Well, at least you're not exhausted.

I am so serveing pudding and fudge at my Oscar party.

This is turning into Brokeback Mountain comedy hour!

Next week, we can get all beastial with Kong.

I'm wondering if The Family Stone wasn't screened for them. I mean, besides the snub of Keaton, the cast of Rent actually got a nomination instead of this film. I liked Rent but it was hardly well-reviewed or anything.

Does anybody really believe Watts will get nominated for reprising a role that Fay Wray will always own? I guess I've just never seen it.

I think it has a lot to do with the field, not to mention a supposedly strong performance.

Fay Wray

They might treat it like Cate Blanchett playing Katherine Hepburn; ie honouring a great actress with a great performance.

Yeah, the field is super-duper weak.

I also hear Naomi Watts takes this performance to places that Wray didn't go.

After seeing Kong again on Thursday, I would say that is entirely possible.

And don't forget, once the New World comes to the foreground, we'll have a grown man lusting after a 14 year old! W00t!

Truly, we're covering a great range this year

I'd go as far as saying they'd award her for bringing in one of the most iconic female characters in Hollywood into the 21st entury possibly doing it better and with more substance.

I don't think we hould be looking at King Kong as the blockbuster anymore, even though it is, but moreso the spectacle nom. And the Academy sure does love its spectacles (Titanic, LOTR) but this may be just 1 year too soon.

you can do a Twofer, and have a 14 year old boy.

If only Polanski was nominated, we could take this full circle...jerk.

Yeah, but what actor or actress today doesn't bury performances from that era? The craft of acting has evolved. I still think it would be a bit of a slap to Fay Wray for inventing the character and immortalizing it to hand out glory to Noami Watts for playing the same character.

It wouldn't bother me if she did get a nomination, but will the uptight academy do something like that to take away from one of their legends, because accolades for Watts that Wray didn't get kinda does that.

Now that could be a Twist...

An OLIVER TWIST

It's screened, since they scored it a 78, which is low in BFCA standard. With that low score, I think it's understandable that they didn't nominate it for anything, even though I'm still surprised at Keaton's snub.

Now what's up with their screwed up noms? Memoirs of a Geisha is for them like last year The Phantom of the Opera. They just nominated it because of its degree. You know I considered that it might happen, but thought that BFCA won't make the same mistake two years in a row. That's just moronic, seriously. Can anyone find a worse reviewed movie to ever be nominated for Best Picture at BFCA? I doubt that....


Now the rest of the thoughts...

Considering it is very very rare that the Best Picture nominee is not among the Top 10 of BFCA this was a very hard hit for The New World and Match Point.

Crash is still in the race as I have predicted all the way and I still can easily see it getting a Best Picture nom at the Oscars. Cinderella Man is very well alive too.

Things are generally not looking good for Munich, especially with Eric Bana not being nominated. I think he's even less certain now than David Straitharn.

Russell Crowe is back in the race.

Best Actress looks pretty much as I expected to me. I didn't expect to see Watts there and I still don't expect her to get an Oscar nod for Kong. I think everyone nominated here will get an Oscar nod, except for Theron.

Best Supporting Actor... some love for Crash there. Costner is surprisingly back in the race too and it's looking good for Giamatti now. Jeff Daniels is nowhere to be seen, though.

Best Supporting Actress really puzzles me because the three who I have considered frontrunners and locks for noms are not there: Diane Keaton, Gong Li and Scarlett Johansson. I can't imagine the Academy snubbing Keaton, though, no way. But Amy Adams' chances are increasing with each day.

Rent getting a Best Acting Ensemble nod over The Family Stone is a shame, but they got Sin City there which is amazing!

Now Best Director....that's a HUGE boost for Crash and Cinderella Man, but also really hard hits for Malick and Allen, especially for the latter. If he misses out on NY Critics Awards, he is pretty much out...

Also, I'm glad to see Emma Watson being nominated for Harry Potter and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for Best Comedy.

John Williams did end up with a Score nom for Memoirs of a Geisha, certifying his status for the Oscars.



Overall:

The awards gave huge boosts to Cinderella Man and Crash as well as to Good Night, and Good Luck. The latter is almost locked in for a Best Pucture nom now, after getting Best Ensemble, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Writing here.

The big losers are Match Point, The Family Stone and The New World and to a lesser extent Munich and King Kong.

My predictions:

BEST PICTURE:


Good Night, and Good Luck.

BEST ACTOR:

Heath Ledger – “Brokeback Mountain”

BEST ACTRESS:

Reese Witherspoon – “Walk the Line”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Jake Gyllenhaal – “Brokeback Mountain”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Amy Adams – “Junebug”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE:

Crash

BEST DIRECTOR:

Ang Lee – “Brokeback Mountain”


BEST WRITER:


George Clooney and Grant Heslov – “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR:

Jesse Eisenberg – “The Squid and the Whale”

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:

Q'Orianka Kilcher – “The New World”


BEST COMEDY MOVIE:

The Producers


BEST FAMILY FILM (LIVE ACTION):

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:

Into the West

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

Oldboy

BEST SONG:

“Seasons of Love” – Tracie Thoms, Jesse L. Martin and Cast – “Rent”


BEST SOUNDTRACK:

Rent


BEST COMPOSER:


Gustavo Santaolalla – “Brokeback Mountain”



BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

March of the Penguins

Here are the BFCA scores for each film:

Brokeback Mountain - 92
Capote - 89
Cinderella Man - 92
The Constant Gardener - 90
Crash - 88
Good Night, and Good Luck. - 95
King Kong - unknown
Memoirs of a Geisha - 84
Munich - unknown
Walk the Line - 90

High scores that didn't get in:

The Squid and the Whale - 93 (a score this high had never been omitted from the final top 10)
A History of Violence - 89

Wow, Cinderella Man was that high!?

Then again, F4 is at 85 there, so that hardly says anything.

i know you guys are joking and I am attempting to laugh but at the same time you're equating beastiality and pedophelia with homosexuality. again, i know you're trying to have fun. but just remember there are plenty of gays here. and I, for one, am sensitive to this kind of thing.

don't want to preach, so carry on. just watch it.

you perplex me, they joke about this and your sensitive to it, ok I can see that, but Michal posts an article insulting Bryan Singer for his sexuality and you champoin that.

So jokes related to one being gay are bad, but discrediting a director via his sexuality is ok?

Do you not like pudding?

Bill Cosby does!

i didn't think that the article michael posted specifically said anything bad about singer. that's how you're interpreting it but it's not what the article said or did.

you have got to be kidding me if you think that making pudding jokes about gays in the same context as kiddie porn and sex with animals are the same thing.

like i said, i know they are kidding so don't try to make it a bigger issue than i am.

oooooooooooooooh, the pink mafia

j/k

carry on

Actually, you just assume that we're equating them and are thus working away from your pre-conceived assumptions.

We might just as well have thought of relationships that are not often portrayed in films that gain the Academy's attention, and all those three, along with basically all relationships that are not between a handsome man and a beautiful woman who are most likely young, fit that description.

If you want to equate homosexuality with beastiality and paedophilia, fine, that's your problem, but please don't put words into our mouths.


And what do you mean by "just remember there are plenty of gays here"? I most sincerely hope that none of them are so completely lacking of humour that they limit themselves to a narrow frame of thinking. Gays, Sam, are people too, and they too can be incredibly narrow-minded. And narrow-mindedness at any extremity is repulsive.

In all honesty, if we want to reflect some of the recent heterosexual relationships that will be represented in the Oscars, we can bring ludes and beer for Walk the Line. If that makes you feel better.

I honestly think you and I read a different article, I don't see how hiring people you sleep with is apositive thing, but apprently getting a job via fucking is just the way to go. Good to know, I want an internship this summer, i'll look for someone to fuck.