Oscars '07

I'm picking Stewart, as I did in the Shootout.

I read in the Sporting News that Gilbert Arenas is picking Mears.

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Best Achievement in Directing: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: El Laberinto del Fauno, Guillermo del Toro

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: The Departed

Best Achievement in Cinematography: El Laberinto del Fauno

Best Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: El Laberinto del Fauno

wow - ive seen almost every nominated film this year. foreign is the only category im lacking in aside from seeing Pan's Labyrinth

Eddie Murphy will be denied the Oscar as retribution for Norbit (a film that both Buck Satan and his wife indubitably adored).

What's the deal with that Norbit story? I heard something about it, but didn't get the whole scoop.

Can the Academy really deny him an Oscar because Norbit is such a turd? There has to be more to it, right?

Pluto Nash

hi - does anyone know when tickets for the Oscars go on sale to the general public? does anyone think they'll sell out?

presale pw: "treacly pap"

if departed wins anything they better give complete credit to infernal affairs.

ryan gosling for best actor.

i'm also picking stewart ;)

Picture: The Departed
Director: Scorcese
Actor: Forest Whitaker
Actor/supporting: Alan Arkin
Actress: Helen Mirren
Actress/supporting: Jennifer Hudson
Screenplay Adapted: Little Children
Screenplay Original: Little Miss Sunshine
Foreign Language: Pan's Labrynth

This is whom I would like to win. I have a feeling Eddie Murphy will probably win. And, if it goes like last year, Babel will win best picture because it's the crappiest one nominated. (See last year's winner, Crash, which I thought was one of the worst movies I'd ever seen.)

They can't give Marvin Scorcese an Oscar because of what he said in Taxi Driver about the effects of a 44 cailber magnum on a woman's pussy. Very politcally incorrect. Also there's a SCAR in Oscar. I'm picking my nose.

Whata bunch of pukes. I can see why middle America votes red.

Pan's Labyrynth was robbed.

And that Melissa Etheridge song? Horrible, horrible, horrible. They're saying that song was better than any of the Devotchka songs used in Little Miss Sunshine? Please.

At least Eddie Murphy lost. That's a good thing.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Pan's Labyrynth was robbed.

Have you seen The Lives of Others yet?

I watched "Half Nelson" over the weekend. Ryan Gosling was deserving of the nom, if not a win.

The Lives of Others was good, but very slow in the middle…I was falling asleep and I wasn't even that tired. A big fat guy behind me was snoring (maybe one of you from this board?)

Originally posted by joey joe:
The Lives of Others was good, but very slow in the middle…

…just like you?

Seriously, I was surprised Howard K. Stern didn't win for most inconvenient name. I feel sorry for people who have near-famous names. How would you like to be known as Hulk W. Hogan?

yes, indeed!

Originally posted by Dudek Chakra:

Originally posted by Dudek's Brain:
The Lives of Others was good, but very slow in the middle…

…just like you?

Originally posted by joey joe:
The Lives of Others was good, but very slow in the middle…I was falling asleep and I wasn't even that tired. A big fat guy behind me was snoring (maybe one of you from this board?)

Interesting. I've been looking forward to seeing it for months now but I haven't had a chance to make it out to Bethesda or E Street or where ever its playing now. I was just wondering, I loved Pan's Labrynth, but I've read nothing but great reviews for this one.

Alex, it just opened this past Friday (23rd). I think Pan's Labyrinth is a better movie.

has anyone seen "little children" yet?

i watched the whole thing in about 30 minutes thanks to my DVR, some of that crap looked really unbearable

I thought it was excellent. Definitely in my top 5 for the year. But then again, any film with Kate Winslet naked in it is going to get the thumbs up from me.

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
has anyone seen "little children" yet?

i watched the whole thing in about 30 minutes thanks to my DVR, some of that crap looked really unbearable