300 Nominated for Best Movie at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards

MTV has revealed the nominees for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. (…)

Mary Lynn Rajskub gets more Sunshine

Mary Lynn Rajskub, who plays the very awkward Chloe on the hit tv show 24, has joined the cast of Sunshine Cleaning. (…)

2007 Academy Awards Winners

Let’s look at the results from the 79th Academy Awards ceremony:

Best Motion Picture of the Year:
The Departed

Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Achievement in Directing:
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
Paul Greengrass for United 93

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Helen Mirren for The Queen

Penélope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet for Little Children

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine

Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg for The Departed

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls

Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Happy Feet (George Miller)

Cars
Monster House

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - Germany (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

After the Wedding - Denmark (Susanne Bier)
Days of Glory (Indigènes) - Algeria (Rachid Bouchareb)
Pan’s Labyrinth - Spain/Mexico (Guillermo del Toro)
Water - Canada (Deepa Mehta)

Best Documentary Film of the Year:
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)

Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best Adapted Screenplay:
William Monahan for The Departed

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Best Original Screenplay:
Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine

Guillermo Arriaga for Babel
Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis for Letters from Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro for Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Morgan for The Queen

Best Cinematography:
Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth

Vilmos Zsigmond for The Black Dahlia
Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
Dick Pope for The Illusionist
Wally Pfister for The Prestige

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score:
Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel

Thomas Newman for The Good German
Philip Glass for Notes on a Scandal
Javier Navarrete for Pan’s Labyrinth
Alexandre Desplat for The Queen

Best Original Song
An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge (”I Need To Wake Up”)

Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven (”Listen”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett (”Love You I Do”)
Cars: Randy Newman (”Our Town”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Willie Reale (”Patience”)

Other Awards
Best Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta)
Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (John Knoll, Hal T. (…)

2007 Independent Spirit Awards Winners

Little Miss Sunshine won the top prize at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards, a day before the underdog indie comedy competes for Best Picture at the 2007 Academy Awards. (…)

Running the Oscar Race Costs Big Bucks

It costs big money to run the Oscar race. Many people don’t realize all the money it takes to market an award winner. (…)

Academy Awards Vegas Odds: Little Miss Sunshine to win Best Picture

Yesterday we reported that movie critic Roger Ebert was spreading a rumor that Little Miss Sunshine would cause a major upset at the 2007 Academy Awards. (…)

Roger Ebert: Little Miss Sunshine’s Academy Awards upset

Super Movie Critic and my personal hero Roger Ebert claims that Little Miss Sunshine may cause an upset at this year’s Oscars. (…)

Toy Story 3 Announced for 2009

Good news and bad news.
The Good News: Disney has announced that Pixar will release Toy Story 3 in 2009. And the Oscar nominated screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine is hard at work on the story. (…)

Homer Simpson’s Academy Award Predictions

In what appears to be an savvy marketing gimmick to promote The Simpsons Movie, Fox has released Homer Simpson’s Academy Award picks. (…)

Academy Award Film Festival at an AMC Theater Near You

AMC Theaters has announced that it will show the five movies nominated for Best Picture back-toback on the Saturday before the Academy Awards. (…)