And the award goes to... Oscars 2007

[Brightonfan1983]

If you've seen these films, which do you reckon should win?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

letters

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The Departed 1/1

Babel 11/4

Little Miss Sunshine 7/2

The Queen 10/1

Letters From Iwo Jima 10/1

 

[Skint Gull]

Departed wasn't even that good and its bookies fav! Bit of a poor show this year really!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Imdb

The departed 8.4
Babel 7.8
Little Miss Sunshine 8.1
The Queen 7.7
Letters from Iwo Jima 8.5

 

[Tooting Gull]

Only seen a couple of those, Departed and then Babel a couple of days ago.

I liked the Departed but I think Babel is a much better film, not everyone's cup of tea if you prefer your films light and fluffy, but raw, genuinely moving, emotionally draining and an assault on the senses. If Brad Pitt has delivered a better performance than that, I haven't seen it. Fantastic soundtrack as well which I've just bought, the boy Ryuichi Sakamoto looks to have been involved which comes as no great surprise.

 

[Frutos]

Should have been Rocky Balboa, and yet it didn't even get nominated.

 

[Pavilionaire]

After thinking long and hard I've come to the conclusion the Oscars are SHIT.

Where was the Casino Royale nomination?

 

[Tooting Gull]

No, no Bond films and no comedies. Where was Eddy Murphy's nomination for Trading Places? Meet the Fockers? It's a disgrace.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I saw Little Miss Sunshine and thought it was a bit over rated, great and funny ending which has us all in stitches , yes, observant about families etc etc it was good 7.2, I thought World Trace Centre was better 7.5, awaits denouncing this as hollywood shit

 

[Pavilionaire]

Why is it that the Best Actor Oscar is almost always won by a character with some sort of special needs? Dodgy left foot (Day-Lewis), Aids (Hanks), silly voice (PS Hoffman), blind (Foxx), drunkard (Cage), Simple (Hanks again) etc.

My betting tip - The Last King Of Scotland looks like continuing that trend.

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

While we're on the subject on the Oscars, I wonder if one of you film buff type fella's can settle an argument that I is currently raging in my office?

How many Oscars did Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure get nominated for?

I say 1 (Most Promising newcomer - Edward Woodward), and my pal says 3 (Best Boy band, Best Foreign Film and Best Soap Villain)

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Oscars stat - In the previous 10 Oscar Ceremonies Brits have received 24 nominations for Best Actor / Best Actress category and contested 14 of the 20 Oscars up for grabs. And we've won...Nothing. Bugger all. Nada.

That's why the Oscars is shit.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Why is it that the Best Actor Oscar is almost always won by a character with some sort of special needs? Dodgy left foot (Day-Lewis), Aids (Hanks), silly voice (PS Hoffman), blind (Foxx), drunkard (Cage), Simple (Hanks again) etc.

My betting tip - The Last King Of Scotland looks like continuing that trend.

or someone who has a good body of work and gets the award because its his turn other than the performance, the acadamies greatest ever travesty Tommy Lee Jones wins best supprting actor for the Fugitive beating Raplh Fiennes for Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. One of the greatest film debuts in the history of cinema imho.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Unc, I don't think you saw what I did there. Or have you got a bit of Scotsman in you?

 

[Tooting Gull]

This giving people an Oscar for what they've done before is bullshit. Give them the thing for the film that deserves it in the first place. The Departed is the case in point this year, no way worth an Oscar but the director may get the guilt vote.

It's like refs evening things up with lots of other bad decisions.