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Oscar Time

The Academy Awards are three weeks away. I thought it would be a good idea to post the nominees in the main categories and get your opinions on who is going to win and who should win. Those type of things… Let’s see how it goes. Here are the nominees:




Picture
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima


Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzalaz Innaritu, Babel
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima


Actor
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole, Venus


Actress
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Kate Winslet, Little Children


Supporting Actor
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children


Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal

is it weird i haven't seen any of the movies? Oh and yay for Cate Blanchett!

I haven't seen any of them either! I'd love to make some choices but I can't really!

I vote for Babel, because I saw it, Brad Pitt's in it, and its really good!

It is the first time a fellow Spanish gets nominated for best actress. I would live to see Penelope Cruz get it; but I believe Hellen Mirren for "The Queen" has all the tickets on this one.

I saw The Queen and Helen mirren was terrific.
Little Miss Sunshine was the funniest movie I saw this year, and Alan Arkin was a riot as the perverted grandfather.
didn't see any others.

i_heart_nefie wrote:is it weird i haven't seen any of the movies? Oh and yay for Cate Blanchett!

I will second that, i think she is one hell of a good actress.

She is great, she does us proud

Well, the Oscars are done. If you watched it, can you comment in any particular award or moment that was surprising or significant for you?

To me the highlight was to have three pillars of modern filmmaking (Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg) on stage handing out the Best Director award to Martin Scorsese. I just wonder if they look at the envelope in advance to prepare that one…

I'm glade to hear that King's Speech won the Oscar award.