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.

[Guenevere]

I don't like Nichole Kidman's BIG bow.

[DollyCali]

I dont have cable..watch Barbara Walter's interviews

[daisyscarlett]

Helen Mirren...

[LdSentinal]

I hope the DHS is aware there is a huge pro-Alqueda meeting in LA tonight.

[Guenevere]

I am not a Meryl Streep fan....

..but she just went up a notch by admitting to being a size 14!!!!!

That HAS to be a first for the Red Carpet!

[Guenevere]

She is classy!...also dresses her age.

[DollyCali]

[april15Bendovr]

I wonder how many of these Hollywood freaks are up for Academy Awards that also made Bernard Goldbergs list?

[DollyCali]

She looks great & just gave a wonderful interview with BW

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I will be disappointed if she doesn't win an Oscar tonight. She's terrific in everything that she does.

[TheLion]

Just watched "The Departed" the other night....thoroughly enjoyed it. I bought it, so I get to see it again!

[Guenevere]

Clive Owen.....oh my goodness...he just arrived!

[Guenevere]

Clive Owen.....oh my goodness...he just arrived!

[Guenevere]

Don't remember hitting the post button twice :^

[DollyCali]

[april15Bendovr]

!Hollywood take a pointer from this actress who has said it best

"I'm not a politician," She says evenly. "If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence." Reese Witherspoon

[MarkL]

By in large I think all movies are better on big screen. I have BIG TVs & quality sound systems. But it is NOT the same. I love our Cinemark Stadium Seating theaters here in NE Ohio

I agree with you, 100%! Anyone who doesn't agree needs to do a simple comparison (though it's impossible, for the most part). Compare 3 movies between the small screen and the large screen. Alien (the original), Ran (by Kurosawa), and Brazil (by Terry Gilliam). Another great example is Star Wars, the original. I remember sitting in one of the larger theaters in KC (The Glenwood) and the opening scene where the star destroyer appears "over your head," chasing the transport. Nothing, repeat, NOTHING had prepared me for that scene!

Mark

[DollyCali]

[johnthebaptistmoore]

It's too bad that all of the "individual Oscar nominated songs" are not hip hop songs. It's getting to the point where the lone hip hop song always wins the Oscar unless there isn't one that's nominated.

[DollyCali]

Yes, to Star Wars... ( I would be embarrassed to tell you how often I saw the first three on big screen).. and each time was in awe..

but,

first time I saw them on DVD.. well, ho hum in comparison