Oscar: 2001 Predictions

Submitted by AAA on Sat, 11/17/2001 - 13:09
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  • Best Picture:
  • Moulin Rouge! - Its got more than enough support.
  • Best Actor:
  • Denzel Washington, Training Day - This will cause a squeal of delight in the audience.
  • Best Actress:
  • Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge! - The surprise of the evening.
  • Best Supporting Actor:
  • Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings - The only major bone they'll throw it.
  • Best Supporting Actress:
  • Helen Mirren, Gosford Park - You can't make a lot of money on the safe bet.
  • Best Director:
  • Robert Altman, Gosford Park - Howard's DGA win doesn't mean as mush as people think it does. He won the Guild in 1995 without an Oscar nomination, they just like him, that's all.
lbangs02/12/2002

Guts, indeed.

So even with a new animated category, you're betting on Shrek nabbing a Best Picture nom? AAA, you do have guts!

I'm with you on betting (perhaps it is more hoping) that Memento can snag a Picture nom. I'm also holding out for Watts for Best Actress, but again, that may just be hope. Still, maybe people can only hear, "She deserves it, too bad she won't get it," so many times.

Loads of fun. Thanks!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

AAA02/12/2002

I got the surprise that I sort of expected. I should ahve been more conservative. Oh well.
By the way, who the Hell saw Ethan Hawke coming?

lbangs02/12/2002

Well, no news here, but the Oscar still are nothing to believe in...

Memento should have gotten a best picture nod - a critical and commercial sucess. I knew Mulholland Drive was too dark and "out there" for the Academy, but Lynch snagging a best director nod is certainly the best surprise of the year.

However one feels about the film Mulholland Drive, though, Naomi Watts was simply robbed. Simple as that. She deserved to win the Best Actress category.

Otherwise, Dreamworks still proves it can throw up weak product and, through spending tons of dough, get it nominated. They'll probaby grab a win with that moolah, just like they claimed Best Picture last year with the very undeserving Gladiator.

Sigh. Money. It rules so much in Hollywood. Maybe every Academy member should watch Mulholland Drive...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

lbangs02/12/2002

Perhaps most odd and interesting about this year's noms is that 2 Best Picture nominees did not get their directors nominated, In the Bedroom and Moulin Rouge. Instead, Lynch (Mulholland Drive) and Scott (Black Hawk Down) got in. This is very strange and perhaps represents a true lack of consensus this year. You'll be hearing more about this, I promise.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

jgandcag02/12/2002

And if anyone deserved a nomination for Best Director it was Luhrman for Moulin Rouge. There are some things wrong with that movie but the direction was superb. I would be hard pressed to name anyone who did a better job of directing...

lbangs02/12/2002

Luhrman was certainly unfairly neglected. If anything, Moulin Rouge is a director's film. Nominating the film while leaving Luhrman out (for the tired, once-great Scott, nonetheless! Lynch can stay, since he directed my favorite film of last year :) ) is simply silly and sad.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

jgandcag02/12/2002

Well the Academy never changes. Bland feel good people in distress movies, that happned to be backed by the large Studios, will always get the nominations. I fear we will be seeing a lot of Opie on the awards night.

I certainly hope Denzel wins the best actor nomiantion, I don't think I could take another lecture from Russell "The Artiste" Crowe.

I actually think that last year was a good year for the movies but you find no proof in these awards.

AAA02/12/2002

I just realized something. Rick Baker got shut out for his work in Planet of the Apes. That is amazing.