Moviefone and Oscar Guessing
AOL Moviefone offers an amalgam of Oscar predictions from all over the blogosphere — including Alt Film Guide — on their website.
The best picture and best director categories are dominated by No Country for Old Men (above) and its directors, Joel and Ethan Coen.
Daniel Day-Lewis (for There Will Be Blood) and Julie Christie (for Away from Her) are shoo-ins for best actor and best actress, respectively.
Curiously, Javier Bardem — as much a best supporting actor shoo-in as can be for his performance as a cold-blooded killer in No Country for Old Men — is shown losing out to Hal Holbrook (for Into the Wild) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (for Charlie Wilson’s War) in a couple of cases.
Charles Ferguson’s No [...]
by Andre Soares | February 20, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julie Christie, Moviefone, No Country for Old Men, No End in Sight, Oscar Predictions, Ratatouille, The Counterfeiters
Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Language Film, Documentary, Animated Film
Best Film: No Country for Old Men
Until late last week, things were still somewhat murky in the best film race. No Country for Old Men (above, with Tommy Lee Jones) and There Will Be Blood were the front-runners, while Juno was the fluffy dark horse that could potentially tip the scale against the heavy-drama heavyweights. But after its SAG best ensemble and DGA wins, No Country for Old Men, about a drug deal gone murderously wrong, has become the official front-runner.
Best Foreign Language Film: Katyn (Poland)
As I’ve said before, this is the toughest feature-film category to predict. None of the five nominees — Beaufort, 12, The Counterfeiters, Mongol, and Katyn — has been widely reviewed in the United States.
I’d [...]
by Andre Soares | January 29, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Andrzej Wajda, Brad Bird, Charles Ferguson, Film Awards, Joel and Ethan Coen, Katyn, No Country for Old Men, No End in Sight, Oscar Predictions, Ratatouille
National Society of Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2008 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 5, 2008
The numbers in parentheses represent the points earned by each individual/film.
Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Picture
There Will Be Blood (48) – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) – Julian Schnabel
No Country for Old Men (27) – Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Foreign-Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) – Cristian Mungiu
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) – Julian Schnabel
Persepolis (18) – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (47) – There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen (29) – No Country for Old Men
Julian [...]
by Andre Soares | January 6, 2008
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Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Casey Affleck, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, Julie Christie, National Society of Film Critics Awards, No End in Sight, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Language Film
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
I haven’t been following too closely the debates about who will or won’t be nominated for the 2008 Academy Awards, though a few front-runners — No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Ratatouille, Joel and Ethan Coen, Daniel Day-Lewis, Julie Christie, George Clooney, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page — have become rather obvious after U.S. critics, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the Screen Actors Guild began announcing their winners and/or nominees.
That said, I have also read here and there comments on how this film, that star, or that sound technician (joke) will fare in the voting.
The list below is incomplete and quite likely not all that accurate. The only reason [...]
by Andre Soares | January 3, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Into the Wild, Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men, No End in Sight, Oscar Predictions, The Orphanage, There Will Be Blood
VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett
VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Part I
Best Supporting Actor:
1 Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
2 Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3 Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
4 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
5 Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
6 Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
7 Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
8 Max von Sydow, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9 Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn
10 Christopher Mintz-Plasse, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2008
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Tags: Away from Her, Cate Blanchett, Critics Choices, Film Awards, Javier Bardem, No End in Sight, Secret Sunshine