[NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)

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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- OSCAR GUY)

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Man, I'm glad we got this game started again.
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- RAIN BARD)

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I don't think that rainbard has visited the new board yet, so here i go

GROUP I
Preserve Judi Dench

GROUP II
Save "Listen" and replace "I Need to Wake Up"

Group III
Visual Effects - World Trade Center replaces Pirates

Groups II and III are now closed
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- RAIN BARD)

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1. Preserve Cars in Animated Feature

2. "Song Of The Heart" -Happy Feet replaces Our Town in Original Song


3. Preserve Flags of our Fathers in Sound Editing
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- SABIN)

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1. Preserve Adriana Barraza in Best Supporting Actress.

2. Preserve Love You, I Do in Original Song.

3. Preserve Pirates of the Caribbean in Visual Effects. (What is going on with Sound Mixing?)
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- SABIN)

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GROUP I
Shareeka Epps for Half Nelson replaces the perfectly fine Helen Mirren for The Queen. I hope somebody preserves Judi Dench.

GROUP II
Absolutely preserve the editing for The Departed.

GROUP III
Tideland replaces Apocalypto in Best Makeup.
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- OKRI)

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1. Replace Meryl Streep with Cate Blanchett, The Good German
2. Replace "Patience" from best song with "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale
3. Preserve Letters from Iwo Jima in Sound Editing.
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- DWS)

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Group 1: Sandra Bullock in Infamous replaces Cate Blanchett.

Group 2: Infamous replaces Notes on a Scandal in Adapted Screenplay.

Group 3: Infamous replaces Curse of the Golden Flower in Costume Design.
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- FILM FAN)

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GROUP 1: Preserve Kate Winslet
GROUP 2: Preserve editing of Children of Men
GROUP 3: Replace Blood Diamond with Casino Royale in Sound Editing
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- RUDEBOY)

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I was pretty surprised by the love for Haley's performance too. I guess a lot of people just wanted to find out if it was really that odd-looking little kid back on the scene, and if so where had he been all these years. For me, Jane Adams' tiny performance walked off with Little Children, even managing to survive that dreadful masturbation scene unscathed.

I'd also add Sergei Lopez in Pan's Labyrinth, another borderline lead performance that undoubtedly would have been nominated in supporting, Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal, Samuel Barnett in The History Boys, Stephen Fry in V for Vendetta, Daniel Craig in Infamous and even Dustin Hoffman in Perfume or Stranger Than Fiction... plenty of decent supporting male performances that year, if few great ones.
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- RUDEBOY)

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(rudeboy @ Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:11 pm)
Group One

Used my rescue too early… should have saved it for Penelope Cruz. Oh well – though its fairly blatant category fraud, I want to see him mentioned, so replace Jackie Earle Haley with Kazunari Ninomiya in Letters from Iwo Jima.
Total category fraud, but it's also the kind of category fraud that had it happened at the Oscars I wouldn't have minded. Just seeing him nominated would have been enough.

2006 had a curiously weak lineup of supporting actors. Never really understood the hype for Jackie Earle Haley. You get the impression that you're just watching a creep who doesn't know he's being filmed. It's a simplistic monstrous performance that's pretty much in sync with that weak sauce film. Djimon Hounsou is certainly good in Blood Diamond, but it just feels incredibly samey to roles he's done before. Eddie Murphy went from overrated in Dreamgirls to underrated pretty quickly. He's fine, but I completely understand how he lost. Likewise I completely understand how Alan Arkin won and it doesn't bother me too much. It's not like it came at the expense of anything great. It's not Oscar-worthy, but he's got a great scene with Breslin before he...well...harmph.

I would have voted for Mark Wahlberg, although I prefer Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen in The Departed. Not entirely sure why Michael Sheen wasn't nominated for The Queen. Anthony Mackie would have been preferable to just about everyone for Hal Nelson, and Michael Caine was pretty wonderful in both Children of Men and The Prestige.
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- RUDEBOY)

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Group One

Used my rescue too early… should have saved it for Penelope Cruz. Oh well – though its fairly blatant category fraud, I want to see him mentioned, so replace Jackie Earle Haley with Kazunari Ninomiya in Letters from Iwo Jima.

Group Two

Preserve Pan’s Labyrinth in Cinematography

Group Three

Add Letters from Iwo Jima to Visual Effects
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- RUDEBOY)

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Group I
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck "The Lives of Others" replaces Stephen Frears

Group II
Editing
"The Fountain" replaces "United 93"

Group III
Sound Mixing
"The Lives of Others" replaces "Dreamgirls"
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- BIG MAGILLA)

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Group 1: Adam Beach in Flags of Our Fathers replaces Alan Arkin.

Group 2: The Lives of Others replaces Babel in Editing

Group 3: The Departed replaces Click in Makeup
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06- BIG MAGILLA)

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GAH!

So close to being an awesome lineup! Ah, well, 4/5 ain't bad.
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Re: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('06-OSCARGUY)

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Group 1: Replace The Departed with Dreamgirls in Best Picture
Group 2: Preserve Children of Men in Adapted Screenplay
Group 3: Preserve Pan's Labyrinth in Makeup
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