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
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.
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The other 4 nominees that year were all great films. You could've picked any of them here for this category and done well!
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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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Last edited by Displaced Flames fan; 03-31-2009 at 04:40 PM.
^^^^
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.
