Sweeney Todd wasn't nominated for Best Picture?!

Cate Blanchett is a great actress - but she's making a career of playing Queen Elizabeth. Enough already.

I am thrilled that Tilda Swinton got a Supporting nod for Michael Clayton. She was incredible in that film.

I really think Michael Clayton should win Best Picture. That was a superb film.

Genesia said:

nope, and Johnny Depp will not win either.....

VoicesCarry said:

I really liked that one as well!!! George Clooney can win as well, if you ask me!

abierman said:

First time where his acting didn't distract me. I really think he nailed it

Oh, and for the record, I consider Tilda Swinton a supremely talented actress. Now if she had received as many nominations as Cate over the years, I'd be pleased.
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VoicesCarry said:

Your humble opinion is humbly wrong. She's an actress of tremendous talent. I agree about Tilda Swinton. Great, overlooked actress. I thought for sure she was going to get a nomination a few years back for The Deep End. Didn't happen. Oh well.

Speaking of so-so actors - Clooney...again? Come on. Eh, whatever. Not a great year for film, so this may be the second year in a row I don't tune in for the full broadcast.

RipHer2Shreds said:

VoicesCarry said:

She really was brilliant in I'm Not There. I didn't love the movie, but I loved her in it. One of my favorite performances in the last several years, supporting or otherwise.

Stymie said:

Hey, it was the movie I liked the best! Doesn't that make it the best movie I saw?

I apologize for nothing!

RipHer2Shreds said:

Clooney was great in that movie, hands down!

RipHer2Shreds said:

I'll give her this much: She'd be a brilliant drag king at the local lesbian bar.

Graycap23 said:

Me also. I'm glad to see Ruby Dee get a nomination. She was excellent.

Yo, how many nominations did "Alpha Dog" get because it SWEPT the Canadian Oscars!

JustinTimberlake said:

Dude, you stand NO chance against "Blades of Glory".

VoicesCarry said:

Well, The Golden Age wasn't even that good. The talent was wasted by a terrible script and over-the-top production. And I loved the first Elizabeth.

I was forced to watch There Will Be Blood and I hated it. Daniel Day Lewis was good, but at times I thought he was overacting. The rest of it--from the dialogue to the cinematography to the score--was annoying as hell. I hope it doesn't win anything!


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DevotedPuppy said:

Oh then maybe Johnny has a good chance? I've just read DD-Lewis is the front-runner.

On a sad note, I just heard that Heath Ledger died? Do you all know anything about that?

DevotedPuppy said:

i didn't hate it but i didn't know what i was supposed to walk away with when the movie ended. you'd think with all the work and money and craftsmanship they put into that movie, i'd walk out feeling something other than "hmmm, apparently the main character wasn't a very nice man." i realize the power of subtlety and letting folks figure it out on their own, but i felt like it had the potential of communicating several really important messages (especially in this day and age) and it fell just short of delivering any of those messages - in exchange we got pretty cinematography, lotsa scenery chewin' and drop-dead perfect production work. yay?

I've only seen five nominated films. I have lots of work to do.

"Ey, why is Cloverfield called Cloverfield?
Did I miss something?
WTF?

I've sen ALL the nominated films

I still have a couple more to go for some acting and directing nods like I'm Not There, Diving Bell & Butterfly, Away From Her etc.

I am really surprised that Angelina Jolie did not get a nom for A Mighty Heart -she was terrific in that.

Illustrator said:

It's a street name in LA - I think the Bad Robot prod company (JJ Abrams) might be located there.

I'm just upset that Heath Ledger is going to be in the list of actors who passed recently.

purplesweat said:

purplesweat said:

If it's done the way they've done it in the past, his name won't be there. They list the names of people who died during the eligibility period (roughly the 2007 calendar year).

Anxiety said:

Excellent observations--totally agree. Yeah--what was their point? I mean, early on Daniel Plainview's character seemed shady, tehn he sort of seemed alright as the preacher character eclipsed him with creepiness, but then at the end they were both fucked up. It was reminding me of Howard Hughes in The Aviator.

I didn't even realize the movie was set in California until I went to Amazon to read the review of Sinclair's Oil! which was set in Cali, and even then I was like, "Hmm, wasn't the movie set in Texas?" (Maybe I'm just slow--I didn't realize California had oil...)

Ooh, and I hated that they completely skipped World War I! I was waiting, waiting, waiting for them to get to 1914 to see what, if any, effect that had on the oil business and then *poof* they went straight to 1923 or something. And then the movie ended before the Stock Market crash in '29.

DevotedPuppy said:

See, I disagree. I think that the movie was brilliant. I thought Day-Lewis gave an excellent performance - a tour de force. As for the points the movie was getting across - I thought is fairly obvious. Plainview was capitalism personified. The film is based on "OIL" by Upton Sinclair, but the main character was also modeled after Calif oil tycoon, Doheny. It reminded me of John Huston's portrayal of Mulray (who was based on Mulholland - the grandfather of the California metropolitan water system) The progression in which this character evolves into a total misanthrop and the way he interacts with both Eli and his son builds the arc of the story - that alone is interesting on a human level. But the film communicates symbolism in terms of capitalism and this country's fascination with "afluenza" is also poignantly portrayed. It's complex subject matter on both a human and a broader social level. In the end in all narrowed down to Plainview's psycho world instead of expanding outward, which I guess could be off-putitng to some. For me, the classical score was effective, but bothersome and humorless at times.

Overall I thought it was very well done. IMHO.

3. Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"

5. Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"


go cate

no nom for denzel in american gangster, that some old bullshit.

DiminutiveRocker said:

on just about every level of technical craft and skill, i thought it was a masterful movie. as a piece of storytelling, well...on just about every level of technical craft and skill, i thought it was a masterful movie.