And the winner is...
The 2006 Oscar nominations were announced today, at the usual ridiculous hour of 5:30 AM Pacific time. Unfortunately the Academy forgot to announce that they were switching hosts, so we're still stuck with Ellen Degenerate for the show on Sunday, February 25th. Here's the complete list of nominations, and here are a few initial reactions...
--I'm fairly shocked (SHOCKED, I say!) that Dreamgirls wasn't nominated for Best Picture. Not that I've seen it, but it seemed to be one of the favorites to win, and not even a chance, even though it had the most nods overall. Wow.
--Even though I haven't seen it yet (stupid Topeka), I'm rooting for Letters from Iwo Jima to win everything it can. I also hope to see The Queen before the ceremony, but probably won't make it to Babel. There always seems to be one Best Picture nominee that I don't see and/or am not interested in.
--Cheers for Alan Arkin and Abigail Breslin getting supporting nominations from Little Miss Sunshine. Just about any member of the movie's family was worthy of such an honor.--Disappointed that United 93 (editing and directing) and Flags of Our Fathers (sound editing and sound mixing) didn't get more nominations.
--No big noms (film, director, actor) for Children of Men. BOOOOOOOOOOO!
--Pirates 2 got four nominations, all technical of course. It would be worthy of the Visual Effects award, but if it wins any, would it be the worst movie ever to win an Oscar?
--Click was nominated for Best Makeup? Admittedly I haven't seen it, but HUH?
--That's weird. Randy Newman was nominated for Best Song. I think that's nod number thirteen, with one win.
Maybe more later...
posted by Prince of Spades at 10:52
5 Comments:
I didn't know Children of Men was released early enough to even be considered. Best editing? It seemed like part of what made the effect so great was the minimal editing. But maybe that's the point. The Best Director category is kinda full, but this one probably deserved a nomination for best director.
I'm happy that Little Miss Sunshine got nominated for Best Picture.
I want to see Days of Glory and Pan's Labyrinth, two of the foreign film nominations.
I'm in the middle of Babel, and then I'm gonna have to get my hands on Pan's Labyrinth. I hope to watch Frags and Iwo Jima...but the wii is doubting that that will happen...I mean come on, Twilight Princess is one of the best games ever made...
By the way Paul, the links to my blog and Nelson's blog aren't working. Do you have something against people named Ben?
I'm betting it has something to do w/ the fact that you two have upgraded your blogs, while I haven't (and apparently can't).
I was wrong. I just had an extra slash in both URLs. Silly me.
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