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.

[cajungirl]

Oh we watch for fashion.

Ellen just dissed Bush saying Gore was voted for and didn't win. She is celebrating "diversity"

[april15Bendovr]

I bet Sean Penn gets the Dixie Chicks awards tonight.

[paulat]

Nicole Kidman...what hump?...oh...that's a bow!!

[DCPatriot]

James Bond AND Ms. To Die For!!

[John W]

Actually, real conservatives watch whatever they want.

[cajungirl]

The bow is distracting. And I don't like her hair straight. I love her curls.

[Torie]

It DOES look like Gore HAS lost weight. He might announce his, er, plans. Better yet, he apparently thanks to Google is worth a couple of hundred million, or more, and can self finance his campaign. Who said, that America is not still the land of dreams? Whomever it was, the person is wrong!

[LdSentinal]

I doubt most conseravtives watch Al-Jazeera which is the equivalent to this.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Daniel Craig's in the next James Bond film: "The Spy Who's Ugly."

[cajungirl]

Agreed. And conservatives can love fashion!

I am always perplexed by those who come to threads to jeer. I mean, don't they have a book to read or something.

[paulat]

And I don't like her hair straight. I love her curls.

I KNOW! Since I can't grow my hair that long (and I know they use extensions) but I think it would be great to have a magnificent mane...(not that lank stuff)

[LdSentinal]

That's Al Gore's stand-in. This the actual Al Gore:

[Torie]

I think Gore might well be baaack. We shall see. Pity nobody called me for the Google IPO. How irritating!

[furquhart]

If he's smart, he'd take the moment of winning to announce a campaign for the Presidency - if he wants it. He's not going to get more viewers otherwise, he'd carry Hollywood with him, and he's instantly be alongside Hillary and Obama in the race.

[cajungirl]

I cannot imagine a curly haired gorgeous redhead straighteniing her hair,,,but that is just me.

I read extensions can severly ruin your hair,,would love to try some.

[LdSentinal]

Oh, I agree. Al Gore will run for president in 2008.

[Torie]

"if he wants it" is the question. Gore might not want to bogged down anymore pandering to the madding crowd. The rich are different from you and I, F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed -- they have more money.

Now for the unfunny inside baseball anti-song.

[Torie]

Yuck, suck, ouch, my ears hurt.

[paulat]

Gore wants to be begged to run. He will, because he's the anti-Hillary.

Just me...but it will be Gore/Obama.

[DollyCali]

Pans Labyrinth was a wonderful movie