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.

[paulat]

Get a decent headline for the thread and more people would go to it.

[DollyCali]

true

[DollyCali]

Gore & leo

one nice & one ..YUK

[nutmeg]

Did all or most of the actors/actresses arrive via hybrid car? I saw a fleet of 'em in front of the Kodak Theatre during the Red Carpet segment. What a bunch of hypocrites... I'm sure most of them (including Al and Tipper Gore) arrived into the LA area via private Gulfstream jet...

[CheneyChick]

Algore looks puffy.

[Lancey Howard]

Whew. The show looks like a "global warming" lez fest right now.
Tough to take.

[nutmeg]

Oh BARF... algore (aka "manbearpig") on now...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I think we are in chat...we used to be in breaking news but they moved us to chat last year...sigh...

Are you talking about this thread? It's in News/Activism.

[Catholic Iowan]

Look at the koolaide drinkers. Global warming.

[Northern Yankee]

Algore is nuts.

That's about as environmental he can get.

[spectre]

My husband and I rented Little Miss Sunshine on pay perview. Neither of us cared for it at all.

Arkin had to be the sentimental favorite. He's been around forever..:)

sw

[nutmeg]

Whew. The show looks like a "global warming" lez fest right now.

I'm getting really disgusted by all this leftist crap... not sure I'll make it to the end of the show...

[myprecious]

Thanks for the link. This is going to get fun before the evening is out.

[CheneyChick]

It's OK nutmeg. That whole Algore thingy just made them look more ridiculous.

[nutmeg]

Look at the koolaide drinkers. Global warming.

It's exactly as Rush Limbaugh describes it... "Global Warming" is the left's new RELIGION.

[RummyChick]

All I could think about was the big gas hog limos causing gridlock getting to the Oscars. YEAH, the Oscars went green.

LOLOL

[jaycee]

And many of them will be taking off on their Jets to go to a luxurious island to bask in the glory of their importance. I get so tired of having my nose rubbed in their "programs".

[DollyCali]

What is truly sad is that most of those folks who are supporters of this "mentality" just don't know the facts.

They know one side (with lots of holes/errors) which is inaccurate.

If I didn't have FRee Republic I would be believing the lines.. I truly would.

We are a vital force to spread the truth if people are willing to consider the options

[CaptainK]

Arkin has at least 5 roles he could have gotten a best actor for:

The Russians are Coming
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Wait Until Dark
Popi
The In-Laws.

It's about time for Arkin and Murphy has a lot of catching up to do to equal that resume.

[jaycee]

THANK YOU......FOR A GOOD LAUGH!