Oscars 2008 Pre-game Shenanigans

I see Ed is going Swinton... haha, I'm Not There is "possibly more obnoxious than American Gangster," that guy is getting a talking-to when I finally meet him...

I'm pretty sure I remember him saying that movie would've been on his list of "worsts" if they would have done them this year.

YES. Mr. 29 Palms!

I hated that one too.

anyone read EW's usual interviews with anonymous insider voters? Not a single one of the four voted for Christie or Blanchett.

Yeah, and all six voted for Bardem too, so :( for Holbrook.

i'm taking holbrook (mostly because i don't want bardem to win, i haven't even seen into the wild), and blanchett for similarly rah-rah reasons.

well, are these individuals reliable bellwethers? Like, the Baldwin brothers?

Holbrook's nomination is honor enough; before this role he'd become to me exactly what he was when I was 7 years old: Mark Twain (not even Deep Throat).

Can't see the Academy going Cotillard/Cate; do they want bio-melodramas or freewheeling meditations?

I really don't see lack-of-Dylan-fandom being the explanation for ppl who dislike/hate INT; I mostly liked Velvet Goldmine and never really got (retrospectively) the faggy glam thing...

Gad, I'd no idea Holbrook was in "Evening Shade."

(I'm not watching season 5 yet but it seems like she'd have a pretty big role?)

not really, she's just in the background. underutilized (i love her), but the wire has so many good people that everybody ends up underutilized.

help me fill out my pool ballot. sound editing/mixing? should i just assume these are going to no country?

consensus seems to be that Bourne may well win one of those.

(also see Slant & FilmExperience links above)

foreign language? i haven't seen any of these. counterfeiters has some buzz i guess.

don't bet vs Nazis

i guess it helps that it's austrian, so they don't have to give it to two german films in a row.

ok i went ahead and put bardem. sigh. (will be kicking myself if hh pulls it out.) sticking with cate, though, on general principles.

shitload of "best oscars ever" guff in UK press today. will be so glad for it all to be over. wonder if 'semi pro' and 'vantage point' will get a look-in next year. guess not.

A friend insists Cotillard will win, and maybe in another year she might since the role is pure Oscar bait (playing a real person, she cries, screams, lunges across the room).

(It will be Dee and not Swinton I mark on my personal pool ballot, btw.)

Not on uk tv?

apparently not! i think it might be on sky?

I can only seem to find "red carpet coverage" on E, which we don't get.

weird

it is really. guess the beeb was priced out, and to be fair no-one watches it anyway -- snug in that popular 2am on monday morning slot.

You'd think someone would at least pick it up to show Monday night, like itv(?) did w the grammys. I'd watch it.

i searched radiotimes.com for 'oscar' and 'academy' and got jack.

it's on sky premier pay-for-view and sky one tomorrow night. really looking forward to the clips on the jonathan ross show*

isn't it on Sky Movies? It was last year.

uh, xpost.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html

mmm chocolate swirl!

Since (soon)this is no longer pre-game, shouldn't there be a show/postmortem thread?

OSCARTOPSY 2008

It's on Sky Movies right now.

OK, I laughed like a fool over Jon Stewart's Olympia Dukakis gag.

Badolf Titler. Hilarious, Jon. Really. Who's writing these jokes, Nelson Muntz?

I hope that entire room gets somehow blown to smithereens and only Javier Bardem is somehow spared

Rolling CHALLENGING OPINIONS thread 2008

I can't bring myself to start a new thread in October, but it has begun:

http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/10/oscar-watch-wal.html