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MadGez
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 Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Eastwood is at it again. December 2009 and he has a Nelson Mandela pic coming out, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. This is right up the Academy's alley....and will get right up Loyal  Never heard about this till I was checking out the release schedule at Coming Soon. Synopsis... Quote: The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. _________________
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Gulli
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Honestly what the hell does Clint know about Rugby, the Lomu role will be butchered  ...........................however this will please you Gerry damn your hate of the All Blacks!!
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Loyal
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Condering the botched release of Gran Torino, he should move it to Thanksgiving weekend or even October.
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Two Academy Award winners in a Clint Eastwood historical picture... yeah, we've got ourselves one of the next five BP noms.
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Loyal
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? The Human Factor
The Informant
Nine
Shutter Island
random film
sounds plausible enough
there's also Public Enemies, State of Play, and Tree of Life
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roo
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? I'm still thing Lovely Bones fills the Button/Seabiscuit/etc. Soft emotional spot
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? It's NEVER this obvious a year earlier.
But I think Morgan Freeman is a shoe-in for Best Actor. At leasta nom. No arguing that...he was born to play it.
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? roo wrote: I'm still think Lovely Bones fills the Button/Seabiscuit/etc. Soft emotional spot It's in it to win it! _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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torrino
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? I don't think Shutter Island as a chance in hell at a BP nom.
The Departed's BP win (even during a year with no real competition) hasn't aged well...I personally find myself forgetting what won BP in '06. It's a good movie, but not memorable and Shutter Island is more of the same (Leo, October release, big budget, an adaptation instead of an original project, sorta non-Oscar-esque story...)
Though, Leo was robbed this year...
In that same logic (an overdue actor paving the way to a BP nom...like Kate Winslet)...we may want to consider Inglorious Bastards.
I'm not feeling Nine. The Academy is sick of musicals...and, idk, Daniel Day-Lewis singing just doesn't sound very attractive.
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Biutiful (Focus Features)
An Education (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Informant (Warner Bros.)
Nine (The Weinstein Company)
Shutter Island (Paramount)
I'm not feeling The Human Factor in Best Picture, but Morgan should definitely be a Best Actor heavyweight contender.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? da torri wrote: I don't think Shutter Island as a chance in hell at a BP nom.
The Departed's BP win (even during a year with no real competition) hasn't aged well...I personally find myself forgetting what won BP in '06. It's a good movie, but not memorable and Shutter Island is more of the same (Leo, October release, big budget, an adaptation instead of an original project, sorta non-Oscar-esque story...)
I disagree and I don't think there's much to really back up the claim. The reviews for it were pretty brilliant, it's the same genre as Scorsese's classic films, it was a bona-fide box-office success, well-liked all-around a hit on DVD, it won the three biggies (Screenplay/Director/Picture). _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Loyal
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? da torri wrote:
I'm not feeling Nine. The Academy is sick of musicals...and, idk, Daniel Day-Lewis singing just doesn't sound very attractive.
I'm frankly scared of DDL singing.  As for the genre, meh, it's a wash really. 2 high profile musicals have gotten in (Moulin Rouge and Chicago), and 2 have not (Dreamgirls and Sweeney Todd). I'm not counting Rent, Producers, Phantom, Mama Mia!, and the like, because they were never really contenders.
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MadGez
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Gulli wrote: Honestly what the hell does Clint know about Rugby, the Lomu role will be butchered ...........................however this will please you Gerry damn your hate of the All Blacks!! Indeed. Not even much of a rugby fan but my "hate the All Blacks with a passion" chip is fully activated. This film has a good shot. I'd say Lovely Bones, Inglorious Basterds and maybe Public Enemies all have a shot too. _________________
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roo
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Dr. Lecter wrote: It's NEVER this obvious a year earlier. No, but we're usually able to name 1 or 2 of the eventual nominees... sometimes more (Gangs, Chicago, Hours, Towers was a year where I saw those tossed around like at least 90% of the time).
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Dr. Lecter wrote: It's NEVER this obvious a year earlier. Well, to be fair Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon and Milk were all pegged as major contenders around this time last year, with The Reader lurking in the shadows with its five-time nominated star and two-time nominated director. We seem to be moving away from the 2005/06 unpredictability. And I totally agree with torri on Shutter Island. Now that Scorsese has his Oscar, is there any point in the Academy continuing to go crazy for his films?
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roo
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Even in 2005 Brokeback and Munich were known nominees (or projected I should say) this far out basically.
I'm trying to think of a year where we didn't know one or two of the nominees basically up front...
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? roo wrote: Even in 2005 Brokeback and Munich were known nominees (or projected I should say) this far out basically.
I'm trying to think of a year where we didn't know one or two of the nominees basically up front... I think The Queen was actually suppose to air on TV this far out, so no one was considering that film at all. Also, I don't think Iwo Jima was even a 2006 release until FOOF flopped. Related to that, Million Dollar Baby didn't even film until August 2004.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? roo wrote: Even in 2005 Brokeback and Munich were known nominees (or projected I should say) this far out basically.
I'm trying to think of a year where we didn't know one or two of the nominees basically up front... Roo, NO ONE except for Rod even mentioned Brokeback Mountian at that point in 2005. Even Rod did it for the first time in the summer. Munich? Yes. The biggies around this time back then were Munich and Memoirs of a Geisha. Thus, 2005 would qualify. So would 2006 I guess...not sure whether Babel was considered. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Nah, I guess I was still reading OScar Watch at that time, and they were all over Brokeback by this time. Not on KJ.
I wasn't a Brokeback "believer" myself, but I saw it.
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? I think people foresaw Brokeback as a darkhorse sort of movie, that is they knew about it and knew it might be pushed for Oscars, but nobody believed it had any shot in hell and mostly believed it would go down as one of the biggest bombs ever. There was a thread in the F&I forum that a lot of people originally laughed at (back then Ledger and Jake G. as gay cowboy lovers could've been an SNL skit), but the buzz for the film got better as it got close
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torrino
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Dr. Lecter wrote: da torri wrote: I don't think Shutter Island as a chance in hell at a BP nom.
The Departed's BP win (even during a year with no real competition) hasn't aged well...I personally find myself forgetting what won BP in '06. It's a good movie, but not memorable and Shutter Island is more of the same (Leo, October release, big budget, an adaptation instead of an original project, sorta non-Oscar-esque story...)
I disagree and I don't think there's much to really back up the claim. The reviews for it were pretty brilliant, it's the same genre as Scorsese's classic films, it was a bona-fide box-office success, well-liked all-around a hit on DVD, it won the three biggies (Screenplay/Director/Picture). That has nothing to do with how the film has aged. To me, the film is a good thriller. I'd give it *** 1/2 stars out of ****. But it's stacked next to Mission Impossible 3 in my DVD collection, not Lawrence of Arabia. And Shutter Island, the book, sounds too weird for the Academy: Wikipedia wrote: The story takes place in 1954 on Shutter Island, home to a psychiatric hospital called Ashecliffe. U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando, who had committed multiple murders. The marshals search the island for the patient as a hurricane bears down on them, and they find that the hospital has practiced sinister measures during its existence...
With Shutter Island, author Dennis Lehane sought to write a novel that would be a homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp. Lehane described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the Brontë sisters and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The author wanted to write the main characters in a position where they would lack twentieth-century conventions such as radio communications. He also structured the book to be more taut than his previous book, Mystic River. So we're talking psychological thriller here. REALLY, Lecter?
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? But Lehane also wrote Mystic River...
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torrino
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? Dr. Lecter wrote: But Lehane also wrote Mystic River... and Diablo Cody was a stripper... 2004 was a slow year anyway, it was Clint's comeback and Penn's tour-de-force. It all came together, but it was also an unusual pick.
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Loyal
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? I certainly hope the AMPAS can be more creative than Shutter Island.
I just saw that the screenwriter's previous credits are Birds of Prey, Alexander, Pathfinder, Bionic Woman...
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Clint Eastwood's 2009 shot at oscar? da torri wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: But Lehane also wrote Mystic River... and Diablo Cody was a stripper... 2004 was a slow year anyway, it was Clint's comeback and Penn's tour-de-force. It all came together, but it was also an unusual pick. Well, Mystic River was most likely the runner-up for BP. Had it not been for BP... _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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