SITE EDIT, 12/10/07 – This post is by former site contributor, “justaguy“, whose author title isn’t recreated on these republished posts of his after the site was upgraded to the use of MT 4.0 (his work was successfully imported and republished but his User Account was not, and, thus, this manual edit to identify the contributions on this blog by “justaguy“.)
In other words, “justaguy”‘s posts have been imported and republished using the site Admin. account, which is mine, “-S-”, although I did not write these posts.
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It has begun! The “National Board of Review of Motion Pictures” has weighed in on the Oscar race.
Here’s the break down…
Best Films:
1. Finding Neverland
2. The Aviator
3. Closer
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. Sideways
6. Kinsey
7. Vera Drake
8. Ray
9. Collateral
10. Hotel Rwanda
Actor: Jamie Foxx, Ray
Actress: Annette Bening, Being Julia
Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Supporting Actress: Laura Linney, Kinsey
Acting by an Ensemble: Closer
Breakthrough Performance Actor: Topher Grace, In Good Company and P.S.
Breakthrough Performance Actress: Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera
Director: Michael Mann, Collateral
Directorial Debut: Zack Braff, Garden State
Adapted Screenplay: Sideways, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman
Foreign-Language Film: The Sea Inside
Documentary: Born into Brothels
Animated Feature: The Incredibles
Outstanding Production Design: House of Flying Daggers
Special Filmmaking Achievement: Clint Eastwood, for producing, directing, acting, and composing the score of Million Dollar Baby
Career Achievement: Jeff Bridges (news)
Producers Award: Jerry Bruckheimer
William K. Everson Award for Film History: Richard Schickel
Special Recognition of Films that Reflect the Freedom of Expression: Fahrenheit 9/11, The Passion of the Christ, Conspiracy of Silence
My Oscar Prediction(s)….
The likely “big winners” of the evening…
(Let’s see if you can guess as to, “Why?”)
1. Fahrenheit 9/11
2. Kinsey
3. Vera Drake
4. The Motorcycle Diaries
5. The Sea Inside
The “should have been” winners of the evening…
1. Finding Neverland
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Passion of the Christ
4. Before Sunset
5. Der Untergang
Speaking of, “Der Untergang” — if you haven’t seen the latest History Channel documentary, “TIME MACHINE: HITLER’S LOST PLAN“…find a copy…it’s a “must see.”
Synopsis:
“In 1958, in a sweltering, converted torpedo factory in Alexandria, Virginia, historian Gerhard L. Weinberg was combing through massive stacks of documents that the U.S. had captured from Nazi Germany. In a faded green box, Weinberg came across an unknown prize — a secret book dictated by Adolf Hitler in 1928, the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf. Mixed in with Hitler’s racial hatred, the book contained shocking revelations of his master plan for continuous war. We follow the clues to its discovery and show the rigorous steps taken to authenticate the document — the book is considered legitimate. And we reveal the contents of the book, including Hitler’s plan for global domination culminating in an invasion of America!”
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In all due respect to Steven Spielberg, who I read thinks that “Fahrenheit 9/11″ merits “Best Picture,” (at least, that’s what I read following the film’s release), I cannot for the life of me understand why any filmmaker would ever even begin to take this thing that Moore put together as art, much less as filmmaking, nor even approaching fine filmmaking, much far less approaching ‘best’ filmmaking. I was shocked to read that statement by Spielberg (about “F:9/11″), although everyone’s entitled to their opinion, just that I found it nearly implausible that he would even begin to approach that Moore work — or any other by Moore — seriously. It is astoundingly corrupt abuse of filmmaking and certainly not ‘art,’ any more than a jar of urine on display in Chicago is ‘art.’ Although, again, beauty IS in the eye of the beholder, I realize, just that Moore’s gone far — if you can call it that — by being crazy and disgustingly false in premise, in statement.
I enjoyed your review of preferences. This year’s films, as were the Emmy Awards, are doomed to follow a bleak path of very, very poor values and perceptions. Mel Gibson is genuinely nice — it’s the finest word I can use here — in not promoting “The Passion of the Christ” in the Oscar mania. The film has no peer and anyone who would remotely dare to even consider “F:9/11″ in comparison with “The Passion of the Christ” thinks Anne Frank was faking it. Or similar.
Fahrenheit 9/11 as Best Picture would disgrace Oscars even further
There’s a strong push amongst certain Far Left Whackjobs to get Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 named (or at least nominated for) Best Picture of 2004.
“In a way, they’re almost asking people to voice their political view with a vote on ‘Fahr…