Oscars 2007

[Scheherazade]

The nominations are out of the way, who are your favorites?

Have you seen the nominated movies and what are your opinions on those?

Please take part in our poll!

Oscars 2007: The nominees

Best picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best supporting actress
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best supporting actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best foreign language film
Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico
Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Water, Canada

Best animated feature film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best adapted screenplay
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Best original screenplay
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Pan's Labyrinth

Best music (score)
Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Best music (song)
I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge)
Listen - Dreamgirls (performed by Beyonce Knowles)
Love You I Do - Dreamgirls (performed by Jennifer Hudson)
Our Town - Cars (performed by James Taylor)
Patience - Dreamgirls (performed by Eddie Murphy, Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose)

Best documentary feature
Deliver Us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq In Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best documentary short subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

Best visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

Best cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

Best art direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Best animated short film
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Best short film
Binta and the Great Idea
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

Best costume design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Best make-up
Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth

Best sound mixing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Sound editing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best film editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6290905.stm

[Stanislaw]

IMOP: I personally hope that the illusionist wins its nominations, especially over the CBP: DMC, CBP: DMC was a bad movie, and I'm suprised it was nominated.

-and I be a fan o pirate movies-

[toni]

:lol: ;) Go Ryan Gosling! :D



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[Shadowsarin]

I'm unhappy that The Last King of Scotland didn't get more nominations, it was easily the best film of last year, no contest at all. Ah well.

[TEND]

I think the Best Picture category is pretty much wide open, though I'm thinking Letters from Iwo Jima may take it. I hope, hope, hope, Scorsese gets best director, The Departed wasn't his best work but he does deserve some sort of recognition. The only other category I'm really interested in is Best Actor for which Ryan Gosling was nominated. He was so fantastic in Half Nelson and it just sort of came out of right field, and I'm happy he at least got a nomination, I haven't seen Last King of Scotland but it sounds like that may be the one to take Best Actor.

Ooooh, almost forgot and Pan's Labyrinth for foreign film, without a doubt.

[Martian Poet]

Finally! Martin Scorsese gets his due!

Good on Marty!

Anyone else ecstatic about this genius winning Best Director?

[manolia]

Not actually ecstatic. I saw that coming (and i don't believe i am the only one). After the "taxidriver", "gangs of new york", "godfellas", "the last temptation of Christ", "mean streets" etc i believe it was high time that justice should be done. But i am a little disappointed that he did not win the oscar for any of the afore mentioned movies and he won it for this one instead (i liked "the departed" but the feeling was nothing compared to the rest).