Oscars: xxbumblebeexx

xxbumblebeexx

Oscars

Feb 27, 2007 15:23

So OSCAR time! I didn't have time to watch it, but heres my opinions:

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

The Departed

Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Personally, I didn't see any of these so no comment.

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Achievement in Directing:

Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
Paul Greengrass for United 93

Or any of these

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness

Didn't see any of these but Leonardo DiCaprio, Rylan Gosling and Will Smith are all amazing actors!

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Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:

Helen Mirren for The Queen

Penélope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet for Little Children

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine

Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg for The Departed

Geeze, I think I have some movie watching to do! None of these either
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls

Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

These was probably rightly so. Haven't seen the movie, but I've heard a lot about it.

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Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Happy Feet (George Miller)

Cars
Monster House

Only cause Robin Williams in it! Go Robin!
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Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - Germany (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

After the Wedding - Denmark (Susanne Bier)
Days of Glory (Indigènes) - Algeria (Rachid Bouchareb)
Pan’s Labyrinth - Spain/Mexico (Guillermo del Toro)
Water - Canada (Deepa Mehta)

I'm going with water only because its CANADIAN! Woo Hoo!

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Best Documentary Film of the Year:

An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)

Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

It's the only one I've seen (and our class didn't even get to watch all of it sadly...) but it was really good!
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Best Adapted Screenplay:

William Monahan for The Departed

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Again, haven't seen them.
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Best Original Screenplay:

Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine

Guillermo Arriaga for Babel
Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis for Letters from Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro for Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Morgan for The Queen

And again, NADA.
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Best Cinematography:

Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth

Vilmos Zsigmond for The Black Dahlia
Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
Dick Pope for The Illusionist
Wally Pfister for The Prestige

Ok, here we go. I've seen The Illusionist AND The PRESTIGE! Guess what should have won hands down? THE PRESTIGE!
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Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score:

Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel

Thomas Newman for The Good German
Phill Glass for Notes on a Scandal
Javier Navarrete for Pan’s Labyrinth
Alexandre Desplat for The Queen

Lalalalala
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Best Original Song

An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge (”I Need To Wake Up”)

Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven (”Listen”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett (”Love You I Do”)
Cars: Randy Newman (”Our Town”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Willie Reale (”Patience”)

Interesting how AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, a documentry, won over 3 DREAMGIRL songs!!!!
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Other Awards

Best Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta)

Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Pirates of the Carribean : Dead Man’s Chest (John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall)

Achievement in Make-up: Pan’s Labyrinth (David Martí, Montse Ribé)

Best Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima (Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman)

Best Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls (Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton)

Best Film Editing: The Departed (Thelma Schoonmaker)

Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette (Milena Canonero)

Best Documentary Short Subject: The Blood of Yingzhou District (Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon)

Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet (Torill Kove)

Best Live-Action Short: West Bank Story (Ari Sandel)
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