Yeah, on Oscar night in 2008 I'm going to look at these and laugh my ass off. I mean, did anyone think, at this point last year, that Martin Scorsese was finally going to win Best Director for a remake of Infernal Affairs? If you're saying yes you're a filthy liar.
Best Picture
Atonement
Charlie Wilson's War
Goya's Ghosts
Lions for Lambs
Reservation Road
Best Director
David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises
Milos Forman for Goya's Ghosts
Mike Nichols for Charlie Wilson's War
Robert Redford for Lions for Lambs
Terry George for Reservation Road
Best Actor
Russell Crowe for American Gangster
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd (siiiigh)
Tom Hanks for Charlie Wilson's War
Denzel Washington for American Gangster
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett for The Golden Age
Julie Christie for Away from Her
Angelina Jolie for A Mighty Heart
Sarah Jessica Parker for Spinning into Butter
Meryl Streep in Lions for Lambs
(a note: Yeah, I know Marion Cottillard is getting hyperbolic reviews for La Mome. But I just don't see her getting nominated for an Oscar. It reeks a little of Isabelle Huppert in The Piano Teacher.)
Best Supporting Actor
Robert DeNiro for Stardust
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War
James McAvoy for Becoming Jane
Clive Owen for The Golden Age
Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams for Charlie Wilson's War
Glenn Close for Evening
Jane Fonda for Georgia Rule
Scarlett Johansson for The Other Boleyn Girl
Nicole Kidman for His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass *
* = Ian in Lord of the Rings?
Best Original Screenplay
Cassandra's Dream
Goya's Ghosts
Leatherheads
Lions for Lambs
Rendition
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Gangster
Charlie Wilson's War
In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis LOL)
The Other Boelyn Girl (I hope this film isn't big cuz it's kind of a bitch to spell...unless it gets my girl ScarJo a nom.)
There Will Be Blood
Best Art Direction
Becoming Jane
Goya's Ghosts
Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End
Stardust
Sweeney Todd
Best Cinematography
In the Valley of Elah
Lions for Lambs
Lust, Caution
My Blueberry Nights
Rendition
Best Costume Design
Evening
The Golden Age
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
The Other Boleyn Girl
Stardust
Best Editing
American Gangster
Charlie Wilson's War
In the Valley of Elah
Lions for Lambs
Reservation Road
Best Original Score
Cassandra's Dream
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
The Kite Runner
Lust, Caution
Michael Clayton
yeah, that's about it. And no, I can't see I'm Not There getting any Oscar traction at all, no matter how good it is/the performances in it are. Maybe it'll get a nomination here and there, but I seriously doubt it. After all, the Academy failed to embrace Safe or Far from Heaven. I can't wait to laugh about all this a year from now...when I'm Not There will probably just have won Best Picture and Ben Affleck will have won Best Director for Gone, Baby, Gone and stuff like that...
