{"id":460,"date":"2008-02-25T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-02-25T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T14:31:10","slug":"oscar-oscar-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/oscar-oscar-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar, Oscar, Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only get 14 out of 24 and thus lose the office pool, after winning two years in a row. I can usually count on getting three out of the four acting awards, but manage only two this year. Even worse, I screw the pooch completely on foreign language and documentary and shorts. Big fat zero on all five.<\/p>\n

Mike Kelly wins with 15. Damn, I was counting on that forty bucks.<\/p>\n

I’m otherwise thrilled<\/em>, however, that Marion Cotillard and Tilda Swinton both win, since I utterly adore them both, Ms. Swinton for Orlando <\/em>& Mlle. Cotillard for Un long dimanche de fian\u00e7ailles<\/em> and Jeux d’enfants<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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EJB’s Wrong Pick<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Best Picture<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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No Country for Old Men<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Director<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Joel & Ethan Coen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Actress<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Marion Cotillard<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Julie Christie<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Actor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Daniel Day-Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Supporting Actress<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tilda Swinton<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ruby Dee<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Supporting Actor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Javier Bardem<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Original Screenplay<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Juno<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Adapted Screenplay<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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No Country for Old Men<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Foreign-Language Film<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The Counterfeiters<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Katyn<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Documentary Feature<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Taxi to the Dark Side<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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No End in Sight<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Animated Feature<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ratatouille<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Live-Action Short<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Le Mozart des Pickpockets<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tanghi Argentini<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Documentary Short<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Freeheld<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Sari’s Mother<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Animated Short<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Peter & the Wolf<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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I Met the Walrus<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Cinematography<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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There Will Be Blood<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Art Direction<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Sweeney Todd<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Atonement<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Film Editing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The Bourne Ultimatum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sound Editing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The Bourne Ultimatum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sound Mixing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The Bourne Ultimatum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Visual Effects<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The Golden Compass<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Transformers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Costumes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Atonement<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Makeup<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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La Vie en Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Original Score<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Atonement<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Original Song<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Falling Slowly<\/em> from Once<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I probably shouldn’t have gone with the grand dame legends in both <\/em>actress categories. But, to be perfectly honest, going with that <\/em>thinking would probably have led me to pick Cate Blanchett for supporting, given that she was up for leading as well. Or I would have gone with Saorise Ronan on the theory that the youngest or oldest wins the supporting actress category, and if I wasn’t going to go with Ruby Dee as oldest then I’d go with Ms. Ronan as youngest. Ms. Swinton would have been just about my last <\/em>pick, despite being easily my favorite among the group.<\/p>\n

And I wish I had gone with Taxi to the Dark Side<\/em> instead of No End in Sight<\/em>, after hearing Bill Moyers’s piece on it from his Journal <\/em>show. I listened to it by way of podcast, while I was picking up trash off the street on Sunday. I hadn’t realized Taxi <\/em>was made by Alex Gibney, director of the excellent Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<\/em>. But, then again, Gibney was also executive producer of No End in Sight<\/em>, so who knows what I would have done with this information if I’d had it on Friday, when I filled out my office ballot.<\/p>\n

And all of this is very much despite the fact that La Vie en Rose<\/em> and Eastern Promises<\/em> were the only movies among all of the nominees that I actually saw, of course. I try not to let complete ignorance get in the way of these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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