Looking back a few holes

June 8th

Today - I'll move Hannah up one to number 2 and Crimes down to Number 3. Add Broadway Danny in at 11 and Stardust Memories at 8. Call it a day noting that Play it Again, Sam plays again at the New Bev on Friday.

April 2005 (scroll down to April 5 but if you're smart, you'll read all of April on the way down)

Today - Add Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now commentary at number 3 (kicking PT and Ebert down one and kicking off Coppola's Godfather commentary).

Also, while we're here, add The Conformist to the Top 100 Movies of All Time, kicking off Short Cuts (don't know how that got on there).

Lets continue a conversation from June 05, see what's changed

top ten Woody Allen films

1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
2. Broadway Danny Rose
3. Annie Hall
4. Manhattan
5. Deconstructing Harry
6. Hannah and Her Sisters
7. Husbands and Wives
8. Bananas
9. Match Point
10. Everyone Says I love You
11. Zelig
12. Purple Rose of Cairo
13. Radio Days
14. Alice
15. Sweet and Lowdown

Winning Is Only Half the Battle

Actor - Whitaker
Sup Actor - Murphy
Actress - Mirren
Sup Actress - Hudson
Animated - Cars
Art Direction - Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematography - Children of Men
Costume Design - Marie Antoinette
Directing - The Departed
Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth
Film Editing - Babel
Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth
Makup - Pan's Labyrinth
Original Score - Babel
Original Song - Listen
Best Picture - Babel
Sound Editing - Pirates of the Caribbean
Sound Mixing - Dreamgirls
Visual Effects - Pirates (worst visual effects of all time)
Screenplay, Adapted - The Departed
Screenplay, Original - Babel

Most statues - Babel (4)

I'm in, and I'm in to Win

Picture: Little Miss Sunshine
Doc: Inconvienent Truth
Animated: Cars
Foreign: Pan's Labyrinth
Director: Scorsese
Original Screenplay: Little Miss
Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Actor: Forest Whitaker
Actress: Helen Mirren
Sup. Actor: Eddie Murphy
Sup. Actress: Jennifer Hudson
Cinematography: Children of Men
Editing: Thelma
Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth
Costume Design: Dreamgirls
Make-up: Pan's Labyrinth
Visual Effects: Pirates
Original Score: The Queen
Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Original Song: Listen, Dreamgirls

Get Your Oscar Bets, Hot and Fresh

Well, apparently Isaac knows who's going to win every category for this year's Academy Awards, so the rest of us might as well put up our best guesses to fill out the betting pool. I say everyone puts their bets up by Friday. How does that sound?

We can also use this thread to discuss potential trophies. How about "Jules and Jim"?

Addendum to 2006 EOY list

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4. The Lives of Others

You want it to be one way. But it's the other way.**

The Way It Should Be:

Actor -
*Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick)
Ben Sliney (playing himself, United 93)
Clive Owen (Children of Men)

Actress -
*Helen Miren (The Queen)
Shareeka Epps (Half Nelson)
Kate Winslet (Little Children)
Penelope Cruz (Volver)
Judi Dench (Luckily, I have not seen this movie)

Sup. Actor -
*Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
Alec Baldwin (The Departed)
Ken Davitian (Borat)
Anthony Mackie (Half Nelson)
Michael Caine (Children of Men)

Sup. Actress -
*Gong Li (Miami Vice)
Julianne Moore (Children of Men)
Sylvia Syms (The Queen)
Elle Fanning (Babel)

Cinematography -
*Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
Apocalypto
The Black Dahlia
The Departed

Directing -
*Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)
Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson)
Stephen Frears (The Queen)
Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men)

Editing -
*Babel (Japanese rave scene only)
The Departed (trailer)
Children of Men (10 minute single shot in building)
United 93 (most cuts)

Foreign Language Film -
*Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan's Labyrinth (I love this movie the more I don't watch it)
Apocalypto

Writing (Adapted or Original) -
*The Queen
Half Nelson
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
United 93

Picture -
*United 93
The Queen
Half Nelson
Children of Men
The Departed

*winner
**I want to like wine, but I don't.