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My face is frozen into a grin that will probably take days to go away. Chris and I watched the show in our home theater in HD, so beautiful! We were whooping and clapping and holding hands and laughing and whooping and kissing and clapping and having the time of our lives. This is the BEST...

I didn't find Life Is Beautiful cheap or vulgar in any way. I thought it was extremely moving.

The Costume Designers awarded Ngila Dickson for BOTH Return of the King and The Last Samurai in Period/Fantasy Costume Design. Durinda Wood won Contemporary for A Mighty Wind.

Master and Commander won the Cinema Audio Society award. The Costume Guild doesn't seem to care if anyone knows who won. They haven't updated their web site since the 2001 awards, when Erin Brokovich won! Geez.

American Splendor (Adapted) and Lost In Translation (Original) took the Writers Guild awards! American Splendor! I was rooting for ROTK, but still, that's very cool.

The Visual Effects Society has spoken. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won 4 of the 8 awards it was nominated for: Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Motion Picture Outstanding Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture Outstanding Models and...

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I can't stand Billy Crystal as a host. He's rarely funny to me, and his insults are offensive. I still haven't forgiven him for his "who are you people?" in 1997 (hint: they're very talented actors and directors). Even worse is knowing that they'll waste a LOT of precious time with his dumb...

Seth, have I told you lately, you are my hero?? Year after year you continually amaze me with your intelligence and insight, and above all, patience, in these Academy Award threads. Long after I've taken to punching my fist into my bean bag wrist rest several times after I read posts, and even...

I don't know exactly where to put this since it's very local, but involves Oscar-nominated movies. The Century 12/CineArt 6 in Evanston, just north of Chicago, has 2 double-features running. They're not listed as doubles on the phone line or IMDB's showtimes. They're only listed at...

(I liked SiL more than SPR. I was happy that night.)

Agreed! The look of glee on Ian McKellen's face at Fry's joke (faraway wistful look, shaking his head and saying "sorry, I was a million miles away") was priceless. I loved watching the BAFTAS too. The awards were spread around and even if I disagree about several of them (Scarlett for Lost...

Oh, well, I guess it's not live then. :b I'm still having fun watching. Emma Thompson rules!

The Baftas are on right now. ROTK is getting shut out so far. I'm keeping track of winners. It's playing on BBC America and I think it's live.

The Art Directors Guild winners: Period or Fantasy Films - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Contemporary Films - Mystic River

Yesterday my husband and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago to see their Oscar exhibit. 50 of the Oscars that will be given out on February 29 are on display in 5 cases, 10 per case. It's the first time I've ever seen an Oscar in real life and I have to admit it was kind of...

Nice pictures from the Nominee Luncheon. (There are more here).

Got it, thanks!

Here's an article from the Kansas City Star. You have to register to see it and I don't like making people go through that rigamarole. I think some of the info might be wrong or at least outdated, and it's not nearly as comprehensive as I'd like, but it has some interesting bits. I'd dearly...

Ooops, I hit Submit too soon. I don't want there to be ANY surprises this year, *except* for Best Supporting Actress (and Animated, because I'd love for Triplets to win). I want to hear "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" over and over and over and over again. Seth's Oscar Rules...

"You must see. They will kill us. They will shoot my children" Please let Shohreh Aghdashloo win for House Of Sand And Fog, just on the basis of these few seconds. Every time I just see a clip of this tears start falling down my cheeks. I can't help it. I know that Renee is "supposed" to...

http://www.oscars.org/ has all the past nominees. Here's another good site: http://www.littlegoldenguy.com/year_select.asp

Earlier in the thread, Sean Laughter responded to something I wrote: So now we know! She had ample reason to say what she did.

Just for the heck of it, I went back to my notes about Ebert & Roeper's "Memo to the Academy" show (things they'd like to see nominated). Here's what I wrote down:

Yes, yes and yesyes. I would add Jenna Boyd, who was the best thing about The Missing.

Btw, Adam Lenhardt, thank you so much for those links to the Keisha interviews, they were great! Besides seeing Keisha's house, it was also refreshing to see an interviewer wiping sweat off his brow several times. You never see that on American TV. People don't sweat here. :D If you come...

(Link to the 2nd Oscar auction deleted. Sorry. The links were on Movie City News if someone wants to check them out.) Nah, he deserves an award because he was brilliant in Mystic River. Period. But, he also was brilliant in 21 Grams this year. And, he was also brilliant in Sweet & Lowdown...

It's funny, it seems there are 3 types of people in the LOTR debate. You have the folks who don't like or care about LOTR and don't see what the fuss is about. You have the hardened purists who can't see the beautiful forest for the mangled saplings. And then there's...everybody else. I think...

I just re-watched the nominations. We have 2 Tivos and DirecTV, so I have the noms on E!, ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and CBS's The Early Show (which is the only one that didn't carry the nominations live). It was funny to see, by their comments, that Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer...

Ugh, if Diane wins for that silly role I'll put a brick through the TV. Then, I felt the same way about Anette Bening and Hilary Swank, and the Academy members did the right thing in that case.