The nominations!
First, I did a frosty 32/40 on my predictions for the big categories and a mostly unhumiliating 63/99 overall.
Some pithiness:
-We now know that being nominated for Best Director does not mean your directing was particularly meaningful. Jason Reitman? Seriously?
-Things that I am very pleased but only a little surprised by: Laura Linney for Best Actress, The Bourne Ultimatum for Best Editing, Away from Her for Adapted Screenplay, No Country and There Will Be Blood leading the nominations at eight each.
-Things that I am pleased AND surprised by: Ratatouille in both sound categories, Into the Wild being nearly shut-out,, Tommy Lee Jones for Best Actor, Across the Universe as an Oscar nominee.
-Things that I am not pleased by: Gilroy and Reitman in Best Director, Norbit as an Oscar nominee (the only one I haven't seen outside of the docs, shorts and foreign films), Cate Blanchett for Best Actress.
-Things that just weird me out fiercely: Surf's Up for Best Animated Feature, Enchanted with three nominated songs (I didn't even know it had three songs), making it apparently the musical equal to Beauty and the Beast.
-Numbers: No Country & TWBB with 8
Atonement and Michael Clayton with 7
Ratatouille with 5
Juno and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with 4
My quick predictions: No Country for Picture, Screenplay, Director, Supporting Actor; Daniel Day-Lewis for Actor; Julie Christie for Actress; Cate Blanchett for Supporting Actress; Juno for Original Screenplay.
22 January 2008
5 comments:
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I have to say, it's not surprising, but I'm very disappointed that Zodiac was shut out COMPLETELY. I mean, even the early-release Eternal Sunshine managed to pull at least a screenwriting nod... Nothing for Fincher and his merry band of pranksters? Sigh...
ReplyDeletei am 100% with Pat... also, it weirds me out about Jason Reitman, and about how this is the first year in... YEARS... that i haven't seen ANY of the Foreign Language nominations-- was there a reason Diving Bell wasn't eligible for that category?
ReplyDeleteCam, my guess is that France didn't nominate Diving Bell as their entry.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get to comment on your predictions beforehand, but all I'd have said was that I didn't think there'd be nearly as much for Into the Wild as you did, and that I thought Cinematography would match the ASC awards 5/5. No one was talking about Into the Wild for Cinematography round these parts. I'm generally happy about the cinematography nominations, though I do feel that Harris Savides got shut out after a great year. That man gets far less respect than he deserves.
If Juno wins screenplay I think I'll claw my eyes out, or something. Fine movie, that one, but what a horrible screenplay! Who would've imagined a script written to be clever at every possible moment and a film directed by seemingly saying "yes" to every idea anyone on set might've had to be "interesting" would garner writing and directing nods?
Oh well. No Country feels like a lock for a number of categories, and that warms my heart.
Also...
ReplyDeleteWho would've expected so much Michael Clayton? I, for one, approve.
Yeah, France nominated Persepolis. Which, um, was cut from the shortlist. As was 4 Months, 3 Weeks, etc. Good times!
ReplyDeleteDitto Will on Juno. As has been said far too often: that movie succeeds in spite of its screenplay, not because of it.
Still. The 2008 Oscars will be worth any number of awful mistakes if only so that someday the director's cut of Norbit can be re-released with "Oscar Nominated" emblazoned across the cover! Glory, glory, glory.