DREAMGIRLS MOVIE Review - And I Am Telling You: Oscar's Gonna Love It — Page 3

According to Tom O'Neill of the LA times, the studio has officially decided to push Hudson in Supporting. The only problem now is convincing the Hollywood Foreign Press (aka the Golden Globes) to do the same. Here are a few exerpts from his piece:

"...The result is so good that DreamWorks/Paramount now faces a strange problem: Should they bump Hudson up to the lead actress race or keep her in supporting? Frankly, this movie belongs to her. She should be in lead, but let's be realistic. If she goes up against Helen Mirren at the Oscars, she'll get clobbered. However, if only she'll just stay put in supporting, we can declare that race won, wrapped up and ready for the history books. No other divas need apply.

DreamWorks/Paramount has officially decided to keep Hudson in supporting, as it originally reported here at GoldDerby, but soon the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could mess up everything. What if they push her into lead? It could really happen. Members can be very bull-headed about things like that. That race on the comedy/musical side is already pretty tight with Annette Bening ("Running with Scissors"), Mery Streep ("The Devil Wears Prada"), Renee Zellweger ("Miss Potter"), Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Cameron Diaz ("The Holiday") and Dakota Fanning ("Charlotte's Web"). Who's going to get bumped out? Beyonce maybe? To be brutally honest, she's one of the weakest candidates. If the Globes fail to nominate her, the ticked-off diva might not show up at the ceremony, even if she's asked to sing "Listen" as a best-song nominee. That could be catastrophic to the celeb-obsessed Globes.

Now, if only the Globes would just play ball with everybody and pretend that Hudson's role is really just supporting, then everything can go according to plan, thank you very much. Hudson can win supporting actress and the Globe voters can feel like they once again ordained a future Oscar champ. This way Beyonce will likely be nominated for best lead actress (voters HAVE to put someone from the show in that lineup), so HFPA will be assured that Beyonce will show up.

But will everybody play ball? DreamWorks/Paramount execs already have their argument mapped out to present to HFPA, claiming that just Beyonce is lead, not Hudson. They've counted up the minutes of each diva's face time. Technically, Beyonce has the most. OK. Maybe so. But in many of those scenes she's in the background while Hudson wows the audience..."

You can find the entire article here: http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2006/11/dreamgirls_is_a.html

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Updated On: 11/16/06 at 09:53 PM

I am just too excited for this movie.

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I'm concerned that Martin Scorsese will be awarded the Oscar simply because he is Scorsese, hasn't won before, and "The Departed" is his biggest financial success. Now, I won't mind it if he wins because his direction was the best one for the year. Granted, "The Departed" was more rivetting than "Dreamgirls", but that movie was a thriller afterall. However, in many of the buzz-inducing movies I have seen so far, "Dreamgirls" is the one movie where the director's passion for the material was palpable.

"The stage version is easily one of the most cinematic stage productions I've ever seen..."

So if a musical is not cinematic it won't translate well?

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Well, it was the sane way a few years ago with CHICAGO.

Will Zeta-Jones be considered Leading or Supporting?

The Oscars and Golden Globes didn't agree.

But I feel history will repeat itself, except mayb Hudson will win in the Lead Actress Golden Globe category, but then be pushed into the Supposrting for the Oscars.

And with that, I would be 100% happy. Because Helen Mirren will be winning the Oscar. Hands down.

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