...randomness surrounding Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, and other great indie rock bands; a quasi objective look at "my" sporting teams; the random horror film; plus other crap as we see fit...all with a Pittsburgh based feel.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Nick's Picks - Oscar Nods

Long time friend of the program, Nick Lumley, will be joining the EC over the next few months to bring us his amazing and dazzling Oscar Award insights (ok, dazzling may be a stretch). Wanted to get this out there before they're named, but here's Nick's Picks for the 2006 Oscar Nominations, which will be announced in about a 1/2 hour:

BEST PICTURE:

  1. The Departed
  2. Dreamgirls
  3. Babel
  4. The Queen
  5. Little Miss Sunshine

* Dark Horse - Letters From Iwo Jima

BEST DIRECTOR:

  1. Scorcese - The Departed
  2. Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima
  3. Inarritu - Babel
  4. Condon - Dreamgirls
  5. Del Toro - Pan's Labrynth

* Dark Horses - Fears - The Queen; Cuaron - Children Of Men

BEST ACTOR:

  1. Whitaker - Last King of Scotland
  2. O'Toole - Venus
  3. DiCaprio - The Departed
  4. Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
  5. Gosling - Half Nelson

* Dark Horses - DiCaprio - Blood Diamond; Cohen - Borat

BEST ACTRESS:

  1. Mirren - The Queen
  2. Dench - Notes on a Scandal
  3. Cruz - Volver
  4. Winslet - Little Children
  5. Streep - Devil Wears Prada

* Dark Horses - Bening - Running with Scissors; Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

  1. Murphy - Dreamgirls
  2. Nicholson - The Departed
  3. Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
  4. Pitt - Babel
  5. Walhberg - The Departed

* Dark Horses - Haley - Little Children; Affleck - Hollywoodland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

  1. Hudson - Dreamgirls
  2. Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
  3. Kikuchi - Babel
  4. Barraza - Babel
  5. Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine

* Dark Horses - Blanchett - Babel; O'Hara - For Your Consideration

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

  1. Babel
  2. Little Miss Sunshine
  3. The Queen
  4. Volver
  5. United 93

* Dark Horses - Stranger than Fiction; Pan's Labrynth

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

  1. The Departed
  2. Dreamgirls
  3. Notes on a Scandal
  4. Little Children
  5. Last King of Scotland

* Dark Horses - Children of Men; The Painted Veil

BEST FOREIGN:

  1. Volver - Spain
  2. Pan's Labrynth - Mexico
  3. The Lives of Others - Germany
  4. Days of Glory - Algeria
  5. Water - Canada

* Dark Horse - Avenue Montaigne - France

Posted by gary at 9:30 AM

1 comment:

gary said...

Nicely played on Lead Actor, Lead Actress, and Supporting Actress.

But you told me these predictions would be "dead-on balls accurate." 3 outta 5 on Director, Original Screenplay, and Adapted Screenplay?!?!? You should feel shame.

Oh, I forgot...you're the only person on this earth who hasn't seen Borat, yet :)

Thought you would've given more props to Jackie Earl Haley (Kelly Lee) for Supporting Actor (as supposed to just a "dark horse" mention). We saw the movie, together for chrissakes.

And for the record, as much as I like "The Departed," I was not all that impressed w/ Jack.

But overall, nicely played my friend. Special kudos for almost sweeping the Best Foreign category.

Sidenote: Did I see the "The Black Dahlia" got nominated for Best Cinematography?!?!?!? That piece of crap sucked!!!!!! (see upcoming "Get, Don't Get post)

9:49 AM

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