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Jennifer Garner, Juno
Joe Wright, Atonement
Keri Russell, Waitress
Christian Bale, Rescue Dawn (Second that!)
The Simpsons Movie
"Funk McLovin", Superbad (Second that one too!)
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl (And that one!)
Sean Penn, Into the Wild (I'll go along...)
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Pop! Goes My Heart (Music & Lyrics)
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Five of my own:
Children of Men (Best Film)
Once (Best Musical...)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Best Foreign)
Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone (Best Actor)
Ben Afleck, Gone Baby Gone (Director)
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Others?
clark
Follow Ups:
...the bastards, I'm still annoyed at em for nominating for the much less accomplished Babel instead. Two of the "three Amigos" hit home runs last year (Cuaron & Del Toro). Innaritu swung hard but...missed. Cuaron was also robbed as best director IMO.
I'm always amused and annoyed when stellar films like Atonement get nommed for BP, cinematography, script, acting, editing etc but the director is ignored...as if...the movie directed itself?? Especially in the case of Joe Wright, he works with a team of people he puts together - including the composer - so it really is his baby. They should nkow by now that Pride & Prejudice wasn't a fluke, and the things that were best in both films were due to cinematic skills of Mr. Wright...oh well...
I agree with 90% of EW's list and your nod for Once. I think The Wind That Shakes The Barley is counted as an '06 release. The Afflecks frere were very good but I'm not torn up about it. (I'll leave you to wonder about the 3%.) But if I had $5 for evey stupid thing AMPAS has ever done I coud retire.
I try to not get to invested in the Oscars. (WARNING: here comes my annual Oscar rant.) They're fun to handicap, and I love the gown watching, but they aren't really about film art, they're about film business. They do, now and again, actually reward cinematic excellence. But a great film doesn't need AMPAS' imprimatur, although it's nice for box office. The "best" film of any given year is a non-starter anyway - the one thing you need to assess a movie's true place within the scheme of things is the one thing the Academy doesn't have - time.
Good movies are snubbed, slighted and lost in the shuffle every year. Subtle and searching performancfes are passed over to reward hammy and obvious ones. That's show biz, folks. There are far more great movies that never won best pic than there are great movies that did.
And we all know, since actors make up the largest block of voters, that you always get weird sh*t like Tommy Lee Jones nominated for In The Valley Of Ellah. What??? OTOH, many of the nominations tnis year are less offensive than they might be.
Have you seen this little Mexican gem?
Not in the thriller/horror genre but terrifying in an existential way.
Plus I saw it, and The Wind, well into 2007. Oh, well.
"The one thing the Academy doesn't have - time." And another thing: the big-screen theatre experience. Since tapes and DVDs ("screeners") came along, film has become mainly a 36" - 54" experience. And generally without good sound. And *with* numerous interruptions I'm sure!
By the way, I won't be watching the Oscars.
clark
"respected" film reviewers.
How else to explain "Elah" and "The Departed" getting such incredibly exalted reviews? Both mediocre, at best. The film Tommy Lee did previous to "Elah"--- some thing about Three Burials--- also was hyped as Best Film worthy, Oscar deserving acting, etc.
And now... No Country.
He'll probably get the Oscar this year if for no other reason than the Academy likes to give it to multiple performances.
Agreement about "time" in a true assessment.
But seldom will what is at first viewing a mediocre film grow into a great one with another viewing.
Talk about boring....sheesh.
In the bonus materials one of the production staff admitted he couldn't understand anything said in the first scene. I turned on the subtitles! Fortunately, I was able to turn them off shortly after that scene.
Too much Irish angst and not enough meat.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
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and it helped me understand where my homocidal urges come from. But, the overall complexities of emotions and motives concerning that era of the Irish struggle for Independence ran too deep for the unintiated in Irish history.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
...I thought the initial Brit marauders were rather over-the-top.
Perhaps it was wise that I had seen Michael Collins (have you?), with the incomparable Alan Rickman as Eamon de Valera.
clark
PS I notice that one anonymous poster has suggested you consult me first before any future moviegoing. It's the best thing he's come up with, in years and years of smug pronouncements. I stand at ready, sir!
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