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And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!! (FULL LIST!)
#25re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:03amNice to see that The Good Shepherd wasn't completely forgotten.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#26re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:04amI really hope Kate Winslet wins best actress. I know she's got some tough competition but this is the fifth time she's been nominated for an oscar.
"Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets."
-Oscar Wilde
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#27re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:04amI'm thrilled for Ryan Gosling!
#28re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:05amGive me a break, best. Don't be so ridiculous.
#29re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:05am
THREE Best Song nominations for Dreamgirls?!?!?!? BLECH!
And what's with the Best Score nomination for Philip Glass (Notes on a Scandal)? I thought the general consensus was that it was pretty weak. I recall reading several complaints about it being a fairly weak point of the film. I didn't take that much notice of it, but...
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
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#30re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:06amI'm so happy that Abigail is nominated. But she is up against Jennifer Hudson, so I think I know how that might turn out.
"For example, if I should paint my fingernails green -
and it just so happens I do paint them green. Well, if anyone should ask me why, I say: 'I think it's pretty!'"
#31re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:07am
I'm just saying that the Academy doesn't usually go for black films or musicals.
It's a fair statement. All you have to do is look at the track record.
And they LOVE "mob" movies. Again, it's a genre choice. Not mine, however.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#32re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:10amWas Guillermo Del Toro eligible for Best Director for 'Pan's Labyrinth?' I'd have put him up long before it ever occurred to me to think of 'Dreamgirls.'
#33re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:10am
So aside from Dreamgirls, please list the black films or musicals that were not nominated that should have been.
You are essentially the first BWWer to cry racism and that's just foolish and tired.
#34re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:10am
Not enough people ranked "DREAMGIRLS" number 1 on their AMPAS ballot. 1/6 of all voters have to rank it number 1 or it doesn't make the BP lineup. It could have received cross the board 3s and it still would have been snubbed. Thats just how AMPAS works.
It isn't about people not liking musicals or black films.
#35re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:11amMB---That's correct. If everyone picks it as #2 or #3, that isn't good enough for a nomination.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#36re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:12am
I didn't cry racism.
I cried "genre choice!" You can make it racist if you want.
But Jerby---No "black story" in the history of the entire Academy Awards has won Best Picture.
Ever. They're not into "black films" enough to vote one their top award.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#37re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:14amOR, there are enough folks in the Academy who feel like I did - DREAMGIRLS just isn't that good.
#38re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:15am
Or that...
But I watched The Departed the other day. I've seen this "you shoot me, I shoot you" movie 80 times before, going back to the 1930s. Gimme a break. It's so overdone and cliche.
Again... a genre choice. I dislike mob movies, because they all feel like the same movie (with the exception of the Godfather).
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#39re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:15amOr again, not enough who thought it was good enough to be selected "number 1" on the ballot which you must have to secure the nomination.
#40re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:16am
Show me a "black film" that should have won Best Picture.
The ONLY example I can think of is The Color Purple vs Out of Africa, and as much as I love TCP, it's a valid debate on both sides.
And, wasn't Crash winning over Brokeback alllllll about the Academy wanting to award the "black film" over the "gay film"? That was definitely many people's complaint.
#41re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:16amDREAMGIRLS got three song nominations ("Listen," "Love You I do," and "Patience"). Yay! We'll get to see Jennifer Hudson perform that night... unless they ask Beyonce to sing all the nominated songs this year.
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#42re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:16amI'm with you, DG. I'd generally classify myself as much more a fan of Musicals than Gangster films, but I much preferred The Departed (other than that horrid last shot) to Dreamgirls.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#43re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:19amA nice congrats to Pat Field for being a RARE nominee in the Best Costume Design catagory with contemporary rags for THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. Not a great film, but fabulous costumes. And it has been decades (!) since a contemporary film showed up in that catagory.
#44re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:21am
CAPNHOOK'S THOUGHTS:
1) Leo for BLOOD DIAMOND and rightfully so!
2) NO DREAMGIRLS OR BILL CONDON!?!?!?!?!!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!
3) YEAH! DREAMGIRLS getting all three nods for Song!
4) I predicted Leading, Supporting Actress, and Animated Film races 100% correct.
5) The fact that CLICK is an Oscar nominee makes me want to slit my wrists!
6) VOLVER was snubbed. I didn't particularly like the film, but oh well.
7) EVERYONE underestimated PAN'S LABYRINTH. 
BORAT should not get a Screenplay nod. Cohen should be nominated instead.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#45re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:21amWell, Priscilla won that award in the 90s, but it is definitely AWESOME that Prada was remembered for Costumes!
#46re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:23amTrue, but the costumes for PRISCILLA weren't exactly contemporary - they were sort of glam, Vegas, over the top - they were more in the style of a period film than contemporary day wear - which is what Field did for PRADA.
#47re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:24am
"The fact that CLICK is an Oscar nominee makes me want to slit my wrists!"
It was just for makeup, Hook.
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#48re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:26am
Let's not make this "all about the black part," Jerby, you're WAY overreacting to my initial comment and trying to turn it into something FAR uglier than intended.
Stop it.
I'm just saying (one again) that musicals and black stories are "weak genres" in the eyes of the Academy. That's two strikes against Dreamgirls before it even gets out of the gate.
Perhaps they are weak or "dying genres" in general. They are rarely thought of as good enough to "join the prestige party."
Whereas... make the same old mob movie with big-name stars in it, and you'll get nominated for something, guaranteed.
I chalk it up to Hollywood fashion.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#49re: And the 2007 Academy Award Nominations Are...!!
Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:27am
I'm sorry, but WHO kept going on about ""all about the black" part"? And WHO was overreacting? WHO?
Yeah.
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