And I Am Telling You That Dreamgirls Did Not Get Nominated for Best Picture
Published January 25, 2007
So here's what I predicted would get nominated for an Oscar.
And here's what actually got nominated.
I shot a little over 77 percent.
I nailed the Best Supporting Actress category, which really just means the Academy matched SAG nod for nod.
Two surprises in the Best Supporting Actor category. One, Leo ain't as I hot as I thought (and Djimon is hotter, God bless 'im) and two, someone handled Marky Mark's campaign better than Jack's, even though a successful Jack campaign usually need only involve mentioning that Jack was in a film that year.
Why Borat got a Best Adapted Screenplay nod is beyond me, but since Sacha didn't get the Best Actor love, I guess I'll take it. Don't know why I didn't see Marber's Notes nod coming a mile away, but I wish Reitman's Smoking screenplay could have made it in. Also, glad to be right about Children (of Men, not Little). Wasn't actually 100 percent sure that would happen.
Actually, I do have a theory about Borat's nomimanation. The Writer's Guild is in the midst of trying to recruit all reality television writers into their fold so that if they go on strike, the networks can't just rely on reality programming to get them through the crunch. Giving a "reality-based" movie like Borat a screenplay nod reinforces the message that reality TV needs writers, too.
I was equally surprised by the Original Screenplay nods. First of all, isn't Letters From Iwo Jima (which I expected to get snubbed for Adapted) based on Picture Letters From Commander in Chief by Tadamichi Kuribayashi and Tsuyoko Yoshido? It's right there on the poster! Second of all, my dream of Two Guys Named Guillermo and a Best Original Screenplay Nod came true.
Best Actress - replace Beyonce with Kate Winslet. I don't think anyone's going to have a problem with that. Beyonce's going to perform, in all likelihood, anyway when she sings one of the three songs nominated from Dreamgirls. This also means - wait for it - that Eddie Murphy is probably going to sing at the Oscars as well (he's one of the leads on "Patience"). Nice.
- And I Am Telling You That Dreamgirls Did Not Get Nominated for Best Picture
- Published: January 25, 2007
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Awards Shows
- Writer: David Dylan Thomas
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Perhaps, but look at Renee Zellweger's Oscar-nominated performance in Chicago and see if it's any more/less intense.
Renee Zellweger is an actress with limited singing ability. Beyonce Knowles is a clothes horse with a bombastic singing style. Granted, the Dreamgirls script is awful and the Chicago script much sharper [even though the same person adapted both], so that even a better actress might be terrible as Deena. Some may find the "Listen" number a pleasingly intense performance. I think it's phony, cheesy, overwrought American Idolatry.
don't be afraid to watch the notebook. i feared it, then was forced to on a date, and lived to not hate it. it was sappy, but i didnt regret watching it. (boy, doesnt that make you want to run out and rent it?)
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Did you really, really believe Beyonce would get an Oscar nomination for her "acting"? To put her in a group with Meryl and Dames Helen and Judi would have been just silly.