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Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
#25re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:05pm
A few thoughts:
-ATONEMENT for Best Picture
-Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy for Best Actor
-Laura Linney for Best Actress
-Joe Wright (ATONEMENT) for Best Director
-ZODIAC for anything
-ATONEMENT for Best Editing
-Christopher Gunning's moving LA VIE EN ROSE score
-"Hard Sun" from INTO THE WILD for Best Song
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luvcaroline
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#26re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:27pm
Gordon Pinsent, best actor for Away From Her. Because Julie Christie is getting all the buzz (deservedly so), Pinsent's brilliant and understated portrayal has been almost totally overlooked.
Ed Sanders (Toby in Sweeney Todd) for supporting actor. This is almost completely impossible, but it would be nice.
I agree with Amy Adams. Great comedic turns are extremely underappreciated by the Academy.
#27re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 12:40am
I think Page definitely deserves the award. Not to say that Julie Christie doesn't, she is probably one of the best actresses alive but young Page didn't fall into the dozens of stereotypes and traps in the role.
JUNO may not be a revolutionary film, but it is candid, touching, and it manages to be really sad at times and then really sweet at others. I also loved the ending, they really did show consistency.
Ultimately, it's Jennifer Garner's nod the one surprise that would make me the happiest on Tuesday.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#28re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 12:50am
I would LOVE to see Emile Hirsch nominated for best actor. And I'm guessing I'd probably feel the same way about James McAvoy if/when I saw Atonement, because I think he's brilliant 
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
LadyRosecoe
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#29re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 12:53am
-Juno receiving no nominations aside from a Best Supporting Actress for Garner, who actually convinced me with this movie that she can be genuine.
-McAvoy for Best Actor
-Zodiac, Sweeney Todd, or Atonement Best Picture
-Helena for Best S.A.
-Atonement for Best Editing most definitely
-Vanessa Redgrave for Supporting Actress and beating Dame Judi for the shortest screen-time record!
-La Vie En Rose garnering any nomination
Updated On: 1/20/08 at 12:53 AM
#30re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 1:13am
Really out of left field nominations:
Best Actress: Molly Shannon for Year of the Dog
Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney for Hairspray
Maria Bello for Jane Austen Book Club
(to make up for her not getting nominated
for History of Violence)
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Tudyk for Death at a Funeral
Not as crazy:
Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Spall for Sweeney Todd
Philip Bosco for The Savages
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#31re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 9:28amI'm surprised Philip Bosco hasn't received more buzz. A pitch-perfect performance, and I cannot imagine anyone interpreting that character better.
"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."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#32re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 1:41pm
Maybe "ShowBuissness" for Best Documentary?
"Great comedic turns are extremely underappreciated by the Academy."
I completley agree.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
WiCkEDrOcKS
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#33re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 2:35pm
I'd love it if Ratatouille got a Best Picture nomination.
It was one of the best movies of the year and why should it be confined to the Animated Feature category?
#34re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/20/08 at 2:45pm^So it's guaranteed to win something!
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
Roscoe
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#35re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/21/08 at 9:51amI think the biggest imaginable surprise would be a bunch of good Oscar-worthy work getting nominations.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
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#36re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/21/08 at 9:54amSuch as?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Borstalboy
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#37re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/21/08 at 10:53am
A ZODIAC resurgence.
It would also be nice to see Jennifer Jason Leigh get nominated for MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, but that may be one of the most overlooked movies of the year.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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#38re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/21/08 at 11:51amPhilip Bosco should indeed get a nomination, I wonder why THE SAVAGES isn't getting much love from the awards, I thought it was wonderful and Bosco gives an Oscar-worthy performance. Linney was great as usual, of course.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#39re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/21/08 at 4:22pm
My biggest best surprise would be for ZODIAC to get the recognition it deserves, most particularly for Robert Downey Jr. to get a well-deserved Supporting Actor nomination.
I'll be very pleasantly surprised to see Tim Burton get a nomination for Best Director for SWEENEY TODD, but I doubt this will happen. The Academy that twice recognizes Clint Eastwood as Best Anything is so far removed from anything I would consider sensible that I should probably just do my blood pressure a favor and ignore the whole ghastly thing.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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#40re: Choose your top Oscar nomination SURPRISE
Posted: 1/21/08 at 4:46pmEthan Hawke for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. It wasn't the great Sidney Lumet comeback I was hoping for, but it was a very involving film and Hawke gave a beautiful, haunted performance. Best Supporting Actor.
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