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 How is getting best picture/director/screenplay not winning ? It's not about rap music, it's about a guy. There's a bit of rap in it. And the melody part of "It's Hard Out There For a Pimp" is really good, actually. I didn't know you were prejudiced....  Wanna make a bet on Weisz?  20 bucks.
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What a travesty that Walk the Line was not nominated for best pic, seriously! Crash was good, but not great and definitely not worthy of a best picture nod. Hopefully BM will win. I'm rooting for Reese for best actress although Felicity was sensational. I saw Hustle and Flow 2 weeks ago and fell in love with it! I think it was one of my top 5 movies this year. See the movie if you have not already. Hopefully it will win best original song. I would also love to see Amy Adams win best supporting actress. I saw Jubebug this weekend and as someone mentioned earlier she completely stole the show.
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It's a good movie anyways, you baby. And I'm sure you like it when Debbie raps, so don't lie.  yeah, yeah - "for the most part" - I get it. Trust me, it's a nice little movie. No rap haters were seriously injured while watching it. 20 bucks, you're on. 
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01-31-2006, 03:26 PM
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I wouldn't place bets on the actor/actress nominations...there is always surprises with those catagories. Best Movie is a easier catergory to bet on.
I think Best Picture will either be Capote or Good Night and Good Luck. Maybe Munich, but certainly not Crash or BM. Although I think A. Lee has a really good chance at Best Director.
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Nominee reactions courtesy of USA Today: (I especially liked Lee's bit)
The nominees speak USA TODAY's Donna Freydkin, Will Keck, Whitney Matheson, Karen Thomas and Susan Wloszczyna are tracking down the nominees to get their initial reactions. 9:43 a.m. A statement arrives from Judi Dench, up for best actress for Mrs. Henderson Presents: The nomination is "absolutely wonderful. I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day. I'm in such good company." 9:47 a.m. Amy Adams, who's in her early 30s and up for supporting actress in Junebug, calls. She's one of seven children and says she has "tons of phone calls to make." First up was her sister, and then her mother, Katherine, who was working the Starbucks counter in Colorado. "She had her phone waiting in her pocket, and I heard all the people in the store yell. It was great," says Adams, a first-time nominee. To celebrate, "I'll invite some friends over and have a glass of champagne and order Chinese food. Maybe we'll go up to (West Hollywood roadhouse) Barney's Beanery. Maybe." Her date for the ceremony will be boyfriend Darren Legallo. Adams hopes she'll be able to meet fellow nominee Frances McDormand (North Country) and see best actor nominee Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow). "He's smooth and he's fantastic and he can dance. I'm looking forward to sharing a dance with Terrence that night." —Karen Thomas 9:54 a.m. Ang Lee, who directed top-nominated film Brokeback Mountain, sounded relaxed. He spent his morning taking his son to school and did not watch the announcement. His assistant called him with the news. "I tried to not worry about it. I tried to go back to sleep, but then the phone rang, and I heard about the results," he says. He's not celebrating with a glass of bubbly. Instead, says Lee, he'll have two cups of a fine Taiwanese tea he opened up because it's a special occasion. And he's not worried about the competition come Oscar night. "I don't want this to be the movie to beat," he says of Brokeback. "This year, I really enjoy this group. It's a great bunch of people. We're happy for each other. There's a certain togetherness. There's a family kind of feeling. We're all small movies. Even Steven's movie is relatively small. It's issue-oriented, emotion-oriented, and when society finds it, it's a positive feeling in a frustrating time we're in. It's the most sweet and unselfish year." —Donna Freydkin 10 a.m. Terrence Howard, up for actor for Hustle & Flow, woke up at 5:19 a.m. in his room at the Four Season Hotel in Los Angeles, certain he had missed the Oscar announcement. Realizing that no one had called him, he assumed he wasn't nominated. "I called downstairs and asked them to turn off my phone," says Howard. "I didn't want to do to 'consolation' interviews." Then he realized the announcements would be made at 5:30, and he canceled the order. Again, he felt disappointment wash over him as his name was not announced for supporting actor. "That's what everyone said I had the best shot at," Howard says. "I was really happy for Matt Dillon, his co-star in Crash who received a nomination for supporting actor. "But you can't help but be a little disappointed." Then he heard his name, for best actor for Hustle & Flow. "It felt like I was watching TV in a dream," he says. "I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man." His first call went to his parents, and everyone broke down in tears. "We're crying, laughing. Then my father says 'Aren't you glad I made you?' I knew he was going to take some of the credit. You just can't describe what this is like." —Scott Bowles 10:01 a.m. Real-life couple Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger, were both nominated for their Brokeback Mountain roles. Williams sounds exhausted after being woken up by the couple's publicist with the news. The new mom has been up much of the night with 3-month-old Matilda. "We're in L.A., so it was early," she says. "We're just trying to wake up." Her plan for the day? "We're just doing interviews now, and Heath is taking a yoga class with me today, and that's as far as we've gotten," she says. "Matilda was up at midnight, and she was up at 3 in the morning, and she was up at 5 in the morning. It's been a long night." The baby gurgles while her mom talks on the phone. "I just fed her, but she's really chatty this morning." Williams had not watched the nomination announcement and hence wasn't sure who the other contenders were. But, she says, "I'm so happy for Heath, and I'm so happy for Jake (Gyllenhaal). They both really deserved it." The biggest surprise so far? "Me! I was surprised by me!" Ledger follows, saying they are both "pretty exhausted. We gave each other a little kiss and fell back asleep, and then people started calling us." After they're done doing interviews, "We'll go back to bed and sleep. We'll have a little cuddle, and that'll be about it." Even though he was one of the favorites going in, Ledger says he was shocked by his best actor nom. "I never really have great expectations for my work or the movies I'm in. It's a wonderful surprise," he says. "I'm very proud of everyone, and I'm very proud of Jake." He's even more thrilled that Jon Stewart is hosting the show. "We adore him. The world is a better with him in it, and I think the Academy Awards will be better" with him hosting. —D.F. 10:45 a.m. Rachel Weisz, nominated for best supporting actress for The Constant Gardener, heard the news in a rather unique fashion. "I'm still in L.A., from the SAGs, and I was woken up by a South American radio station that had tracked me down and wanted me to be live on the air," she laughs. "I guess they called every hotel in L.A.! I realized it's time for an alias." Weisz, who has already won both the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globe awards, calls her year "pretty incredible." But she won't be celebrating too wildly today, she says. "It's still 8 in the morning and I'm pregnant. (Dad is director Darren Aronofsky) I can't really crack open the champagne. I'll have to have a smoothie or something." And so far, she hasn't talked to anyone close to her, busy as she has been doing interviews. "I haven't been able to call anyone, but my mum called me," she says. Weisz is thrilled that all the movies nominated this year have a political theme and message. "People are hungry for stories that hold up a mirror to the culture we live in. I think it's great," she says. So, has the pregnant actress thought about what she's wearing to the Oscars? "Oh gosh, not yet! But I will, I will, of course! I have to worry about what frock to wear." —D.F. 11:45 a.m.March of the Penguins director Luc Jacquet first heard he was nominated for best documentary feature on the train from Paris, where he's been working on his next project. Will he attend next month's ceremony in L.A.? "I wouldn't miss it for the world," he said via translator. As for the writer/director's next project, he says "it's in the same spirit as March of the Penguins and will be a sort of mix between documentary and fiction." The plot involves "a meeting between a young girl and a fox that she finds in the forest. She falls in love with the fox and she wants to seduce him, she wants to tame him. ... It's an adventure of initiation of a young girl in the natural world." Jacquet added that he still didn't know why Penguins became such a worldwide hit last year. "At the very least, the Emperor penguin is an incredibly sympathetic character, and his story is truly a tragedy," he said. "The film has become something that people have embraced all around the world. Audiences have sort of taken the film with them and into their hearts."—Whitney Matheson 11:15 a.m. Matt Dillon, who was nominated for best supporting actor for his role in Crash got the news in his New York hotel room. "I just can't believe that people remembered this movie. It premiered in Toronto like a year and a half ago, and I'm not sure anyone even bought it back then. I knew we had made a good movie, but you're never sure whether people are going to find it and remember it. It's just such an awesome feeling. You feel a little funny, because it's such an ensemble cast, and everyone is so strong in it. But you hope the attention you get will bring more attention to the movie. Because you don't get a lot of movies that are really trying to say something." —S.B. 12:12 p.m. Best supporting actor nominee Paul Giamatti is in Toronto rehearsing Shoot 'Em Up, a movie he's working on with Clive Owen. Does he feel vindicated after not getting a nomination for Sideways last year? Not really. " I feel great. I feel always stunned by this stuff," he laughs. "My manager called me this morning, first thing in the a.m., then my agent, then my wife." Giamatti says he's more stunned that Cinderella Man's leading actor Russell Crowe was overlooked this year. "That's a huge shame. It surprised me," says Giamatti. "I thought for sure he would (be nominated). It's a wonderful thing that I got nominated but my performance is kind of meaningless without his. It doesn't make any sense to me, but I don't know how these things work. It's a drag, it's a bummer." He hasn't talked to director Ron Howard yet, but that's due to technical difficulties. "My cellphone died, so now I'm being berated by everybody. I'm recharging my phone," says Giamatti. —D.F. 12:30 p.m. George Clooney, was shooting a French coffee commerical in LA. "I'm getting paid more for this than I was in the past year and a half," he says. He says he worked for scale as an actor and handed over his DGA check in order to cut costs on his two nominated labors of love, Good Night, and Good Luck and Syriana. On how he feels about being a triple Oscar threat: "I'll be drinking tonight." Does getting three nominations as an actor, director and writer – a feat previously equaled by only Woody Allen (Annie Hall), Warren Betty (Reds and Heaven Can Wait), and Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) – mean he can do anything he wants now in Hollywood? "I've been able to do anything I want for five or six years now. I'll continue to do it." If he wins on Oscar night, will he give another humorous speech liked the one he gave at the Golden Globes? "I had a really good one for the Screen Actors Guild. But then that Paul Giamatti spoiled it. Damn that Paul Giamatti. I've never liked that guy." Now that he has joined the club of directing actors, will he grow a bushy beard and make movies in archaic languages? "Not yet. If Mel Gibson makes $600 million for a film he can grow any beard he wants." —Susan Wloszczyna 12:36 p.m. Best supporting actress nominee Catherine Keener (Capote) said in a statement: "I am so happy to be part of such a great movie and am grateful to Bennett Miller for including me." 1:28 p.m. Steven Spielberg, who won an Oscar in 1993 for Schindler's List, says he's stunned his contentious terrorism drama Munich got so much recognition. "I wasn't certain we'd receive nominations in those three tall categories," he says, referring to the film's nominations in the picture, directing and best adapted screenplay slots. "I was just absolutely thrilled that the academy had the courage to recognize Munich. They were able to make up their own minds. It's a very controversial film and controversy is not exactly a calling card when it comes to Academy Award time." Spielberg did not watch the announcements. "The phone rang at ten to six, and I was sound asleep," he says. "My wife (Kate Capshaw) picked up the telephone and it was my associate Kristie Macosko? from the Bahamas, giving us the good news." They're going to celebrate by "finding the best Oscar dress my wife has ever worn!" And being nominated for the 11th time never gets old: "I love that they're not tired of me!"—D.F. 1:41 p.m. A transcript from Reese Witherspoon's early-morning interview with German TV outlets makes its way to us. "I can't get any of my family on the phone because it's too early there but it's exciting," the best actress nominee (Walk the Line) told APTN during a press conference in Berlin, where the film is just opening. "I take it very seriously." The actress said she had dozed off in her Berlin hotel during the annoucements (she was "jetlagged," after flying Monday night from the London set of Penelope to Berlin), when she suddenly heard her publicist screaming. "I was having a dream...I was like, what is she screaming about? Doesn't she know I'm asleep but it was funny." The Oscar nod was totally unexpected, she says. "You never know what people are like in every different group that votes on everything...it's completely different and made up of completely different people so, yeah I was completely surprised and thrilled and...I never thought I'd be here anyway. I never thought I'd be nominated for anything."—K.T. 2:05 p.m. Jake Gyllenhaal's on set in Los Angeles, shooting Zodiac and getting ready to film a seven-page scene with Mark Ruffalo. Gyllenhaal didn't watch the nominations but got a call from his agent with the news that he'd earned a best supporting actor nomination for playing a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. "My phone voicemail was filled with messages so she couldn't leave a message so she called me at my house," he says. Tonight, he'll "definitely be doing something" to celebrate, he says. As for Brokeback's eight nominations, says Gyllenhaal, "the more attention that it gets and the more it's championed by audiences and critics, the more people are likely to see it." He chatted with castmates Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams this morning. "Heath and I talked and I got a, 'Congratulations, mate!'" he says. And Gyllenhaal, who was dating Kirsten Dunst, has no word on who'll be his Oscar date. "I don't know!" he laughs. —D.F. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/...reaction_x.htm
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I don't think BM will win Best Picture. I would be shocked if it did. Same goes with Crash. Usually Director/Best Picture go hand in hand, but not always and probably not this year. I really see Capote, Good Night and Good Luck getting the top honors. But if it's split, the nod might go to A. Lee for director. It's about marketing to a large degree.
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I just really think BM will get Best Picture. I think Good Night and Good Luck has lost some steam, and I just can't see Capote getting it. Oh, well. We have a month to speculate.
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I'm curious as to how much The Weinstein Company is pushing Huffman for Best Actress. It would be very surprising if Harvey Weinstein isn't going all out on her.
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Thing is with Capote, it is good, very good. My favorite (oscar nominated) film this year. Not to mention that Capote's book 'In Cold Blood' was read by everyone in the 60's. I mean everyone read it. So it's important in that respect, which is why I think it may win. There are some old relics in the academy that account for a large portion of the votes. But we'll see...and I don't care what wins. As long as it is not Crash.
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