GREAT movie!! Anyone watched it?!? I watched it baked, yesterday night....:m: It was GREAT!! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! It reminded me a lot of the movie "Crash". I wonder if they both had the same director...... I hope "Babel" wins tonight....!! Although "Little Miss Sunshine" was great too! Though choice! What do you guys think?
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I think Little Miss Sunshine will get the award tonight. Babel was a great movie, I agree, though I didn't enjoy the part with the Japanese girl very much. And Martin Scorsese will get the directing award. Something I've read today about the best motion picture award:
My top three favourite films of last year haven't gotten any nods. Those being: "The Painted Veil". "Perfume: A Story of a Murderer". "Rocky Balboa".
I haven't seen all those films, so can't really judge which deserves the award. But if I had to make a prediction, it would be that Scorcese will take out both Best Director and Best Film. Not because he necessarily deserves those awards this year, but because he has been passed over too many times in the past and he's due.
You were right James. Final results are: Best Motion Picture of the Year Winner: The Departed (2006) - Graham King Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Winner: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006) Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Winner: Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006) Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Winner: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Winner: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006) Best Achievement in Directing Winner: Martin Scorsese for The Departed (2006) Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Winner: Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Michael Arndt Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Winner: The Departed (2006) - William Monahan Best Achievement in Cinematography Winner: Laberinto del Fauno, El (2006) - Guillermo Navarro Best Achievement in Editing Winner: The Departed (2006) - Thelma Schoonmaker Best Achievement in Art Direction Winner: Laberinto del Fauno, El (2006) - Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta Best Achievement in Costume Design Winner: Marie Antoinette (2006) - Milena Canonero Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Winner: Babel (2006) - Gustavo Santaolalla Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song Winner: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) - Melissa Etheridge("I Need To Wake Up") Best Achievement in Makeup Winner: Laberinto del Fauno, El (2006) - David Martí, Montse Ribé Best Achievement in Sound Winner: Dreamgirls (2006) - Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton Best Achievement in Sound Editing Winner: Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman Best Achievement in Visual Effects Winner: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall Best Animated Feature Film of the Year Winner: Happy Feet (2006) - George Miller Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Winner: Leben der Anderen, Das (2006)(Germany) Best Documentary, Features Winner: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) - Davis Guggenheim Best Documentary, Short Subjects Winner: The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006) - Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon Best Short Film, Animated Winner: The Danish Poet (2006) - Torill Kove Best Short Film, Live Action Winner: West Bank Story (2005) - Ari Sandel
I voted for Letters from Iwo. Babel was a much better film than I anticipated. I'm not a Brad Pitt fan and I read it was exploitive to the audience and all. But it really was a wild ride. From Morocco to the flasher girl in Tokyo to the maid taking white kids to Mexico! It reminded me of Crash; Three unrelated (seemingly) events tie into a single emotional knot. Heavier than Crash of course. Letters was an awesome undertaking that reminded me of Stalingrad where an enemy, rooted in history as monsters, are humanized in time of war. The German soldier in Stalingrad, freezing to death in the Russian winter winds was the first time I ever shed a tear for a WW2 German soldier. Letters does the same with it's Japanese perspective of the bloody battle at Iwo.
I think Little Miss Sunshine deserved the award more than The Departed. But it was Scorsese's year, after all
