Tue, January 31, 2006
Nominees Ho!—9:18 AM
The "Academy" has graced us with yet another sloppy list of Oscar nominees. We at onebee were considering boycotting the Oscars this year, in protest of the unforgivable dual snub of Steve Martin for Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. (Name me five better adaptations released this year! AMPAS sure didn't!) But we have a soft spot for Jon Stewart, and we also like our streets nice and unrioted – a condition unlikely to endure if the onebee Oscar Pool were to miss a year.
So, with one award left to root for, we'll be there. Here's hoping Best Supporting Actress is an easier category for Ms. Adams, because Best Actress is certainly more appropriate. My hope is that she'll get a lot of votes from lazy Academy members who just pick the first name alphabetically. (Thank God, Yodelin' Zeke wasn't nominated this year.*)
But, God help them if someone else should win that category. Especially if it's Rachel Weisz. Only two years after the LOTR sweep, that might just be enough to turn me into a suicide bomber.
Joe Mulder — Tue, 1/31/06 7:47pm
I think this is the first time in almost 15 years that I haven't seen any of the Best Picture nominees prior to the nominations being announced (although I should say that I certainly would have seen "Munich" if the showtimes had worked out either of the times I went to see movies over the Christmas vacation, and I did want to see "Capote" this one day but the stars just didn't align).
Too bad about the lack of Academy love for the two real Best Pictures of the year, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Up For Grabs.
Actually, though, this could be new dawn in Oscar Pool dominance for yours truly; the fact that I have seen none of the movies and therefore have absolutely no sentimental favorites (or un-favorites, The Aviator) to cloud my predictions could help. And if it does help, I could be in the fabled catbird seat for years to come, what with the baby-having and the not-being-able-to-go-to-movies-ever. Although if that's the way of things, I'll have to look for some stiff competition from Tidball.