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My mistake--Sean Penn was

AmericanDreamer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:09:18 +0000

My mistake--Sean Penn was nominated for, but did not win, Best Actor Award in 1995 for his performance in Dead Man Walking.

Hard for me to believe that movie came out 14 years ago now.

As a fellow avid filmgoer I

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:44:38 +0000

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As a fellow avid filmgoer I (belatedly) enjoyed your comments, oleeb. Looks as though you nailed Best Pic and Best Actor and Actress. I agree that it was an excellent year in terms of quality movies and outstanding performances.

Slumdog Millionaire seems to fit well with the zeitgeist of the moment. Obama and its lead character, both blessed with unusual degrees of moxie, share a wildly improbable and meteoric rise from humble circumstances to the pinnacle of fame.

Prior to the Academy Awards show I finally got around to seeing the 2003 movie Mystic River and thought it was fabulous. It was nominated for Best Picture for that year. What makes me mention it here is your mention of Penn--he won Best Performing Actor for his role in that movie. And Tim Robbins won Best Supporting Actor. I also thought Laura Linney (chillingly so) and Marcia Gay Harden were excellent in supporting roles, as the wives of these two characters. Harden was nominated but did not win. Penn also won for his role in Dead Man Walking so this is now three for him. I agree--he is a magnificent actor and possibly the best of this era.

Meryl Streep was exceptional in Doubt, I agree. I was disappointed that Doubt did not receive more nominations. I thought it was an excellent movie which should appeal to many of our fellow tpmcafe denizens who appreciate nuance and complexity in human affairs. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was exceptional in it as well, I thought. He, too, is an enormously talented actor.

Meryl Streep is the best actress I have seen over the past 30 years or so, among many enormously talented peers. Kate Winslet is most impressive as well, though.

I have not seen the movie in which Penelope Cruz's performance won her Best Supporting Actress. One or two friends who saw it said they did not find her performance all that stellar.

Orlando is keeping me in

Bwakfat — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:23:50 +0000

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Orlando is keeping me in stiches over at DAG

http://dagblog.com/live-blogs/live-blogging-academy-awards-510

Highly rec'd

I'll have to check it out.

oleeb — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:59:04 +0000

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I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

Kewl, Thanks, Orlando!

Bwakfat — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:58:57 +0000

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Kewl, Thanks, Orlando!

Best Picture: Slumdog

Orlando — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:29:01 +0000

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Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Richard Jenkins (my pick, but he probably won't win)

Best Actress: Kate Winslet is going to win, but I thought Angelina Jolie was amazing.

Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis should win. Amy Adams was a close second. The others were mediocre at best.

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger will win. Philip Seymour Hoffman probably deserves to.

I've actually been writing about this at Dagblog.com all week. And I'll be live blogging tonight, if anyone cares to stop by.

Live Blog:

www.dagblog.com

My two cents on the nominees:

http://dagblog.com/blogs/orlando

1. Not one of these films

~flowerchild~ — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:27:13 +0000

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1. Not one of these films have I seen. The last genuine movin' picture show I attended in a genuine movin' picture thea-ate-er was X-Men 2. Yes, it is terribly sad.

2. I didn't get invited to any Oscar parties they are wont to have in the middle of nowhere where I live. They usually involve bringing a hot dish to pass and quite frankly, by this time of year I am tired of sauerkraut and polish sausage in a crockpot.

3. Unless the Oscar show is on CBS, I can't see it anyway. Since everything went digital, that's all we get.

4. Is Springsteen gonna be on the Oscar show? I'd hate to miss that.

5. My picks are the same as dijamo's cat. Cats don't lie.

The cats in the farmyard

Bwakfat — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:06:42 +0000

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The cats in the farmyard concur.

My cat Smokey's picks. She's

dijamo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:45:24 +0000

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My cat Smokey's picks. She's totally anti- Slumdog Millioniare:

Best Picture: Milk (obviously)
Best Actor: Sean Penn for Milk
Best Actress: Kate Winslet for the Reader (Smokey loves curling up with a book)
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin (Milk)
Best Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Henson Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons (curiosity took at least one of Smokey's lives already).

My picks: Best picture:

dijamo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:36:30 +0000

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My picks:

Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire (will win & should win)

Best Actor: Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler (Although Sean Pennn was amazing too. I just can't picture anyone else as Randy the Ram)

Best Director: Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire

Best Supporting Actor: Closest call for me, but I'd give it to Heath Ledger. Yes, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was as good in Doubt, but he wasn't even the best performance in the film. Heath carried The Dark Knight (and it's his last role). For what it's worth I was rooting for Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain when he lost to Hoffman for Capote and it was a toss-up for me then as well.

Best Actress: Meryl Streep embodying Sister Bernadine Mary, my high school principal.

Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis. I know she likely won't win because she was only in one scene and she'll split some votes with Amy Adams, but her performance was riveting. If not her, then Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.