The Oscar Race - Best Picture

#1

The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 4:53pm

Let's compile a list of movies you believe to be still in contention for a Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Then we will shrink the list down to five.

List of contenders (edited daily):

Closer
Eternal Sunshine
Finding Neverland
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
The Aviator
The Phantom of the Opera
The Terminal

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"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

Updated On: 12/8/04 at 04:53 PM

#2

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 4:54pm

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST will not be nominated for best picture. It will be nominated for a Golden Globe (and lose) but it has no shot at the Oscars.

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#3

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 4:54pm

Take the Pizzle of the Crizzle off the list. I doubt it will be nominated nor do I think it should be.

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#4

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 4:57pm

(The moves listed I have not seen yet, except for THE TERMINAL. I will take it down but if others include it, it goes back up.)

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"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

#5

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 4:57pm

The list from Oscarwatch.com (in the order they have it.)

The Aviator
Million Dollar Baby
Finding Neverland
Ray
Sideways
Kinsey
Hotel Rwanda
Closer
Collateral
A Very Long Engagement
Phantom of the Opera
Fahrenheit 911
Spanglish
Vera Drake
The Sea Inside
The Motorcycle Diaries
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Passion of the Christ
Oscar Watch

#6

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 4:58pm

I know about Oscar Watch, but want this list to be done by the public.

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"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

#7

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 4:59pm

Hmmm....why do you guys think that about Passion of the Christ? I think it WILL be nominated, just because Gibson has made it so public that he's NOT GOING PUBLIC to campaign for a nomination...That, and the fact that it's Domestic Total Gross is $370,274,604.

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Updated On: 12/8/04 at 04:59 PM

#8

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:00pm

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!

Updated On: 12/8/04 at 05:00 PM

#9

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:00pm

The movie was garbage, though. It was a self indulgent piece of mediocre crap.

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"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

#10

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:01pm

Which movie? POTC?

#11

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:01pm

Eternal or Passion?

I loved Eternal Sunshine and I think once again Mr. Carrey will be snubbed at nomination time.

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#12

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:02pm

Passion of the Christ.

SUNSHINE is on my top 5 list for the year.

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#13

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:04pm

Kill Bill 2?

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#14

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:04pm

No way in hell with POTC be nominated. WAAAY too polarizing, especially within Hollywood.

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#15

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:05pm

Though I think Mr. Carrey was quite wonderful, it was actually a little too subtle of a performance...especially in an outstanding year for actors.

But the movie SHOULD be nominated. So achingly moving...I was stunned by it.

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#16

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:05pm

AAAH! Tiff! The icon! My eyyyes!

#17

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:07pm

Jim Carrey should ABSOLUTELY be nom'd for ...SUNSHINE! I usually can't stomach him, but I thought he was bloody brilliant.

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"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.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#18

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:07pm

You missed the fantastic one I had last night, with MJ's face and Pamela Anderson's bod. Awesome. And deleted. (Natch.)

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"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

#19

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:09pm

I saw that one, Tiff. Horrifying. :P

Anyway, put Sideways in the list, too. Alexander Payne rocks.

#20

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:13pm

No way TERMINAL getds nominated.


My picks:
CLOSER
AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
ETERNAL SUNSHINE
???????

#21

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:17pm

Borstal,

It's not that I don't think he deserves to be nom'd...I just don't think it will happen this year with this crop of actors vying for the spots.

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#22

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:20pm

Though I'm waaaaaay behind in my moviegoing so I haven't seen a few of the contenders, I did want to say that, of what I HAVE seen, Eternal Sunshine was by far the best experience I had at a movie this year (and perhaps in the last couple of years). Don't know if its too small a film to do much at the Oscars, but I'm rooting for it.

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#23

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:21pm

My pics:
Million dollar baby
Aviator
Closer
Kill Bill 2

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#24

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:42pm

What about SPIDER-MAN 2? Does anyone think this could possibly get nominated? It's not the type of movie you think of as being the best, but I thought it was one of the better films of the year.

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"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

#25

re: The Oscar Race - Best Picture

Posted: 12/8/04 at 5:43pm

It wasn't that good. There are too many other quality movies out this year for that to be nominated.