What Movies Would YOU Personally Give The Oscar To?- Page 3

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 7:29pm

Munk - You know I love you but your thinking is way off from what I'm hearing from actual voters!

[PJ]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 7:39pm

Blanchett will be back next Oscar season when she reprises her role as Queen Elizabeth I in The Golden Age. If Hudson would be in the Lead category, Cate would probably be the frontrunner.

EDIT: I just wanted to add that if Best Picture is between Babel and The Departed, the latter had damn well better win. I loathed Babel when I saw it in theatres this past Fall. The movie looked like it would be fantastic, but proved to be otherwise. Everyone at the showing I attended was completely bored, constantly fidgeting and did not seem to be enjoying themselves at all. The film would have faired better had it been twenty to thirty minutes shorter. Ah, what the hell. I'll give it a second shot when it comes to DVD.
Updated On: 1/14/07 at 07:39 PM

[Hiram]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:23pm

I too thought Dame Judi was far superior to Dame Helen. I would love a major upset. Of course, that will never happen. I also loved Penelope Cruz in VOLVER - My second choice. Not a fan of the ridiculously overrated QUEEN.

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:38am

Things might change slightly when I see "Venus", "Letters from Iwo Jima", and "Inland Empire".

Best Picture (Drama)
Children of Men
The Dead Girl
The Departed*
The Queen
United 93

Best Picture (Musical/Comedy)
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine*
Thank You for Smoking
A Prairie Home Companion

Best Director
Robert Altman, A Prairie Home Companion
Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men
Guillermo Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed*

Best Actor (Drama)
Daniel Craig, Casino Royale
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Joshua Jackson, Aurora Borealis
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland*

Best Actor (Musical/Comedy)
Sasha Baron Cohen, Borat...
Steve Coogan, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Aaron Eckhart, Thank You for Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kinky Boots
Will Ferrell, Stranger than Fiction
Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Actress (Drama)
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby
Sienna Miller, Factory Girl
Helen Mirren, The Queen*
Gretchen Mol, The Notorious Bettie Page

Best Actress (Musical/Comedy)
Annette Bening, Running with Scissors
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada
Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada*
Julie Walters, Driving Lessons

Best Supporting Actor (Drama)
Ben Affleck, Hollywoodland
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children*
Toby Jones, The Painted Veil
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Michael Sheen, The Queen
Donald Sutherland, Aurora Borealis

Best Supporting Actor (Musical/Comedy)
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine*
Rob Brydon, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Kevin Kline, A Prairie Home Companion
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Stanley Tucci, The Devil Wears Prada
Eli Wallach, The Holiday

Best Supporting Actress (Drama)
Adriana Barraza, Babel*
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Mary Beth Hurt, The Dead Girl
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Diane Lane, Hollywoodland
Diana Rigg, The Painted Veil

Best Supporting Actress (Musical/Comedy)
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
Blythe Danner, The Last Kiss
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls*
Frances McDormand, Friends with Money
Emma Thompson, Stranger than Fiction
Lily Tomlin, A Prairie Home Companion

Best Original Screenplay
Pedro Almodovar, Volver
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine*
Zack Helm, Stranger than Fiction
Karen Moncrieff, The Dead Girl
Peter Morgan, The Queen

Best Adapted Screenplay (undecided)
Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal*
Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada
William Monahan, The Departed
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil*
Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking

Best Foreign Film
Apocalypto
Duck Season
L'Enfant
Pan's Labyrinth*
Volver

Best Animated Film
Cars
Flushed Away
Happy Feet
Monster House*
Over the Hedge

Best Documentary
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Deliver Us from Evil
This Film is Not Yet Rated
An Inconvenient Truth
Shut Up & Sing
Wordplay

Best Ensemble Cast
Bobby
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine*
A Prairie Home Companion
Thank You for Smoking
United 93

Best Young Actor
Cameron Bright, Thank You for Smoking
Joseph Cross, Running with Scissors*
Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine
Rupert Grint, Driving Lessons
Sam Lerner, Monster House
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Young Actress
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
Lindsay Lohan, A Prairie Home Companion
Ellen Page, Hard Candy*
Keke Palmer, Akeelah and the Bee
Ivana Baquero, Pan's Labyrinth

Updated On: 1/15/07 at 12:38 AM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 1:55pm

Just a breakdown of the BP race in the recent years with their respective rotten tomatoes ratings. I think it's interesting.

2006 HOPEFULS:

The Queen: 98%
The Departed: 93%
Letters from Iwo Jima: 93%
Little Miss Sunshine: 92%
United 93: 91%
Children of Men: 91%
Dreamgirls: 80%
Babel: 70%


2005
Good Night and Good Luck: 94%
Capote: 91%
Brokeback Mountain: 87%
Munich: 76%
*Crash: 75%

2004
Sideways: 96%
*Million Dollar Baby: 92%
The Aviator: 89%
Finding Neverland: 84%
Ray: 81%

2003
Lost in Translation: 95%
*Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: 94%
Mystic River: 86%
Master and Commander: 85%
Seabiscuit: 79%

2002
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: 98%
The Pianist: 95%
*Chicago: 88%
The Hours: 79%
Gangs of New York: 77%

2001
In the Bedroom: 94%
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: 93%
Gosford Park: 87%
*A Beautiful Mind: 79%
Moulin Rouge: 77%


So what do the reviews tell us?


NOTHING.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 1:57pm

I highly doubt THE QUEEN will win Best Picture. I mean, it wasn't a great movie. It wasn't even good, in my humble opinion.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:06pm

No, I'm sure it won't.

But I thought it was remarkable, as did 98% of critics.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:07pm

So, I don't know what I'm talking about because I'm not a professional critic?

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:13pm

While I haven't seen too many of the frontrunners, I still predict Hudson for the hype. Plus, she was damn good. Personally, I adored Abigail Breslin..the rare non-cloying child actor.

I haven't seen "the Queen" but we all know playing a real person is always a huge Oscar draw...Witherspoon, Foxx, Roberts, Theron, etc., so Helen Mirran has it locked up. Forrest Whitaker, too.

A shame that Will Smith isn't receiving the attention he deserves for his beautiful, stoic performance in "the Pursuit of Happyness". And he's playing a real person! Ha!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:13pm

What in my phrasing would lead you to believe that I think that you don't know what you're talking about?

I guess we just have different taste. You read into things too muc.