2007 Oscar Nominations Announced; Cars, Pirates 2, and more

[AwallaceUNC]

Oscar nominations have been announced for 2007. <i>Dreamgirls</i> leads the pack with 8 nominations, though it is not included in the Director or Best Picture categories. Disney earned 7 nominations.

Best Picture
"Babel"
"The Departed"
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"The Queen"

Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"
Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"
Peter O'Toole, "Venus"
Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"
Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

Actress
Penelope Cruz, "Volver"
Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"
Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"
Kate Winslet, "Little Children"

Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine"
Jackie Earle Haley, "Little Children"
Djimon Hounsou, "Blood Diamond"
Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"
Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"

Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza, "Babel"
Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"
Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine"
Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"
Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"

Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel"
Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"
Clint Eastwood, "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Stephen Frears, "The Queen"
Paul Greengrass, "United 93."

Foreign Language Film
"After the Wedding," Denmark"
Days of Glory (Indigenes), Algeria
"The Lives of Others," Germany
"Pan's Labyrinth," Mexico
"Water," Canada

Adapted Screenplay
Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, "Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, "Children of Men"
William Monahan, "The Departed"
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, "Little Children"
Patrick Marber, "Notes on a Scandal."

Original Screenplay
Guillermo Arriaga, "Babel"
Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"
Guillermo del Toro, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Peter Morgan, "The Queen"

Animated Feature Film
"Cars"
"Happy Feet"
"Monster House"

Art Direction
"Dreamgirls"
"The Good Shepherd"
"Pan's Labyrinth"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
"The Prestige."

Cinematography
"The Black Dahlia"
"Children of Men"
"The Illusionist"
"Pan's Labyrinth"
"The Prestige"

Sound Mixing
"Apocalypto"
"Blood Diamond"
"Dreamgirls"
"Flags of Our Fathers"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"

Sound Editing
"Apocalypto"
"Blood Diamond"
"Flags of Our Fathers"
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"

Original Score
"Babel", Gustavo Santaolalla
"The Good German," Thomas Newman
"Notes on a Scandal," Philip Glass
"Pan's Labyrinth," Javier Navarrete
"The Queen," Alexandre Desplat

Original Song
"I Need to Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth," Melissa Etheridge
"Listen" from "Dreamgirls," Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven
"Love You I Do" from "Dreamgirls," Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett
"Our Town" from "Cars," Randy Newman
"Patience" from "Dreamgirls," Henry Krieger and Willie Reale.

Costume
"Curse of the Golden Flower"
"The Devil Wears Prada"
"Dreamgirls"
"Marie Antoinette"
"The Queen"

Documentary Feature
"Deliver Us From Evil"
"An Inconvenient Truth
"Iraq in Fragments"
"Jesus Camp"
"My Country, My Country"

Documentary (short subject)
"The Blood of Yingzhou District"
"Recycled Life"
"Rehearsing a Dream"
"Two Hands"

Film Editing
"Babel"
"Blood Diamond"
"Children of Men"
"The Departed"
"United 93"

Makeup
"Apocalypto"
"Click"
"Pan's Labyrinth"

Animated Short Film
"The Danish Poet"
"Lifted"
"The Little Matchgirl"
"Maestro"
"No Time for Nuts"

Live Action Short Film
"Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)"
"Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)"
"Helmer & Son"
"The Saviour"
"West Bank Story"

Visual Effects
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
"Poseidon"
"Superman Returns"

Academy Award winners previously announced this year:

HONORARY AWARD (Oscar statuette)
Ennio Morricone

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD (Oscar statuette)
Sherry Lansing

[Ting Ting]

Hooray for Jennifer Hudson! After seeing her at the Golden Globes, I was really hoping she'd be nominated for an Oscar.

[Nandor]

I'm happy as long as The Little Matchgirl gets the Oscar.

[goofystitch]

The Oscar Nominations are in and Disney has a few films nominated this year.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs (Art Direction); Cheryl A. Carasik (Set Decoration)
Visual Effects: John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
Sound: Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff
Sound Editing: Christopher Boyes and George Watters II

Cars
Animated Feature: John Lasseter
Original Song: "Our Town" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Subsidaries of Disney:

Apocalypto
Makeup: Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Sound: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara
Sound Editing: Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar

The Prestige
Cinematography: Wally Pfister
Art Direction: Nathan Crowley (Art Direction); Julie Ochipinti (Set Decoration)

The only one of those films I didn't see was Apocalypto and I have to say I'm not surprised by any of the nominations this year.

Many of you may be wondering what films Cars is up against for best animated feature. They are Happy Feet and Monster House. I didn't see Happy Feet, but Cars deffinatley shines over Monster House and I've heard mixed things about Happy Feet, so I'm assuming Cars will take that one home.

[Luke]

Don't forget "The Little Matchgirl", the Disney-animated short that is nominated. I'll merge this with the existing Oscar thread in Off-Topic, since the discussions to be sparked are probably very similar.

[kbehm29]

I'm glad to see something good happen for Poseidon. I've always felt that that movie was worth more than people gave it credit for. I enjoyed it.

And I really hope Pirates and Cars get the awards they deserve - Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy too.

[Simba3]

I'm a little upset that "Dreamgirls" got snubbed from the Best Picture category. Granted it was nominated for many other awards, I definately thought it was worthy of at LEAST a Best Pic nomination. However, other than that I can't complain much - I'm pretty pleased with the nominations.

[The Little Merman]

Oh, that makes me so mad. Dreamgirls completely deserved a Best Picture nomination.

*tlm

[TheSequelOfDisney]

Little off-topic:

I made this for The Little Merman. It's a combination of his avatar and another. Just brining real life and animation together. Good vs. Evil:

[brownie]

I'm happy as long as The Little Matchgirl gets the Oscar.

Ditto!

[PixarFan2006]

I hope Little Miss Sunshine gets the Best Picture Oscar. I am rooting for Cars as best animated feature.

I was a little shocked to see Click get nominated (for best makeup.)

I can gurantee that Pirates will win the best visual effects Oscar.

I would like to see Little Match Girl get the best short Oscar. Was it the same one from the Little Mermaid DVD?

[Loomis]

I'm a little upset that "Dreamgirls" got snubbed from the Best Picture category. Granted it was nominated for many other awards, I definately thought it was worthy of at LEAST a Best Pic nomination. However, other than that I can't complain much - I'm pretty pleased with the nominations.

Perhaps the Academy has grown tired of music bio-pics (even ones "loosely" based on fact). That said, I was surprised to see it missing as well.

No huge surprises though. Di Caprio's nomination for Blood Diamond rather than The Departed is interesting, although I am yet to see Blood Diamond as the trailers made it look...well...crap. Other reports seem to indicate otherwise.

If Marty doesn't win the best directing nod this year, I will never watch another Academy Awards ceremony in 2007.

[castleinthesky]

This is just crazy. The Painted Veil didn't get one nomination, not even score, which it won at the Globes. This shows that the Academy members didn't even bother to see this highly rated film. Jack Nicholson was forgotten for the Departed, and Leo got his for Blood Diamond. Where is Volver for foreign language?

[Anthony]

Cars - Best Animated Feature and Original Song for "Our Town"

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects. I was really surprised that it wasnt nominated for Make-up.

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

Disney earned 7 nominations.

Actually, it'd be 8 if we included "Lifted"(Pixar's next short), but then again, you'd also have to include Disney's other branches as well. So yeah, 7.

I'm happy as long as The Little Matchgirl gets the Oscar.

Then you shouldn't be happy. Because if you actually follow this stuff, you should know what I mean when I say "Destino" and "Lorenzo".

I'm pretty sure the same thing will happen like in 2002. They'll give the "Best Animated Film" Oscar to "Happy Feet", but since the academy loves Pixar so much, they'll give Cars "Best Song" as well as Lifted "Best Short". If Happy Feet was nominated for "Best Song" then Cars would at least have a chance, but since Cars shockingly picked up a nomination, I'm really sure my theory is correct.

Overall, I must say, I'm MUCH happier with these nominations than last year's. Unlike last year, none of the Best Picture nominations make me yell "NO! NO! NO!"(although, I don't know much about a couple of the ones nominated this year). The best "Best Picture" nominations in a very long time imo. I'm rooting for "Little Miss Sunshine", as it's the only one I've seen, but liked very much.

Pirates should've gotten Make-Up and Costumes too I felt, but hey, 4 ain't bad, so I'm pretty happy there.

Shut offs of many of my favorite movies of the year, most of which I'm not too disappointed as they were expected, but the biggest one that was most offensive and shocking being Casino Royal!!!

C'mon, I wasn't expecting "Best Picture" or "Best Actor" or "Best Adapted Screenplay"(although I feel those would be very deserving) but ZERO nominations?!? Not even something small like "Cinematography" or "Sound Mixing" like what they did for Batman Begins? Biggest and most surprising shock. I'll live with it though, it's not like the academy was ever an indication of quality.

If Marty doesn't win the best directing nod this year, I will never watch another Academy Awards ceremony in 2007.

How many other Academy Award cermonies ARE there in a year?

[Loomis]

This is just crazy. The Painted Veil didn't get one nomination, not even score, which it won at the Globes. This shows that the Academy members didn't even bother to see this highly rated film. Jack Nicholson was forgotten for the Departed, and Leo got his for Blood Diamond. Where is Volver for foreign language?

Actually, that is a major oversight. Pedro Almodovar has had an OK run as far as the Oscars are concerned (he won for Best Screenplay a few years back for the wonderful Talk to Her), but he certainly isn't for all tastes. Personally, I was glad to see Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth get nominated, although if there was any justice in the world it would have been in the Best Picture category!

[Escapay]

If Marty doesn't win the best directing nod this year, I will never watch another Academy Awards ceremony in 2007.

How many other Academy Award cermonies ARE there in a year?

37.

Marty makes good films. He doesn't need a gold-plated bald naked man to feel appreciated by his peers. Besides, the lack of one does allow him to belong to an elite club of directors who were nominated but never won (Kurosawa, Bergman, Leone, Kubrick, Cassavetes, Welles, Hitchcock, Altman, Lynch...)

Escapay

[Loomis]

How many other Academy Award cermonies ARE there in a year?

Yeah, that..was...kinda...the...joke....obviously...not...very...funny.

I also seem to have turned into William Shatner!

[TM2-Megatron]

I can't say Dreamgirls getting snubbed on Best Picture particularly irked me... personally I can't stand 99% of musicals. I'm pleased that Little Miss Sunshine recieved a number of nominations, including Best Picture. I hope it ends up winning a few. Abigail Breslin must be one of the youngest actresses to ever be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Disney earned 7 nominations.

Actually, it'd be 8 if we included "Lifted"(Pixar's next short), but then again, you'd also have to include Disney's other branches as well. So yeah, 7.

I wish we would actually see "Lifted" before the awards, though... it's kind of irritating. Obviously somebody's seen it, if it was nominated.

[James]

I'm pretty happy about these noms. Good to see that Abigail Breslin was nominated, as I saw Little Miss Sunshine this week, and I loved her performance. Sucks that Dreamgirls was snubbed for best picture; saw it yesterday and loved it, especially the Jennifer Hudson showstopper "And I'm Telling You I Ain't Leaving". Also sucks that The Painted Veil, and The Fountain were both snubbed even for the little score awards.
-James