79th Annual Academy Awards Thread

[Underdawg]

Who are your choices for nomination?
Just bold who you think will be winner.

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Gael Barn Garcia - Babel
Michael Caine - The Prestige
Ian McKellen - The Da Vinci Code
Matt Damon - The Departed

Achievement in Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Superman Returns
X-Men 3


Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Cars
A Scanner Darkly
Happy Feet

Achievement in Costume Design
Bobby
The Prestige
Pirates of the Caribbean 2

Achievement in Makeup
Bobby
Eragon
All The Kings Men
Pirates of the Caribbean 2


Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Audrey Tatou - The Da Vinci Code
Natalie Portman - V For Vendetta
Diane Lane - Hollywoodland
Demi Moore - Bobby
Kate Winslet - All The Kings Men

Best Documentary Feature


Achievement in Art Direction
Superman Returns
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Lady in the Water
The Fountain
The Prestige

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code
James Newton Howard - Lady in the Water
John Ottman - Superman Returns
David Arnold - Casino Royale


Achievement in Sound Mixing
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Superman Returns
Lady in the Water

Achievement in Sound Editing
Lady in the Water
The Da Vinci Code
Babel
Cars

Achievement in Film Editing
Babel
Bobby
The Prestige
Pirates of the Caribbean 2

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Brad Pitt - Babel
Hugh Jackman - The Fountain
Leonardo Di Caprio - The Departed

Achievement in Cinematography
The Fountain
Lady in the Water
The Prestige
The Da Vinci Code
Pirates of the Caribbean 2

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Sharon Stone - Bobby


Adapted Screenplay
The Da Vinci Code
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
The Prestige
The Departed

Original Screenplay
Babel
Bobby
Deja Vu
The Fountain
Lady in the Water

Achievement in Directing
Emilio Estevez - Bobby
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu - Babel
Oliver Stone - World Trade Center
Ron Howard - The Da Vinci Code
Martin Scorcese - The Departed

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Babel
Bobby
Pirates of the Carribean 2
The Prestige


Bobby : 8 nominations, 3 wins
The Prestige : 7 nominations, 1 win
Babel: 7 nominations, 1 win
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: 9 nominations, 5 wins
The Departed: 4 nominations, 0 wins
World Trade Center: 1 nomination, 0 wins
The Da Vinci Code: 7 nominations, 0 wins
The Fountain: 4 nominations, 1 win (tied with Lady in the Water)
Lady in the Water: 6 nominations, 5 wins (1 tied with The Fountain)
and others....

i did this all at like 2 AM. so yah, it will vary. And dont be like "OMG! YOU THINK THATS GONNA GET NOMINATED!?" Just post your choices and your winners.

 

[JTStarkiller]

OMG! YOU THINK THATS GONNA GET NOMINATED!?

Just kidding. And it's almost 5am and my brain is fried. Maybe I'll get those answers to you on a later date.

 

[Cinemaman]

My forecast

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
Gael Barn Garcia - Babel
Michael Caine - The Prestige
Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
X-Men: The Last Stand
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Superman Returns

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Ice Age:The Meltdown
Cars
Happy Feet
Over the Hedge

Best Achievement in Costume Design
The Illusionist
Bobby
Hollywoodland

Best Achievement in Makeup
All The Kings Men
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Hollywoodland

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Scarlett Johansson - The Prestige
Diane Lane - Hollywoodland
Demi Moore - Bobby
Kate Winslet - All The Kings Men

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Fountain
Superman Returns
The Prestige

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code
James Newton Howard - Lady in the Water
David Arnold - Casino Royale
Clint Mansell - The Fountain

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Superman Returns
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Casino Royale

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Lady in the Water
Mission Impossible 3

Best Achievement in Film Editing
Babel
The Prestige
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
The Departed

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Brad Pitt - Babel
Hugh Jackman - The Prestige
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
Ryan Phillippe - Flags of Our fathers
Matt Damon - The Good Shepherd

Best Achievement in Cinematography
The Fountain
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Children of Men
The Prestige

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett - Babel
Jessica Biel - The Illusionist
Hellen Mirrene - The Queen
Jennifer Connelly - The Blood Diamond

Best Adapted Screenplay
William Monahan - The Departed
Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton - Children of Men
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan - The Prestige

Best Original Screenplay
Peter Morgan - The Queen
Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
Eric Roth - The Good Shepherd

Best Achievement in Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu - Babel
Martin Scorcese - The Departed
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alfonso Cuarón - Children of Men
Christopher Nolan - The Prestige

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Babel
The Prestige
Children of Men
The Departed
The Good Shepherd

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Michael Caine - Children of Men
or:
Jack Nicholson - The Departed.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed

Best Achievement in Directing
If Scorsese doesn't get it this year. There is no justice.

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Children of Men. No doubt about it.

Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Departed

 

[The Storm]

The Departed will probably rank high in the nominations, so will Flags of Our Fathers pitting Scorcese against Eastwood again. Heres a few nominations, I think we might see. Possible winners in Italic.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
Will Smith - Pursuit of Happiness
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed/The Blood Diamond
Forest Whittaker - The Last King of Scotland
Brad Pitt - Babel?
Edward Norton - The Illusionist?

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Kate Winslet - Little Children
Jennifer Connelly - The Blood Diamond
Sandra Bullock - Infamous ?
Nicole Kidman - Fur?
Cate Blachette - Babel

Best Perfomance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Diane Lane - Hollywoodland
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls (early buzz)
Cate Blanchett - The Good German
Julianne Moore - Children of Men
Thandie Newton - The Pursuit of Happiness ?

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Michael Caine - Children of Men/The Prestige
Cael Bernal Garcia - Babel
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls (early buzz)
Matt Damon - The Departed
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
James McAvoy - The Last King of Scotland (watch out for this guy)

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Fountain

Achievement in Directing
Martin Scorcese - The Departed
Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima
Alfonso Cuaron - Children of Men
Christopher Nolan - The Prestige
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu - Babel

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

I've not had chance much to go to the cinemas, but Jackman really impressed me, so I'd put him up for best actor.

How does The Illusionist compare to The Prestige? Does anyone know a UK release date?

 

[Franklin Richards]

Best Documentary

Shut Up and Sing!

 

[Matt]

The Prestige won't do as good as people are predicting. Its more of a fan boy movie than an Oscar movie.

The Departed will sweep major categories, mostly because the Academy owes Scorscese.

Also DeCaprio will take best actor. He is so due its not even funny. He deserved it for The Aviator. He deserved it for Gangs of New York. He deserves it now, and he'll get it. Matt Damon will be nominated as well (His role doesn't fall under the category of supporting by the way). Depp might get nominated again for Jack Sparrow, but next year he will win it.

Nicholson of Affleck will take Best Supporting Actor. Nicholson has a couple already, but it may also be his last chance...so I'm not sure which. Martin Sheen might be thrown in there. He did really well As Queendin.

Here is my big wacky prediction. Sasha Baron Cohen will get nominated for Best Actor. He won't win. But he'll get the nod. Borat seemed to be universally liked by critics (who make up half the academy) and the movie was recieved well by the masses, he will get a nomination. Also, I would be very suprised if he does not come to the Oscars as Borat with either Pamela Anderson or the prostitute as his date.

 

[tzarinna]

Let me sit on this and tag this thread for later.

 

[Motown Marvel]

POTC 2 for best picture?! the only thing that should be nominated for is a razzie!

 

[Batman1939]

Superman Returns has the best VISUALS

 

[primemover]

Forest Whitaker for Lead Actor in The Last King of Scotland is the only one I am sure of, he was amazing.

 

[primemover]

I've not had chance much to go to the cinemas, but Jackman really impressed me, so I'd put him up for best actor.

How does The Illusionist compare to The Prestige? Does anyone know a UK release date?

I thought The Illusionist was a better film, because it didn't try to be bigger than it needed to be, and for a period film, it REALLY felt period.

 

[primemover]

The Prestige won't do as good as people are predicting. Its more of a fan boy movie than an Oscar movie.

Hit the nail on the head with that one.

 

[Cyrusbales]

if POTC2 gets anything (apart from maybe SFX), then it does show what a crappy year of films we've had, and how perverse, pointless and just clearly wrong the academy awards are!

 

[Cmill216]

For some reason, I think Will Smith could make it happen this year. He looks great in the trailers for Happiness.

 

[Speedball]

if POTC2 gets anything (apart from maybe SFX), then it does show what a crappy year of films we've had, and how perverse, pointless and just clearly wrong the academy awards are!

Yeah...It won't. As much as I love the film, It definantly won't win any awards except for technical stuff.

I do see a nomination Daniel Craig though. Probably won't win, but at least a nomination

 

[bored]

Best Supporting Actor: Steve Carrell for "Little Miss Sunshine". Seriously. At least deserves a nomination.

 

[Matt]

For some reason, I think Will Smith could make it happen this year. He looks great in the trailers for Happiness.

No way, this is DiCaprio's year, plain and simple. It has been coming since Gangs of New York.

 

[Matt]

Yeah...It won't. As much as I love the film, It definantly won't win any awards except for technical stuff.

I do see a nomination Daniel Craig though. Probably won't win, but at least a nomination

Craig won't get the nomination, they are going to have two "gimmick" nominations. Sasha Baron Cohen and Johnny Depp for Pirates (like or hate the movie, Depp was stellar, plus they are building up to him winning for At World's End. Its like Lord of the Rings. They give the nominations, then the win on the final movie).

The way I see it...

Leo DiCaprio - Wins
Matt Damon
Will Smith
Cohen
or Will Ferrell
Depp
or Jackman (although so far The Fountain is getting panned by critics, so unlikely)

 

[Mr. Walters]

Interesting thread considering that the movies ussually groomed for Oscar contention get released around Christmas. Last year all the nominees in the "big" catagories, with the exception of Crash, were released in December. I think the "big" winners and nominees are from films that are still waiting to come out.

PS I love Martin Scorsese. He should have won an Oscar for Goodfellas. Maybe even one for Casino. But if he wins for the sloppily directed Departed I'm gonna be pissed. Any movie that takes place in Boston and has the Boston accents come and go should only win an award for Most Inconsistant. Any movie where the main crime boss is an Irish hood from Southie and has an Italian last name, should only win the award for Most Inadaquate Research.

I dug The Departed but it doesn't deserve to win anything except maybe a few Best Supporting Actor nods, and not to Damon or DiCaprio. Nothing wrong with either of their performances, with the exception of DiCaprio's I'll-Do-The-Accent-When-I-Feel-like-It approach to the dialogue. NO, the real gems in The Departed were Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen. Sadly, neither of these two will even be considered.

 

[Cinemaman]

I can't see POTC2 to be mentioned for The Best Movie nomination.

It got very negative reviews from critics, what isn't so good.

 

[Matt]

Interesting thread considering that the movies ussually groomed for Oscar contention get released around Christmas. Last year all the nominees in the "big" catagories, with the exception of Crash, were released in December. I think the "big" winners and nominees are from films that are still waiting to come out.

PS I love Martin Scorsese. He should have won an Oscar for Goodfellas. Maybe even one for Casino. But if he wins for the sloppily directed Departed I'm gonna be pissed. Any movie that takes place in Boston and has the Boston accents come and go should only win an award for Most Inconsistant. Any movie where the main crime boss is an Irish hood from Southie and has an Italian last name, should only win the award for Most Inadaquate Research.

I dug The Departed but it doesn't deserve to win anything except maybe a few Best Supporting Actor nods, and not to Damon or DiCaprio. Nothing wrong with either of their performances, with the exception of DiCaprio's I'll-Do-The-Accent-When-I-Feel-like-It approach to the dialogue. NO, the real gems in The Departed were Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen. Sadly, neither of these two will even be considered.

Umm, wow you are misinformed.

Costello - Is more commonly Irish than Italian although it could be either. Just because it ends in an O and doesn't have "Mc" in it doesn't mean it is Italian, not Irish.

As for DeCaprio's accent change, it was intentional, he was a double agent. His accent changes based on who he is with.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I can't see POTC2 to be mentioned for The Best Movie nomination.

It got very negative reviews from critics, what isn't so good.

Ofcourse it won't get a nomination for best picture because it's a freakin sequel to a lighthearted disney movie about Pirates and most of the time movie's with mixed reviews don't get nominated, I'm with you on that. But Superman Returns, The Da Vinci Code and all the other so-called big movies aren't going to be nominated for best picture either.

 

[Matt]

Ofcourse it won't get a nomination for best picture because it's a freakin sequel to a lighthearted disney movie about Pirates and most of the time movie's with mixed reviews don't get nominated, I'm with you on that. But Superman Returns, The Da Vinci Code and all the other so-called big movies aren't going to be nominated for best picture either.

Psst, Cinemaman is still upset that Pirates embarrassed Superman.

Of course it won't get best picture though, thats common sense. Depp will get a nomination for Jack Sparrow, I think. He will probably win it for At World's End.