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Academy Awards - Live Thread 79th Oscar Awards
25 February 2007 | DollyCali

Posted on 02/25/2007 2:29:29 PM PST by DollyCali







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Academy Awards

The Queen

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

Academy Awards

The Departed

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

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Babel

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

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Letters From Iwo Jima

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

Academy Awards

Little Miss Sunshine

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



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Academy Awards

Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Academy Awards

Ryan Gosling

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

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Peter O'Toole

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

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Forest Whitaker

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

Academy Awards

Will Smith

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



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Academy Awards

Penelope Cruz

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

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Kate Winslet

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

Academy Awards

Helen Mirren

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

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Judi Dench

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

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Meryl Streep

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



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Academy Awards

Mark Wahlberg

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

Academy Awards

Alan Arkin

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

Academy Awards

Eddie Murphy

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

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Jackie Earle Haley

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

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Djimon Huonsou

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





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Oscar

Rinko Kikuchi

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

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Jennifer Hudson

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

Oscar

Abigail Breslin

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

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Cate Blanchett

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

Oscar

Adriana Barraza

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



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Academy Awards

Clint Eastwood

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

Academy Awards

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Inarritu is nominated for directing "Babel."

Academy Awards

Martin Scorsese

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

Academy Awards

Stephen Frears

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

Academy Awards

Paul Greengrass

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



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To: april15Bendovr

Oscar (the one in the garbage can... ala Sesame Street)


121 posted on 02/25/2007 4:32:35 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: beaversmom

It is a good movie.


122 posted on 02/25/2007 4:33:32 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: daisyscarlett

Daniel Craig.. hmmmm..

did you see Casino Royale?

He did well, very well.


123 posted on 02/25/2007 4:34:17 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: DollyCali

Al and Tipper have arrived...Tipper has aged and has not colored her hair...there are gray streaks in it...


124 posted on 02/25/2007 4:35:17 PM PST by daisyscarlett
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To: daisyscarlett
You're right....bless her heart...
...there's some reason she keeps doing this...
..and I feel guilty for having said it :(
125 posted on 02/25/2007 4:36:05 PM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President....2008!...)
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To: All

Will Smith next on Barbara Walters.

I like him!

Really love the Men in Black flicks


126 posted on 02/25/2007 4:36:22 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Fledermaus

I would love to see Al Gore not win anything! It would definitely make my week if this really did happen!


127 posted on 02/25/2007 4:37:12 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: DollyCali
Yeah I saw Casino Royale and loved Casino Royale...

Did you know that they had the Raspberry Awards recently and they did not give one to the new Rocky movie for the first time ever...all other Rockies have won Razzies...they said this one was just too good for a razzie..

128 posted on 02/25/2007 4:37:34 PM PST by daisyscarlett
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To: daisyscarlett

Is she all clear of the breast cancer at this point?


129 posted on 02/25/2007 4:37:43 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: daisyscarlett

yes, S. Stallone was wonderful..


130 posted on 02/25/2007 4:38:25 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Guenevere; cardinal4

I've seen more movies in 2007 than I have in the previous few years. "The Queen" was by far the best, followed closely by "Breach." Looking forward to the Idi Amin one, too.


131 posted on 02/25/2007 4:39:50 PM PST by Ax (The Congress of the United States is now in enemy hands.)
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To: daisyscarlett
PENELOPE CRUZ:
132 posted on 02/25/2007 4:40:31 PM PST by daisyscarlett
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To: Ax

I saw Breach last night.. good movie


133 posted on 02/25/2007 4:41:15 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: DollyCali

awk..

Eddie Murphy NOT Will Smith (as she hangs her head in embarrassment)


134 posted on 02/25/2007 4:42:06 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: DollyCali; All

135 posted on 02/25/2007 4:42:14 PM PST by april15Bendovr
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To: daisyscarlett

whoa.. gorgeous


136 posted on 02/25/2007 4:43:02 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: DollyCali

Layer Cake is also a good movie that Daniel Craig is in.


137 posted on 02/25/2007 4:43:52 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: DollyCali
Jennifer Hudson:

Nicole Kidman is here and she is in red and looks stunning..

138 posted on 02/25/2007 4:44:35 PM PST by daisyscarlett
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To: DollyCali
I like Daniel Craig...

..did you see Michael Sheen earlier?....(Tony Blair in Queen)

139 posted on 02/25/2007 4:45:25 PM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President....2008!...)
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To: Guenevere

Didn't he play a remarkable roll? He looked & sounded so much like TB


140 posted on 02/25/2007 4:47:22 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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