I don't know if this is a joke, but Sasha at OW says Little Miss Sunshine won!!

Peace,
Mike.

Yep, it's pretty much official. Little Miss Sunshine wins PGA!!!!

Crazy awesome!!

Peace,
Mike.

Yep, look like it's no joke.

I'm ecstatic!!! I'm pulling for either The Queen or LMS.

LMS has to be considered a possibility for the win now, unless it's not nominated on Tuesday.

Martin Scorsese robbed again

Is this like the friggin' widest open race ever?? I mean, people were just talking about how if there is a lone director nominee, the LMS directors would be out. Now suddenly LMS wins PGA! The Departed won BFCA, and Dreamgirls and BFCA each took a Globe. This is too crazy.

Peace,
Mike.

Even with probably the smallest number of nominations among BP contenders, LMS could win 3 out of 4 big guilds (PGA + SAG Ensemble + WGA).

The race just turns very very interesting. BFCA, GG, and PGA gave us four different winners.

Call it overreacting if you must, but doesn't this make Dreamgirls toast? It can't win SAG (Could it really beat LMS now?), and I doubt Condon would be the one to beat Scorsese.

Now, it's LMS vs. Departed, methinks.

Well that was... just a little out of left field.

Haha, this year is insane. Wowwww.

Dreamgirls isn't going to win a single major guild now, I don't think.

PGA = Little Miss Sunshine
DGA = Martin Scorsese, The Departed
SAG (Ensemble) = Little Miss Sunshine? The Departed?
WGA (Original) = Little Miss Sunshine? The Queen?
WGA (Adapted) = The Departed

Man, this is fun.

Peace,
Mike.

Little Miss Sunshine seriously won? Wow.

LMS still needs to get a best director. Otherwise, it could just have four nominations (picture, screenplay, supporting actor, and supporting actress). But in this wild season, nothing will surprise me anymore.

On the other hand, could LMS actually miss BD at this point with the support people have shown, including DGA? I can't see it. If anybody got bumped in BD, I think it'll be Condon.

The Departed will own.

What can Little Miss Sunshine get nominated for at the Oscars? Will it "have enough" for a Best Picture win?

Best Picture
Best Director (is Condon now the shaky 5th slot?)
Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin
Best Supporting Actress - Abigail Breslin (now that this seems to have big support?)
Best Original Screenplay (frontrunner to win this now over The Queen and Babel?)

Can it get anything else other than those? But with all those majors, it seems like it's in a good position if it gets them all.

Peace,
Mike.

I have never been so anxious for the Oscar nominations in a long, long time, and for the Oscar ceremony for that matter. Who the heck is going to win? The only thing we have left really is the DGA and the SAG to make a big impact and indicate anything. Then it's just waiting for the Oscars.

Peace,
Mike.

I'm still not going to rule Steve Carell also getting a Best Supporting Actor nomination out. Between Arkin, Nicholson, Murphy and Jackie Earle Haly, there seems to be one more spot that a lot of different people could get, especially Carell.

It could also get:

Best Original Song nom
Best Costume nom (it was weirdly nominated at the costume guild)

It's been 29 years since Annie Hall won, the film was released 30 years ago.

I'd say comedy is just a little due.

Of course, the last indie film like LMS to win the PGA was The Crying Game, oanother favorite of Loyal's that lost BP>

dhun dhun dhun

That's so true. Mostly I just want to see if the LMS directors will nab a Best Director nom, or if they will be knocked out for a lone director nomination and for being a husband and wife directing team in general. If they get Best Director nomination at the Oscars, and then go on to win the SAG and/or the WGA Original, it will lend more credence to LMS ultimately winning Best Picture of 2006 at the Oscars.

Peace,
Mike.

Outside of an INOCA nomination (Go OW!) his perf hasn't been recognized anywhere else.

If another actor gets in, it'll be Collette, who has both a GG and BAFTA nom.

So?

People have snuck into the supporting categories before without any other precursors.

I agree. I doubt I'll be able to sleep much Monday night for the 5am alarm. Literally nothing will surprise me. The nominations could be all over the place.

Exactly. I agree. Collette could get in, as opposed to Breslin (or maybe both).

Peace,
Mike.

I don't see Breslin missing. She's the heart of the film, to nominate the film and snub her would be ridiculous.

Collette would probably knock out one of the Babel ladies, which wouldn't entirely surprise me.

Heh, OW is so bitchy right now about the win. Ah well.

I'm pretty sure Hounsou has that 5th spot for Best Supporting Actor anyways. He's been recognized all over the place, and he's been honored by the academy before. Hell, I'd even have Pitt stealing a nom ahead of Carrell getting in at this point as well.

Are they all LMS haters there? I can envision some grade-A snobs there who think only movies with deathly serious subject matter should ever get awards.