the oscars
Friday, February 23rd, 2007There’s a feature on EW where the director of Pan’s Labyrinth explains how the….. ummm…. stitching? scene was done, and I’m not sure I want to know. It looked totally real to me.
Okay – the votes are in and being tallied – money where my mouth is: my oscar predictions (AGAIN):
best foreign film: Pan’s Labyrinth (brilliant, and did well at the box office)
make-up: Pan’s labyrinth (apocalypto could upset, but I think too many people are still pissed at gibson)
screenplay: Little miss sunshine and the departed (I’m going with the WGA awardees)
Song: listen – dreamgirls (although I’d rather J. Hud’s song won)
Art direction: Pan’s labyrinth or dreamgirls? ??
Sound editing/mixing: Pirates/Dreamgirls (then again – I never know what goes into these things. I remember the English patient won one of those for the desert winds blowing through Ralph Fienne’s nostrils…)
best visual effects: AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! (but why is the rum gone?)
animated – cars (sigh. Last year was such a better race)
documentary – inconvenient truth (like Fahrenheit 9/11)
costume – Marie Antoinette (check out cleolinda for a detailed examination of the many, many costumes on display)
editing – babel? But I haven’t seen United 93
score – probably not philip glass, who is pretty devisive. I’ll go with the guy who did the queen and painted veil, which won this award elsewhere.
cinematography – children of men. Hands down – although it should be up for picture as well.
I know none of the short films, so that’s up for grabs.
The easy ones: actress – mirren. director – scorsese. Actor – whitaker (much as I would love a leo upset). supp. actress – Jennifer Hudson (although Abigail breslin could upset – the academy luuurves kids. And Adriana Barraza was the best part of Babel – I’d like her to win, but she won’t.). supp. actor – Alan arkin, because I’m guessing the academy saw those Norbit ads, Eddie Murphy.
movie – I think iwo jima and babel will split the serious vote, leaving the departed or little miss sunshine to slip through (the queen won’t win because helen mirren will). I’d be happy with either. I’ve been hearing some crash-type rumors about little miss, so I’ll go with that. However, buzzmeter and oscarwatch.com had departed tipped to win yesterday. (http://www.oscarwatch.com/Predictions/, http://theenvelope.latimes.com/columnists/env-buzzmeter-iframe-index,0,2003329.htmlstory)
Another nice summary of the competition (from oscarwatch.com): ‘Babel’ won the Golden Globe and delivers the same ‘we are all one world’ message that seemed to work twelve months ago for ‘Crash’. ‘The Departed’ is the bookies marginal favorite and has shown considerable durability with audiences, critics and guilds alike. ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’ is the most old-fashioned movie of the bunch but the post-nominations push that I expected does not appear to have materialized. In a category where every candidate may receive around 15% of the vote, ‘The Queen’ could emerge as the winner given its considerable showing of six nominations. ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ seems to be the only movie with true passionate support and its troika of guild awards (PGA, WGA and SAG) raise eyebrows.
Ooh! Apparently they are moving the supporting nods to the final third of the show – Ziskin! What are you doing??
This: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/giuliani_to_run_for_president_of_9??utm_source=EMTF_Onion
is brilliant.
Boys wanna fight – garbage
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