29 January 2005

film in general

nevermind that i'm still really annoyed about paul giamatti's oscar snub, in my mind, the best picture front-runner has to be "million dollar baby". it's as perfect a film as I've seen in a very long time. it's so stunningly good, better even than "mystic river", which is saying something. and now i'm torn b/c i very much want to see marty win best director for "the aviator" (which i still haven't seen), but it seems like it'll be awfully hard to deny clint for this one.

1 comment:

Lucas said...

saw "aviator" the other day and it's very well directed (as you'd expect), and i agree, i think "million dollar baby" will take best picture and marty will take director, if for no other reason than he's due. but "baby", in my mind, is clearly a better film.

on the smaller categories (and yeah, sky captain, while horrible, still had amazing visual effects--actually that was pretty much the whole film), but where's "eternal sunshine" in editing? or "before sunset" for original song (julie delpy singing that waltz would have been one of my favorite oscar moments ever)? or the hotel rwanda song wycleff did?

"before sunset" i can see not getting a director nom, b/c it doesn't feel directed at all, which is exactly why it deserves one, but whatever. "sunshine", though, i think people equate that more to a charlie kaufman thing than any contribution from gondry (plus the whole thing is pretty weird). but, you have to wonder if the same exact film had the credit "directed by spike jonze", would it have been nominated...hmmm...