FILM: Babel, The Departed, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, and The Queen...This looks like the year that Martin Scorsese finally wins the big ones. His movie, The Departed, is nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. If he wins, it will not make up for lost time or that some of his other movies have been shunned by the voters. Does anyone remember who won when Good Fellas was nominated? Neither do I. I think Scorsese will win for Best Director, though I think The Queen will get the nod for Best Picture. However, I can just as easily see Frears winning Best Director and The Departed winning Best Picture.
DIRECTOR: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel), Martin Scorsese (The Departed), Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima), Stephen Frears (The Queen), and Paul Greengrass (United 93)...
ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Peter O'Toole (Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)...
ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), Kate Winslet (Little Children)...
Let's hope that this is the year that Scorsese ceases being the Susan Lucci of moviemaking.
Meanwhile, the other two top categories will be pretty straight forward. Royalty will run the day as Whitaker will win for his role as Idi Amin in the Last King of Scotland and Helen Mirren will win for her portray as Queen Elizabeth II. Both appear to be rightly deserved.
It is surprising that Dreamgirls got snubbed in the major categories, although it leads the pack with eight nominations. Nothing to show for the Actor, Actress, Directing, or Picture categories. Ouch. Maybe people realize that it really wasn't as good a picture as people were led to believe? Backlash? Or that it was such an ensemble cast that it was too difficult to pick out any one single actor or actress for the lead categories.
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