Oscars FYC: Best Picture: WALL-E Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road Best Actress: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road Best Director: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire Best Original Screenplay: Pete Docter & Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
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Lead Actor - Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Lead Actress - Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Supporting Actress - Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married Original Screenplay - Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor
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I think he's a good guess. Maybe The Visitor will still be fresh in voters' minds when they're nominating Best Actor because right now I would say Richard Jenkins was in, but I have a feeling he'll be forgotten later on perhaps replaced by another veteran like Langella or maybe Clint Eastwood.
Is Mickey Rourke considered a veteran? I would say he is, not in the sense that he's that old like Hal Holbrook and Ruby Dee are, but he does seem older than his actual age because of how long he's managed to maintain his career despite all the ups and downs. In fact, I would put Debra Winger sort of in the same category. They're not really old, just sort of forgotten about, so a nomination for them would be like an award for still being able to do good work despite all that they've been through in their careers which would be different than a nomination for Richard Jenkins or Frank Langella who are consistent actors who for some reason just never managed to find that breakthrough role to get nominated for until much later in their careers. It's like a "Hey! It's That Guy" nomination for Jenkins and Langella in that they've been in so many different things usually playing the same type of character. (It's too bad the original "Hey! It's That Guy" JT Walsh never lived long enough to get an Oscar nomination because I'm sure he was on the cusp of his first nomination very soon before his untimely death.)
Frank Langella (70 years old!) would be the safest bet for "veteran nominee."
By the way, do you recall Mr Langella's first film performance in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970, directed by Frank Perry)? Didn't all the men in that film seem like bitchy queens, even though their characters were all straight? And you thought "Sex and the City" invented the metrosexual!
I'd go with Langella as well. Would Streep be considered veteran (wow, do I even need to ask)? If so, she's another I'm not going to forget on my predictions.
My Oscar Predictions:
PICTURE: Milk or Dark Knight DIRECTOR: David Fincher, Curious Case of Benjamin Button ACTOR: Sean Penn, Milk or Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon ACTRESS: Meryl Streep, Doubt or Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, Dark Knight or Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kate Winslet, The Reader, or Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Milk ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Slumdog Millionaire ANIMATED FEATURE: Wall.E BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman, "Down to Earth" BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Thomas Newman, Wall.E
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I think he's a good guess. Maybe The Visitor will still be fresh in voters' minds when they're nominating Best Actor because right now I would say Richard Jenkins was in, but I have a feeling he'll be forgotten later on perhaps replaced by another veteran like Langella or maybe Clint Eastwood.
Is Mickey Rourke considered a veteran? I would say he is, not in the sense that he's that old like Hal Holbrook and Ruby Dee are, but he does seem older than his actual age because of how long he's managed to maintain his career despite all the ups and downs. In fact, I would put Debra Winger sort of in the same category. They're not really old, just sort of forgotten about, so a nomination for them would be like an award for still being able to do good work despite all that they've been through in their careers which would be different than a nomination for Richard Jenkins or Frank Langella who are consistent actors who for some reason just never managed to find that breakthrough role to get nominated for until much later in their careers. It's like a "Hey! It's That Guy" nomination for Jenkins and Langella in that they've been in so many different things usually playing the same type of character. (It's too bad the original "Hey! It's That Guy" JT Walsh never lived long enough to get an Oscar nomination because I'm sure he was on the cusp of his first nomination very soon before his untimely death.)
I will be pushing for Richard Jenkins until the Oscar nominees will be announced. I only mentioned Frank Langella because he is older and Richard Jenkins is just barely in his 60's. I think both Langella and Jenkins should get nominated! And especially Richard Jenkins. As you mentioned, he may be "forgotten," but as long as Overture does a good job getting his name out there and his performance seen, then I really think that Jenkins will start to turn on some light bulbs with some voters and get a nomination! He truly deserves it!
2009 Oscars FYC:
Lead Actor - Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Lead Actress - Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Supporting Actress - Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married Original Screenplay - Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor
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FYC: 2008-2009 Award Season The Dark Knight, Mickey Rourke, Richard Jenkins, Sally Hawkins, Kristin Scott Thomas, Heath Ledger, Michael Shannon & Viola Davis
FYC: 2009 Daytime Emmys Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series Noelle Beck as Lily Snyder, As the World Turns (CBS)
Congrats to the 2009 Grammy Award Nominees Adele, Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, Kings of Leon, Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo, & Pink
GO SOONERS!!!
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