80th Academy Awards - Nominations
 

Good thread Zkribbler. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

I like PT Anderson. Has anyone seen There Will Be Blood? Thoughts?

I heard it was long (as his movies tend to be) but that's about it... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

I'm not surprised. I mentioned him in the other thead. I thought Lewis was absolutely awesome as "Bill the Butcher" in Gangs of New York. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

Huh. I've seen exactly 0 of the movies up for any award listed in that post. Guess I won't vote, then...

Haven't seen any of them, but read that Juno was awesome, so I'll be pulling for Page, I guess.

Originally posted by Elok
Haven't seen any of them... Come to think of it, neither have I. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/redface.gif

I've only seen No Country for Old Men (great by the way), but here are my guesses.

Actor: DDL
SupActor: Javier Bardem
Actress: no freaking idea -- Blanchett I guess, bad movie though from what I've heard
SupActress: Blanchett (academy are Blanchett fanboys)
Director: No Country
Foregin language: eeny, meeny , miney...12
Adapted screenplay: TWBB
Original screenplay: Juno
Move: TWBB

When Nicole Kidman got the Best Actress award :award: I knew the Oscars were capable of committing any atrocity. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/mad.gif

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


One of the highest rated films of the year (very few have better rating at RT for this year) gets nominated as one of the five best films of the year? OMG, shocking! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/lol.gif Fair enough. I guess I just don't get it.

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly

But then, it's Oscar. I've already seen Ordinary People beat Raging Bull, Dances with Wolves beat Goodfellas, Forrest Gump beat Pulp Fiction, and Kill Bill 1 & 2 pass by entirely unnoticed by the Academy. Nothing should surprise me anymore. Yep. I am interested in the nominations not "their" winner. The Golden Globes usually make better picks for "best".

Originally posted by BeBro


At least they get something right. I can understand not liking the story, or even thinking there was no story; I can understand not thinking much of the acting (though, in fact, I think Uma Thurman gives a terrific performance in Vol 2). I realize they're not films everyone's going to agree on.

But editing? Sound editing? Cinematography? Passing it over for those awards was just ridiculous. Whatever their other merits or faults, Kill Bill 1 & 2 were technically astonishing; there's no excuse for their exclusion, really, except knee-jerk anti-Tarantino-ism.

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
... there's no excuse for their exclusion, really, except knee-jerk anti-Tarantino-ism. The Academy was also anti-Speilberg (until Shindler's List).

And it was really anti-Hitchcock! The only Oscar his films ever receive was for [ready for this?] Best Song. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...smilies/hm.gif

True.

It's on now. Tablulate your results.

So for I'm 1 for 3

Originally posted by Lancer
Apolyton got thrown over by the girls who are watching this instead. Watching what instead?

Originally posted by Lancer
Oscars OK...instead of what?

No fair editing your post.

Here's a shocker: the Navy guy who nominated one of the documentaries was obviously gay.

Coen Brothers http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

Always loved their work and am glad that they get to go hog wild at an Oscars. It helps when you are adapting a Cormac McCarthy novel http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif.

I've been a fan of the Coens since I first saw Blood simple on its opening weekend. But I thought "No Country" was hugely over-rated. That doesn't mean it wasn't the best of the nominees; it may well have been (I haven't seen "There Will Be Blood" yet, but it's better than the others, certainly). Hard to begrudge them the award, but I don't get what teh collective critical orgasm was about; I mean, it's not like it was "The Big Lebowski" or anything.

Anybody seen the movie about Katyn? Didn't win "best foreign movie" though, but it is certainly on my "watch" list.