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]

I had a body like that for two days when I was 24.

[daisyscarlett]

algore was supposed to arrive by a hybrid limo but I have not seen any photos etc...

[paulat]

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!

[daisyscarlett]

and then she made Spielberg do it over cause she didn't like the way it was spaced, lol...

[Borges]

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.

[Borges]

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.

[spectre]

Ellen is doing a great job..

Nicole Kidman's dress has just a tad too much of a red bow around her neck...meow..

[nutmeg]

Catherine Deneuve (sp?) is still beautiful...

[Borges]

Movies that are very strange and not understood by the majority of people often do very well at the Oscars.

Like what?

[ArmstedFragg]

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.

[daisyscarlett]

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...

[tsowellfan]

Who knows? This may be the night Algore announces he will run as a Green.

[jaycee]

I can remember those days too. ~~sigh~~

[SomeCallMeTim]

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... :-(

[spectre]

I don't know, Tim...YOU liked Little Miss Sunshine..I don't trust you..

Just kiddin...LOL.

sw

[SomeCallMeTim]

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.....

[swmobuffalo]

Didn't watch the Superbowl! I'm not really watching the Awards, they're just on!

[SomeCallMeTim]

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...

[colorado tanker]

The Departed would have my vote.

[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..