Oscar Watch 2006 - Page 8

Adam_S · 01-11-2007, 07:15 PM

Devil Wears Prada had outstanding dialogue and very well drawn characters. The script was excellent in those respects. If the narrative arc was predictable, well most stories are.

Adam_S · 01-12-2007, 01:12 PM

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS:

DRAMA:

Babel - Stephen Mirrione & Douglas Crise
Casino Royale - Stuart Baird
The Departed - Thelma Schoonmaker
The Queen - Lucia Zuccheti
United 93 - Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, & Richard Pearson

COMEDY / MUSICAL
The Devil Wears Prada - Mark Livolsi
Dreamgirls - Virginia Katz
Little Miss Sunshine - Pamela Martin
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Craig Wood & Stephen Rivkin
Thank You for Smoking - Dana Glauberman

Adam_S · 01-12-2007, 01:26 PM

BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS:

FILM
BABEL - Alejandro González Iñárritu/Jon Kilik/Steve Golin
THE DEPARTED - Brad Pitt/Brad Grey/Graham King
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
THE QUEEN - Tracey Seaward/Christine Langan/Andy Harries

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"Casino Royale" -- Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis
"The Departed" -- William Monahan
"The Devil Wears Prada" -- Aline Brosh McKenna
"The Last King of Scotland" -- Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock
"Notes on a Scandal" -- Patrick Marber

THE DAVID LEAN AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
"Babel" -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
"The Departed" -- Martin Scorsese
"Little Miss Sunshine" -- Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris
"The Queen" -- Stephen Frears
"United 93" -- Paul Greengrass

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Daniel Craig -- "Casino Royale"
Leonardo DiCaprio -- "The Departed"
Richard Griffiths -- "The History Boys"
Peter O'Toole -- "Venus "
Forest Whitaker -- "The Last King of Scotland"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Penelope Cruz -- "Volver"
Judi Dench -- "Notes on a Scandal"
Helen Mirren -- "The Queen"
Meryl Streep -- "The Devil Wears Prada"
Kate Winslet -- "Little Children"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Arkin -- "Little Miss Sunshine"
James MacAvoy -- "The Last King of Scotland"
Jack Nicholson -- "The Departed"
Leslie Phillips -- "Venus "
Michael Sheen -- "The Queen

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Emily Blunt -- The Devil Wears Prada
Abigail Breslin -- Little Miss Sunshine
Toni Colette -- Little Miss Sunshine
Frances de la Tour -- The History Boys
Jennier Hudson -- Dreamgirls

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"Babel" -- Guillermo Arriaga
"Little Miss Sunshine" -- Michael Arndt
"Pan's Labryinth" -- Guillermo del Toro
"The Queen" -- Peter Morgan
"United 93" -- Paul Greengrass

The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film
Andrea Arnold, director -- "Red Road"
Julian Gilbey, director -- "Rollon' with the Nines"
Christine Langan, producer, "Pierrepoint"
Gary Tarn, director -- "Black Sun"
Paul Andrew Williams, director -- "London to Brighton"

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUATE
"Apocalypto" -- Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey
"Black Book (Zwarboek) -- Teun Hilte, San Fu Maltha, Jens Meurer, Paul Verhoeven
"Pan's Labyrinth" -- Alfonso Cuaron, Bertha Navarro, Frida Torresblanco, Guillermo del Toro
"Rang de Basanti" (Paint it Yellow) -- Ronnie Screwvala, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
"Volver" -- Agustin Almodovar, Pedro Almodovar

THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR:
"Casino Royale"
"The Last King of Scotland"
"Notes on a Scandal"
"The Queen"
"United 93"

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
"Cars" -- John Lasseter
"Flushed Away" -- David Bowers, Sam Fell
"Happy Feet" -- George Miller

THE ANTHONY ASQUITH AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM MUSIC:
"Babel" -- Gustavo Santaolalla
"Casino Royale" -- David Arnold
"Dreamgirls" -- Henry Krieger
"Happy Feet" -- John Powell
"The Queen" -- Alexandre Desplat

CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Babel" -- Rodrigo Prieto
"Casino Royale" -- Phil Meheux
"Children of Men" -- Emmanuel Lubezki
"Pan's Labyrinth" -- Guillermo Navarro
"United 93" -- Barry Ackroyd

EDITING
"Babel" -- Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise
"Casino Royale" -- Stuart Baird
"The Departed" -- Thelma Schoonmaker
"The Queen" -- Lucia Zucchetti
"United 93" -- Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, Richard Pearson

PRODUCTION DESIGN
"Casino Royale" -- Peter Lamont, Simon Wakefield
"Children of Men" -- Geoffrey Kirkland, Jim Clay, Jennifer Williams
"Marie Antoinette" -- K K Barrett, Veronique Melery
"Pan's Labyrinth" -- Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" -- Rick Heinrichs, Cheryl A Carasik

COSTUME DESIGN
"The Devil Wears Prada" -- Patricia Field
"Marie Antoinette" -- Milena Canonero
"Pan's Labyrinth" -- Lala Huete
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" -- Penny Rose
"The Queen" -- Consolata Boyle

SOUND
"Babel" -- Jose Garcia, Jon Taylor, Chris Minkler, Martin Hernandez
"Casino Royale" -- Chris Munro, Eddy Joseph, Mike Prestwood Smith, Martin Cantwell, Mark Taylor
"Pan's Labyrinth" -- Martin Hernandez, Jamie Bashkt
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" -- Christopher Boyes, George Watters II, Paul Massey, Lee Orloff
"United 93" -- Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Douglas Cooper, Oliver Tarney/Eddy Joseph

ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
"Casino Royale" -- Steve Begg, Chris Corbould
"Children of Men" -- Frazer Churchill, Tim Webber, Michael Eames, Paul Corbould
"Pan's Labyrinth" -- Edward Irastorza, Everett Burrell
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" -- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson
"Superman Returns" -- Mark Stetson

MAKEUP AND HAIR
"The Devil Wears Prada" -- Nicki Ledermann, Angel De Angelis
"Marie Antoinette" -- Jean-Luc Russier, Desiree Corridoni
"Pan's Labyrinth" -
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" -- Ve Neill, Martin Samuel
"The Queen" -- Daniel Phillips

Short animation film
"Dreams and Desires" - "Family Ties" -- Les Mills, Joanna Quinn
"Guy 101" -- Ian Gouldstone
"Peter and the Wolf" -- Hugh Welchman, Alan Dewhurst, Suzie Templeton

Short film
"Care" -- Rachel Bailey, Corinna Faith
"Cubs" -- Lisa Williams, Tom Harper
"Do Not Erase" -- Asitha Ameresekere
"Hikikomori" -- Karley Duffy, Paul Wright
"Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored" -- David Smith, Jim McRoberts

The Orange Rising Star Award
Emily Brunt
Eva Green
Naomie Harrie
Cillian Murphy
Ben Whishaw

Holadem · 01-12-2007, 02:00 PM

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THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR:
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"United 93"

United 93 is a british film? Weird. The AMPAS and BAFTA selection criteria must be quite different, since the film is a BP contender here (and thus considered a domestic picture).

In a global economy where films are often financed by more than one multi-national corporation and sometimes produced accross borders, determining the "nationality" of a picture can be a murky affair, I think.

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Vickie_M · 01-12-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Holadem

United 93 is a british film? Weird. The AMPAS and BAFTA selection criteria must be quite different, since the film is a BP contender here (and thus considered a domestic picture).

I don't get this. A film doesn't have to be domestic to be a Best Picture contender. I'm surprised that U93 is a British film too.

(off topic)

While it looks like the Guild thread is abandoned, I've decided to make it into a web page that can just be linked from now on. That way I can revive the old posts too as web pages (now I think I have most of them, dating from 2001, as text files, which I can html'ize). It's not as easy as changing the square brackets to angle brackets though. I have to add paragraphs and breaks and font sizes and whatnot, all in html. I know basic html so that's not a problem other than being tedious. Since I'll be doing the old lists too, I'm looking into style sheets as a way to get them to look uniform. But, oh god I hate style sheets, they're complicated and confusing and hard to learn, they take 3 times or more as much time to implement because you have to do much, MUCH more html than if you'd just done it normally. Every single thing has to have double the html. Intellectually I understand the benefits of style sheets, but emotionally it's like a ton of bricks on my head when I think about actually writing style sheets. The only reason I'm even considering style sheets is that it will, in the end, make everything look better, help with the multiple pages, and make things easier in the future.

I don't expect anyone to want to touch this, but if ANYONE, oh please oh please, has clarity on style sheets and wants to help, I'd be eternally greatful. If you look at the only Guild list that's still accessible at HTF in its entierty, 2006, it'd be a help to know what to put where. My brain is swimming in confusion about classes and spans and ids and divs. I understand most of the very very basic stuff (why linked as opposed to inline, .blah {blah; blah} but I have to figure out what works with what. What gets a div, what gets a class, what gets an id, what gets a span. You wouldn't have to do it, just help me know what to do. Or give me an example with one Guild, and I can use it as a template to do all the Guilds on all the years.

Pretty please, with superfine sugar on top?

Adam_S · 01-12-2007, 04:12 PM

Any eligible film is eligable for the AMPAS best picture regardless of country of origin. United 93's production companys were based in England (not sure if the studios financing it were american or not) so it's eligable for best British film.

hate to see the guild threads die, they were always so great Vicky! There just less and less interest on this board as we get further away from the three Lord of the Rings movies.

Holadem · 01-13-2007, 10:16 AM

Thanks for the clarification wrt to BP noms and country of origin - I don't know what I was thinking. Recent foreign BP noms are Life is beautiful and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and there is probably some british production I am forgetting.

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Vickie_M · 01-13-2007, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Adam_S

hate to see the guild threads die, they were always so great Vicky! There just less and less interest on this board as we get further away from the three Lord of the Rings movies.

2007 Hollywood Industry Guild Awards

It's not dead! Well, it kinda is, but not really. I've transferred everything over to a web page, and it's all up-to-date, with the following Guild nominations listed:

American Cinema Editors (ACE, The Eddies)
American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC)
Costume Designers Guild (CDG)
Directors Guild (DGA)
Producers Guild (PGA)
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Visual Effects Society (VES)
Writers Guild Of America (WGA)

I haven't yet started on the older text files, but I will. I also didn't do the links to IMDB pages. They're useful but they're also very time-consuming to do. I might tweak the colors and such (it looks very 1995, I know) but it's still a good, handy list. I'm not trying to be Sasha Stone (bless her heart).

Vickie

Adam_S · 01-17-2007, 01:03 PM

This year there has been a change to how the films in best foreign language film are nominated. In the first phase, all interested countries can submit one film for oscar qualification, this year there were 61. Then a panel of a couple hundred foreign film buffs in the academy takes a few months to view all 61. They fill out voting ballots on the 61 and the top of the herd are collected for the second phase. nine films survived this year. In the second phase, the nine films are screened again, this time for 10 random members of the first panel, plus two ten member foreign film committees (one in NY one in LA). These thirty people determine which of the final five films will be nominated.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Algeria, “Days of Glory,” Rachid Bouchareb, director
Canada, “Water,” Deepa Mehta, director
Denmark, “After the Wedding,” Susanne Bier, director
France, “Avenue Montaigne,” Daniele Thompson, director
Germany, “The Lives of Others,” Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director
Mexico, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Guillermo del Toro, director
The Netherlands, “Black Book,” Paul Verhoeven, director
Spain, “Volver,” Pedro Almodovar, director
Switzerland, “Vitus,” Fredi M. Murer, director

Days of Glory won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year. Pan's Labyrinth, Volver have a lot of buzz and commercial/critical success in the US (and will likely earn other nominations as well) and Black Book and the Lives of Others have a great deal of critical buzz and momentum, so those five could be considered the frontrunners of these nine. Though Water and After the Wedding both have the best potential to play spoiler for the frontrunners.

Adam

MatthewLouwrens · 01-17-2007, 07:02 PM

Yeah, but until they actually fully change the way they select Best Foreign Language Film, then the system is still messed up. I mean, the films are identified by their country, not by the foreign language that is the supposed basis for the nomination.

Thus we get the absurd situation where "Water" is identified as a Canadian film, which is true, but which creates the misleading impression it is a French-language film, when it's a film set in India, about Indian culture, in the Hindi language.

To say nothing of the fact that Apocalypto and Letters From Iwo Jima are obviously ineligible, even though they meet the only criteria suggested by the category title.