Oscar Nominees!

[G-Dude]

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Somewhere, Harvey Weinstien is screaming loudly and eating an intern for breakfast. Cold Mountain--Cold Shoulder. It did well in the technical noms, but for something as hyped and as promoted as Cold Mountain to only get 2 nominations in the Big Awards is surprising.

And I was right-- Kidman's horrendously bad accent killed her chances.

[PigsnieLite]

Heehee, COLD MOUNTAIN got fewer nods than SEABISCUIT! I wonder if that Weinstein expose had some effect on the voting. Minghella must be pissed. All that suffering in dinky Romania, all those patriotic flag shots -- all for naught! LAST SAMURAI wuz ignored too, but I think Tom Cruise is a nice guy & he wont be pouting about it.

I wuz most surprised by the BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS noms though. Ive never heard of a lot of them. Who wuz nominated in this category in the Golden Globes? Oh & I wuz happy about the 13 yr old in WHALE RIDER getting nominated!

But Why wuz ROTK not nominated for Best Cinematography?

[G-Dude]

Well, the Academy imposed stricter rules about Oscar campaigning (gift baskets, special parties, etc) this year, and seeing as how that has been Harvey's main line of offense these past few years (Chocolot for Best Pic? WTF?), the film was measured on its own merits and found wanting. It's rather humorous, considering that Cold Mountain was Miramax's most expensive film, it had all this pre-release pedestal placing (witness the self-important trailer), and then it gets the shaft.

I'm also overjoyed that the Academy finally remembered that the Oscars are for the entire year of films, not just December.

RotK's lack of cinematography nod is surprising, but I'm more disapointed that Open Range didn't get some recognition. The movie was beautiful.

Scarlett should have been nominated rather than Keaton. That screams "career achievment" rather than the actual film. Ah, well, Charlize is gonna walk away with it.

Right now it's a three-way race in three categories: Picture, Director and Actor. Picture and Director will be between RotK, Mystic River and Lost in Translation (never go against the family when these things are concerned), and Actor is more of a two-way between Penn and Murray with Depp as a dark horse.

[JLApe]

ROTK's cinematography is the same as TTT and FOTR. Not much change. At least Howard Shore wrote some original material this time around, and got nominated.

Renee (and Jude) got in for Cold Mountain. So that's good.

The only reason Diane Keaton won and got nominated for Oscar is because she got naked onscreen. Most of the voters are over 50.

And with Brother Bear as the third nomination for Best Animated Feature (sympathatic nomination, if anything else), Pixar looks likely to win with Finding Nemo.

[PigsnieLite]

TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is sooooo much better than NEMO. Plus their Song is so catchy too.

Questions:
1. Why did MASTER & COMMANDER get Best Makeup nom (someone wore makeup on the high seas?) & MONSTER didnt?

2. MATRIX got no VISUAL EFFECTS noms? I may hate the movies but WTF? And shouldnt the HULK get something too?

And I am so happy about COLD COUNTAIN being excluded, I asked Pigsnie to buy me the Weinstein book. Whooopeeeeee.

Diane Keaton, feh. Scarlett not nominated for Best Actress, sad. I wuz so looking forwurd to her upright bosoms. Happy that Alec Baldwin got some props. Also Watanabe. Cant decide who I want to win in Supporting.

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"TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is sooooo much better than NEMO. Plus their Song is so catchy too."
Triplets has a better narrative style than Nemo: mime over dialogue. But that's it. The plotline looks like it came from an early Disney cartoon. I rank it below Nemo.

1. Why did MASTER & COMMANDER get Best Makeup nom (someone wore makeup on the high seas?) & MONSTER didnt?
That is a good question. Could be some visual effects touch-up on Monster (how much, if any is a ) that disqualifies it. That's why The Hours didn't get nom for Best Make-Up last year. MASTER & COMMANDER got lots of blood, gore, and people with missing limbs.

2. MATRIX got no VISUAL EFFECTS noms? I may hate the movies but WTF? And shouldnt the HULK get something too?
Probably a repetition of Matrix the first. Or maybe Reloaded and Revolutions canceled each other out.

And I am so happy about COLD COUNTAIN being excluded, I asked Pigsnie to buy me the Weinstein book. Whooopeeeeee.
Get one for me too. I'm interested to read about Harvey's dirty laundry.

"Scarlett not nominated for Best Actress, sad. I wuz so looking forwurd to her upright bosoms. "
She'll be there, and hopefully in a dress with a lower cleavage line.

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There are excerpts from the Weinstein book in the February issue of Americun VANITY FAIR. I seed it when Pigsnie bought it home. Cover has Gwyneth Paltrow looking very glamorous. Issue has long long long section about super rich people fron Palm Beach. Hurrrrrmmm, very interestin. All it does is make me want to bite their ankles.