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.

[Pharmboy]

He's talented, all right, but he's the equivalent of a guilty white liberal star: guilty about his success, there will not be one word that leaves his lips that will not be political. He, like Jesse Jackson and some others are the perennially offended.

[daisyscarlett]

Helen Mirren is supposedly the only "sure thing" for winning tonight....she was great in that PBS Series she did years ago...

[daisyscarlett]

Will Smith, Jada Pinkett and Jaden Smith who starred with his Dad in Pursuit of Happyness, a great film and upbeat story.

[Guenevere]

That's not Clive Owen! :)

[daisyscarlett]

Leonardo diCaprio will present the Oscar to Algore if he should win...think I will take a potty break for that segment...

[Guenevere]

oh my goodness ...:)

[jaycee]

Which just reminds me of what I heard on Fox today. Fox said that "Ugly Betty said this country wouldn't be free until George Bush was out of office." Aren't young people intelligent? LOL... It was free enough for her to win an award recently and free enough for her to speak her mind no matter what hateful, dumb things she says.

[cajungirl]

I don't like Jenifer's dress,,hate the shrug thing. And hands in pockets? Ugh!

Nicole looked great. Love Winslet's dress, the color.

[daisyscarlett]

Here are the Gores, note young Al on the right...

[daisyscarlett]

Okay, time to start.

Ellen D. said she would not be political in her opening monologue...no promises about the rest of the show...sigh..

[LdSentinal]

He got fat like his parents. If Al, Tipper and he ate beans, that's man-made "global warming."

[jaycee]

I ran up to Sonic while ago and "Big Al" was being interviewed and they asked him if he thought he would win tonight. And he did that stupid laugh and said "I'm gonna knock on wood." And I thought, well, just knock anywhere on your body and that will cover it!!

[DollyCali]

Here we go?

[jaycee]

I think the bottom of her dress looks like a shag rug!

[Northern Yankee]

Rave... you gotta try Sneaky Pete's Wicked Ale. Very good.

Dolly, did you see Pan's Labrinth?

My son and I went about a month ago. We loved it.

[peggybac]

Zzzzzzz...

[Silly]

Did anyone else notice the last segment looked like it was...

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[Coleus]

I didn't think real conservatives would watch such tripe.

[cajungirl]

Kristin is now a brunette and young al is fat.

[LdSentinal]

I didn't think real conservatives would watch such tripe

They don't.