I think this year's Best Song category may be the only chance we'll have to pit the vocal stylings of James Taylor ("Our Town" from Cars) against those of Eddie Murphy ("Patience" from Dreamgirls). Taylor's just lucky he's not going up against "Party All the Time," cos' that shit would be over before it began. But first...
MAKEUP
- Apocalypto
- Click
- Pan's Labyrinth
Will Win: Pan's Labyrinth
Should Win: Pan's Labyrinth
There's no real mystery to this category, except why certain films don't get nominated (Monster, Planet of the Apes, Transamerica, The Hours), although this year I can't think of any glaring omissions (Davey Jones was all CGI, baby). The most obvious achievement tends to prevail. Here I think Pan and the Pale Man will outstrip making Adam Sandler look old or giving out a shitload of piercings (do those even count as makeup?).
Pan's Labyrinth really was a great achievement in makeup, especially if you count the Joker scene (if you saw it, you'll know what I mean, and be very disturbed).
COSTUME DESIGN
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Dreamgirls
- Marie Antoinette
- The Queen
Will Win: Dreamgirls
Should Win: Dreamgirls
This award almost always goes to a period film, which more or less eliminates Prada and Queen. Then you have to factor in that more than just costume designers will be voting, and most of the rest of the Academy hasn't seen Curse or Antoinette. On the other hand, the Costume Designers Guild went for Curse, so consider it a spoiler.
I, too, have not seen Curse or Antoinette, but I've seen enough to know they have kick-ass costumes. Everyone here, in fact, is a winner. Dreamgirls, though, is the only one I left actually thinking, "Damn, that could win Best Costume Design." Oh, and I said that after Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but it didn't get nominated.
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