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Dreamgirls Dances With Oscar Nominations
Well, it’s that time of year again. Will Martin Scorsese finally take the statue this year or will a little girl’s quest with her dysfunctional family shut out their categories like we’re seeing at a lot of the other awards? Even the “solid pick” this year (Dreamgirls) missed some of its expected categories. We’ll find out on February 25th. For now, here are the list of nominees for the 29th Acadamy Awards.
The Nominees Are... ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond Peter O’Toole - Venus Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland Rafe says: I did not expect Gosling to make this list. Whitaker remains the heavy contender in this category, but it could go just about any direction. ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond Mark Wahlberg - The Departed ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Judy Dench - Notes on a Scandal Penelope Cruz - Volver Helen Mirren - The Queen Kate Winslet - Little Children Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada Rafe says: No big surprises here. Helen Mirren has this category locked down. Sorry to the rest of the ladies – maybe next year. ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls Adriana Barraza - Babel Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine Rinko Kikuchi - Babel Rafe says: I always have trouble figuring out who is going to fit into this category. It’s neat to see Abigail Breslin nominated for her Sunshine efforts and interesting to see Hudson take the nod instead of Beyonce. ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Cars Happy Feet Monster House Rafe says: As much as I want to see Pixar take the award (they did make us sympathize with automobiles after all) I expect Happy Feet will dance away with the award this time. Darn penguins seem to be a shoe-in no matter what category they appear in. DIRECTING Martin Scorsese - The Departed Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel Stephen Frears - The Queen Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima Paul Greengrass - United 93 Rafe says: Quite a few changes from the Director’s Guild nominations. Typically Best Picture and Best Director overlaps for the most part, with exceptions pretty much being out of the running. Greengrass’s United 93 will have quite a fight to have a chance at winning. BEST PICTURE The Departed Babel Letters from Iwa Jima The Queen Little Miss Sunshine Rafe says: Dreamgirls was expected to be the major contender in this category. The absence of the film opens a huge void. Might that make room for a Little Miss Sunshine win? And then there are the categories that are just as important, but I’m not going to comment individually on. In interests of time and space I haven’t listed each individual person, just the film involved, but those people’s families know who they are. Here are the rest of the Oscar Categories... WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) Borat Children of Men The Departed Little Children Notes on a Scandal WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) Babel Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine Pan’s Labrynth The Queen MUSIC (SCORE) Babel The Good German Notes on a Scandal Pan’s Labrynth The Queen MUSIC (SONG) "I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth "Listen" - Dreamgirls "Love You I Do" - Dreamgirls "Our Town" - Cars "Patience" - Dreamgirls DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Deliver Us From Evil An Inconvenient Truth Iraq in Fragments Jesus Camp My Country, My Country DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT The Blood of Yingzhou District Recycled Life Rehearsing a Dream Two Hands SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) The Danish Poet Lifted The Little Matchgirl Maestro No Time for Nuts SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) Binta and the Great Idea Eramos Pocos (One Too Many) Helmer & Son The Saviour West Bank Story FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM After the Wedding Days of Glory The Lives of Others Pan’s Labrynth Water ART DIRECTION Dreamgirls The Good Shepherd Pan’s Labyrinth Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest The Prestige CINEMATOGRAPHY The Black Dahlia Children of Men The Illusionist Pan’s Labyrinth The Prestige COSTUME DESIGN Curse of the Golden Flower The Devil Wears Prada Dreamgirls Marie Antoinette The Queen FILM EDITING Babel Blood Diamond Children of Men The Departed United 93 MAKEUP Apocalypto Click Pan’s Labrynth SOUND EDITING Apocalypto Blood Diamond Flags of our Fathers Letters from Iwo Jima Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest SOUND MIXING Apocalypto Blood Diamond Flags of our Fathers Dreamgirls Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest VISUAL EFFECTS Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Poseidon Superman Returns The 79th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 25th on ABC Television at 5pm PST/8pm EST. Don’t forget to join us for Oscar Chat 6 here at Cinema Blend, where we’ll no doubt make fun of the winners, losers, and sum up everything everyone will be talking about at the water cooler the next day.
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January 23rd, 2007 at 13:03
Rafe says: I did not expect Gosling to make this list. Whitaker remains the heavy contender in this category
Come on Rafe you really shouldn't be making fun of people because of their weight :)