Oscars '07

Any predictions?

Anybody you particularly want to win?

I foresee Scorsese finally getting it, and want Children of Men to win all the awards it is nominated for (which I believe is only 3).

Best Motion Picture of the Year: The Departed

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: (I have not seen any of the movies in this category)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Achievement in Directing: Martin Scorsese, The Departed (but Clint Eastwood probably deserves it more for Letters from Iwo Jima)

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: Children of Men

Best Achievement in Cinematography: El Laberinto del Fauno

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: Happy Feet

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: El Laberinto del Fauno (sucks we have to wait until next week to get Days of Glory and The Lives of Others here…those look REALLY good)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: ?

Helen Mirren will win this.

Forest. He's been around for a long time with few accolades. A dues payer.
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Jennifer Hudson totally deserves to win supporting actress- she and she alone made Dreamgirls worth seeing (the Danny Glover fans out there will disagree with me)

Here are the ones I want to win :)

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earl Haley
Best Supporting Actress: Adrianna Barazza
Best Picture: Babel (Little Miss Sunshine does not deserve to win this, I'm sorry!)
Best Director: Martin Scorsese

IGNORED BY OSCARS:
"Children of Men", Maggie Gyllenhal (Sherrybaby), Clive Owen, "Volver" for Best Foreign Language Film, and Leonardo DiCaprio got nominated for the wrong movie.

Do you think Jackie Haley WILL win, or do you just WANT him to win?

I'd bet the house on Eddie Murphy.

I updated my post, to answer your question :)

Does anyone else here wonder how Poseidon and Click each earned nominations while The Fountain missed out?

Does anyone else here wonder how Poseidon and Click each earned nominations while The Fountain missed out?

Oh God…my fiancee and I went to see Poesidon because we have a guilty pleasure for cheesy disaster flicks. We knew it wasn't going to be a "good" movie by any means, instead expecting a good time with lots of cool disaster effects, but it turned out to be one of biggest clusterfucks I've ever seen. Not only was the acting terrible (which was pretty much a given, considering the cast of washed up has-beens and C-list wannabes), but this piece of shit movie couldn't even get the effects right.

When I saw this nomination I was in shock, because the effects were just blatantly off the charts awful. Its the first thing I said after leaving the theater, talking about the laughably cartoonish CGI fuel spill, amongst other almost as laughable scenes involving effects.

In conclusion, it should be a crime against humanity that this movie this awful now gets to boast "Oscar Nominated" on its DVD packaging.

And The Fountain was definitely robbed in this category.

Thats funny, the wife and I LOVED Posedien and Click, guess I made the right choice of who to be with for the rest of my life.

Alex speaks for himself on disliking Poseidon. I loved it even if it was cheesy and the special effects were a bit hokey.

The Fountain was still robbed.

The first Posedien back in 1973 sucked ass too. Why remake a turkey? Because it was the highest grosser of that year. Deliverance came out at about the same time that year.

Does anyone have the feeling that one day we'll find out that Rob is the biggest hipster of all, putting all of the rest of us to shame? It's just gotta come out that he likes everything ironically, don't you think?

My wife likes chick flicks. She refuses to watch war & gore with me. And I don't watch crap like KING KONG with her. We have been married for 15 years.

I remember renting Poseidon and turning it off after 30 minutes. I remember a dad and daughter getting personal with each other at the same time the boat is sinking! WTF! Don't you have to choose safety first?! Bottom line: It's a very bad film!

Ricky Bobby, end of story.

Hey Smackie, you think Tony's going to win the 500?

Of course I do. Unless Kyle Busch decides it's payback time for the Bud shootout….

I'm going with Casey Mears. I read he has Darrien Grubb (sp?) as his new crew chief. Grubb was Chad Knaus's sub when he was suspened last year. He helped Jimmy Johnson win two of the first 5 races, including Daytona.