¡Oscars®! La revancha de Martin

Recaps

By Tabloid Baby | Monday, February 26, 2007 | 7:30 am | 10 Comments
Posted in: Recaps

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At least the producers of the Academy Awards® know now that it’s not a good idea to hold back on the major awards until the last third of the broadcast. For the first couple of hours, you’d think you were watching a PBS broadcast of an awards show from Madrid. Ellen DeGeneres running up the aisles with a fake gospel group might be a thrill for an afternoon talk show audience, but doesn’t really match up to Billy Crystal inserting himself into Best Picture® clips. Though movie quotes were the theme of the Oscar® ad campaign, the flashing of “Well, do ya, punk?” under nominee clips was a little disconcerting. Did Forest Whitaker really have to read his from a piece of paper? He’s an actor, for Chrissake–

Did you survive the Oscars®? You can add your own thoughts.

All the winners…. after the jump…Winners of the 79th annual Academy Awards®
for outstanding film achievements of 2006

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Helen Mirren in The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)

Best animated feature film of the year
Happy Feet (Warner Bros.) George Miller

Achievement in art direction
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse)
Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero
Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta

Achievement in cinematography
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Guillermo

Achievement in costume design
Marie Antoinette (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero

Achievement in directing
The Departed (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese

Best documentary feature
An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production
Davis Guggenheim

Best documentary short subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

Achievement in film editing
The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Thelma Schoonmaker

Best foreign language film of the year
The Lives of Others A Wiedemann & Berg Production
Germany

Achievement in makeup
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) David Martí and Montse Ribé

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth

Best motion picture of the year
The Departed (Warner Bros.)
A Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Graham King, Producer

Best animated short film
The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada)
A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production
Torill Kove

Best live action short film
West Bank Story
An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production
Ari Sandel

Achievement in sound editing
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

Achievement in sound mixing
Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton

Achievement in visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall

Adapted screenplay
The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Screenplay by William Monahan

Original screenplay
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
Written by Michael Arndt

–Tabloid Baby®

10 Comments

  1. 1
    JasonR
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 7:49 am

    Ellen did ok. Sometimes very funny, mostly just amusing but always unoffensive and never edgy. She gave them just what they wanted and what Jon Stewart or Chris Rock never could.

  2. 2
    LaSexorcisto
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 9:00 am

    Ellen was eager to please. After all she did say her dream was to be the host of the Oscars. Whereas Chris Rock couldn’t give a damn. Jon Stewart was sort of on the fence.

    This was a boring boring year. No real surprise winners. J-Hud finally can disappear from my TV screen. Will and Jada’s kid is a smug little thing. Abigail Breslin should quit acting now to keep her soul. And oh yea, Helen Mirren = hot. Now there’s a woman that brings it.

  3. 3
    shiaobundan
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 9:35 am

    I’m glad The Departed did so well. Its one of the best Hollywood movies in a looong time!

    What was up with DIANE KEATON? Did anyone else notice how high/drunk she was while presenting? I laughed my ass off at how uncomfortable Jack Nicholson looked.

  4. 4
    Donna Martin Graduates!
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 9:41 am

    Notable absence of stars… Cruise but no Holmes, no Johnny Depp, no Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Halle Berry, Denzel, Goldie or Kate Hudson, no Brad and Jen or Zeta Jones and Douglas…

    Don’t they invite former winners anymore?

    Also, I told my tivo to tape an extra half hour, but missed the final three awards! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

    Guess I’ll find them on youtube.

  5. 5
    msu11y28
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 10:50 am

    Donna Martin Graduates, I was thinking the same thing about the lack of the usual celebs. Maybe Brad was a no-show cause he didn’t get a nomination for Babel?
    As for Matt Damon, it seems like he’s been MIA this entire awards season. Maybe he too is bitter about the lack of noms? I like Matt a lot though and hope he has a better excuse for not showing up than that.

  6. 6
    Donna Martin Graduates!
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 11:30 am

    Well, Damon is currently shooting The Bourne Ultimatum all over Europe and Nth Africa, so I guess that’s his excuse.

    BTW — Nicholson is filming a movie where he plays a guy with terminal cancer, hence the bald head.

  7. 7
    Foxbase Alpha
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    How could one of the greatest thespians of our time be SNUBBED during the memoriam portion of last night’s program. Although she never received an Oscar, much less a nomination, how could the Academy ignore the acting prowness of Anna Nicole smith in cinematic masterpieces as ‘Illegal Aliens’, ‘Skyscraper’, ‘To the Limit’, ‘Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult’ and ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’. Anna Nicole, you were sorely overlooked…

  8. 8
    msu11y28
    Posted February 26, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    Foxbase, I read somewhere that there’s actually a cutoff date to make the Oscar death montage…something like early Feb? So I guess if a celeb wants to make the montage, best to die by Jan. 31. So maybe we’ll see Anna in the montage next year…

  9. 9
    TWilliams
    Posted February 28, 2007 at 11:51 am

    msu — I have read that too. Jodie Foster introduced the montage and she even said her best friend — who was an Oscar winner and would therefore make it into the montage — died two weeks ago. I don’t recall his name, but I did look to see if he had been included in the montage and he wasn’t. Don Knotts died right before the ceremony last year and was included in this year’s.

    So Anna Nicole fans, she could be included next year.

    As for the Oscars: Okay, NOW Jennifer Hudson has an Oscar but Kate Winslet doesn’t. Argh!

  10. 10
    msu11y28
    Posted March 1, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    TWilliams, my sentiments exactly on Kate! I love her, and it seems like she’s never nominated at the right time, usually during years in which there is that one performance that just sweeps everything, ie the late 90s vs. Helen Hunt in As Good as it Gets, a few years back vs. Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby…
    A shame, however, that she lost the best supp. actress in the mid-90s to Mira Sorvino, has that woman ever even been seen since?

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