Nominees Are.

[rockmarooned]

Thoughts on those nominations:

First and foremost, Paul Giamatti getting left out is atrocious--and that’s coming from someone who considers Sideways overrated. But Giamatti is the best thing about the movie, and to nominate his fine but not particularly amazing costars and not him is, in industry speak, severely retarded. I love Johnny Depp,

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[rockmarooned]

Yeah, Green as in David Gordon. I loved Undertow and he gets better with each movie.

I wonder how you manage to ignore The Aviator so completely.

So completely?! I give it Actor (despite the age issue), Supporting Actress, Cinematography, and Costumes (I miscounted, above-- it got 4, not 3) and admit that it was tough to leave Marty out of Director.

The other major categories where I left it out were:

Editing, where I was borderline-- the technique is often great, but I feel hesitant to nominate movies for editing when one of my only complaints about them was that they're a little too long. Aviator, Kill Bill V2, and Life Aquatic were three movies I thought were very technically accomplished but between 5 and 10 minutes too long each.

Screenplay, which I think is fair because the movie is a triumph of almost everything else *over* a decent but unspectacular script.

It just missed my top ten of the year, and I might see it again. I think latter-day Scorsese is mad underrated, between this and Gangs of New York (which I thought he flat-out deserved to win for, on its own merits, two years ago) and Bringing Out the Dead which is actually terrific.

[wmetoile]

Have not seen Undertow, although I saw the trailer about forty times when I was at the MGM Grand in October. RE: Marty, mea culpa.