So what is all this buzz about oscar? Oscar this. Oscar that. oscar..oscar..oscar?? But why? For what?...oh huh? whoops.
Sorry...
Today the Oscar nominations were announced. Some of the top prize nominations are below. The rest can be found by checking out the FULL NOMINATIONS LIST HERE. I hope to see many of the nominated films before Oscar time but until then I have noted my faves thus far.
Best Picture: The Departed , Babel, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen***.
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker*** in The Last King of Scotland, Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond, Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson, Peter O'Toole in Venus and Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness.
Best Actress: Helen Mirren*** in The Queen, Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal, Penelope Cruz in Volver, Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada and Kate Winslet in Little Children.
Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy*** in Dreamgirls, Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine, Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children, Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond and Mark Wahlberg in The Departed.
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson*** in Dreamgirls, Adriana Barraza in Babel, Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal, Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine and Rinko Kikuchi in Babel.
Best Director: Martin Scorsese*** for The Departed, Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima, Stephen Frears for The Queen, Paul Greengrass for United 93 and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel.
The awards will be shown live February 25th @ 8pm Eastern on ABC.
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