Oscar picks for tonight
Haven’t seen but a tiny fraction of the nominees, so the next list is bound to have gaping holes in its logic:
- Leading actor
- Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance in There will be Blood has been raved so widely, that this is an easy pick.
- Supporting actor
- Javier Bardem. On account of his worrisomely manic killer in No Country for Old Men.
- Leading actress
- Julie Christie. Actors portraying damaged people tend to be rewarded. Ellen Page would be a nice shock to the system, but that’s a long shot if I ever saw one.
- Supporting actress
- Amy Ryan. Her white trash mom distilled the quintessential parts of what’s wrong with 21st century america into a worthy potion.
- Animated feature
- Ratatouille. The gourmet rats would dominate the penguins of Surf’s Up with one paw tied behind their backs. Persepolis is again too long a shot for a mainstream award.
- Directing
- P.T. Anderson for There will be Blood, mainly on account of the occasional weakness of Coen brothers’ offering. Haven’t seen the other nominees.
- Documentary feature
- Taxi to the Dark Side. Just a hunch. And Michael Moore’s too controversial, and Sicko not good enough for the award.
- Picture
- There will be Blood.
- Visual effects
- Transformers. Let’s face it, Golden Compass had nothing to it beyond the scenes in the trailer, whereas the robot movie outdid pretty much anything thus far in the complexity of the car-sized droids, and the third Pirates movie didn’t really add anything new - the ugliest face in the book (Bill Nighy’s, that is) had already been seen a year ago.
- Writing (original)
- Juno. Again, just a hunch.
Yeah, I brazenly omitted the categories in which I have no opinion or prejudice.
And I expect the host, the almighty Jon Stewart, to bring down the house in disrespecting the elders, the young, and the politically aligned in every which way.
Looks like Lindsay Lohan almost singlehandedly cleaned out this years razzies.
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