20 Weeks to Oscar By David Polandpoland@moviecitynews.com
Best Actor, Best Actress Chart
BEST ACTOR Actor – Film Comment Forrest Whitaker – Last King Of Scotland (GG/Drama) (BFCA) (SAG) Peter O’Toole – Venus Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film Comment Helen Mirren – The Queen (GG/D) (BFCA) (SAG) Meryl Streep – The…
Read the full article »Week Twenty – 3 Days to Go Auld Lang Syne
Phew… Almost there… What’s left to say? It does matter who wins… mostly to those who win. The media efforts to rustle up comprehensive coverage this week are painful enough to me more sad than laughable. Someone mentioned a poll of three Academy members in one outlet. Oy. And so, as it ends, we count…
Read the full article »Week Nineteen – 10 Days to Go Dead Horse Beating 101
The wrap-up, now ten days away from “the envelope please,” of the 2006/07 season really isn’t about the movies. It’s about the frou-frou. It’s about the media plays that failed, the “Oscar bloggers” who had less to do this year than in most, the flight of the Dartees, the laid-back success at Warner Bros, the…
Read the full article »Week Eighteen – 17 Days to Go Driving In Neutral
Oh, we’re getting close. Oh, nothing seems to be changing very much. I am having this weird feeling that the movie no one is talking about is the movie that might shock them all. Explaining it logically, there is one comedy and four dramas. Of the four dramas, the one with the most muscle is…
Read the full article »Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay Chart
BEST PICTURE Picture – Studio Comment Babel (GG) 22% Letters From Iwo Jima (Foreign- GG, BFCA) 21.5% Little Miss Sunshine (PGA) (SAG Ensemble) 20% The Departed (BFCA) 19% The Queen 17.5% BEST DIRECTOR Director – Film Comment Martin Scorsese – The Departed (GG) (BFCA) (DGA) Would be a stunner if he lost Clint Eastwood –…
Read the full article »Week Seventeen – 24 Days to Go Tick Tock
What’s the worst thing that could have happened to Little Miss Sunshine? As this week’s trendy pick to win Best Picture, LMS could easily be being set up to take a fall as it reaches the final leg of the race. It’s wondrously amusing to see people who screamed that Crash could never win last…
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