2007 Oscar Winners: The Final Tally
Thanks to all those who joined us last night for our live Oscar podcast, it was a lot of fun (although it got to be somewhat gruelling as we passed the 3 hour mark). For those who didn’t watch, here is the complete list of winners:
Best Picture: The Departed
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Best Cinematography: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Best Editing: The Departed
Best Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others (Germany)
Best Original Song: “I Need To Wake Up” — Melissa Etheridge (An Inconvenient Truth)
Best Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Best Original Score: Babel
Best Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Documentary Short: The Blood of Yingzhou District
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
Best Animated Feature Film: Happy Feet
Best Makeup: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Costumes: Marie Antoinette
Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet
Best Short Film: West Bank Story
Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
The biggest winners on the night were The Departed and Pan’s Labyrinth, although I think Pan’s Labyrinth got robbed for Best Foreign Language Film. The biggest surprise was probably Happy Feet for Best Animated… I’m just glad Cars didn’t win. Biggest snub of the night? Babel was completely shut out, with the exception of Best Original Score. I still think it should have gotten Best Picture. What did everyone think? Overall I’m guessing most people will be happy with the results.
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I new Marty was going to win when Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola showed up to present, that was very classy.
Posted by jackson main on February 26th, 2007I totally thought Little Miss Sunshine would get picture I just had a feeling that it would but I guess I was wrong.
I loved the portion with the clips celebrating American film, isn’t that what the Oscars are as a whole? I suppose it was because their were so many foreign film makers in the audience, the US had to make sure everyone still knew they have the studio system by the balls.
too many people had mixed or negative feelings on Babel for it to have a shot. it has a shitload of things right about it but theres enough blatantly wrong that i kind of figured it wouldnt have won. after the screenplay category i thought LMS had a chance to steal it (which i dont think it would have deserved)
i liked LMS but the overhype and Oscar noms almost put me in a position where i can no longer view that movie the way i want to view it.
anyways, i dont feel bad for Pans Labyrinth in the foreign film category. i figured they’d pull a ‘hey this is in all these other categories so lets give someone else a moment’ thing, and even though i havent seen the Lives of Others, i’ve heard a lot of good things about it and its also on the IMDB top 250, and i think some people have a thing in their heads when voting about what a ‘best foreign film’ winner is SUPPOSED to look like.
Etheridge for best song is actually probably the biggest upset, but it makes sense since the 3 Dreamgirls songs clearly split the vote.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007http://www.torontosun.com/Entertainment/Television/2007/02/26/3667965-sun.html
and the media hae begun calling them boring and blah blah blah. this happens every goddamn year, and it actually pisses me off. they hype it up and up and up and then do everything they can to shoot it down. you think they’d learn not to get their expectations up. i know the Oscars are long and frequently boring and that the hosts have to play it safe to get the job more than once, and i accept it, and that way i can actually enjoy them. and last night i did. i liked Errol Morris’ opening and Michael Mann’s montage, but here the fucking Sun calls Morris’ thing a ‘home movie’ and goes through the whole gamut of usual nitpicking.
but what can i say, the Toronto Sun is a garbage newspaper for garbage people.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007I actually feel pretty good about the winners this year…. can’t recall that happening in recent times.
Posted by Zedd on February 26th, 2007The Departed getting best picture is the final nail in the coffin for creativity in Hollywood. It’s a remake and now every single remake imaginable will be greenlit, because not only do they have the built-in audience, they are now also artisticly credible.
I don’t mind that it’s a remake, just something I came to think of. The Departed winning is a heads-up to everybody that you do not have to be creative in any way to win the oscar. You don’t have to bring something to the table, other than collecting alot of celebrities and make an action movie.
I felt really pissed off when it won. I’ll live for sure, and it’s not a bad movie, but it was definitely the wrong choice, and we may suffer from it.
Posted by Henrik on February 26th, 2007oh fuck off, so being a remake automatically disqualifies something from being the best movie of the year in someone’s eyes? have you actually seen Infernal Affairs? its so much different than the Departed and i’m way more impressed the Departed and its adaptation after seeing it.
in other words, shut up.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007Well… No it doesn’t. And I haven’t seen the original.
But the movie wasn’t creative or original in any way. It was a summer blockbuster with a ton of celebrities, safe, comfortable and easy to watch, but offers nothing. Anybody could have made it. I think actually you even said that your favourite part of the movie was that there was so many known actors in it. Is that what makes a movie worthy of an oscar? Apparently so, but I still think it’s wrong.
I actually don’t really care that much about it being a remake, it was just something that came to my mind after I thought about the movie. The movie itself, remake or not, is a stock genre movie, Jack Nicholson being worth the price of admission as usual, which doesn’t contribute anything to the genre, doesn’t take any risks or chances, and is just made to be a fun movie, but above all comfortable to watch. That’s fine, I don’t mind that, but if that’s what deserves academy awards, they should nominate X-Men 3, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean and Poseidon along with it.
Posted by Henrik on February 26th, 2007I do think there’s a difference between remaking a foreign film for a North American audience, and remaking an older American film for a modern American audience. The latter seems less respectable somehow. When I think of The Departed I never really think of it as a remake (again, haven’t seen the original, maybe that’s why), but I get the impression it’s more of a complete re-imagining of the source material.
Henrik: I’m guessing you would have been a lot more upset if Little Miss Sunshine won, and I really don’t think The Departed winning is going to have a negative impact in cinema for the next decade.
Posted by Sean on February 26th, 2007Henrik. i didnt miss you. everything you say is hyperbole looking for a fight, and you have the stupidest and most nitpicky reasons for thinking a movie has less value. i think i’m just done arguing anything with you anymore, you’re the stereotype of every annoying movie snob i’ve ever met.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007i mean this ‘anyone could make it’ HURR ITS THE SAME AS X MEN 3.
i mean really, i couldnt find someone more full of shit right now.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007“i think i’m just done arguing anything with you anymore”
Where are your arguments though? All you’re saying is “I liked this movie. Why are you saying it’s bad? Are you just looking for a fight? You’re stupid, a snob and I don’t like you.”
Add to that “fuck off” and “shut up” and you’ve made a pretty solid case against everything I’ve had to say.
Posted by Henrik on February 26th, 2007its hard to make a case against absolute insanity. that you can look at the Departeds acting, writing, adaptation of that screenplay, soundtrack, cinematography and say “yeah, this was just made to make money at the box office, this has the same artistic value as Daredevil” all i can do is shake my head at what an asshole you are.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007and besides, the burden of proof is on you, but you just make bizarre statements without a case, so fucking often.
“anyone could have made this”
“we may suffer for the Departed winning”
“now every remake will be greenlit”
you have no basis and made no basis for this series of just bullshit ‘WOE FOR THE INDUSTRY!’ statements. i mean if Babel won would i have liscence to say “now every movie that is made will be 8 stories that marginally intertwine” – “hollywood has a bias to foreign people starring in movies it makes them feel smarter” and other bullshit pretentious statements with no basis? it would be fun to just come on here and say whatever angry shit i want with absolutely no backup as you always do.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007Wow. I’m stepping into quite the heated debate. I will say that having seen both “Infernal Affairs” and “The Departed”, the films are similar but different enough that they are two different films. I’m a bit disappointed that it won not because it’s a remake but because it wasn’t the best of the year or even the best on the list. Sure, Eastwood has taken it home a couple of times but “Letters from Iwo Jima” was a far superior film (at least in my opinion).
As for the Foreign Language category, it was a close call going in between Pan’s and Lives but I was thrilled to see such an amazing film as “The Lives of Others” take home the gold. I loved both but Lives was a slightly better film and in all honesty, much more in line with Hollywood tastes. It was nice to see Pan’s take home a couple of awards though. Nice indeed.
Posted by Marina on February 26th, 2007Well you misunderstood some of my statements.
I did not mean that The Departed was just made as a cashgrab. It is a personal movie, in the sense that I imagine it’s some Martin Scorsese wanted to do, and then went to the studio with the proposal, rather than the other way around, which I guess is the case with summer blockbusters I mentioned. That’s not what I am talking about though. I am talking about the actual movie, and what it is like. It’s not a bad movie either, but it’s unoriginal. It’s just another movie in an established genre. That’s why I’m saying anybody could have made it. Because there wasn’t anything innovative in it, and it’s relying on so many established cliché’s and conventions to work.
There is no denying that academy award-winning movies influence the industry though. Gladiator spawned the score of swords’n’sandals movies we got in the early 00’s for example. The fact that a remake won, will validate the idea of making remakes for sure. Wether it’s good or bad is debatable, but wether or not it’s creative is not. That’s why I said creativity lost out when it won, partly because it was made based on an actual movie already existing, and partly because it offered no creativity in the way it presented the story and treated the situations.
Can I prove it? Obviously not. I could also be wrong. But I don’t step down to telling you to fuck off, shut up and tell you that you are a stereotype looking for a fight for disagreeing with me. I think there is a difference.
Posted by Henrik on February 26th, 2007Well when it comes to the idea that The Departed will open the floodgates on remakes…isn’t it a little late for that? I think that’s already happened. Afterall, The Departed was a remake, and it was greenlit. I think the floodgates have already been opened.
As for the arguement, I think it’s already been established that Henrik feels that genre films are lesser forms of filmmaking. I don’t think he’s going to change his mind.
Posted by Jay C. on February 26th, 2007for it to be a debate he’d have to have articulated any of his points to begin with. he didnt and never does, i’m just sick of always jumping on any of this threads where I hear insanity like Children of Men is ‘overrated’ becuase something funny happened, or that Kill Bill has no story, that Dusk Till Dawn is more true grindhouse than Grindhouse (even though noone has seen it). its always angry tearing down of popular films with no backup until everyone yells at him. he trolls for these debates rather than being outright, and i’ve had enough.
next time you want to tear down icons, make your point rather than just leaving a couple sentences saying 8 extremely dissident opinions without explaining them, and saying them as if everyone thinks this was, and as if they are fact and not opinion. its not what you say half the time so much as the absolutely arrogant manner of stating them with absolutely no consideration for the people you’re trying to debate with.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007I don’t think The Departed is counted as a remake in a lot of people’s minds, so I don’t think it necessarily validates remakes artistically. The reason it was a good film is because it held its own instead of being a regurgitation of a superior film. Believe it or not, it wasn’t the first remake to win best picture either (Ben-Hur). I think there would be more chance of there being Irish crime flicks coming out (perhaps the Paul Haggis series The Black Donnellys is proof of that).
I do think Babel was the better movie, but I don’t think The Departed is inferior just because it was a genre film. What have you got against genres anyway?
Posted by Sean on February 26th, 2007“It’s not a bad movie either, but it’s unoriginal.”
how is completely overhauling and adapting a screenplay to the level the Departed did less original than working from a novel? source material is source material. i question the standard of ‘originality’ set by so many people.
i also question your standard of creativity. The Departed is a Scorsese-style movie by Scorsese. Babel is done an awful lot like Inarritu’s other films, and if i were like you i’d simply call it an ‘unoriginal oscar bait gimmick film with no creativity’ and only say that.
and here i’ve fallen into your trap again, you start debates by saying nothing and only after everyones riled up do you actually speak at length. fucking clownshoes. fuck. you cant see how people would find your method of getting people talking so ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ANNOYING?
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007other remakes nominated for best picture – “munity on the bounty”, “hamlet”, “oliver!”. “marty” won and is a remake of a tv show. – those stupid unoriginal films, THEYRE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THESE REMAKES OF TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. CLEARLY THESE ARE TO BLAME. WOE!
and what about musicials, everything from Chicago, Dreamgirls, Gigi, Sound of Music, are they uncreative and unoriginal too since they had source material there?
Seabiscuit is a remake. Beauty and the Beast. Romeo and Juliet wad done multiple times. Munich is sort of a remake. Scent of a Woman.
so there you have it. your ‘this will ruin the industry with more remakes’ bullshit is simply that – bullshit.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007I’m not saying I have something against genres or genre movies. I’m just saying that when you just make a movie using all the established stereotypical cliché’s I don’t think it’s necessarily an achievement at all, let alone one worth recognizing. There are ways to make a genre movie and yet do something interesting with it. Think of movies like ‘Signs’, ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’, ‘Se7en’, ‘Spartacus’ and ‘Annie Hall’. All movies well within established genres, utilizing plenty of the established methods, yet all offer new and interesting filmmaking and genuinely creative ways to make a movie.
Goon: You bring up a summary of the points I have made, yet leave out everything I said to justify my thoughts. Calling me insane for thinking Kill Bill told a situation instead of a story, that people shouldn’t be cracking jokes directed towards the audience in the middle of intense war scenes and that rubbing your nose in the tributes to the point of calling your movie Grindhouse, is a pretty wacky statement itself.
I may write arrogantly, but I would rather make a clear point than muddle it with ten thousand apologies and prefaces. It annoys me that I have to address myself personally everytime I post a comment though.
Posted by Henrik on February 26th, 2007Fuck you Babel! you shit movie! You’ll be hearing.
Posted by The man on February 26th, 2007that summary are all things you just threw out there with no justification and had to fight about people with at length later. you dont think before you post, you just throw words like ‘cliche’ and ‘unoriginal’ out there without any examples. or use one tiny scene to typify the whole movie that doesnt reign true at all.
you write arrogantly and you DONT MAKE CLEAR POINTS. you make one sentence judgments on films as if they are self evident. you use axioms not arguments, and if you dont like people getting upset at you dragging people into debates with such shitty argumentative tactics, STOP DOING IT. your argument style is disrespectful and inconsiderate, and you recognize that. therefore if you have no intent in at least trying to be respectful, i will respond to you in a direct and disrespectful way.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007I’m glad The Departed won last night. From the nominees in that category, I think it deserverd the Oscar.
Does anyone know what causes a movie to get put into the “Best Picture” or “Best Foreign Language” category? Letters from Iwo Jima was 99% Japanese… and Babel had its fair share of foreign language too.
Posted by cracksmith on February 26th, 2007We were discussing this on the live podcast at one point. I’m not really sure. I thought it was up to the producers of the movie whether or not they wanted to “compete with the big boys” and go for Best Picture, or play it safe and stay within the Best Foreign Language category. But thinking about it further, I don’t see how the producers could have any say in the matter.
Letters From Iwo Jima would have easily won if it was in the Best Foreign Language category. Then again, I would have thought the same for Pan’s Labyrinth…
Posted by Sean on February 26th, 2007‘foreign language film’ is somewhat of a tossup some years, its ripe for upsets, going with the one you’ve heard of is not a good bet becuase its a cagetory people like to vote for underdogs
Downfall didnt win. Hero didnt win. Amelie didnt win. City Of God wasnt even nominated. all lost to films you’ve probably never heard of. not since Life Is Beautiful has what was considered the overwhelming media favorite actually won.
as much as i love Pans Labyrinth, Amelie losing was especially unexpected. it had the hype and it was a feel good movie people usually fall for.
Posted by Goon on February 26th, 2007Do you want me to write all my comments with your personal preferences in mind, or do you want me to try and accomodate everybody who may read something that I write.
You have to realize that I am not writing something with you in mind. So there is no reason for you to react by taking it personally.
One thing that might help these issues the way I see it though, is instead of responding with “Fuck off!”, “Shut up!” or “Why are you looking for a fight?” I would have no problem with somebody actually proving these tremendous errors with my arguments. The best you came up with was calling them ‘insane’ which is hardly a factual claim.
I am sorry if I offend people who write my comments. I sincerely do not mean to enrage or inflame anyone. It’s how I write though. I write confidently. I prefer reading something that isn’t flimsy and that doesn’t necessarily apologize for itself. It’s probably those 5 years I studied on Vulcan. I don’t get why anybody would get caught up in it though. If I write something you disagree with, fine, retort and explain why I am an ignorant snob who doesn’t get it. I have no problem with that, even if the way I write may seem like it(?). But don’t start these flamewars where it’s all about who can discredit the opponent the quickest and thus stand as the victor. We’re just talking, we don’t even come close to actually knowing eachother for crying out loud!
I enjoy movies. I like to talk about them. I appreciate this outlet for my interest, and I use it when I want to, for as long as I am allowed.
Posted by Henrik on February 26th, 2007Man…I missed a lot. I enjoyed the Oscars. I also enjoyed the snacks at Sean’s house. Excellent work.
Posted by Greg on February 27th, 2007“I would have no problem with somebody actually proving these tremendous errors with my arguments.”
this is the last time i’m going to say this – you DONT make real arguments, you go on hyperbolic boasts about everything without supporting your claims when you make them. you do everything you can to provoke a big drawn out argument. theres a difference between being confident and being arrogant. if for once you’d realize your opinions are just that instead of Gospel Truth that require you burst into every topic so incredibly upset you wouldnt get such reprisals from so many people. you’ve been called a tightass by enough people now that a thinking person might consider that maybe there IS something to what people are saying about them every time they have to be the loudest person in the room.
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