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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Strangeluv on January 22, 2008, 02:25:28 pm
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So I always follow these awards races, guessing here and guessing there who would be nominated and who would be snubbed. There mightn't even be a ceremony this year because of the writer's strike. So, anyway, if anyone's interested, here are the nominations for this year's Oscars:
(winners in bold)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
George Clooney for Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie for Away from Her
Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose
Laura Linney for The Savages
Ellen Page for Juno
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook for Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There.
Ruby Dee for American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan for Atonement
Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton
Best Achievement in Directing
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman for Juno
Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Juno : Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl : Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton : Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille : Brad Bird
The Savages : Tamara Jenkins
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Atonement : Christopher Hampton
Away from Her : Sarah Polley
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : Ronald Harwood
No Country for Old Men : Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood : Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Achievement in Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford : Roger Deakins
Atonement : Seamus McGarvey
No Country for Old Men : Roger Deakins
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : Janusz Kaminski
There Will Be Blood : Robert Elswit
Best Achievement in Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum : Christopher Rouse
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : Juliette Welfling
Into the Wild : Jay Cassidy
No Country for Old Men : Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
There Will Be Blood : Dylan Tichenor, Tatiana S. Riegel
Best Achievement in Art Direction
American Gangster : Arthur Max
Atonement : Sarah Greenwood
The Golden Compass : Dennis Gassner
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street : Dante Ferretti
There Will Be Blood : Jack Fisk
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Across the Universe : Albert Wolsky
Atonement : Jacqueline Durran
Elizabeth: The Golden Age : Alexandra Byrne
La Vie En Rose : Marit Allen
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street : Colleen Atwood
Best Achievement in Makeup
La Vie en Rose : Didier Lavergne, Loulia Sheppard
Norbit : Rick Baker
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End : Ve Neill, Martin Samuel
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Atonement : Dario Marianelli
Into the Wild : Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder
Michael Clayton : James Newton Howard
Ratatouille : Michael Giacchino
3:10 to Yuma : Marco Beltrami
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
August Rush ("Raise It Up")
Enchanted ("Happy Working Song")
Enchanted ("So Close")
Enchanted ("That's How You Know")
Once (“Falling Slowly” )
Best Achievement in Sound
The Bourne Ultimatum : Scott Millan, David Parker, Kirk Francis
No Country for Old Men : Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland
Ratatouille : Randy Thom, Michael Semanick, Vince Caro, Doc Kane
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers : Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Peter J. Devlin
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum : Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg
No Country for Old Men : Skip Lievsay
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood : Matthew Wood, Christopher Scarabosio
Transformers : Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
The Golden Compass : Michael L. Fink, Susan MacLeod, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End : John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charlie Gibson, John Frazier
Transformers : Scott Farrar, Shari Hanson, Russell Earl, Scott Benza
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Persepolis : Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Ratatouille : Brad Bird
Surf's Up : Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Fälscher, Die (Austria)
Beaufort (Israel)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
Katyn (Poland)
12 (Russia)
Best Documentary, Features
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War Dance
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Freeheld
Corona, La
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
Best Short Film, Animated
Même les pigeons vont au paradis
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Moya lyubov
Peter & the Wolf
Best Short Film, Live Action
At Night
Supplente, Il
Mozart des pickpockets, Le
Tanghi argentini
The Tonto Woman
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So, basically:
Yay:
No Country for Old Men
Coen brothers
Atonement for Best Pic (for some reason I thought it was going to be snubbed)
Javier Bardem
Paul Thomas Anderson's first directing nomination!
Viggo Mortensen!
Daniel-Day Lewis (always good)
Cate Blanchett double nomination
Bleh:
NO ZODIAC ANYWHERE
Ruby Dee for American Gangster (she had like what, 5 minutes screen-time?)
Tim Burton snub
Russell Crowe/Christian Bale snubs
Three songs from Enchanted?
Surf's Up
Academy Award nominee Norbit
3:10 to Yuma not in any major categories
Ellen Page (I dunno why, I just hate this bitch)
I actually liked The Kite Runner and was hoping that it'd turn up for something other than just Score
Diving Bell and Persepolis off Foreign Language film? Or were they ineligible for some reason?
Most Deserving, Imo:
Daniel-Day Lewis
Viggo Mortensen
Javier Bardem
Amy Ryan
Ratatouille for Best Animation/Screenplay
Bourne for Editing
Coens for No Country for Old Men
Roger Deakins double cinematography nom for No Country and Jesse James
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Oh, and here's the Razzie nominations too.
Worst Picture
Bratz
Daddy Day Camp
I Know Who Killed Me
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Norbit
Worst Actor
Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Next)
Jim Carrey (The Number 23)
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Daddy Day Camp and Norbit)
Eddie Murphy (as Norbit) (Norbit)
Adam Sandler (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
Worst Actress
Jessica Alba (Awake, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Good Luck Chuck)
Logan Browning, Janel Parrish, Nathalia Ramos, and Skyler Shaye (A Four For One Deal!) (Bratz)
Elisha Cuthbert (Captivity)
Diane Keaton (Because I Said So)
Lindsay Lohan (as Aubrey) (I Know Who Killed Me)
Lindsay Lohan (as Dakota) (I Know Who Killed Me)
Worst Supporting Actor
Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Carob-Bean: At Wit’s End)
Kevin James (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
Eddie Murphy (as Mr. Wong) (Norbit)
Rob Schneider (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
Jon Voight (Bratz, National Treasure 2, September Dawn, and Transformers)
Worst Supporting Actress
Jessica Biel (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Next)
Carmen Electra (Epic Movie)
Eddie Murphy (as Rasputia) (Norbit)
Julia Ormond (I Know Who Killed Me)
Nicolette Sheridan (Code Name: The Cleaner)
Worst Screen Couple
Jessica Alba & Hayden Christensen (Awake) or Dane Cook (Good Luck Chuck) or Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)
Any Combination of Two Totally Air-Headed Characters (Bratz)
Lindsay Lohan & Lindsay Lohan (I Know Who Killed Me)
Eddie Murphy (as Norbit) & Eddie Murphy (as Mr. Wong) or Eddie Murphy (as Rasputia) (Norbit)
Worst Remake or Rip-Off
Are We Done Yet (of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House)
Bratz (if ever there was one)
Epic Movie (of every movie it rips off)
I Know Who Killed Me (of Saw, Hostel, and The Patty Duke Show)
Who’s Your Caddy (of Caddyshack)
Worst Prequel or Sequel
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Daddy Day Camp
Evan Almighty
Hannibal Rising
Hostel: Part II
Worst Director
Dennis Dugan (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
Roland Jaffe (Captivity)
Brian Robbins (Norbit)
Fred Savage (Daddy Day Care)
Chris Siverston (I Know Who Killed Me)
Worst Screenplay
Daddy Day Camp
Epic Movie
I Know Who Killed Me
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Norbit
Worst Excuse For A Horror Movie
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Captivity
Hannibal Rising
Hostel: Part II
I Know Who Killed Me
EPIC MOVIE SNUBBED FOR BEST PICTURE IMO
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All the best pictures are recent, how wack!
Also:
Diving Bell and Persepolis off Foreign Language film? Or were they ineligible for some reason?
Yes for real! Also, did you see Diving Bell ZOO.
Also also where's King of Kong, you heartless Hollywood fucks.
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It's usual to have all the BP contenders as recently released as that's when the studios decide to release them, just for Oscar contention, I guess.
Like uh... last year, the line-up was Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed and The Queen and all of these were released in October or later. Babel and Little Miss Sunshine competed in various film festivals earlier in the year, though (Babel at Cannes, LMS at Sundance), but decided to release later on so they won't be forgotten when nomination ballots are sent out.
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Norbit. The Oscar-nominated film.
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Once again I have not seen or intend to see many of these movies (from either list).
Expect Bourne Ultimatum. That movie was great (watched it again last night). Oh, and Ratatouille. Both are very good.
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those worst awards are for real?
or are they supposed to be funny?
do they give out trophies? Is there a ceremony and nominees attend it?
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The Raspberry Awards (Razzies) are basically a means of making fun of all the bad movies and performances or dumb celebrities in the spotlight. Not sure if they have an actual "ceremony" but some people have collected their awards, like Tom Green for Freddy Got Fingered and Halle Berry for Catwoman.
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I honestly watched 10 mins of Norbit, and I said, "I'll give it five more minutes. Cause I usually like terribly terribly awful movies cause they're hilarious in their awfulness." But Norbit was... Unforgivable.
kentona: go watch no country for old men ok
Also, Adam Goldberg should have been nominated for best actor for 2 Days In Paris.
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I will be pretty surprised if Sweeney Todd doesn't win Best Art Direction or at least Best Costume Design.
Hell I got into it from seeing 5 seconds of the trailer and going "holy shit those costumes are amazing." Even if its "lol Tim Burton" its still a pretty excellent movie.
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I'm a little disappointed to not see 3:10 to Yuma for more things, since it was probably the movie I enjoyed the most last year.
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kentona: go watch no country for old men ok
ok. I've added it to the queue.
(btw, I am only watching Brokeback Mountain now, so it may take a while before I watch it)
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I'm surprised at the amount of little-known films this year, though I'd have loved to see Assassination of Jesse James get more recognition than it did, it's an incredibly good movie, probably one of the best historic dramas I've ever watched.
Also they should just have nominated Bratz in everything for the Razzies. It's just so damn bad.
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Wow, why would you watch Bratz in the first place, though?
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Morbid curiosity
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b-dump. oscars tonight = prediction time.
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I entered an Oscar prediction contest.... person who guesses the most right gets a dinner for 4 at Benihana :D
My predictions were:
* Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
* Best Director - Coen Bros, No Country for Old Men.
* Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
* Best Actress - Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
* Best Supporting Actor - My man, Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"
* Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
* Best Orig. Screenplay - Juno
* Best Adapted Screenplay - No Country for Old Men
* Best Cinematography - No Country for Old Men
* Best Editing - The Bourne Ultimatum
* Best Art Direction - Atonement
* Best Costume Design - Atonement
* Best Makeup - Pirates 3
* Best Score - Atonement (though 3:10 to Yuma has a great score)
* Best Song - Falling Slowly, Once
* Best Sound - Transformers
* Best Sound Editing - Transformers
* Best Visual Effects - Transformers
* Best Animated - Ratatouille
* Best Foreign Language - I've seen none but I put Beaufort (shame Diving Bell isn't there)
* Best Doc - Sicko
* Best Doc, Short - Freeheld
* Best Short Film, Ani - Peter and the Wolf
* Best Short Film, Live - At Night
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Okay here goes:
* Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
* Best Director - Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
* Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
* Best Actress - Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
* Best Supporting Actor - Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
* Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
* Best Orig. Screenplay - Juno
* Best Adapted Screenplay - No Country for Old Men
* Best Cinematography - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
* Best Editing - No Country for Old Men
* Best Art Direction - Atonement
* Best Costume Design - Atonement
* Best Makeup - La Vie En Rose
* Best Score - Atonement (though 3:10 to Yuma has a great score)
* Best Song - Falling Slowly, Once
* Best Sound - Transformers
* Best Sound Editing - No Country for Old Men
* Best Visual Effects - Transformers
* Best Animated - Ratatouille
* Best Foreign Language - Mongol
* Best Doc - Sicko
* Best Doc, Short - La Corona
* Best Short Film, Ani - Even Pidgeons go to Heaven
* Best Short Film, Live - Tanghi Argentini
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Schnabel isn't winning Director... he would have a better chance if his film were nominated for Best Picture. No lone director has ever won an Oscar. If he did have Picture nomination under his wing, I would have put him down, though, but I'm just running with statistics.
P.S. this is a great Oscar predictions site www.awardsdaily.com
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I only have one thing to predict: Pirates of the Caribbean 3 wins Best Visual Effects. It's possible that Transformers will nail it due to the amount of time spent on making the models but... it's not really anything new in terms of visual effects. But yeah... Pirates.
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Giant black woman = Best Visual Effects...
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I didn't think Lindsay Lohan did bad at all in "I Know Who Killed Me." The movie itself sucked. She did the best she could with it.
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I hope Juno wins for best picture. Not because I think it was the BEST film of the year (though it was my personal favorite), but because it would... validate it, if that makes sense.
Also why wasn't Sunshine nominated for best score. :(
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Also why wasn't Sunshine nominated for best score. :(
Wasn't Sunshine last year? Also I am going to hold a grudge against Underworld for the rest of my life...
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Sunshine was eligible for this year.
Juno should NOT win Best Picture =(
BUNNYMILK IS RECORDING CELEBRITY ARRIVALS TO WATCH TOMORROW
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dude it is totally messed up, there is celebrity arrivals and after that NOTHING. Like, Tomorrow night there is highlights or something. This is terrible.
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yeeeeeeeah no country for old men woooooo
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I just jumped in my seat when Diablo Cody won! :)
I really wanted Viggo to win lead actor, but I know Daniel Day Lewis would win. That speech that chick gave sucked too.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN YEEAAA
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Man, yay for No Country and Coens :D
BOURNE GOT THREE. That is amazing.
Daniel Day-Lewis and Bardem deserved it, dude. Also Ethan Coen is awesome "Thank you" haha
Uh... the orchestra was interrupting way too much with people's speeches, man.
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Yea, it seemed like they kept cutting people short. For the most part it is what I expected, still happy to see Daniel Day Lewis and No Country do well though.
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I'm happy mostly. Lots of Coen credit for a good movie, Sweeny Todd basically kept out, and Once winning for music (I really liked the movie and I am glad it got recognition for something especially since enchanted was 2 or 3 of the other nominations)
Yea they kept cutting people short and they obviously realized it after they brought someone out again to get a chance when they skipped her.
Oh and the best part was seeing the flashback to Cuba Gooding Jr. because I had never heard of it before and it was very happy.
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RIP Cuba Gooding Jr
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i like how that really old guy didn't get the wrap it up music like everyone else haha
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i like how that really old guy didn't get the wrap it up music like everyone else haha
Yeah. The whole time I was thinking "I hope they don't play the music" but they didn't so that was really cool.
Anyway, I think Daniel Day-Lewis definitely deserved it, but I kind of would've liked to see someone get it who hadn't already won before. Just to be fresh or whatever.
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Yeah. The whole time I was thinking "I hope they don't play the music" but they didn't so that was really cool.
Anyway, I think Daniel Day-Lewis definitely deserved it, but I kind of would've liked to see someone get it who hadn't already won before. Just to be fresh or whatever.
Out of the five nominees, Clooney, Day-Lewis and Jones had already won before. It'd be just down to Depp and Viggo. I'd choose Viggo.
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This went on til gone 5am so I didn't catch it all, I'll watch the highlight today but Tilda Swinton gave the most annoying Oscar acceptance speech ever.
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Pretty bad... I only predicted a winner in one category, visual effects and it turned out wrong. Was really surprised by that. The Golden Compass looks like a game. What did that film have that was an achievement except poor CG? Weird.
Other than that, the awards went to the expected nominees.
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This went on til gone 5am so I didn't catch it all, I'll watch the highlight today but Tilda Swinton gave the most annoying Oscar acceptance speech ever.
hahaha oh man yeah, this was embarassing to watch. i just turned away from the screen.
the whole show was pretty terrible, but marion cotillard's reaction to winning was funny/beautiful. i haven't even seen la vie en rose but i'm gonna.
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I thought marion cotillard's speech was embarrassing... "you rock my life... you rock my life... there are angels". Man, I'm sure she was excited as hell but, bleh! I just wanted it to stop.
I don't remember what Tilda Swinton said. I was too busy looking for her eyebrows.
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I don't think she expected to win AT ALL. Same with Tilda Swinton. Julie Christie was frontrunner in Best Actress and Supporting Actress was actually a race among Ruby Dee, Amy Ryan and Cate Blanchett. I don't think anyone predicted Tilda Swinton.
Also, a lot of foreigners won tonight... a bunch of the people who won technical awards were French, Cotillard is French, Bardem is Spanish, Day-Lewis and Swinton are English, I think.
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I thought marion cotillard's speech was embarrassing... "you rock my life... you rock my life... there are angels". Man, I'm sure she was excited as hell but, bleh! I just wanted it to stop.
obviously what she said was really cheesey but she was all shaky and everything. it just seemed like she meant it and she didn't have any better way to express herself than through out a bunch of cliches. that "thank you life, thank you love" was probably the worst and best part of the show.
i don't care about the oscars and i had it on the background but when she started getting silly up on the stage i kind of took notice and i guess i felt happy for her whoever she was cos i had never seen her before.
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Since I didn't have Sky Premiere, I had to listen via the radio (I spent the night with my ear pressed against the speaker since I had to play it really quietly; people complain :gwa:)
But yeah, my predictions couldn't have gone more wrong, but the decisions seemed to be good. At least it was better than last year.
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actually i just realised i think marion cotillard is really good looking so that's probably why i wasn't cringing at her speech
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Miracle: I didn't notice anyone plugging their movies
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Breaking News: I Know Who Killed Me wins 7 Razzies, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress for Lindsay Lohan.
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man, golden compass didn't deserve best visuals!
The visuals in transformers were amazing! It's bullshit that they didn't win :(
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man, golden compass didn't deserve best visuals!
The visuals in transformers were amazing! It's bullshit that they didn't win :(
Yeah I agree,
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Shit Wins:
Golden Compass for Visuals over both Transformers and Pirates.
Atonement score over 3:10 to Yuma score.
Roger Deakins losing Cinematography despite a double nom for Jesse James and No Country. He must have cancelled himself out.
Cool Things:
Frontrunner Ruby Dee losing Best Supporting Actress. Seriously, she had like 5 minutes at most in American Gangster.
Bardem's speech.
An ex-stripper is now an Oscar winner. That's right - Javier Bardem.
Marion Cotillard's win. I haven't even seen the movie but man every clip I've seen with her in La Vie en Rose looked excellent. She is also now the 4th only person to win an acting Oscar for a foreign language role. The other three are Robert Deniro, Sophia Loren and Benicio Del Toro.
Ethan Coen's speech.
Josh Brolin's and James McAvoy's introduction to the Original Screenplay award.
The "Falling Slowly" Performance.
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Atonement score over 3:10 to Yuma score.
I disagree. The score in Atonement was incredible.
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No blacks or Asians won.