The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards are out - or ‘Oscars’, if you will.
We know you need some guidance when you stagger into the betting shop, bottle of gutrot in one hand, fortuitously discovered fiver in the other. In this very special podcast we give you the scientifically proven methods you’ll need to pick Oscar winners like a.. er.. winner!
No show notes this time out because, well, that’d kind of spoil things, wouldn’t it? For your convenience though I’ll list the nominations we focused on right here, to save you having to go look and also to help you decipher some of our very, very poor pronounciation.
Oh, by the way - music is a clip from Blackmail Drop, by the Grey Boy Allstars, off the soundtrack to the underrated Zero Effect. You should watch it.
Oscar Nominations 2007 (well, the ones we really care about, anyway)
Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Best Director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children
Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Who picked what? Who should you bet on? Let Tagline guide you, good people! And if you disagree with our choices, well hey, that’s what the comments section on the site is for. Or send us an email already!
I think the oscars voters pick stuff either out of sentimentality or because they want people to think they’re cultured. On that basis I bet The Departed is going to win and Scorcese as well. And I reckon Eddie Murphy will get one too. And Mirren and Wwitaker will win easily because the oscars people want people to think they are interested in world politics as well as hollywood politics. Haven’t seen any of the movies though they all look a bit shit to me. For the other category I reckon Hudson because she’s probably quite good in it.
Departed? Not. A. Chance!