Screen Actor Guild Awards

[CMJ]

Some bizarre ommissions/inclusions. If this is how the Academy Actors feel it might be a bizarre nomination morning in 2 weeks. ;)

Best Actress:
Salma Hayek(Frida)
Nicole Kidman(The Hours)
Diane Lane(Unfaithful)
Julianne Moore(Far From Heaven)
Renee Zellweger(Chicago)

Best Actors:
Adrien Brody(The Pianist)
Nicolas Cage(Adaptation)
Daniel Day-Lewis(Gangs of New York)
Richard Gere(Chicago)
Jack Nicholson(About Schmidt)


Supporting Actress:
Kathy Bates(About Schmidt)
Julianne Moore(The Hours)
Michelle Pfeiffer(White Oleander)
Queen Latifah(Chicago)
Catherine Zeta-Jones(Chicago)


Supporting Actors:
Chris Cooper(Adaptation)
Ed Harris(The Hours)
Alfred Molina(Frida)
Dennis Quaid(Far From Heaven)
Christopher Walken(Catch Me If You Can)

Sag Ensemble:
Adaptation
Chicago
The Hours
Lord of the Rings Two Towers
My Big Fat Greek Wedding

[Jedieb]

Was that first category Best Actress or Best Hottie? MEOW!

[CMJ]

:lol On a more serious note, some films and performances that I thought were dead have come back. Others that I thought would make a showing here did not.

Jonathan will be happy to know I've nearly given up on RTP. I still don't think the top 5 are set in stone though.

I'll probably post a full list of nomination predicitions soon, but right now for picture I see...

1. Chicago
2. The Hours
3. Gangs of New York
4. The Two Towers
5. The Pianist

Potential Spoilers(the top 5 is too obvious..it's NEVER this obvious!) in order of likelyhood.

6. About Schmidt
7. Adaptation
8. Road to Perdition
9. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

[ReaperFett]

Cooper and Walken seem to keep sneaking on.

And as for best Actress, if that was the award for hottie, Zellwegger shouldnt be there ;)

[Figrin D'an]

With all due respect to the other actresses, Salma Hayek is, by far, the winner of the "Best Hottie" cataegory.... :D

[ReaperFett]

Is Diane Lane the one from Judge Dredd?


And remember, she grew a 'tache for her role. Does she still win? ;)

[JonathanLB]

Those chicks are all really hot! I like Zellwegger, too, but yeah Salma... man... she's hot.

Diane Lane is one of the hotter late-30's gals (38) that I have seen ever. She's amazing.

This is the biggest surprise on that list:

"Michelle Pfeiffer (White Oleander)"

That was not a very acclaimed film... It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good, and it didn't receive a lot of recognition. Pfeiffer is super good looking though for an older lady. Well, by any standard, I think she's still really good looking.

CMJ, Road to Perdition is still a great film. Too bad that it won't receive much awards attention. Hanks and Jude Law were great. It was a better film than most of these nominated, but oh well. These people do not remember all the way back 6 months ago or 7 months ago! Way too long.

[Jedi Master Carr]

I think Adaptaion could be a surprise film, its kind of been sneaking up on the others.

[CMJ]

With all the guilds that 'Adaptation' has appeared in, it would not be a shocker...

[CMJ]

Speaking of Renee Zellweger...

I saw her about 2 hours ago. She and Charlie Rose, and a skeletal crew were shooting something when I went to get change at the laundrymatt. It was pretty cool, especially since there was no crew, so I had an excellent look at both of them. :D

[JonathanLB]

Did you run up and try to steal a kiss? haha, j/k

[CMJ]

No, if I'd of had a camera on me I woulda clicked a photo though. ;)

[JonathanLB]

Yeah Bryan and I got Brad Pitt on camera while he was shooting Ocean's 11. The only problem was that we were using a digital video camera in a casino with about 10,000 suveillance cameras all over, so pretty soon security came and told us we couldn't film in the casino, couldn't loiter in the area, blah blah. Fortunately they just let us go when the one guy asked if I was staying there and I said, "Yes, I am," and I pulled out the key card to the presidential suite :D

He was like, "Well... uhhh... ok just go to your room or something." Haha, whatever.

[CMJ]

Based on what I'm hearing around town this is the order I'd put'em in now...

1. Chicago
2. The Hours
3. The Two Towers
4. Gangs of New York
5. The Pianist

Potential Spoilers....

6. Adaptation
7. About Schmidt
8. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
9. Road to Perdition

[Quadinaros]

Something tells me Greek Wedding will definately be nominated. Here're my predictions.

Chicago
The Hours
Gangs Of New York
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Two Towers

Others:
The Pianist(If the academy insists on an art house movie)
Adaptation, About Schmidt (I'd be happy to see, but probably not)
Road To Perdition(Have not seen, so what do I know?)

[JonathanLB]

What do you mean by calling The Pianist an "art house movie"?

Talk to Her is an art house movie. There is a character who CRAWLS inside of a girl's, ahem, privates, because he is shrunken. It's not just disturbing but plain perverted. That movie sucks. THAT is art house at its most typical, lol.

The Pianist is just good filmmaking by a director who previously did Chinatown, an absolutely great film. Of course, The Pianist isn't quite up there, not IMO anyway, but it's very good.

I think CMJ has it directly on the spot. Those top 5 are the top 5 right now, as I see it, and they are not my 5 favorite films but that nomination list looks so "right" as far as the Academy votes, I just see that being the final nominations for best picture.

There could be a surprise, but if it were that exact list that CMJ had, I wouldn't at all be surprised.

[CMJ]

"The Pianist" is on shaky ground though, an 11th hour spoiler getting in is a growing possibilty based on what I'm reading and hearing.

[Quadinaros]

Originally posted by JonathanLB
What do you mean by calling The Pianist an "art house movie"?


Well, I haven't seen The Pianist, so I probably jumped the gun by calling it an art house movie, 'cause I don't know what it is. But, my gut tells me MBFGW will get nominated. So of CMJ's list, The Pianist just seemed like the one that might miss out. I dunno. I'm no insider. Personally, TTT and Gangs are the only contenders I give a squat about, so here's hoping...

[CMJ]

I'd call "Pianist" an arthbouse film simply because of it's smallish release. It may not fit the typical Art House mode, but it's definitely gotten that kind of a release pattern(and still mostly playing in Art theatres, here at least).

Besides, I find it hard to categiorize Art House/Non- Art House fare alot of the time. There is alot of grey area between the two.

[JonathanLB]

Maybe so, but The Pianist is a direct rip-off of Schindler's List through about the first 45 minutes of the movie and Schindler's List was a commercial success, too.

The Pianist, if you know nothing about it, may sound from the title like The Piano Teacher, a weird, disgusting French movie, but in reality The Pianist may as well be named "Surviving World War II" or something, i.e. it is not about a pianist composing music, it's about a man living over a war. :) There's not anything art house about it except that, as you said CMJ, it is only playing in art house theaters so far...

Then again, my art house theater always plays mainstream films too, like Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, Adaptation, About Schmidt, etc., right along with Talk to Her, The Pianist, etc.

[Hadrian Invicta]

Renee not HOT!!!!! QUE? WHAT? HUNH? Obviously we have different tastes in hottieness Fett. LOL She's got that cute girl next door look to her, you know the one that you always wish you could but never had the nerve.

I don't really watch all that many movies. I just go watch the ones that would interest me.

I saw Road to Perdition, an excellent movie. I saw TTT, it rocked. I saw AOTC, I just watch things that appeal to me. If I want to be provoked to think I read a book, I just want to be entertained when I drop 5.50 and 2 hours to watch a movie. But to each their own :D

[JonathanLB]

I agree with you on Renee

However, that is what you read into books and movies, not reality as it actually is. You can find plenty, PLENTY of books that are entirely mindless, i.e. anything from Stephen King, good story or not, is lousy writing made for people who rarely read. Any romance novel is absolute trash. The vast majority of books are crap, much like the vast majority of films overall worldwide (though I'd argue that studio pictures are, on average, quality productions of at least 2 to 2.5 stars).

You must not have seen very many movies, indeed, if you don't believe that movies should make you think. The best movies are all very thought provoking films, just as much so as any book.

Only the general mass entertainment films are to be enjoyed without thinking, i.e. Final Destination 2 (lots of fun), maybe something like Independence Day, even Signs obviously since the plot is so horrible yet the suspence so brilliant, lol.

I read books for information, personally, not to think. Books do not make me think because I don't read those types of books. If I want to think, I'll go rent a classic film. If I want to learn, I'll read a book. I do not read fiction books and don't have time for that kind of thing. I read books to gather information, i.e. film books, biographies, genre studies, all of that sort of thing. Of course they make me "think" in some ways, but mainly I just learn.

[ReaperFett]

I dont wish I could. Not ever. Nevernevernever :)

[CMJ]

With a week to go till nomination morning...

1. Chicago
2. The Hours
3. The Two Towers
4. Gangs of New York
5. The Pianist

Potential Spoilers....

6. Adaptation
7. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
8. About Schmidt
9. Road to Perdition

I believe the top 3 spots are locked in. GONY has taken some hits(the SAG snub for ensemble for example) plus there was a stinging editorial in Variety by William Goldman yesterday. I sense it's support as getting soft. "Pianist" I also sense as a softer nominee and almost moved it down out of nominations. On Nomination Eve, I may post a full list of predictions...

Now for the spoilers. "Adaptation" has shown alot of support at the Guilds. I see this as almost neck and neck woith Polanski's film right now. MBFGW's stock has risen from what I've read and heard. It was nominated for several important guilds so we'll see. "About Schmidt" likewise has shown tremendous guild support, and it's the kind of bittersweet film the Academy traditionally appreciates. RTP has recieved guild support from many techie guilds in addition to the producers. Also it has Dreamworks behind it.