There'd better be... or I'm going to punch Jon so hard!!

Interesting behind-the-scene stuff.

Haha. Interesting, indeed!

So Happy Feet... not the winner, really. Though it would have gone to the even crappier Scanner Darkly.

Wow, if you read this stuff you have to regard those awards as a joke. A foreign language winner that nobody liked? Some cheating to avoid a tie? And a dubious bathroom-break winner?

I've always found it hilarious because their website is so blatantly anti-Oscars and continually emphasizes how they have had a better track record and are the better alternative to look to, with the Oscars "sometimes dubious selections for the annual best in cinema" (from their website). They say they are free from "commercial and political pressures" to which the Oscars succumb. Heh.

Peace,
Mike.

The reason for them being a "better alternative" is that they vote as long as it takes until they have a hip winner. Well, I guess they're not so different from a backyard club after all.

Anyways, awesome for United 93, and a great for another win for Scorcese. This has got to be his year!

So far, United 93, The Departed and The Queen are cleaning up the Best Picture and Director categories combined.

Running tallies now:

BEST PICTURE
United 93 - WAFCA, NYFCC
Letters From Iwo Jima - LAFCA, NBR
The Departed - BSFC
The Queen - NYFCO

BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese, The Departed - NBR, BSFC, WAFCA, NYFCC
Stephen Frears, The Queen - NYFCO
Paul Greengrass, United 93 - LAFCA

BEST ACTOR
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland - NBR, BFCA, LAFCA, NYFCO, WAFCA, NYFCC
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat - LAFCA

BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren, The Queen - NBR, BFCA, LAFCA, NYFCO, WAFCA, NYFCC

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond - NBR, WAFCA
Michael Sheen, The Queen - LAFCA, NYFCO
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed - BSFC
Jackie Earl Haley, Little Children - NYFCC

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls - NYFCO, WAFCA, NYFCC
Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration - NBR, NYFCO
Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson - BSFC
Luminita Gheorghiu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - LAFCA

SCREENPLAY
Peter Morgan, The Queen - LAFCA, NYFCO, NYFCC
William Monahan, The Departed - BSFC
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil - NBR
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction - NBR
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine - WAFCA
Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking - WAFCA

FOREIGN FILM
Pan's Labyrinth - BSFC, NYFCO, WAFCA
Volver - NBR
The Lives of Others - LAFCA
Army of Shadows - NYFCC

DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Truth - LAFCA, WAFCA
Deliver Us From Evil - BSFC, NYFCC
Shut Up & Sing - BSFC

ANIMATED FEATURE
Happy Feet - LAFCA, WAFCA, NYFCO, NYFCC
Cars - NBR

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
United 93 - BSFC
Little Miss Sunshine - WAFCA, NYFCO

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Guillermo Navarro, Pan's Labyrinth - BSFC, NYFCC
Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men - LAFCA

ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Marie-Antoinette - WAFCA
Eugenio Caballero, Pan's Labyrinth - LAFCA

SCORE
Philip Glass, The Illusionist - NYFCO
Alexandre Desplat, 'The Queen' and 'The Painted Veil' - LAFCA

Peace,
Mike.

It's strange that Iwo Jima is rewarded, but Eastwood gets no love. I mean, he put two generally well-received movies out there, shouldn't the director category be where he shows up?

Woohoo go United 93

And thank God Jackie Earle Haley finally got *some* notice

Only most people predicted other movies besides U93 to win NY