OSCAR night hopes and predictions

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Because in case you hadn't gathered I am an awards show whore. Edited because I saw how long the post was:

Best Picture

Hope: If this isn't obvious to anyone, I don't know I could make it more so LOTR: The Two Towers
Prediction: Hah! like any fantasy film will ever win this. I suspect it will be The Hours, as it is both arty and has disease of week elements.

Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominees

Hope: Adrien Brody - because I think his is the performance that was possibly the most difficult to do.
Prediction: Jack bloody Nicholson again. Nothing against the dude, but no!

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Hope: Salma Hayek, not just for the performance but for her determination to get the film made.
Prediction: And the winner is Nicole Kidman. Which I can live with. Julianne Moore won't win it because she's too outspoken, no one went to see Unfaithful or Frida, and Renee Zellweger ain't no Liza Minelli.

Best Supporting Actor

Hope: Christopher Walken, if only because he is one of my favourite actors.
Prediction: Um, hard to tell. We have 1 legend who the Academy has mistreated in the past, 2 stars and then two have been around for ages but have finally made some sort of impact on the Academy. So as it's best support I think it'll go to John C Reilly or Chris Cooper.

Best Supporting Actress

Hope: See the look of I don't care. I don't dislike any of them, but Meryl Streep if only for the spanking.
Prediction: Julianne Moore might just get it. But probably Cathrine Zeta Jones

Best Director

Hope: That the Academy realise that they have made a grave ommision and give it to Peter Jackson./ fangirl fantasy. I want either Scorcese or Polanski to win it for artistic reasons or Almodovar for the controversy he could cause.

Prediction: Well they ain't going to be giving it to Polanski unless the Academy realise its not a moral contest but an artistic one. Stephen Daldry won't get it, because he's not a big name. So either Rob Marshall or Martin Scorcese (finally)


Best Screenplay

Hopes: Pedro Almodovar for reasons already discussed.
Prediction: My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Best Adapted Screenplay

Hopes: Kaufmann, Kaufmann rah rah rah.
Prediction: The Hours

Best Animated Film

Hopes: I don't really mind.
Prediction: It's all about Lilo And Stitch

Best Foreign Language Film

Hopes: Again I don't mind
Prediction: The Crimes of Father Amaro



Best Cinematography

Hopes: A LOTR nomination. Seriously, I'd go with The Pianist, because what I have seen of it was brilliantly shot, sort of Dogme realism without the Dogme stupidity.
Prediction: Going off the BAFTAs, Road to Perdition

Best Art Direction

Hopes: LOTR or Gangs of New York
Prediction: Chicago, it's going to be this year's LOTR and get all the tech awards it's up for but few of the bigger ones.

Best Costume Design

Hopes: I'd say Frida or GONY
Prediction: Chicago

Best Makeup

Hopes: Only two nominees, how odd! Other than that either, I don't mind
Prediction: Frida, because The Time Machine is a sci-fi/fantasy film and because Frida won this at the BAFTAs

Best Editing

Hopes: LOTR
Prediction: Gangs of NY, well, the lady did manage to make sense of the film after it had been shreded to ribbons by the studio.

Best Sound

Hopes: LOTR but that goes without saying. Hello to the sounds of water, of trees and of a giant orc and uruk-hai army.
Prediction: Chicago or Spiderman

Best Score

Hopes: The Hours because my friends have told me it is beautiful
Prediction: I actually think the Hours could win this one.

Best Song

Hopes: Lose Yourself, because it was one of the best songs this year full stop.
Prediction: Paul Simon due to the not giving Mrs. Robinson the award problem.


Best Effects Editing

Hopes: LOTR
Prediction: It might actually win. Either this or Road to Perdition

Best Effects

Hopes: LOTR because of Gollum
Prediction: And Gollum wins it by a nose over Jar Jar Binks. Seriously the only thing stopping lOTR winning this is if the vote split between it and Star Wars allows Spiderman to sneak through.



Best Documentary

Hopes: It's all about Michael Moore
Prediction: Unless they wish me to declare it a fiasco, Bowling for Columbine, because come on, when was the last time a documentary was so big, and won a best film award somewhere.

And that's it.