And the Oscar goes to...

[Raph's Girl]

Achievement In Costume Design: Alexandra Burn for Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouli

Achievement In Make-up: Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald for La Vie en Rose

Achievement In Visual Effects: Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Wood for The Golden Compass

Achievement in Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo for Sweeny Todd

Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem for No County For Old Men

Live Action Short Film: The Mozart of Pick Pockets

Animated Short Film: Peter And the Wolf

Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: No Country For Old Men

Best Sound Editing: Karen M. Baker and Per Hallberg for The Bourne Ultimatum

Best Sound Mixing: Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis for Bourne Ultimatum

Best Actress: Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose

Best Achievement in Editing: Christopher Rouse for Bourne Ultimatum

Best Foreign Language Film: The Counterfiters (Austria)

Best Original Song: Falling Slowly from "Once"

Cinimatography: Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood

Original Score: Dario Marianelli for Atonement

Documentary Short Subject: Freeheld

Best Feature Documentary: Taxi To The Dark Side

Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody for Juno

Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Best Director: The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men)

Best Motion Picture: No Country For Old Men

[Leogeddon]

Is this an opinion thread or these people actually got oscars?

[Mr. Snackpants]

Really no surprises in the big categories. There was no way Daniel Day-Lewis was leaving without the Lead Actor Oscar. He made that movie great. Then The Coens for Direction, Javier Bardem for Best Supporting Actor, and No Country for Old Men as best picture is what I expected, as it was my favorite movie of the year.

God damn that was long though.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Leogeddon

Is this an opinion thread or these people actually got oscars?

These are the actual winners.

[Spitfire]

Amazing, the Oscars did their justice this year. These are the exact winners I hoped to see.


Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem for No County For Old Men

Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Best Director: The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men)

Best Motion Picture: No Country For Old Men

[The Stryker]

Ratatouillie did not deserve that oscar. Persepolus was the better movie.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Oh lookie, another Ratatouillie hater. Lovely.

Anybody catch the E3 2006 reference with John Stewart playing Wii Sports during the Oscars? Crazy.

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by King Stryker

Ratatouillie did not deserve that oscar. Persepolus was the better movie.

Totally agreed.

Not too many surprises this year, with the exception of maybe Tilda Swinton winning best supporting actress over Cate Blanchett or Amy Ryan. All the big categories were locks, and sure as hell weren't surprises. As nice as it was to see the Coen's win, I would have much rather seen PTA walk away with an Oscar. I love that guy.

[Warhorse]

Didn't watch the oscars last night. I actually do have a life and was partying at my nearby sports bar.

But wake up this morning to do some work on the computer, and decided to take a look at the Oscar wins. There was only one category I cared about. And man, was I pissed. That was the goldn compass beating out Transformers and POTCAWE for best visuals. What a crock!

Oh well, Transformers is still the funner film, Optimus Prime still has that commanding voice, and all will be back in the summer of 2009 or 2010. Golden Compass with it's 180 mil price tag, and 330 million world wide box office intake, make it's sequel questionable.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Oh lookie, another Ratatouillie hater. Lovely.

I can't say Persy was a better film, because I couldn't even find it. But I really think in between those 2 films, it was hot competition. Sure, Surfing Penguins may be a good film and all, but hardly Oscar nomination worthy. I think they just wanted to zetz Dreawmorks (dispite having the Bee Movie Bee present the short film award). I really wish there was some sort of tie. or that Persy was also nominated for foreign film. But then it would lose to some "look how libereal we pretend to be" technicality that always plagues the foreign award.

Even still, out of the multiple categories Rat was nominated for, it only wone that one. Juno got best screen play (I actually want to see that now), and it lost music score and both sound awards.

But then again, I think Brad Bird still deserves good kharma for having so many people skip out on Iron Giant because it wasn't a Disney film.

[OA]

No big surprises, but I did think it was a bit of an upset in the Best Actress category...never even heard of her

[Cure]

I was hoping "How does she know" from Enchanted would win best song. I was happy with the rest, though.

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Oh lookie, another Ratatouillie hater. Lovely.

Have you even watched "Persepolis"?

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by TheCure

I was hoping "How does she know" from Enchanted would win best song. I was happy with the rest, though.

I couldn't be happier about "Falling Slowly" winning best song. The fact that best song is the only category Once was even nominated in was a travesty, though.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by TheCure

I was hoping "How does she know" from Enchanted would win best song. I was happy with the rest, though.

I told myself if the 3 times nominated in the same catagory Enchanted lost, I'd have a good laugh....

[Tinuvielsdreams]

I guess Best actress is the only one that kinda surprised me, not for any real reason I just thought it was a very tough call. I was happy for Marion Cotillard, Everytime the camera was on her for anything La Vie En Rose was nominated for she was teary eyed.

I loved Jon Stewarts whole commentary, he kept me laughing, especially when he had a game of Wii tennis on the big screen at the oscars...lol

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Oh lookie, another Ratatouillie hater. Lovely.

I'm not hating on Ratatouille, Alls I said was that Persepolis was the better movie.

[Jester]

I never saw Persepolis, I want to thought. (Heck, I wanna see a lot of the nominated films, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Juno) I wish they'd almost make a catagory for Traditional Animation and another for CGI.

[raphael_is_cool]

Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody for Juno

Ugh...

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Jester

I never saw Persepolis, I want to thought. (Heck, I wanna see a lot of the nominated films, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Juno) I wish they'd almost make a catagory for Traditional Animation and another for CGI.

I honestly wish that Lucky Luke goes west would have been considered as well. Another French animated film that uses traditional animation. Hell, I wish it was up for an Annie award, but it isn't .