Okay..it's that time of year ..who do you thinks going to win?
I vote Clooney.... :banana: :banana: :banana:
and Reese..best actor /actress

Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote. He is one brilliant actor who is finally getting the praise he is so worthy of!

Felicity Huffmann for Transamerica. Outstanding!

Crash - Best Film. Thought-provoking from start to finish!

Ang Lee, Best Director.

Loved Goodnight & Good Luck, Capote, Munich, and Brokeback Mountain - All superb films!

My all-around, personal favorite in any category -George Clooney - What a great looking man with a fantastic sense of humor!

This has been a stellar year for great films and outstanding performances! I love watching the Oscars and can't wait to see it all unfold with Jon Stewart at the helm!

Karen, any chance of an Oscar teapot for the LCT member who picks the most winners?

I haven't seen them all yet, but have been in a flurry of watching this week.
these are my predictions for the major awards:

Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain
Best Director: Ang Lee
Best Actor: Philp Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Best Actress: Feclicity Huffman - Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor - Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz - Constant Gardener

We are hosting our annual Oscar party - we Tivo it and start watching about 1/2 hour or so into the show - we can then scan through the commercials. When the presenter starts opening the envelope we put it on pause and everyone discusses the nominees casts their votes and then we start up again.

Your party sounds super, Leslie! Hopefully, Isaac Mizrahi isn't greeting your guests!

Forgot to put in my choices for Best Supporting Actor/Actress - Jake for Best Supporting Actor for Brokeback Mtn.(although I'd love to see George get it.) and Rachel for Best Supporting Actress - Constant Gardner.

Loved Syriana and Constant Gardner - two outstanding and intelligent films with important messages.

Denise, all I could find was this rather unusual Oscar Wilde teapot :)




How about if we just give out an Oscar of our own?

Excellent, Karen! That little charmer would look great next to my Chuckie teapot set!

Can't see the Oscar Wilde teapot, but the real deal is better.

Thanks!!

The daughter of friends of ours is the producer of Capote so we are rooting for it to win best picture but without much confidence in the outcome.

Judith,

Capote is worthy of an Oscar! What an incredible film! It certainly is beneficial to rent In Cold Blood prior to seeing Capote, don't you think? In Cold Blood is as compelling and riveting a film now as it was when it was first released.

Robert Blake must be thrilled that that film is making a comeback, in light of his legal woes!

I haven't seen any of the films, so am taking a wild guess based on what I've read.

Best Movie: Crash (oscar many times likes to surprise us)
Best Director: Ang Lee (ok so usually whatever movie wins, the director wins too...)
Best Actor: Philp Seymour Hoffman
Best Actress: Feclicity Huffman
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams (Junebug, the one film I did see)
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm only doing it because I want the statue. I need some virtual knick knacks for my virtual shelf.

I don't know if I can match my record last year of what I consider the major categories (9/9), but here's hoping!

Best Movie: Brokeback Mountain
Best Director: Ang Lee
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz
Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney
Best Original Screenplay: Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain
Best Song: In the Deep (from Crash)

WOW, Karen! That Oscar Wilde teapot is something else!

Just set the TIVO - also for the red carpet stuff. Printing the ballots now:

Oscar ballot

I'm with Andrea on her picks for screenplay & song:

adapted screenplay Brokeback Mountain
original screenplay: Crash
song: In the Deep from Crash

and I'll add:

cinematography: Brokeback Mountain

If the evening begins with Michele Williams winning best supporting actress, then it will be a sweep for Brokeback Mountain. If not, the evening could be more interesting with Crash winning Best Picture.

I expect some upsets and surprises.

I'm with Leslie - Brokeback for Cinematography. I will be very surprised if Michele Williams wins.

Did anyone watch the Independent Spirit Awards last night? I love how they sing a song about the Best Picture nominees!

Andrea looks like you win the statue. Congratulations! 5 out of six for the main awards!

Love the Oscar Wilde teapot Karen..too funny!

Nope, can't take it. It's yours Arlene - you had Best Picture. Nicely done. Actually, I'm really glad Crash won.

Not a good showing for me this year - last year I did very well. Congrats to Andrea and Arlene!

Let me warn you of the perils of TIVO... :( I forgot that the show always runs over but the TIVO will stop at the end of the alloted time.

By the time we got to the best actress announcement the TIVo was out of time - flipping to live TV you can then backtrack 1/2 hour, BUT.... since we didn't start watching until more than an hour into it, even with scanning thru commercials and pausing to debate the awards, refill wine glasses etc., we were still too far behind and missed everything after best actress - argh!

How embarrasing - noone will willingly come to our party next year. Flipping over to the news we learned who won best picture, director etc. but not the right way to do it! :eek: :eek:

Oh, Leslie I'm sorry! Since I've had that happen before, I ended up taping the news, the Jimmy Kimmel show and Ebert & Roeper. Luckily the show only ran over 1/2 hour.

Sorry for the technical difficulties, Leslie!

BTW, I chose and predicted Crash would win for best film, as well. Glad it did! Also thrilled that George won!

I think the winners clearly showed how great a selection of outstanding films there were! The wealth was really spread out and very well-deserved.

Congrats to you too Denise! I read that Crash might garner a lot of votes (deservedly so) from the Los Angeles based voters.

Not only did we have the technical difficulty, but Luke chewed up one my guest's nice Gucci shoes... why she didn't notice that he was munching away on her shoe while he was lying at her feet, I'm not sure. She was a good sport and loves Luke but it made the night even more memorable.

Very mixed opinions about Crash here. Many feel Crash does not depict LA realistically; lots of diversity and "tolerance" in the City of Angels. Many, as well, feel Crash gave a very accurate account of racial profiling and tensions. I feel that Crash was extremely accurate. In all honesty, I do think there's a little bit of someone in that film in all of us, to one extent or another.

Luke has good taste is shoes (literally!). Who could be made at sweet Luke?