Awards
Page Index
* OSCAR coverage here
'07 FiLM BiTCH
Awards
by Nathaniel
R
Traditional
Oscar categories:
Majors
/
Acting /
Technicals /
Technicals 2 (Tally of
Noms)
Special Categories: Extras
/ Extras 2 / Scenes
1 / Scenes 2
(Tally of Noms) / Movie Mixers (Poll Games)
Best
Original Score
the
musicians are
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Assassination
of Jesse James... Nick Cave & Warren Ellis |
Atonement Dario Marianelli |
Beowulf Alan Silvestri |
Lust,
Caution Alexandre Desplat |
There
Will Be Blood Jonny Greenwood |
Elegiac
and quietly beautiful |
Inventive
fiction and epic scope |
Bombastic
in the good cheese way |
Melodic
espionage |
strange
and disturbing... quite inspired |
| Finalists:
Eastern Promises (Howard
Shore) * Semi-Finalists: 3:10 to Yuma (Beltrami) * Ratatouille (Giacchino) * Michael Clayton (James Newton Howard) |
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Best
Original Song
at
the top of the charts you'll find
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"Falling
Slowly" from Once |
"Guaranteed" from Into the Wild |
"If
You Want Me" from Once |
"Lyra" from The Golden Compass |
"That's
How You Know" from Enchanted |
"I
don't know you But I want you All the more for that..." |
"On
bended knee is no way to be free..." |
"Are
you really here or am I dreaming I can't tell dreams from truth..." |
"And
her soul walks beside her An army stands behind her Lyra…" |
"Well
does he leave a little note to tell you you are on his mind?..." |
Oscar
race in this category |
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Best Sound
Mixing
the
aurally elevated are
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The
Bourne Ultimatum |
Hairspray |
Hot
Fuzz |
No
Country For Old Men |
There
Will Be Blood |
I
kind of wanted to go all musicals here. But I controlled myself.
See, I love the unpolished quality of live performance in
Once. I love the polished quality of studio performance
in Hairspray. The somewhere in between those of Control.
And even Sweeney Todd, it probably sounds as good
as it possibly could have given the voices it had to work
with.
One of my goals in the new year is to
learn more about all of the aural categories. They remain
most mysterious to me... and as Nick
and I have repeatedly stated, the Academy rarely helps out
here in helping audiences to understand the difference between
various sound duties since they nominate virtually the same
pictures (or the same type of pictures) in both of the sound
categories: animation, musicals and action pictures. Oh, and
things involving lots of water. DISCLAIMER:
I
am learning more about sound this past year and especially
this past couple of months. It's the area of film that I know
I have the least grasp on. So take my awards and nominations
with the appropriate grain of salt. I have three people to
thank for recently acquired knowledge --some of which comes
post my decisions here --the processes of mixing
and editing are in some ways backwards from what I originally
understood (listen to the podcast for more
on this) so the people I want to thank are Greg P Russell
part of the acclaimed sound team on Transformers
(I will stand and applaud should he and his former partner
Kevin O'Connell win the Oscar because they've been waiting
a VERY long time for it. 12 and 19 nominations respectively.
whew) and Walter Murch and Michael Ondaatje from one
of my all time favorite film books The Conversations:
The Art of Film Editing |
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Best
Sound Effects Editing
the
nominees are
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300 |
The
Bourne Ultimatum |
The
Golden Compass |
No
Country For Old Men |
Transformers |
I've gone for bombast here. My apologies. Here's some ear plugs... Finalists:
Beowulf * Spider-Man 3 * Sunshine
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Best
Visual Effects
the
"how'd they do that?" nominees are
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Beowulf |
The
Golden Compass |
Sunshine |
Toons
gone wild (w/ tech advances) |
I
want a daemon, now. A flying witch, too |
Blinding
sci-fi scapes |
| Finalists:
Transformers Dizzying monstrosities
but why did they have to morph rather than turn themselves inside
out, etc... great work but also a basic aesthetic choicee I
had trouble with * 300 looks great
* Ratatouille -the hair alone, my
god * Zodiac visual effects just the
way more films out to use them. In a supporting role
* Semi Finalists: Spider-Man 3 * Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End * The Bourne Ultimatum |
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Best
Make Up
&
Hairstyling
they
gave good face
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Eastern
Promises |
La
Vie En Rose |
Sweeney
Todd |
Tattoos,
gore, and coifs |
Edith
Piaf reborn and destroyed |
Gothic
decay Burton style |
| Finalists:
300 * Atonement * Hairspray Semi-Finalists: Diving Bell and Butterfly * There Will Be Blood * Bug * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
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AWARDS TALLIES (Traditional Oscar category tallies)
These first four awards pages follow the traditional awards categories.
36 films represented in some way out of the 92 I saw from 2007.
19 categories. I leave out Foreign Language, Documentary, and Shorts since most of those Oscar submissions aren't available for screening to the public
EXTRAS if you want more and crazier categories
Statistics for the Traditional Categories
9 nominations
There Will Be Blood (9 wins. 6 gold. 2 silver. 1 bronze)
7 nominations
No Country For Old Men (7 wins. 5 gold. 2 silver.)
6 nominations
Lust, Caution (3 wins: 2 silver. 1 bronze)5 nominations
Atonement (2 wins: 1 gold. 1 silver)
4 nominations
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (3 wins: 1 silver. 2 bronze)3 nominations
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2 wins: 1 silver. 1 bronze)
The Diving Bell and Butterfly (2 wins: 1 silver. 1 bronze)
The Golden Compass (1 win: 1 bronze)
I'm Not There (1 win: 1 bronze)
Michael Clayton (2 wins: 1 gold. 1 bronze)
Once (3 wins: 1 gold. 1 silver. 1 bronze)
Ratatouille (2 wins: 2 gold)
Zodiac (1 win: 1 bronze)2 nominations
Away From Her (1 win. 1 gold)
Beowulf (1 win: 1 silver)
The Bourne Ultimatum (1 win: 1 silver)
Eastern Promises (2 wins: 2 silver)
Hairspray
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (1 win: 1 silver)
Into the Wild (2 wins: 2 bronze)
Juno
A Mighty Heart (1 win: 1 bronze)
Sunshine (2 wins: 1 gold. 1 silver)
Sweeney Todd (1 win: 1 bronze)1 nomination
300
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Enchanted
Hot Fuzz (1 win: 1 silver)
La Vie En Rose (1 win: 1 gold)
Margot at the Wedding
Persepolis (1 win: 1 silver)
The Savages (1 win: 1 bronze)
The Simpsons Movie (1 win: 1 bronze)
Things We Lost in the Fire (1 win: 1 bronze)
Transfomers (1 win: 1 bronze)
Year of the Dog
