The Oscar nominees are in, and even though I aint seen half of them I'm gonna put my penny's worth in and pick who I think will win.... :)

Best picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

I haven't seen any of these yet, but Babel's storyline (and structure) is right up the Academy's street. Although, my second guess would be Little Miss Sunshine, which has come from no where really.

Best director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

My heart wants Scorsese, but if the guy isnt gonna get one for Raging Bull or Goodfellas, what should he get it for? United 93 was a critical hit, but maybe it's too political. I reckon Eastwood.

Best actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

This should be Whitaker's year, but I think the Academy will go all goey and go for Smith.

Best actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Mirren, hand's down. She's won most of the other major awards. Of course, the Academy could vote for homegrown and let Streep sneak in.

Best supporting actress
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikucki, Babel

Christ, I havent seen a single film that has been nominated so far lol, I'll go with Hudson. Dreamgirls was getting a lot of buzz but this is the first major nom it's been in.

Best supporting actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Murphy, which will then allow him to do Beverley Hills Cop 4 - even though no one's arsed.

Best foreign language film
Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico
Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Water, Canada

Pan's as it's the only one I've heard of. I thought Apocoplyto (misspelt I know) would have got a nom, esp as it's the Foreign Language award, not Foreign Film award now.

Best animated feature film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

This is probably the toughest of all categories - Cars was poor by Pixar's standings, Happy Feet had that bizarre ending, and Monster House had the rave reviews...

Best adapted screenplay
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

They always give Scorsese film's the lesser Oscars, so he can sit there slowly dying....

Best original screenplay
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Pan's Labyrinth

I think it's number two for Pan's

Anyone agree or disagree?

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Leaving Home...

For the first time in 2007 I actually ventured outside my garden path this evening. And Boy, do I feel exhausted.

I went to seewhich was excellent by the way :)

Oh, perhaps I should explain why I havent left the house?

I have no money. Well, I have some money, but not a lot. If I leave the house, I will spend the little money I have. I have to. Same as you would too. There is nothing in this world that is free anymore, sadly. I could go for a walk, but I would need a destination. What would be at the end of that destination? More importantly, how much is it gonna cost me?

I am a lazy man, who finds it easier to get up, shower, eat (I have lost an hour already), put on the TV and get lost in the maze of channels. Time seems to evaporate around me. Plus, I have fallen into the trap of getting up late, staying awake late - I need to be awake for 14hrs, so if I get up at 2pm, then by george, I am gonna be lying in bed wishing for sleep till 3am/4pm.

My alarm goes off every day at 9.50am by the way. I have even set it to some godawful local radio station which seems to play the same annoying playlist every day. However... if there is no money, then there is no journey... what is there to get up for?

This is my cursed twisted logic. This is why, on the cusp of my 30 years of walking this dark Earth, I have accomplished little.

Still, the film was very good :)

:(

i think i have done myself a mischief from vomiting

lol

drinking a bottle of red in 45 mins whilst munching on 'party' food was sadly the first of many mistakes I'm sure to make in the year of our Lord, 2007 AD