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[cleolinda]

Horoscope of Eerie Aptness: "You will be feeling especially loved by your friends today, because everyone in your life is in a very demonstrative phase. From sweet emails and thoughtful notes to gushing speeches, the folks around you are really interested in letting you know how they feel about you. It may get a little overwhelming, but all of it is genuine. Even if you are surprised by some of the folks in your fan club, you should not be suspicious of what they say."

Awww.

Gibson film nominated for Golden Globe (or as the title now reads, "'Babel' leads Golden Globes with 7 nods"). What? Huh? The nominations are coming out today? Wha? Meanwhile, the nominations aren't even up at the HFPA site yet--the best I've managed to get is an incomplete listing at Oscarwatch. ETA: Wait, they've updated with the full list from Variety:



DRAMA
"Babel" "Bobby" "The Departed" "Little Children" "The Queen"

ACTRESS (DRAMA)
Penelope Cruz - "Volver" Judi Dench - "Notes on a Scandal" Maggie Gyllenhaal - "Sherrybaby" Helen Mirren - "The Queen" Kate Winslet - "Little Children"

ACTOR (DRAMA)
Leonardo DiCaprio - "Blood Diamond" Leonardo DiCaprio - "The Departed" Peter O'Toole - "Venus" Will Smith - "The Pursuit of Happyness" Forest Whitaker - "The Last King of Scotland"

MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Borat" "The Devil Wears Prada" "Dreamgirls" "Little Miss Sunshine" "Thank You For Smoking"

ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Annette Bening - "Running with Scissors" Toni Collette - "Little Miss Sunshine" Beyonce Knowles - "Dreamgirls" Meryl Streep - "The Devil Wears Prada" Renee Zellweger - "Miss Potter"

ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Sasha Baron Cohen - "Borat" Johnny Depp - "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" Aaron Eckhart - "Thank You for Smoking" Chiwetel Ejiofor - "Kinky Boots" Will Farrell - "Stranger Than Fiction"

Wait, what? Didn't Kinky Boots come out last year? Are we sure they don't mean Children of Men? Well, I already had to correct "Kate Blanchett" and "Maggie Gyllenhall," so Variety is clearly not at the top of its game here. On the other hand... Children of Men is very much not a musical or comedy, so... I guess so.

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
"Apocalypto'" "Letters from Iwo Jima" "The Lives of Others" "Pan's Labyrinth" "Volver"

ANIMATED FILM
"Cars" "Happy Feet" "Monster House"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza - "Babel" Cate Blanchett - "Notes on a Scandal" Emily Blunt - "The Devil Wears Prada" Jennifer Hudson - "Dreamgirls" Rinko Kikuchi - "Babel"

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck - "Hollywoodland" Jack Nicholson - "The Departed" Eddie Murphy - "Dreamgirls" Brad Pitt - "Babel" Mark Wahlberg - "The Departed"

DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood - "Flags of Our Fathers" Clint Eastwood - "Letters from Iwo Jima" Stephen Freers - "The Queen" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - "Babel" Martin Scorcese - "The Departed"

I am really, really vexed by the double Eastwood nomination, because I am extremely over the whole Eastwood Cinema of Bleakness thing.

SCREENPLAY
"Babel" "Little Children" "Notes on a Scandal" "The Departed" "The Queen"

ORIGINAL SCORE
"The Painted Veil" "The Fountain" "Babel" "Nomad" "The Da Vinci Code"

ORIGINAL SONG
- "Pursuit of Happyness" "Listen" - "Dreamgirls" "Never Gonna Break My Faith" - "Bobby" - "Happy Feet"

This... this does not seem like a complete listing.




ETA: Full, official film and TV nominations.

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Just at a glance, I've never seen comedy or foreign language so tight -- almost all are viable winners. Glad I'm not picking.

That said, Mirren and Cohen might as well have their awards right now.

[thyroyalmajesty.livejournal.com]

Hee! I like your icon. :-P

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who's getting annoyed at Matt Damon being ignored everywhere for the Departed? Pah at them!

[edda.livejournal.com]

I utterly missed that movie, more's the pity.

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

That and both Eastwoods are ABOUT IWO JIMA. Yeah, I'm over it too.

Man, Marky Mark was amazing in The Departed, but I fear he will not win it. I'm silently pulling for Rinko Kikuchi though, for Supporting Actress. To play a role with that much emotion and never say a word is quite a challenge.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Just as a note, the nominations are up now at HPFA (http://www.hfpa.org/news/id/42).

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Sofia Copolla's going to get shafted again this year, isn't she?

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Most likely. But, uh, "Marie Antionette" really wasn't very good. I'm a Sofia fan and I still thought it was a pretty poor film.

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

they really must have just forgotten to type friday night lights in for best drama, and kyle chandler for best actor, because WHAT THE HELL.

although michael c. hall for dexter is super.

but EVANGELINE LILLY?! i've said it before, i deserve a golden globe more than she does. i do.

[artemis-archer.livejournal.com]

LMAO! I'm pretty sure the hatch should have been nominated before her...

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

especially since Flags of our Fathers blew. I mean seriously blew. SO corny, SO cliched and SO BORING

Loved and appreciated

[speaks.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know that I really enjoy your LJ updates. They are fun to read and insightful, even some of the more personal ones (I myself constantly battle anxiety and depression)

Happy Birthday Cleo! Many Happy returns.

[christwise.livejournal.com]

Man, I could see comedy actor going either way. People might award Will Farrel on pulling out such a nice, restrained role. On the other hand almost every review I've heard says that Aaron Eckhart could not be more perfect in Thank You For Smoking, and it's true. So who knows. Or I'm completely wrong and Borat will win.

God I hope Mark Whalberg and Martin Scorsese win.

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

Joyeux Anniversaire!

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Peter O'Toole, would be great if he finally got his Oscar (yeah, Golden Globes but ...) for Best Actor, he's tied with Richard Burton for seven noms no wins.

I'm ashamed to say that I haven't heard of most of these films!

Babel and not Apocolypto?

btw, *gush gush*

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"You will be feeling especially loved by your friends today, because everyone in your life is in a very demonstrative phase."

It's a way for all of us to fight off The Suck by reminding each other of The Good. And today, The Good includes your birthday! Happy, happy birthday, Writer of Eerie Exactness!

And thank you for "In conclusion: Cousins."

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Can't Gibson be arrested for Directing Under the Influence?

Yarha, 'Acapulcolypto' Lives!

[leggybowtwanger.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

Have a great birthday!

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

feliz cumpleanos (can't figure out how to make the laptop do the damn enyay tilde thingy) y muchos mas, senorita cliolita :)

(and now watch, clio is some vulgar term that isn't in my dictionary because translation dictionaries don't have vulgar words, WTF?)

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I had to read cliolita twice before I was certain just what you'd written, there.

...although I've just spent the last two days in a discussion of euphemisms vs. clinical anatomic terms so that's where my mind is right now.

[obigrrl.livejournal.com]

why is Over The Hedge missing from the animated category??

Happy Birthday, Cleo!

[donleavy.livejournal.com]

I'm so over award's shows. Seriously.

[donleavy.livejournal.com]

awards shows, too.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

*shoves all chips into the pots belonging to The Queen and Thank You for Smoking*

The votes are in, as far as I'm concerned.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

What concerns me is the nomination of "Bobby" for best picture. Because, while that was an ambitious undertaking, it is so far from Best Picture or Best Anything material.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was shocked by that too. But the thing is, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is much shallower and giddier than the Oscar people, and so I wouldn't put it past them to just be like "SO MANY FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THAT MOVIE EEEEE."

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, Cleo! Hope it's a good one. *hugs*

Whee, look at all those nominations for Leo DiCaprio movies...*is happy*

[redmapletree.livejournal.com]

I really like your icon.

[mermaidrain.livejournal.com]

"Stranger than Fiction" didn't get anything?! That was one of the best written movies I've seen in a LONG time! *uses bad language and bad grammar*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

But it did! Will Ferrell!

[thespianlizling.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! I love birthdays because it gives me a really awesome reason to be self-indulgently sulky. The only day better for sulking is Christmas.
I cannot, cannot, CANNOT believe that Toni Collete got a nom for Little Miss Sunshine and Paul Dano and Steve Carrell did not. God, how totally disappointing. I thought they were both jaw-droppingly good. Ben Affleck, Eddie Murphie, Mark Wahlberg, ick ick ick.

[katesti.livejournal.com]

Dude, happy birthday! I've been spaced out all day, clearly.

So here! Have a cupcake!

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw the two Eastwoods and couldn't help but thinking, You can seriously come up with NOBODY else? What is this?!

On the other hand, it cuts down his chances of winning significantly.

Also, the fact that Apocalypto got nominated as a foreign language film makes me want to hit something. I mean, I know it is, technically, but... but... ick.

On a lighter note... happy birthday. :) (I guess I'm part of a fan club now. Well!)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Gibson (and honestly, Eastwood) noms in Foreign Language are bothering me. There's the chance to celebrate foreign films, and two of them are... totally not. I know that technically the category is foreign language, not foreign country of origin (and if it were, UK films would have to be in there) but still...

I'm not expressing myself very well there am I. My point is that I feel foreign language film should give an opportunity to celebrate films from countries that aren't otherwise recognised in the awards.

Perhaps we'll get lucky and The Lives of Others will win.

And happy birthday Cleo. *Uses her cryptically birthday related icon*