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Oscars 2007
I won the Oscar pool this year, making me six dollars richer than I was this morning. I got 15 categories right, and missed in 9. Mind you, my choices were based on what I thought would win, which was sometimes different than what I wanted to win. Here's what I missed:

What Won (My Pick)

Best Picture: No Country For Old Men (There Will Be Blood)
Actress: Marion Cotillard (Cate Blanchett)
Documentary Feature: Taxi to the Dark Side (Sicko)
Documentary Short: Freeheld (Salim Baba)
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd (There Will Be Blood)
Makeup: La Vie en Rose (Pirates of the Caribbean 3)
Visual Effects: The Golden Compass (Pirates of the Caribbean 3)
Original Score: Atonement (3:10 to Yuma)
Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters (12)

Clearly I have a soft spot in my heart for There Will Be Blood -- a soft spot mocked and openly derided by the Academy. Thank god Daniel Day-Lewis won, and the cinematography.

Roger Deakins was nominated twice, but didn't win. I wonder if votes by Roger Deakins fans were diluted between the two nominations, preventing him from winning and making him, in effect, his own Ralph Nader.

Correctly guessing Live Action Short and Animated Short, having seen none of them, made me feel a bit better about the money I lost at the roulette wheel last year. There's a 20% chance of randomly choosing correctly in each category. Does getting both mean a 20% of 20% chance (I think that's 4%)? It's been a long time since high school statistics. Well, these six dollars puts me about 8% closer to winning back what that wheel took from me.

Speaking of films I didn't see, the Oscar for best Documentary Short going to "Freeheld" instead of "Salim Baba" was a travesty -- the latter's title is much more fun to say out loud.

Can someone explain to me the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing?

I have mixed feelings about Diablo Cody winning for Original Screenplay (though I did pick Juno). At least she seemed to appreciate the recognition, as opposed to Joel and Ethan Coen, who appeared disinterested and aloof. I also suggest Ethan brush his teeth before he attends future award ceremonies. I loved No Country For Old Men, and have watched it twice (something I almost never do); I just thought There Will Be Blood was better.


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[info]joshc
2008-02-25 07:21 am UTC (link)
I spent a good portion of the 5-5:30 red carpet portion of the show on my iphone trying to determine the difference between sound editing and sound mixing. My best interpretation was that editing is related to the creation/production of individual sounds while mixing is related to the overall balance of sounds in a film. I look forward to hearing a better explanation from more knowledgeable commeters.

Even with this bit of research I was killed in my pool by the success of Bourne Ultimatum (which I really liked but didn't suspect of winning. at least it prevented an all out No Country sweep.)

I was really glad that There Will Be Blood at least grabbed a non-Daniel Day Lewis award.

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[info]erik
2008-02-25 07:32 am UTC (link)
I probably would've beaten you in your pool. I spanked most of the important categories, though didn't dare even take a shot at documentary, live action, and animated short.

Frankly I didn't think much of There Will Be Blood, despite my crazy love of PTA. At every turn it seemed to be building to some kind of important climax, and then would simply skirt it and move on to the next thing. I found it confounding and lacking in theme or message. No Country was much more focused, IMHO.

And, for the record: Sound Editing is the layering of sounds and creating a cohesive palette. Sound Mixing, as Josh pointed out, is the volume balancing of those sounds. They're frustratingly similar, yet probably deserve different categories. If the Cinematographer wasn't the one to do the color correction of the film, you'd probably have two Cinematography categories as well.

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[info]joshc
2008-02-26 04:19 am UTC (link)
Maybe I should watch No Country for Old Men again. I thought that it was like an incredibly elegant machine that was fascinating to look at because of its impeccable craftsmanship, but I found little to love in it.

I don't know if either film can be said to have a message or theme aside from "single-minded misanthropic obsession and its consequences". But, for me, at least There Will Be Blood had Daniel Day Lewis's both showy and subtle performance, a funny script, and Johnny Greenwood's dazzling score to hang on to.

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[info]patrick_bateman
2008-02-25 07:18 pm UTC (link)
The thought of Scorsese handing PTA the award for Best Director would have been perfect symmetry, as PTA’s films have been inspired so much from Marty’s. It was a potentially great moment missed.

That said, the similarities between them might become even more striking as the years go on, as PTA continues to make great films yet continues to lose out on Oscars. I was so excited for this to be his moment of ‘arrival’, to finally be recognized as the BIG director everyone knows he is.

I’m very happy Robert Elswit won, though. Well deserved, not only for this film but for all others he’s collaborated with PTA on.

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Devon DeLapp ([info]ddelapp) wrote,
@ 2008-02-24 22:15:00
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Entry tags:oscars, the industry

Oscars 2007
I won the Oscar pool this year, making me six dollars richer than I was this morning. I got 15 categories right, and missed in 9. Mind you, my choices were based on what I thought would win, which was sometimes different than what I wanted to win. Here's what I missed:

What Won (My Pick)

Best Picture: No Country For Old Men (There Will Be Blood)
Actress: Marion Cotillard (Cate Blanchett)
Documentary Feature: Taxi to the Dark Side (Sicko)
Documentary Short: Freeheld (Salim Baba)
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd (There Will Be Blood)
Makeup: La Vie en Rose (Pirates of the Caribbean 3)
Visual Effects: The Golden Compass (Pirates of the Caribbean 3)
Original Score: Atonement (3:10 to Yuma)
Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters (12)

Clearly I have a soft spot in my heart for There Will Be Blood -- a soft spot mocked and openly derided by the Academy. Thank god Daniel Day-Lewis won, and the cinematography.

Roger Deakins was nominated twice, but didn't win. I wonder if votes by Roger Deakins fans were diluted between the two nominations, preventing him from winning and making him, in effect, his own Ralph Nader.

Correctly guessing Live Action Short and Animated Short, having seen none of them, made me feel a bit better about the money I lost at the roulette wheel last year. There's a 20% chance of randomly choosing correctly in each category. Does getting both mean a 20% of 20% chance (I think that's 4%)? It's been a long time since high school statistics. Well, these six dollars puts me about 8% closer to winning back what that wheel took from me.

Speaking of films I didn't see, the Oscar for best Documentary Short going to "Freeheld" instead of "Salim Baba" was a travesty -- the latter's title is much more fun to say out loud.

Can someone explain to me the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing?

I have mixed feelings about Diablo Cody winning for Original Screenplay (though I did pick Juno). At least she seemed to appreciate the recognition, as opposed to Joel and Ethan Coen, who appeared disinterested and aloof. I also suggest Ethan brush his teeth before he attends future award ceremonies. I loved No Country For Old Men, and have watched it twice (something I almost never do); I just thought There Will Be Blood was better.


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[info]joshc
2008-02-25 07:21 am UTC (link)
I spent a good portion of the 5-5:30 red carpet portion of the show on my iphone trying to determine the difference between sound editing and sound mixing. My best interpretation was that editing is related to the creation/production of individual sounds while mixing is related to the overall balance of sounds in a film. I look forward to hearing a better explanation from more knowledgeable commeters.

Even with this bit of research I was killed in my pool by the success of Bourne Ultimatum (which I really liked but didn't suspect of winning. at least it prevented an all out No Country sweep.)

I was really glad that There Will Be Blood at least grabbed a non-Daniel Day Lewis award.

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[info]erik
2008-02-25 07:32 am UTC (link)
I probably would've beaten you in your pool. I spanked most of the important categories, though didn't dare even take a shot at documentary, live action, and animated short.

Frankly I didn't think much of There Will Be Blood, despite my crazy love of PTA. At every turn it seemed to be building to some kind of important climax, and then would simply skirt it and move on to the next thing. I found it confounding and lacking in theme or message. No Country was much more focused, IMHO.

And, for the record: Sound Editing is the layering of sounds and creating a cohesive palette. Sound Mixing, as Josh pointed out, is the volume balancing of those sounds. They're frustratingly similar, yet probably deserve different categories. If the Cinematographer wasn't the one to do the color correction of the film, you'd probably have two Cinematography categories as well.

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[info]joshc
2008-02-26 04:19 am UTC (link)
Maybe I should watch No Country for Old Men again. I thought that it was like an incredibly elegant machine that was fascinating to look at because of its impeccable craftsmanship, but I found little to love in it.

I don't know if either film can be said to have a message or theme aside from "single-minded misanthropic obsession and its consequences". But, for me, at least There Will Be Blood had Daniel Day Lewis's both showy and subtle performance, a funny script, and Johnny Greenwood's dazzling score to hang on to.

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[info]patrick_bateman
2008-02-25 07:18 pm UTC (link)
The thought of Scorsese handing PTA the award for Best Director would have been perfect symmetry, as PTA’s films have been inspired so much from Marty’s. It was a potentially great moment missed.

That said, the similarities between them might become even more striking as the years go on, as PTA continues to make great films yet continues to lose out on Oscars. I was so excited for this to be his moment of ‘arrival’, to finally be recognized as the BIG director everyone knows he is.

I’m very happy Robert Elswit won, though. Well deserved, not only for this film but for all others he’s collaborated with PTA on.

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