I would give it to Sir Ben but I know that's not going to happen.

Didn't realize Depp was contending against his previous performances in this category.

I can see LotR losing best pic ... but it sure is becoming more doubtful with each award.

Night all, congrats to all the ROTK supporters. I was pulling for Chicago last year so I know how fun it can be when your film comes through and earns well-deserved recognition....*wait for it*...

even if I don't feel the recognition is well-deserved this year.

Congrats to Peter Jackson and everyone involved though. Though ROTK left me cold and mostly uninterested, the movies as a whole tell a great story and it really is a technical achievement.

okay... I forgot about Anger Managment.

Lost in Translation: Worst NOMINATED FILM of last year. (That i've seen)

You could say the same about both Penn and Murray (IMO)

Of course he is. Everybody who acts always has to contend with their other works. All the time. Everybody.

Nawww, just joshin' ya. Never said he was contending with his previous stuff, I meant that Depp can do better and I don't think this performance is deserving of an Oscar. But, hey, that's just my...like...opinion man.

INTO THE WEST wasn't in The two towers to my knowledge

HUmmm, maybe Penn (Sweet and Lowdown comes to mind) but certainly not Murray (his work in this film, in my mind, surpasses Rushmore). Again, just my two.

I think you answered your own question. People who didn't have any interest in the first two installments will still have no interest in the last one, and everyone who wanted to see it has already. Besides Passion is the hot topic now, even if ROTK sweeps, since it's main Oscars were pretty much a given.

Score, dumbass.

YES! Peter Jackson.

that's because Comedies are seldomly even considered even though it takes the same amount of work to make you laugh as it does to make you cry.

Score or song, either way, it was composed for the film. does it have notes from the others. Yes, but it's a new score for a different film.

To think, this guy made Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste and Dead Alive and now he has Oscar Gold. I like.

Personaly I think all the actors in the best actor catagory are very
deserving.

yes they are

Agreed.

And, well, to it's credit (or discredit, if you wish) Gollum's Song wasn't nominated for Best Song for Two Towers. I'm not speaking of the songs, regardless, but of the fact that Two Towers' score could not be nominated under new Acadamy rules. It appears they changed this and I agree with the change.

We are agreeing?

This is the 1st sign of the Apocolypse.

I smell an upset on Best Picture. Its been bugging me all day long. 11 for 11 seems too good to be true. I hope i'm wrong though.

Bill Murray has done much better than Lost in translation. He played Bill Murray through the whole movie. It didn't seem like acting at all. Depp was great, and really made POTC.

Agreed again. Yikes!

I agree that you are in the wrong thread. as this one seems like a shadow compared to the one in tv talk.

That's what happens when Halle opens the flood gates..

Naww, I don't agree that he played Bill Murray in this film. Though I usually don't care for him, I believe Roger Ebert said it best when he wrote:

"Bill Murray has never been better. He doesn't play "Bill Murray" or any other conventional idea of a movie star, but invents Bob Harris from the inside out, as a man both happy and sad with his life -- stuck, but resigned to being stuck."

He adds:

" He always stays in character. He is always Bob Harris, who could be funny, who could be the life of the party, who could do impressions in the karaoke bar and play games with the director of the TV commercial, but doesn't -- because being funny is what he does for a living, and right now he is too tired and sad to do it for free. Except ... a little. That's where you see the fine-tuning of Murray's performance. In a subdued, fond way, he gives us wry faint comic gestures, as if to show what he could do, if he wanted to."

Again, not much of an Ebert fan but I agree with him here.

So far there have been NO surprises right?

Except maybe for LOTR adapted screenplay?

If you were surprised by that one...

No way will RotK lose. Take it to the bank.