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Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 4270
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 10:15 am: |     |
The 2005 Academy Award nominations are out:
http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nominees.html
One disappointment - "Sideways" received nominations for best supporting actor, best supporting actress, director, original screenplay, and best picture. But, the guy who was on screen for practically the entire time, Paul Giamatti, was shut out.
Just the sort of thing that would happen to Miles, if you think about it. |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 632
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 11:14 am: | |
I've grown increasingly cynical about these award shows. Other people on the board could better speak about it, but it seems to me that movies that receive nominations are the ones with the most financial backing. Don't the production companies try and sweeten up their movies to the people who vote? It doesn't seem to be about the quality as much as it does the marketing. That's just what it looks like to me.
I agree about Paul Giamatti. I love the guy. He was funny on SNL this week.
I was pleased to see that the lead actress in "Maria Full of Grace" was nominated. For a woman so young, she really hit it. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 5092
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 11:34 am: | |
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND not nominated??? |
Zoesky1
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Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 671
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 1:11 pm: | |
I am so bummed about Paul Giamatti, too. He was great in Sideways, and I loved him as Harvey Pekar.
By the way, I just finished reading the novel Sideways, on which the movie was based, and I highly recommend it. I literally laughed out loud in several places. It reads just like the movie plays, if you know what I mean. They perfectly captured the tone in the screenplay. But the only weird thing is, Sandra Oh's character is a blonde in the book. And they took out a big sequence in the book about hunting for wild boars and getting kidnapped by a redneck. Worth reading! |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3738
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 1:30 pm: | |
Zoesk - I'm glad you mentioned the book. I always like to read the book first. |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 633
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 2:35 pm: | |
If anything, I would have liked to see Paul get nominated for American Splendor. I think I liked that movie better than Sideways. And he was great in the part. |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 3278
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 2:46 pm: | |
I haven't seen The Aviator yet. Is it really that good? |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 1947
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 7:21 pm: | |
zoesky,
I started a thread in the Reading Room about the book, Sideways..it morphed more into a discussion of the movie..I enjoyed both alot but I thought the book was more over the top, the characters were a bit different (or very different in the case of the character played by Sandra Oh..but when your hubby is the director, I suppose they can alter a character), the book and the movie had alot of different and good one-liners. |
Zoesky1
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Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 673
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 8:35 pm: | |
Yeah, as funny as Brad, the boar-hunting guy was, I thought the movie was better without him -- it would have been so weird if they'd put all that boar-hunting redneck stuff in it. I did like the book very, very much, though. I wish that guy has written other stuff I could read, but it was his first novel, believe it or not....talk about hitting it big right off the bat! |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 1948
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 7:18 am: | |
the Sandra Oh character didnt need to have a child in the movie either.
I heard an interview with the author of Sideways on Fresh Air on NPR and I seem to recall him saying that even though this was his first book, the down out and writer (I think he was a screenwriter of some sort) wasnt too far off from how he was. Not only was this his first book, but if it didnt go anywhere, likely to be his last. |
Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1196
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:18 am: | |
What!!! Duncan Rogers was not nominated!!!!! The fix is in!!!!!! |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 4272
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 9:17 am: | |
Duncan may not have been nominated (this year), but there is a local connection to one of the nominated short documentaries, "Sister Rose's Passion":
quote:NJ nun's story catches Oscar's eye
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
BY PEGGY O'CROWLEY
Star-Ledger Staff
The producers of a film about Sister Rose Thering, a Seton Hall University nun who has battled anti-Semitism all her life, were stunned when the short documentary took first place in the Tribeca Film Festival last year. Now stunned has turned to ecstatic with the announcement yesterday that "Sister Rose's Passion" is nominated for an Oscar for best documentary short subject.
"I'm gratified, but I'm more delighted that Sister Rose will be immortalized forever," said Steven Kalafer, the producer of the film, who is up for his third Oscar in the category. "This film is bigger than the Oscar nomination, and Sister Rose is bigger than the film."
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The 39-minute documentary chronicles Thering's fight against Catholic Church teachings -- included in schoolbooks -- that Jews were responsible for Christ's death. It was the subject of her doctorate at St. Louis University in 1961, which in part helped convince church leaders during Vatican II to issue the document "Nostra Aetate," or "In Our Time," in which the Church stated that Catholics should not blame all Jews alive 2,000 years ago, or Jews today, for the Crucifixion of Christ.
~snip~
Thering's life would never have made it to the big screen but for Risa Goldstein of South Orange, an architect who met the nun several years ago through her father.
"I saw her as someone who through her feistiness and commitment changed the world. As a female and a nun, to have gotten the attention of the pope....she changed 2,000 years of history," said Goldstein, the contributing producer.
Full Story: http://nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-3/11067227826070.xml |
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