Oscarrrrrrs

[cleolinda]

As transcribed from the announcement:

Best Supporting Actress - Abigail Breslin, Jennifer Hudson, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Cate Blanchett

Best Supporting Actor - Jackie Earle Haley, Alan Arkin, Djimon Hounsou, Eddie Murphy, Mark Wahlberg (audible reaction from assembled journalists)

Best Actress - Penelope Cruz (announcer Salma Hayek: "YES!"), Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet (she managed to sneak in!)

Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Gosling (surprise nomination!), Peter O'Toole, Will Smith, Forest Whitaker

Best Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood (for Letters), Stephen Frears (The Queen), Paul Greengrass (sneaking in for United 93)

Original Screenplay - Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, The Queen

Adapted Screenplay - Borat (whoa), Children of Men (YAY!), The Departed, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal

Foreign - After the Wedding, Days of Glory, The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, Water

Animated - Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House

Best Picture - Babel, The Departed, Letters, Little Miss Sunshine (I TOLD YOU), The Queen

Shut outs: Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Volver in Foreign, Dreamgirls in Best Picture. I haven't seen the other categories yet, although someone's got to have them up somewhere. I particularly want to see Best Costume, Best Visual Effects, Best Score, and for the lulz, Best Song. And you know what? Now that Streep's out of Supporting and into lead, Supporting Actress just got interesting.

ETA, from stepliana: IMDB is putting up the rest. Children of Men in Editing and Cinematography! Pirates vs. Poseidon and Superman for Effects! Apocalypto, Click, and Pan's Labyrinth for Makeup, Prestige and Pirates for Art Direction, Illusionist and Prestige also in Cinematography, Marie Antoinette for Costume--dammit, three Dreamgirls songs? Are you kidding me?

Shit. We're gonna have Beyoncé sing all the nominated songs again, aren't we?

ETA2: Full official list.

Comments

[beautifldreamr7.livejournal.com]

Although I love Cate Blanchett, I really wish Jennifer Hudson would win only so I could see her do an "in your face, you talentless slag" dance in front of Beyonce!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I actually think it's down to Hudson and Breslin at this point, and I would have said Hudson automatically except that 1) Dreamgirls got snubbed and 2) Little Miss Sunshine got a Best Picture, which suggests something about respective levels of enthusiasm right there.

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

imdb has most of the rest (http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2007/oscars).

children of men for cinematography and editing!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know that you scooped CNN AND oscar.com! (CNN just got their list up a minute ago.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I type fast and I'm low-tech, what can I say.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

The full list is now up on oscar.com. Best Song... Prince got robbed, is all I'm sayin'.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that I cherished hopes to the very end that the Chris Cornell song from Casino Royale would make it in? That song really grew on me. Also, it wasn't sung by Beyonce.

[dlpn01.livejournal.com]

I can't believe BORAT was nominated. How???!!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't quite know how the Academy was hip enough to do it, but given the number of writing and acting awards SBC's gotten for it, it must strike some chord in voters.

[bluebythebook.livejournal.com]

Abigail Breslin, awwwwwwww!

I'm pleased that LMS is getting attention. T'was the first movie I've truly enjoyed in a long, long time.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I really loved that movie, and truly hope the clip/montage involves the family pushing the car and running after it. Because that was funny every time I saw it.

[oya-yansa.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the quality of the acting for Mark Wahlberg in The Departed, I just know I was absolutely delighted every second he was on screen.

I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to see that movie, since I loathe Jack Nicholson with the fire of a thousand suns and am no great fan of Leo either, and I ADORED it. If you didn't know, you'd never guess it was made by someone not only not from Boston, but from New York. Scorsese got Boston so, so right. Whenever anyone drove anywhere, they went the way you'd actually go to get where they were going. Which sounds small, but in movies you so rarely see that. They weren't just on the Zakim bridge because the Zakim bridge looks cool.

Anyway. I loved diCaprio in it too, so I was surprised to see his nod was for Blood Diamond. Haven't seen that, though. And no Jack Nicholson HA HA HA.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, I was glad for no Jack myself. I don't dislike him per se, but I'm really over Jack Nicholson, Perennial Oscar Nominee. He HAS Oscars; free up the slot for someone else.

[grnarmadillo.livejournal.com]

Strangely, the official nominees list includes little gold "The Oscars" icons by some of the categories. Are those things that were already given out at the supplemntal ceremony? (FYI in case it's an error and they edit it out later, the icons go to Poseidon for visual effects, The Savior for live action short, Maestro for animated short, Click for makeup, Curse of the Golden Flower for costumes, and The Black Dalhia for cinematography.)

[rhyana.livejournal.com]

It could be they couldn't find a screencap in time to put in for those movies, so they just stuck in the oscar placeholder. *shrugs* Those are not traditionally early birds.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

i used a lot of naughty language on the best adapted screenplay category. little children? WTF? where is the love for the prestige, people?

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

from what i heard, little children actually is a good adaptation of the book it was based on.

but if children of men does not win, then there is no justice in the world.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Odd list in that this year we apparently have *two* movies that directed themselves. And I think that Borat is a *lock* for adapted screenplay as a consolation prize, since everyone knew it would be shut out of best picture and best actor.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, I don't agree with the idea that Picture and Director nominations should match, because what's the point of having separate categories then? I do think that a director can bring a certain visual/kinetic flair to a movie and still have that movie not end up being a Best Picture. Like, I can understand why Greengrass got in--although I think Dayton and Faris should have gotten in for LMS, because they're exactly the kind of director(s) that would warrant a separate nomination, and they DO have their movie up for Best Picture. But I've never held with the "Oh, I guess it must have directed itself" view.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I am thrilled to see a nod for Marie Antionette in Costume Design.

And if Beyonce sings everything, I may just shoot my TV.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

The "Borat" nomination isn't so weird if you keep in mind that "Bowling for Columbine" won "Best Original Screenplay" from the WGA, even though it was a documentary and thus didn't really have a screenplay in the traditional since. I guess Hollywood is thinking outside the box in terms of screenplay - bad news for writers, though!

[luindilwen.livejournal.com]

Can I get a holla for An Inconvenient Truth?




...No?

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what I want to hear more: the acceptance speech if it does win, or the inevitable gag concession speech if it doesn't. :)

(I am, however, rooting for it all the way.)

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Ryan Gosling and Mark Wahlberg are complete surprises to me. Nice though, as the Oscars have failed to surprise me in the past. I like that they're mixing it up a little and not having the whole "lifetime achievement" bit that they tend to get into.

Three Dreamgirls songs? *has vivid flashbacks to the horror that was the Phantom of the Opera a few years ago* Please don't let her sing.

[secretnthewings.livejournal.com]

Shit. We're gonna have Beyoncé sing all the nominated songs again, aren't we?

Nah, Jennifer Hudson would pitch a diva-fit if they didn't let her sing "Love You I Do", and Eddie Murphy will probably want to hang on to "Patience" if he can. There could, however, be a Dreamgirls medley, which would be both terrifying and hilarious.

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

Maybe thet'll be the telecast's way of cutting out ten minutes. ^-^

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

Children of men HAS to win camera work.

I also want Djimon Hounsou to win. He was awesome for years.

Now I really gotta see Babel, and soon!

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

All I know is that I squeaked with joy and surprise to see that Water beat out Volver in the Foreign category. *waves Deepa Mehta flag*

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

I know you were rooting for song, but you'll notice Casino Royale didn't get in for anything. Plus, I kind of doubted X-Men: The Last Stand getting recognized (and wasn't rooting for it per se) but you'd think the series had enough cachet by now to not be displaced by Click (and Adam Sandler movie and a poor man's Bruce Almighty) and Poseidon, which had caused a lot of industry doomsaying. I've been ssupecting this since 2003. Last year kind of fed it. But now I'm certain; When you're predicting nominations, leave out sequels. I don't think the Academy likes their proliferation. (Pirates was an exception, but it's the highest gorssing movie of the year, and the last one did really well...to the point that you could argue it being a best picture contender in a year that didn't only have Return of the King or Master and Commander, but both)

Actually, you know which sequels didn't get dissed the last two years? Batman, Superman and Harry Potter. Considering Poseidon made it in, and Iwo Jima's big surprise, I wonder if there's a secet power at Warner Brothers. Either their FYC team is a crack one, (and should be pooled over to marketing) it's very vet friendly (read; in with the Academy) or their monstrously expensive movies means half of Hollywood's talent is employed.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you could argue that Batman and Superman are reboots (no matter what Singer's intentions might have been re: the Richard Donner movies), and therefore don't have the sequel stink on them. There are so many Potter movies now that I think "sequel" is rubbing off them as well--it's a series and we're in it for the long haul, so we might as well make ourselves comfortable, as it were, and I think bringing in Cuaron and Newell AFTER Columbus made this statement of "We want to avoid diminishing returns."

I can't explain Poseidon at all, except that like you said, they like waves. Honestly, though, I didn't see Iwo Jima as being any kind of surprise at all--I was actually glad it had less of a headlock on the nominations than I feared.

As for X-Men and Pirates--well, I think X-Men 3 suffered from being a bit crap, and the effects weren't all that groundbreaking. And I think Pirates would have gotten roundly ignored if not for 1) the money, yeah, 2) actual groundbreaking effects and 3) a fantastic presentation that the FX people are putting on. They have a whole minisite I linked a while back devoted to nothing but Pirates effects, and they're going the very smart route of letting people see exactly what the scenes as originally filmed looked like: Bill Nighy in blue jammies. What happens is that you then see how they completely built Davy Jones over him out of thin air--my mother was half-convinced it was at least partly prosthetics, at first--but how much of Nighy's expressions they preserved. Meanwhile, waves are... waves.

(Happy birthday, by the way!)

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

I'm very happy to see some surprises in there. I must say Marky Mark getting a nomination over Jack Nicholson is just all kinds of awesome. I wonder if some how Jack took himself out of the race?

Best Direction has me all kinds of nervous. Once again we have a matchup between Eastwood and Scorsese. However, I'm happy to see Paul Greengrass got a nomination (even if I haven't seen United 93), and that director of The Queen got recognized. So pretty much as long as Uncle Clint doesn't win again, I'll be happy. If he does, I think I may kill my TV.

And when I saw Dreamgirls was up for three of the Best Song nominations I said to myself, "It's going to be all Beyonce ALL over again. Damn it."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Based on the SF thread, I've come to realize that it's even better than that: it's Jennifer Hudson AND Beyonce performing. Oh, the catfights backstage!

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

Random fact (I was brought up on these, I got them instead of bedtime stories, and now my job(s) involve knowing them): Sacha Baron-Cohen is the nephew of famous autism and synaesthesia researcher Simon Baron-Cohen. Truly, they are a prolific and widely varied family.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wow. Is it stupid that my first reaction was "Synaesthesia! I do that!"?

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

I'm totally boycotting Dreamgirls, dammit. Three nods? What, were there no other songs out there? Or are they trying to find a new low beyond "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp"?

[the-lone-jen.livejournal.com]

Because apparently they don't want to revisit the year when it was all "Blame Canada".

[princessstarr.livejournal.com]

*waves LMS flag* Yay! Fantastic movie to get recognized- 'specially Abigail Breslin.

Also- Borat is...an adapted screenplay? I know he's a TV character, but, wasn't it pretty much a documentary? *hasn't seen it*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Bowling for Columbine was either nominated or actually won in the same category. No matter what kind of movie it is, there's usually some kind of screenwriting--Borat has frequent narration, a clear storyline ("I go to America!") that was in place before the improv footage was shot, and it's now alleged that many of the scenes were staged anyway. At best, it's probably a mockumentary with some unwitting participants. (I don't know if you've seen it, but there a scene where a bear leans out of an ice cream truck and scares some children, and you know that had to have been scripted. You just don't put children and dangerous animals together without a plan, and their reaction has a specific comic rhythm to it--they all run away in sync.)

The real problem with the nomination isn't that Borat isn't good or doesn't involve screenwriting--it's that a greater feat of screenwriting, like a really good book adaptation, now doesn't get the slot that Borat did.

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Beyoncé fucking up so many beautiful songs already caused me excruciating pain, I can't believe what 3 times more will do for my ears.

[jaded-lady.livejournal.com]

*wails* no clive owen for best actor? :c

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I thought he definitely deserved it, but I knew he wasn't going to squeak in--we're lucky enough that DiCaprio (as great as he is) only got one nomination instead of one lead and one supporting, which at least allowed someone else a slot. I can't think who missed out to let Gosling in--Jack Nicholson, possibly? But Gosling was tipped very early on as a strong dark horse, so I would have expected him to make it before Clive Owen would. Children of Men really didn't get the kind of attention it deserved at all.

[by-motorways.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I really want Marie Antoinette to win for costumes. They were so gorgeous!