a prelude
Seeing as how we are now merely days away from discovering how well I did on Theric's reindeer games, I thought it would be good to post one final Oscar guessing. You know, because the Oscars matter.
Primarily I wish to post EW's predictions. Films I've already seen are listed in red.
Best Picture
- Babel
- The Departed
- Dreamgirls
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Queen
Best Actor
- Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
- Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson
- Peter O'Toole in Venus
- Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness
- Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
- Penelope Cruz in Volver
- Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
- Helen Mirren in The Queen
- Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
- Kate Winslet in Little Children
Best Supporting Actor
- Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine
- Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children
- Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamon
- Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls
- Jack Nicholson in The Departed
Best Supporting Actress
- Adriana Barraza in Babel
- Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal
- Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
- Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
- Rinko Kikuchi in Babel
Best Director
- Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
- Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
- Stephen Frears for The Queen
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel
- Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Best Original Screenplay
- Babel
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Pan's Labrynth
- The Queen
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Children of Men
- The Departed
- Little Children
- Notes on a Scandal
- Thank You for Smoking
In addition to their predictions, they also list the 25 must-see movies before Oscar night.
- The Departed
- Dreamgirls
- Babel
- The Queen
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Little Miss Sunshine
- United 93
- Little Children
- Notes on a Scandal
- Flags of Our Fathers
- The Last King of Scotland
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Borat
- Blood Diamond
- Volver
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Venus
- Children of Men
- Pan's Labrynth
- Half Nelson
- Thank You for Smoking
- The Painted Veil
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Hollywoodland
- For Your Consideration
As you can tell from the lack of red in this post, I have some serious movie viewing to get in.
3 comments:
Have you really not seen a single one of these? Because I haven't. (I'm commenting just to spite you.)
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I don't see any red, yet I know you've seen at least two of these.
(i didn't see any read on the newbury one either)
Yeah, the red shows up sometimes in Google Reader, but not here at all.
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