Academy Awards - Live Thread 79th Oscar Awards

25 February 2007 | DollyCali

[DollyCali]

The Queen

Peter Morgan's "The Queen" is nominated for six Academy Awards, including one for best picture.

The Departed

Under Martin Scorsese's directing, "The Departed" is nominated for five Oscars.

Babel

"Babel" is nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture and director.

Letters From Iwo Jima

"Letters" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director and best picture.

Little Miss Sunshine

"Sunshine" is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture

Leonardo DiCaprio

Nominated for his role in "Blood Diamond," this is Dicaprio's third nomination.

Ryan Gosling

Nominated for "Half Nelson," this is Gosling's first Oscar nod.

Peter O'Toole

This is veteran actor Peter O'Toole's eighth Academy Award nomination.

Forest Whitaker

Whitaker is nominated for playing the brutal dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."

Will Smith

Smith is nominated for an Oscar for the second time for his roll in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness."

Penelope Cruz

Cruz, nominated for "Volver," plays a woman whose life is thrown into chaos.

Kate Winslet

Winslet plays a discontented wife in "Little Children," earning her fifth nomination.

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren played royalty in "The Queen," earning her third Orcar nomination.

Judi Dench

No stranger to the Academy, this is Dench's sixth nomination.

Meryl Streep

Streep played a well-dressed, outrageously demanding editor in "The Devil Wears Prada."

Mark Wahlberg

In "The Departed," Wahlberg explores the underbelly of the Boston police force.

Alan Arkin

No one plays a heroin-addicted Grandpa like Alan Arkin, nominated for "Little Miss Sunshine."

Eddie Murphy

"Dreamgirls" was a box office hit, and earned Eddie Murphy his first Oscar nomination.

Jackie Earle Haley

Nominated for "Little Children," this is Haley's first Oscar nod.

Djimon Huonsou

This is Huonou's second nomination -- this time, for "Blood Diamond."

Rinko Kikuchi

Kikuchi, up for "Babel" in which she plays a deaf teenager in Tokyo.

Jennifer Hudson

Nominated for "Dreamgirls," this is Jennifer Hudson's first Oscar nod.

Abigail Breslin

This is young Breslin's first nod, for "Little Miss Sunshine."

Cate Blanchett

This is Blanchett's third Oscar nod -- this time, for "Notes on a Scandal."

Adriana Barraza

This is Barraza's first nomination, for Amelia in "Babel."

Clint Eastwood

Eastwood is also nominated for Best Picture for "Letters From Iwo Jima."

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Inarritu is nominated for directing "Babel."

Martin Scorsese

Scorsese is a familiar face at the Oscars -- this is his eight nomination.

Stephen Frears

Frears got the nod in 1990. This time, it's for directing "The Queen."

Paul Greengrass

Greengrass is up for "United 93," his first nomination.

[DollyCali]

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[Guenevere]

lol...the only movie I've seen on this list is The Queen..and it was most excellent!

[Tanniker Smith]

Isn't it a little early?

Then again, I've seen "Cars". That's about it. So what do I know.
Oh wait, I think "Pirates of the Carribean" and "The Illusionist" are nominated for technical awards. WooHoo, go techies!

[Guenevere]

oh...and I saw United 93...!!!!!!..Outstanding!

[MplsSteve]

I like to think I see a number of movies each year - but I'm embarrassed to say that I haven't seen any of the films nominated for Best Picture.

I am planning on seeing "The Queen" though.

[PJ-Comix]

L.A. temperatures forecast to drop into the 40s for the Global Warming Oscars.

[mewzilla]

Hope the ladies remember their foundation garments....

[LS]

Ok, here are my preferences, and I don't claim to have seen all of these:

While everything I've heard says Whitaker is excellent, I hope Peter O'Toole wins for best actor.

"Babel" was horrible. I hope it doesn't win anything.

Scorcese is due.

Eddie Murphy, from what I've heard, is fantastic. It's too bad he got detoured into b-grade Disney movies.

Wahlberg was excellent, but I hope it is Murphy.

[STARWISE]

United 93 was awesome .. I hope the director gets this award. He deserves it, but I'm not holding my breath in Hollyweird.

Dreamgirls was OK ... Eddie Murphy was outstanding.

The snow is coming down in bushels in the Windy City.

[DollyCali]

P-I-N-G

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[i_dont_chat]

Last movie I saw:

Prairie Home Companion -- with Meryl Streep, among others.

It was most excellent.

[isthisnickcool]

[DollyCali]

HaHA.. never too early. We movie addicts have been talking about this for weeks(months?)

[Sprite518]

Why watch a bunch of drugged out,over hyped losers that hate and loath the very nation that has made them so successful?

These liberal bastards spit on our President and America's best (our troops) in a period of time where our very Nation's survival is in question. Oh I know they say they "support the troops, and just not the mission". That is like saying you support a football team, but you do not want them to win the game. Therefore, it is impossible to support the troops, and not the mission.

Think about who you support with your time and dollars.

[DollyCali]

Hi Guennie.. I KNEW You would be here.. and I loved the Queen.
Saw it three times at theater. 2nd time as between my poor hearing & the accent, I missed MUCH of the dialog. Third time for the beauty of it.

I thought this was a very good year. A lot of wonderful films.

[DollyCali]

I agree with all you wrote except I did like Babel. Peter o Toole is surely the nostalgic candidate,

Whitaker was outstanding in Last King of Scotland.

Eddie Murphy did so well in Dreamgirls

[theFIRMbss]

>Want to Heckle? Hey, there is a thread for you(and THIS ISN"T IT!)

A media thread that we can not vomit in?! What's Free Republic coming to?! Next thing you know, there'll be "heckle-free" threads for Hillary!

[potlatch]

One 'watcher' I can do without, lol. Ban the Gorbal Bore!

 

 

[DollyCali]

do you use the same scrutiny with your dentist? doctor? lawyer? grocers? Products you purchase?

[DollyCali]

I doubt that will win.. even a lot of hollywood thinks he is wierd