[Dark_4ce]

Ok people, time to place your bets! Will the critics prove that the oscars are rigged? Will there be suprises? Do they still count for something? Post who you HOPE would win and who you THINK will win! Post for any category.

Best movie:
HOPE: LOTR TTT
THINK: CHICAGO

Best actor:
HOPE: DANIEL-DAY LEWIS
THINK: ADRIEN BRODY

Best Actress:
HOPE: SALMA HAYEK
THINK: RENEE ZELLWEGGER

Best Director:
HOPED: (Not nominated) PETER JACKSON
THINK: PEDRO ALMODOVAR

[Stunaep]

okay.

Best Picture:

HOPE: Lotr: TTT
THINK: Chicago

Best Actor:

HOPE: Michael Caine
THINK: Adrien Brody

Best Actress:

HOPE: Julianne Moore
THINK: Reneé Zellwegger

Best Director:

HOPE: Roman Polanski
THINK: Martin Scorsese

[karajorma]

I predict that LotR will be shamefully ignored same as it was last year.
 
I further predict that when that happens the vast majority of people on this board won`t give a rats arse who does win (I know for certain I won`t).

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by karajorma

I further predict that when that happens the vast majority of people on this board won`t give a rats arse who does win (I know for certain I won`t).

Indeed. there are far more important things happening in the world, like the fact that we are now at war, despite there being little or no support for it at home.

Films are there to be watched, not to be gloated over by all and sundry and given pointless awards that serve no purpose other than to spawn useless sequels.

[karajorma]

I don`t mind them giving awards. What I mind is them setting a catagory like best film and then giving the award to something that isn`t.

Lets face it. The Fellowship of the Ring was the best film out last year. Even if you don`t like fantasy it's pretty undeniable that the scope of the movie was great and the fact that it managed to stay very true to a book many had said was unfilmable was hugely impressive.
 Add in that the acting by people like Sir Ian McKellen would have been impressive even if you didn`t consider the fact that most of the time he was forced to act to thin air

Then consider the fact that it didn`t win any of the major awards and you have to wonder how the Academy can claim with a straight face that they didn`t think it deserved to win.

As far as I`m concerned the oscars have shown themselves to not be objective and as such I consider the Bafta's a far better judge of what movies deserve awards.

[Knight Templar]

They all look like they majorly suck besides probably TTT, but I haven't even seen that yet.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
They all look like they majorly suck besides probably TTT, but I haven't even seen that yet.

Have you been living under a rock for the last three months?

[Knight Templar]

Actually, it's a rather large rusted Coke Can with the words "I (heart) Wilson" scrawled on the side.

[Fetty]

best movie hope : lotr ttt (sounds dumb )
know it will be : chicago

rest dunno
but im always for kevin spacy

[Dark_4ce]

heh. Jsut saw the results for the annual Anti Awards. LOTR took the floor with all the major nominations as it should be.

[Bobboau]

I bet, I won't watch

[deep_eyes]

8 MILE's "Loose Yourself" by Eminem, won best song!:p

[Bobboau]

hey what do you know, I won

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by deep_eyes
8 MILE's "Loose Yourself" by Eminem, won best song!:p

[Liberator]

It kills me, any time there is a really good "genre" movie, like The Two Towers, it gets the award for best effects, best music sometimes, and if hell's a little chilly, best cinematography.  But I defy you to name one "genre" movie that has every won Best Picture.  I mean it's like a film's automatically out of the running if it has a larger Effects budget than Payroll for the Cast and Crew.

**Note by Genre, I mean Science Fiction or Fantasy.**

[Knight Templar]

Road to Perdition was a pretty cool movie. Did it win anything other than best cinematography?

[J.F.K.]

Nicole Kidman! Whoooo!

[Rictor]

damn artsy fartsy touchy feely movies

TTT should have won, I mean in the "best adaptation from a book" I was like "If TTT doesnt win, then I refuse to place any credence in this ****"...it wasnt even nominated:wtf:

I dont see how the works of Tolkien cause loose out to ****ing dancinig..I mean dancing...thats like giving a '84 geo the award for best car over a Rolce Royce. A flying rolce-royce with golden wheels and a chrome finish and a  glove compartment with an enless supply of cholocate bars

you're right, no scifi/fantasy film ever wins, cause they consider them "childish".. they cant see past the first layer of fakeness and pretensiousness, thats why chicago won

[Dark_4ce]

EHehehe. The director who did "Bowling for Columbine" spoke out about Bush and Blair and Iraq. The first time in the history of the Oscars did someone get BOOed off the stage! I felt so embarrased for him.

[Stunaep]

DIRECTING
THE PIANIST
(Roman Polanski)

at least they got that right.