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- Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:07 pm
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Art Direction
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2115
I think the only way Avatar could lose would be if people decide it's drawn, not designed-and-built -- in which case Sherlock Holmes is the most likely alternative (in the Tim Burton, Sleepy Hollow/Sweeney Todd tradition), with perhaps a few traditionalists opting for the rent-a-mansion look of You...
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:29 pm
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Original Screenplay
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4240
To raise a dead issue, let me say I think the Coens were being a bit playful when they said, after the fact, that they'd never even read The Odyssey. There's an awful lot on O Brother that clearly DOES crib from Homer -- the Cyclops, the sirens, Penelope's suitors. It obviously wasn't a literal ada...
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:08 pm
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Actress 1999
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11048
Sorry to interrupt this dick-swinging match, but I haven't yet commented on the '99 race. The nomination slate was deeply disappointing, beyond Swank and Moore, for being so generic -- especially in picking one of Streep's least distinctive performances -- when Sigourney Weaver had given one of her...
- Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Cam Dagg Memorial Theatre and Literature Forum
- Topic: 2009-2010 Broadway Season
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3761
For what it's worth, I saw Time Stands Still and found it disappointing. Touches on some issues, but almost in a random way; in the end, it's a simple detiorating-relationship story, dressed up with political observations. Linney is of course good, as are Silverstone and Bogosian, but D'Arcy James ...
- Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:52 pm
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Actress 1998
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5528
I'm with Sabin in thinking Ricci deserved to be in here. Ally Sheedy, not so much; maybe it's just memories of her Spirit Award speech that make me wonder how much she was acting. It always baffled me that the race so quickly narrowed to Paltrow and Blanchett, who I thought were 4-5 on this list. G...
- Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:38 pm
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Actress 1999
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11048
Magilla, I humbly dissent from this notion we must push through these to anticipate Sunday. This is an exercise completely distinct from the annual contest, the whole point of which is to have time to savor the various opinions of our fellow board-ers on days gone by. Doing it all at once is like h...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:32 pm
- Forum: 82nd Nominations and Winners
- Topic: Your Oscar Ballot - Best Picture
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9075
Sabin, you knew you could count on me to join you at Serious Man. (Though, if I thought this counted, I'd have voted for Up in the Air, as the only possibility of heading off Hurt Locker) Oscar Guy, as I said elsewhere, there are too many committed first place voters here for Locker to make prefere...
- Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:36 pm
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Makeup
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5623
Not much to add to what BJ's written here. Il Divo's nod is apparently 100% based on the lead character's look...but most voters will have no idea what the actor looks like to begin with, and I'd bet a good many have no idea what Andreotti looks like, either. Young Victoria's mention is clearly fro...
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Actress: 1997
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2488
My favorite of the nominees is Julie Christie, even though I think Nick Nolte dominates Afterglow (Tee, it's an Alan Rudolph picture not Schrader, and much more convemtional than most of Rudolph, whom I've loved since Welcome To L.A.) Ah -- one of my periodic brain cramps. I've tried to work out wh...
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Actress: 1997
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2488
1997 was one of the few times I would have nominated Jodie Foster, for her solid work in Contact. I also liked Judy Davis, in the crazy but fun Children of the Revolution. Winslet was way better than DiCaprio in Titanic, but still not worthy of this nod. Christie was solid, but I couldn't stand Aft...
- Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:23 pm
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Costume Design
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4901
Now that I've seen Young Victoria, it's very hard to pick against it. It matches the category standard for both period and sheer number of eye-catching outfits (even the mens' clothes are elaborate). Plus there are a few of Victoria's costumes in the final half hour that stood out for me as quite b...
- Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:57 pm
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Editing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4421
- Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:27 am
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Picture
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5214
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:24 pm
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Picture
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5214
This isn't a category that often gets a thread of its own, but it's worth discussing. The nominees, should anyone need reminding: Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air First of all: a muted two cheers for the field...
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:15 am
- Forum: 82nd Predictions and Precursors
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
- Replies: 83
- Views: 15468
To respond to BJ about whether The Blind Side is as loathed elsewhere as it is here...wasn't it in that NY Magazine article you posted that, when the list was first laid out for those putting the presentation together, there was a massive groan at the film's best picture nomination? But the produce...