DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Talking Points: What Do You Think of the 80th Annual Oscar Nominations?

  • Ryan Ilcisko · 1 year ago
    daniel day has that award in the bag, nobody is even close.
  • Jim in Ky · 1 year ago
    Best Pic (and yes, I've seen them all): No Country. Blood will be honored only via best actor for Lewis to rightly reward that pic's strength. Juno is this year's Little Miss Sunshine and/or Sideways, wasn't worthy of BP nomination and its too young and psuedo-hip for the Academy to vote for it. Atonement's support seems soft absent a Best Director nomination, but might contend as the only nominal "chick flick" with the superficial Academy voters who might not look past the Jane Austen-style feelgood to the murk at the bottom of this film's garden fountain. oOf the five Best Actress nominees I have only seen Ellen Page's dismissable performance (hope they seat her with the chickie from Atonement and Anna Paquin from "The Piano"), but the Disease Portrayal rule plus Lifetime Achievement sympathy would seem to favor Julie Christie here, but a friend of mine who saw Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose raved about her performance and said she'd contend. I haven't seen enough Supporting performances to have a good read, but I'm pulling for Hal Holbrook and Ruby Dee. Director, Anderson unexpectedly noses out the Coens. Adapted screenplay, NCFOM. Original screenplay, MC. All the technical awards it's nominated for go to Blood. See you Oscar night!