Academy Nominations being announced — Page 5

Foxx won the Golden Globe too. And he's won every other award going. He'll win the Oscar. His performance is spellbinding in Ray. The performances he's up against are in some cases as good (and in some cases not, Johnny Depp), but none could really be termed "better".

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Wow. Capn feels very strongly about this, I think.

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1, 4, 2, 3, 5

That is the order of my "strong feelings" toward the nominations.

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Oh well we all can think what we want to but in the end The Academy will decide:)

As we have seen in the past sometimes the best actor or actress oscars go to people with a strong body of work over the years and not so much based on the film they got the nom for. Fox has a long way to go. But again, we will all see on Feb 27th:)

Well we were talking about Ray as a film as a whole, not just in terms of Foxx's performance. It was very far from being an excellent biopic in mine and many other people's opinions. Better than De-Lovely and Beyond The Sea, yes. But that's like saying Backdraft is better than Ladder 49. Ray is not the most fabulous of movies and it is only getting the acclaim by proxy.

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Hehe..

I disagree. Ray offers an imbalanced portrait of its subject (was its goal really to leave me thinking that he was a pig who suffered childhood trauma?) and doesn't have anything insightful to say about life. If it offered nonstop laughs, I'd forgive the lack of insight. But no, it's downright plodding most of the time.

You want a great biopic? Look no further than the one about the woman in your icon - MOMMIE DEAREST. Nominated for several Razzies and yet it's a cult classic now. Seeing the film for the first time in class, one student at my university even asked, "Did Faye Dunaway win the Oscar for this?" This just goes to show you how certain films and performances really hold up in the long term.

Evelyn has a point, Iris. The reviews have all been lukewarm about the film whilst raving about Foxx's performance. Fault has been found with the script and with the direction, not least the very abrupt ending.

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Pop;
All that I am saying is that at the industry screenings before the movie was even released to the public; the film was being well recieved and liked by the voting academy community. No matter what you or Evelyn or the local newspaper in Buffalo thought ( not that you live in Buffalo; just tring to make my point), the film is recieveing its accolade because it was liked by the people who vote. Not by proxy.

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Proably even more.

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The movie was filming when Charles was alive. I believe he may have attended an early screening. His death was mere weeks before the first trailers were out.

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Thinking in terms of the future...

Is anyone else dreading Johnny Depp's practically inevitable nomination for playing Willy Wonka? I say that if Gene Wilder couldn't get awards for his interpretation, then no one else should.

I saw Willy Wonka last week. I give it a C-.

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I suspect it'll be a while before any year comes close to trumping 2002 for me. That was the one year when I agreed with all of the nominations (except the Dennis Quaid slight for Far From Heaven).