And the nominations are in

[Guest TUS_02]

Lord of the Rings getting 13 nominations.  Impressive.  I don't really care about them winning Best Picture since its success speaks for itself.  But I would really crap my pants if I could say... Oscar winning director, Peter Jackson.  To think... 2 years ago, I randomly picked up Meet the Feebles because the cover was of a puppet weilding a huge machine gun and now PJ is THIS close to the Oscar.

 

My quick picks-

 

Best Movie- I'd love to see LOTR win this, but it's highly doubtful.  At least Black Hawk Down wasn't nominated... I haven't heard a good thing about that movie yet.  But everything seems to be pointing to A Beautiful Mind... just because.

 

Best Actor- This is a tough one.  Smith did an amazing job of portraying Ali, yet Tom Wilkinson was amazing In The Bedroom.  But knowing how the Acadamy works... Crowe will probably get it because he is... RUssell Crowe

 

Best Actress- It's good to see Zellweger get a nomination, although I don't think she stands a chance in hell...It's either going to Kidman or Spacek.  I'd prefer Spacek, but I'd put my money on Kidman, even though I have yet to see Moulon Rouge and going by how the Acadamy works.

 

Supporting Actor- Ethan Hawke?  Man, I gotta see Training Day.  I dunno what movie Kingsley is up there for.  No single actor in LOTR should have been nominated... which leaves Broadbent and Jon Voight.  I would like to see Voight win it, but... ah, I don't fricken know.  

 

Supporting Actress- Nice selection.  My money is on one of the Gosford Park ladies.  But TOmei could be a sleeper.

 

Best Director- Well, I am going into my full, biased opinion here and say that the reason Jackson SHOULD win it is because he took an epic trillogy of a book, and turned it into a beautiful, high grossing masterpiece.  I will say if Ron Howard wins this, I will punch someone.  

 

You can find them all http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nominees_index.html

[Guest Dark Lotus]

Best Picture - I hate to say it, but Beautiful Mind is probably gonna take this one.  It was a commercial film, but wasn't a blockbuster like LOTR and Moulin Rouge were.

 

Best Actor - Will Smith is WAY too fresh (no pun intended) to win right now, although he probably should.  With two African American actors nominated, expect Denzel to get it.

 

Best Actress - Moulin Rouge is a VERY pretty movie.  And Kidman was great.  But I have a feeling that Renee Zellweger is gonna POWERBOMB KIDMAN~! and get the upset.

 

Supporting actor - Ian McKellen gets the LOTR vote... and one of their ONLY actual wins.

 

Supporting actress - Beh, who cares.  Let's just say Jennifer Connely and leave it at that.

 

Best Director - I'll take Ron Howard, just to piss off TUS.  

[Guest The Son of Sting]

Best picture - I wanted Memento to get at least a nomination

and for direction

Best actor - were was Guy Pierce, that was the best performance of last year imo.

 

everything else, no real complaints although i do agree Zellwegar might get the upset win.

[Guest hardyz1]

I can't believe Memento only got one freaking nomination, for Best Original Screenplay.

 

And MOULIN ROUGE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Guest ArkhamGlobe]

Memento also got a Best Editing nomination.

 

I would pick which films I think will and should win, but the majority of them haven't even been released in Sweden yet (out of the best picture nominees only Moulin Rouge and Lord of the Rings have been released. I liked both but I don't think I'd give either the award). What I do predict is a bunch of technical awards for Lord of the Rings, and probably Amélie for best foreign language film (which I am hoping it does).

[Guest Dark Lotus]

Moulin Rouge will probably win a lot of the design categories, as it's a very "pretty" film.  But beyond that, don't expect much.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Best Movie-A Beautiful Mind.

Best Actor-Denzel Washington.

Best Actress-Sissy Spacek

Best Supporting Actor-Ian McClellan, almost a life time achievment award.

Best Supporting Actress-Jennifer Connelly

Best Director-Richard Attenborough

[Guest the Goon]

Man Who Wasnt There, Ghost World and Royal Tenenbaums got screwed.

 

no best actor noms for Thornton or Hackman? no supporting actor nom for Buscemi?

 

more than any other year, I realize how stupid award shows are. This year = not watching.

 

And another thing: the inevitable best dressed/worst dressed thing. remember last year when everyone made such a fuss over Bjorks swan dress? Joan Rivers called her an "idiot". The dress was eccentric and un-oscarlike. but THAT WAS THE POINT.  Its a stereotype, but I have to say that Americans really have no sense of irony.

[Guest JerryDrake]

Denzel better win, thats all i have to say.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

No, I'm sure we Americans got it. It was the stupid (fashion) publications that deemed it an "unholy act". I thought it was great.

 

I don't care too much about the Oscars, but if Russel Crowe wins again this year (even if it is deserving this time) I'm gonna personally show up at his house and repeatedly punch his testicles until he can no longer bear children.

[Guest Choken One]

I don't care too much about the Oscars, but if Russel Crowe wins again this year (even if it is deserving this time) I'm gonna personally show up at his house and repeatedly punch his testicles until he can no longer bear children.

Huh?

[Guest J*ingus]

Since nobody else did it yet, here's the full nomination list, along with my predictions:

 

Best Picture:

 

* A Beautiful Mind

* Gosford Park

* In the Bedroom

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Moulin Rouge

 

Will either go to Beautiful Mind or LOTR.  

 

Best Director:

 

* Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind

* Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down

* Robert Altman, Gosford Park

* Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* David Lynch, Mulholland Drive

 

Probably Peter Jackson.  

 

Best Actor:

 

* Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind

* Sean Penn, I Am Sam

* Will Smith, Ali

* Denzel Washington, Training Day

* Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom

 

Russell Crowe.  He turned in a better performance here than in Gladiator, and he played a disabled character as well, which the Academy loves.  

 

Best Actress:

 

* Halle Berry, Monster's Ball

* Judi Dench, Iris

* Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge

* Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom

* Renée Zellweger, Bridget Jones's Diary

 

Probably Kidman, though Zellweger also has a chance.  

 

Best Supporting Actor:

 

* Jim Broadbent, Iris

* Ethan Hawke, Training Day

* Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast

* Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Jon Voight, Ali

 

Tough category.  I'd guess McKellen, but it's hard to say.  

 

Best Supporting Actress:

 

* Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind

* Helen Mirren, Gosford Park

* Maggie Smith, Gosford Park

* Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom

* Kate Winslet, Iris

 

Probably either Mirren or Smith.  

 

Best Animated Feature:

 

* Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

* Monsters, Inc.

* Shrek

 

Not Jimmy Neutron, but it could be either of the others.  

 

Adapted Screenplay:

 

* A Beautiful Mind, Akiva Goldsman

* Ghost World, Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff

* In the Bedroom, Rob Festinger and Todd Field

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson

* Shrek, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman

 

Another tough category.  I'd guess A Beautiful Mind, since the Academy traditionally votes for "true stories".  

 

Original Screenplay:

 

* Amélie, Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay); Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)

* Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes

* Memento, Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Jonathan Nolan (story)

* Monster's Ball, Milo Addica & Will Rokos

* The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson

 

I wish Memento would get this one, but it'll probably go to Gosford or Tenenbaums.  

 

Best Foreign-Language Film:

 

* Amélie (France)

* Elling (Norway)

* Lagaan (India)

* No Man's Land (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

* Son of the Bride (Argentina)

 

Amelie of course.  

 

Art Direction:

 

* Amélie

* Gosford Park

* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Moulin Rouge

 

Probably Moulin Rouge, though LOTR has a shot.  

 

Cinematography:

 

* Amélie

* Black Hawk Down

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* The Man Who Wasn't There

* Moulin Rouge

 

LOTR.  

 

Costume Design:

 

* The Affair of the Necklace

* Gosford Park

* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Moulin Rouge

 

Moulin Rouge.  

 

Documentary Feature:

 

* Children Underground

* LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

* Murder on a Sunday Morning

* Promises

* War Photographer

 

No clue, haven't heard anything about any of them.  

 

Documentary Short Subject:

 

* Artists and Orphans: A True Drama

* Sing!

* Thoth

 

Ditto.  

 

Film Editing:

 

* A Beautiful Mind

* Black Hawk Down

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Memento

* Moulin Rouge

 

This one is usually arbitrary as hell, and goes to whichever movie picks up the most wins overall.  

 

Makeup:

 

* A Beautiful Mind

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Moulin Rouge

 

LOTR.  

 

Original Score:

 

* A.I. Artificial Intelligence

* A Beautiful Mind

* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Monsters, Inc.

 

Probably Beautiful Mind.  

 

Original Song:

 

* "If I Didn't Have You" (Monsters, Inc.), music and lyric by Randy Newman

* "May It Be" The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), music and lyric by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan

* "There You'll Be" (Pearl Harbor), music and lyric by Diane Warren

* "Until (Kate & Leopold), music and lyric by Sting

* "Vanilla Sky" (Vanilla Sky), music and lyric by Paul McCartney

 

George Harrison's death could very well skew the awards in his old partner Paul McCartney's favor.  

 

Animated Short Film:

 

* Fifty Percent Grey

* For the Birds

* Give Up Yer Aul Sins

* Strange Invaders

* Stubble Trouble

 

And we should care because...?  

 

Live-Action Short Film:

 

* the accountant

* Copy Shop

* Gregor's Greatest Invention

* A Man Thing (Meska Sprawa)

* Speed for Thespians

 

Having little rinky-dink awards for movies that 99% of viewers have never heard of doesn't help promote them at all.  

 

Sound:

 

* Amélie

* Black Hawk Down

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Moulin Rouge

* Pearl Harbor

 

This award is traditionally the bastion of big action movies, so it's either Blackhawk Down or Pearl Harbor.  

 

Sound Editing:

 

* Monsters, Inc.

* Pearl Harbor

 

Pearl Harbor.  

 

Visual Effects:

 

* A.I. Artificial Intelligence

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Pearl Harbor

 

Tough call, though my gut says A.I.  

 

 

Well, it's overall not quite as strong as last year's, but thank God there is no overrated juggernaut like Gladiator to scoop up awards that should've gone to other movies.

[Guest Smitty]

"Paul McCartney's death could very well skew the awards in his favor."

 

Huh?

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

"Paul McCartney's death could very well skew the awards in his favor.  "

 

When did he die?  He was at the Super Bowl just last weekend.

[Guest jpg]

-Best Picture: Probably A Beautiful Mind, or maybe Lord of the Rings

 

-Best Actor: Gene Hackman not being nominated reminds me of Jim Carrey  not being nominated for The Truman Show, except that Hackman is a respected actor.  Both deserved the nods by the way.  Russell Crowe will probably pick this one up.

 

-Best Actress: Sissy Spacek

 

-Best Supporting Actor: No idea for this one

 

-Best Supporting Actress: I'm guessing this will go to one of the women from Gosford Park.

 

-Best Director: This has to go to Robert Altman, though I haven't seen Gosford Park.  He's a great director who hasn't won any Oscars (to my knowledge).  If people are saying that Gosford Park is one tenth of the movie Nashville is then he deserves the win here.  Plus it's always easier to single out Altman instead of the actors/actresses because his films rely more on the group's acting rather than just one or two people.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

-Best Picture: Fellowship of the Ring.  9 times out of 10, the movie that gets the most nominations goes on to win best picture.

 

-Best Actor: Russell Crowe.  This is the consolation for A Beautiful Mind.

 

-Best Actress: Nicole Kidman.  This is almost a gimme.

 

-Best Supporting Actor:  Ben Kingsley.  Voight won't win.  McKellan won't win.  Broadbent won the Golden Globe which probably means he won't win here.  Hawke shouldn't win.  He was carried by Washington in Training Day.  That leaves Kingsley.

 

-Best Supporting Actress:  Marisa Tormei.  Oscar number two.  No controversy this time.

 

-Best Director:  Robert Altman.  If he doesn't, then something is seriously wrong.

[Guest Black Lushus]

Paul McCartney died?

[Guest J*ingus]

""Paul McCartney's death could very well skew the awards in his favor.  "

When did he die?  He was at the Super Bowl just last weekend."

 

Dammit, I meant George Harrison's death could help skew the awards in his old partner's favor.  Sorry.

[Guest DrTom]

Best Picture: I'd like to see LOTR get it, and based on hype and number of nominations, it should.

 

Best Actor: Russell Crowe, only because the Academy will use this awayrd to justify giving him one for "Gladiator" last year.

 

Best Actress: While I'd like to see Renee Zellweger win, I think Nicole Kidman is going to take this one.

 

Best Sup Actor: Ian McKellan.  People are finally realizing he can act, and this will be the Academy's "Oops..." award.  As in, "Oops, it took us this long to realize you're a good actor."

 

Best Sup Actress: I'll go with Jennifer Connelly, since she used to be such a babe.

 

Best Animated Feature: SHREK, Damnit!

 

Best Adapted Screenplay: LOTR

 

Best Original Screenplay: I hope Memento *doesn't* get this one, actually.  Tenenbaums, since it got the shaft in a couple other areas.

 

Best Cinematography: LOTR.  And I hope The Count Of Monte Cristo gets it next year.

 

Best Costume Design: Moulin Rouge all the way.

 

The rest of the categories are uninteresting, much like the Oscars ceremony itself.

[Guest HopeSpot]

I can't beleive nobody's pimping Ridley Scott for BHD. The actions scenes were so unreal they more than made up for the non-existent character devolpment and cheesy (and I mean muther fucking cheesy) cliched war movie one liners.

[Guest TUS_02]

I have not heard a lot of good things about Black Hawk Down.  But I can't say anything personally

[Guest the Goon]

a comedy hasnt won since 1977 with Annie Hall. Oscar hates comedy. So do critics, when you consider how little they look into comedies. Comedies often mean more than they let on and often arent just there to make you laugh.

 

The exclusion of Ghost World and the Royal Tenenbaums from several awards shows how out of touch these old fogeys are. All hail the new flesh.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Most critics have nothing against comedies.  Just against bad comedies like Slackers.

[Guest the Goon]

I find a lot of bad reviews for good comedies.

 

as for 'bad comedies' - there have been several "stupid" movies that acheive their purpose - they get laughs. many times they are clever and original, but you will never see any major critic give out any more than the equivolent of say, ***/***** for a "stupid" comedy because it hurts their image, and image is all too important for critics these days...

[Guest godthedog]

it amazes me how much time and attention is devoted by so many smart people to these awards.  the people who pick this crap for awards and try to attach some kind of importance to the award are delusional.  artistically, they ultimately mean nothing.  very rarely does a deserving film have any kind of shot at all in the oscars, and if it does it's almost always in a screenplay category ('citizen kane', 'pulp fiction', 'fargo', 'the usual suspects', 'network', etc.).  i'm idly hoping 'ghost world' gets best adapted screenplay & 'memento' gets best original screenplay because they both deserve the mainstream publicity, & remaining apathetic to the rest.

[Guest ratboy]

a comedy hasnt won since 1977 with Annie Hall. Oscar hates comedy. So do critics, when you consider how little they look into comedies. Comedies often mean more than they let on and often arent just there to make you laugh.

 

The exclusion of Ghost World and the Royal Tenenbaums from several awards shows how out of touch these old fogeys are. All hail the new flesh.

Technically, "Shakespeare in Love" back in 1998. But a full-on comedy? Yes, not since 1977.

 

And I agree, this year is very safe. Where the fuck is "The Royal Tenenbaums"? Gene Hackman owned this year.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Tenenbaums was the second best movie of the year.

 

Memento got screwed.  Best Original Screenplay?  That's fitting.

 

That award is also known as:  "The Citizen Kane Consolation award for movies too daring to win best picture"

 

Look throughout history and you'll find that several times a movie that was arguably the best has one this award:  Kane, Pulp Fiction...