It's gold, baby

[listersgirl]

This is the first year that I can remember where I have actually been interested in the majority of the Oscar frontrunners. I know, eh? I mean, not all of them, obviously, but still.

The actual nominations haven't been announced yet (I guess soon, right?), but EW had a list of 25 movies to watch before Oscar night*, so I've started working my way through them. I'd seen two already (Brokeback Mountain and The 40 Year-Old Virgin), and there are a few I have no interest in seeing (Cinderella Man, King Kong and Narnia), but that still leaves 20.

I saw Mrs. Henderson Presents while I was in Halifax (very fun and fluffy, and Judi Dench is wonderful, as I'm sure you can imagine), and I watched Crash last night, which was an exhausting, painful, powerful experience. I'm hoping that Junebug is coming next from Zip, but we'll see. The rest, well, a few of them are or will be out on DVD before Oscar night, and I might try to see a few of the others in the theatres, especially if I can catch them at cheap rep theatres. Especially I'd like to see Capote, Munich, Syriana, A History of Violence, Transamerica, Match Pointand The Squid and the Whale.

And I'll probably re-organize my list once the actual nominations come out.

*I don't really know how they picked these movies. Some of them I can't imagine are going to be winning anything. But I do love a good list.

Comments

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

nominations are tomorrow. i have scheduled my morning for bitching about them ;)

and ... a lot of random stuff gets nominated in smaller awards, so maybe that's how they came up with it. i do not know. also, the most important one to see is capote. omg capote. i need a capote icon.

[listersgirl]

Oh, goodie. I will watch for your bitching!

Maybe this weekend will be Capote weekend. Indeed.

My favourite awards are the screenwriting awards - that's usually where the kind of movies I like get nominated.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i read somewhere once that the winner of the best original screenplay is the film the academy -really- thinks is the best of the year, and that the best picture is the one they think they should choose.

which might be giving them too much credit ;)

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

You read that in my Livejournal. :)

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

ahaha! yes! :D

[listersgirl]

Aw, but it's a nice story, right? Like a fairytale for movielovers.