Oscars

2007 Oscars Show February 24, 2008

Yup, that's right. No predictions this time. No reviews for any of the movies either.

But well that makes commenting on the awards ceremony (and later on, on the awards themselves) a whole easier - I won't risk contradicting any previous comment that I may have made on the movies :)

2006 Oscars Recap February 26, 2007

And another one is over. Prediction-wise I was 16/24 just like last year, 6/8 in the main categories. Perhaps I should go with my favorite in the supp. actor category rather than best picture next time :).

The Departed was the winner of the night with 4 wins including Best Picture and Best Director. Pan's Labyrinth won 3 (missing out on Best Foreign Film though), Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine and An Inconvenient Truth had each 2 wins.

What else was memorable?

Final Predictions February 24, 2007

With a bit over 24 hours left until the awards ceremony, I am throwing in the towel and classifying the current predictions as final predictions. I could reason back and forth between Babel, Departed and Little Miss Sunshine and argue why and how each of them could get enough votes to win. Right now I know I am leaning towards my personal preference, but... oh well.

All categories have some more detailed comments when the race warranted it. Enjoy and tune in for live comments during the broadcast and tally of the results.

2006 Predictions are up February 21, 2007

A bit after the ballots were due, my predictions for all categories are finally up.

Of course, as a pundit, I have a few more days to finalize the predictions, especially on the big categories, so look for updates and more detailed comments to sneak into each page up until Saturday.

2006 Nominees Announced January 23, 2007

Early morning in Los Angeles, the stars anxiously await the phone calls to announce them the good news... Or they actually wake up and watch the announcements, but they pretend not to after that.

Anyway, the deed is done and we know the 2006 Oscar Nominees. I updated my predictions, as always, marking the correct guesses, the ones I got almost right (being secondary guesses) or the true surprises. There are three main surprises: Dreamgirls misses out on Best Picture nomination in favor of Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. Leonardo DiCaprio gets his nomination but for Blood Diamond instead of Departed. And Almodovar's Volver doesn't make the top 5 in Foreign Film.

The tally stands as follows: 8 nominations for Dreamgirls (but 3 of them are for Best Song!!), 7 nods for Babel, 6 for Pan's Labyrinth (!!) and The Queen, 5 for Blood Diamond and The Departed, 4 for Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, Notes on a Scandal and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Nominations Predictions January 20, 2007

We are only days away from the Nominations announcements (Tuesday morning) and I am finally putting up my predictions as well.

Interesting options this year with many categories open for surprise nominations.