Technical Categories
prediction: gold possible spoiler: light yellow
It's Deakins opportunity (finally) to take home the gold.
I scored 4/5 here missing Amélie in favor of A.I. oops.
Slavomir Idziak
Andrew Lesnie
Roger Deakins
Donald McAlpine
(4 Oscar noms) One of the greats lensing a b&w noir probably gives the Academy ideal opportunity to finally reward him.
Terrific work but possibly too wild and color saturated for the Oscar tastes -which usually veer toward landscapes.
I scored 4/5 missing Gosford Park because I thought Black Hawk Down would score stronger in the tech categories. Plus it had more precursor attention in this category.
For its futuristic cities, homes, and ruins.
The set being practically a major character.
A magical world adapted from famous literature.
A magical world adapted from famous literature.
The delicious Nicole amidst dazzling sets as beautiful as she.
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COSTUME
DESIGN
My worst score: 2/5 the Costume Designers Guild REALLY threw me off course here. Only two of these films were CDG nominated. This is Moulin's to lose...but it could lose it to one of the two fantasy blockbusters. |
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The
Affair of the Necklace
Milena Canonero |
Gosford
Park
Jenny Beavan |
Harry
Potter Judianna
Makovsky
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Lord
of the Rings
Ngila Dickson |
Moulin
Rouge!
Martin & Straithie |
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I
dropped this from my contenders list stupidly even though Canonero
has nominations in abundance.
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If
this gets a best picture nom it's probably in for sure. There are
dozens of characters, meticulously researched work and there's dialogue
ABOUT the clothes which draws attention.
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CDG
nom. It seems that bringing these characters to life would
lock any such nomination. Her name will be on the ballot.
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Conspicuously
absent from the CDGs but will Oscars really ignore this? Maybe Dickson
wasn't a guild member? Dickson's resume is mostly TV but she costumed
Heavenly Creatures as well.
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CDG
nom
(3 noms. 0 wins. Sleepy Hollow. Beloved. Little Women.) Tim Burton's costuming wunderkind is an Oscar favorite. |
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Who
Was Robbed?
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The
Royal Tenenbaums & Hedwig and the Angry Inch primarily...
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DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE
some of these descriptions are courtesy of Sijmen's Oscar Experiment As far as my predictions go: I scored 2/5 here. But I was totally guessing as I hadn't seen any of the 10 that were up for the nomination. |
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The documentary committee almost always ignores the
documentaries that find their own audience. And its hard to track
in which year documentaries are eligible since the release patterns
are often strange. The following 2001 documentary theatrical releases
that you may have heard of were not selected: The
Gleaners and I, startup.com, The Endurance, Life and Debt, Keep the
River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale, Down from the Mountain,
Trembling Before G_D, Porn Star, Fighter, Cool and Crazy, Southern
Comfort, and Fighter.
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Children
Underground
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Lalee's
Kin
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Murder
on a Sunday Morning
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Promises
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War
Photographer
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They
do tend to gravitate towards documentaries revolving around kids and
serious subject matter.
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about
an idiosyncratic Southern woman, directed by Albert Maysles
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a
Thin Blue Line-like doc about a black kid accused of murdering a white
woman in Florida, only to later be found innocent.
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from
Cowboy releasing, about kids' exposure to the Arab-Israeli conflict
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-?
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Not
Selected :
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A
Child's Century of War
The Oscar committee's last winner was about children in World War
II so they may go for this as well. My Khmer Heart (about
"a wonderful woman who opens an orphanage in Cambodia and saves orphans,"
with actor Danny Glover apparently a producer or sponsor of some kind)
We Stand Alone Together (executive produced by Steven Spielberg,
about the actual guys who served as the basis of the characters in
Spielberg's HBO minseries Band of Brothers) Stacy Peralta's Dogtown
and Z Boys (winner of the Sundance documentary award in January
2001) Westray (an account of a 1992 Nova Scotia mining disaster,
produced by the National Film Board of Canada)
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ANIMATED
SHORT FILM -see Animated
Feature Section
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LIVE
ACTION SHORT FILM
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The
Accountant
Ginny Mule Prod. |
Copy
Shop
Virgil Widrich |
Gregor's
Greatest Invention
Sudwest Filmproduktion |
A
Man Thing
Polish National Film School |
Speed
for Thespians
Lester Films Ltd. |
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DOCUMENTARY
SHORT
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Artists
and Orphans: A True Drama |
Sing!
KCET/American Film Foundation |
Thoth
Amateur Rabbit Production |
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ORIGINAL SCORE I think this is a race between oft nominated Horner (A Beautiful Mind) and heretofore ignored Shore (LOTR) -just like Best Picture itself. |
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A.I.
Artificial Intelligence
John Williams |
A
Beautiful Mind
James Horner |
Harry
Potter
John Williams |
Lord
of the Rings
Howard Shore |
Monsters,
Inc.
Randy Newman |
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Globe
nomination. The Academy can't live without his brand of
bombast: The question is 'which film'? Or will he double dip?
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Globe
nomination.
(5 noms 1 win in this category.) This is a frontrunner film and the music is memorable (He also penned the Iris score with solos fromJoshua Bell). |
(39
nominations in the past 32 years. 5 wins.) Beloved by Lucas and Spielberg
both. He's always nominated. Always predictable. Nearly always overbearing.
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LA
& Las Vegas Winner. Globe & AFI noms. (Se7en.
Ed Wood. Philadelphia. High Fidelity and many more.) He's
never been nominated despite scoring 50+ films in his two and a half
decade career. Career achievement?
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An
early frontrunner for music awards which is slipping due to the Globe
shut out.
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Who
Was Robbed?
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I
don't really know. Not a music expert. But I do know that any of these
scores would have been preferrable to the uneccesary double dip from
too often nominated ceaselessly repetitive John Williams. Amélie
Yann TiersenThey
like foreign films in thie category and this music is whimsical and
fun but it would need a sweeping crossover to place anywhere at this
point.
Gosford Park Patrick Doyle AFI
nomination.Lovely playful score...if the film gets in it has
a really good shot.Mulholland Drive
Angelo Badalementi
AFI & Globe nominations. Could Badalementi (who also has
a hilariously perverse cameo in the film) finally score Oscar attention?
Waking Life -Clover Gil. A wonderful score. The film is too
atypical for Oscars regardless of merit The Royal Tenenabums
-Mark Mothersbaugh -former Devo member who has a lot of TV credits
and wrote the classic Pee Wee's Playhouse theme and many more......
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ORIGINAL
SONG
Year after year, the Oscar's stupidest category. But I did score 5/5 here. |
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Kate
and Leopold -Sting "Until"
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Monsters,
Inc. -Randy Newman
"If I Didn't Have You" |
Lord
of the Rings
-Enya "May It Be" |
Pearl
Harbor
-Faith Hill "There You'll Be" |
Vanilla
Sky
-Paul McCartney "Vanilla Sky" |
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BFC
&
Globe nom.
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Newman
is nominated every year so this year shouldn't be an exception. He's
never won.
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BFC
&
Globe nom. Las Vegas win. Enya contributes this Celtic ballad.
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BFC
& Globe nom. the film's nonsensical Faith Hill power
ballad is strictly paint by numbers but the music branch likes it like
that.
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BFC
& Globe
nom. With
Come What May out of the race this is the clear front runner.
McArtney will be this year's Dylan.
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The
"Come What May" Controversy
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 Moulin
Rouge! -Ewan MacGregor and Nicole Kidman "Come What May" Music and lyrics by David Baerswald. Golden Globe and Golden Satellite nominations. This song (far and away the best movie ditty of the year) has been deemed ineligible to compete in this category at the Oscars. Seems Baz had it written for Romeo + Juliet back in 1996 -decided not to use it for that film but to keep it for Moulin Rouge! instead. The tricky and controversial part of all of this is Bazmark actually began work on Moulin Rouge! before Romeo + Juliet (the project has been gestating in their minds forever) So technically it could be considered as original since it was written for a Baz film. They're both part of his "red curtain trilogy" and since the song was never used or published otherwise it still fits the original bill. The Academy's beef is that it was not written specifically for MR but for Baz and R+J. Seems a minor quibble in a category that so regularly strains for five listenable, let alone good, tunes. Just two years ago the Academy let Aimee Mann's terrific "Save Me" from Magnolia in even though that song on a demo tape inspired P.T. Anderson in his writing of the screenplay...so therefore it could NOT have been written specifically for that film. But Mann and Anderson (close friends) saved it for the film. It was not published elsewhere so the Academy still considered it "original" You'd think they could extend the same courtesy to Baz Luhrmann. |
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Best
Editing
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A
Beautiful Mind
Hanley & Hill |
Black
Hawk Down
Scalia |
Lord
of the Rings
Gilbert, Horton, Selkirk |
Memento
Dorn |
Moulin
Rouge
Jill Bilcock |
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EDDIE nom.
(1 win for Apollo 13) They work with Ron Howard regularly and its a frontrunner film. |
AFI
& EDDIE nominations. They'd have to have at least one action/violent
film in this mix. (in addition to Ali's fisticuffs.)
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EDDIE
nom. Satellite win.
Editing nominations favor really long and epic films -which this is. And it helps that it plays so smoothly as well. Good job. |
AFI
& EDDIE nominations, Vegas win. Getting a lot of credit
for handling the backward plot so well. Previous credits involve independents
and TV work as well as years as a sound editor.
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AFI
winner & EDDIE nomination.
Her editing is the most frequently attacked technical work in the film. It is jarring and ramped up but that was entirely intentional. Daring work doesn't score as well as invisible work come Oscar time, though. |
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He
Wuz Robbed
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Why didn't they select Tim Squyres difficult masterful editing on Gosford Park which received both EDDIE & AFI Nominations? We'll never know. But he deserved to be there. |
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MAKEUP
I scored a dismal 1/3 here. Ouch. Not only did I predict wrong but I said that Rick Baker will win his millionth Oscar for his Planet of the Apes work... and he didnt' even get nom'ed. |
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A
Beautiful Mind
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Moulin
Rouge!
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Lord
of the Rings
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A
sure a sign as any that this movie could be a sweeper. zzzzzz
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For
the denizens and whores of the Moulin Rouge!
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For
elves, hobbits, dwarves, orcs, etc... Credits: Mad
Max: Beyond Thunderdome, The Piano, Angel at My Table.
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Not
Selected
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A.I.
Artificial Intelligence, Planet of the Apes, and Hannibal
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VISUAL
EFFECTS
I scored 100% here. Thank God Harry Potter didn't score. |
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A.I.
Artificial Intelligence
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Pearl
Harbor
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Lord
of the Rings
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-AFI
nom
I don't even like the film but I'm pretty sure it deserves this Oscar hands down. |
The
incessant commercials showing the Birds
eye views of bombings probably locked this up back in June.
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-AFI
& Satellite & Vegas win.
Jackson's unique visual sensibilities bled into the f/x team and made it really magical. |
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Not
Selected
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Black
Hawk Down, Harry
Potter and the Sorceror's Stone -AFI nomination,
Cats and Dogs, The
Fast and the Furious, Jurassic Park III
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SOUND
DESIGN
I really haven't a clue what they'll nominate here -so I went with the Audio Society noms. |
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Amélie
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Black
Hawk Down
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Lord
of the Rings
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Moulin
Rouge!
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Pearl
Harbor
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Wacky
and whimsical sound effects.
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Blow
stuff up good.
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Satellite
win.
Fireballs, zinging arrows and incantantations. |
All
singing. All dancing. All aural landscape.
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Blow
stuff up good.
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They
Wuz Robbed:
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The
Others -If they have respect
for the restraint in sound, this is a lock.
Mulholland Drive -Nobody beats Lynch
with sound... but will they embrace the wierd in these über conservative
times?
Gosford Park
-despite complex dialogue layering etc... Altman's films don't usually
score here.
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SOUND
EFFECTS EDITING
I scored 0 for 2 here. Yikes |
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Monsters,
Inc
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Pearl
Harbor
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Coolness
and cuteness and cleverness I suppose.
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Noisy.
Kaboom. |
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Not
Selected
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Black
Hawk Down * The Fast and the Furious * Lord of the Rings * A.I. Artificial
Intelligence *
Amélie
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Nomination
Tally
and my vote for the movie that's going to feel like a best picture nominee
that isn't -you know there's one every year- but has lots o' nominations
is Gosford Park -or, worst case currently predicted scenario, Moulin
Rouge!
13 nominations
LORD OF THE RINGS (I correctly predicted the tally -just had one category
off...)
8 nominations
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (I thought my 7 guess was low -but didn't figure on makeup.)
MOULIN ROUGE! (I had it at 5 -so I was off quite a bit here)
7 nominations
GOSFORD PARK (I thought 6 but I didn't see Best Pic happening)
5 nominations
IN THE BEDROOM ( I was right on the mark with nominations)
AMELIE (I was way off here predicted it would receive only 2)
4 nominations
BLACK HAWK DOWN (I thought it would be a stronger contender with 6)
PEARL HARBOR (I thought it would be weaker with 3)
MONSTERS INC (I underestimated a lot with 2)
3 nominations
HARRY POTTER (I overestimated a bit giving it 4)
IRIS (I underestimated with 2)
2 nominations
SHREK (I overestimated a lot giving it 4)
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (I overestimated with 3)
ALI * MEMENTO * MONSTER'S BALL -correct on all of those.
TRAINING DAY (underestimated with 1)
1 nomination
KATE AND LEOPOLD * I AM SAM * SEXY BEAST * JIMMY NEUTRON * MULHOLLAND DRIVE
* GHOST WORLD *
Correctly Predicted
Snubs with Zero Nominations:
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH * THE SHIPPING NEWS
Snubs I did not predict
BLOW * LIFE AS A HOUSE * BANDITS * THE DEEP END * FAST AND THE FURIOUS
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