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The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

IKnowThings — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:32:38 PST

Keillor didn't write it by himself, Ken Lezebnik (or something like that) adapted the story for a screenplay. But your point is right on. Borat was basically a betterand longer episode of "Punked", as far as writing goes.

IKnowThings

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Gallant Patsy — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:28:46 PST

If the Director goes to Scorsese, I can live with the karmic balance. Directing Meryl in Prada? "Ms. Streep, just be the bitchiest you can possibly be. Action!" Maybe it was just me, but that movie was just so Not Very Good. Ugly Betty is much more fun, frankly.
Garrison Keilor adapts his own story as a screenplay. And Borat's 4 writers gets an adapted nomination. For a slightly relocated 90 minute Polish/Newfie/Redneck joke. I share the shock, readsforaliving.

Gallant Patsy

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

IKnowThings — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:54:53 PST

I was wondering about A Prairie Home Companion too. If The Devil Wears Prada wouldn't have come out at the same time, I think Meryl would have gotten nominated for APHC. Also, I would think they would give Bob Altman a nom for best director, because he died and all. That's usually how it works. Perhaps there are so many good directors this year that the nod to Bob wasn't possible, in light of the fact that he got his lifetime achivement award last year? I thought maybe Bill Condin would at least get in- directing a musical is hard, yo. I guess the question is moot anyway- that Oscar is going to Marty Scorsese.

IKnowThings

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Transuranic — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:38:01 PST

Forest Whitaker for the win.

And the Special Academcy Recognition of Sexiest Bunching of Jaw Muscles Oscar goes to... Clive Owen. (See also: The Croupier.)

Transuranic

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Amphiuma — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:12:28 PST

Little Miss Sunshine is so overrated. All we can hope for, and look forward to, is Abigail Breslin's next performance in Hounddog II...

Amphiuma

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Cutting Makes You Sexy — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:47:37 PST

Does anyone else think that the older Harrison Ford gets, the more he looks like Brian Doyle-Murray from Groundhog Day?

Oh, and never mind the whimsicle irony of Selma Hayek's stylist making her up to look exactly like a Groundhog.

Cutting Makes You Sexy

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

HoHoKennedy — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:40:55 PST

What in the Fuck Fuck Fuck?? Little Miss Sunshine? This nomination will only encourage more posery. No indie qualification here - It's a very shitty film. Hey, How about a Life achievment award to Robert Osborne for those great three-minutes intros.

HoHoKennedy

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

raincoaster — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:33:27 PST

Little Miss Sunshine deserved a nomination if only for making Steve Carell look so damn hawt!

raincoaster

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

phil anderson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:33:30 PST

That's Harrison Ford? I thought it was Clint Eastwood...

phil anderson

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

valet_of_the_dolls — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:58:37 PST

"Post-Crash"?

Gen X, that's only the most recent example I can think of. The Oscars, like most other big award shows, are celebrations of commercial achievement, with the occasional nod to artistic merit.

valet_of_the_dolls

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Readsforaliving — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:38:19 PST

BORAT had a script???!!!

Readsforaliving

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

franklio — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:40:05 PST

little ms. sunshine = indie movie by numbers. yaawwwwn.

children of men = genius.

franklio

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Reason — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:29:27 PST

OK, Salma Hayek looks bad, but Harrison Ford looks like he's cleaning up his act a little.

Reason

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

The Gen X Eurotrash Jetsetter Club — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:08:33 PST

I didn't realize people still cared about Oscar nominations in the post-Crash world. I just think of it as that really big fashion show where there will be at least one totally hot guy reading off some names, but probably not more than two totally hot guys.

The Gen X Eurotrash Jetsetter Club

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Snowflake — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:48:50 PST

Anyone who thinks Little Miss Sunshine is "deep" and works on "many levels" needs to see it again while sober.

Snowflake

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Flashman — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:31:39 PST

Leonardo di Caprio's South African accent is about as convincing as Madonna's 'English' one. Brutal.

And yeah, Little Miss Sunshine - wtf?

Flashman

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Gallant Patsy — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:01:04 PST

Here's one from left field, but I really thought there would have been something for A Prairie Home Companion. Especially when they could have still nominated Meryl. More laughs in a movie about death than there were in Devil Wears Prada... plus I didn't have to look at Adrian Grenier's chronic case of Unshaved Camryn Manheim Face in the Altman movie.

At least an award for the person who put the cerlox-bound Johnson Sisters Cookbook in the corner of the shot in the balcony bar.

Y'all remember him, right? Altman, Robert Altman.

Sigh.

Gallant Patsy

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

mr hotpants — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:11:18 PST

I finally saw "Notes on a Scandal" this weekend...and holy fucking shit its amazing. I hate to say it, but my Oscar fav is Judi Dench's crazy lesbian school marm over Helen Miren's rack.

...and speaking of lesbians, its awesome that Melissa Ethride was nominated for best Song; however, I thought they limited the number of song noms to 3 and this year there are 5 (three of which are from Dreamgirls).

mr hotpants

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

LittleMissPartlyCloudy — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:42:30 PST

Little Miss Sunshine : Best Picture :: Borat : Foreign Language Film

LittleMissPartlyCloudy

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Sulky Girl — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:30:48 PST

Finally, Jackie Earle Haley for best supporting. He was totally robbed for "Losin' It".

Sulky Girl

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

picardia — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:27:57 PST

Jack Nicholson's nomination is where it belongs: in the imagination. Seriously, that was the one thing virtually every critic/viewer I talked to hated about "The Departed" -- Jack hamming it up like crazy. The fact that the Academy didn't drool all over that is yet another sign of this year's surprising nominations sanity.

picardia

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Sailor — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:13:42 PST

to reiterate, where is jack nicholson in the best actor category?

leo got the right nomination, but for the wrong movie.

everyone quit whining about "little miss"...it worked on many more levels than "babel" and of course was not as terminally depressing as the forever *overlooked* "children of men."

and "dreamgirls" not being nominated confirms there is a god, kind of like the outcome of tonight's state of the union address.

finally, paul greengrass for best director? please.

just give it to scorcese and let's settle up on this one once and for all.

Sailor

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Jonny Bronson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:01:29 PST

What are the odds that two different guys named "Guillermo" would ever be nominated concurrently in a category other than "Best Foreign Language Film"?

Jonny Bronson

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

guitarsnob — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:00:22 PST

Wait....that's not....OMG...It IS Salma Hayek.
I didn't recognize her without her tits being pushed up somewhere around her chin.

guitarsnob

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

BK_KT — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:58:23 PST

And the award for most pervasive promotional campaign goes to Fox Searchlight for hawking that yellow school bus for 6 months. Your prize is a Best Picture nom.

jordo- Jack spent the 2 1/2 hours of the Departed being Wacky Jack, there was not a shred of acting in that performance.

BK_KT

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

femstix — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:51:24 PST

Man I was thinking...damn "Jima" for best pic? Wait. Who'd it push out to get in? hmm....babel's there, the queen, dreamgi-holy fuck dreamgirls got snubbed! That seriously made my morning - if only because we'll get to hear Beyonce's dad whine again.

I don't think little miss sunshine is a suprise, it's the overrated, under funded, 'deep' comedy...don't we have one of these every year?

femstix

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

IKnowThings — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:49:12 PST

Salma Hayek? That picture looks like Suzanne Pleshette.

IKnowThings

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

jordo_83 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:47:19 PST

I'll take more movies like "Little Miss Sunshine" any day of the week. Especially if no one ever makes anything like Babel ever again. Slow, pointless, and indifferent, where do I sign up?

And where in the fuck is Jack's nomination?

jordo_83

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

BK_KT — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:45:33 PST

Kerry, Children of Men also got nommed for Best Cinematography, which it better effin win OR ELSE!

BK_KT

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

whoneedslight — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:44:44 PST

I was seriously pulling for Marilyn Hack.

whoneedslight

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

picardia — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:41:43 PST

See, I thought "Little Miss Sunshine" was very funny and wonderfully acted, while I spent most of "Dreamgirls" thinking that there was no reason a movie with this much talent and that much music should drag so badly. But mileage will vary.

My main question about all of this is what the hell happened to Salma Hayek's hair. And her dress. It's like she aged 30 years and gained 20 pounds since the Golden Globes. Maybe this is her version of bedhead?

picardia

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

kerry — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:39:40 PST

While I'm stoked that Ryan Gosling got a nod for "Half Nelson," I'm seriously annoyed that "Children of Men" got nothing but a best adapted screenplay nomination. Seriously, man, that was on of the best movies I've seen in years. No best director nomination? No best actor? None of it? Gah!

kerry

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

TheStarterWife — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:38:47 PST

I know Mintz, I feel the same way. I adore Little Miss Sunshine, but a nom over Dreamgirls is crazy.

Oh, and Mark Wahlborg, if he was going to be nominated for anything, should have been for Invincible.

Quick! Name more than three people that saw, Letters from Iwo Jima!

TheStarterWife

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

invalid-username — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:29:24 PST

Helen Mirren in footy pj'. YUM!

Ok and I know that we don't have the full list, but peruse the best makeup nominees ... people made up like an ancient race on the brink of extinction, check ....crazy alice in wonderland, salvador dali type stuff, check ... CLICK? Um no, seriously, CLICK!!!

invalid-username

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

JudgeFudge — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:26:40 PST

Little Miss Sunshine is about as fresh and original as an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond".

JudgeFudge

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

TedSez — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:21:45 PST

The Academy sure does love the ladies with foreign accents.

TedSez

The Oscar Nominations: And We're Telling You 'Dreamgirls' Is Not Going To Win Best Picture

Little Mintz Sunshine — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:08:20 PST

"Little Miss Sunshine"?? Seriously? WTF? Don't get me wrong, it was very cute and all but, seriously, wtf?

Given this, "Thank You For Smoking" got screwed.

Little Mintz Sunshine