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Best foreign language film of the year
AFTER THE WEDDING
DAYS OF GLORY (INDIGÈNES)
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
PAN'S LABYRINTH
WATER

Which country submitted Pan's Labyrinth - Mexico or Spain?

I wonder what Anne Hathaway will make of that Best Actress Nomination...

I wonder what Anne Hathaway will make of that Best Actress Nomination...

Meryl Streep is the only good thing about The Devil Wears Prada except for some really nice outfits. She saved the movie in the same sense as Johnny Depp saved Pirates of Caribbean. Watching her in Prada makes me want to see her doing more comedies. Prada is pure fluff .. not my kind of film but young girls in my family go nuts over this film.

Anyway, Anne Hathaway is a boring actress. I love to imagine Parker Posey and Meryl Streep as rivals.

DiCaprio gets the nom...for Blood Diamond? wtf.

Fletch F. Fletch wrote:Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Jackie Earle Haley - LITTLE CHILDREN

I'm totally thrilled at this nomination. A great performance and such a longshot candidate that I doubted he would even get recognized. Wow.

I'm surpised, but pleased, that Dreamgirls didn't get a nom for picture or director. And I'm shocked at the number of nominations for Pan's. With Volver out of the running, it seems a lock for best foreign film.

Michael wrote:

I wonder what Anne Hathaway will make of that Best Actress Nomination...

Meryl Streep is the only good thing about The Devil Wears Prada except for some really nice outfits. She saved the movie in the same sense as Johnny Depp saved Pirates of Caribbean. Watching her in Prada makes me want to see her doing more comedies. Prada is pure fluff .. not my kind of film but young girls in my family go nuts over this film.

Anyway, Anne Hathaway is a boring actress. I love to imagine Parker Posey and Meryl Streep as rivals.

Michael, I couldn't agree more! Streep was actually the only thing that made me go and see this movie. Totally worth it, of course. And there should be a sort of Nomination for Best Accessorized Character in a Film or something -- she would be nominated for this one too!

Fletch F. Fletch wrote:Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Abigail Breslin - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

I can't believe the little shit gets nominated, but Cohen doesn't...

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Abigail Breslin - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

I can't believe the little shit gets nominated, but Cohen doesn't...

They're in different categories. Why don't you complain about the other Best Actor nominees?

Because I'm referring to the snootiness that comes with judging comedy, great comedy, best performance comedy... and here we have one for the ages, and the other is just a great tv special... Am I making sense here?

Not really. The Academy doesn't judge comedy and drama the same way the Golden Globes do.

exte wrote:Because I'm referring to the snootiness that comes with judging comedy, great comedy, best performance comedy... and here we have one for the ages, and the other is just a great tv special... Am I making sense here?

Yes, but perhaps a more obvious question would be why Leo got nominated over Sacha?

Not that it really matters. The awards season is a big pile of free advertising and back slapping horse shit.

Michael wrote:Which country submitted Pan's Labyrinth - Mexico or Spain?

Mexico

Thanks, Jeff. The info on IMDB is vague so that's why I asked here. Not that it's going to ruin my life, but I think Volver is a whole world better than Pan's Labyrinth but Almodovar had his turn. Nice to see Cruz getting a nod. The only reason for me to watch the Oscars this year. Just to see her shine on the red carpet.

flyonthewall2983 wrote:DiCaprio gets the nom...for Blood Diamond? wtf.

I have stupidly been watching too many of the news reports about the Oscar nominations, and just find myself getting more and more irritated by the fluffy reporting. I usually only get upset the morning after the Oscars have been on as I'm trying to wade my way through gushing prose about dresses and how lovely so-and-so looks to actually find out who won! (One year I watched a report where the reporter at the Oscars talked about nothing else but dresses and designers and then finished the item without saying anything about the Awards themselves!)

However I must be getting old as my grump started early this year! I think I might now be prejudiced against DiCaprio's performance after stumbling across an interview where he talks about not having any idea of what a South African accent sounded like until he arrived on location . I hope he was just humouring the reporter, who kept asking inane questions such as 'So how have your views about the diamond trade changed while making the film?'. I really hoped DiCaprio would say that they hadn't and had just bought his own diamond mine, just to see what the reporter's reaction would have been!

I was surprised at the moment when, just after the awards were announced this afternoon, a film analyst on the news got a little over excited about the three British women up for Best Actress and said 'This is the best year for British actresses at the awards in recent memory!'.

Well, Kate Winslet would probably remember the 1998 Oscars where she was one of the four British actresses nominated and the only American won!

But then the media does like hyping things up

EDIT: It was nice to see Peter O'Toole nominated - I am currently watching Supergirl again in a small tribute to him!

It's interesting, the lack of overlap this season between the Best Editing and Best Picture categories. Not since 1980 (Ordinary People) has a film lost Best Editing but gone on to win Best Picture. This year, of the Best Picture nominees, only The Departed and Babel are nominated in the Best Editing category. Given its subject matter and multiple storylines (which must mean that the editing is good, right?), I suspect that Babel will take home Editing and thus, Picture, with Scorsese winning a consolation Director prize (and for one of his least deserving pictures to boot!).

This list reeks of typical Hollywood anti-Bushism. Babel in particular is this year's feel-bad/hate-Bush movie of the year (like Crash was last year). Iwo Jima (an extremely pedestrian flick) also is being interpreted as anti-war. And United 93? Please.

Curse of the Golden Shower got nominated for costume design??? LOL.

2 best things--no Pic nom for Dreamgirls and no foreign lingo nom for the execrable Volver.

As someone else has observed, in the categories of costume (1), song (0), cinematography(0), art direction (0), editing (2), make-up (0), score (2), sound (1), and sound mixing (0) combined, there are a total of 6 nominees from the group of Best Picture nominees.

Adapted screenplay
BORAT CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN

Can someone explain this to me? Is there an obscure Kazakh rites-of-passage novel in play here? Or does documenting the bletherings of a range of bigots and simpletons now count as "adaptation"?

If BABEL does indeed win Best Picture, it will just be the most recent in a long line of mediocre films to receive this award over the last decade. How can anyone think the Oscars still mean anything more than added box office bounty when the year's "Best Film" has included the likes of GLADIATOR, CHICAGO, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, CRASH, FORREST GUMP, etc.

Barmy, can you give me an example of "Bush" movie? Big Momma's 2? Nativity?

I can't wait to see Jesus Camp out on DVD today.

Since the character appeared previously on TV, it falls under adaptation. Even more suspect is nominating a largely improvised film for a screenplay award.

rs98762001 wrote:If BABEL does indeed win Best Picture, it will just be the most recent in a long line of mediocre films to receive this award over the last decade. How can anyone think the Oscars still mean anything more than added box office bounty when the year's "Best Film" has included the likes of GLADIATOR, CHICAGO, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, CRASH, FORREST GUMP, etc.

Most people who watch the Oscars consider those to be great films.

colinr0380 wrote:I was surprised at the moment when, just after the awards were announced this afternoon, a film analyst on the news got a little over excited about the three British women up for Best Actress and said 'This is the best year for British actresses at the awards in recent memory!'.

Then again, there is this article...

I thought that the Cinematography category was particularly strong this year. I wouldn't mind if any of them won and wow, kudos to Vilmos for getting a nod! Haven't seen The Black Dahlia yet but it sounds like sadly the cinematography was the best thing about it.

so someone somewhere (obviously not me) suggested that awards shows take 10 years before honoring films in order to get over hype and gain some critical perspective.

I'd love to see what would be nominated for 2006 in 2016. I think it would look quite different.