Bamf’s quick picks for this years awards show. Commentary spared...lets get on with it!
Bamf here rematerializing from the void..
Here are my picks for this years Oscars. There is a low rumbling right now here in L.A. about the likelihood of a ratings flop this year because of a public disinterest. As stated before here, I love the award, I despise the show. That is, any award show by the way. If I ran it all, Steven Wright would read off the winners, while projecting his monotanous voice into a megaphone at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood.
All in all, I thought it was a good year for film. Some real gems for this year. So, will Jon Heder hang himself after Ellen Page takes down the award for Best Actress? Does Paul Thomas Anderson get no love...again? Will the rainy weather finally make Joan Rivers melt to the ground, returning the sum of her parts back to the bark of the Malaysian rubber trees? Oh the excitement! Stars(*) denote who I want to win, if left alone then answer given is who I think will take it down like a fat man at a Vegas buffet. Let me know how it goes, I’ll be at work.
Best Picture
There Will Be Blood*
Best Director
Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country For Old Men
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Best Actress
Ellen Page – Juno*
Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck –The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford*
(One could argue that if the characters name is in the title of the film, they are the lead, not the supporting. Steve Zahn snubbed, booo.)
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone*
Best Original Screenplay
Juno-Diablo Cody*!!!
Best Adapted Screenplay
There Will Be Blood—Paul Thomas Anderson*
Best Animated Feature
Persepolis*
(poignant!)
Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins—The Assassination of Jesse James*
(Why is Robert Yeoman’s work on The Darjeeling Limited not a nominee?)
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli — Atonement
Best Sound Editing
Ethan van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins — Transformers
Best Visual Effects
Spiderman 3…Wait a tick, not on the list. Yes it was a horrid unforgivable crap filled jamboree, but damn did they nail the effects work. Then again, throw a ton of cash at a project and give the crew three years to work on it, better be damn good. If you contrast that with what Transformers did, with less money and even less time, then the bots take it. The dirty little secret about Pirates 3 is this; a effects crew can make a Davy Jones character come to life with relative ease, but creating a completely computer generated ocean that does not look computer generated is another thing entirely. A ton of work went into that ocean, but it was something the viewer ever even realizes—but that’s the point.
Oh yeah…
Transformers*