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.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Really? My wife and 17 year old son watched it with me, and we thought it was one of the best movies of this past year. It was a little strange, no doubt..... some parts, I thought were "over the top"... but, in the end, the message was: "No matter how strange you are, or messed up... the love of FAMILY trumps all". And, a sub-message was, "Youth believes in all possibilities". Both are OK messages as far as I'm concerned.

[colorado tanker]

The viewership among FReepers is so low, we can't even get good flame wars started.

My wife and I are huge movie fans. We used to host an Oscars party as our big bash of the year.

But, the quality of the movies has been on a steady slide and the Oscars have turned into a bunch of overpaid undereducated jerks lecturing the rest of us on politics. I used to watch because Billy Crystal was so darn funny, but that's gone now. Tonight, I'm working and monitoring the Oscars on FR and my wife and kids - are at a movie. Neither of us could bear the thought of Algore stealing an Oscar from some deserving (and probably underpaid) documentary director just so Hollyweird could poke President Bush in the eye.

[isthisnickcool]

Gore sounds so GAY.

Nothing new..

[ArmstedFragg]

That list has a reference that those of us in the editing field have been griping about for years. We consider the first cut to be the one we do after the completion of shooting. For years, that was the terminology, and I can assure you that we fought long and hard to keep producers from "consulting" with us.

Several years back, the 'suits' decided that editors don't do really do anything creative like producers do and changed the terminology. The old 'editor's cut' is now referred to as the 'editor's first assembly', allowing producers and directors to take credit for the actual 'cutting'. In truth, the 'first cut' they're referring to is actually the producer's first cut which follows the editors cut and the director's cut.

[The Coopster]

Where are you guys? Gore was on a long time ago...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Is that a good movie

Which one?

[isthisnickcool]

Where are you guys? Gore was on a long time ago...

Watching on DVR. I like to think I can manipulate time....

[jaycee]

YOU SAID IT ALL AND I THANK YOU. DO ANY OF YOU EVER THINK THAT SINCE HOLLYWOOD HATES ALL REPUBLICANS SO MUCH, THAT THEY JUST DON'T WANT US TO GO TO THE MOVIES. OR THEY NEVER GIVE A THOUGHT TO IT??

[spectre]

Well, you certainly aren't ALONE liking that movie cuz it's up for the Acadamy Award..Uh..and so was Brokeback Mountain. I don't think the cute little girl was good enough to be nominated.

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[spectre]

Was the "Devil wears Prada" a good movie?

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

Was the "Devil wears Prada" a good movie?

I enjoyed it. Pure, diversionary entertainment, and Meryl Streep was good in it...

[wtc911]

I didn't know that but given the fighting I've seen over credits I am not surprised. I tell the story of the little man who fought like a demon to get an EP credit on a small film based on the fact that two years earlier he had introduced me to a guy who later introduced me to the guys I was going to partner with on the project. He made a real pain in the ass of himself and burned every relationship before he settled for a 'special mention' right before the financing fell through.

[daisyscarlett]

Kate Winslett

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Nicole Kidman

[daisyscarlett]

Cate Blanchett

[paulat]

OMG!!! That had to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen on the Academy Awards!!!

Making Steven Speieilberg take the pic of Clint and Ellen!!!

[colorado tanker]

OR THEY NEVER GIVE A THOUGHT TO IT??

I'm inclined toward this explanation. I mean, most of those people wouldn't know Friedman from Friedkin and I doubt they have any idea that insulting much if not most their potential audience might impact their industry. The few who might have a clue are so blinded by their hatred of Bush and conservatives they don't care.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Some of these ladies are ultra skinny. They probably just spent 2 weeks at a spa.

[spectre]

Meryl is good in any role she plays.

The Dancers doing the shadow scenes are AMAZING!..Wow.

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[swmobuffalo]

"COMMERCIALS."

Just saw a really cute one! An elephant doing shopping for his sick owner, one of those "priceless" Master Card commercials.


Have I missed anything good?