L. Bangs' 2008 Oscar Predictions
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 04:02
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- Best Short Film, Live Action - The Tonto Woman
- Best Short Film, Animated - Peter & the Wolf
- Best Documentary, Short Subjects - Freeheld
- Best Documentary, Feature - No End in Sight
- Best Foreign Language Film of the Year - Die Falscher (The Counterfeiters)
- Best Animated Feature Film of the Year - Ratatouille
- Best Achievement in Visual Effects - Transformers
- Best Achievement in Sound Editing - Tough one - Transformers
- Best Achievement in Sound - Transformers Gee, this hunk of shit might win three awards? Well, heck - Norbit nabbed a nomination!
- Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song - Once
- Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score - Atonement
- Best Achievement in Makeup - La Vie en Rose
- Best Achievement in Costume Design - Atonement
- Best Achievement in Art Direction - There Will Be Blood
- Best Achievement in Editing - The Bourne Ultimatum
- Best Achievement in Cinematography - There Will Be Blood
---and the big ones---- Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published - No Country for Old Men
- Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - Juno
- Best Achievement in Directing - Coens for No Country for Old Men
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There (I've seen them all, and if she loses, she was horribly robbed...)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (no guts, no glory; besides, she deserves it more than any other nominee)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
- Best Motion Picture of the Year - No Country for Old Men (My fave of the nominated batch? Probably There Will Blood, followed closely by No Country for Old Men and Atonement. Juno was good but not quite deserving, and while Michael Clayton is pretty good, it is the weakest of the batch...)
Tilda Swinton was a righteous choice for Best Supporting Actress that year.
If you're going to take a chance, you might as well go down rooting for your favorite.
And I still say Cate Blanchett was robbed! Her performance is easily one of the best of the decade.
At least my other big chance (Marion Cotillard) paid off...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Have you seen I Am Love yet?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Not yet -- it played Houston for about a week, then disappeared....it's on my Netflix list.
My good friend who told me it was my kind of movie saw it in Houston! :)
Great Tilda. I hope you can see it soon.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs