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.

[Torie]

Cruch that baby through the combo-permu test tube, and get back to me. :)

[Torie]

Too bad she doesn't like men. I want her.

[Cementjungle]

And it comes to a close without any political bashing!

Damage control perhaps. Besides, it's not an election year.

[daisyscarlett]

I saw the Departed and loved it...but there is a lot of profanity and violence....

[Borges]

Al Gore didn't win a couple of awards. Etheridge won one of them. No bashing of President Bush or Republicans. That votes joke was too-obvious acknowledgment that Gore was present. If you think this was really political compared to what he Oscars were in the 70s...

[DollyCali]

He did look weak & frail didn't he?

[newzjunkey]

And yet he's only 75.

[RWR8189]

I thought the same thing, and trolled around Wikipedia.

It looks like he's making a movie where he and Morgan Freeman are both terminally ill, so that might explain it.

[goodnesswins]

You're kidding.....he looks worse than my dying 84 year old father in law....

[newzjunkey]

Ellen did fine. I don't know what you were expecting. If anything they should drown that idiot doing the behind the scenes moments.

[daisyscarlett]

Jack looks chemo bald...not voluntarily bald.

Jack is chemo bald for a movie role that he is shooting now about a couple of men with cancer who leave a cancer ward and go on an adventure...

[antceecee]

Sorry to hear that... she's taken.

[CaptainK]

There's a lot of Botox in that face.

[windchime]

I agree. She filled the role without trying to take over the show.

[newzjunkey]

O'Toole was born in 1932.

[goodnesswins]

She looks like a Barbie Doll....

[DollyCali]

I agree with the little or NO politics.

We cant be so fragile we cant get passed some of the comments.

Again I say the problem with the Global Warming Mania is they don't know the facts. They have heard/learned ONE set of facts ala Gore.

I consider myself a conservative but I also consider myself responsible for/to my environment. Personal responsibility in all areas of life I think are conservative principles

[daisyscarlett]

I am sorry that no one mentioned our troops...they spend a lot of money on movies and those who send care packages will confirm that movies are always on the top of their wish list. It helps them pass the time....

[DollyCali]

Yes, I think many of the really excellent movies have these two factors.. when dealing with war, gangland, police corruption etc.. this is to be more or less expected. People who are uncomfortable with either or both will find movie selections small

[goodnesswins]

"I consider myself a conservative but I also consider myself responsible for/to my environment. Personal responsibility in all areas of life I think are conservative principles."

Yep....Me too. The fact that the Gorons think they can control EVERYTHING with gov't (and without an ounce of God) irritates me to no end. And, that they think THEY ARE THE EXPERTS! It's just that they get the MOST MSM attention!