[Lucien21]

Best picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed


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




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


Best supporting actress
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikucki, Babel


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



Best foreign language film
Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico
Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Water, Canada




Best animated feature film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best adapted screenplay
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal


Best original screenplay
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Pan's Labyrinth



Best music (score)
Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Best music (song)
I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge)
Listen - Dreamgirls (performed by Beyonce Knowles)
Love You I Do - Dreamgirls (performed by Jennifer Hudson)
Our Town - Cars (performed by James Taylor)
Patience - Dreamgirls (performed by Eddie Murphy, Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose)



Best documentary feature
Deliver Us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq In Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country


Best documentary short subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

Best visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns



Best cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

Best art direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige


Best animated short film
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts


Best short film
Binta and the Great Idea
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story



Best costume design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen


Best make-up
Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth


Best sound mixing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Sound editing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest


Best film editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93


So any thoughts?

Surprises? (Will Smith maybe)

No one film looks like it will dominate with Dreamgirls have the most nominations with 8.

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

Surprises? (Will Smith maybe)

I'm more surprised about Leonardo DiCaprio than Will Smith, personally.

[SamandMax]

I'm pretty happy with the nominations. Mark Whalberg and Alan Arkin being nominated for Best Supporting Actor was a very nice surprise, both were great. Hopefully The Departed or Little Miss Sunshine will win.

[Flyboy]

The Academy loves old British women. I think it's about time that they give other actors and directors struggling for recognition a chance, but then what do I know? Oh, and Babel's overrated.

By the way, anyone seen Jesus Camp? It looks really interesting but I don't know if it's going to come out here.

[Once A Villain]

With that competition, Letters From Iwo Jima clearly stands head and shoulders above the other four. I've seen all of them and, quite frankly, the only film that really stands a chance of upsetting Letters is Babel. I think the Academy will honor Scorsese with the Best Director award, but then I think Best Picture will go to (or at least SHOULD go to) Letters From Iwo Jima.

Too bad Pan's Labyrinth isn't up for Best Picture. If it was, I think it would be the only real challenger to Letters.

[tabacco]

The Academy Award nominated film Borat

Scary.

[Melanie68]

I haven't seen enough to make any judgements on the picks but this article is interesting in discussing the Dreamgirls snub.

The only place near me that's playing Pan's Labyrinth is San Francisco. I should drive in but I may be lazy and wait for the DVD.

[After a brisk nap]

No, don't. You should go see it in the cinema.

[Melanie68]

Woo Hoo! I checked again and it's in Sacramento. (much closer)

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I'd so see it with you, Melsie, and would even buy our popcorn.......but I'm not there, so nyaaaaahhh!!!

[Melanie68]

Aw shucks.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I really would go see it with you. I don't have any friends here.

[Spiwak]

What a shitty year.

[lumi]

Have they decided on a host yet. That's all I really care about.

[Spiwak]

Ellen Degeneres, last I heard.

[Once A Villain]

Originally Posted by Spiwak

What a shitty year.

Hmmm... I thought it was a surprisingly good year for movies, personally. But yes, the nominations seem rather weak. If it were up to me, the nominations would be Letters From Iwo Jima, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Babel, and United 93.

[SSH]

Strictly speaking, its the oscar nominations for 2006, not 2007...

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by SSH

Strictly speaking, its the oscar nominations for 2006, not 2007...

But it's for the 2007 Oscars.

I'm a bit surprised that everyone here loved Children of Men as much as they did. I went into it with fairly high expectations because of the talent involved and the concept of the story, but was quite disappointed when I left. Technically it's a brilliant film, it's a well-told story for what it is and well acted and all the rest, but it ended up as nothing more than a fancy chase film. I would have loved a deeper exploration into the ideas behind the whole thing, and maybe a little less of the cat and mouse game that it turned in to.

I guess I found the end result a little too simplistic for the premise it was based on, as did most other people that I know who saw it. The film had an amazing amount of potential, and while it was certainly a very good film in the end, I would hazard ranking it as one of the year's best because they could have done so much more with the material. Am I the only one on the forum who thinks this (I've noticed it's largely the same thing on other forums too)?

[Phantom]

I agree, I was also disappointed with Children Of Men.

Thoughts:
-I hope Scorsese finally wins the oscar he deserves.
- Where's Jack Nickolson's nomination? Best acting performance of the year, if you ask me.
- I'm happy with so many nominations for Pan's labyrinth. I hope they win a couple.

[Catbert]

I want to see Gosling win in his category, best actor ever.