Who Will Win the Academy Awards? Post Your Guesses!

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In summary: I'm looking forward to seeing what else he does in the future. Ang Lee was a strong contender for the award, but I think the voters went with Hoffman. I'm not sure if I agree with their decision, but it's their choice. Michelle Williams was good in her supporting role, but I didn't think she was great. I thought Reese Witherspoon was good in her role, but I didn't think it was her best performance. I thought she was very one-dimensional and I didn't really care about her character. I was a little disappointed with the nominations this year.
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Who wins? Who loses?
Post your guesses! :smile:
Here's a list of the nominees:
http://www.oscar.com/nominees/list.html
 
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Crash- best picture
Reese Witherspoon- Best Actress
Philip Seymore Hoffman- Best Actor
Matt Dillon- Best supporting actor
 
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Michelle Williams-actress in supporting role
Ang Lee-directing
 
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Ang Lee directing

Philip Seymore Hoffman for actor in a leading role.

Nope to Reese Witherspoon... :)

I can't speak about the others since i have not seen all the pictures/performances that were nominated.

marlon
 
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I really hope that "The Constant Gardener" gets a prize or two, say for adapted screenplay.
 
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As for documentaries, although I haven't seen it, I believe that "March of the Penguins" will get the award.
 
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arildno said:
As for documentaries, although I haven't seen it, I believe that "March of the Penguins" will get the award.
I have seen that documentary and i assure you it is great. I also think it will win the oscar.

i saw the constant gardener too but i did not really like it.

marlon
 
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I'm not guessing what will win, but what I would vote for.

Actor in a leading role: Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote

Actor in a supporting role: George Clooney in Syriana

Actress in a leading role: Charlize Theron in North Country

Actress in a supporting role: Catherine Keener in Capote

Animated Feature: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Art Direction: King Kong

Cinematography: Good Night, and Good Luck

Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha

Directing: Brokeback Mountain

Documentary Feature: Murderball

Film Editing: Cinderella Man

Makeup: Revenge of the Sith

Score: Brokeback Mountain

Best Picture: Capote

Sound Editing: War of the Worlds

Sound Mixing: War of the Worlds

Visual Effects: King Kong

Adapted Screeplay: Capote

Original Screenplay: The Squid and the Whale
 
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Well, they agreed with me on six of the awards. The only real complaints are Rachel Weisz for supporting actress (very small part, very one-dimensional, good enough but unchallenging role) and Crash for best picture and screenplay, especially the screenplay win. I thought the movie was terribly sensationalistic and gave a very narrow view of race relations in Los Angeles, like a series of news bites. I prefer depth to breadth, and real plot structure to cheap literary devices. Sorry to anyone that liked that film, but I was very unimpressed with it. I don't generally like pontificational movies that try to tell you what to think. I will say this for it: it was full of terrific scenes, and did have some good performances from the ensemble, especially Terence Howard and Michael Pena.

Oh well. The only award I really cared about was best actor. Philip Seymour Hoffman has been one of my favorite actors for a long time now and I'm glad to see him getting some recognition. I was thrilled when I first saw the Capote trailer to see that he had finally gotten a leading role. Not surprisingly, he nailed it.
 

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