Saturday, February 24, 2007
Oscar Picks
Except where noted, and for all of the 'little' ones, you can take these to the bank.
Pest Picture-- very difficult to pick between The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine--I'm picking The Departed but fluff might win.
Best Director--Martin Scorsese
Best Actor-- Forrest Whitaker
Best Actress--Helen Mirren
Best Support Actor-- It will probably be Eddie Murphy but it well could be Alan Arkin
Best Supporting Actress--Jennifer Hudson
Best Foreign Film--Another difficult one with a pick between Germany's The Lives of Others and Mexico's Pan's Labyrinth.
Best Cinematography--Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men (because of the single take tracking shots) although it's just possible Vilmos Zsigmond for the bad The Black Dahlia could take it for his whole career.
Original Screenplay--Michale Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine.
Adapted Screenplay--William Monahan for The Departed.
Best Long Documentary--An Inconvenient Truth
Best Short Documentary--Two Hands
Best Live Action Short--Eramos Pocos
Film Editing-- United 93
Makeup--Pan's Labyrinth
Art Direction--Pan's Labyrinth
Sound Mixing -- Dreamgirls
Sound Editing--Pirates of the Caribbean II
Visual Effects--Pirates of the Caribbean II
Costume Design--Marie Antoinette
Original Score--Alexandre Desplat for The Queen (as well as his other good work this year).
Original Song--Listen from Dreamgirls (but if politics reigns, it will be Melissa Etheridge's eminently forgettable I Need to Wake Up from Gore's science fiction film.
Animated Feature--Cars
Animated Short--The Little Match Girl
UPDATE: The always difficult choice for art direction was a successful choice (and the spelling mistake above corrected). Gregory Peck (as Atticus Finch) beat O'Toole in '63 when he was up for best actor in Lawrence of Arabia. Just thought you might be wondering. Make-up--Pan's Labyrinth, right again. Animated short--always just a guess for me--escaped me. I guess it would help actually to see them, but nowhere shows them, that I know about. No sweep for my guesses.
UPDATE 2: It was in fact Alan Arkin and not Eddie Murphy (darn that Norbit); the German film over Pan's Labyrinth; and the Etheridge song over anything from Dreamgirls. I was 7 for 10 in the bigs (with tiebreaker) and with the three I missed I mentioned by name the real winner as a distinct possibility. I feel vindicated for my bragging.
Pest Picture-- very difficult to pick between The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine--I'm picking The Departed but fluff might win.
Best Director--Martin Scorsese
Best Actor-- Forrest Whitaker
Best Actress--Helen Mirren
Best Support Actor-- It will probably be Eddie Murphy but it well could be Alan Arkin
Best Supporting Actress--Jennifer Hudson
Best Foreign Film--Another difficult one with a pick between Germany's The Lives of Others and Mexico's Pan's Labyrinth.
Best Cinematography--Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men (because of the single take tracking shots) although it's just possible Vilmos Zsigmond for the bad The Black Dahlia could take it for his whole career.
Original Screenplay--Michale Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine.
Adapted Screenplay--William Monahan for The Departed.
Best Long Documentary--An Inconvenient Truth
Best Short Documentary--Two Hands
Best Live Action Short--Eramos Pocos
Film Editing-- United 93
Makeup--Pan's Labyrinth
Art Direction--Pan's Labyrinth
Sound Mixing -- Dreamgirls
Sound Editing--Pirates of the Caribbean II
Visual Effects--Pirates of the Caribbean II
Costume Design--Marie Antoinette
Original Score--Alexandre Desplat for The Queen (as well as his other good work this year).
Original Song--Listen from Dreamgirls (but if politics reigns, it will be Melissa Etheridge's eminently forgettable I Need to Wake Up from Gore's science fiction film.
Animated Feature--Cars
Animated Short--The Little Match Girl
UPDATE: The always difficult choice for art direction was a successful choice (and the spelling mistake above corrected). Gregory Peck (as Atticus Finch) beat O'Toole in '63 when he was up for best actor in Lawrence of Arabia. Just thought you might be wondering. Make-up--Pan's Labyrinth, right again. Animated short--always just a guess for me--escaped me. I guess it would help actually to see them, but nowhere shows them, that I know about. No sweep for my guesses.
UPDATE 2: It was in fact Alan Arkin and not Eddie Murphy (darn that Norbit); the German film over Pan's Labyrinth; and the Etheridge song over anything from Dreamgirls. I was 7 for 10 in the bigs (with tiebreaker) and with the three I missed I mentioned by name the real winner as a distinct possibility. I feel vindicated for my bragging.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:16 AM 
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