Best Picture
An Inconvenient Truth makes history becoming the first documentary nominee ever. The Devil Wears Prada, fueled by Streep fanatics and audience love wins a spot. The lovely folksy swansong of A Prairie Home Companion marks the 4th Best Picture nominee for Robert Altman. Akeelah and the Bee surprises to nab the heartwarming 'triumph of the human spirit' slot. United 93 emerges as the frontrunner.
Snubs: Brick, Cars, DaVinci Code, Eight Below, Friends With Money, The Proposition, Superman Returns, Thank You For Smoking and Water
Best Director Same thing as best picture minus Akeelah and Truth. Those director slots are filled by ascending Bryan Singer for his religious take on Superman Returns and newbie Jason Reitman, son of Ivan, for his political satire Thank You For Smoking.
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The Proposition would probably get a make-up nod too.
That was really fun! There really was some great (sounding) stuff already this year. Of course I've barely seen any of them because they're stupid and don't release anything down here.
You mean to tell me V for Vendetta doesn't even qualify for a snub in the best picture cateory? No fair! :)
Haven't seen Superman, but Posey's not good enough for a snub either?
P.S. Loving the "batshit crazy" ... don't get it entirely, but love it.
If I was an AMPAS member, I would definitely consider Parker Posey for Best Supporting Actress. :P
But I thought Kevin Spacey was so disgustingly over-the-top in Superman Returns. It made me feel funny, since it's the first post-American Beauty film in which I've seen him, and he was so completely perfect (and very Oscar-worthy) in that one.
You really should see A Scanner Darkly when you get the chance, Nathaniel. It's tied with Brick for my favourite film of 2006 thus far.
I too would nominate Parker Posey if I were an AMPAS member. She gave that film the only good performance it had.
And as much as I hated V For Vendetta, it's Production Design was quite astonishing.
I love saying "boring as batshit" but "batshit crazy" is fine too.
You only nom'ed 4 for Best Actor -- Hanks, Washington, Gordon-Levitt, and Eckhart.
I like your picks but find two things implausible:
1) That Cars would be left off while something like Prarie Home Companion or Akeelah and the Bee made it. Remember there's almost always one box office hit included.
2) That Hanks would get nom'ed for Da Vinci while Bettany and McKellen weren't. Honestly -- Kevin Kline was atrocious in Prairie Home Companion! At least one, if not both, Da Vinci guys would get in.
right said -you're probably right on davinci (i haven't seen it) but hanks has zero competition. In fact, ACTOR is the only major category that has not come up with even one longshot yet.
i also didn't think much of Kline in prairie but I was trying to come up with viable AMPAS goofs and it made sense.
it's meant to be a fun exercize and definitely up for debate so i appreciate the comment.
Best Picture: (so far)
A Prairie Home Companion
Brick
United 93 (wins)
V for Vendetta
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