Below are my predictions for what will be nominated in each of the 8 major categories. If, on Tuesday, we find out that you guessed more correct nominees than I did in a particular category, then you get 1 blog point per additionally correct nominee. So if I got 3 of the best picture nominees right, and you got all 5 right, you get 2 blog points. Alrighty.
Sidebar:
- I've decided I might as well just call them blog points.
Best Picture:
Babel
The Departed
Dreamgirls
United 93
The Queen
Best Director:
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
Leonardo Dicaprio, The Departed
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 Actor:
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Mark Whalberg, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kukuchi, Babel
Best Original Screenplay:
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen
Volver
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal
Thank you for Smoking
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3 comments:
People usually make a game about guessing the Oscar wins, not the noms themselves, so points for that.
All in all, that's a really good list you have. Not as in what's most deserving but what will probably be thrown down.
Some accurate picks: the throwaway best actor that has no chance (Sacha Baron Cohen); the comedy actor with the dramatic turn that also won't win (Will Smith); the double nom for the same film in an acting category that thus splits it own vote and doesn't win (Wahlberg and Nicholson for The Departed); some table scrap token nods to the most mainstream and most visible indie movie of the year (Little Miss Sunshine and best original screenplay; surprising that Lost in Translation won in the 2004 Oscars, though).
If United 93 wins best picture I'll be pissed off. But since there wasn't any super-awesome film that I totally loved this year (since The New World is considered a 2005 film), I really don't care. Now that I think about it, I stopped caring about the Oscars a long time ago. It's just disappointing that it's really an extremely-specialized, out-of-touch minority ("the academy") that determines the Oscars and it ends up being the most visible and "official" awards event of the year.
Are these blog points something imagined, or is this a real quantity that I can trade for books and pens and knapsacks? I need knapsacks!
I think given the recent PGA win for Little miss Sunshine, this might be a little movie that sneaks into the best picture race.
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