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Oscar 2007 Performers: Beyoncé, Melissa Etheridge, James Taylor

Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls

Oscar telecast producer Laura Ziskin has announced the show’s musical performers at the upcoming 2007 Academy Awards.
Beyoncé will perform “Listen” (music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler, lyric by Anne Preven), one of three Original Song nominees from the musical Dreamgirls.
Jennifer Hudson will be singing “Love You I Do” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Siedah Garrett), also from Dreamgirls.
Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, and other Dreamgirls cast members will perform “Patience” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Willie Reale).
Melissa Etheridge will perform “I Need to Wake Up” from the global-warming documentary feature An Inconvenient Truth. Etheridge wrote the music and lyric for the nominated song.
Accompanied by singer-guitarist James [...]

Oscar 2007 Presenters

Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

AMPAS has announced the — supposedly complete — roster of presenters at the upcoming Oscar ceremony, which will be held next Sunday, February 25, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
The updated list consists of: Ben Affleck, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jessica Biel, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz,Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., and Kirsten Dunst.

Also, Will Ferrell, Jodie Foster, Al Gore, Eva Green, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hugh Jackman, Diane Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Greg Kinnear, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, James McAvoy, Tobey Maguire,Clive Owen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jerry Seinfeld, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Meryl Streep, John [...]

Oscar 2007: “Shorts!” in New York City

Maestro by Geza M. Toth (top); West Bank Story by Ari Sandel (middle); Too Few of Us by Borja Cobeaga (bottom)

The New York City version of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ annual “Shorts!” program, featuring the year’s Oscar-nominated narrative short films, will be presented on Saturday, February 17, at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Academy Theater.
The screenings will be hosted by none other than Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter columnist, Turner Classic Movies host, and official biographer of the Academy Awards.
The screening films are:

Short Film (Animated)

The Danish Poet, Torill Kove, director (a Danish poet travels to Norway to meet a celebrated writer)
Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, director (alien abductor-in-training tries to get a sleeping farmer onto [...]

Oscar 2007: Makeup Symposium in Hollywood

Doug Jones in Pan’s Labyrinth (top); Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (middle); Christopher Walken in Click (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will for the first time present the 2007 Oscar nominees in the makeup category at a special symposium at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 24, at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The Makeup Symposium will be hosted by Makeup Branch Governor Leonard Engelman, whose film credits include The Witches of Eastwick, Batman Forever, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The event will screen clips of each nominated film, and audience members will be able to ask questions to the nominated makeup artists (subject to availability), who will also take part in a panel discussion.
The 2007 nominees for [...]

Oscar 2007: Helen Mirren and the Academy Luncheon

Following a wild — but unfulfilling (see how bored she looks?) — lifetime of food, sex, and murder, Helen Mirren settles down after being elected Queen of England.

More than 100 individuals nominated for the 2007 Oscars — including 16 of the 20 nominees in the acting categories — are expected to attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual nominees luncheon at noon on Monday, Feb. 5, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Among those who’ll have to mind their table manners are Leonardo DiCaprio, Peter O’Toole, Will Smith, Penélope Cruz, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Adriana Barraza, Abigail Breslin, Rinko Kikuchi, Alan Arkin, Mark Wahlberg, and Jackie Earle Haley. Plus directors Alejandro González Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, [...]

Oscar 2007: Nominated Shorts Screening

The Little Match Girl (top, © Disney Enterprises); West Bank Story (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the program "Shorts!," featuring the ten Academy Award nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories. The screening will be held on Tuesday, February 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Hosted by producer-director Taylor Hackford, who won an Oscar for the 1978 live action short Teenage Father, "Shorts!" will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
The screening films are:

Short Film (Animated)

The Danish Poet, Torill Kove, director (the tale of a Danish poet who travels to Norway to meet a celebrated writer)
Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, director [...]

Oscar 2007: Nominated Producers

Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine

Not everyone will fit into the 2007 Academy Award’s van.
The Academy’s Producers Branch Executive Committee has announced the final roster of producers nominated in this year’s Best Picture category. They are:

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin for Babel
Graham King for The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz for Letters from Iwo Jima
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub for Little Miss Sunshine
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward for The Queen

The nominees for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine were determined by the executive committee at a meeting held yesterday evening.
Even though up to three producers can [...]

Oscar 2007: Best Documentary Short, Animated Short

Oscar 2007: Best Cinematography, Music

Achievement in makeup
Apocalypto (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Click (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe

Best documentary short subject
* The Blood of Yingzhou District
A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Recycled Life
An Iwerks/Glad Production
Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream
A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Two Hands
A Crazy Boat Pictures Production
Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
Best animated short film
* The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada)
A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production
Torill Kove
Lifted (Buena Vista)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Gary Rydstrom
The Little Matchgirl (Buena Vista)
A Walt Disney Pictures Production
Roger Allers and Don Hahn
Maestro (Szimplafilm)
A Kedd Production
Geza M. Toth
No [...]

Oscar 2007: Best Cinematography, Music

Oscar 2007: Best Film, Acting

Achievement in cinematography
The Black Dahlia (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
Children of Men (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
The Illusionist (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
The Prestige (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister

Achievement in film editing
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Steven Rosenblum
Children of Men (Universal)
Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
* The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Thelma Schoonmaker
United 93 (Universal and StudioCanal)
Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
* "I Need [...]

Oscar 2007

2007 Academy Awards
2007 Academy Award nominations: January 23, 2007
2007 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on February 25, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: © AMPAS
 

Best motion picture of the year
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers
* The Departed (Warner Bros.)
A Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Graham King
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
A Granada Production
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

Best foreign language film of the year
After the Wedding [...]

Oscar 2007 Nominations: British Talent

Oscar 2007 Nominations: Part I
Among those foreign invaders from across the Atlantic are best direction nominees Stephen Frears (for The Queen, which is also up for a best film nod) and Paul Greengrass (for United 93); best actress nominees Helen Mirren (right, for The Queen), Kate Winslet (for Little Children), and Judi Dench (for Notes on a Scandal); best original screenplay nominee Peter Morgan (for The Queen); and best adapted screenplay nominees Patrick Marber (for Notes on a Scandal) and Sacha Baron Cohen (who co-wrote Borat).
Additionally, several non-British nationals got nominated for their work in British productions, e.g., Australian Cate Blanchett (best supporting actress nominee for Notes on a Scandal); American Forest Whitaker (best actor nominee for The Last King [...]

Oscar 2007 Nominations

Penélope Cruz told Academy members to vote for her — or else.
Pedro Almodóvar should have used the same vote-getting technique.

"There’s so many Mexicans!" exclaimed Mexican actress Salma Hayek, too excited to conjugate her verbs properly, upon announcing — along with Academy president Sid Ganis — some of the nominees for the 2007 Academy Awards.
Indeed. Best supporting actress nominee Adriana Barraza (for Babel); best direction nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu, who also happens to be one of the producers of best picture nominee Babel; best original screenplay nominee Guillermo del Toro, whose Pan’s Labyrinth was also nominated in the best foreign-language film category; best adapted screenplay nominee Alfonso Cuarón, one of the screenwriters of Children of Men (which he also directed — [...]

Oscar 2007: Best Foreign Language Semi-Finalists

Cécile De France in Avenue Montaigne (top); Mads Mikkelsen in After the Wedding (middle); Carice van Houten in The Black Book (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed down to nine titles the list of potential 2007 best foreign-language film nominees.
They are (listed in alphabetical order by country):

Algeria, Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb, director
Canada, Water, Deepa Mehta, director
Denmark, After the Wedding , Susanne Bier, director
France, Avenue Montaigne, Danièle Thompson, director
Germany, The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director
Mexico, Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, director
The Netherlands, Black Book, Paul Verhoeven, director
Spain, Volver, Pedro Almodóvar, director
Switzerland, Vitus, Fredi M. Murer, director

Though it may seem that the above films hail from all (or most) corners of the globe, [...]

Oscar 2007: Best Makeup Longlist

Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones in Pan’s Labyrinth (top); X-Men: The Last Stand (middle); Martin Short in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the seven films up for the 2007 best makeup Academy Award.
They are (in alphabetical order):

Apocalypto
Click
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Prestige
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
X-Men: The Last Stand

On Saturday, Jan. 20, the Academy’s Makeup Award Nominating Committee will view ten-minute excerpts from each of the listed films. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate three [...]

Oscar 2007 Poster

© A.M.P.A.S.
Chico—Diane—Heaven!
Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
I vant to be alohhhn.
None of the above quotes, all three from movies nominated for a best picture Academy Award — the last quote actually comes from an Oscar-winning film — are to be found in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ poster celebrating the 2007 Academy Awards. You will, however, find no less than two quotes from the dreary 1996 comedy-drama Jerry Maguire.
Jerry Maguire, after all, was directed by Cameron Crowe, and it stars Tom Cruise and Renée Zellweger, all three, for better or for worse, still very much in evidence. Indeed, even today you can hear people at dinner parties [...]

Oscar 2007: Visual Effects Longlist

Eragon (top); Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum (middle); Poseidon (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that seven films are "in consideration" for the 2007 visual effects Academy Award.
They are:
Casino Royale
Eragon
Night at the Museum
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns
X-Men: The Last Stand
Apparently, the visual effects found in Pan’s Labyrinth weren’t considered special enough.
On January 17, the Academy’s Visual Effects Award nominating committee will watch 15-minute excerpts from each of the seven films. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate three films for the 2007 Oscar.
 

Oscar 2007: Sherry Lansing to Receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Sherry Lansing, the former Paramount chairman and an advocate for cancer research, has been voted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Lansing will receive the award at the 2007 Academy Awards ceremony on February 25, 2007.
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is named after Danish-born actor Jean Hersholt, who played leads and top supporting roles in Hollywood movies from the 1920s to the 1940s, among them Erich von Stroheim’s Greed, D. W. Griffith’s The Battle of the Sexes, Edmund Goulding’s Academy Award winner Grand Hotel, and George Cukor’s Dinner at 8.
In the late 1930s, Hersholt helped to form the Motion Picture Relief Fund, an organization [...]

Oscar 2007: Ennio Morricone to Receive Honorary Academy Award

Over his 45-year career, prolific composer-conductor Ennio Morricone has created more than 500 scores for both films and television — including my all-time favorite movie score, the Once Upon a Time in the West ballad.
He will finally be given his Oscar due on February 25, 2007, when he’ll be picking up an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to film art. More than a film composer, Morricone has been frequently the lone savior of poor films made bearable — at times even memorable — merely because of his compositions.
Thus far, Morricone has earned five Academy Award nominations for original score — for Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991) and Malena [...]

Oscar 2007: Best Song Longlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 56 songs will be considered in the original song category for the 2007 Academy Awards.
On Tuesday, January 16, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for Music Branch voting members in both Beverly Hills and New York City.
According to the Academy’s press release, "to be eligible, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the film. A clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody must be used in the body of the film or as the first music cue in the end credit."
As to be expected, a number of songs from animated [...]

Oscar 2007: Foreign-Language Film Submissions

Fifty years after the creation of the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award category, a record 61 countries have submitted films for consideration for the 79th Academy Awards. As per the Academy’s press release, Kazakhstan appears to be the sole newcomer. (Addendum: It isn’t. Kazakhstan submitted Ardak Amirkulov’s Gibel Otrara / The Fall of Otrar back in 1992. I found a mention of this on The Film Experience. The Academy confirmed Kazakhstan’s 1992 submission.)
Among the entries are Rolf de Heer’s Ten Canoes (Australia), filmed in the indigenous language of Ganalbingu, and the winner of the Special Jury Prize of the "Un Certain Regard" sidebar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival; Jasmila Zbanic’s Berlin Film Festival winner Grbavica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the [...]

Oscar 2007: VOLVER, TEN CANOES Submitted

Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, winner of the Best Screenplay Award and of an ensemble Best Actress Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has been chosen as Spain’s submission for the 2006 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award.
The family drama stars Penélope Cruz and Lola Dueñas as sisters whose mother’s ghost (played by Almodóvar veteran Carmen Maura) shows up so as to bury the (figuratively speaking) ghosts of the past.
Volver was up against Agustín Díaz Yanes‘ swashbuckling historical drama Alatriste, starring Viggo Mortensen, and Manuel Huerga’s Salvador, the story of a young Catalonian anarchist and bank robber played by Daniel Brühl.
Almodóvar has already won two Oscars. Todo sobre mi madre / All About My Mother (in which Cruz co-starred) was chosen the [...]

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