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Live Oscar Results 2007
As we go into the Oscars I'm going to give some live commentary as the show goes on!
Ok...I don't do commentary on dresses (this in response to an email asking me to comment on that!)
Ellen isn't doing real great, but I loved Steve Carrell's reaction to her jokes and the gospel choir was a nice touch.
Best Art Direction: The Oscar goes to Pans Labyrinth
Movie Guy Said - Dreamgirls or Pans Labyrinth
Ok, i'm loving the Will Ferrel / Jack Black / John C. Reilly song. (Oh, brother)
Best Makeup: The Oscar goes to Pan's Labyrinth
Movie Guy Said - Pans Labyrinth
Best Animated Short: The Oscar goes to The Danish Poet
Movie Guy Said - The Little Match Girl (the kids presenting were cute)
Best Short Subject: The Oscar goes to West Bank Story
Movie Guy Said - West Bank Story
The sound effects Choir thing was cute. Not great, but cute.
Best Sound Editing: The Oscar goes to Letters from Iwo Jima
Movie Guy Said - Even odds for all, but Letters from Iwo Jima had a slight edge.
Best Sound Mixing: The Oscar goes to Dreamgirls (a great acceptance speech)
Movie Guy Said - Dreamgirls
Best Supporting Actor: The Oscar goes to Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine (!)
Movie Guy Said - Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
(a well deserved win!)
The bit with Al Gore WAS pretty funny at the end (if off-beat).
Best Animated Feature: The Oscar goes to Happy Feet
Movie Guy Said - Cars
Nice short film on writers in film.
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Oscar goes to The Departed (Great Speech! Go Boston.)
Movie Guy Said - The Departed (Borat as Spoiler)
Best Costume Design: The Oscar goes to Marie Antoinette (I love the Devil Wears Prada parody in presenting)
Movie Guy Said - Marie Antoinette or Dreamgirls
Best Cinematography: The Oscar goes to Pans Labyrinth
Movie Guy Said - Pans Labyrinth
Best Visual Effects: The Oscar goes to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest
Movie Guy Said - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest
Wonderful collection of clips from past Foreign Language films!
Best Foreign Film: The Oscar goes to The Lives of Others (Germany)
Movie Guy Said - Pans Labyrinth
Snakes on a Plane!!
Best Supporting Actress: The Oscar goes to Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (Turn on the waterworks!)
Movie Guy Said - Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Best Documentary Short: The Oscar goes to The Blood of Yingzhou District
Movie Guy Said - Recycled Life
Best Documentary Feature: The Oscar goes to An Inconvenient Truth (Great Comic bits by Jerry Seinfeld in presenting)
Movie Guy Said - An Inconvenient Truth
Lifetime Achievement Oscar goes to my favorite composer: Ennio Morricone!!! (Wow!!) - The song Celine Deon is singing, Morricone wrote as a Score piece for Once Upon a Time in America. (Didn't know Eastwood spoke Italian, did you?) Maestro! Provicimo!
Best Score: The Oscar goes to Babel (That's two in a row, winning last year for Brokeback Mountain)
Movie Guy Said - Either The Queen or Babel
That was by far the SHORTEST President's speech ever (I like it!)
Best Original Screenplay: The Oscar goes to Little Miss Sunshine
Movie Guy Said - The Queen or Little Miss Sunshine (but a tight race overall)
The songs nominated from Dreamgirls as sung by the cast (less Eddie Murphy), Zowie!
Best Song: The Oscar goes to I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth
Movie Guy Said - Patience from Dreamgirls
Great film clips on 'America through it's movies' from Michael Mann
Best Editing: The Oscar goes to The Departed
Movie Guy Said - The Departed (with Babel as a spoiler)
In Memorium
Best Actress: The Oscar goes to Helen Mirren for The Queen (very generous speech and funny bit with the statue aka. "The Queen")
Movie Guy Said - Helen Mirren for The Queen
Best Actor: The Oscar goes to Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (Wonderful speech and long overdue for a wonderful Supporting player making good.)
Movie Guy Said - Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland with DiCaprio a spoiler
Best Director: The Oscar goes to Martin Scorsese for The Departed !!!! LOOOOOONNNNNGGG overdue win and a wonderful speech.
Movie Guy Said - 3 way race for Letters, Babel, and Departed
Great presentation by the original 3 amigos Coppola, Spielberg, and Lucas to the 4th Amigo (Scorsese).
The Big One, Best Picture:
And the Oscar goes to.......
The Departed !!!!
Movie Guy Said - Babel Vs. The Departed |
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