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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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Peter Morgan's "The Queen" is nominated for six Academy Awards, including one for best picture.
Under Martin Scorsese's directing, "The Departed" is nominated for five Oscars.
"Babel" is nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture and director.
"Letters" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director and best picture.
"Sunshine" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture
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Nominated for his role in "Blood Diamond," this is Dicaprio's third nomination.
Nominated for "Half Nelson," this is Gosling's first Oscar nod.
This is veteran actor Peter O'Toole's eighth Academy Award nomination.
Whitaker is nominated for playing the brutal dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
Smith is nominated for an Oscar for the second time for his roll in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness."
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Cruz, nominated for "Volver," plays a woman whose life is thrown into chaos.
Winslet plays a discontented wife in "Little Children," earning her fifth nomination.
Helen Mirren played royalty in "The Queen," earning her third Orcar nomination.
No stranger to the Academy, this is Dench's sixth nomination.
Streep played a well-dressed, outrageously demanding editor in "The Devil Wears Prada."
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In "The Departed," Wahlberg explores the underbelly of the Boston police force.
No one plays a heroin-addicted Grandpa like Alan Arkin, nominated for "Little Miss Sunshine."
"Dreamgirls" was a box office hit, and earned Eddie Murphy his first Oscar nomination.
Nominated for "Little Children," this is Haley's first Oscar nod.
This is Huonou's second nomination -- this time, for "Blood Diamond."
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Kikuchi, up for "Babel" in which she plays a deaf teenager in Tokyo.
Nominated for "Dreamgirls," this is Jennifer Hudson's first Oscar nod.
This is young Breslin's first nod, for "Little Miss Sunshine."
This is Blanchett's third Oscar nod -- this time, for "Notes on a Scandal."
This is Barraza's first nomination, for Amelia in "Babel."
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Eastwood is also nominated for Best Picture for "Letters From Iwo Jima."
Inarritu is nominated for directing "Babel."
Scorsese is a familiar face at the Oscars -- this is his eight nomination.
Frears got the nod in 1990. This time, it's for directing "The Queen."
Greengrass is up for "United 93," his first nomination.
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To: daisyscarlett
I had a body like that for two days when I was 24.
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:20:00 PM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather vote for someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: nutmeg
algore was supposed to arrive by a hybrid limo but I have not seen any photos etc...
To: swmobuffalo
An elephant doing shopping for his sick owner, one of those "priceless" Master Card commercials. That was better than any of the Super Bowl commercials!
303
posted on
02/25/2007 7:21:47 PM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather vote for someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
and then she made Spielberg do it over cause she didn't like the way it was spaced, lol...
To: Sprite518
These liberal bastards spit on our President and America's best (our troops) in a period of time where our very Nation's survival is in question. Oh I know they say they "support the troops, and just not the mission". That is like saying you support a football team, but you do not want them to win the game. Therefore, it is impossible to support the troops, and not the mission.
That's a small group of loudmouths. Most people who work in the film industry are unheralded working class. The Oscars are the only time they get to shine.
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:22:14 PM PST
by
Borges
To: DennisR
I am proud to say that I have seen none of these movies - I hate the subsidization of any institution that is anti-American, anti-values, anti-Christian, and anti-morality.
There's nothing inherent in cinema that conforms to what you suggest. Suggesting that being ignorant of a major American art form is morally righteous is ridiculous.
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:24:42 PM PST
by
Borges
To: paulat; Dr. Scarpetta
Ellen is doing a great job..
Nicole Kidman's dress has just a tad too much of a red bow around her neck...meow..
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:24:43 PM PST
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife) (Duncan Hunter 08 "Will you join us"?)
To: daisyscarlett; DollyCali
Catherine Deneuve (sp?) is still beautiful...
308
posted on
02/25/2007 7:25:09 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(National Security trumps everything else.)
To: johnthebaptistmoore
Movies that are very strange and not understood by the majority of people often do very well at the Oscars.
Like what?
309
posted on
02/25/2007 7:25:42 PM PST
by
Borges
To: wtc911
Yeah, it's all about credits. One of the busier sections of the Writers Guild is the one that does credit arbitrations, trying to figure out who among the writers, re-writers, punch-up writers, and rewriting director actually made the largest contribution to the finished product.
Since Producers don't have a formal labor union, it's pretty much a free-for-all.
To: The Coopster
Gore will be back, if his films win the Oscar as expected...he and leonardo were just warming up the crowd ab out being green...
To: daisyscarlett
Who knows? This may be the night Algore announces he will run as a Green.
312
posted on
02/25/2007 7:27:31 PM PST
by
tsowellfan
(www.cafenetamerica.com)
To: paulat
I can remember those days too. ~~sigh~~
313
posted on
02/25/2007 7:27:34 PM PST
by
jaycee
(Just looking for a tagline)
To: spectre
Was the "Devil wears Prada" a good movie? I also enjoyed this movie... a bit of a "chick-flick"... but, Anne Hathaway was attractive enough to keep me interested. And, the script gets points from me for being fairly original. Just not being a re-make is worth something these days...
that said, it probably IS an updated remake of some movie I never saw... :-(
To: SomeCallMeTim
I don't know, Tim...YOU liked Little Miss Sunshine..I don't trust you..
Just kiddin...LOL.
sw
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:29:53 PM PST
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife) (Duncan Hunter 08 "Will you join us"?)
To: colorado tanker
We also used to go to some great Oscar parties.. My favorite was the year I dressed up as Nick Nolte in his arrest photo. :-)
My wife and I have ALWAYS loved movies.... it's been "our thing" for the past 25 years. This year, we have only seen 3 of the 5 nominees (The Departed, Letter, and Lil Miss Sunshine) I liked them all, but... I would give the award to The Departed...
Just my prediction.....
To: paulat
Didn't watch the Superbowl! I'm not really watching the Awards, they're just on!
317
posted on
02/25/2007 7:33:34 PM PST
by
swmobuffalo
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
To: spectre
It was funny! :-) And, honestly, I had a tear in my eye when the little girl goes down the hill and hugs her brother.... no words... just a hug. That's real life.
Much of the rest of the film was not... but, it was entertaining...
To: SomeCallMeTim
The Departed would have my vote.
To: SomeCallMeTim
no movie have I HATED more, in my life (I think)... than DREAMGIRLS!! I would rather have had bamboo shoots under my nails..
I would have left 30 minuted in.... except, my wife was LOVING it... yuk..
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