"Lost in Translation" nominated for Best Picture!

[American Oyaji]

And Sofia Coppola nominated for Best director!

[ibiza]

I love that movie.

http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html

The list is above. I'm kinda mad that the Matrix isn't on there.

[Caustic Saint]

And Sofia Coppola nominated for Best director!

And let's not forget Murray's Best Actor nomination or Sofia's other nod for Best Original Screenplay.

[Caustic Saint]

I love that movie.

http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html

The list is above. I'm kinda mad that the Matrix isn't on there.

I'm not. The effects in the Matrix sequels were little more than a masturbatory "look what we can do! aren't we the kewlest?!?" kind of exercise. For the most part, they did very little to move the story along and were there for a gee-whiz factor.

The films that did get nominated for visual effects:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

used theirs as part of the story, not just to induce Neo-esque "whoa"s from the audience. When I saw RoTK, I didn't spend any time thinking about the effects. I was enjoying the movie too much. The Matrix sequels had the opposite effect on me.

(But the fact that there are only 3 nominations for effects is kind of surprising.)

[Taro Toporific]

And Sofia Coppola nominated for Best director!

COME ON GUYS!
On Page One of every newspaper is
Ken Watanabe - THE LAST SAMURAI for ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE.


http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nom_33022.html

[American Oyaji]

I'm not in Japan, so how would I know about it being in the newspapers.

Though I should have known.

I was watching Fujisankei news and they had a blurb about him on there.

[Shinigami]

I'm not in Japan, so how would I know about it being in the newspapers.

Ever heard of a little thing called the internet??????

[Shinigami]

And Sofia Coppola nominated for Best director!

COME ON GUYS!
On Page One of every newspaper is
Ken Watanabe - THE LAST SAMURAI for ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE.


Man can you imagine the hoopla if he wins? The nipponese will be pissing all over themselves...... What with their inferiority complex and all...

We Jpanaese::::: "Hey everybody look at us." "The world has noticed us" Waaaaaaahaaaaahahahahhah jubilation !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[bandonion]

I loved Lost In Translation because of its subleties. The hazy jetlagged opening sequence of tokyo as seen from a cab, The beautiful Kyoto scene, The music (Squarepusher, Air, Kevin Shields on the same soundtrack. Wow). To top the whole shebang off, the excellent intimacy between Charlotte and Bob was so well done, it was as if they weren't acting at all.