So this is the big one of the award ceremonies, the Oscars, and this is the 79th in 2007. The Oscars if its on tv in the UK is shown as some ridiculous hour in the morning, and if you have work to do on Monday its not easy to stay up to watch, so i didn't get to see it, but a quick look at the news this morning helped me to catch up. Lets start off with the list of who won what.
Actor in a Supporting Role - Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
Visual Effects - Pirates 2
Animated Feature - Happy Feet
Short Film(Live Action) - West Bank Story
Short Film(Animated) - The Danish Poet
Costume Design - Marie Antoinette
Make-up - Pan's Labyrinth
Actress in a supporting role - Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Documentary Short Subject - The Blood of Yingzhou District
Documentary Feature - An inconvenient Truth
Art Direction - Pan's Labyrinth
Music(Score) - Babel
Sound Mixing - Dreamgirls
Music(Song) - An inconvenient Truth
Sound Editing - Letters from Iwo Jima
Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others
Film Editing - The Departed
Actor in a leading role - Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Cinematography - Pan's Labyrinth
Actress in a leading role - Helen Mirren for The Queen
Writing(adapted screenplay) - The Departed
Writing(Original Screenplay) - Little Miss Sunshine
Directing - The Departed
Best Picture - The Departed
Honorary Oscar - Ennio Morricone
First off all i'm glad that Martin Scorsese won best director, out of all of the nominated movies its the one im most eager to see and will do this week i expect time permitting. Babel won best musical score and admittedly i watched this recently and though at the time what a good soundtrack this is, wasn't 100% about the rest of the movie but the sound was done in a A+ fashion. Nice to see Pan's Labyrinth win best art direction i haven't seen this yet but from all the pictures, trailers and clips it looks gorgeous, and Del Toro's previous films have all been good lookers.
Ah special effects, brilliant when used and you don't even notice them, rather bad and annoying when they detract from the immersive nature that runs in all the best movies. So why did pirates of the Caribbean win, it must purely be on technical merit because although it was rather impressive it was too much for my liking. Finally best actor and actress awards both went to the people who were hyped to win weeks ago, now im wishing i put a few bets on even though the odds were terrible.
That's it for another year with the Oscars, i have only touched the surface though if you do want more Oscar related news, clips and reading material then head over to the official website the link is below.
The Official Oscar hompage link
Source oscar.com
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