Second Nomination Crop

Not quite the full remainder of this morning's Oscar nominations, with predictions and quips:

BEST FOREIGN FILM: Beaufort, Israel; The Counterfeiters, Austria; Katyn, Poland; Mongol, Kazakhstan; and 12, Russia. The year's finest foreign language film is 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The people who excluded it are morons and need to be identified and divested of power. What Will Win?: Nobody cares. The whole category has been soiled by the 4 Months brouhaha.

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Persepolis, Ratatouille and Surf's Up. What Will Win?: Ratatouille.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Juno, Lars & the Real Girl, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille, The Savages. Who/What Will Win?: Diablo Cody for Juno or Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Atonement, Away from Her, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: The Coens' No Country screenplay.

BEST ART DIRECTION: American Gangster, Atonement, The Golden Compass, Sweeney Todd and There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: Sweeney Todd as a makeup for getting Best Picture snubbed.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Atonement, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: Roger Deakins for Jesse James.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: No End in Sight, Operation Homecoming, Sicko, Taxi to the Dark Side, War/Dance. Who/What Will Win?: No End in Sight.

BEST SOUND MIXING: The Bourne Ultimatum, No Country for Old Men, Ratatouille, 3:10 to Yuma and Transformers. Who/What Will Win?: Dunno...No Country? Which had excellent sound. (Remember how you can hear Javier Bardem unscrewing of the light bulb in the second-floor hallway of the small Texas hotel.) But please, please, please not Transformers!

BEST SOUND EDITING: The Bourne Ultimatum, No Country for Old Men, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood
and Transformers. Who/What Will Win?: No clue at all. Anyone?

BEST FILM EDITING: The Bourne Ultimatum, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: I would say Bourne Ultimatum, but I haven't a clue.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Atonement, The Kite Runner, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille and 3:10 to Yuma.

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Falling Slowly," Once; "Happy Working Song," Enchanted; "Raise It Up," August Rush; "So Close," Enchanted; "That's How You Know," Enchanted. Who/What Will Win?: It has to be Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova for Once...right?

I'm too fevered and fatigued to type out the last four categories today. I'll get to it tomorrow or whatever. I've got a bad-ass virus and intending to lay low today.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 22, 2008 at 8:13 AM

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Wrecktum Author Profile Page says ...

So Wells, you're saying that none of the five nominees for best foreign picture are deserving of recognition? Have you seen them all?

Posted by Wrecktum Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:04 AM

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corey3rd Author Profile Page says ...

JWW, do you best to breathe on all folks in the swag business. Send them home sick.

Posted by corey3rd Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:04 AM

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JHRussell Author Profile Page says ...

I am not well enough informed on the different sound categories, but I was very impressed by the sound in NCFOM and Bourne...as well as film editing for NCFOM and Bourne...score for Ratatouille...Falling Slowly simply has to win...cinematography is a very tough call, but I go with NCFOM again...Diablo Cody and the Coens on the screenplay awards...Art Direction could go to the dreadful Golden Compass...Animated to Ratatouille...

Posted by JHRussell Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:06 AM

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PerfectTommy Author Profile Page says ...

I think Bourne will get some of the editing/tech awards. That's how the Oscars show appreciation for great genre films.

And people should stop making such a big deal out of Norbit's nomination. It is a horrible film, but the make-up designers and crew did fine work and that should be acknowledged. (And I hope it also cleans up at the Razzies.)

Posted by PerfectTommy Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:13 AM

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Doug Pratt Author Profile Page says ...

What, you don't think Jack Fisk for TWBB's art direction? It would seem to me that if there is momentum toward the film, then he would be included, and if there was no momentum toward the film, then they'd through it to the art direction in compsensation.

Posted by Doug Pratt Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:34 AM

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rocco Author Profile Page says ...

Tommy, does this really need explaining? It's not *about* Norbit...it's that a film Jeff used in his deathblow takedown campaign against Eddie Murphy was recognized for something, ANYTHING, while his beloved Zodiac was deemed to have NOTHING stand out and received as many noms as Steven Spielberg...zero. While it has no overarching significance, in the world of HE it's like David Poland winning the Pulitzer Prize.

Posted by rocco Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:49 AM

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Jimmycrackcorn Author Profile Page says ...

Tommy: "Norbit" was last year. Not up for any Oscars or Razzies this year. Please try to keep up.

A more topical stat might be:

Transformers 1
Zodiac 0

Posted by Jimmycrackcorn Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:54 AM

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PerfectTommy Author Profile Page says ...

Rocco, Yeah, I got the Wells razzing angle of it, still if you look at the moring posts you will see that the Norbit/Zodiac bit has been done a lot this morning. It is interesting that Wells didn't list the make-up catagory here. But he also ignored the special f/x (now there's a fine cochroach race).

Posted by PerfectTommy Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 9:57 AM

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PerfectTommy Author Profile Page says ...

On the other awards front:

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Film Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Lohan, Murphy top the Razzie nominees
Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy have each scored multiple nominations for this year's Razzie Awards.

Celebrating Hollywood's worst in Film, the Razzie nominees were announced ahead of the Oscar nominees.

Lindsay Lohan's thriller, 'I know Who Killed Me', in which she plays two characters who may or may not be the same person, received nine Razzie nominations, amongst them Worst Picture of 2007.

AdvertisementFor her Worst Actress nomination, Lohan polled more heavily than any star since Sofia Coppola in 'The Godfather Part III,' according to Razzie founder, John Wilson.

2007 may have been the year Eddie Murphy won an Academy Award nomination for his role in 'Dreamgirls', but that didn't prevent his film 'Norbit' from receiving eight nominations.

Besides a nod for Worst Picture, five of those went to Murphy alone, more than any one person has ever received in a single year.

"We decided that each of his characters was so offensive that he deserved individual nominations," said John Wilson.

Adam Sandler ('I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry') and Cuba Gooding Jr ('Daddy Day Camp', 'Norbit') joined Murphy in the Worst Actor category, along with Nicolas Cage ('Ghost Rider')and Jim Carrey ('The Number 23').

The 'winners' of the 28th Razzies will be announced on 23 February, a day before the Oscars.

Posted by PerfectTommy Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 10:14 AM

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Joe Leydon Author Profile Page says ...

BTW: I may have missed someone else's comment on this, but: Isn't the Joel & Ethan Coen nod the first "paired" Best Director nomination in Oscar history? I mean, before this, wasn't Joel a solo nom for Fargo?

Posted by Joe Leydon Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 10:23 AM

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Breedlove Author Profile Page says ...

I saw something about this, I think there have been other directing duos nominated...beatty and buck henry, and I think there was one other one.

Posted by Breedlove Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 10:32 AM

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Breedlove Author Profile Page says ...

Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

Posted by Breedlove Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 10:33 AM

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Joe Leydon Author Profile Page says ...

Thanks.

Posted by Joe Leydon Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 10:38 AM

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Daniel G. Author Profile Page says ...

I don't think Ratatouille will (or should) beat Persepolis for Best Animated, but who I am to stand up against Pixar?

And I think Jack Fisk wins for TWBB without any difficulty.

Posted by Daniel G. Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 10:50 AM

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Sean Author Profile Page says ...

"Tommy: "Norbit" was last year. Not up for any Oscars or Razzies this year. Please try to keep up."

Jimmycrackcorn - if you're going to be an asshole, it helps to be correct. 'Norbit' -- released in January of 2007 -- was nominated this year for make-up.

"A more topical stat might be:
Transformers 1
Zodiac 0"

Transformers got 3. Try to keep up.

Posted by Sean Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 11:00 AM

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MikeSchaeferSF Author Profile Page says ...

I think Deakins deserves Cinematography, but he's competing against himself, so anything's possible -- including the dreaded "milky-white".

Posted by MikeSchaeferSF Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 11:10 AM

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le corbeau Author Profile Page says ...

Wow, I never noticed till now that Powell & Pressburger never got a nomination.

Posted by le corbeau Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 12:08 PM

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K. Bowen Author Profile Page says ...

I'm still disressingly amused by the three Original Song noms for Enhcanted versus a single one for Once. I haven't seen Enchanted, and maybe this is the mouse ear equivalent of Strawberry Fields, Hey Jude, and Yesterday. But do people in Hollywood really listen to "Happy Work Song" on their iPods?

Posted by K. Bowen Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 1:13 PM

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Sean Author Profile Page says ...

Bowen - They needed to pad out the category and, for whatever reason, opted to ignore 'Walk Hard' entirely. I would personally say that the lockest-of-the-locks is 'Once' for "Best Song".

[When I say "for whatever reason" -- my assumption is that the reason they pushed the song 'Walk Hard' over many better songs (especially 'Beautiful Ride') because 'Walk Hard' has a writing credit which includes Apatow and Kasdan. But it's not a very good song.]

Posted by Sean Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 1:45 PM

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PerfectTommy Author Profile Page says ...

It might work to the advantage of Once to have only one song nominated as opposed to the three for Enchantened. (Though I'm getting pretty tired or the theories of vote splitting and even the phrase "vote splitting".)
That said, "The Happy Work Song" is fairly clever and funny in the context of the film.

Posted by PerfectTommy Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 1:53 PM

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Tim Author Profile Page says ...

The biggest snubs?

1. No Jonny Greenwood for Score. Everyone comes out of TWBB talking about that dazzling groundbreaker of a score.

2. No Eddie Vedder for Song. 3 f'ing Enchanted noms?!

Once again proves the unending laziness of Academy members. Disney movie? Nominate that! 3 TIMES!

Posted by Tim Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 3:01 PM

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lipranzer Author Profile Page says ...

Yeah, I was upset about Eddie Vedder getting overlooked. But at least the song from ONCE actually got nominated.

Posted by lipranzer Author Profile Page at January 22, 2008 6:31 PM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

jimmycrackcorn was totally pwned!

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at January 23, 2008 3:55 AM

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