ]
There Will Be Blood
  
20% [ 1 ]
Total votes: 5
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EDIT: previous thread title: "FUCK YES!!!!!!!!!!!! Viggo gets an Oscar nomination omg" :P

This is like how I waited ten years for the two stars of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION to finally get their due, because Viggo's performance in FOTR is one of my very favorite of all time and it's beyond wonderful to see him up there this morning. :love:

Full nominations list:




Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal)
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

Best animated feature film of the year
"Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird
"Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Achievement in art direction
"American Gangster" (Universal): Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
"Atonement" (Focus Features): Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Achievement in cinematography
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.): Roger Deakins
"Atonement" (Focus Features): Seamus McGarvey
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Roger Deakins
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit

Achievement in costume design
"Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood

Achievement in directing
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson

Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins
"Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Best documentary short subject
"Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
"La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
"Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
"Sari's Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production: James Longley

Achievement in film editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling
"Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment): Jay Cassidy
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Dylan Tichenor

Best foreign language film of the year
"Beaufort" Israel
"The Counterfeiters" Austria
"Katyn" Poland
"Mongol" Kazakhstan
"12" Russia

Achievement in makeup
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount): Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics): Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.): Nominees to be determined
"So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Best animated short film
"I Met the Walrus" A Kids & Explosions Production: Josh Raskin
"Madame Tutli-Putli" (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski "Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)" (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov
"Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Best live action short film
"At Night" A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production: Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)" (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production: Andrea Jublin
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Karé Production: Philippe Pollet-Villard
"Tanghi Argentini" (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
"The Tonto Woman" A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production: Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

Achievement in sound editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Matthew Wood
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Achievement in sound mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate): Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

Achievement in visual effects
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Adapted screenplay
"Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
"Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Original screenplay
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Diablo Cody
"Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
"The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins

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Nominations by film...




ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
* Achievement in Costume Design

AMERICAN GANGSTER
* Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
* Achievement in Art Direction

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
* Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
* Achievement in Cinematography

AT NIGHT
* Best Live Action Short Film

ATONEMENT
* Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
* Achievement in Art Direction
* Achievement in Cinematography
* Achievement in Costume Design
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
* Best Motion Picture of the Year
* Adapted Screenplay

AUGUST RUSH
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

AWAY FROM HER
* Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
* Adapted Screenplay

BEAUFORT
* Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
* Achievement in Film Editing
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Achievement in Sound Mixing

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
* Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

THE COUNTERFEITERS
* Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
* Achievement in Cinematography
* Achievement in Directing
* Achievement in Film Editing
* Adapted Screenplay

EASTERN PROMISES
* Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
* Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
* Achievement in Costume Design

ENCHANTED
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

FREEHELD
* Best Documentary Short Subject

THE GOLDEN COMPASS
* Achievement in Art Direction
* Achievement in Visual Effects

GONE BABY GONE
* Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

I MET THE WALRUS
* Best Animated Short Film

IL SUPPLENTE (THE SUBSTITUTE)
* Best Live Action Short Film

I'M NOT THERE
* Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
* Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

INTO THE WILD
* Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
* Achievement in Film Editing

JUNO
* Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
* Achievement in Directing
* Best Motion Picture of the Year
* Original Screenplay

KATYN
* Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

THE KITE RUNNER
* Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

LA CORONA (THE CROWN)
* Best Documentary Short Subject

LA VIE EN ROSE
* Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
* Achievement in Costume Design
* Achievement in Makeup

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
* Original Screenplay

LE MOZART DES PICKPOCKETS (THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS)
* Best Live Action Short Film

MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI
* Best Animated Short Film

MÊME LES PIGEONS VONT AU PARADIS (EVEN PIGEONS GO TO HEAVEN)
* Best Animated Short Film

MICHAEL CLAYTON
* Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
* Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
* Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
* Achievement in Directing
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
* Best Motion Picture of the Year
* Original Screenplay

MONGOL
* Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

MY LOVE (MOYA LYUBOV)
* Best Animated Short Film

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
* Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
* Achievement in Cinematography
* Achievement in Directing
* Achievement in Film Editing
* Best Motion Picture of the Year
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Achievement in Sound Mixing
* Adapted Screenplay

NO END IN SIGHT
* Best Documentary Feature

NORBIT
* Achievement in Makeup

ONCE
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

OPERATION HOMECOMING: WRITING THE WARTIME EXPERIENCE
* Best Documentary Feature

PERSEPOLIS
* Best animated feature film of the year

PETER & THE WOLF
* Best Animated Short Film

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END
* Achievement in Makeup
* Achievement in Visual Effects

RATATOUILLE
* Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Achievement in Sound Mixing
* Original Screenplay

SALIM BABA
* Best Documentary Short Subject

SARI'S MOTHER
* Best Documentary Short Subject

THE SAVAGES
* Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
* Original Screenplay

SICKO
* Best Documentary Feature

SURF'S UP
* Best animated feature film of the year

SWEENEY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
* Achievement in art direction
* Achievement in costume design
* Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

TANGHI ARGENTINI
* Best Live Action Short Film

TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
* Best Documentary Feature

THERE WILL BE BLOOD
* Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
* Achievement in Art Direction
* Achievement in Cinematography
* Achievement in Directing
* Achievement in Film Editing
* Best Motion Picture of the Year
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Adapted Screenplay

3:10 TO YUMA
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
* Achievement in Sound Mixing

THE TONTO WOMAN
* Best Live Action Short Film

TRANSFORMERS
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Achievement in Sound Mixing
* Achievement in Visual Effects

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* Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WAR/DANCE
* Best Documentary Feature

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Top placements by nomination...




THERE WILL BE BLOOD - 8
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - 8
ATONEMENT - 7
MICHAEL CLAYTON - 6
RATATOUILLE - 5
JUNO - 4
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY - 3
LA VIE EN ROSE - 3
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM - 3
TRANSFORMERS - 3
ENCHANTED - 3

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Rental status of nominated films...




ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - February 8
AMERICAN GANGSTER - February 19
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD - February 5
ATONEMENT - April 1
AUGUST RUSH - March 11
AWAY FROM HER - out now
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM - out now
EASTERN PROMISES - out now
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE - February 5
ENCHANTED - March 18
GONE BABY GONE - February 12
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH - February 19
INTO THE WILD - March 4
JUNO - April 22
THE KITE RUNNER - March 25
LA VIE EN ROSE - out now
MICHAEL CLAYTON - February 19
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - March 11
NO END IN SIGHT - out now
NORBIT - out now
ONCE - out now
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END - out now
RATATOUILLE - out now
THE SAVAGES - April 22
SICKO - out now
SURF'S UP - out now
3:10 TO YUMA - out now
TRANSFORMERS - out now




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Unless I'm mistaken, ain't that Rodia's movie up for animated short? Omg, girl! Where can I send the congratulatory flowers? :D




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Yay for Viggo :) I was really impressed with him in that movie.

A lot of these I haven't seen as either they haven't come out in the UK yet, or weren't shown in the theatre we go to, or either Steve or I or both of us weren't interested.

We did see "No Country for Old Men" last night and both of us really liked it, though Steve had a little niggle with the end.

This weekend we're hoping to do a movie day and see Sweeney Todd and something else as well. I'd like to see "In the Valley of Elah" but, for once, there are a lot of good choices.

I am interested in seeing Lust, Caution as well, though that isn't, and probably won't be, anywhere on an Oscars list since the US won't give it anything under an NC17 rating.


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[quote="*E*]Unless I'm mistaken, ain't that Rodia's movie up for animated short? Omg, girl! Where can I send the congratulatory flowers? :D[/quote]

Just what I came in to ask! I'm so happy to see that! :D

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Wow, I've only seen one movie out of that list: "Transformers".

I feel culturally deprived. :bawl:

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I hardly left the house at all this year and our theatre went back to sucking again (sure, keep Alvin and the Chipmunks for a fucking month but don't play huge movies like Cloverfield or anything), so there was absolutely nothing I was really cheering for this year. Except for Viggo, but I just didn't think much about it. If the writer's strike causes the Oscars to be canceled or aired on a smaller scale (like with the Golden Globes) then my attention will be elsewhere. Hope to catch some of these nominees now that they're set in stone. Hopefully my theatre will comply!

I underestimated how well audiences would respond to Michael Clayton, and probably should have caught it when it played here. It didn't appear to be anything special. Enchanted, I simply missed because of bad sleeping habits and not being able to get a ride over. Shame, I know I would have liked it. Charlie Wilson's War... I didn't wanna see Tom Hanks have sex. Not in a crowded theatre anyway, I'll watch it at home some day. Didn't see the other two Bourne films, wasn't gonna spoil myself for this one. American Gangster, well, I am really not a fan of Denzel Washington so had no interest in checking out that one. Most of the nominated films, I didn't even see in town, so if I hadn't visited my dad a few times, I'd have like three films to talk about. :roll: God I hate living in a small town this time of the year lol.

Thoughts on the nominees...

It never fails to tick me off, the makeup category. Year after year, I realize how little I understand that profession, because whenever I think there's been some really stellar work (with either traditional cosmetics or prosthetics and such), it gets looked over in favor of Eddie Murphy in a fat suit. It's ridiculous. I mean, no doubt it was a lot of work to make the skin flaps over Rasputia's vagina look so realistic but give me a break. The makeup category is often comprised of films starring the same people who win all the MTV movie awards. Examples:
  • 2007 - Click (starring Adam Sandler)
    2005 - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Jim Carrey)
    2001 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey)
    2000 - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Mike Meyers), Bicentennial Man (Robin Williams), Life (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence)
    1998 - Men In Black (Will Smith)
    1997 - The Nutty Professor (Eddie Murphy)
    1992 - Mrs. Doubtfire (Robin Williams)
Not arguing that some of those aren't pretty excellent or extensive makeup jobs, I guess it's just that overall, I tire of nominations being so obvious. Comedian cross-dresses or puts on a fat suit, and they're nominated. Oscar darling dawns old-age makeup, and they're nominated. I dunno, it seems so mechanic. I suppose there are only so many ways to use makeup in the average film, but I guess I am looking for more than that. I mean, add a unibrow to Salma Hayek or a big schnauze to Nicole Kidman and it's insta-nomination. Snore!

I'm surprised that Sweeney Todd received relatively few nominations considering how built up it was all year. Kinda nice that Michael Moore documentaries keep getting nominated, because they're generally pretty good and if Columbine was the last one, I'd be pretty suspicious that they were just ignoring him because they didn't want another controversial acceptance speech. :P So many people were talking about Kiera Knightley, and clearly no one forgot about Atonement in most other categories, so I wonder what happened there.

Another thing I get bored of with each year's nominations is how easy it is to get nominated again after you've been nominated just once. I feel so weird about Johnny Depp's massive success after the Pirate films because he's always been fucking amazing, perhaps even moreso in the 90's, but was continually ignored. Then ever since they finally let him join the club in 2004, it's like they can't stop nominating him. He deserves it, it's just like c'mon guys. Same with people like Cate Blanchett, Laura Linney, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It's just so obvious that the Academy is more comfortable nominating performances by people that they're already familiar with. Instead of best performance, it's best performance by someone I've already nominated in the past. And if you've been in the business for 30+ years, you only need to walk across the screen at some point to get a nomination, it seems like. It's just lame that whenever an Oscar-nominated or Oscar-winning actor appears in a drama, especially if it's released in December, they're like automatically nominated. "Oh, yeah, he did some work this year, didn't he? Nominate him." I've never even heard of The Savages heh.

I'm sure there were some shocking exclusions, but I can't think of any right now. Oh, wait, The Simpsons wasn't in there at all, not even for animated picture. :( That SUCKS. I didn't see Surf's Up, but I guess after March of the Penguins and Happy Feet, I get it... people like penguins. Next fad, plz. I'm biased, but I really doubt it was better than the Simpsons movie, which was effing brilliant and so beautiful to look at. Damn penguins.


The only Oscar flicks I saw this year were:
  • Across the Universe
    Atonement
    Eastern Promises
    Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    The Golden Compass
    Gone Baby Gone
    Juno
    Norbit
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Ratatouille
    Transformers
3 I saw out of town, 1 was rented, and 2 were online. :roll: So yeah, if I hadn't traveled or supported piracy, I would have seen like five movies. Stoopfid small towns.

Of those movies, though, I only really liked Eastern Promises, Gone Baby Gone, and Pirates. EP was slow but fascinating, and Viggo was in top form. I also really liked Naomi Watts. GBG was wonderful, realistic, and so sweetly written by someone who didn't want to get all Hollywood cliches on us, which I appreciated. Pirates was just insane, I couldn't believe most of what I was watching but hey, it was a unique piece of entertainment and I'm cool with that.

Ratatouille just made me hungry, I'm so disappointed to learn that was a Pixar film because it wasn't funny at all. I seriously didn't give a flip about it. Atonement was beautiful to look at, and I liked it more than a lot of period war/romance film, but in the end I couldn't help but think that if this were Law & Order: Special Victims Unit? Benson and Stabler would have slapped the shit out of Briony and solved the case in twenty minutes. This one should have been called "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and not the Jim Carrey flicks, cuz yikes... what an unfortunate series of events that brings each character to their ultimate fate. Juno, well, it got better, but I'm still kind of stuck on the first twenty minutes or so because I was this close to walking out, and I NEVER freaking do that. I'm just so shocked I reacted that badly to it, it was kinda new for me as I like to support Canadian actors and indie films from time to time. I definitely don't see what folks felt was so special about it, I'm not sure how I would have looked at it if it were just a random rental or something I caught on tv, but oh well. I love Jason Bateman and Michael Cera, and there are some lovely little moments in the film so it's fine, really. I still want to dropkick everyone who appeared on the soundtrack, though. My God, could it be any more twee? Actually I don't want to know.

Transformers was fine but could have been so much more. Does no one know how to frame a shot anymore? :( Actually, I don't want to know that either. I really just want to know what the living hell is going on in any particular scene and too many action films refuse to let me. Stay still, dammit! I can't see shit. And when I could, this flick was nipple-tweakingly awesome, so yeah I really wonder what could have been if more action shots were easier to figure out. I mostly saw a million hunks of metal jumping around, and that just ain't exciting to me, I don't care how many "pew! pew!" sounds are blaring from the speakers.

The Golden Compass was fine but a little empty-feeling. Absolutely stunning to look at, though. I loved the idea of an alternate universe so that you get these great old-fashioned England buildings, with futuristic machines decorating it. Very stylish. Across the Universe had a great soundtrack and Joe Anderson was fab, but I didn't walk away from it thinking much more than, "damn, those Beatles were great." Which, duh, I already knew. But honestly, if any band were to represent an era, or the feelings and emotions of generations of people in the high or low points of the lives, I think the Beatles would be it. Has been for my family, anyway. It was a neat concept for a film and had one of the best trailers I've ever seen, but I'm cool with just owning the soundtrack and not worried about seeing the entire film all that much.




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I feel culturally deprived. :bawl:
Nothing plays here and I tend to like movies that other folks hate, so despite better intentions, you just can't keep up with all of it. Hell, my favorite movies this year were violent horror flicks, everything else was almost completely forgettable. :shrug:

But that does remind me... here are the films currently or soon to be out on video, if you'd like to catch up with certain titles. I'll also probably add some links to trailers later on so that you can get a feel for which movies you might like to check out.


ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - February 8

AMERICAN GANGSTER - February 19

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD - February 5

ATONEMENT - April 1

AUGUST RUSH - March 11

AWAY FROM HER - out now

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM - out now

EASTERN PROMISES - out now

ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE - February 5

ENCHANTED - March 18

GONE BABY GONE - February 12

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH - February 19

INTO THE WILD - March 4

JUNO - April 22

THE KITE RUNNER - March 25

LA VIE EN ROSE - out now

MICHAEL CLAYTON - February 19

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - March 11

NO END IN SIGHT - out now

NORBIT - out now

ONCE - out now

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END - out now

RATATOUILLE - out now

THE SAVAGES - April 22

SICKO - out now

SURF'S UP - out now

3:10 TO YUMA - out now

TRANSFORMERS - out now
ToshoftheWuffingas wrote:
I told you how good Ro's film was didn't I?
I'm still waiting for it to be available in Canada. :(




Some more thoughts...

I totally forgot that Angelina Jolie was a front-runner for Best Actress in A MIGHTY HEART. Oh man! It's kind of a big deal since she was nominated for the NAACP Image award and I think has been up for the SAG and Globe awards. I'm sure she'll be crying into her millions of dollars and babies and hot husbands but you know. Very surprising.

It's disappointing that Zodiac is nowhere to be seen here. That was a damn good movie, but was released really early in the year so I guess no one remembered it. I wonder how that works, though. Just for making stupid comments on a messageboard, I do my research and become familiar with what titles were out there in any given year, but whenever a movie isn't nominated, a lot of people blame it on the fact that it came out too long ago. How lazy are the Oscar voters? :( Geez, guys, just google it and make a note of which titles you enjoyed. It's not that hard. I dunno...




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I only saw three of those...

And I know I saw better than those three, in the areas they were nominated in...

I saw a bit of Ro's thing! It looked great, but I had to go do something unimportant for someone who thought it was important, probably...

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Ohhh!!!!!! Congratulations Rodia!!!!

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I'm pleased for Viggo but I'm 100% behind Johnny sorry. :P Thank goodness Sweeney Todd atleast got that.

And congrats Rodia, that's awesome! :)

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Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics): Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.): Nominees to be determined
"So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

This ticks me off. The score for There Will Be Blood, written by Johny Greenwood (of Radiohead holycraptheyaregeniuses fame), is one of the most amazing scores I've ever heard and is being widely hailed as one of the year's best. But apparently there's some technicality of some sort that prevented it from being nominated, so the best score of the year (IMO/that I've heard) isn't going to win.


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I'm pleased for Viggo but I'm 100% behind Johnny sorry. :P Thank goodness Sweeney Todd atleast got that.
Sorry, but Daniel's getting it. And he deserves it.


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I'm pleased for Viggo but I'm 100% behind Johnny sorry. :P
Well maybe I would be too if it ever plays here. ;) I just like the idea of Viggo himself being an Oscar-nominated actor, and yeah I did think he was pretty great in Eastern Promises. It's the only film in that category I've seen so far.
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This ticks me off. The score for There Will Be Blood, written by Johny Greenwood (of Radiohead holycraptheyaregeniuses fame), is one of the most amazing scores I've ever heard and is being widely hailed as one of the year's best. But apparently there's some technicality of some sort that prevented it from being nominated, so the best score of the year (IMO/that I've heard) isn't going to win.
That stinks, yov. I'll have to give it a listen, even though it's weird for me to hear a score without seeing the film, but like you say, everyone's raving about it so I'm sure it's worth trying. The technicality is that the majority of the score is not original material, so I can see what they're doing, but if the rest is that wonderful, then it's unfortunate.

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Of all of those films I've only seen "Peter and the Wolf" and most of "Ratatouille".

Hopefully, I'll get to see "Sweeney Todd" next week. That'll be my first cinema trip since "Kingdom of Heaven". I really need to get out more!

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I'm pleased for Viggo but I'm 100% behind Johnny sorry. :P Thank goodness Sweeney Todd atleast got that.
Sorry, but Daniel's getting it. And he deserves it.
I'm sure that's true but hasn't he won one before? Johnny deserves one at some point.

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Yeah, for Benny & Joon, or Donnie Brasco. :x :x :x :x :x

But Sweeney's coming to our theatre this weekend so I get to check him out there. :D




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I'm going to see Sweeney next week! I can't wait! :D :D :D

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* Achievement in Cinematography
* Achievement in Directing
* Achievement in Film Editing
* Best Motion Picture of the Year
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Adapted Screenplay
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