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[srtao]

for all us movie folk, the big day is hear. The Hollywood elite finally tell us which actors are really elite, and who should make like Oppenheimer's theory of nuclear fission and split (that's a shout out to hard-core Pinky and the Brain/ Robert Oppenheimer fans). So, even though its late, we should start speculating who is gonna win. Going with me gut, I say Marty finally gets his gold and his Hong Kong rip off wins. I think Babel will be shut out, because it actually was a bad film. The actress from The Queen will win based on politics, when Judy Dench (M from bond) should win. Best actor will be Forest Wittacker, so the Eddie Murphy can loose. He has to loose because he made Norbit. Those are my main predictions.

[Charles]

Best actor: Forest Whitaker
Best supporting actor: Mark Whalberg
Best actress: Penelope Cruz
Best supporting acress: some girl from Babel
Best animated flim: happy feet
Director: Martin Scorsese
Best documentary: an inconvenient truth
Best foreign film: Pan's labyrinth
Best picture: Babel or letters from Iwo Jima
Best adapted screenplay: borat

[beckettwatt]

Watch Gore pull a Bert Schneider (Hearts & Minds, '75, similarly preachy and overblown) with his Inconvenient Truth acceptance speech and announce his intention to seek the president... or personally secede from the Union... or something in that realm. It's going to be a "heavy rap" in any event, to employ an archaic colloquial phrase. Marty will not win for The Departed; I expect a dark horse victory from Stephen Frears (and yes, it is a conspiracy... you must realize that the Academy Awards are as biased as the New York Critics' Choice Awards in their selections. But then again, their very legitimacy would be questioned if Scorecrazy didn't walk away with a statue tonight). Water should but will not claim victory in the Best Foreign Film category. Adapted Screenplay should go to the Departed but I'm inclined to agree with ol' Chuck here. Don't dismiss Cars, either. If He Who Shall Not Be Named does indeed walk away with his first statue, Thelma Shoonmaker had better win for Best Editing (she's clipped nearly all of his pictures and is almost his creative equal, in my opinion).

[Charles]

If Susan Lucci can win an emmy then Martin can win an Oscar. You sort of have to give it to him at this point. There isn't much competition this year.

[srtao]

good solid list Charles, that will probably have a high rate of being right.

This is who I want to win, not many will come true, but I gotta go with my heart:
Gosling for actor
Jackie Haley for supporting (I just saw the movie he was in, freaked me out)
Dench for actress
Abigal Breslin for supporting actress
Cars for animated
Dream Girls for Art Direction
Labyrinth for Cinematography
Curse of the Golden Flower for Costume Design
The Departed for Directing
Inconvenient for Documentary
couldn't care less about short
Departed for Editing
Labyrinth for Foreign Language
And the Departed will win everything else, including best pic.

[beckettwatt]

Charles, on Feb 25 2007, 07:43 PM, said:

If Susan Lucci can win an emmy then Martin can win an Oscar. You sort of have to give it to him at this point. There isn't much competition this year.

We all want him to win. But there is a conspiracy afoot, I say, and Frears is rather overlooked -- he's the Scorcese of modern costume dramas!

(Seriously, though, he'll get it. Certain Italian-American gentlemen of ill repute have infiltrated the highest echelons of Price Waterhouse or whoever handles the vote tabulations to ensure this).

[tycoonboy388]

So the first OSCAR just went out... for Art Direction. While I completely respect the art of filmmaking, not many people do. Normally the Oscars start off with something bigger, like supporting actor. Its not the way to captivate the audience. And The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wonders why the ratings are dropping.

Anyway, go Pans Labryinth for Art Direction!!

EDIT: Then they do Makeup? Who created this order for the awards? Who was doing blow? Anyway go Pans Labryinth again.

AND NOW ANIMATED SHORT? SERIOUSLY!!! Who has heard of these shorts? I'll have to find the Danish Poet somewhere.

[Josh]

Am I supposed to be laughing at these kids who can't read?

Because I am.

[tycoonboy388]

ZoSo, on Feb 25 2007, 08:05 PM, said:

Am I supposed to be laughing at these kids who can't read?

Because I am.

I am too, but then I feel sad that they're already making more money than I hope to make in the next year, or when I start at a job for that matter.

[tycoonboy388]

And now we know what has come to be at the 79th Academy Awards.

Charles, on Feb 25 2007, 06:10 PM, said:

Best actor: Forest Whitaker
Best supporting actor: Mark Whalberg
Best actress: Penelope Cruz
Best supporting acress: some girl from Babel
Best animated flim: happy feet
Director: Martin Scorsese
Best documentary: an inconvenient truth
Best foreign film: Pan's labyrinth
Best picture: Babel or letters from Iwo Jima
Best adapted screenplay: borat

Its a shame Charles, you were alittle off. 4 out of 10 is acceptable, though I think everyone knew that Helen Mirren was going to win herself an Oscar. I'm astounded that the Academy finally caved in and gave Martin Scorsese his Oscar, and then gave The Departed an Oscar, I always thought he'd just be shunned throughout his life, and then get one of those lifetime achievement awards when he reached senility (which isn't that far off). Its a shame that Borat and Pan's Labyrinth didn't win, I reallly enjoyed both of them, I guess I'll have to track down The Lives of Others.

On the plus side, I'll have to track down "The West Bank Story," and Al Gore is not running for President (yet).

[Josh]

I began torrenting "West Bank Story" as soon as it won, and there were 20 people seeding it and 5 people downloading it. I left my computer for 10 minutes and when I came back there were 760 people downloading it, and it was expected to finish downloading in 14 days.

[naharissya]

I missed the Oscars this year. They decided to show it at the same time as the Filmfare Awards (India's Oscars). I tried to record it on my other tv but my brother cancelled it. Does any body know if they will show it again?

[tycoonboy388]

The Oscars? No, I've never known the Acadamy to re-air the Oscars. Its a one-shot deal. Though I'm sure you can try searching for the broadcast online. Like Zoso, if you do a torrent, you might find the entire show.

[katinka]

I saw the lives of others at the Angelika... Honestly, i took a bit of a nap in the middle of it, and woke up and still felt like i hadn't missed anything.

Pans Labyrinth was really good though.

[MsCookieMonst3r]

i loved ellen hosting...she was REAL funny

and will smith's son is the cutest thing alive when he got his line wrong-it was so adorable

i love cameron diaz's dress

i am SO happy jennifer hudson got best supporting actress

and i was completely blown away at the performance from the special sounds choir

[anntan1989]

You know what was fabulous? The Cirque du Soleil and their poses, I just loved it, especially the Snakes on a Plane one. =D

[DC8]

HAPPY FEET WAS THE BOMB!

[tycoonboy388]

Cirque du Soleil didn't perform at the Oscars. The group that did those crazy shadow pupput thingy's is called Pilobolus.

[Charles]

There were a lot of surprises and it ran way too long. While Little Miss Sunshine was a good movie, Alan Arkin shouldn't have won. There are a couple of movies I need to see now: west bank story, letters from iwo jima, children of men, and Pan's labyrinth.

[devildeb89]

i was a bit annoyed when the announcer stated that the departed was based on a japanese film when i'm pretty sure it's chinese. at least one of the producers when he won the oscar mentioned hong kong in his speech.