Posted by
Emmett of the Unblinking Eye on Monday, January 22, 2007 4:29:54 PM
For Best Director (and here's where the Academy gets weird, because the nominees for Best Director should match up to the Best Picture nominees, but usually don't):
Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima (too Republican a director and won too recently (
Million Dollar Baby))
Alejandro González Iñárritu for
Babel (too self-important for words)
Bill Condon for
Dreamgirls (a popular favorite, but a mediocre movie)
Stephen Frears for
The Queen (great performance, but....)
And the winner:
Martin Scorsese for
The DepartedAnd who
should be nominated:
Martin Scorsese for
The DepartedClint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro for
Pan's LabyrinthPaul Greengrass for
United 93Mel Gibson for
Apocalypto (not a chance in Hades).