This KJ thread is acting all fucked up, overload.

Streep is a lock to win.

Thats easily the best list yet.

And everyone was telling me that Babel is definitely out. Ha. I'm glad I kept it in my 5th Best Picture nominee slot for the Oscars.

Peace,
Mike.

Told you so.


We have our 5th nominee, ladies and gentleman.


So, this is the most predictable BP race in years, or so it seems:


Babel
Dreamgirls
Letters fro Iwo Jima
The Departed
The Queen

When I clicked submit to post my above nomination list, the last post in this thread was on page 5. It took about 4 minutes to submit.

Best Picture – Drama
“Babel”
“Bobby”
“The Departed”
“Little Children”
“The Queen”


Best Picture – Comedy or Musical
“Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
“The Devil Wears Prada”
“Dreamgirls”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“Thank You for Smoking”


Best Actor – Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Blood Diamond”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Departed”
Peter O’Toole, “Venus”
Will Smith, “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”


Best Actress – Drama
Penélope Cruz, “Volver”
Judi Dench, “Notes on a Scandal”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Sherrybaby”
Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Kate Winslet, “Little Children”


Best Actor – Comedy or Musical
Sacha Baron Cohen, “Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
Johnny Deep, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Kinky Boots”
Aaron Eckhart, “Thank You for Smoking”
Will Ferrell, “Stranger than Fiction”


Best Actress – Comedy or Musical
Annette Bening, “Running with Scissors”
Toni Collette, “Little Miss Sunshine”
Beyoncé Knowles, “Dreamgirls”
Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”
Renee Zellweger, “Miss Potter”


Best Supporting Actor
Ben Affleck, “Hollywoodland”
Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”
Jack Nicholson, “The Departed”
Brad Pitt, “Babel”
Mark Wahlberg, “The Departed”


Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, “The Devil Wears Prada”
Cate Blanchett, “Notes on a Scandal”
Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”
Adriana Barraza, “Babel”
Rinko Kikuchi, “Babel”


Best Director
Clint Eastwood, “Flags of Our Fathers”
Clint Eastwood, “Letters from Iwo Jima”
Stephen Frears, “The Queen”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Babel”
Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”

Affleck got a nom for Best Supporting. That's pretty rad.

Emily Blunt!!! OMG!


No Ryan Gosling though...

Best Screenplay
“Babel”
“Little Children”
“Notes on a Scandal”
“The Departed”
“The Queen”

Departed received two Supporting Actor nominations which would seem to mean that they both have less of a chance to win although Nicholson definitely has the edge.

Monster House, Cars and Happy Feet for best animated feature. Over the moon that Monster House got in.

Slightly less over the moon that Children Of Men hasn't managed a single nomination. It honestly baffles the fuck out of me.

Why are you worried? Hopefully, the two Eastwood noms cancel each other out. Plus, the Academy Awards are really what matters and they seem less likely to give Eastwood two noms.

Ditto. It doesn't make sense to me that it has gotten literally nothing in anything important. Hopefully the Guilds and Oscars will fix that (and at least reward the films technical achievements). I have faith that the Guilds will do that for us.

Peace,
Mike.

How can Will Smith get a nom over Gosling, really? The movie is getting some of the worst reviews of the season! I bet Rocky ends up fresher, so why not nominate Stallone?


And a BP nom for Bobby without Stone? WTF!

departed has 6 noms. not much to be worried about.

Adrian!!!

Score
"The Painted Veil"
"The Fountain"
"Babel"
"Nomad"
"The Da Vinci Code"

The Departed and Babel really scored big tonight. Strong showing for both of them.

Peace,
Mike.

ORIGINAL SONG
"Pursuit of Happyness" "Listen"
"Dreamgirls" "Never Gonna Break My Faith"
"Bobby"
"Happy Feet"

what makes me sad:

LMS with one nomination. no way is it winning

What makes me happy:

Best actor nom for Kinky Boots and Stranger than Fiction! WOOT

Hey, he was nominated for the first one, and he seems to be getting good notices in this one too...

I loved Stranger than Fiction and Ferrell was great in it

some thoughts on some nominees:

Babel has shown up on just about every list, it actually has a pretty decent chance of being nominated at Oscar BP now with the forthcoming guilds love. Though it could still be this year's A History of Violence/About Schmidt/Being John Malkovich.

No acting support for Letters makes it less likely for an eventual Oscar win.

Lack of screenplay nom or supporting actor nom for Little Miss Sunshine shows that it's weaker than some of us may be expecting.

Dreamgirls is not that strong by missing Condon. It could still pull a Walk the Line. Despite the early super positive buzz, we have to remember that early buzz for Phantom of the Opera was great too.

The Departed is strong as usual and will probably get even more acting nominations at the Oscars/SAG than for the GG.

haha no score nom for dreamgirls. this is good.