CP All-Time Oscar Draft - Rd 7 - Jagger Rd 8 - Octo, Proto (Stumpy, WURL)

[Prototype]

Time to get this started!

Here are your categories:

Best Picture -
Best Actor -
Best Actress -
Best Supporting Actor -
Best Supporting Actress -
Best Director -
Best Original Song -
Best Foreign Film -
It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated -

What we are looking for are individual performances. Please designate what category you are drafting from, what year they won, and what movie.

Multiple winners can be selected, but once one trophy is selected, you cannot select that same trophy. Someone like Tom Hanks can be chosen twice in the same category. You have to make sure you're specific to which winning role you are selecting.

You can only pick the person once per team. Ie - you can pick "actress A" in best actress, but you will be unable to pick "actress A" in supporting/directing/songwriting/"honor". But the next team can take any other winning/nominated performance by "actress A" other than the one you have chosen, once as well.


"It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated" - Any Actor or Actress performance nominated, but didn't take home the hardware.


DRAFT BOARD:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSjM6Ysmw9y9WNMiM0SC3bQ













Draft order was provided by Random.org (http://www.random.org/lists/)
octothorp
Prototype
Eastern Girl
Displaced Flames Fan
Superflyer
MattyC
liamenator
Stumptown
GirlySports
Jagger
WindomURL
Timestamp: 2009-02-24 17:32:12 UTC
AK's will come 12 hours after the previous pick.

This draft will not snake.

Please specify The actor/actress, which movie, which category, and which year.

eg. Pauly Shore - Encino Man - Best Actor - 1992

Good luck to all...

GAME ON!!!

[Superflyer]

eg. Pauly Shore - Encino Man - Best Actor - 1992

Dude way to give away my first round pick. Just Fataing great!

[Prototype]

PM was sent to Octo before he posted in the Book Draft.

[octothorp]

This is tough: I never realized how many of my favorite movies didn't win academy awards. I'm also going to try to avoid picking any movies that I picked in the previous movie draft.

Anyway, with the first overall pick, I'm selecting Peter Jackson, 2003, Best Director, for Lord of the Rings, Return of the King. While I wouldn't count this as the best film ever, it is, in my opinion, one of the greatest acheivements in filmmaking, and Peter Jackson deserves more credit than anyone else for making that happen. Even though the award was officially for Return of the King, it was really for the entire trilogy. He and his two writing partners took an unwieldy and difficult novel, crafted it into a trilogy of films that exceeds the vision of the book. They made hard decisions in throwing out some popular characters and story arcs and preserved the best elements, and weave together the different arcs in a manner very different from the books. The decision to start Return of the King with Smeagol's backstory, for example, was a brilliant idea that gives Smeagol's story arc much greater weight in this movie than it otherwise would have had.
Though the movie obviously required a great deal of special effects, Jackson also insisted on using traditional methods whenever possible, insisting on filming on location rather than green-screening whenever they could, and having elaborate miniatures made rather than simply relying on computer models. Even the diminutive hobbits were done with stand-ins and camera trickery such as forced perspective whenever possible.
Jackson has a great sense of how to construct the story and shots in such a way of always helping the viewer figure out how everything works together, and nowhere in the trilogy is this more evident than in Return of the King, where Jackson's narrative follows a dozen characters scattered amongst four different locations and story arcs. And there are scenes in this movie such as the lighting of the watchtowers that bring tears to my eyes simply because they're such beautiful sequences. (Although, I'm an admitted wuss and tear up at all sorts of crap that wouldn't move most people.)
He's also very good about knowing when to let the music and sound and effects fade away and focus in tight on an actor's face; given the large cast it's difficult to develop all the characters fully, but Jackson does a great job of developing them by putting new characters in contrast with more established ones. As me, the most interesting characters are the three rulers - John Noble as Denethor, Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, and Bernard Hill as Theoden - and even though these three characters have very little screen time together, he's able to find the commonalities and contrasts between them to develop all of them more fully.
He did a brilliant balancing job throughout: balancing traditional film-making techniques with advanced CGI; balancing fidelity to the original work and the demands of die-hard fans with the needs of the movie format and a typical theater audience; balancing the needs of the movie as the end of a massive 11 hour trilogy with making a movie that can also be watched on its own and weighed on its own merits; balancing a war and adventure story with the characters that drive the story. Yup, I feel pretty good about this choice as a first overall pick; I know LoTR has its share of detractors, but Jackson's work on it deserved to be mentioned among the very best of the best in terms of feats of filmmaking.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/16/photos/SP_175483_HO_td16lord1.jpg

[Prototype]

http://blog.filmjabber.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/heath-ledger-joker-picture.jpg

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight - Best Supporting Actor - 2009

I didn't expect to take a more receint winner, but I couldn't help myself with Heath.

As per wikipedia:

In his penultimate film performance, Ledger plays the Joker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(comics)#Live-action) in The Dark Knight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)), directed by Christopher Nolan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan), the sequel to the 2005 film Batman Begins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins), first released, in Australia, on 16 July 2008, nearly six months after his death. While still working on the film, in London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), Ledger told Sarah Lyall, in their interview published in the New York Times on 4 November 2007, that he viewed The Dark Knight's Joker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)#Cast_and_characters) as a "psychopathic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy), mass murdering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder), schizophrenic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia) clown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown) with zero empathy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy)."[65] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#cite_note-Lyall-64) To prepare for the role, Ledger told Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(magazine)), "I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts"; after reiterating his view of the character as "just an absolute sociopath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder), a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown," he added that Nolan had given him "free rein" to create the role, which he found "fun, because there are no real boundaries to what the Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke."[66] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#cite_note-Jolin1-65)[67] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#cite_note-Jolin2-66)[68] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#cite_note-Richards-67) For his work in The Dark Knight, Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor), his family accepting it on his behalf, as well as numerous other posthumous awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor), which Christopher Nolan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan) accepted for him.

[WindomURL]

Ah, I figured I had no shot at grabbing Ledger to go along with my Movie Draft pick.
That's an absolute no-brainer of a pick! (and I mean that as complimentary :D)

[Eastern Girl]

Quickly, I will take in the Best Picture category, Rocky. I love the franchise, so I have to pick it.

[Displaced Flames fan]

For my first pick, I'm proud to be able to select in the BEST ACTOR category, Daniel Day-Lewis' portrayal of Daniel Plainview.

The Best Actor Oscar for 2007!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/There_will_be_blood.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/There_will_be_blood.jpg)


There were a few other choices here, but I really feel that this is one of the 2 or 3 greatest film acting performances of all time. Day-Lewis forces you to watch him, he's that good. His strange anonymity allows one to totally buy into the character without the actors personality or physical quirks butting in. The film is over 2 and a half hours long and it flies by, despite a story somewhat void of action. I didn't have a mirror, but I'm pretty sure that when the credits began to roll, my mouth was wide open, jaw dropped. Incredible stuff!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/

youtube sucks.:mad:

[Superflyer]

For Best Actor I am proud to select from Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks.

http://l.yimg.com/img.movies.yahoo.com/ymv/us/img/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/forrest_gump/tom_hanks/gump3.jpg

The Academy Award winner for Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic. Hanks plays the title character, a shy Southern boy in love with his childhood best friend (Robin Wright) who finds that his ability to run fast takes him places. As an All-Star football player he meets John F. Kennedy; as a soldier in Vietnam he's a war hero; and as a world champion Ping-Pong player he's hailed by Richard Nixon. Becoming a successful shrimp-boat captain, he still yearns for the love of his life, who takes a quite different and much sadder path in life. The visual effects incorporating Hanks into existing newsreel footage is both funny and impressive, but the heart of the film lies in its sweet love story and in the triumphant performance of Hanks as an unassuming soul who savors the most from his life and times.

[liamenator]

DFF, you are a son-of-a-gun.
Definitely gets my vote for performance of all time.

[Displaced Flames fan]

DFF, you are a son-of-a-gun.
Definitely gets my vote for performance of all time.

Luck of the draw...errrr...interwebs randomizer.

If this had been picked before my turn, I would've likely saved this category for last. I really like a couple of performances that probably are low on most lists.

[liamenator]

OK... I'm going to AK MattyC since it's been well over 12 hrs.

With my first pick, after the anger/sadness of missing out on Daniel Plainview has worn off, I am very proud to be able to select in the Best Actor category, Robert De Niro's magnum opus... A timeless performance from what can arguably be considered the great American movie...

1980's Best Actor: Robert De Niro as Jack LaMotta in Raging Bull!

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/Images/raging-bull-robert-deniro.jpg

There aren't really any words, just witness (NSFW):
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[WindomURL]

Stumptown, GirlySports, Jagger are up next. I wonder if everyone knows this draft has started?

I'll PM them just in case.

[Superflyer]

Well if someone would ever change the title maybe they would know!:whistle:

[Stumptown]

Ah! Just notice it was live now.

OK, I'm decidedly not fond of musicals, or Disney, so the Best Original Song category was going to be tough for me, so I'm taking it first since there's only one that I can really get behind.

1971 - Isaac Hayes - Theme from "Shaft"

Can you dig it?

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[Prototype]

Well if someone would ever change the title maybe they would know!:whistle:

Happy?

[GirlySports]

Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny - Best Supporting Actress - 1992

I absolutely loved this performance. Everytime I channel surf and see My Cousin Vinny on tv I stop and watch the rest of it.

Shooting a Deer Monologue (NSFW)

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[Coach]

Ahhh sorry team I didnt even realize this draft was happening yet and wouldnt you know it Superflyer took my first pick right before i was supposed to. I will take in the Best Actor category Russell Crowe in Gladiator


http://goneelsewhere.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/gladiator-2.jpg

[Jagger]

I'll take Best Actress 1996

Frances McDormand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_McDormand) - Fargo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_%28film%29)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Fargo_Marge.jpg/250px-Fargo_Marge.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fargo_Marge.jpg)

Marge Olmstead-Gunderson

Frances McDormand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_McDormand) as Marge Olmstead-Gunderson, the pregnant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy) chief of police in Brainerd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainerd,_Minnesota), Minnesota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota), investigating the murder of three people near her city. Throughout the film, Marge demonstrates great competence and ability in her police-work, and comes across as very polite, likable, and intelligent. In real life, McDormand has been married to Joel Coen since 1984, and has starred in several of the brothers' films.

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[octothorp]

Great pick, Jagger. That one jumped out at me as one of the best when I was scanning the list of actress winners. She's slightly typecast, but she really is an excellent actress and can make some seemingly rote characters very watchable.

[liamenator]

Man... Another one off my list... Great pick Jagger!

[Dion]

Great pick, Jagger. That one jumped out at me as one of the best when I was scanning the list of actress winners. She's slightly typecast, but she really is an excellent actress and can make some seemingly rote characters very watchable.

Exactly and a great movie also!

[Prototype]

Hey guys... I'm not on the site all day to update the thread title, to let you know when you're up. Please check in often, just incase.

And if anyone knows how to do one of them google spreadsheets, can you teach me, or update one on this board?

Thanks guys! Good first round so far... I'm sure Windom will screw it up somehow.

[4X4]

Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny - Best Supporting Actress - 1992

I absolutely loved this performance. Everytime I channel surf and see My Cousin Vinny on tv I stop and watch the rest of it.

Shooting a Deer Monologue (NSFW)

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I had a major crush on her growing up because of this movie. Fricken gold. I love the part where she's talking cars in court. But this deer scene is the best.

[WindomURL]

Team "You Like Me, You Really Like Me" makes its first selection to end Round 1, with the Best Picture of 1974,
The Godfather: Part II (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/)

http://members.shaw.ca/windomurl/Godfather2.jpg
The movie became the first sequel to win the Best Picture Academy Award.

yadda yadda yadda... fuhgeddaboudit

[WindomURL]

Did I screw that up for you Proto? ;)

Sorry, I've been unexpectedly out most of today.
I'll start a Google spreadsheet now and post the link when it's up.

[octothorp]

In the Best Original Song category, I'm proud to Select, from 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's, Moon River -- Music by Henry Mancini, Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Damn, this is a gorgeous song; this would be a favorite movie of mine were it not for Mickey Rooney's offensive asian landlord which sours the entire film somewhat, but when it comes to songs, few work as well both on their own and in the context of the movie as well as Moon River.

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It's great on it's own with Holly sitting on the balcony, but I love how Mancini uses the theme from it during the final scene of the movie:
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[Jagger]

Team "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"

You may not believe this but I was going to go with exactly the same team name! Incredible! :eek:

[WindomURL]

:lol:

[Prototype]

In the "honor" category, I'm going to take:

Bill Murray - best actor - 2004 (I think) - Lost In Translation

More to come.

[Prototype]

Did I screw that up for you Proto? ;)

Why? Cause you took a Godfather movie? I've never seen any of them. Didn't mess any of my plans up. Bill Murray was the reason I made the "honor" category.

As I've said before, i'm not here to police this thing. Don't rely on the title of the thread. EG, you have until 10:00p to pick, then there's no more nice guy for anyone. AK's will happen at 12 hours, with or without our name in the title.

[octothorp]

Why? Cause you took a Godfather movie? I've never seen any of them. Didn't mess any of my plans up. Bill Murray was the reason I made the "honor" category.

I think Windom was alluding to the fact that in a previous post, you predicted that he'd screw up the first round somehow.

[Eastern Girl]

I will select in the category of Best Actor - Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs - 1991

[WindomURL]

I think Windom was alluding to the fact that in a previous post, you predicted that he'd screw up the first round somehow.

Exactly.

I could have tried harder to screw you up by picking a movie you would have wanted, Proto, but instead I took a good movie. :whistle:

[Displaced Flames fan]

In the category of Best Original Song, I'm happy to select:

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[Superflyer]

For best Actress I am happy to select, as a compliment to EGs pick, Jodie Foster from Silence of the Lambs

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[Coach]

In the Best Picture category I will select The Departed

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[liamenator]

I'll take, for Best Picture, one of the precious few films that the Academy actually got right in the last 20 years.

Spielberg's most personal, and greatest work.

Not a lot more to be said, really. Schindler's List.

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/schindlers-list-DVDcover.jpg

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[Stumptown]

Best Supporting Actor - the category for character actors, my favorite "that guy" actors.

1978 - Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter

I'll admit, I haven't watched The Deer Hunter in about 20 years, and don't remember that much, but I remember Walken in it. Intense, crazy, and beautiful. I'm picking this one for Walken's whole career - not always illustrious, but always interesting.

Walken even wrote a poem about it:

On The Deer Hunter
It was a wonderful movie
Very popular
Many people saw it
Oscar

(from Walken A to Z, by Rober Schnakenberg)

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U1962480.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B94631b90-8dc5-4eff-81d5-b482e3f2f8bb%7D

[liamenator]

best supporting actor - the category for character actors, my favorite "that guy" actors.

1978 - christopher walken - the deer hunter


Mau! Mau!
Didi MAU!

[GirlySports]

Mau! Mau!
Didi MAU!

I know it's my pick but you don't have to rush me! :D

[GirlySports]

For my 2nd pick I select the classic:

Rashomon - Best Foreign Language Film Special/Honorary Award 1951

Let me know if this qualifies cause it was not an actual foreign film award at the time.
If not then I'll pick another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_(film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_%28film))

Rashomon was the first of Kurosawa's classics and introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large. It style of storytelling from four different points of view was very unique and has since been copied countless times ever since. It's my favorite movie of all time.

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It was picked by Ro in the movie draft with a wonderful review

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpost.php?p=1504007&postcount=1619

[Coach]

Jagger is Aked.....Windom is up. Don't just look at the thread title people

[WindomURL]

Sorry, I am usually on top of these things but I had cancer this weekend.

[octothorp]

So Windom is AKed?

In the Best Picture category, I'm selecting No Country For Old Men. There's something about Cormac McCarthy's work that really captures the zeitgeist of our culture today, and the other upcoming film adaptations of his work (at least three of them at last count) will have a hard time matching the impact of No Country. There's so many scenes that just stick with you: the dog chasing Llewelyn down the river, the visit between Sheriff Tom and Uncle Ellis, and just about every moment with Anton Chiguhr, including the iconic coin flip. The pacing of the movie is brilliantly done, and I love how the closing scenes are done, from the events at the hotel, to Uncle Ellis, to Chiguhr and Carla Jean, to Tom Bell and his wife. The acting is top notch by everyone, especially Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolen.

[Prototype]

Best Actress

http://www.cineclub.de/images/2004/04/monster-1.jpg

Charlize Theron - Monster - Best Actress - 2003

Holy good god... The commitment she took on to go from the hottest woman in Holywood, to the above. The movie was disturbing, and Charlize went to a different place to become Aileen Wournos, a sick, deranged serial killer.

And to get back to normalicy...

http://shotsdaily.com/movies/photos/charlize-theron-haggis.jpg

[Jagger]

Ahh, AK'd. Darn it.

Ok, I'll take good old Jack. Best Actor 1975

Jack Nicholson in

One Flew Over The ####oo's Nest


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/One_Flew_Over_the_####oo%27s_Nest_poster.jpg/200px-One_Flew_Over_the_####oo%27s_Nest_poster.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:One_Flew_Over_the_####oo%27s_Nest_poster.jpg)

Randall P. McMurphy



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[Eastern Girl]

Is it my turn again or ... ? My handle never left the title, so I am confused.

My pick can be ignored if it isn't...

I will select in the category of Best Foreign film - Life is Beautiful - 1998

[Coach]

^^^ Damn got that as a late pick in the Movie Draft....hoping it would drop again...nice pick EG

[Displaced Flames fan]

In the Best Foreign Film category, I'll select Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/

http://www.impawards.com/2000/posters/crouching_tiger_hidden_dragon_ver3.jpg

[WindomURL]

Hey y'all. I'm gonna drop out of this draft. I always told myself that if I ever let myself get asskicked, I don't deserve to be in the draft.

Godfather 2 goes back in the pool.

Have fun!

[Superflyer]

Do we have a draft board yet? It is getting hard to keep track of everything that has been picked.

Matty if you are ready go ahead as I will need time to decide as I was not ready to pick.

[Coach]

Do we have a draft board yet? It is getting hard to keep track of everything that has been picked.

Matty if you are ready go ahead as I will need time to decide as I was not ready to pick.
Thanks in the It's just great to be nominated... category I select Sean Penn in I Am Sam

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Honorable mention to a very young Dakota Fanning doing a fantastic job

[liamenator]

OK.. I'll ready a spreadsheet to keep everything straight. In the meantime, I guess I am up?

Hummm.... This is a tough one. Conventional wisdom says pick one of the less sexy categories that have fewer viable picks.... Yeah... That is what I will do.

In the Best Fgn Language Film category, I'll select: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (Germany)

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/events/archive/livesothers.jpg

A somewhat shocking winner in 2006, as most pundits had Pan's Labyrinth taking the oscar in a cakewalk. However this slow-burning exploration of surveillance, voyeurism, human relationships under immense pressure, and the problematic issues identity and sense of history for those who lived in and after the GDR. A great, great film.
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[Superflyer]

In the category of Best Supporting Actor I am happy to select Gene Hackman in Unforgiven.

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[liamenator]

Draft board:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSjM6Ysmw9y9WNMiM0SC3bQ

[Displaced Flames fan]

Hey y'all. I'm gonna drop out of this draft. I always told myself that if I ever let myself get asskicked, I don't deserve to be in the draft.

Godfather 2 goes back in the pool.

Have fun!


Booooooooo! A movie draft without Windom??? Blasphemy!

[Prototype]

I knew you'd find a way to screw it up Windy! You're always welcome back when you find more time bud!

[Displaced Flames fan]

Stump, The Perfect Woman and Jagger up next

[Stumptown]

OK, to keep the 70s theme going (might have been a crappy decade in many respects, but there were some damned good movies made in the 70s) with my third pick:

Best Director - 1971 - William Friedkin – The French Connection

Where would Hollywood be without the inventor of the car chase scene? There were car chases before this film, but Friedkin was the first to jump-cut POV, in-car, street-level, just about every camera angle you can think of, all together to form what we now come to expect in every action film. The only better car chase scene I can think of was in Ronin, also a very fine, under-appreciated film. The French Connection is a fine buddy-cop film even without the car chase, but Friedkin put it all together in a way that was innovative at the time, and has become rote in just about every blockbuster in the last 38 years.

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[octothorp]

In the Best Fgn Language Film category, I'll select: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (Germany)


I had this one in the 'other' movie draft, and absolutely love it; really excellent choice, I'm glad to see it go so high here.

[Stumptown]

A somewhat shocking winner in 2006, as most pundits had Pan's Labyrinth taking the oscar in a cakewalk.

I finally got around to watching Pan's Labyrinth a few months ago and thought it didn't nearly live up to hype. The Devil's Backbone is many times better, and didn't get any recognition at all. And, going even further back in del Toro's career, Chronos was also a superior film, and it gets even less buzz.

Heard a lot of good things about The Lives of Others, adding it to my Netflix queue.

[GirlySports]

For my 3rd pick I'll take..

Al Pacino - Best Actor - Scent of a Woman - 1992

A very memorable movie and a wonderful role where he plays a bitter blind man that teaches his pupil the lessons of life.

The famous tango scene.

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[Coach]

great movie.....I have the speech on my Ipod

[liamenator]

Hoooooooo-ah!

I've still never seen Scent of a Woman, but I love Al Pacino (yes, even the Hoooo-Ah! Al Pacino).

For a detailed exploration of the Hoooo-ah! phenonemon in his oeuvre, see this highly amusing article: http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-new-cult-canon-the-devils-advocate,2392/

[liamenator]

I finally got around to watching Pan's Labyrinth a few months ago and thought it didn't nearly live up to hype. The Devil's Backbone is many times better, and didn't get any recognition at all. And, going even further back in del Toro's career, Chronos was also a superior film, and it gets even less buzz.

Heard a lot of good things about The Lives of Others, adding it to my Netflix queue.

That's interesting... I've not seen either Devil's Backbone or Chronos, but I actually quite liked Pan's Labyrinth. I thought it was a shame that it and Lives of Others were released in the same year.

I'll have to check those other ones out though.

[Stumptown]

That's interesting... I've not seen either Devil's Backbone or Chronos, but I actually quite liked Pan's Labyrinth. I thought it was a shame that it and Lives of Others were released in the same year.

Don't get me wrong, I thought Pan's Labyrinth was perfectly adequate. But I couldn't help compare it to his other (non-Hollywood, i.e., not Blade II, Hellboy) films, and thought it came up short. The hype machine really turns me off - it seems to always get attached to mediocrity when there's plenty of better material out there that gets absolutely no attention. At least in this case it was a decent film, and not a steaming pile like most other movies that get shoved in our faces by marketing.

[liamenator]

Jagger is AK'd, Windom is out, that means octo is up, Proto, EG are on deck.

[Eastern Girl]

Is this draft going to be put on hold tommorow? I rarely am able to get on to CP during deadline day.

[Prototype]

I guess a one day grace period might be in order...

[octothorp]

Jagger is AK'd, Windom is out, that means octo is up, Proto, EG are on deck.

Yikes, I'm simultaneously up in three drafts. I'll make this short: Supporting Actress, Cate Blanchett, the Aviator. Best actress of her generation, and in the 12 years or so she's been making movies, she's done incredible and consistently great work. Her performance as Katherine Hepburn in the Aviator was note perfect in portraying another amazing actress.

[Jagger]

Another AK. Flippin' heck

OK

Best Supporting Actor 1988

Kevin Kline as Otto West

in

A Fish Called Wanda





Otto West

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[Dion]

^
Great pick Jagger!

Loved that movie

[Superflyer]

Since it's been a day and a half just thought I would bump this

[Displaced Flames fan]

Since it's been a day and a half just thought I would bump this
Hopefully nobody saw this.

I meant what was here before this.

Never mind!

[liamenator]

I'll say it again:

octo, Proto, EG... Any of you can pick at this point! Let's get rolling again!

[octothorp]

I'll say it again:

octo, Proto, EG... Any of you can pick at this point! Let's get rolling again!

Don't look at me, my pick was in post #71.

[Eastern Girl]

We're waiting on Proto

[Prototype]

Wow... I was actually following the thread title... I'm slightly ashamed. I promise this will be the last draft I run...

In the Best Actor category, I'm taking Kevin Spacey - American Beauty - 1999

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NSFW Language
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VERY NSFW
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[Eastern Girl]

Best Original Song - Falling Slowly - Once - 2007

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[liamenator]

Don't look at me, my pick was in post #71.

Whoops, sorry, forgot you picked.

[Displaced Flames fan]

With my 4th pick, I'm proud to select in the Best Supporting Actor category, Denzel Washington for Glory (1989).

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[Superflyer]

In the category of Best Supporting Actress I select Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential.

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[Coach]

In the Best Actress category we select Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich

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[liamenator]

I'll take in Best Supporting Actor, one of my favorites, Benicio Del Toro in Traffic.
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[Stumptown]

For my 4th pick: Best Actress - 1966 - Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I never used to get the Elizabeth Taylor phenomenon ... until I saw this film. Can't help but think that she and Burton brought a lot of their own private baggage to the screen, but how they both filter it into the characters is really an outstanding display of pure acting ability.

[GirlySports]

For my 4th pick, Best Picture - 1987 - The Last Emperor

Won nine academy awards in total.

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[Prototype]

Jagger, Octo, Proto. Will update thread title later.

[Jagger]

Next up:

Best Original Song:

Streets of Philadelphia

by

Bruce Springsteen

from "Philadelphia"


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[octothorp]

In the best Actress Category, I'm going to select Sophia Loren in La Ciociara (English title, Two Women) from 1960. One of the few winners to sweep the Oscar, Cannes, Berlin and Venice awards. Absolutely amazing performance as a protective mother who lives as a refugee during WWII.

[Coach]

next up:

best original song:

streets of philadelphia

by

bruce springsteen

from "philadelphia"

dammit!

[Prototype]

Best Picture

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Crash - 2005

Taking this, not only cause it was a great movie, but it hilighted what many believed the Academy's dislike for movies about homosexuals. I have never seen Brokeback Mountain, but all the hype heading in was that it was the hands down favourite for Best Movie in 2005. Crash was a longshot, but ended up picking up the hardware.

[Eastern Girl]

Best Supporting Actor - Chris Cooper - Adaptation - 2002

I really like Cooper. Think he's fairly underrated.


... you gotta take my name out of the title. It's confusing the crud out of me. Apparently it's been my turn most of the week...

[Displaced Flames fan]

With my 5th pick, I'm going to select Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment for the Best Actress category.

Close call here, with another, more recent winner. I'm going to go with MacLaine though, who is good in everything she does, but was outstanding in this film, which is one of the few movies I can't get through without crying. If you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend it.

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[Superflyer]

My choice for Best Director - Oliver Stone for Platoon

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[octothorp]

Best Picture

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2006

Already picked! (MattyC, post 37). So good though.

[liamenator]

MattyC AK'd

I'll take in Best Original Song, Bob Dylan's great contribution to an underrated movie: Things Have Changed from Wonderboys

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[Coach]

Oh damn I didnt even realize. I even watched the Elias death scene a few times lol. Pick up in a minute

[Coach]

In the Best Director category I will select Mel Gibson for Braveheart

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[Superflyer]

In the Best Director category I will select Mel Gibson for Braveheart

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Nice pick, I was going between this one and Oliver Stone.

[Stumptown]

I guess it's my turn. I'm feeling like a feisty old woman today, so for my 5th pick I'm going with Best Supporting Actress: 1968 - Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby

The annoying, pushy neighbor who's just too nice. It's always the nice ones that turn out to be the most evil.

[GirlySports]

Looks like everyone has a Best Actress so I have to go waaaay back.

For my 6th selection, I'll take

Vivian Leigh - Best Actress - 1940 - Gone With the Wind

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Everyone loved her role as Scarlett O'Hara and how fiesty she was!

[Eastern Girl]

Vivian Leigh was a stunning woman. She was great in that role

EDIT: Just watched her acceptance speech you posted, Girly, how classy was that?!

[octothorp]

Looks like Jagger is AKed. In Best Supporting Actor, I'll take Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint, aka Keyser Soze! From Usual Suspects, 1995. The whole movie spins around Spacey's performance, both on screen and narrating.

[Jagger]

I'll take

Best Director

Joel & Ethan Coen

No Country For Old Men


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Coen Brothers Tribute
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[GirlySports]

Vivian Leigh was a stunning woman. She was great in that role

EDIT: Just watched her acceptance speech you posted, Girly, how classy was that?!

Everyone was polite back then!

[Prototype]

Best Supporting Actress

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Angelina Jolie - 2000 - Girl, Interrupted

Jolie next took the supporting role of the sociopathic Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl,_Interrupted_(film)) (1999), a film that tells the story of mental patient Susanna Kaysen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Kaysen), and which was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir Girl, Interrupted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl,_Interrupted). While Winona Ryder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winona_Ryder) played the main character in what was hoped to be a comeback for her, the film instead marked Jolie's final breakthrough in Hollywood. She won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actress). Variety (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(magazine)) noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation".

Yeah, she kissed her brother, but I'm willing to look past that.

PS - Looks like Jagger's Best Director pick got placed on my row on the draft board.

[liamenator]

Proto, I think you've still got another pick to make up because of The Departed double-pick!

[Prototype]

Working on it ;)...

UPDATED: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpost.php?p=1708909&postcount=92

[liamenator]

Bump?

EG is up, but AK'd, so Dis, if you want to go, feel free!

[Displaced Flames fan]

As Jim Carrey hilariously opined recently, "Where is the bad film on this woman?" With my next pick, I'm proud to select one of the greatest actresses to ever grace the silver screen, in the category of BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, Meryl Streep for Kramer vs Kramer (1979).

First off, this is a top notch movie. If anyone hasn't seen it, put it on your list. You will not be disappointed.

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[Superflyer]

I know that I should go with a deep and dramatic song, but instead I am going with one that I love, and yes it is from a cartoon.
So as my winner of Best Original Song, from Monsters Inc. - If I Didn't Have You.

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[liamenator]

MattyC AK'd, he and EG can pick whenever they pop back in...

I'll very proudly select, in my mind the single greatest film director to ever walk the planet... who was 4 times nominated, but never took home the big prize. These continuous snubs of his work (and by extension, his overall career) are scars that the Academy will never be able to live down.

In the It's an Honour Just To Be Nominated category, I'll select, Stanley Kubrick - Best Director (Barry Lyndon, 1976)

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1976 in particular was a great year for film and a tough choice for Best Director. Joining Kubrick in the nominations were Milos Forman (who won for One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest), Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon), Robert Altman (Nashville), and Federico Fellini (Amarcord).

However:
1965 Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove) loses to George Kucor (My Fair Lady)
1969 Kubrick (2001) loses to Carol Reed (Oliver!)
1972 Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) loses to William Friedkin (The Fr. Connection)

Pretty much ouch across the board!

Anyway, glad we have this category so I can show Stanley some love.

[Stumptown]

I'm following liamenator's excellent pick with a very similar one in the It's an Honour Just to be Nominated category. Like Kubrick, he's a widely acclaimed writer/director whose movies are on pretty much everyone's top 10 lists. Like Kubrick, he won once for writing, but it was a shared award. Unlike Kubrick he was only ever nominated in any category for one of his many great films, which I think is a travesty. Unlike Kubrick he was also an excellent and prolific actor. And, unlike Kubrick he did get a "Lifetime Achievement" award - the "we didn't really appreciate you enough during your career, but you showed us" award.

If you guessed Orson Welles, you're correct. In particular, I'm thinking about Touch of Evil, which was considered a failure in its day, but now (partly thanks to a new edit based on Orson's production notes, and not the studio's hack job) is considered his masterpiece, even over Citizen Kane. IMHO, he also should have won best supporting actor for The Third Man.

Newly edited amazing crane shot from the opening sequence of Touch of Evil:
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[Eastern Girl]

Sorry for the absence, I was in the hospital recently.

I'll take Kim Basinger in LA Confidential for Best Supporting Actress if she hasn't been picked already.

[GirlySports]

I'm going to follow suit and pick a honour to be nominated.

One of the most memorable roles in a classic movie didn't win an Oscar.

Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca - 1943 - Honour To Be Nominated.
Lost to Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine (who?)

One of my favorite scenes

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Roulette scene is wonderful!

[liamenator]

Sorry for the absence, I was in the hospital recently.

I'll take Kim Basinger in LA Confidential for Best Supporting Actress if she hasn't been picked already.

Sorry EG, she's already been taken.

[Eastern Girl]

^^Yeah, I figured someone had.

What about Meryl Streep in Kramer vs Kramer in Best Supporting?

[liamenator]

^^Yeah, I figured someone had.

What about Meryl Streep in Kramer vs Kramer in Best Supporting?

Taken.... 7 posts ago... !

(here is the draftboard: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSjM6Ysmw9y9WNMiM0SC3bQ)

[Eastern Girl]

I give up. I am gonna have to just pick someone who's movie or performance I haven't seen... but not right now. I'm spent.

[liamenator]

I'm following liamenator's excellent pick with a very similar one in the It's an Honour Just to be Nominated category. Like Kubrick, he's a widely acclaimed writer/director whose movies are on pretty much everyone's top 10 lists. Like Kubrick, he won once for writing, but it was a shared award. Unlike Kubrick he was only ever nominated in any category for one of his many great films, which I think is a travesty. Unlike Kubrick he was also an excellent and prolific actor. And, unlike Kubrick he did get a "Lifetime Achievement" award - the "we didn't really appreciate you enough during your career, but you showed us" award.

If you guessed Orson Welles, you're correct. In particular, I'm thinking about Touch of Evil, which was considered a failure in its day, but now (partly thanks to a new edit based on Orson's production notes, and not the studio's hack job) is considered his masterpiece, even over Citizen Kane. IMHO, he also should have won best supporting actor for The Third Man.

Newly edited amazing crane shot from the opening sequence of Touch of Evil:


I saw the new cut of Touch of Evil at the Plaza in Calgary when it came out... My jaw was on the floor for the entire 2 hours after that opening crane shot on the big screen. Probably my favorite shot in any movie, ever.

However... we will have to get a ruling from The Comish - technically, Welles wasn't nominated for an Oscar for anything other than Citizen Kane... So I think that would be the only one that fits in Proto's criteria? Not sure, I'll wait for Proto to rule on that.

[Eastern Girl]

Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden - 1955 - Best Supporting Actress

I tend to have some kind of James Dean pick in these drafts, here's that pick in this one.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Hope it was nothing serious EG, and glad that you are no longer in the hospital!

[liamenator]

Holy jeez... Sorry EG! I didn't even see the first line of your Basinger pick about the hospital. Don't I look like a cold b@stard now!

Sorry about that... I was simply not paying attention!

[Eastern Girl]

No worries, liam, none at all. I appreciated your pointing out my draft fatas. :)

[Coach]

Ok since it's been like 2 days I beleive both DisplacedFlamesFan and Superflyer are Aked so I will choose in the Best Original Song category, Can You Feel the Love Tonight by Elton John from The Lion King

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[Displaced Flames fan]

Ok since it's been like 2 days I beleive both DisplacedFlamesFan and Superflyer are Aked so I will choose in the Best Original Song category, Can You Feel the Love Tonight by Elton John from The Lion King




As octo has mentioned a couple of times, don't use the thread title to determine who is up. I'm not AK'd...I picked only a few picks ago. You were actually AK'd.

[Coach]

As octo has mentioned a couple of times, don't use the thread title to determine who is up. I'm not AK'd...I picked only a few picks ago. You were actually AK'd.
Oh holy smokes I've been AKed for a while I guess. I just saw EG's pick on this page an figure that's where we were

[liamenator]

Jagger is up, followed by octo and Proto

[Jagger]

Yikes. Having trouble keeping up with these drafts now. Work has really picked up. Move on for now and I'll pick when I can. Thx.

[octothorp]

My pick is: in the Best Actor category, Adrian Brody in the Pianist. One of my favorite war films, I think Brody's performance in here is easily the best of his career (though he's had a few other good ones).

[Prototype]

Sorry Octo, is that your pick?

I'm going to pick, assuming it is.

While I'll probably get slagged for picking the movie, I'm going to take James Cameron for Titanic.

You have to admit this guy put in the work, and the research to what happened, and built an epic story around the tragic event.

More to come after lunch.

[octothorp]

Sorry Octo, is that your pick?

Yes, sorry, edited so it's more clear.

[Eastern Girl]

I think it's my turn, but I am actually really confused so I could be wrong, if so, ignore this... here goes...

In the It's an Honour just to be Nominated category... I will select Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond 2006. I thought he was really great as the guy just trying to get his family back together.

[Superflyer]

Well it has been over 12 hours since EG picked so I am guessing that DFF is AK.

So my next pick from the "It's and Honor to be Nominated" category from 1994, Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption.

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[Coach]

I will select in the Best Supporting Actor category Joe Pesci in Good Fellas

NSFW - Language

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[liamenator]

I will select, for my Best Actress, playing the archetypal nurse from hell... Nurse Ratched, Louise Fletcher from One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest

It sure as hell ain't easy to go up against Nicholson any time, let alone during his peak... And not only does Fletcher hold her own, she even outshines Jack in many moments of this fantastic movie. Without such a strong performance and worthy adversary for Nicholson in the Ratched role, the film would have fallen apart. Quite an accomplishment.

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[Jagger]

I'll take in
"It's an honor to be nominated"


Best Director nomination:

Robert Altman

for

The Player


Opening Scene


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Love one of the comments here: "this is porn for cinephiles." Is it ever! An 8 minute single shot....

[Displaced Flames fan]

Outstanding pick Liam. Glad to see both Fletcher and Nicholson go in this draft. Fletcher was just as awesome as Jack.

[liamenator]

Thanks Dis... It's definitely up there for one of the top-acted films of all time.

Stumptown AK'd, GirlySports is next.

[GirlySports]

With my next pick, I'll take:

Robin Williams - Best Supporting Actor - Good Will Hunting - 1997

Williams steals the show as the teacher/counselor who pushes Will Hunting, the genius, in the right direction.

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[Dion]

I will select, for my Best Actress, playing the archetypal nurse from hell... Nurse Ratched, Louise Fletcher from One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest

It sure as hell ain't easy to go up against Nicholson any time, let alone during his peak... And not only does Fletcher hold her own, she even outshines Jack in many moments of this fantastic movie. Without such a strong performance and worthy adversary for Nicholson in the Ratched role, the film would have fallen apart. Quite an accomplishment.

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Great pick liamenator!

That is also my favourite scene from the movie.

[Stumptown]

Sorry all, managed to space out pretty much my whole week.

With my next pick, in the category of Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. Horrible, crusty, drunk ... but Bogie makes him so appealing. Great screen chemistry with Hepburn as well. The scene with the leeches still haunts me.

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[Prototype]

Jagger is AKed? Ocoto... go...

And seeing as how quick this draft is going... do you guys want to expand it in some way? Maybe add another pick for each catagory? Wild cards maybe?

Let me know.

[Displaced Flames fan]

I'm always for expansion!

[octothorp]

For foreign language film, I'll go with Fellini's La Strada (1954).

[Jagger]

Sorry all. Crazy busy at work right now.

I'll take

Best Supporting Actress

Dame Judi Dench

Shakespeare in Love

She's actually hardly in this movie (8 minutes), which I know tons of people dislike mainly due to the Ryan best picture fiasco. However, she is absolutely incredible in every scene she does appear in. Dench is a fantastic actress and deserves all the plaudits she receives. She deserved the oscar for other performances before this so maybe this was a make up for those snubs.

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[Stumptown]

Jagger is AKed? Ocoto... go...

And seeing as how quick this draft is going... do you guys want to expand it in some way? Maybe add another pick for each catagory? Wild cards maybe?

Let me know.

I'm game for some additional categories - screenplay (original/adapted), art direction, cinematography?

[liamenator]

I'm game for some additional categories - screenplay (original/adapted), art direction, cinematography?

Definitely in for all of those categories.

What about best Oscar host?

[Coach]

definitely in for all of those categories.

what about best oscar host?
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[liamenator]

Proto, AK'd.

EasternGirl up!

[Eastern Girl]

I am going to pick in the category of Best Actress - Kathy Bates - Misery - 1990. She was disturbing.

If broken bones make you squirm, don't watch...
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As for additional categories, maybe we can have a category for movies or actresses/actors that you think could have been nominated, but weren't. More broad categories like that would be good, I think. I'm not sure how I would be able to pick for stuff like screenplays.

[Prototype]

I left mytwo least favourite categories for last. No idea what I'm taking here.

[Superflyer]

Well I guess that I am up. I was hoping that more people would pick their best picture choice to make it easier to lower it down for me as there are about 4 that I am going between.

So after a lot of thought my choice for Best Picture is Forest Gump.

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[Coach]

my favorite movie ever

[Coach]

In the Best Supporting Actress category I will select Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind

[liamenator]

OK... So Proto and DFF are AK'd.

For my Best Director pick, I am going to go with one of my favorite movies... the 2-time Oscar winner, yet still somehow under-appreciated, Milos Forman - Amadeus

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The visual language of the film is simply sublime, Forman also coaxed out two virtuoso performances, from character actors and co-best actor nominees, F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce (Tom Hulce of all people!)

But the truest measure of Forman's brilliance is in his integration of Mozart's music in the film. It plays a more integral role than any of the characters - he was wise to avoid casting big stars in the lead roles, as the music was always going to be the biggest star. But at the same time, it is never a distraction. It fits seamlessly into the world he has created, it fills the space outside the screen, and enriches the experience of watching the movie in a way I'm not sure any other movie has equaled.

This scene might be my favorite, in any movie, ever:
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[Displaced Flames fan]

In the Best Picture category, I'll take Gladiator.

Schindler's List would've been my first choice, but Liam didn't waste any time nabbing it. Really, it is strange how many Best Picture winners aren't among my favorite films.

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[liamenator]

I assume nobody is picking because nobody knows who is up:

Proto is still AK'd (for shame, comish!)
Stumptown is technically up, but at this point, I think any of: Proto, Stump, GirlySports, or Jagger can go.

Let's get things moving!

[Stumptown]

Me again already? That was fast. For my next pick, in the category of Best Picture - David Lean's sweeping epic Lawrence of Arabia. Hits all the marks - brilliant acting, stunning cinematography, breathtaking locations, big battle scenes with lots of horses and camels, political drama, all combine in a compelling portrait of a very complex and unique man.

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[GirlySports]

Stumpy stole my pick! Sort of! Same person but different film.

For my next pick I'll take:

David Lean - Best Director - 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Great film about PoWs, the scene of Nicholson and Saito in the hut negotiating the building of the bridge is one of the greatest ever filmed.

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[liamenator]

Proto (AK), Jagger, octo, Proto (again).

[Prototype]

Best Original Song - 8 Mile - Eminem - Lose Yourself - 2003

I loved the movie, and I think that Eminem, when he wants to be, is one of the greatest lyricists. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I still get pumped when I hear the song.

Best Foreign Film - The Counterfeiters (2007)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_(film)

I saw the trailor for this movie, and it actually looked half deceint. I'm not a fan of foreign movies for the most part, so it was hard to come up with a decision when it came to this category.

[liamenator]

nvm

[Eastern Girl]

I follow Proto and he just went so I assume it's actually my turn, but given the AK'ings and the length of time between picks lately, I'm just not sure anymore, but either way, screw it. I'm picking...

I will take in the Best Director category - Bob Fosse for Cabaret - 1972

[Displaced Flames fan]

I was really hoping someone would pick one or the other of my Best Director choices so I didn't have to make this decision. Alas, nobody has so forward I must go since I have no clue where I'm going with my SNUB pick!

So, in this category I will select, nudging out Mike Nichols' brilliant work on The Graduate, Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain.

One of the most beautifully made films I have ever seen. The look of it is astounding.

I'm afraid there's not much hope of finding a clip of the actual movie without someone's 'comedy' interfering.

[GirlySports]

I was really hoping someone would pick one or the other of my Best Director choices so I didn't have to make this decision. Alas, nobody has so forward I must go since I have no clue where I'm going with my SNUB pick!

So, in this category I will select, nudging out Mike Nichols' brilliant work on The Graduate, Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain.

One of the most beautifully made films I have ever seen. The look of it is astounding.

I'm afraid there's not much hope of finding a clip of the actual movie without someone's 'comedy' interfering.

Nah we're all adults!

If stumpy had taken david lean for the bridge on the river kwai, then I would have taken Ang Lee.

[Superflyer]

Well now we have our Foreign Language Film choice. Well after much deliberation I have chosen Jigokumon (Gate of Hell)

http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/library/Media%20Holdings/Jigokumon.jpg

A samurai falls in love with a woman whose life he saves. He is offered a reward for his bravery, and he asks if he can be married to that woman. Unfortunately, she is already married and the samurai's request cannot be fulfilled. He is steadfast in his desire, and tries forcibly to take her from her husband. The elements of many cheap thrillers exist in that scenario. Gate of Hell doesn't do too much to distinguish itself, although it's certainly not a thriller. Basically, the whole film is an excuse for its admittedly great climactic sequence, where the samurai invades the home of the woman and her husband at night. I really like how this sequence ends, but there are some questions left unanswered - annoyingly so. The husband even asks them aloud, and there really isn't a satisfactory explanation. Other than that sequence, most of the rest of the film is kind of tedious. Fortunately, the absolutely beautiful cinematography - was this Japan's first film in color? - always manages to be impressive. The costume design actually won an Academy Award, a much deserved one, if I may say so myself. It also won an honorary Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the year before that category was made official. Furthermore, it was the first Japanese film to win the Palme D'Or at Cannes.

[Coach]

in the Foreign Language Film category I will select Indochine (France)

[liamenator]

For my last pick, in the Best Supporting Actress category, I'll take Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind (1956)

The quintessential femme fatale of Sirkian melodrama!

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[Jagger]

Gawd. I'm flailing badly in these drafts now. I HATE WORK is all I'm going to say about that!

I'll take

Best Picture

The Sting

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/Stingredfordnewman.jpg/200px-Stingredfordnewman.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stingredfordnewman.jpg)

Going through the Best Picture list I discovered I really didn't like too many. I liked this caper movie though.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Going through the Best Picture list I discovered I really didn't like too many. I liked this caper movie though.


You and I both. Wasn't that kind of surprising? I liked The Sting as well, even when I first saw it as a youngster.

Given this shared sentiment, I'm interested to see how much I actually like out of the "Happy just to be nominated" crowd that I shall now begin to scour for that one special pick!

[liamenator]

^^^^
It just goes to show you how often the Academy gets it completely wrong.

Knee-jerk, crowd-pleasing emotional picks seem to win out every single year... Then 5 years down the road, the gaffs come to light as the best picture winner more often than not fades into forgettable mediocrity while many of the overlooked films display staying power and have retained a presence in cultural consciousness.

Some of the worst oversights, IMO:


How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon (1941)



Ordinary People over Raging Bull (1980)



Driving Miss Daisey over Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society and My Left Foot (1989)



Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas (1990)



Forrest Gump over Shawshank and Pulp Fiction (1994) (Apologies to those who love Forrest Gump, but this one was for shame!!!)



Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan (1998) (This one is probably the worst example, other than Citizen Kane snub)



Chicago over Gangs of New York, The Pianist, The Hours (2002)



Crash over Brokeback Mountain and Munich (2005)

[Coach]

I must protest Forrest Gump......definitely my favorite movie....although most of your list is pretty solid. But you have to admit its a tough choice between some of those

[liamenator]

I must protest Forrest Gump......definitely my favorite movie....although most of your list is pretty solid. But you have to admit its a tough choice between some of those

True, Forrest Gump was cute, and fun, and really tugged at the heartstrings... but Pulp Fiction was arguably the movie of the decade.

[Displaced Flames fan]

I love Forrest Gump, but it is third on that list.

Maybe they went with it because they couldn't stand the thought of picking Shawshank over Pulp Fiction, or vice versa. :)

[Coach]

well it is a vote isnt it? and lets face it...something like Pulp Fiction isnt exactly the academy's cup of tea. it could be that votes were split between the two and a lot of second places allowed Forrest to come out on top. I still think Forrest is one of THE best movies. Im not really a fan of Pulp Fiction, or Tarantino in general for that matter.

[liamenator]

well it is a vote isnt it? and lets face it...something like Pulp Fiction isnt exactly the academy's cup of tea. it could be that votes were split between the two and a lot of second places allowed Forrest to come out on top. I still think Forrest is one of THE best movies. Im not really a fan of Pulp Fiction, or Tarantino in general for that matter.

Ya, I think it was pretty much a 2-horse race that year.. As much as people love Shawshank now, at the time it still hadn't really caught on in the mainstream. Got a lot of nominations, but didn't win anything, it wasn't until the years started to pass that its reputation began to grow. Though perhaps it did in fact serve to split the vote, I'm not sure.

As for Pulp Fiction, I agree, it's not the academy's cup of tea, but for me that is the whole crux of the issue. The Oscars are less about recognizing groundbreaking moments for the medium of film (which, whatever one's value judgment of it is, I would argue Pulp Fiction has to be recognized as), and are instead a more conservative celebration of movies that capture the hearts of the members of the Academy.

And of course, there is something to be said about movies that move people, I guess it just boils down to how you conceptualize "best"... The academy obviously views the "best" film of the year as the one that elicits the most emotional response. Whereas, for me, I've always wished it would be more about recognizing the most original and interesting use of the medium.

Anyway, it's one of those things, there will always be parties on both sides of the issue. Makes for an interesting conversation, though!

[Jagger]

I love Forrest Gump, but it is third on that list.

Maybe they went with it because they couldn't stand the thought of picking Shawshank over Pulp Fiction, or vice versa. :)

But, frig, Shawshank was shut out completely when it had SEVEN nominations. Now that was a travesty. I love Pulp Fiction but Shawshank has to be the one movie I can watch time and again and still enjoy it tremendously.

[Displaced Flames fan]

But, frig, Shawshank was shut out completely when it had SEVEN nominations. Now that was a travesty. I love Pulp Fiction but Shawshank has to be the one movie I can watch time and again and still enjoy it tremendously.

I can, and have, watched all 3 of them multiple times and have achieved great enjoyment each time. It's especially fun to watch them with my kids and look at their reactions. That was great with Forrest Gump for me. Telling my kids they would love it, getting resistance but reluctant agreement to watch, and then watching them thoroughly engrossed in it. Great stuff.

On a similar note, my son and I watched 3:10 to Yuma last night. I kid you not, it was the third time I've watched it this week!

[liamenator]

OK, since I don't think anyone has any idea who is up, I'll just list what picks remain and anyone who still needs to fill a slot can do so at their leisure:

octo - Honour to be nominated
DFF - Honour
Stump - Fgn language
GirlySports - Original song
Jagger - Fgn language

Everyone else estan finito!

[octothorp]

In the Honour to be Nominated category, I'm taking LA Confidential. I thought Titanic was complete tripe, and while the other 1997 nominees were okay (particularly Good Will Hunting), LA Confidential was a spectacular film. Wonderful noir mood, great twists, fascinating era of Hollywood history, and a cast that included Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, Danny Devito, and David Strathairn, just about all of them giving perfect performances. It received "Best Film of the Year" awards from numerous critic lists.

[Displaced Flames fan]

The other 4 nominees that year were all great films. You could've picked any of them here for this category and done well!

[Displaced Flames fan]

In the "It's an honor just to be nominated" category, I'll take Casey Affleck's portrayal of the coward Robert Ford in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for which he was nominated for best supporting actor.

One of the most surprising performances of my movie watching career. I was blown away.

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[habernac]

my disappointment with that film, Dis, was Brad Pitt. He was very average. Affleck was indeed excellent.

[GirlySports]

I'll take:

Take My Breath Away(Top Gun) - Best Original Song - 1987

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[Coach]

^^^ Should've been "Highway to the Danger Zone"

[habernac]

^^^^
It just goes to show you how often the Academy gets it completely wrong.

Knee-jerk, crowd-pleasing emotional picks seem to win out every single year... Then 5 years down the road, the gaffs come to light as the best picture winner more often than not fades into forgettable mediocrity while many of the overlooked films display staying power and have retained a presence in cultural consciousness.

Some of the worst oversights, IMO:


How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon (1941)


Ordinary People over Raging Bull (1980)


Driving Miss Daisey over Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society and My Left Foot (1989)


Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas (1990)


Forrest Gump over Shawshank and Pulp Fiction (1994) (Apologies to those who love Forrest Gump, but this one was for shame!!!)


Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan (1998) (This one is probably the worst example, other than Citizen Kane snub)


Chicago over Gangs of New York, The Pianist, The Hours (2002)


Crash over Brokeback Mountain and Munich (2005)


good list, but Dances With Wolves was and continues to be awesome.

[liamenator]

good list, but Dances With Wolves was and continues to be awesome.

True, but Goodfellas was and continues to be... well... Goodfellas. The definitive modern crime-film.

Kevin Costner playing cowboys and indians is all well and good, but....

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