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Academy Awards from the 2006-2007
season The 79th Academy Awards
were held on February 25, 2007 hosted by Ellen DeGeneres
Film Prophet's Oscar nomination short
notes & stats in early February '07:
First, stats about the nominations:
~ Dreamgirls, the nomination leader with eight bids because of three
song nominations, is shut out for Best Picture, Actor, Actress,
Director, and Screenplay.
~ None of the Best Picture nominations have leading actor nominations.
(Leo's snub for The Departed, gets in for Blood Diamond instead)
~ None are in the best cinematography category either.
~ The best pictures have only a total of 26 nominations, which is the
smallest amount since the sixth Oscars back in ’32-’33.
~ If Letters from the Iwo Jima wins Best Picture, co-story writer Paul
Haggis would have himself in writing three consecutive Best Picture
winners. (Crash & Million Dollar Baby were the previous two)
~ The only actor nominated from The Departed, an all male star cast
really, is Mark Wahlberg.
~ If Forest Whitaker wins, it will be only the fourth time in Academy
award history that the movie with the Best Actor winner was not
nominated for any other award.
~ There are 12 nominations for Mexicans.
~ It is Black History Month, so with that, it was Halle Berry who was
the first African-American female to win the best Oscar actress. In the
same night, Denzel Washington won the best actor award, as the first
black male to do so in 38 years since Sidney Poitier. After that and
since 2002, 11 black performers have earned Oscar nominations. Jamie
Foxx and Morgan Freeman have both won and at least one black actor has
been nominated every year. This year there’s a record breaking of five,
who are Forest Whitaker, Will Smith, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, and
Djimon Hounsou, and three are predicted to win.
~ Kate Winslet at 31 becomes the youngest actress to earn five
nominations in just 19 movies.
~ This is the eighth acting nomination Peter O'Toole and has the most
nominations without a win.
~ Meryl Streep got her 14th nomination, which extends her lead for the
most nominated performer ever.
Notes:
~ The Best Picture this year is a wide open race until the final
envelope is opened. There is yet to be a clear-cut unstoppable contender
like in some past seasons. Any of the five has a shot to win, but will
most likely come as a surprise if The Departed isn’t announced the
winner.
~ The supporting actress field is pretty quite weak this season. The
Oscar is mostly likely going to a singer in her acting debut because she
sang one song really well, but sometimes the role wins for itself.
~ Painted Veil was snubbed in all categories because of its late &
limited release date and promotion/campaign/publicity, even after
winning original score at the golden globes.
~ Scorsese will receive the longest standing applause in Academy award
history when he finally wins a directing Oscar after 8 career
nominations.
Third Annual Coverage!
(Film Prophet's Frontrunners are in order from top to bottom in each
column)
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And the Oscar goes to...
The Departed |
And the Oscar goes to...
Martin Scorsese |
And the Oscar goes to...
Forest Whitaker |
And the Oscar goes to...
Helen Mirren |
Will Win:
The Departed |
Will Win:
Martin Scorsese |
Will Win:
Forest
Whitaker |
Will Win:
Helen Mirren |
Should Win:
The Departed |
Should Win:
Martin Scorsese |
Should Win:
Leonardo DiCaprio |
Should Win:
Kate Winslet |
Final Prediction:
The Departed |
Final Prediction:
Martin Scorsese |
Final Prediction:
Forest
Whitaker |
Final Prediction:
Helen Mirren |
BEST PICTURE
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Queen |
BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese
(The Departed)
Clint Eastwood
(Letters from Iwo Jima)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
(Babel)
Paul Greengrass
(United 93)
Stephen Frears
(The Queen) |
BEST ACTOR
Forest Whitaker
(The Last King of Scotland)
Peter O'Toole
(Venus)
Will Smith
(The Pursuit of Happyness)
Leonardo DiCaprio
(Blood Diamond)
Ryan Gosling
(Half Nelson) |
BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren
(The Queen)
Kate Winslet
(Little Children)
Meryl Streep
(The Devil Wears Prada)
Penelope Cruz
(Volver)
Judi Dench
(Notes on a Scandal) |
Oscar night
notes:
Film Prophet's highlights of the show:
~ John C. Reilly coming out of audience seats on stage to sing comedy
with Will Ferrell and Jack Black
~ Pan's Labyrinth with its hot start winning the first two Oscars of the
night, so that also
meant the supporting acting categories were later in the show
~ Realizing that two of the best motion picture nominees (Babel and
Letters from Iwo Jima) are not entirely spoken in English and abounded
in subtitles
~ Stunned by how short the nominated supporting acting clips were - like
one short line about 3 seconds long - while the adapted screenplays each got almost a
half of a minute
~ Leonardo DiCaprio announcing with Al Gore and then cutting off on Al's announcement with the ending speech orchestra music
~ Funniest line of the night: Tom Hanks - 'You bet Chris, more fun!'
~ The
long montage of all the nominated foreign films in Academy award history,
and happy that The Lives of Others won the year's foreign film Oscar
right after it
~ Acceptance speech: Jennifer Hudson 'Look what God can do.'
~ Jerry Seinfeld looking like he can host this show in the future
~ The whole Ennio Morricone
honorary tribute
~ Favorite shown acting clip: Forest Whitaker in The
Last King of Scotland - 'but you did not persuade me Nicholas! You did not persuade me.' |
