Posted by
Emmett of the Unblinking Eye on Monday, January 22, 2007 4:21:09 PM
Oscar nominations are set to be announced tomorrow at (yawn) 5:30 am PST, and I'll probably be on the Hewitt Show that afternoon to discuss/analyze them. Unless they get bound up with somethign unimportant, like the State of the Union Address. So before then, I thought that I'd tell you what the top five categores are going to be -- and what they should be.
For Best Picture, the nominees will be:
Babel (a dreadful, vastly-overrated, boring movie, but much much too IMPORTANT not to be nominated)
Dreamgirls (ditto)
Little Miss Sunshine (my outside shot and personal favorite)
The Queen (a great performance by Helen Mirren, and a decent movie)
And the eventual winner:
The DepartedWhat
should be nominated:
The Departed Letters from Iwo Jima (not a Republican movie, but directed by one)
Little Miss Sunshine Pan's Labyrinth (too good, and directed by the guy who did
Hellboy)
United 93 (too honest to be nominated)
And if you don't think Pan's Labyrinth should be nominated because it's in Spanish, then I'd substitute
Apocalypto. Oh, wait....