Oscars Open Thread
The Oscars have been announced.
Best Motion Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Director
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman - Juno
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Best Actor
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones -In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away from Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney -The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno
I'm happy to see Viggo Mortensen and Ellen Page nominated. The best movie nominees a strong this year. Daniel Day-Lewis and Johnny Depp both up for best actor. Now that's a match up.
I'm grateful Ben Affleck didn't get any nominations for Gone Baby Gone. It's bad enough he has an Oscar for the ABC After School Special known as Good Will Hunting.
Readers, who do you want to see win and who should have been nominated.
Labels: open thread, oscars
posted by Michael Hussey @ 5:10 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
I would dearly love to see Viggo Mortensen leave home with the statue. He fully deserves it! All his work is so intense!
It would be a pity if Hollywood kept NOT acknowledging his talent. I'd hate to see him at 85, being handed an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. That would just be wrong and unfair.
But on the other hand, knowing the politics and preferences of the Academy, he's unlikely to be the winner :(
I'm thinking it's going to be Johnny Depp or Daniel Day-Lewis. Eastern Promises didn't get any other major nominations. That hurts Mortensen's chances.
And his politics. He WAS incredible in that movie.
Now I realize I'm behind on movies.
I think no country for old men and tommy lee for in the valley of elah are strong contenders but, yeah that old politics thing.
GO VIGGO !!
that was sposed to say (and his politics hurt his chances)
The movie was so unusual I wonder why it didn't step up better.
He's involved in world can't wait and impeachment so it will surprise me if he wins but that he got nominated shows his strength.
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