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Oscar predictions..
« on: February 25, 2007, 12:19:25 PM »
My picks for the key categories..

Best supporting actor - Eddie Murphy
Best supporting actress - Jennifer Hudson
Best actor - Forest Whitaker
Best actress - Helen Mirren
Best director - Martin Scorcese
Best Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth (no cigar for Water!!)
Best Picture - Little Miss Sunshine

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Predict away ..
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2007, 12:52:51 PM »
Quote from: losingnow on February 25, 2007, 12:19:25 PM
My picks for the key categories..

Best supporting actor - Eddie Murphy
Best supporting actress - Jennifer Hudson
Best actor - Forest Whitaker
Best actress - Helen Mirren
Best director - Martin Scorcese
Best Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth (no cigar for Water!!)
Best Picture - Little Miss Sunshine

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Predict away ..

Best supporting actor - Eddie Murphy
Best supporting actress - Jennifer Hudson
Best actor - Forrest Whitaker-But I guess Leo Di Caprio deserves it but will yet again lose to a black guy
Best actress - Helen Mirren
Best director - Martin Scorcese
Best Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth (no cigar for Water!!)
Best Picture - Little Miss Sunshine

I agree with the rest.
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2007, 04:25:15 PM »

I agree with all your predictions LN. I do however think that Penelope Cruz has an outside chance for best actress for Volver, and Peter O'Toole could pull off a sentimental upset in the best actor category. I will be absolutely furious if Scorcese does not win. I am, frankly, a bit worried about that. Being a die hard New Yorker, he is considered something of an outsider in Hollywood. That is, Marty does not have time all year round to do some wining and dining with academy voters. Many consider him to be a snob. While this stupid attitude should not come in the way of judging art, it has repeatedly come in the way of Scorcese in his glittering career. It is a shame for Hollywood that they overlooked, for the most stupid and parochial of reasons, films like Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Goodfellas.
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2007, 04:29:49 PM »
sudzz..think Whitaker deserves to win it for The Last King of Scotland..he's brilliant in that movie...can't understand how DiCaprio was nominated for Blood Diamond...it was a good movie..but he wasn't that brilliant...think he may have had a better shot for The Departed...
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2007, 05:46:44 PM »
my predictions:


Best Actor - Forest Whitaker
Best Supporting Actor - Eddie Murphy
Best Actress - Meryl Streep (taking one hell of an outside shot here)
Best Supporting Actress - Abigail Breslin (lil miss sunshine)
Best Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Picture - The Departed
Best Director - Martin Scorsese
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2007, 10:21:03 PM »
Who I think should win (based on current performances never mind history)...

Best supporting actor - Jackie Earle Haley
Best supporting actress - I really liked them all a LOT...any of them can win and I will be happy.
Best actor - Ryan Gosling
Best actress - Helen Mirren
Best director - Paul Greengrass
Best Foreign Language Film - After The Wedding
Best Picture - Babel

Who I think will win  :-\...

Best supporting actor - Eddie Murphy
Best supporting actress - Jennifer Hudson
Best actor - Peter O'Toole
Best actress - Cate Blanchett
Best director - Martin Scorcese
Best Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Picture - Letters From Iwo Jima

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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2007, 02:25:13 AM »
Alan Arkin takes best supporting actor
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2007, 02:40:53 AM »
pan's labyrinth looks set to take a mini-sweep. it's won 2 out of 2 so far (art direction and makeup) and has 4 to go. i predict it will win best foreign language and best Score.
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2007, 03:55:39 AM »
Quote from: dhruvdeepak on February 26, 2007, 02:40:53 AM
pan's labyrinth looks set to take a mini-sweep. it's won 2 out of 2 so far (art direction and makeup) and has 4 to go. i predict it will win best foreign language and best Score.

well lost out best foreign- this was a big surprise!!
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2007, 05:05:20 AM »
Forest for actor
Helen for actress
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2007, 05:09:09 AM »
And finally Martin Scorscee for Director

and Departed for movie
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2007, 05:41:05 AM »
..and the winners are:
Best supporting actor - Alan Arkin (big upset!!)
Best supporting actress - Jennifer Hudson (favorite)
Best actor - Forest Whitaker(favorite)
Best actress - Helen Mirren(favorite)
Best director - Martin Scorcese(favorite)
Best Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others (upset ...minor or major?)
Best Picture - Departed (it was expected to be a close fight!..Scorcese finally hits the double)
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I am very happy for Scorcese .. as CLR said, he deserves this.
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2007, 05:48:14 AM »
i must say - Jada Pinkett Smith, Beyonce in particular looked smoking hot today. there were a number of others too including Lisa Ray and Jessica Biel.  :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2007, 05:52:40 AM »
Quote from: dhruvdeepak on February 26, 2007, 05:48:14 AM
i must say - Jada Pinkett Smith, Beyonce in particular looked smoking hot today. there were a number of others too including Lisa Ray.  :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Black is beautiful.. I did not see the ceremony but add Halle Berry & Vanessa Williams to the above 2 and you got some really hot-looking women!
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2007, 05:54:57 AM »
Quote from: losingnow on February 26, 2007, 05:52:40 AM
Quote from: dhruvdeepak on February 26, 2007, 05:48:14 AM
i must say - Jada Pinkett Smith, Beyonce in particular looked smoking hot today. there were a number of others too including Lisa Ray.  :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Black is beautiful.. I did not see the ceremony but add Halle Berry & Vanessa Williams to the above 2 and you got some really hot-looking women!
i dunno about that. theyre some of the (numerous) exceptions thats all
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2007, 06:15:15 AM »
Scorcese! He has been made to wait so long for it!
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2007, 06:26:03 AM »
Hullo! Rachel Weisz needs a gender test  :icon_scratch: !!!!

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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2007, 06:28:53 AM »
Quote from: kingofprussia on February 26, 2007, 06:26:03 AM
Hullo! Rachel Weisz needs a gender test  :icon_scratch: !!!!



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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2007, 10:42:43 AM »
what is with normally hot chicks pouring on the mascara? Rachel Weisz looked like a drag queen. so did the Vesper Lynd Bond girl (eva greene?)
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2007, 11:01:49 AM »
Quote from: losingnow on February 26, 2007, 05:52:40 AM
Quote from: dhruvdeepak on February 26, 2007, 05:48:14 AM
i must say - Jada Pinkett Smith, Beyonce in particular looked smoking hot today. there were a number of others too including Lisa Ray.  :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Black is beautiful.. I did not see the ceremony but add Halle Berry & Vanessa Williams to the above 2 and you got some really hot-looking women!

I agree Black indeed is beautiful (definetly more than pasty white)...but the woman that won the best supporting actress was looking and behaving like a cross between a Mumbai fisherwoman and a Chennai Nari Korati.
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2007, 11:02:38 AM »
Quote from: dhruvdeepak on February 26, 2007, 10:42:43 AM
what is with normally hot chicks pouring on the mascara? Rachel Weisz looked like a drag queen. so did the Vesper Lynd Bond girl (eva greene?)

See "dreamers". you will never doubt Eva's gender again! :D
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #21 on: February 26, 2007, 11:12:35 AM »
Quote from: dhruvdeepak on February 26, 2007, 10:42:43 AM
what is with normally hot chicks pouring on the mascara? Rachel Weisz looked like a drag queen. so did the Vesper Lynd Bond girl (eva greene?)
She was great in "Runaway Jury". Any other perrformances I should rent?
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Re: Oscar predictions..
« Reply #22 on: February 26, 2007, 12:17:05 PM »
Quote from: losingnow on February 26, 2007, 11:12:35 AM
Quote from: dhruvdeepak on February 26, 2007, 10:42:43 AM
what is with normally hot chicks pouring on the mascara? Rachel Weisz looked like a drag queen. so did the Vesper Lynd Bond girl (eva greene?)
She was great in "Runaway Jury". Any other perrformances I should rent?
won the Oscar last year for 'The Constant Gardener'. chilling story - did a great job. interestingly, she played the role of a real-life woman who i met, who works in Toronto. The book was based in part on her experiences in battling the big drug cos.
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