Saturday, February 24, 2007

Oscars

My votes are in and probably my gut is not right this time either.
Unnervingly wrong almost every Oscar ceremony for the past 5 years.
But since I haven't seen most of the nominated films (and it's just
a handful I am not willing to pay 11 a pop to see in cinema in the
den of extravagantly overpriced and overrated rathell that New York
is), I don't feel bad if my guesses fail pathetically to resonate
with the maids and wives of Hollywood moguls who actually cast the
votes for this thing, I won't feel bad or guilty. Politics is
politics. I am just hoping Mr. Hack Scorsese won't win. Again.
How many gangsta epics helmed by this dude do we need to see? I know
I know, I shouldn't bitch if I haven't made a movie, but since I
worked for some movies I think I have to right to bemoan the over
hype. Go see "The Half Life of Timofey Berezin" when it comes out.
I almost fainted with excitement when I first read the script.
Finally something solid and original.
Now, enough of this rambling - I come from a perennialy disatisfied
nation- and here are my votes:
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker
Best Supporting Male: Djimon
Best Actress: Penny Cruz - love her
Best Supporting Female: Adriana Barazza
Animated Feature - Happy Feet
Art Direction- Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematography- Children of Men
Costume Design- The Devil Wears Prada
Directing- Letters from Iwo Jima - the old buggars love an old buggar
Doc Feature- Iraq in Fragments
Foreign Language- the Lives of Others
Makeup- Pan's Labyrinth
Music (Song)- Dreamgirls -from three nominations you gotta nail
one
Best Picture- The Queen (the buz, oh the buzz)
Best Adapted Script- Children of Men
Best Original Script -Little Miss Sunshine
There, I said it.

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