And the nominees are...

[Ham n Cheese]

79th Annual Academy Award Nominations
Nominations List | 79th Annual Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Biggest suprise at first glance is Ryan Gosling getting nominated for best actor. Of course Will Smith got nominated though. Not that he was bad but I'm tired of the same roles always getting nominated. I hate Peter O'Toole getting nominated to, I feel like it's one of those "lets give respect before he's dead" things. How Clint Mansell isn't nominated for his music in the Fountain leaves me confused.

[theawddone]

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Council)
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight)

Heh, wow, only seen one of those movies (I'm sure you can guess which), haven't even heard of 3 of em...

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line)
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.)

Hmm, go Mark Wahlberg imo!

Achievement in cinematography
“The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
“Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
“The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister

You know it's been a bad year when something like "The Black Dahlia" gets a nomination, but I really hope this award goes to Children of Men.

Looking over all the nominations, I don't think the awards will say much, there were a few good movies and a lot of crappy ones this year, probably will be a lot of the same movies winning...

[Ham n Cheese]

I'm suprised Wahlberg got nominated for Departed but not Jack. Alan Arkin was great in LMS but I'm not sure his role was really big enough to warrant that.

[Thorpe]

“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”
(Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge

“Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler
Lyric by Anne Preven

“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Siedah Garrett

“Our Town” from “Cars”
(Buena Vista)
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

“Patience” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Willie Reale

Three from the same movie?!

[Khorum]

Originally Posted by Thorpe

Three from the same movie?!

Worse, no nomination for Clint Mansell and The Fountain's original score. Then again this is the same academy that granted an oscar for "Blame Canada".

[Awanka]

Looks like Martin Scorsese will finally get a best picture oscar. The competition looks weak. Surprised to not see Children of Men up there.

The critical acclaim Dreamgirls has been receiving reaffirms my position that Hollywood is made up of a bunch of homo-loving whores that will eat up even the shittiest musical number.

[Szlia]

Originally Posted by Khorum

Worse, no nomination for Clint Mansell and The Fountain's original score. Then again this is the same academy that granted an oscar for "Blame Canada".

Mansell's music is about as forgettable as The Fountain (as in: very) and Blame Canada is just an amazing pseudo classic, formulatic in the best possible sense. So I guess... we disagree on that one.

[Ham n Cheese]

I don't disagree with Szlia often, but this is one instance I'm in complete disagreement. I thought the OST to the Fountain was absolutely amazing. Especially "Death is the road to awe", man that song kicks ass.

[Candiarie]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

I don't disagree with Szlia often, but this is one instance I'm in complete disagreement. I thought the OST to the Fountain was absolutely amazing. Especially "Death is the road to awe", man that song kicks ass.

I really liked the soundtrack (and the movie as well), but I went back and listened to it without thinking of the movie at all and I can definitely see why people wouldn't care for it. It makes sense to me that people who didn't care for the movie wouldn't like most of the music. That said, Death is the Road to Awe is probably better than at least one of those damn Dreamgirls songs.

[Khorum]

To be fair we're talking about two categories here. The 'Original Song' category should just be renamed to the 'Let's-Give-Randy-Newman-Another-Oscar' category. In THAT category you can have more than your fill of formulaic, kitschy jingles since the whole category is an quaint anachronism from when the 'studio system' pushed out dozens of musicals every year.

But the 'Original Score' category has always been about the best orchestration and music direction in film. And while its winner's roster includes giants like Prokofiev and Aaron Copland, the academy is NOTORIOUS for shitting on tremendously influential composers. Gyorgi Ligeti never won an oscar for the score of 2001:A Space Odyssey and they're making a special lifetime achievement booby prize for Ennio Morricone (score for The Mission) because he didn't have enough friends in hollywood to outvote James Horner and Hans Zimmer. In getting snubbed by the Academy, Clint Mansell is in excellent company at least.

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Awanka

The critical acclaim Dreamgirls has been receiving reaffirms my position that Hollywood is made up of a bunch of homo-loving whores that will eat up even the shittiest musical number.

For once, we are in complete agreement.


And I must say, I read the Best Documentary category in total shock at not seeing This Film Is Not Yet Rated on the list. </sarcasm> At least the Oscars gave all the foreign language nominations to actual foreign films though, I'll give them some credit there.

[Darkmyst]

You could put William Hung in a starring role in big budget Hollywood musical and the Academy would get wood over it.

[Szlia]

I did not like Babel that much (the movie does basicaly nothing with its United Colors of Cinema idea), but the editing was really impressive at times. I am thinking at the club sequence and at a later part when the youngest of the two brothers turns himself in. The different shots are linked beautifuly: I think about my brother / my brother and I had fun playing in the wind / the wind of an helicopter landing. It's very simple yet very strong.

I would not mind the japanese actress winning for best supporting role. When a 20 something TV serie actress manages to make us believe they casted a non professional 14 year old deaf girl for the part, I guess she deserves something.

[WarderX]

I wonder if Little Miss Sunshine could pick up best picture.

I haven't seen 3 of the others, unfortunately. If anyone is about a mentally challenged person GOING FOR THE GOLD, then that will obviously win, as it does in 99% of academy awards.

[Fungul]

Sadly The Queen will win best picture. I would give it to Little Miss Sunshine, but the movie is too quirky to win. I really hope Leo wins best actor to get it out of the way, but Forest Whitaker's performance outshines Leo's Blood Diamond.

In my opinion the best male acting performance of the year was Sasha Baron Cohen in Borat. I know the movie is a comedy and offensive, but think about it. He shot nearly an entire movie in 1 take. That's amazing considering he had to improvise most of it and make people believe him. It is unfortunate the academy couldn't recognize such a brilliant acting performance.