Broadcast Film Critics Awards

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 3:22pm

Don't know if we're tired of all of these different award lists yet, but I thought I'd post this one anyway. Dreamgirls got four:


Picture: "The Departed"

Actor: Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"

Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"

Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

Acting Ensemble: "Little Miss Sunshine"

Director: Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"

Writer: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Animated Feature: "Cars"

Young Actor: Paul Dano, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Young Actress: Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Comedy: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"

Family Film (live action): "Charlotte's Web"

Picture Made for Television: "Elizabeth I"

Foreign Language Film: "Letters from Iwo Jima"

Song: "Listen," Beyonce, from the film "Dreamgirls"

Soundtrack: "Dreamgirls"

Composer: Philip Glass, "The Illusionist"

Documentary Feature: "An Inconvenient Truth"

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[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 3:25pm

The Departed is starting to become a lock for the Best Picture Oscar. And is d.ef a lock for Best Director. That's my bet.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 3:29pm

Question: I am assuming "Letters from Iwo Jima" isn't eligible for the Best Foreign Film Oscar because, while it is mostly in Japanese, in order for a film to be eligible it has to be submitted formally by the film board of a given country and I don't think the US has a special film board to submit its own foreign language films to the Oscars? Or does it? Or am I wrong altogether? I don't remember hearing of this situation occurring before.

Updated On: 1/13/07 at 03:29 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 4:23pm

Margo, I believe Iwo Jima isn't eligible for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. I remember reading that recently, but without the specific reason why.

That's the actual category name, BTW, which most people don't realize. It's not Best Foreign Film, it's Best Foreign Language Film. It has to do with it being a non-English film, but not necessarily a foreign country.

I remember there was a push just a couple of years ago to get a US Spanish-speaking film nominated. It was entirely in Spanish, and was deemed eligible for the award, but it didn't get the nomination after all. I'm assuming that means the US has some sort of formal nominating committee for its own foreign language films. I can't imagine they're kept very busy. But that could change in the coming years, as our country is already changing and I anticipate more foreign language films will be produced here in the US.

I believe since "most" but not all of Iwo Jima is in Japanese, it isn't eligible for the Foreign Language Academy Award. That's my guess, but all I've heard so far is that it's not eligible.

EDIT: Another reason in years past for a ruling of ineligibility had to do with a single country of origin. If the film was joint-produced by several countries, it doesn't seem to fall into the Academy's "organizational" rules for submission. Hopefully they've changed that in the past years, since more films ARE being produced by multiple countries these days. The next step in our ever-shrinking world. I'm not saying this has anything to do with Iwo Jima's ruling on ineligibility, just that it's another controversial reason on the Academy's list to write a film off.

Updated On: 1/14/07 at 04:23 PM