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Oscar Noms + Snubs
January 23, 2008
While it's sadly still premature to plan on having that annual drunken Oscar party this year, the nominations still made it out to the world yesterday. There were a lot of expected noms, (Daniel Day-Lewis, No Country for Old Men, Atonement,) and a few surprises, (Juno! Casey Affleck! Ruby Dee?) but the fun part is always the snubs. And there were many this year. Here's our roundup of the most glaring oversights:
Best Actor:
Brad Pitt, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
John Cusack, Grace is Gone
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson’s War
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
James McAvoy, Atonement
Denzel Washington, American Gangster
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Russell Crowe, American Gangster or 3:10 to Yuma
Best Actress:
Keira Knightley, Atonement
Julia Roberts, Charlie Wilson’s War
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Halle Berry, Things We Lost in the Fire
Meryl Streep, Evening, Rendition, and/or Lions For Lambs
Keri Russell, Waitress
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd
Jodie Foster, The Brave One
Markéta Irglová, Once
Best Picture:
Lust, Caution
Eastern Promises
In the Valley of Elah
Charlie Wilson’s War
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd
3:10 to Yuma
American Gangster
Best Director:
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
Joe Wright, Atonement
Ridley Scott, American Gangster
The Unsung Ten
January 03, 2008
The year-end critics’ lists seem to all be filled with movies about men with dust on their shoes and evil on their mind--There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of What’s-His-Face in Yuma. I’ve been meaning to see all those films but haven’t gotten around to seeing a single one yet. In the meantime, here—in no particular order--are ten movies that I had a ball at this year that I’ve seen practically no one’s Best of ’07 list.
THE TV SET
David Duchovny plays a TV writer/producer going through the soul-crushing ritual of pilot season. Sigourney Weaver plays a shallow network exec and everything that comes out of her mouth makes me howl. She says things like, “Your show is very original, but frankly, original scares me.” I saw this in a theater with a number of TV writers who had lived the horror close-up. I think a few of them were openly weeping.
ZODIAC
Why didn’t this movie get more attention? It was so creepy, atmospheric and engrossing. It reminded me of those classic 70’s movies like All the President’s Men and The Conversation. It started out as kind of serial-killer-on-the-loose thriller then evolved into this fascinating character study. Plus, we got Jake Gyllenhaal and 70’s fashions. That’s a win-win in my book.
SHOWBUSINESS: THE ROAD TO BROADWAY
This is a all-access behind-the-scenes documentary following the journey of four Broadway shows from the 2004 season: Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change and Taboo. You get to see Kristen Chenoweth being nice in rehearsal (she’s sweet onstage and on!), a gaggle of asshole critics sitting around being asshole critics, Rosie O’Donnell and Boy George having drama, and the underdogs of Avenue Q triumphing over the seasoned vets of Wicked at the Tonys. I wish there was a movie like this made about every theater season.
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