MTV has revealed the nominees for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. Only at the MTV Awards can you see 300 and Blades of Glory nominated for best picture or Little Man getting nominated for, ANYTHING. I’m sure Transformers will win The Best Summer Movie You Haven’t Seen Yet. Let’s hope that Borat’s Sacha Baron Cohen vs. Ken Davitian wins for Best Fight.
Check out the full list after the jump.
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Mary Lynn Rajskub, who plays the very awkward Chloe on the hit tv show 24, has joined the cast of Sunshine Cleaning.
Pop Quiz: Strangely, this is the second film Rajskub has done in the last two years that had “sunshine” in its title. Do you know what the other movie was? Answer and more information after the jump.
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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
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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. Could the little indie that could win an Oscar? Check out the full list of winners after the jump.
Best Feature: Little Miss Sunshine
Best Female Lead: Shareeka Epps for Half Nelson
Best Male Lead: Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Best Supporting Female: Frances McDormand for Friends with Money
Best Supporting Male: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
Best Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine
Best Screenplay: Jason Reitman for Thank You for Smoking
Best First Screenplay: Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine
Best Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth
Best First Feature: Sweet Land
Best Foreign Film: Leben der Anderen, Das
Best Documentary: The Road to Guantanamo
John Cassavetes Award: Quincea�era
Truer Than Fiction Award: P.O.V.: The Tailenders (#19.5)
I’m glad to see Quincea�era get an award, but I’m surprised that Pan’s Labyrinth didn’t win best feature.
It costs big money to run the Oscar race. Many people don’t realize all the money it takes to market an award winner.
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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. Well it looks like Vegas visited the same rumor mill.
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Super Movie Critic and my personal hero Roger Ebert claims that Little Miss Sunshine may cause an upset at this year’s Oscars.
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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.
The Bad News: Toy Story and Pixar mastermind and all-around animation god John Lasseter won’t be directing.
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In what appears to be an savvy marketing gimmick to promote The Simpsons Movie, Fox has released Homer Simpson’s Academy Award picks. You can check out the picks after the jump, but be forewarned, the list contains spoilers for Little Miss Sunshine and The Departed)
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AMC Theaters has announced that it will show the five movies nominated for Best Picture back-toback on the Saturday before the Academy Awards.
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