Airmchair Critics: Post your Oscar predictions!

[AbsolutDealage]

Calling all airmchair movie critics: Post up your picks for Oscar night here!

After Sunday, we will take a look at our predictions vs. popular critics...........

Check here for a list of nominees. Scoring will be based on all categories, if you do not post a prediction for a specific category, you get no credit.

Here's my picks:



Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Sean Penn for Mystic River

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Charlize Theron for Monster

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Tim Robbins for Mystic River

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain

Best Achievement in Directing
Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Lost in Translation

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
American Splendor

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Best Achievement in Editing
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Best Achievement in Art Direction
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Achievement in Costume Design
The Last Samurai

Best Achievement in Makeup
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Frances Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox ("Into the West")

Best Achievement in Sound
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Finding Nemo

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Finding Nemo

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Les Invasions barbares

Best Documentary, Features
Capturing the Friedmans

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Chernobyl Heart

Best Short Film, Animated
Boundin'

Best Short Film, Live Action
Squash

 

[Lager]

Best actor - Sean Penn
Best Actress - Naomi Watts
Best supporting actor - Tim Robbins
Best supporting actress - Renee Zellwegger

Best picture - Ichi the Killer

 

[pulse8]

Best Editing is probably going to be Cold Mountain.

Walter Murch is the type of editor that can win an award just with his name.

 

[dullard]

I predict the Oscar's will be another long, useless, boring program. It will consist entirely of celebrities patting each other on the back to ensure that the rest of us feel they are superior to the rest of the world. That way they ensure the elite in the club get the highest salaries and the struggling actors get squat.

 

[waylman]

actor-penn
film-lotr: rotk (although I feel Mystic River should win)

the rest dont matter

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: dullard
I predict the Oscar's will be another long, useless, boring program. It will consist entirely of celebrities patting each other on the back to ensure that the rest of us feel they are superior to the rest of the world. That way they ensure the elite in the club get the highest salaries and the struggling actors get squat.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: pulse8

So people are not allowed to be critics of award shows? The thread topic asks for critics to come in and discuss the Oscars.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: pulse8

So people are not allowed to be critics of award shows?

I didn't say that. I just think you're being outrageous with your idea of what the awards show is.

I almost get the impression you take it more serious than the nominees do with all the emotion you seem to have wrapped up in it.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: pulse8

I didn't say that. I just think you're being outrageous with your idea of what the awards show is.

I almost get the impression you take it more serious than the nominees do with all the emotion you seem to have wrapped up in it.

I'm just sick of awards shows.

We've got the acadamy awards, the national society of film critics awards, the broadcast film critics association awards, the national board of review awards, golden globe awards, annual directors guild of America awards, MTV movie awards, NAACP image awards, independent spirit awards, etc. Then add to that list the local movie awards: New York film critics circle awards, Los Angeles film critics association awards, Boston society of film critics awards, British academy of film and television awards, Cannes film festival winners, American Film Institute awards, etc.

Throw in the related entertainment awards (forgive the abbreviated names) : grammy, MTV music, Billboard, Gramophone, American Music, Country Music, Emmy's, Daytime emmey, George Foster Peabody awards, Alfred duPont awards, Annual Directors Guild awards, Tony's, Recipients of Kennedy center honors, New York Drama Critics, outer critics circle, drama league, drama desk, obie, Lucille Lortel, Capezio Dance, etc.

I'm sure I'm leaving off dozens of other awards shows that are all essentially the same thing. The huge abundance of awards makes me critical. They have turned from an important event into just another weekly awards show. They have become nothing other than celebrities patting each other on their back...

 

[Tom]

Celebrities are people too. Why shouldn't they get a pat on the back ?

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: pulse8

I didn't say that. I just think you're being outrageous with your idea of what the awards show is.

I almost get the impression you take it more serious than the nominees do with all the emotion you seem to have wrapped up in it.

I'm just sick of awards shows.

We've got the acadamy awards, the national society of film critics awards, the broadcast film critics association awards, the national board of review awards, golden globe awards, annual directors guild of America awards, MTV movie awards, NAACP image awards, independent spirit awards, etc. Then add to that list the local movie awards: New York film critics circle awards, Los Angeles film critics association awards, Boston society of film critics awards, British academy of film and television awards, Cannes film festival winners, American Film Institute awards, etc.

Throw in the related entertainment awards (forgive the abbreviated names) : grammy, MTV music, Billboard, Gramophone, American Music, Country Music, Emmy's, Daytime emmey, George Foster Peabody awards, Alfred duPont awards, Annual Directors Guild awards, Tony's, Recipients of Kennedy center honors, New York Drama Critics, outer critics circle, drama league, drama desk, obie, Lucille Lortel, Capezio Dance, etc.

I'm sure I'm leaving off dozens of other awards shows that are all essentially the same thing. The huge abundance of awards makes me critical. They have turned from an important event into just another weekly awards show. They have become nothing other than celebrities patting each other on their back...

No, actually. There are so many because they are good for ratings, and improve the profit margins of the networks that air them (in the form of advertising revenue).

 

[IcemanJer]

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