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.

[Horns]

He does, a church that helped both he and his son for a good portion of his living on the street. The unbelievable thing was every morning they packed up their belonging and left the room they had for the night when they left because it was first come first serve every night and often they came back and the space was filled.

The guy was awesome and I will tell you truly moved everyone in the room. I am 43 year old Texas boy and I have to say, I had a tear in my eye and a apprecitaion for what I have after that experience.

[daisyscarlett]

She said global warming was not a democratic problem nor a republican problem it is everyone's problem etc etc or sorta like that...not red problem not blue problem but green problem...i sorta tuned her out, it is very disturbing to me that these talented folks are so goofy about algore and global warming...i mean, i love Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor but I shuddered when I saw him gazing adoringly at Algore..so unseemly.

[paulat]

Did Etheridge just reference Democrats and global warming? Did I hear that right?

No...you heard wrong...she was actually very politically INCORRECT.

She said global warming wasn't "Democrat or Republican."

AAACCKKK!!! She actually said "Democrat" NOT "Democratic!!"

LOL!!! Looking forward to the reaction to THIS!!!!

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

Does anyone have a picture of Jack Nicholson at tonight's ceremony?

[Borges]

I think the Dreamgirls songs cancelled each other out in the voting.

[Horns]

Yes

[jaycee]

Yeah, she thanked her/his wife and when she first got up she kissed her/him on the lips. I just thought this in my mind was funny.........

[SomeCallMeTim]

To be honest, I went into Dreamgirls thinking it was a movie about The Supremes... based on their music. Stupid me... didn't know it was a broadway play... The realization (after about an hour) that is wasn't, just RUINED the movie for me..

[SomeCallMeTim]

Hook 'Em! I'm a BSChE, '81 from UT...and, a LIFE-LONG fan.

[roses of sharon]

Celine's song was Morricone's from "Once Upon A Time in America", a great, great, movie.

Have you seen it?

Robert DeNiro, James Woods, directed by Sergio Leone a beautiful period movie about a gangsters who are remembering their childhoods, it's takes place over 30 years.

Great!

[Horns]

Season tickets for over 20 years, praying this class is as good as the V Young one.

[SomeCallMeTim]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz not sure how much more I can take.... I thought posting would keep me awake.... but, there's only 3 of us. :-) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[RedWhiteBlue]

See the last three sentences on the history of The Supremes from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

[SomeCallMeTim]

I was a season ticket holder from '81 to '86... but, then moved to La, and later to KY... kind of a long commute. I'm going to Austin in a couple of weeks...

[SomeCallMeTim]

Yea well.. NOT ONE Supreme song in Dreamgirls... just a bunch of over-acted screaming...

[Horns]

Don't forget your Ginger Bread pancake fix

http://www.kerbeylanecafe.com/

[SomeCallMeTim]

Miss you Maureen, and James Doohan.... and, Jack!

[jaycee]

I saw the movie...it is really a great movie. I have a video of it that I taped years ago off of t.v. I may try to find time to see the movie again. Glad you brought it up. I was always taping movies and some I never have watched again. I always loved the movie "Giant" and taped it twice (forgetting I had already taped it). Oh, well, thats life!

[ClearBlueSky]

I suffered through the most useless, boring Oscars I've ever seen just to see Celine Dion.Shut it off after- didn't care about any current films.
She was the classiest/most talented thing on the show. Her dress was exquisite and her voice is magnificent.
I don't know what happened to Ellen Degeneres, or what it takes to make her lackluster and un-funny, but this broadcast did it. Felt like it was directed by Cheech and Chong, doped out of their minds. It was like 'Night of the Living Dead' with tuxes and jewelry.

[jaycee]

I am feeling the same way....I could have already slept at least one half hour.........~~yawn~~