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.

[Armedanddangerous]

that is true, but he would be funny as hell...

[DollyCali]

Hi there pretty lady!

You know I thought it was a wonderful year for movies.. I guess it just depends on what genre you like & who you see them with..

[SomeCallMeTim]

Why is Jack bald? Is he taking Chemo?

Has anyone seen Babel?? I wanted to, but.... it wasn't here long....

[mountainfolk]

My husband and I just finished watching The Departed, our first DVD this year. We got it because nothing on TV to watch tonite and we think Leonardo DiCaprio has turned out to be, in our opinion, the best younger actor Hollywood has come up with in a very long time. We liked the picture, gory as it was and with about every other word starting with f. DiCaprio was so great in The Aviator, the Howard Hughes bio, that we will take a chance on anything he is in. I haven't heard him mouth off anything anti American or hate Bush and I don't know what sex he claims to be so I hope we can continue to enjoy his acting even if our pleasure is based on ignorance of either factoid.

[jaycee]

She hasn't impressed me one bit. I got a sour taste when in the beginning she was talking about Al Gore and I can't remember the correct phrasing but she rounded it all out by saying "Well, he did get elected." I am a strange person and I hold grudges, I guess. LOLOL......

[colorado tanker]

Actually she is a very funny comedienne

Then why isn't she funnier tonight?

[Mr. Blonde]

Watched Babel earlier tonight. I wasn't that impressed. 21 Grams is a much better film by Inarritu. It was interesting, but I didn't really feel there was any payoff.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Leo has done well.... I agree, great in The Aviator. Also,in Catch Me if You Can...


Wow.. ANOTHER Award for Sunshine! Could a Best Picture award be possible???

PS>>> WHY?? or WHY?? do movies have to show people who SMOKE and say F F F with every word??? I just don't get that...

[ozarkgirl]

Haven't been keeping up with the thread but as a conniseur of movies, what are your choices? (You probably said but...)

As mostly non-movie watchers, we're not impressed with quality choices. No impressive epic sagas.

[isthisnickcool]

I think I'll listen to Drudge on the radio. There is nothing interesting or entertaining about the Academy Awards.

Nighty-night!

[daisyscarlett]

Why is Jack bald? Is he taking Chemo? Has anyone seen Babel?? I wanted to, but.... it wasn't here long....

I could not sit through Babel, nor Borat...maybe Jack is bald for an upcoming film? He does not look sick...

[jaycee]

And also I think she had on one of the prettiest dresses of the evening. I love to hear her sing~~~

[Mr. Blonde]

I thought Leo was very good in Blood Diamond as well.

As far as cursing a lot, I think it would be hard to buy some movies like Departed and Pulp Fiction without a lot of cursing. And then some movies use it for comedic effect --South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut. And of course you have Samuel L. Jackson who sounds like he was born to use the F word.

[DeerfieldObserver]

Does anyone know why "Borat" wasn't nominated for anything? It was one of the biggest grossing films of the year.

[windchime]

It's out on DVD. The acting was superb. It reminded me of "Crash" or an Altman film where several stories are woven into the whole.

[Borges]

Grosses aren't all that matters. It was nominated for Adapted Screenplay. All you could really nominated for was Cohen for acting.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Not that much drama left, I'd say.... except Best Picture... The Queen lady will win Best Actress.. Whitake will win Best Actor... Marty will win Best Director...... Best Picture is reall up in the air... I think The Departed will win, but... I'd be tickled if Little Miss Sunshine did win. If there's any year where a film like this could win, it's this year... when, the votes are split. And, as you say, no EPIC movies that demand votes....

[paulat]

Just a FABULOUS JC Penny commercial...must have had echoes of 25 movies in it...really well done.

However, the pale imitiations make you realize how great the originals were.

[DollyCali]

both of Clints movies were good., cars, happy feet, pan's, , actually I liked most of them.

When I go to a movie I try to find what is there to enjoy.. more or less how I approach people. If I go with preconceived expectations, I am normally disappointed. in movies & in people.

Many movies that people put down I likes.. Apacalto; babel,

I liked Casino Royale..

Actually the one I liked the least (but not that I disliked it) was was Devil wore P.


Music from Dreamgirls now..

[goodnesswins]

Aaacchhh....hope she doesn't fall out of that dress....