and the rest of my awards...

...with the Oscar nominees cut out (yeah yeah I know, I'll comment on the guys later)

2004
Best Picture
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Bad Education
Mean Girls
Dogville

Best Director
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Michael Gondry, Eternal Sunshine...
Lars von Trier, Dogville
Michael Mann, Collateral
Alfonso Cuaron, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Best Actor
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Kevin Bacon, The Woodsman
Jeff Bridges, The Door in the Floor
Gael Garcia Bernal, Bad Education
Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine...

Best Actress
Nicole Kidman, Dogville
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Laura Linney, P.S.
Abbie Cornish, Somersault (2005?)
Vera Farmiga, Down to the Bone (2005? And yes, I saw these both very recently)

Best Supporting Actor
Jude Law, I Heart Huckabees
Steve Carell, Anchorman
David Carradine, Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Peter Sarsgaard, Kinsey
Paul Bettany, Dogville

Best Supporting Actress
Kirsten Dunst, Eternal Sunshine...
Kyra Sedgwick, The Woodsman
Daryl Hannah, Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Rachel McAdams, Mean Girls
Lily Tomlin, I Heart Huckabees


2005
Best Picture
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
Pride and Prejudice
The Squid and the Whale
Sin City

Best Director
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Michael Haneke, Cache
Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener
Robert Rodriguez et al., Sin City
Woody Allen, Match Point

Best Actor
Viggo Mortensen, A History of Violence
Ralph Fiennes, The Constant Gardener
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin
Steve Carell, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Robert Downey Jr., Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Best Actress
Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
Yeong-ae Lee, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Gwyneth Paltrow, Proof
Embeth Davidtz, Junebug
Claire Danes, Shopgirl

Best Supporting Actor
Jesse L. Martin, Rent
Clifton Collins Jr., Capote
Mickey Rourke, Sin City
Michael Pena, Crash
Donald Sutherland, Pride and Prejudice

Best Supporting Actress
Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale
Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Rosario Dawson, Rent
Ziyi Zhang, 2046
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Happy Endings


2006
Best Picture
Marie-Antoinette
Children of Men

Inside Man

Borat

The Fountain

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men
Sofia Coppola, Marie-Antoinette
Spike Lee, Inside Man
Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth

Best Actor
Hugh Jackman, The Fountain
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
Matt Damon, The Departed
Clive Owen, Children of Men
Daniel Craig, Casino Royale

Best Actress (still far from 100% sure about my final lineup)
Laura Dern, Inland Empire
Naomi Watts, The Painted Veil
Rachel Weisz, The Fountain
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby
Kirsten Dunst, Marie-Antoinette

Best Supporting Actor
Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine
Robert Downey Jr., A Scanner Darkly
Alec Baldwin, The Departed
Michael Sheen, The Queen (cuz everyone hearts category fraud)
Clive Owen, Inside Man

Best Supporting Actress
Mia Kirshner, The Black Dahlia
Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson (again, yay category fraud)
Claire Hope-Ashitey, Children of Men
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stranger than Fiction
Julianne Moore, Children of Men

a little late, but you know.

ruling "runway" - and the year

the top 20 performances of 2006, in my very humble opinion, because I still have not seen a single 2007 movie apart from, ugh, Epic Movie. Maybe some day I'll actually explain my choices:

20. Adriana Barraza in Babel
19. Alec Baldwin in The Departed
18. Claire-Hope Ashitey in Children of Men
17. Matt Damon in The Departed
16. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
15. Helen Mirren in The Queen
14. Naomi Watts in The Painted Veil
13. Clive Owen in Inside Man
12. Forest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland
11. Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat
10. Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson
9. Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
8. Hugh Jackman in The Fountain
7. Laura Dern in Inland Empire
6. Penelope Cruz in Volver
5. Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson
4. Mia Kirshner in The Black Dahlia
3. Kate Winslet in Little Children
2. Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
1. Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada

Wish I had room for you guys: Clive Owen, Children of Men; Daniel Craig, Casino Royale; Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration; Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby; Cate Blanchett, The Good German; Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls; Robert Downey Jr., A Scanner Darkly; Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine; Michael Sheen, The Queen

finishing things off. '06

and just to reiterate: i change my mind a lot. for instance, the repeated viewing of 25th hour in one of my classes has made me realize i was crazy to have philip seymour hoffman in 10th place for that year in that category; he should actually be in first place. oh, self. who can figure me out?

Best Picture
1. The Departed
2. Children of Men
3. The Fountain
4. Inside Man
5. Dreamgirls
6. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...
7. Volver
8. Marie-Antoinette
9. Letters from Iwo Jima
10. Pan's Labyrinth

Best Director
1. Darren Aronofsky for The Fountain
2. Martin Scorsese for The Departed
3. Alfonso Cuaron for Children of Men
4. Sofia Coppola for Marie-Antoinette
5. Paul Greengrass for United 93
6. Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
7. Spike Lee for Inside Man (#4 if you're including When the Levees Broke as well)
8. Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth
9. Christopher Nolan for The Prestige
10. Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima (and Flags of Our Fathers)

Best Actor
1. Hugh Jackman in The Fountain
2. Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson
3. Forrest Whittaker in Last King of Scotland
4. Clive Owen in Children of Men (<3333)
5. Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...
6. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
7. Matt Damon in The Departed
8. Daniel Craig in Casino Royale
9. Patrick Wilson in Little Children
10. Heath Ledger in Candy
Ooh...except for Whittaker, this is like a top 10 of extraordinarily good-looking men. I make good choices sometimes. ;)

Best Actress
1. Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
2. Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
3. Kate Winslet in Little Children
4. Penelope Cruz in Volver
5. Laura Dern in Inland Empire
6. Naomi Watts in The Painted Veil
7. Helen Mirren in The Queen (OMG calm down people.)
8. Catherine O'Hara in For Your Consideration
9. Maggie Gyllenhaal in Sherrybaby
10. Cate Blanchett in The Good German

Best Supporting Actor
1. Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls
2. Doug Jones in Pan's Labyrinth
3. Michael Sheen in The Queen
4. Steve Carell in Little Miss Sunshine
5. Clive Owen in Inside Man (<333. I AM ALLOWED MY BIASES DAMMIT)
6. Michael Caine in Children of Men
7. Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
8. Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
9. Jack Nicholson for The Departed
10. Sergio Lopez for Pan's Labyrinth
(please note: in The Departed, Baldwin >>>>>> Wahlberg)

Best Supporting Actress
1. Mia Kirshner in The Black Dahlia
2. Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (um when will people realize she wasn't just singing. When you sing for musical theater, you interpret a song!)
3. Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson (...category fraud.)
4. Claire Hope-Ashitey in Children of Men
5. Rinko Kikuchi in Babel
6. Toni Collette in Little Miss Sunshinse
7. Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
8. Kerry Washington in The Last King of Scotland
9. Emma Thompson in Stranger than Fiction
10. Vera Farmiga in Running Scared

Best Screenplay
1. The Departed
2. Little Children
3. Children of Men
4. Volver
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. The Painted Veil
7. Stranger than Fiction
8. Inside Man
9. Half Nelson
10. The Prestige

...I should do some major project next. Hmmm.

bored...

here are my awards of 2006 with oscar nominees in their categories eliminated:

Best Picture
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...
Children of Men *
Dreamgirls
The Fountain
Inside Man

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky for The Fountain *
Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
Sofia Coppola for Marie-Antoinette
Alfonso Cuaron for Children of Men
Spike Lee for Inside Man and When the Levees Broke

Best Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...
Matt Damon for The Departed
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed (or Daniel Craig for Casino Royale if it's illegal)
Hugh Jackman for The Fountain *
Clive Owen for Children of Men

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett for The Good German
Laura Dern for Inland Empire *
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby
Catherine O'Hara for For Your Consideration
Naomi Watts for The Painted Veil

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Caine for Children of Men
Steve Carell for Little Miss Sunshine
Doug Jones for Pan's Labyrinth *
Clive Owen for Inside Man
Michael Sheen for The Queen

Best Supporting Actress
Toni Collette for Little Miss Sunshine
Shareeka Epps for Half Nelson
Mia Kirshner for The Black Dahlia *
Emma Thompson for Stranger than Fiction
Kerry Washington for The Last King of Scotland

I'm boring.

SAG rundown

Can't say I actually watched it, but here's what I have to say based on pictures/winners.

So, I kinda blew chunks with my predictions. Oh well. Guess Murphy is the frontrunner after all, and though I know it's for a reason, O'Toole's repeated absences at award shows can't be helping.

Reese Witherspoon, hun, gain like 5 pounds. You looked fantastic at the Globes but you're back to being bony now. Her dress was great though; she's always well-dressed.

ALEC BALDWIN!!!! Too bad he won't get nominated for where he really deserves it, The Departed (better than Wahlberg). Oh who am I kidding, he totally deserves it for 30 Rock too (though not as much as The Piv!).

It's official: I'm kind of falling in love with Little Miss Sunshine's cast. It's only the third-best of the nominees but I'll be thrilled if it wins because it's just SO non-Academy.

uhhh Rachel McAdams? Mary-Louise Parker?!?!

OMG HOW GOOD LOOKING WAS MARK WAHLBERG????

Cate Blanchett looked horrible and you know she wants to kill Jennifer Hudson.

Um, so, this is awkward.

I have to say, the more and more time goes on, the less and less Anne Hathaway pisses me off. She's just talentless, but she's not actively annoying like, say, one of her co-stars in The Devil Wears Prada (and the co-star I refer to is not named Meryl, Stanley, or Adrien...oh beautiful, beautiful Adrien Grenier). Plus, she's cute and seems classy. Sorry, Anne. If you suck in Becoming Jane (which you probably will) and get an Oscar nomination/buzz/good reviews, I'll go back to hating you, though.

Joshua Jackson was there last night...he just bizarrely keeps popping up places recently for some reason. And instead of typing "Joshua Jackson," I'll type the guy I like's name, which doesn't make any sense since it's not even close to Joshua Jackson...but maybe I've already said too much? I might have to kill you now?

Dear Hugh Lawrie, you are boring, stop winning shit. Not love, me.

To quote the year's best actress, "that's all"

oh wow, the SAGs are tonight?

i guess i might as well give my crappy crappy predictions, as well as who i want to win and who i don't want to win.

Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture (or whatever it's called)
Winner: Little Miss Sunshine
Alt: The Departed
Yes!: The Departed
No!: Bobby

Best Actor
Winner: Peter O'Toole, Venus
Alt: Forrest Whittaker, Last King of Scotland
Yes!: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
No!: No performance is even deserving of slight criticism like "servable." Still, I guess Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond

Best Actress
Winner: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Alt: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Yes!: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
No!: An amazing category...and I certainly won't yell "no!" if this happens, which it definitely will, but yeah, out of the nominees, the least is Helen Mirren, The Queen (still A+ work though)

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Alt: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Yes!: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls (Leo's is a better performance, but such blatant category fraud...)
No!: um, I guess Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Note: If Eddie Murphy wins, he can write his Oscar speech right now.

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls (even if she doesn't win she still has the Oscar in the bag)
Alt: Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Yes!: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
No!: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal

as far as TV goes, I can't say I've watched anything. but best actor in a comedy series - wow, never have i felt so strongly. carell, baldwin, and PIVEN!! are BRILLIANT. lee is boring and his show sucks. shalhoub will probably win because he always fucking does. oh and desperate housewives can suck it. god, i miss tv i cared about...and by that, i mean sex and the city.

top 30 of '06

...so i can take that top 10 down. also, for some reason, i didn't include documentaries here. dunno why.

30. the good shepherd
29. the devil wears prada
28. the prestige
27. water
26. curse of the golden flower
25. stranger than fiction
24. scoop
23. the pursuit of happyness
22. superman returns
21. a prairie home companion
20. monster house
19. the descent
18. breaking and entering
17. little children
16. l'enfant
15. little miss sunshine
14. united 93
13. half nelson
12. the painted veil
11. casino royale
10. pan's labyrinth
9. letters from iwo jima
8. marie-antoinette
7. volver
6. borat
5. dreamgirls
4. inside man
3. children of men
2. the fountain
1. the departed

random performance lists...

...of random 2006 movies:

Little Miss Sunshine
1. Steve Carell
2. Toni Collette
3. Abigail Breslin
4. Greg Kinnear
5. whoever played the pageant host (Matt Winston, apparently)
6. Alan Arkin
7. the actual van
8. Paul Dano

Stranger than Fiction
1. Emma Thompson
2. Will Ferrell
3. Maggie Gyllenhaal
4. Dustin Hoffman
5. OMG TOM HULCE HAS A CAMEO IN THIS.
6. Queen Latifah

The Departed
1. Leonardo DiCaprio
2. Matt Damon
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Alec Baldwin
5. Vera Farmiga
6. Mark Wahlberg
7. Martin Sheen

Little Children
1. Kate Winslet
2. Jackie Earle Haley
3. Patrick Wilson
4. Phyllis Sommerville
5. Jane Adams
6. Jennifer Connelly
7. Noah Emmerich

and now i have to go have friends, and stuff.