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Best Picture
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
I've only seen Finding Neverland. I liked it, but I don't know if it's likely to win, nor if it deserves to. It was good, but it was neither Big nor Important, really, so I don't like its chances.
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford, Ray
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
I have no thoughts. Without having seen any of the movies, my money's on Eastwood.
Best Actor
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Here's the thing about Johnny Depp -- this was a better film than Pirates, but I'm not sure he was better in it. He did good work in both movies, I mean to say, and while Neverland feels like a more Oscar-y movie (artistically if not technically), I don't think this was an Oscar-worthy role either. The Academy's got it in their head that he's A Nominee, though, so I expect we can look for him to keep getting nominated, Lucci-like, until he wins.
I haven't seen any of the rest of the movies. I'm hearing a lot of buzz about Leo, but I bet Don Cheadle gets it.
Best Actress
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I seem to be hearing a lot about this being a rematch after Swank in Boys Don't Cry beat Bening in AmericanPie Beauty (thanks, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rustler [g]). I look for them to split the vote and the statue to go to the girl from Maria Full of Grace, about which I've heard more good things than the rest of the nominees combined.
i'm going to stop there, because of the twenty nominated performances i've seen two of them, so i'm not predicting anything really and there's no point in going on. i will say this, though:
the passion of the christ the was nominated only for cinematography, score, and makeup, and fahrenheit 9/11 was totally shut out. i am not sorry in either case. there are times i want to lock mel gibson and michael moore in a room together and see who eats the other one first.
also, PoA is nominated for visual effects, but i think it should lose points for the werewolf that looks neither like a man nor a wolf and for the bad CGI dog.
that is all.
in other news, it really annoys me that my ankle doesn't bother me while i'm walking around on it (the couple of miles a day that i'm walking around, so, it's a good thing that it doesn't bother me then; but), but only when i come home and take off my shoes and sit down. it is not right for weight-bearing joints to hurt only when they are bearing no weight.
that is all.
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
I've only seen Finding Neverland. I liked it, but I don't know if it's likely to win, nor if it deserves to. It was good, but it was neither Big nor Important, really, so I don't like its chances.
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford, Ray
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
I have no thoughts. Without having seen any of the movies, my money's on Eastwood.
Best Actor
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Here's the thing about Johnny Depp -- this was a better film than Pirates, but I'm not sure he was better in it. He did good work in both movies, I mean to say, and while Neverland feels like a more Oscar-y movie (artistically if not technically), I don't think this was an Oscar-worthy role either. The Academy's got it in their head that he's A Nominee, though, so I expect we can look for him to keep getting nominated, Lucci-like, until he wins.
I haven't seen any of the rest of the movies. I'm hearing a lot of buzz about Leo, but I bet Don Cheadle gets it.
Best Actress
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I seem to be hearing a lot about this being a rematch after Swank in Boys Don't Cry beat Bening in American
rustler [g]). I look for them to split the vote and the statue to go to the girl from Maria Full of Grace, about which I've heard more good things than the rest of the nominees combined.i'm going to stop there, because of the twenty nominated performances i've seen two of them, so i'm not predicting anything really and there's no point in going on. i will say this, though:
the passion of the christ the was nominated only for cinematography, score, and makeup, and fahrenheit 9/11 was totally shut out. i am not sorry in either case. there are times i want to lock mel gibson and michael moore in a room together and see who eats the other one first.
also, PoA is nominated for visual effects, but i think it should lose points for the werewolf that looks neither like a man nor a wolf and for the bad CGI dog.
in other news, it really annoys me that my ankle doesn't bother me while i'm walking around on it (the couple of miles a day that i'm walking around, so, it's a good thing that it doesn't bother me then; but), but only when i come home and take off my shoes and sit down. it is not right for weight-bearing joints to hurt only when they are bearing no weight.
that is all.
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Hee! Er, that should be American Beauty, not American Pie (heh, though maybe if Annette had attacked a pie with a strap-on or something, she'd have won! LOL)
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