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

[liamenator]

Originally Posted by 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:

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

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by MattyC

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]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

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]

Originally Posted by Prototype

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.

[Coach]

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

NSFW - Language

[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.

[Jagger]

I'll take in

"It's an honor to be nominated"

Best Director nomination:

Robert Altman

for

The Player

Opening Scene

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.