Academy Awards - Live Thread 79th Oscar Awards

25 February 2007 | DollyCali

[DollyCali]

The Queen

Peter Morgan's "The Queen" is nominated for six Academy Awards, including one for best picture.

The Departed

Under Martin Scorsese's directing, "The Departed" is nominated for five Oscars.

Babel

"Babel" is nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture and director.

Letters From Iwo Jima

"Letters" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director and best picture.

Little Miss Sunshine

"Sunshine" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture

Leonardo DiCaprio

Nominated for his role in "Blood Diamond," this is Dicaprio's third nomination.

Ryan Gosling

Nominated for "Half Nelson," this is Gosling's first Oscar nod.

Peter O'Toole

This is veteran actor Peter O'Toole's eighth Academy Award nomination.

Forest Whitaker

Whitaker is nominated for playing the brutal dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."

Will Smith

Smith is nominated for an Oscar for the second time for his roll in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness."

Penelope Cruz

Cruz, nominated for "Volver," plays a woman whose life is thrown into chaos.

Kate Winslet

Winslet plays a discontented wife in "Little Children," earning her fifth nomination.

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren played royalty in "The Queen," earning her third Orcar nomination.

Judi Dench

No stranger to the Academy, this is Dench's sixth nomination.

Meryl Streep

Streep played a well-dressed, outrageously demanding editor in "The Devil Wears Prada."

Mark Wahlberg

In "The Departed," Wahlberg explores the underbelly of the Boston police force.

Alan Arkin

No one plays a heroin-addicted Grandpa like Alan Arkin, nominated for "Little Miss Sunshine."

Eddie Murphy

"Dreamgirls" was a box office hit, and earned Eddie Murphy his first Oscar nomination.

Jackie Earle Haley

Nominated for "Little Children," this is Haley's first Oscar nod.

Djimon Huonsou

This is Huonou's second nomination -- this time, for "Blood Diamond."

Rinko Kikuchi

Kikuchi, up for "Babel" in which she plays a deaf teenager in Tokyo.

Jennifer Hudson

Nominated for "Dreamgirls," this is Jennifer Hudson's first Oscar nod.

Abigail Breslin

This is young Breslin's first nod, for "Little Miss Sunshine."

Cate Blanchett

This is Blanchett's third Oscar nod -- this time, for "Notes on a Scandal."

Adriana Barraza

This is Barraza's first nomination, for Amelia in "Babel."

Clint Eastwood

Eastwood is also nominated for Best Picture for "Letters From Iwo Jima."

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Inarritu is nominated for directing "Babel."

Martin Scorsese

Scorsese is a familiar face at the Oscars -- this is his eight nomination.

Stephen Frears

Frears got the nod in 1990. This time, it's for directing "The Queen."

Paul Greengrass

Greengrass is up for "United 93," his first nomination.

[Fledermaus]

From FoxNews Entertainment:

Oscar-ific Updates: The Leo-Gore Show

“Wait till you see the Leo-Gore Show.”

That’s what I was told by an insider at the Burkle manse last night.

Leonardo DiCaprio, environmentalist, will present the Best Documentary award tonight.

I suppose we can assume that Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” will win. If it doesn’t, this will be embarrassing.

How the win will play is unclear since Gore is not a producer of the film and technically wouldn’t get to be on stage. The Academy has clearly made a concession. …

Another change: If “Little Miss Sunshine” wins Best Picture, exiled producers Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger will be allowed to join the three sanctioned producers on stage. They just won’t get Oscars or be allowed to speak.

Luckily, when the film won Best Feature at the Indie Spirits Saturday, the pair was indeed allowed to speak and accept their much deserved honor. They produced the movie, you know! ...

Exiled? What's this about?

[daisyscarlett]

I'm watching Joan but have not seen her face yet but so far, the fashions have been fabulous...loved JLOs dress the best so far...and Will Smith and his little boy are so cute...

[Guenevere]

Oh gee no....I'm computer illiterate :)

[Guenevere]

I wish his movie would win something!
He deserves it!

[DollyCali]

dont have a clue Fled.. BTW. HI!

[daisyscarlett]

I loved the rat at the end of Departed...hope Forrest Whitacker wins, I have followed him since Ridgemont High...Helen Mirren is gorgeous, her gown and hair are a perfect match and she has a mature figure...OMG, Penelope Cruz has a fabulous gown on...i am watching TV Guide Channel...Algore is in the house....lol....Melissa Rivers is very excited that HE IS HERE...

[Guenevere]

She must want to look like The Catwoman....
..a facelift like that isn't by happenchance....do you think?

[daisyscarlett]

I STILL HAVE NOT SEEN HER FACE...JUST THE BACK OF HER HEAD AND HER FRENCH TWIST HAIRDO WHICH IS NOT VERY ORIGINAL, imo

[DollyCali]

at the boot murtha rally I spoke at length with the father of "lets roll"... great conversation.

He really liked the movie.. had tears his eyes when discussing it

He has close ties/financial support to where I went to seminary in Tennessee.. we are in same church..

[daisyscarlett]

Jackie Earle Haley up now...he looks way different from when he was a kiddie but seems like a nice guy even though he plays a pedophile in LITTLE CHILDREN.

[anonsquared]

Picture this...

The theme music for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly begins to play.

Clint enters, stage right, dressed as in the film complete with poncho, spurs, and week old beard.
Blondie proceeds to clink across to the front of the stage, stops, then slowly lights up his cigar, blowing smoke at the audience.
He flips his poncho over one shoulder displaying his six-shooter.
Looking down to the front row of the audience the camera follows his vision.
There sitting in the front row are all the other directors up for the best director award.

Blondie speaks:
"There are two kinds of people in the world, those with loaded guns and those who dig."
He picks up a shovel conveniently placed on stage and tosses it to Scorsese.
Cue the DA-DA-DA-DA-DA from the theme music.

That would be the creative way to honour Morricone, but you won't see that tonight because the anti-smoking, anti-firearm, PC police would never allow it.
And there in a nutshell is why Hollywood is D.O.A..

[DollyCali]

JLo has a great figure. Is Nicole Kidman there? I think she is one of the most beautiful women in the business & she always looks gorgeous

[Pharmboy]

Oh geez...is Spike Lee absolutely so tiresome? Can he leave race out of any sentence he spouts? What an a-hole.

[DollyCali]

Helen M no being interviewed by Barbara W

[daisyscarlett]

Joan just turned around and you are right...she does look like CatWoman, Bless Her Heart...

All the fashions are great doncha think? Except for Sally Kirklands but I think that was a joke...all those colors and religions represented...anything to get on camera, I guess.

[AmishDude]

Apparently, for academy awards there are at most 3 producers and there was some backbiting about which 3 get to count.

[DollyCali]

I like his work in general.. I dont care for him however!

[april15Bendovr]

Who's getting the Dixie Chicks awards tonight?

[beaversmom]

Did you see PUrsuit of Happiness? He played Will's son in the true story movie/

No didn't get to see that movie.

[daisyscarlett]

No Nicole Kidman yet...I wonder if Tom and Katie will be there?

Thanks for this thread, Dolly. I love the Oscars and have seen lots of movies this year, liked most of them except for BABEL....

Daniel Craig is there with a brunette on his arm...Gwyneth Paltrow is here and has a rust colored form fitting gown on...