Official Oscar Nominations and Discussion Thread (1 Viewer)

OK, here we go with the announcement...

Sup Actress: Barraza, Blanchett, Breslin, Hudson, Kikuchi

Sup Actor: Arkin, Haley!!, Hounsou, Murphy, Wahlberg

Actress: Cruz, Dench, Mirren, Streep, Winslet (Duh)

Actor: DiCaprio (Diamond)!, Gosling, O'Toole, Smith, Whitaker

Director: Gonzales Innaritu, Scorsese, Eastwood, Frears, Greengrass!!

Orig. Screenplay: Babel, Iwo Jima, LMS, Pan's, Queen

Adap Screenplay: Borat, Children Of Men, Departed, Little Children, Notes On a Scandal

Foreign: After The Wedding, Days of Glory, Lives of Others, Pan's, Water

Animated: Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House

BP: Babel, Departed, Iwo Jima, LMS, Queen

WOW!! No Dreamgirls!! No Condon. Clint came in and spoiled just like I suspected.

Volver passed over for Foreign...

Greengrass gets the Director nod, as I hoped all along.

Two acting noms for Blood Diamond..

beat me too it craig, I'm big time surprised by Dreamgirls missing best picture and director and Letters from iwo jima coming through with three big ones.

Note that the three caballeros were ALL nominated for screenplay

The oscar nominations for films produced and released in 2006 (to be awarded in February 2007) are:

BEST PICTURE
Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio - BLOOD DIAMOND
Ryan Gosling - HALF NELSON
Peter O'Toole - VENUS
Will Smith - PUSUIT OF HAPPYNESS
Forest Whitaker - LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Arkin - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Jackie Earle Haley - LITTLE CHILDREN
Djimon Honsou - BLOOD DIAMOND
Eddie Murphy - DREAMGIRLS
Mark Wahlberg - THE DEPARTED

BEST ACTRESS
Penélope Cruz - VOLVER
Judi Dench - NOTES ON A SCANDAL
Helen Mirren - THE QUEEN
Meryl Streep - DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Kate WINSLET - LITTLE CHILDREN

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Adrianna Baraza - BABEL
Cate Blanchett - NOTES ON A SCANDAL
Abigail Breslin - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Jennifer Hudson - DREAMGIRLS
Rinko Kikuchi - BABEL

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
CARS - John Lassetar
HAPPY FEET - George Miller
MONSTER HOUSE - Gil Kenan

ART DIRECTION
DREAMGIRLS - John Mayer, Nancy Haigh
THE GOOD SHEPHERD - Jeannie Oppewaal, Gretchen Rau, Leslie E. Rollins
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Rick Heinrichs, Cheryl A Carasik
THE PRESTIGE- Nathan Crowley, Julie Ochipinti

CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE BLACK DAHLIA - Vilmos Zsigmond
CHILDREN OF MEN - Emmanuel Lubeski
THE ILLUSIONIST- Dick Pope
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo Navarro
THE PRESTIGE - Wally Pfister

COSTUME DESIGN
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER - Yee Chung Man
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Patricia Field
DREAMGIRLS - Sharen Davis
MARIE ANTOINETTE - Milena Canonero
THE QUEEN - Consolata Boyle

BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood - LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
Stephen Frears - THE QUEEN
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu - BABEL
Paul Greengrass - UNITED 93
Martin Scorsese - THE DEPARTED

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Deliver us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

EDITING
BABEL - Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise
BLOOD DIAMOND- Steven Rosenblum
CHILDREN OF MEN - Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Cuarón
THE DEPARTED- Thelma Schoonmaker
UNITED 93- Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, Richard Pearson

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Denmark - AFTER THE WEDDING
Algeria - DAYS OF GLORY
Germany - LIVES OF OTHERS
Mexico - PAN'S LABYRINTH
Canada - WATER

MAKEUP
APOCALYPTO - Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano
CLICK - Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
PAN'S LABYRINTH - David Marti and Montse Ribe

MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
Gustavo Santaolalla - BABEL
Thomas Newman - The GOOD GERMAN
Philip Glass - NOTES ON A SCANDAL
Javier Navarette - PAN'S LABYRINTH
Alexandre Desplat - THE QUEEN

MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
"I need to Wake up" - An Inconvenient Truth
"Listen" - Dreamgirls
"Love You I Do" - Dreamgirls
"Our Town" - Cars
"Patience" - Dreamgirls

SOUND EDITING
APOCALYPTO - Sean McCormack, Kami Asgar
BLOOD DIAMOND- Lon Bender
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS- Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA - Alan Robert Murray
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Christopher Boyes, George Watters II

SOUND MIXING
APOCALYPTO- Kevin O' Connell, Greg P. Russell, Fernando Camara
BLOOD DIAMOND- Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ivan Sharrock
DREAMGIRLS - Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie Burton
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS - John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST- Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes, Lee Orloff

VISUAL EFFECTS
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall
POSEIDON - Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett, John Frazier
SUPERMAN RETURNS - Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover, Jon Thum

BEST WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BORAT - Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer
CHILDREN OF MEN - Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
THE DEPARTED - William Monahan
LITTLE CHILDREN - Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Patrick Marber

BEST WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BABEL - Guillermo Arriaga
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA - Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Michael Arndt
PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo del Toro
THE QUEEN - Peter Morgan

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ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Binta and the Great Idea (Binta y la gran idea)
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

Totals (films with more than one nomination):

Dreamgirls - 8

Babel - 7

Pan's Labyrinth - 6
The Queen - 6

Blood Diamond - 5
The Departed - 5

Letters From Iwo Jima - 4
Little Miss Sunshine - 4
Notes on a Scandal - 4
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 4

Apocalypto - 3
Children of Men - 3
Little Children - 3

Cars - 2
The Devil Wears Prada - 2
Flags of Our Fathers - 2
An Inconvenient Truth - 2
The Prestige - 2
United 93 - 2

more to follow as fast as I can type them up nicely, yes alphabetically it goes Gonzalez Innaritu then Greengrass becuase that's the proper last name, please never shorten it to just Innaritu, it is very incorrect to do so.

Yeah, the Dreamgirls express had derailed worse than I thought.

I said it last night - the Academy LOVES Clint.

The Best Picture race is WIDE open...

Almost as shocking as Dreamgirls being out of BP is Volver out of Foreign, expecially since Cruz had a lock on a nomination for months.

Got to go look for the complete list.

After seeing both, Dreamgirls and Letters from Iwo Jima there is little doubt in my mind that the latter was a better film.




Crawdaddy

Can't find the complete list (not up at the Oscar site yet), but Dreamgirls has 8 total noms, Babel 7, The Queen & Pan's Labyrinth 6 apiece.

OK, the list is up here:

http://www.oscars.com/nominees/?pn=list

OK, three of Dreamgirls 8 noms are for Best Song!

Ok this sudden Babel love has me a bit uneasy when it comes to Scorsese winning, but I still think he is the front runner.

The Dreamgirl smackdown is funny. Really funny.

I don't doubt that's true (haven't had a chance to see LfIJ yet), I just assumed it would knock one of the other contenders out.

Wow! What happened to "Children of Men"? Almost completely shut-out of the major except for screenplay (which I thought was it's weakest part).

Looks like another year of me being disappointed during the Oscars (That makes three years straight :frowning

Paul Greengrass gets some love! Thank God! The Babel love is interesting and might spell some trouble for Marty. And, once again, there's the man, Clint in the game....

Bummed by the CoM's shutout in best director/picture, but I didn't think there was enough support for the little film that could, so not surprised, just disappointed (especially since I don't get all the love LMS is getting, even now, 6 months after its theatrical release).

I'm surprised that Babel got so many noms, I guess Hollywood isn't tired of the fractured narrative storytelling device yet. I guess it being the "International" version of Crash helped.

Dreamgirls didn't deserve a BP or BD nom because there were more worthy nominees this year in those categories.

If Scorsese gets his BD oscar, I think it's going to be for body of work because amongst the 5 nominees this year, I'd rank his effort in "The Departed" only 3rd (Eastwood and Greengrass over Scorsese).

And this is kind of the part that bothers me. It kind coming almost out of nowhere in the exact same way could doom other films.

I'm surprised at the surprise over CoM. That film, as good as it was, was never in the race. I think they released it too late.

And Babel didn't come out of nowhere - it's been a front-runner for months.

Ok out of nowhere is the wrong way of putting it. Though frontrunner is a strong word, it almost felt as if it was on the side watching whether Dreamgirls, The Departed, or whatever Eastwood film got nominated was going to take it.

Now all of a sudden it feels like it is in third postion and moving up rapidly. Kind of how Crash picked up a insane amount of momentum from January on.

Of the films nominated for Best Picture, Babel is the traditional frontrunner by virtue of having the most nominations of the best Picture candidates.

I disagree, I think it was one of the year's best films, but clearly the academy didn't think so. :p

I agree Babel felt weakened in December. But then it started picking up awards & noms. It was clear after the GG win last week it was as strong as ever.

With Dreamgirls out, and The Departed suddenly weakened (only 5 noms, no nod for Jack, DiCaprio nominated for Blood Diamond), I would have to say Babel is the front-runner for BP right now.

3 noms for Children of Men! Yay!

No Best Picture for Dreamgirls? Boo!

So many noms for the overrated Pan's Labyrinth and Babel. Boo!

Mark instead of Jack for The Departed! Yay!

No love for Verhoeven (Black Book) in foreign film? Boo!

Jackie Earl Haley and Eddie Murphy for Supporting Actor! Yay!

3 noms for Apocalypto! Yay!

Again, no Best Picture for Dreamgirls?!? Boo!

Looks like a pretty unpredictable Oscars year in some of these major categories. I thought somebody mentioned this on the previous discussions thread, maybe in the context of one of the other awards shows so far this year--the five nominees for best picture and the five nominees for best cinematography have NO overlap between them. Is this the first time that's ever happened at the Oscars? I'm guessing that it is. I'll have to try and check now.