Grizzly: Thumbs Up: • Academy Award Winner Martin Scorsese. • The best film of the five Best Picture nominees won! • Alan Arkin upsetting Eddie Murphy! • The Lives of Others for Foreign Language Film. • Marie Antoinette for Costume Design. • Dreamgirls shut out of the Original Song category. • An Inconvenient Truth taking [...]
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Thoughts on Oscar + Final Predictions!
Published February 25th, 2007 in Commentary and Predictions. 1 CommentGrizzly: So, Aurens, I’m gonna cut straight to the chase and ask you; what’s your prediction for Best Picture and why? Aurens: At this point, I think I should just spin the bottle and kiss whatever film it points to. WHO THE HELL KNOWS? I used to think Babel got it in the bag, but [...]
Oscar snubs are more often than not of the horrible kind - great works overlooked for more middling affairs seems like the norm. However, we often forget that Oscars also makes some smart decisions (we’ll talk as though it is of one mind, even when it really is just a voting body). This year, that [...]
Let me just say, HOLY MACARONI! The Academy sure threw us more than a few curveballs this year! Here are some quick thumbs up and thumbs down picks and category-by-category comments (Aurens’ comments in green): Thumbs Up: • Yay for pleasant surprises in general! • Paul Greengrass, Best Director! • Three nominations for Children of [...]
Oscar Fashion, Fashionably Late
Published March 1st, 2007 in All Things Oscar and Commentary. 0 CommentsI’m feeling lazy so I’ll do a mini run down of the Oscars fashion. The big trend this year seems to be all about straight hair, dark lipstick, skinny ties and one shoulder dresses. Without further ado, here is the fashion run down. Queen of the night: Nicole Kidman. All I can say is, dayamm. [...]