Anyone else have that Sesame Street song in their heads: "One of these things is not like the others...." What's with the Randy Newman nomination? That was a wake-up call.

And the song nominees:
"Until" from Kate and Leopold
"May It Be" from Lord of the Rings
"If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters Inc.
"There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor
"Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky
Looks like it'll be a star-studded evening. Paul McCartney, Sting, Enya, Faith Hill, and hopefully Billy Crystal and John Goodman singing the Monsters Inc. song.

On the score-front: Randy instead of Elliot???

Kevin

As always, I have tons of problems with many of the selections. But no surprise there.

Looks like they decided to follow their own rules this year by ignoring Moulin Rouge for Best Score.

Although it is quite curious that Memento, which was based on a previously published short story, was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and not adapted. It's a shame Gosford Park will probably win.

More thoughts later, perhaps.

The published short story has absolutely nothing to do with what you see on film. In fact, there is no true evidence that the two are related. If you have the Memento DVD, you can read the story there. See for yourself.

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I noticed LOTR got 12 nominations.

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FOTR got 13 actually.

Let's go Harry Potter!!

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Originally posted by jeffy:
Here's what I think of Memento being in the Original Screenplay category:
The published short story has absolutely nothing to do with what you see on film. In fact, there is no true evidence that the two are related. If you have the Memento DVD, you can read the story there. See for yourself.

That means the story that Jonathan Nolan came up with for the screen was completly different from what he wrote, and therefore "written directly for the screen."

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Interesting, but I disagree. I think that if the credits of the film actually say (as they do in this case) that a screenplay is based on a short story, that should be enough to put it into the adapted screenplay category. That's all it took for In the Bedroom.

!!! I'm not saying Hollywood movies are better. I'd just rather see Williams, Newton Howard, Zimmer, Doyle, etc. up there instead of John Doe from John Doe Land!!!

I hope Williams wins, allthough Shore deserves one of those statues.

Here is the whole list, for those interested...it's early here, but did I read correctly that David Lynch got the nod for Best Director!?!?!? Huzzzzzah!

Here's hoping that FOTR cleans house...it's about time for a decent film that really EARNED the award to win
Williams' doesn't need the Oscar....Shore does, and deserves it.

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Originally posted by Kris:
I hope Williams wins, allthough Shore deserves one of those statues.

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But do you think Williams deserves it for either of those two scores?? AI is good and all, but it's not GREAT. And POTTER is fun, but after you play those two themes, the album dissolves into mush....

Aw crap, no more than 8 images per post...

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Originally posted by PeterK:
Message to the Academy: quit insulting Randy Newman with nominations already... unless you really are going to give him an Oscar!

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And EMPIRE OF THE SUN is significantly better than POTTER and AI....

Dan

Go Harry!!! (on all of your nominationj) But LOTR should sweep best score and song...here's ot hoping

--Brian

NP: Harry Potter

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Originally posted by jeffy:
What a great birthday present for John Williams! Two nominations, for AI and Harry Potter!

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You think? These things must be to Williams like bowling trophies. How can you get excited after almost fifty of them?

I've won awards for my work many times and can say from experience that when you get the same ones over and over again (and, in the case of Williams seemingly for anything you do) that it has a diminishing effect on the value of the award itself.

Someone like Poledouris or, in this case, Shore might be all beside themselves though.

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Originally posted by Dan Brecher:
FOTR got 13 actually.

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I'll plead temporary insanity (or delusion) as I was just barely awake when I counted the nominations and made my original post.

Kevin

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Originally posted by HAL 2000:
Someone like Poledouris or, in this case, Shore might be all beside themselves though.

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Beside themselves... (insert sarcasm) did you see how elated Shore was when he won the Broadcast Film Critics award? I wasn't sure whether he was being sarcastic in his stoicism or whether he's like I would be, just too nervous to speak emotionally. Indeed, a few people in attendance laughed when he said, "Thrilling, just thrilling." But the Oscars are a probably a much different matter, and perhaps my perception of Shore's acceptance of the trophy is askew in the first place.

Hehehe, deep down we all knew it would get nomiated because it's Williams

--B (The Harry Potter Fanatic of MM.com)

NP: The Fellowship of the Ring

::Brian magicaly apparates from the thread::

Best animated film...
I believe this was just made so that Shrek can win an award (which is why Jimmy Newtron was nominated) and not lose to A Beautiful Mind because it's animated.

I admire every film so I really don't have any personal favorites. But I do think that the winners will be as follows (if I missed any, it's because I have no clue who will win):

Best Actor:
Russell Crowe
Best Actress:
Sissy Spacek
Best Actress In Supporting Role:
Jennifer Connelly
Animated Film:
Shrek
Art Direction
I hope that Moulin Rouge wins, but I think LOTR will
Cinematography
This is close, but I know Amelie and The Man Who Wasn't There wont win.
Directing
Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
Make-Up
LOTR
Score
Disapointed that Pearl Harbor wasn't nominated by I think that all of these except for Beautiful Mind and Monsters Inc are to close to tell.
song
I hate this song, but Kate & Leopold will probably win
Sound Editing
Pearl Harbor!
Adapted Screenplay
A Beautiful Mind
Original Screenplay
I hope either Memento or Monster's Ball win.
Best Picture
A Beautiful Mind

Thoughts?

Pearl Harbor is a terrible team score that doesn't even deserve to be spoken about.

And this line was funny:

"But that's because of the realness."

Those are your thoughts.

I did not care for Shore's LOTR score though he may win for it because he hasn't won before. My guess is that Harry Potter will win despite the split votes. And I'd prefer that, especially to a Horner win since his score to ABM was lame at best.

As much as I'd like to see David Lynch win a best director award, chances are it will go to Ridley Scott because BHD is a director's film and because he didn't win for Gladiator.

I was suprised that Harry Potter got nominated. (It's a close call but I think AI is just a hair better)Keep in mind that Williams hasn't won since 94 for Schindler's List, although has been nominated often. So I think he will still get excited if he wins.

Beautiful Mind was doomed to get nominated. I kinda hope this doesn't get it. It's nice score but not as good as the Williams or Shore efforts.

While I would love for Randy to win, he should have won for other scores. This is not his best work, but if he won, I could deal, no problem!

I have to say that I hope Shore wins. The score is amazing in and out of the film and further it shows Shore's talent in way that the Academy hasn't seen before. I think it has a good chance.