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2010 Oscar Predictions 2010 Oscar Predictions

March 5th, 2010 by surlaroute

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Okay I’m done now :)

And the winner is … NOT ME! lol 8/21 is my final score. Just 2 better than last year. I really thought I’d do at least a little better than that. It was still a far from disappointing night, though. I think back to last year’s Slumdog sweep and I don’t know how my love of Oscar even survived that. Baldwin/Martin gags were lame but made me laugh buckets … even Sandra Bullock earned her win with a beautifully engineered speech. And I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go back to regular Moët after sipping a Grand Vintage over 4 hours!

Wrong! Best Picture: Up in the Air (that’s my final answer) I still really want Up in the Air, but feel like Inglourious Basterds is the one I’ll be most happy with in years to come. I’ll be fine with Avatar or The Hurt Locker
Correct! Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) I’m fairly convinced this is hers.
Wrong! Best Actor: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) I don’t want Jeff Bridges to win this (if he does, I’ll pretend it’s for The Big Lebowski). I’d prefer Jeremy Renner of The Hurt Locker, and this is the first time I’ve ever really been happy with a Clooney nomination. I’ve still not seen A Single Man. Really, anyone but Bridges or Freeman (I didn’t think either were very good at all).
Wrong! Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) As with Bridges in the Actor category, I don’t want Bullock to win this (if she does, I’ll pretend it’s for 28 Days). Until I saw Julie & Julia the other day (review soon hopefully), I was Gabby Sidibe all the way on this – it just doesn’t seem they could give the Oscar to Mo’Nique and then not recognise her too, and she is fantastic in Precious (review of that soon too). Then I saw Julie & Julia and I haven’t seen a more joyous movie all year. It’s the first time in my lifetime that Meryl Streep has been nominated and I actually really wanted her to win. I haven’t seen The Last Station.
Correct! Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) One of the few cases where I couldn’t be happier with the favourite.
Correct! Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious) I’d love for one of the Up in the Air girls to win but even I can’t pick just one so I concede it must be Mo’Nique’s.
Wrong! Best Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) I wish this was a bigger no brainer than it seems…
Wrong! Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) This seems to be the only one I can seriously hope for for my favourite movie of the year.
Correct! Best Editing: The Hurt Locker I thought I was as torn on this category as the other smaller tech categories, then what Roger Ebert wrote in his predix made me realise why my gut had chosen The Hurt Locker and now I’m certain. This is almost as deserving of a win as Thelma Schoonmaker’s work on The Departed was 3 years ago.
Wrong! Best Cinematography: The Hurt Locker
Wrong! Best Animated Feature: The Princess and the Frog This might be one of my “wasted predix” but I just found this one so much better than the other nominees.
Correct! Best Art Direction: Avatar One of the few you really can’t argue that this movie actually deserves.
Wrong! Best Costume Design: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Just ‘cos of the ones I’ve seen this was the movie I liked most, but not that much. Inglourious Basterds shoulda been in here.
Correct! Best Make-Up: Star Trek Another “meh” category. I simply haven’t seen the other nominees.
Correct! Best Visual Effects: Avatar No-brainer of the year.
Wrong! Best Sound Effects Editing: Inglourious Basterds Shrugs lol. Another I might change before the show. None really stood out greatly to me as better than the others.
Wrong! Best Sound Mixing: Avatar See above. Just, nothing for Transformers 2, please.
Wrong! Best Score: The Hurt Locker I swapped this out of my nominations predix for the Public Enemies score at the last minute and was surprised when it came up. I watched the movie again a week or so ago and was reminded why I originally thought it should be nominated.
Wrong! Best Original Song: “Almost There”, The Princess and the Frog I know, it’s probably “Crazy Heart”, but I just didn’t even like the song in that movie let alone Bridges. I’d much prefer my fave song from Princess get this, like Disney used to.
Correct! Best Documentary Feature: The Cove I’m sure this one’s between Food Inc. and The Cove (reviews to come soon hopefully), and I think Food Inc is a much more important movie, but The Cove packs an emotional punch you just can’t forget and with its closing line about “if we can’t stop this, than we can’t stop anything“ (words to that effect), arguably does make it more important too than the all-embracing Food Inc.
Wrong! Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon has it, I think. Pretty sure this is between The White Ribbon and Un Prophete … I hope to see both in the next couple of days…

I also hope to watch 6 of the nominated shorts before Sunday, in which case I might include those categories for the first time. (thought there were some on Sky Anytime but they were old ones, grr). Anyway, that is all for now :)

Nominations Predictions from earlier

*Currently tallying*… doing this way too fast, alert me if I’ve made an error with any of my red/green right/wrong indicators :-P

53/96 … almost exactly the same as last year!

Okay, I think I’m done. Nominations are tomorrow. As always, my final list is a complex combination of actual informed expectations, personal preferences, and the odd wild card, with the final deciding factor always being “does it sit well with me?” 2010 has been that rare year where I can truly say all of the following sit pretty darn well with me, and that happens to match up nicely with the prevailing trends on predicting sites. As I’ve said already, once I saw Up in the Air and loved it so darn much, I knew everything was gonna be okay.

Edit: lol and I already made a swap – Michael Gambon is the only thing I think Half-Blood Prince should be up for. It’s almost less likely even than Isabelle Fuhrman but I’ll probably get less WTFs for it :-P

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Editing

Best Cinematography

Best Score

Best Original Song

Best Sound Editing

Best Sound Mixing

Best Animated Feature

Best Visual Effects

Best Art Direction

Best Costume Design

Best Make-Up

  • Star Trek Correct!
  • District 9 Wrong!
  • The Road Wrong!

2009 Oscar Predictions 2009 Oscar Predictions

February 22nd, 2009 by surlaroute

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Okay, it’s that time to predict the winners! Now, we all know it’s Slumdog’s year, so this is literally gonna be even more on the my opinion side of things than ever. And for the record, anybody who seriously thinks that was the best movie of last year needs their head examining (for the additional record: I’m not even so sure my pick is either – I’m not sure if any of the nominees are). As I said to Babycake: if Slumdog sweeps, Hugh Jackman better be freaking awesome or my joy from the night will consist solely of drinking myself into a stunken druper. I’ve got a few reviews to post after this but I’ll bump it before the show again, and I’ll be Tweeting the whole thing live as I watch this year rather than the awkward blogging of last year.

6 out of 21: hehe. Well it looks like Hugh Jackman got lost in the outback for the last hour. We knew it’d go that way but godawlmighty someone needed to get onstage and sing the “You’re Boring” song at the Academy still. The few fleeting wonders were worth it, though, and aside from a few odd mentions (Space Chimps, Rambo, anyone?) in the montages, it was a great celebration of film, which is all it’s really about in the end.

PICTURE: Benjamin Button Wrong!
DIRECTOR: David Fincher, Benjamin Button Wrong!
ACTOR: Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Wrong!
ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Wrong!
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Doubt (because part of me really would just love to see what happened if Ledger didn’t win, and another part of me just thinks it was a better performance) Wrong!
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Right!
SCREENPLAY: WALL-E Wrong!
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Doubt Wrong!
EDITING: The Dark Knight Wrong!
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Changeling Wrong!
SCORE: WALL-E Wrong!
SONG: “Down to Earth”, WALL-E Wrong!
SOUND EDIT: WALL-E Wrong!
SOUND MIX: WALL-E Wrong!
VISUAL EFFECTS: Benjamin Button Right!
ART DIRECTION: Benjamin Button Right!
COSTUME: Australia (really don’t know which to pick, but I surprised myself guessing this one right at the nominations stage, so I’ll keep to it) Wrong!
MAKE-UP: Benjamin Button Right!
ANIMATED: WALL-E Right!
DOCUMENTARY: Man on Wire (haven’t seen the others) Right!
FOREIGN: Waltz with Bashir (haven’t seen the others) Wrong!
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THE NOMINATIONS:

TOTAL … drum roll please : 54 / 97 … w00t my usual 50% :)

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Editing

Best Cinematography

Best Art Direction

Best Costume Design

Best Make-Up

Best Score

Best Original Song

  • Jon Brion, “Little Person” – Synecdoche, New York Wrong!
  • Peter Gabriel, “Down to Earth” – Wall·E Right!
  • Bruce Springsteen – The Wrestler Wrong!
  • Miley Cyrus, “I Thought I Lost You” – Bolt Wrong!
  • Jamie Cullum, “Gran Torino” – *Gran Torino”:http://ambival.net/movies/gran-torino Wrong!

(WTF, did I miss something?!)

Best Sound

Best Sound Effects Editing

Best Visual Effects

Best Animated Feature

Best Documentary Feature

  • Encounters at the End of the World Right!
  • Man on Wire WIN Right!
  • Trouble the Water Right!
  • Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Wrong!
  • They Killed Sister Dorothy Wrong!

Best Foreign Language Feature

(really I should be boycotting this category for the non-inclusion of Let the Right One In and even Gomorrha though I haven’t seen that one yet, but I’m often lucky here and anything to boost the points lol) (lol … see?)

  • Waltz with Bashir Right!
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex Right!
  • The Class Right!
  • Everlasting Moments Wrong!
  • Departures Right!

Tally

12: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10: The Dark Knight
8: Wall•E
7: Gran Torino
6: Slumdog Millionaire | Doubt
5: Revolutionary Road | The Wrestler
4: Changeling | Milk
3: In Bruges
2: Mamma Mia! | Happy-Go-Lucky | Synecdoche, New York | Bolt | Waltz With Bashir | Frost/Nixon
1: Redbelt | Tropic Thunder | The Reader | The Fall | Australia | Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Live Blogging the Oscars ’08 Live Blogging the Oscars ’08

February 25th, 2008 by surlaroute

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04:34 All done. What can I say but they got it right. They got it right. They got it right. I wrote everything before this sentence even before the director and picture nods because nothing could’ve let me down following Cotillard and “Falling Slowly”. Someone emphasized on the Kermode podcast a few weeks ago how the Oscars are always great because they are at their core a celebration of film and I was like “yes!” ‘cos that’s why I do this year after year and this year more than any I have known made me actually feel it more than I believed it. I’m just so high right now on movies I’m practically delirious. 8/21
04:26 Diablo! Like I’ve said, I didn’t really like the movie so much but it did almost surprise me a little and I just think she is so cool like everyone else does lol. 7/18
04:24 I can’t believe I haven’t been sleepy yet once tonight lol especially considering the booze and carbs consumed. Best sign of the greatness of the show so far.
04:18 Oh well, that cancels out the Foreign Language guess lol. I’m sure the same happened last year. 6/17
04:10 Atonement for score. It didn’t win costume and I loved the typewriter taps so hey, still no big upset :) 6/16
04:06 Kerr, Pleshette, Francis, Bergman, Ledger – even the deaths were grand this year :(
04:01 Blood’s first win? Should’ve known Deakins double nomination would be trouble 6/15
03:50 Champagne anyone? “Falling Slowly”. I really don’t care what wins or loses after this. 6/14
03:46 Kickass! Maybe it was worth counting my meaningless predix for doc and foreign afterall 5/13
03:42 There was actually just a flash across Claudia Winkleman’s face that made me warm to her as she said “Well, Marion Cotillard won and – well I’d argue many things but, back to Jon Stewart …” when one of the nameless critic people said the whole “Foreign Language” category is pointless etc …
03:30 “Someone just took the lead in their Oscar pool based on a guess!” lol
03:29 Three for Bourne?!? It’s all going wrong! lol 4/12
03:20 “Falling Slowly”. I said I had a gut feeling this would be a good show but honestly, I’m not overexaggerating, it is the best I have ever seen in 13 years of watching.
03:18 Wii! ROFL Best gag so far.
03:12 Marion Cotillard :) I feel like I should crack open the champagne right now, I’m so happy for her 4/11 “Thank you life! Thank you love!” Sally Field enough for ya?
02:59 “The next American to win needs to go up there and Sally Field this,” lol … the other British nobody on our ad break filler show who’s about the sanest of the bunch.
02:53 Y’know, I love kids TV, I love young actresses, so obviously I’ve checked out Hannah Montana once or twice and I could get into it … but why is she presenting at the Oscars? 3/8 Ah Kristen! (lol sorry I just mistook her for Amy Adams cos I wasn’t looking at the TV, sorry if anyone’s following this mindless babble avidly and just read that :P )
02:23 Javier and Tilda! and awww I love the quirky short winners’ speeches! which I also actually got right in the Awards Daily contest lol, I guess I shoulda included them below afterall! anyway 3/7
02:12 Sweeney! 2/5
02:08 Is the order of awards presentation just perfect so far this year or is it just me? 2/4 yay for The Golden Compass, even though it makes me wrong :P
02:00 I’m still pretty adamant that 3 song noms were too much for Enchanted but how can you remain grumpy with Amy Adams onstage? :)
01:58 Marion Cotillard reacting to the Piaf win for make-up says everything I was trying to say about the two-way effort in my review of the movie 2/3 :)
01:55 Had to be the rat :) 1/2
01:47 0/1 off the bat … but Elizabeth’s costumes were gorgeous too.
01:33 “The fight is over. Welcome to the make-up sex.”
01:30 I am very excite!
01:16 Lowly critic twat who doesn’t deserve naming filling a chair on Sky Movies’ pitiful 30 minute countdown to the show, talking about the writer’s strike etc: “I think what we’ll see tonight is a lot of pitching at the Oscar parties. Madonna’s supposed to be putting on a last minute one. I’m sure she’ll be talking with directors like Philip Thomas Anderson.” I swear to god, how do so many idiots get into these jobs?
01:11 Two channels to pick between in the last half hour before showtime. One is telling me Tilda Swinton looks awful ‘cos she’s different; the other is playing “guess the celebrity back!” Thank God Jon Stewart is presenting.
01:05 Oooh E! is still going.
01:03 Cries Winkleman so … Winkleman so … so boring!!!!
01:00 Kickass – slightly unrelated except I was surprised it wasn’t nominated in the Foreign Language category despite not seeing it yet – The Edge of Heaven is gonna show on Sky Box Office (a UK pay-per-view channel) at the same time as it goes out in cinemas. Start of something good?
00:54 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooo! Claudia Winkleman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, is there noone better willing to do this shift?
00:53 Steve Carrell and the pocket fan lol. I love it.
00:50 Oh that’s genius. I only just noticed Thornton is pregnant lol. Did Sky specifically impregnate her in September for the purpose of hooking the likes of Jessica Alba on the carpet? lol.
00:47 Just look at Marion Cotillard in the flesh on the red carpet and compare and contrast with her performance. OMG. It just amazes me every which way the more that movie dwells in my head.
00:45 When did Faye Dunaway stop looking like Faye Dunaway? OK that was still mean pushing her aside for Cameron Diaz of all people lol.
00:27 “Well my friend Lindsay -” “LOHAN?!?” lol yes, ‘cos there are only in fact 8 Lindsays on the whole planet and 7 of them are cleaners. Again, why I don’t watch E! lol.
00:23 Miley Cyrus scares me.
00:20 Oh Kristen Chenoweth :) That’s all I have to say. Overshoulder smile is all I need. Haven’t heard much about the Dusty Springfield movie but I think she’ll be back next year if it’s as good as it sounds :)
00:10 I love Amy Adams’ bag lol. Invisible lipstick hehe :)
00:00 “Well he rarely takes a girl on the Red Carpet and they’ve been dating barely a year but they … they’ve been through a lot, they were in a motorcycle accident just days before the premiere, she was a cocktail waitress in Vegas and was on a reality show and I guess they’ve bonded …” “Well you heard it, sign up for those reality shows, get a job cocktail waitressing in Vegas!” I just remembered why I don’t watch E! Jesus wept.
23:57 As with Abigail Breslin last year, having seen her on the Red Carpet, I no longer mind Saoirse Ronan winning lol.
23:51 I have had 1000 hits today lol :-D
23:48 Wow was that Saoirse Ronan?
23:32 Okay E! has way too many ads. Back to the old “switch-between” routine.
23:23 Screw it I’ve switched to E! lol.
23:14 Oh, she’s put her foot in it already grr. “2007 gave us everything right through from Atonement … to The Zodiac.” Shakes head.
23:06 Kate Thornton = Hmm. Hot dogs, doritos, beer and jellies = Yay!

2008 Oscar Predictions 2008 Oscar Predictions

February 24th, 2008 by surlaroute

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The Winners

So, no more time for guessing.

Update: Okay I just entered this contest which includes doc and foreign categories so despite having seen none of those nominees except SiCKO I’ll include what I put there at the risk of losing points – I’ll still leave out the shorts though; I promise this is the last time I’ll bump this entry, I’m pretty damn happy with my final predictions now, like practically in a Kermodean, “They are the right nominees that should win,” sense lol.

Having watched There Will Be Blood a second time today and finally La Vie En Rose and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly yesterday, I really think this is the best bunch of nominations I’ve seen in a long time and I know I say it every year and they still manage to find something to upset me lol, but I think no matter what wins in most categories, I’ll be pretty satisfied (Juno in anything but screenplay, Clayton for anything but Swinton or Wilkinson and Philip Seymour Hoffman would be about the worst upsets for me). I think it’ll be a great show too – don’t ask me why, I just have a feeling. Later I’ll start a separate post “live blogging” the whole thing like last year. Minor changes are of course possible up until the show :-P

8/21

Best Picture: There Will Be Blood Wrong! No Country for Old Men
Best Director: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Wrong! Coen Brothers
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood Right!
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose Right!
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men Right!
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There Wrong! Tilda Swinton
Best Original Screenplay: Juno Diablo Cody Right!
Best Adapted Screenplay: Away From Her Sarah Polley Wrong! No Country for Old Men
Best Editing: No Country for Old Men Roderick Jaynes Wrong! The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Cinematography: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Roger Deakins Wrong! There Will Be Blood
Best Art Direction: There Will Be Blood Wrong! Sweeney Todd!
Best Costume Design: Atonement Wrong! Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Best Make-Up: La Vie En Rose Right!
Best Original Score: Ratatouille Michael Giacchino Wrong! Atonement
Best Original Song: “Falling Slowly”, Once Right!
Best Visual Effects: Transformers Wrong! The Golden Compass
Best Sound Mixing: No Country for Old Men Wrong! The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Sound Editing: There Will Be Blood Wrong! The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille Right!
Best Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters Right!
Best Documentary Feature: SiCKO Wrong! Taxi to the Dark Side

The Nominees

40/89 … less than usual but not by much, I usually manage 50/50 which considering I mostly avoid things that I just personally don’t wanna be nominated ain’t too bad. 3 song nominations wasted on Enchanted like last year’s Dreamgirls thing kinda annoys me – I love Schwartz and Menken, no I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve heard the songs and they’re not that good … there should be a rule for 1 nomination per movie. No Mimzy and no Robinsons is my biggest let-down. I kicked butt in sound effects editing and adapted screenplay categories which surprises me. Yay for Sarah Polley. Can’t believe Norbit got a nomination. I can believe even less that Mark Kermode didn’t have a coronary on air lol – maybe nobody dared tell him. I think it’s No Country all over but I think I’ll ultimately be rooting for Blood. Time to work on the 2009 page ;-)

Best Picture

Best Picture 2/5

NOTES: Though I loved it, I still really won’t be surprised if Sweeney is all but left out of the whole proceedings. I’m surprised by the lack of buzz about Once in recent weeks, and would personally like to see it up there. Away From Her won’t be nominated but in my opinion is one of the most artistic, classy movies in years. And Lions for Lambs should probably be here too. I won’t be too annoyed if Atonement comes up, but I’ll scream if 3:10 or American Gangster do. Juno … meh … I liked it, but do we really wanna waste another nomination on another Little Miss Sunshine ?

Best Director 2/5

NOTES: last minute update Since I was really torn between Sidney Lumet and David Fincher (Lumet is about as overdue as Scorsese, Fincher’s just a genius and Zodiac deserves something), I decided to really stick my neck out and ditch both in favour of Sarah Polley. My thinking behind that is just too lengthy to go into here lol. Joe Wright and Ridley Scott would bore me in this category – the long shot in Atonement is masterful, but far too obvious; and I shouldn’t even need to say that Scott has done better, but I feel like I have to. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, incidentally, won’t be getting much mention here since I’ve just not even read much about it to make so much as an informed prejudgement, but it’d be awesome to see Julian Schnabel nominated and pretend it’s in retrospect for Basquiat.

Best Actor 2/5

NOTES: Well this category’s vast. My big clash here was over Sam Riley vs. Joseph Gordon-Levitt who has been in my predix here since the beginning. If I weren’t so anxious for Johnny to finally win, I’d swap the two over and I feel their likelihood of a nomination is about equal (I’m really not feeling it for Sweeney, I’m sorry, I hope I’m proven wrong). Hoffmann will get nominated, I’m certain, but I don’t know for what – it could be for The Savages which I’ve not seen, it could be supporting for Charlie Wilson’s War, I hope not. If Julie Christie is up for Away from Her, which she will be, then I feel it would be an insult if Gordon Pinsent weren’t nominated too. John Cusack in my opinion deserves a nomination for 1408 but his only slightly more likely role in Grace is Gone would be a fine substitute nomination. James McAvoy deserves to be nominated after being overlooked last year for The Last King of Scotland. Christian Bale’s performance in Rescue Dawn seems to have been forgotten.

Best Actress 3/5

NOTES: I haven’t seen Enchanted yet but the buzz for Amy Adams just seems crazy, much as I’d love to see her up there. I’d prefer to see Ashley Judd nominated for Bug here over any of the five above. But this seems the easiest category to predict this year. Jodie Foster and Helena Bonham-Carter could be swapped in for Cotillard and Blanchett, and I know it might seem weird me not rooting for Jodie, but, meh, they’ve both done better and I’m actually happy with these five … yes, even Keira.

Best Supporting Actor 2/5

NOTES: If Christian Bale is up for Rescue Dawn in the lead category, then like the Christie/Pinsent thing, Steve Zahn should be up here too in my opinion. He deserved a supporting actor nod for Riding in Cars with Boys. But I’m pretty sure that’s not gonna happen. I guess since I took Joseph Gordon-Levitt out I should take Jeff Daniels out here too, but I really can’t think who to replace him with. I really didn’t like Philip Seymour-Hoffmann in Charlie Wilson’s War. I’m willing to lose a point over that, lol.

Best Supporting Actress 2/5

NOTES: I used to be so good on this category. But I’m gonna be wrong wrong wrong this year, I know, lol. I would love to see Imelda Staunton in this one for Harry Potter. Pfeiffer’s more likely to be nominated for Hairspray but I just plain liked Stardust more.

Best Original Screenplay 2/5

Best Adapted Screenplay 4/5

Best Editing 2/5

Best Cinematography 2/5

Best Art Direction 2/5

Best Costume Design 3/5

Best Make-Up 0/3

Best Original Score 2/5

NOTES: last minute update apparently Jonny Greenwood’s score for There Will Be Blood is ineligible, so I’ve replaced it off the top of my head with Carter Burwell’s admittedly familiar score to Before the Devil. He ain’t getting nominated for No Country that’s for sure lol.

Best Original Song 1/5

  • “Le Festin” Michael Giacchino, Ratatouille [ “Happy Working Song”, Enchanted ]
  • “Hello, I Love You” Roger Waters and Howard Shore, The Last Mimzy [ “That’s How You Know”, Enchanted ]
  • “Falling Slowly” Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová, Once
  • “Society” Eddie Vedder, Into the Wild [ “So Close”, Enchanted ]
  • “Way Back Into Love” Music and Lyrics [ “Raise it Up”, August Rush ]

NOTES: I swapped in “Le Festin” last minute, grudgingly over Schwartz and Menken’s “That’s How You Know” from Enchanted, if only ‘cos I still haven’t seen that movie. Either will be great by me. Just … please on Mimzy :) In fact, just about please on all of the above. The song category could be awesome this year!

Best Visual Effects 2/3

NOTES: I grudgingly accept another Pirates nod, Sunshine and Zodiac being absent from the shortlist :(

Best Sound 2/5

Best Sound Effects Editing 4/5

Best Foreign Language Feature

NOTES: Even I noticed how f*cked up the shortlist was for this category this year. I’m just not even gonna try.

Best Documentary Feature

NOTES: (sorta) ditto.

Best Animated Feature 1/3

NOTES: I just want Robinsons to be nominated. Simpsons in its place would bug the hell out of me. Shrek and Bee Movie – Bah! The only thing I’ll accept is Persepolis over Beowulf.

Oh yes: THE TALLY:

8 – No Country for Old Men
6 – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Zodiac
5 – Ratatouille
4 – There Will Be Blood, Control, Atonement, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
3 – Into the Wild, Away from Her, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Bourne Ultimatum, American Gangster
2 – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Lookout, Michael Clayton, Juno, I’m Not There, Once, 300, Transformers
1 – Breach, A Mighty Heart, La Vie en Rose, Gone Baby Gone, Stardust, Grace is Gone, The Last Mimzy, Music and Lyrics, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Hairspray, Meet the Robinsons, Beowulf