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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

[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.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

MA wasn't my favorite either, but I thought this would be the year all these film awards would realize "Shit, we should give a best director award to a girl soon, shouldn't we?" I'm sure it will get nominated for all sorts of costume/makeup stuff, though.

[ahsirakh.livejournal.com]

I thought this would be the year all these film awards would realize "Shit, we should give a best director award to a girl soon, shouldn't we?"

Nope. This is a Martin Scorcese year, and many film awards are predicting that the Oscars will be falling over themselves to give it to him, so they want to do the same.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

... and then at the last moment give it to Eastwood anyway. If you see De Niro open his cell and make a call during Eastwood's acceptance speech, odds are it's going to be an associate in New Jersey. I'm just saying.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I just didn't think Sofia did a good job with the movie. The costumes and such were pretty but everything else was extremely vacant.

This is so Marty's year. At least, I hope it is. He should have won an Oscar a long time ago, but The Departed was his best in years, so I'm thinking (praying) he'll win the Oscar.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Oh, and, considering that only three women have ever been nominated for the Best Director Oscar, I think we've got aways to go before they decide it's time for a female director to get a little gold man.