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.

[daisyscarlett]

Reading books and watching movies are not mutually exclusive, lol. I love when a book I have read is made into a movie and I have also read many books after I have seen the movie.

Maybe we can have a thread every now and again about books made into movies and how they differ from the book etc....

I am waiting for The Namesake to be released in March...I just finished the book and it was very special. But, as we all know, sometimes Hollywood changes stuff around. Although the movie was made in India and is an all India production.

[DollyCali]

That is what I envision as one of the themes of the new movie thread.. Love adaptations of books - I was thinking of August.

All movies reviewed will be along that line. I will TRY hard to get a screenwriter to contribute a piece.

charlie Kaufmann is my fav screenwriter... but I need to learn more about them. He does off the wall stuff, which I love

[DollyCali]

Goodness! your movie theater experiences sound wierd~

I have gone to the movies for over 40 years as an adult(and many times a week) & have never had a bad experience of any sort that was negative.

At home I have too many detractions to make movie watching enjoyable. As a "mom caregiver" it is never a relaxing time to unwind. The theater does it for me

[Northern Yankee]

Looks like a lot of fun.

I can' t wait!

Thanks Dolly!

[goodnesswins]

Maybe you haven't gone to movies in big cities.....smaller environments are probably better!

[Sir_Ed]

I'd like to be on your monthly movie ping, if ya' decide to make one.

Thanks!

Ed

[SuziQ]

Count me in, Dolly! I love discussing movies!

[jaycee]

Sounds like a wonderful thing to me! Thanks for introducing this new adventure, Dolly!

[Silly]

Yeah, I wasn't surprised when they said it. His work has a real made on a mac signature. love his films

[ReignOfError]

Yeah, I wasn't surprised when they said it. His work has a real made on a mac signature. love his films

No narrator. No voice-over. Morris lets people tell their own stories, and I'm a fan of that approach.

[DollyCali]

Well my cities are not really small...Cleveland Oh, Boston, Houston..are the three big cities I lived & have done movies .

Now in Cleveland.

My years in smaller community .. Winston Salem NC...was not any different.

Maybe I have just been lucky.

I do 75 percent of my movie attendance on NOT FRi or Sat. That might make a difference.

I just dislike the crowds, waiting on Fri/Sat - but even in the crowded theaters, things are okay, just crowded!

[DollyCali]

yes, you are on it!

so far no nays... but after the first ping of the mega thread I might get a few "take me off your X*$*%&# LIST

lol

[The Raven]

>>What are your ideas for inclusion in a Monthly Movie Thread?


New movies in the pipeline

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Do you mean "new movies" as in all new movies in the theatres only, or will you expand the Monthly Movie Thread to also include new DVD releases which would interest the majority of Freepers as well? If you are also including new DVD releases that most Freepers would probably enjoy, then I would recommend The Pursuit of Happiness which is coming out next month.

[DollyCali]

Thanks Rav... good idea. I am working on the thread which is due TOMORROW.. YIKES.. and since I dont have all the editors in place, this will be a good thing to include.

[DollyCali]

I will see what I can do about both..the DVD releases are good to know about also

wont be doing any TV movies at this point

[DollyCali]

what is it doing where you live? winter "fun" here/ What the map does NOT show is the mega flooding & blocking of several river mouths with ice flows onto Lake Erie. Each year a big time concern/problem