Nominations!

[cleolinda]

Oscar nominations are up (or will be, give 'em a few moments).

Oh, wow, Cate Blanchett did get two nominations--I was not terribly impressed with The Golden Age in any objective sense. I mean, hell, I will be there on DVD release day with bells on, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a total melodrama. Yay for Tilda Swinton, even if I totally don't get the fuss over Michael Clayton! No nomination for Keira Knightley--Ellen Page got her slot. Best Actor was fun--Johnny Depp! Viggo Mortensen! Surprise nomination for Tommy Lee Jones! Even though they could totally just give it to Daniel Day-Lewis right now and cut an hour off the show that may or may not happen! Best Sarah Polley for Best Adapted Screenplay! Atonement snuck in for Best Picture after people thought it was out, but Sweeney Todd didn't make it in; the other two were Juno and Michael Clayton, because No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were kind of obvious. (You know, it's terrible of me to say this, but I was kind of hoping that one of The Big Undeniable Nominations would get left out just to hear people shriek about it. Am I a terrible person?)

I can't find a full list of nominations up yet--I'm dying to know who got costumes. Hurry up and post, people!


ETA: FINALLY. Sweeney Todd, The Golden Age and Atonement for costume! Sweeney Todd and Golden Compass for Art Direction! Pirates and Golden Compass for Visual Effects! Michael Giacchino, he of the Monster Opera, for Best Score (for Ratatouille, that is)! Three Best Song nominations for Enchanted!

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I got the impression Laura Linney got Keira Knightley's spot. I haven't seen an Oscar prediction list yet that hasn't had Ellen Page on it, but Keira Knightley still makes people feel a little guilty for liking her in anything, and every critique I've seen of Atonement lists the best performances in the movie as Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, James McAvoy, and then they get to Keira.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

That's true--I wasn't thinking so much that Ellen Page wouldn't have made it as that she got the "young actress" slot. I woke up ten minutes ago, what can I say.

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

Yussss, Juno.

I'm assuming Viggo's nominated for Eastern Promises, yes? Mmmm, I adored that movie.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

I love La Blanchett like whoa, but her performance in E:GA didn't deserve to be nominated in my opinion. To the movie's detriment, Elizabeth is not really allowed to be the centre of the film like in the original, which is also the far better movie.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. I know the feeling. I turned on the TV juuuuust in time to miss the Best Supporting Actress category and kinda flailed around for a few minutes waiting for E! to reannounce it.

Yay Saoirse! She's my favorite in that category so far, although I loved that movie to pieces. And I still have to catch Juno but I'm currently rooting for Marion Cotillard -- I watched La Vie En Rose the other day and was stunned when I saw a picture of her on IMDb. The transformation is amazing.

I still have to catch up on my awards-seasons movies, alas. *sigh*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've even seen any of these movies--well, The Golden Age and Sweeney Todd--which is hugely unusual for me. I haven't even gotten out to see Atonement like I wanted, so I have a lot of catching up to do myself.

[nanet.livejournal.com]

Blanchett's great, but Keira deserved that spot more than her. Elizabeth the second (ha) wasn't anything to write home about, really.

[bluebythebook.livejournal.com]

Norbit... got an Oscar nomination.

Achievement in makeup
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount): Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Has a film ever been nominated for both the Razzies and the Oscars?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I love her, but... yeah. Shouldn't have been up there. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that she took [actress of your choice's] slot. It's not that I don't think Her Cateness is fantastic; it's that I don't think the writing gave her anything really spectacular to do.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Atonement is lovely but oh, man, bring tissues. Lots and lots of tissues. I haven't cried that hard after seeing a movie since Life Is Beautiful.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Wow. The only things in the "big" award categories I saw this year were Sweeney Todd and Ratatoille.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. The other day I was watching movies on cable and checking out the trivia section on IMDb for each one, and I'd completely forgotten that "How Do I Live" from Con Air got nominated for Best Original Song and Worst Original Song. (It won neither.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Amen on that. The I'm Not There nomination, I get. That one? Not so much.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

'Zactly. As my friend said E:GA was "Galadriel parts the waves and defeats the Spanish Armada."

I was kind of hoping to see Knightley get a nod but Cecilia isn't really a lead role but I suppose putting her in the Best Supporting category would have ensure that none of the Briony's were nom'd. I mean how do you nominate someone for a third of a leading role?

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Several. There have even been individual performances nominated for both.

James Coco in Only When I Laugh
Amy Irving in Yentl.

And I'm sure there have been several eye candy movies that got lots of technical awards but got Razzie noms as well.

[bluebythebook.livejournal.com]

And the Razzie nomination was the most accurate, too. Go fig. Thanks for sharing.

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

They nominated Enchanted THREE TIMES but they didn't nominate Into The Wild? ARRGGGG HULK SMASH.

And they didn't nominate Keira!? She was AMAZING in that movie!!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Into The Wild got nominated for Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor for Hal Holbrook, and Best Music for the score.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I really thought Hal Holbrook was dead.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, even if he was (which he isn't) he could still get nominated. Peter Finch from Network got nominated for Best Actor and won posthumously. :)

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah I totally skipped over that by accident. I think I was so prepared for them to snub it that when I saw the "Enchanted, Enchanted, Enchanted" right underneath it I went a little nuts. Granted, Enchanted made me squee until I couldn't squee anymore.

Ok, so yay academy!

I still think it's weird that they'd nominate one movie three times in the same category. In that case, last year's best picture should have been The Departed, The Departed, The Departed, The Queen, The Departed. Heh.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

They must have been really desperate for original songs this year, considering. Not that I'm knocking Enchanted, which from what I've heard has some great music, but really, to mine most of the nominees from one movie? *shrugs* (And when the other two nominees are August Rush and Once? I love movies, but I actually had to go look up Once and I *still* don't recall it.)

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

That happened with Dreamgirls, too. The problem is so many movies just buy the rights to popular songs instead of commissioning their own, so there aren't the options there used to be.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I think they closed that loophole, now. The only way an actor can win posthumously now is if they die between the nominations and the awards.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Dreamgirls. The worst thing about that movie was that that performance of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" was ineligible. Or at least I thought so. Sometimes I wish there was a Best Musical Performance category at the Oscars so people who bring musicals to the big screen wouldn't have to write in these last-minute original numbers that stick out like a sore thumb if you know the musical at all. And Sweeney Todd might have had a chance of being nominated for something as well, although I still have yet to see so I'm not sure on that count.

It's just annoying that every year there's a good musical that comes out, it has to force out a new song just to get a Best Original Song nomination.

Ugh. And I don't even LIKE musicals most of the time!