January 19, 2008

If I Had An Oscar Ballot.....

Joey here...this is what my ballot would look like...keep in mind, this is not what I believe to be what WILL be nominated, but what I would personally nominate. Perhaps gives a bit of insight into what I thought about the year in film.....

Here it is:

Best Picture-
Into the Wild
Juno
No Country for Old Men
Once
There Will Be Blood

Best Director-
Paul Thomas Anderson- There Will Be Blood
Ethan and Joel Coen- No Country for Old Men
David Fincher- Zodiac
Sean Penn- Into the Wild
Jason Reitman- Juno

Best Actor-
Christian Bale- Rescue Dawn
John Cusack - Grace is Gone
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Emile Hirsch- Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen- Eastern Promises

Best Actress-
Amy Adams- Enchanted
Julie Christie- Away From Her
Marion Cottilard- La Vie En Rose
Ellen Page- Juno
Kerri Russell- Waitress

Best Supporting Actor-
Casey Affleck- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem- No Country for Old Men
Michael Cera- Juno
Robert Downey Jr.- Zodiac
Hal Holbrook- Into the Wild

Best Supporting Actress-
Cate Blanchett- I'm Not There
Jennifer Garner- Juno
Catherine Keener- Into the Wild
Leslie Mann- Knocked Up
Amy Ryan- Gone Baby Gone

Best Orginal Screenplay-
Judd Apatow- Knocked Up
John Carney- Once
Diablo Cody- Juno
Tony Gilroy- Michael Clayton
Nancy Oliver- Lars and the Real Girl

Best Adapted Screenplay-
Paul Thomas Anderson- There Will Be Blood
Ethan and Joel Coen- No Country for Old Men
Sean Penn- Into the Wild
Aaron Sorkin- Charlie Wilson's War
James Vanderbilt- Zodiac

Best Animated Feature-
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

Best Documentary-
Body of War
Lake of Fire
No End in Sight
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side

Best Foreign Film-
(Some of these films are not eligible, but due to my limited foreign film knowledge I had to wing it)
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
The Orphanage
Persepolis
The Unknown Woman
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Best Original Score-
Michael Brook with Kaki King and Eddie Vedder- Into the Wild
Clint Eastwood- Grace is Gone
Johnny Greenwood- There Will Be Blood
Dario Marianelli- Atonement
Alan Menken- Enchanted

Best Original Song-
Judd Apatow and Co (Walk Hard)- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Falling Slowly)- Once
John Mayer (Say)- The Bucket List
Eddie Vedder (Garaunteed)- Into the Wild
Eddie Vedder (Society)- Into the Wild

Best Cinematography-
Roger Deakins- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Roger Deakins- No Country for Old Men
Robert Elswit- There Will Be Blood
Eric Gautier- Into the Wild
Janusz Kaminski- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Film Editing-
Jay Cassidy- Into the Wild
The Coen Brothers aka Roderick Jaynes- No Country for Old Men
John Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Chris Lebenzon- Sweeney Todd
Christopher Rouse- The Bourne Ultimatum

Best Art Direction-
Dante Ferretti; Francesca Lo Schiavo - Sweeney Todd
Jack Fisk; Jim Erickson - There Will Be Blood
Dennis Gassner; Anna Pinnock - The Golden Compass
Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer - Atonement
Andrew Menzies; Jay Hart - 3:10 to Yuma

Best Costume Design-
Colleen Atwood - Sweeney Todd
Mark Bridges - There Will Be Blood
Alexandra Byrne - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Jacqueline Durran - Atonement
Rita Ryack - Hairspray

Best Makeup-
300
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
La Vie En Rose

Best Sound Mixing-
Beowulf
The Bourne Ultimatum
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd
Transformers

Best Sound Editing-
300
Beowulf
Ratatouille
Sunshine
Transformers

Best Visual Effects-
300
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

-Into the Wild leads my nominations with a dozen mentions, followed by There Will Be Blood with 8 and both No Country and Juno with 6...
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM

    Great picks, Joey, and some really refreshing ones. I'm so glad you include Once. An absolutely lovely film.

    I especially appreciate your love for Bale and Cusack, two forgotten lead actors this year, as well as the many nods you would have given to Zodiac.

    Kudos also for including 4-3-2 and Persepolis. The outrage about these films being left off of the short list is still rampant.

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  2. Joey MagidsonJanuary 19, 2008 at 8:40 PM

    Indeed...of the few foreign films i saw...they definitely stood out, as well as Cusack and Bale's performances!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM

    haha i can't believe that 1) you even mentioned walk hard; and 2) that you put it above all the other songs, including above "Falling Slowly" from Once...

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  4. Joey MagidsonJanuary 19, 2008 at 11:46 PM

    it's not ahead....used alphabetical order for the performers

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM

    Ummmm....so I see that you've tried to absoloutely snub Atonement in every way possible...don't think that's gonna happen, though. For the most part other than that, pretty nice list, especially the fact that you included Kerri Russel. However, Cusack was Ok at best in an average film, so he's definitely outta there

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2008 at 1:58 PM

    You should check out Roger Ebert's predictions on his website, where he make a great argument for why Atonement WILL get nominated (he has it over Into the Wild, actually) I tend to agree. He also has Keira Knightley getting nominated, too, which is also deserved. Into the Wild just didn't do well enough at the box office to be remembered, so there's my opinion.

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  7. Joey MagidsonJanuary 20, 2008 at 5:37 PM

    Jordan.....these are my personal preferences, my oscar ballot as it were, and i simply enjoyed other films more than Atonement....i'm not arguing its quality, but in my own personal opinion, these are the performances/films that i would want to recognize if i was an academy member....they're not realistic picks

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2008 at 12:06 PM

    glad to see someone else wants to snub atonement...it's just another "sweeping love-story" that the academy loves and is incredibly boring. not dissing it as a film altogether, but i hate all the buzz it had. Anyways, great list.

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