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Let the booing and hissing begin...

 

 

THE 2008 OSCAR NOMINEES

 

BEST PICTURE

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

 

BEST ACTOR

George Clooney, Michael Clayton

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd

Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

 

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Julie Christie, Away From Her

Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose

Laura Linney, The Savages

Ellen Page, Juno

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War

Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild

Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There

Ruby Dee, American Gangster

Saoirse Ronan, Atonement

Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton

Jason Reitman, Juno

Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Brad Bird, Ratatouille

Diablo Cody, Juno

Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton

Tamara Jenkins, The Savages

Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

Christopher Hampton, Atonement

Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Sarah Polley, Away From Her

 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Persepolis

Ratatouille

Surf's Up

 

BEST ART DIRECTION

American Gangster

Atonement

The Golden Compass

Sweeney Todd

There Will Be Blood

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Assassination of Jesse James…

Atonement

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Across the Universe

Atonement

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

La Vie en Rose

Sweeney Todd

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

No End in Sight

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Sicko

Taxi to the Dark Side

War/Dance

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Freeheld

La Corona (The Crown)

Salim Baba

Sari’s Mother

 

BEST EDITING

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Into the Wild

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

 

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

Beaufort (Israel)

The Counterfeiters (Austria)

Katyn (Poland)

Mongol) (Kazakhstan)

12 (Russia)

 

BEST MAKEUP

La Vie en Rose

Norbit

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Atonement

The Kite Runner

Michael Clayton

Ratatouille

3:10 to Yuma

 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

''Falling Slowly,'' Once

''Happy Working Song,'' Enchanted

''Raise It Up,'' August Rush

''So Close,'' Enchanted

''That's How You Know,'' Enchanted

 

BEST SOUND EDITING

The Bourne Ultimatum

No Country for Old Men

Ratatouille

There Will Be Blood

Transformers

 

BEST SOUND MIXING

The Bourne Ultimatum

No Country for Old Men

Ratatouille

3:10 to Yuma

Transformers

 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Golden Compass

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Transformers

 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

I Met the Walrus

Madame Tutli-Putli

Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)

My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Peter & the Wolf

 

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

At Night

Il Supplente (The Substitute)

Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

Tanghi Argentini

The Tonto Woman

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Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton should win for supporting - they made that movie, far more than Clooney did. Wilkinson was just amazing. But as they were in the same movie, I doubt they both win.

 

And Day-Lewis was amazing in There Will Be Blood - he should win there.

 

Gotta go with Ellen Page in Juno, though there are a couple films in that category I haven't seen.

 

I'm torn on best pic.

 

As usual the category that the Oscars regularly get so wrong it hurts, score... how is Enchanted not in there? Same with There Will Be Blood? And as much as I loved 3:10 to Yuma, that Beltrami score was very simplistic and wasn't a prime motivator in the movie's success.

 

3:10 to Yuma SHOULD win for sound editing, but it wasn't even nominated.

 

I have a buddy who did a lot of the sound work on Transformers, including creating some of the SFX and voices. So I hope that wins.

 

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QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Jan 22, 2008 -> 05:02 PM)
La Vie en Rose at least deserved best foreign nod.

 

In support of the Unions, I will picket my TV during this. Or just watch Celebrity Rehab on VH1. Either will be about the same.

I found the movie a little jumbled (we were supposed to see The Lives of Others, but couldn't so we saw La Vie en Rose instead--so I didn't have any background going in). But I thought Cotillard did an amazing job. I'm trying to think of another recent performance that was as good, but I'm drawing a blank. Simply amazing.

 

And the music was amazing too, thanks to that film I have a TON of Edith Piaf on the old ipod.

 

Do you think the Oscars will go on? It might not be that interesting if they don't get a waiver (which it's looking like they won't). I imagine then the Actors and directors also wouldn't show.

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QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Jan 22, 2008 -> 05:12 PM)
They will not get a waiver. The Oscars makes nearly as much money as the Superbowl for ABC.

But who will watch without the actors? Hell, I only watch to see the fashion.

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How do they decide between Best and Best Supporting? I mean, I would think Javier Bardem would be nominated for Best Actor? Weird.

Do you honestly feel like the movie was all about him? The main actors would be Josh Brodin and/or Tommy Lee Jones. Javie didn't have that much dialog.

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QUOTE(Soxy @ Jan 22, 2008 -> 02:14 PM)
But who will watch without the actors? Hell, I only watch to see the fashion.

With the sides talking again and a DGA contract giving the blueprint, I think something will get done before the Oscars. Not only does it make a lot of money for the network broadcasting it, but perhaps more importantly, it's a gigantic commercial for the movies involved. It's literally hundreds of millions of dollars of free marketing. Those studios have too much to lose if they lose people from that show.,

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QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jan 22, 2008 -> 04:15 PM)
Do you honestly feel like the movie was all about him? The main actors would be Josh Brodin and/or Tommy Lee Jones. Javie didn't have that much dialog.

 

No, but I think he was the deepest character in the movie. The didn't get into Josh Brolin's character too much. He was kinda just motivated by money. Tommy Lee, while excellent, reminded me of the Stranger in Big Lebowski...he pushed the story along. Javier Bardem, to me, was the center of the movie. Basically, to me, the movie was about how evil the world can be.

 

Just my opinion...

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QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Jan 22, 2008 -> 04:17 PM)
All the studios have to do is agree to a token amount for online content, and the strike ends.

 

I don't know if a "token" is going to be enough. The WGA and SAG aren't going to go down lightly on the wave of the future.

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the good

all the no country for old men

hal holbrook

lars and the real girl for screenplay

juno and ellen page

 

the bad

no best picture nomination for into the wild

no gosling for lars and the real girl

michael clayton for best picture...a fine movie but not nearly one of the best of the year

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QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Jan 22, 2008 -> 10:49 PM)
I don't know if a "token" is going to be enough. The WGA and SAG aren't going to go down lightly on the wave of the future.

 

I think it will. I think the WGA and SAG can understand the idea of not getting a huge amount of residuals for broadband contact, especially given that the market has not matured and probably won't for a few years yet. Also, given the Director's contract allows for another 10 years for them, the WGA will have to concede somewhat.

 

This strike seems very much about principle. If the studios concede the principle that writers should get residuals for broadband content, even if its based on an ROI circumstance, I think the strike ends within the week.

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A real nice selection of films nominated this year. It was going to be a tough year as there were an exceptional amount of GREAT films in 2007.

 

Biggest Snubs:

Besides Emile Hirsch for Best Actor in Into the Wild, I like to overlook the main catagories and focus on snubs in smaller ones.

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREEPLAY

Knocked Up - Judd Apatow

 

BEST EDITING

Hot Fuzz

 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Lifted - Pixar Films

 

BEST ART DIRECTION

Across the Universe

 

 

 

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