http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2006/0-9ABC/Breaking-and-Entering/trailer.php
Looks pretty interesting. Anthony Minghella seems to bring the best out of Jude, so I'm hoping their streak continues here.
Also, the predix will be finalized tomorrow and Monday. I just need to see "The Queen", which I'll be doing this afternoon.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Best Supporting Actor
Ben Affleck, Hollywoodland
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Brad Pitt, Babel
---Mostly consensus choices here (gross, I know). I still feel confident with Murphy, and probably Nicholson, too, as long as the reviews are good. And ever since Pitt moved to supporting I've changed my tune on the whole Babel thing.
Ben Affleck's going to be an interesting one to watch. At this point it could go either way, but if he manages either a BFCA or Globe nod (or both), he's probably in.
And Alan Arkin, ugh. If you recall, I had him in my backups in April, and I really, really, really wanted to predict him back then, too. I knew I shouldn't have gone with Carell. Arkin's the type of actor they love to nominate after being out of the spotlight for so many years. Oh well.
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Brad Pitt, Babel
---Mostly consensus choices here (gross, I know). I still feel confident with Murphy, and probably Nicholson, too, as long as the reviews are good. And ever since Pitt moved to supporting I've changed my tune on the whole Babel thing.
Ben Affleck's going to be an interesting one to watch. At this point it could go either way, but if he manages either a BFCA or Globe nod (or both), he's probably in.
And Alan Arkin, ugh. If you recall, I had him in my backups in April, and I really, really, really wanted to predict him back then, too. I knew I shouldn't have gone with Carell. Arkin's the type of actor they love to nominate after being out of the spotlight for so many years. Oh well.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Best Actor: A Work in Progress
I think at this point most will agree Forest Whitaker and Peter O'Toole are set for nominations.
After that, things get tricky.
I caught The Good Shepherd trailer this week and it was enough for me to keep Matt Damon in the running for now. It looks a bit on the bland side, but it's too hard to tell if it's going to be Oscar bland or just, well, bland bland.
Patrick Wilson is next up. I really don't expect him to be nominated (in fact: I almost went with Ken Watanabe until I realized "Letters'" release date was shaky), but I feel like this category needs younger blood, and if "Little Children" strikes a chord among critics and audience members, he could pull it off. If not, we could see nods for Ryan Gosling (yes please), Leo DiCaprio or probably somebody nobody's even talking about yet.
Like Richard Gere, perhaps? Ugh. I know I should give up on him, but Best Actor is weak enough right now for me to have a little fun. Besides, I hate predicting the consensus at this point. It makes me nervous.
More predix to come this weekend. In the meantime, how is Best Actor shaping up for you guys?
After that, things get tricky.
I caught The Good Shepherd trailer this week and it was enough for me to keep Matt Damon in the running for now. It looks a bit on the bland side, but it's too hard to tell if it's going to be Oscar bland or just, well, bland bland.
Patrick Wilson is next up. I really don't expect him to be nominated (in fact: I almost went with Ken Watanabe until I realized "Letters'" release date was shaky), but I feel like this category needs younger blood, and if "Little Children" strikes a chord among critics and audience members, he could pull it off. If not, we could see nods for Ryan Gosling (yes please), Leo DiCaprio or probably somebody nobody's even talking about yet.
Like Richard Gere, perhaps? Ugh. I know I should give up on him, but Best Actor is weak enough right now for me to have a little fun. Besides, I hate predicting the consensus at this point. It makes me nervous.
More predix to come this weekend. In the meantime, how is Best Actor shaping up for you guys?
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Post-Toronto Updates Begin
I threw The Departed back into the Adapted Screenplay category after a temporary lapse in judgement (dunno what I was thinking with The History Boys).
More updates to come this week, and I promise they're going to be a lot more exciting. I can't stand to look at my Supporting Actress predix any longer. Ugh.
More updates to come this week, and I promise they're going to be a lot more exciting. I can't stand to look at my Supporting Actress predix any longer. Ugh.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Toronto Winners
From OscarWatch:
Filmmaker Alejandro Gomez Monteverde received an unusual premonition at 4:30 a.m. yesterday that his film Bella might win big at the awards ceremony for the Toronto International Film Festival.
He was in bed when a ruckus awoke him. "It was my wife, celebrating and yelling and talking in her sleep," the Mexican-born U.S. filmmaker told the audience later yesterday at the Hilton Hotel Toronto. "She mentioned to me that she had a dream that we were here ... It's just amazing that a dream actually came true!"
Bella took the coveted People's Choice award at the close of the 10-day festival, catching everyone but Monteverde's prophetic wife unawares and demonstrating the power of small films. Not bad for a film that is still looking for a distribution deal — which it may well get before the weekend is out — and which came to Toronto with very little cash and buzz behind it.
The film about a depressed New York chef who befriends a pregnant waitress edged out two Gala movies in what festival co-director Noah Cowan described as very close balloting. Patrice Leconte's Mon meilleur ami (My Best Friend), took the first runner-up prize, and Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, the second runner-up.
Jennifer Baichwal's thought-provoking documentary Manufactured Landscapes also beat the odds, winning the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film in a year of stiff competition for the $30,000 prize. The Toronto filmmaker's artful portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, set against the theme of man's relentless altering of the environment, was praised by the jury for "finding exceptional beauty in the peril of our planet."
Honourable mention went to Toronto's Reg Harkema for his genre-smashing Monkey Warfare.
The $15,000 Citytv award for Best Canadian First Feature went to Toronto-born Noël Mitrani for Sur La Trace D'Igor Rizzi (On the Trail of Igor Rizzi), the story of a ex-pro soccer player who quits his native France for Montreal after the death of his Québécois ex-girlfriend.
Other winners:
Briton Gabriel Range's controversial speculative documentary Death of a President took the FIPRESCI prize, handed out by international critics, "for the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth."
The inaugural $10,000 Swarovski Cultural Innovation Award honouring artistry, innovation and audacity went to Turkey's Özer Kiziltan's Takva — A Man's Fear Of God, the story of a middle-aged man whose faith is suddenly challenged.
Joachim Trier's Reprise brought the Norwegian filmmaker the $10,000 DIESEL Discovery award for new talent. It's a comedy about two young men fighting long odds to become writers.
The $10,000 Short Cuts Canada Award for short films went to Quebec's Maxime Giroux for his short film Les Jours (The Days), a study of reaction to grief
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Seems like the festival went pretty well. I guess the only real surprise, Oscar-wise, is the resurgance of Peter O'Toole - and he'll be added to the Best Actor page in my next clean up.
I'm also pleased to see that "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" screened to raves. I can't tell you how badly I want to see that one, especially after the People's Choice mention and this featured clip.
I'll try to get the pages updated in the next few days. Right now I just need to take a closer look at some of the reviews, particularly "Babel".
Filmmaker Alejandro Gomez Monteverde received an unusual premonition at 4:30 a.m. yesterday that his film Bella might win big at the awards ceremony for the Toronto International Film Festival.
He was in bed when a ruckus awoke him. "It was my wife, celebrating and yelling and talking in her sleep," the Mexican-born U.S. filmmaker told the audience later yesterday at the Hilton Hotel Toronto. "She mentioned to me that she had a dream that we were here ... It's just amazing that a dream actually came true!"
Bella took the coveted People's Choice award at the close of the 10-day festival, catching everyone but Monteverde's prophetic wife unawares and demonstrating the power of small films. Not bad for a film that is still looking for a distribution deal — which it may well get before the weekend is out — and which came to Toronto with very little cash and buzz behind it.
The film about a depressed New York chef who befriends a pregnant waitress edged out two Gala movies in what festival co-director Noah Cowan described as very close balloting. Patrice Leconte's Mon meilleur ami (My Best Friend), took the first runner-up prize, and Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, the second runner-up.
Jennifer Baichwal's thought-provoking documentary Manufactured Landscapes also beat the odds, winning the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film in a year of stiff competition for the $30,000 prize. The Toronto filmmaker's artful portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, set against the theme of man's relentless altering of the environment, was praised by the jury for "finding exceptional beauty in the peril of our planet."
Honourable mention went to Toronto's Reg Harkema for his genre-smashing Monkey Warfare.
The $15,000 Citytv award for Best Canadian First Feature went to Toronto-born Noël Mitrani for Sur La Trace D'Igor Rizzi (On the Trail of Igor Rizzi), the story of a ex-pro soccer player who quits his native France for Montreal after the death of his Québécois ex-girlfriend.
Other winners:
Briton Gabriel Range's controversial speculative documentary Death of a President took the FIPRESCI prize, handed out by international critics, "for the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth."
The inaugural $10,000 Swarovski Cultural Innovation Award honouring artistry, innovation and audacity went to Turkey's Özer Kiziltan's Takva — A Man's Fear Of God, the story of a middle-aged man whose faith is suddenly challenged.
Joachim Trier's Reprise brought the Norwegian filmmaker the $10,000 DIESEL Discovery award for new talent. It's a comedy about two young men fighting long odds to become writers.
The $10,000 Short Cuts Canada Award for short films went to Quebec's Maxime Giroux for his short film Les Jours (The Days), a study of reaction to grief
---
Seems like the festival went pretty well. I guess the only real surprise, Oscar-wise, is the resurgance of Peter O'Toole - and he'll be added to the Best Actor page in my next clean up.
I'm also pleased to see that "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" screened to raves. I can't tell you how badly I want to see that one, especially after the People's Choice mention and this featured clip.
I'll try to get the pages updated in the next few days. Right now I just need to take a closer look at some of the reviews, particularly "Babel".
Sunday, September 10, 2006
The Wire
Don't forget to catch the season premiere of The Wire - my choice for the greatest drama series on television - tonight at 10. Only on HBO.
Catching Up
With my computer up and running again, I'm going to to spend the next few days catching up on everything I missed - particulary festival reviews and info, as reflected in my latest set up prediction updates.
I've done some browsing already, and was really pleased to see both "Little Children" and "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" receive good reviews from Variety. But as a whole it feels that Toronto has yet to kick into gear. Or am just I too out of the loop?
Can you think of anything major I missed out on?
I've done some browsing already, and was really pleased to see both "Little Children" and "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" receive good reviews from Variety. But as a whole it feels that Toronto has yet to kick into gear. Or am just I too out of the loop?
Can you think of anything major I missed out on?
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Ellen to Host the Oscars
Read about it here:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/television/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003118688
And sound off about it in the comments section.
As for me, I think it's a fine choice. I was kind of expecting them to give Jon Stewart another try, but what can you do? Hopefully Ellen will do better than she did at last year's Emmys. Oy.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/television/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003118688
And sound off about it in the comments section.
As for me, I think it's a fine choice. I was kind of expecting them to give Jon Stewart another try, but what can you do? Hopefully Ellen will do better than she did at last year's Emmys. Oy.
Friday, September 01, 2006
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