The Long Anticipated Oscar Post

I thought that it'd be nice for the Oscar people to see precisely how the geekvote is liable to see their current slate. Well, at least how one member of the geekvote is liable to see their current slate. You know the drill.

(And, yes, I heard that Cold Mountain was actually pretty good, but I didn't see it. Sue me.)

Best picture
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Blah
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Blah
Blah

Directing
Blah
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Blah
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Peter Weir
Blah - No, wait, Seabiscuit wasn't supposed to be all that bad.

Actor in a leading role
Johnny Depp, man, yeah, that'd be sweet. If he wins, you know that the New York Post or Daily News will do something like "Depp Gets OscaaARRRRH"
Blah
Blah
Blah
Blah

Actor in a supporting role
Baldwin Twit
Blah
Blah
Blah
Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai. Guess you win.

Actress in a leading role
Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider (The boyfriend of my housemate insisted that we watch this film; I wanted to see the Italian Job and I was half-blitzed anyway, so rather than be in a snit I went upstairs for a while, came back down and actually watched it. At the end I told him, "Dude, next time explain ahead of time that the girl actually was a telepath, 'kay?" He threatened to throw something at me.)
Blah
Blah
Blah
Blah

Actress in a supporting role
Blah
Blah
Blah
Holly Hunter in Thirteen (which is probably not a geekfilm, but you never know)
Blah

Animated feature film
Brother you've got to be fragging kidding me that they gave this piece of tripe the nomination when Anime regularly kicks American butt every year Bear
Finding Nemo
Blah

Art direction
Blah
The Last Samurai Art Direction: Lilly Kilvert; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Art Direction: William Sandell; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
Blah - no, wait, Sea Biscuit wasn't supposed to be all that bad.

Cinematography
Blah
Blah
Blah
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Russell Boyd
Seabiscuit - John Schwartzman

Costume design
Blah
The Last Samurai - Ngila Dickson
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Wendy Stites
Seabiscuit - Judianna Makovsky

Documentary feature
At least it isn't Michael Moore
At least it isn't Michael Moore
At least it isn't Michael Moore
At least it isn't Michael Moore
The Weather Underground (Shadow Distribution) A Free History Project Production; Sam Green and Bill Siegel; This will probably win, based on last year.

Documentary short subject
Blah
Blah
Blah

Film editing
Blah
Blah
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Lee Smith
Seabiscuit - William Goldenberg

Foreign language film
Blah
Blah
The Twilight Samurai - A Shochiku/Nippon Television Network/Sumitomo/Hakuhodo/Nippon Shuppan Hanbai/Eisei Gekijo Production; Japan (I know nothing about this film, but it's about Samurai and it's from Japan, so there's a faint hope that somebody might cut off somebody else's head)
Blah
Blah

Makeup
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!... umm, actually maybe Pirates of the Caribbean should get this one instead
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Edouard Henriques III and Yolanda Toussieng
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

OK, so far the only category that has any sort of conflict for me is makeup. That's kind of depressing, really.

Music (original score)
Blah
Blah
Finding Nemo - Thomas Newman
Blah
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!

Music (original song)
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR! Hey, I LIKE Annie Lennox.
Blah
Blah
Blah
Blah

Short film (animated)
Blah
Blah
Blah
Blah
Blah

Short film (live action)
Blah
Blah
Blah
(A) Torzija [(A) Torsion] Too much to hope that this is a Gojira knockoff, huh?
Blah

Sound editing
Finding Nemo
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Heck, give 'em this one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Sound mixing
The Last Samurai
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Seabiscuit

OK, that's two.

Visual effects
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Three.

Adapted Screenplay
Blah
Blah
LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!
Blah
Seabiscuit - Written for the Screen by Gary Ross

Original Screenplay
Blah
Blah
Finding Nemo - Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds Original Story by Andrew Stanton (by default)
Blah
Blah

I hope that this little excursion into my brain will help you in your Oscar watching experience: I plan to read about it the next day like a good little blogger, myself. I mean, somebody will be blogging about it in real time and I can't do permalinks to the TV, so what's the point? And remember:

LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!

Comments

[Opus]

Moe! You're a geek? I would have felt more affectionate towards you earlier had I known. :-)

(And, yes, I heard that Cold Mountain was actually pretty good, but I didn't see it. Sue me.)

As soon as I saw it described as "Gone With The English Patient," I was willing to wait for the DVD. I'm sure it's wonderful, but I'm still pissed off that I was supposed to be in favor of KSThomas cheating on Colin Firth. No. Just, no.

Seabiscuit was good, in a nostalgic, you-know-what's-going-to-happen-but-it's-still-really-neat sort of way.

However,

LORD OF THE RINGS! GIVE IT TO THEM! GIVE THEM THE OSCAR!

I agree completely.

[J. Michael Neal]

If what you got out of The English Patient was that you were supposed to be in favor of Katherine cheating on Geoffrey, you weren't paying very close attention.