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...American Beauty” meets “Blackboard Jungle,” but Eyre succeeds in keeping the film engaging where it could have felt stale. “Notes on a Scandal” is up for four Oscars—Dench for Best Actress, Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay. As good as Dench’s performance is, her odds of winning are anemic, given that Helen Mirren has scooped up the honors at every main awards show this season. It has a shot at the others, but regardless...
Penelope Cruz is one of the year’s Best Actress nominees—deservedly so—yet the Best Actress prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival went to the entire female cast of “Volver.” The unorthodox sharing of the Cannes prize speaks volumes about the power of the performances within Almodovar’s film. A movie dedicated to uncovering the heart and soul of women, beautifully shot in vibrant colors and able to capture moments both poignant and humorous, “Volver” is enchanting to watch?...
...little razzle-dazzle to its low-key roster, each year the Academy enlists a hot young actress to host the SciTech awards. In the past Scarlett Johansson and Rachel McAdams have done the honors. This year Gyllenhaal took on the challenge of describing work like that of winner Florian Kainz, for the design of OpenEXR, a system, the Sherrybaby star said, "engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images." There's a reason the Academy recruits smart actresses for this event - you wouldn't entrust Jessica...
...issuing the disclaimer that she fulfilled her college science requirement by taking earth science, and then squinting into the teleprompter, Gyllenhaal said, "I suspect this is kind of a joke you SciTech guys like to play on an unassuming actress." In handing over the 15 awards, she also had to contend with a fair number of male recipients who seemed so awed by the presence of a live woman outside of an Internet chat room that they had difficulty forming complete sentences...
...surprise nomination for his tasteful depiction of 9/11 events in “United 93,” snubbing “Dreamgirls” director Bill Condon and husband-and-wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for “Little Miss Sunshine.”Best Actress: Penelope Cruz, “Volver”; Judi Dench, “Notes on a Scandal”; Helen Mirren, “The Queen”; Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”; Kate Winslet, “Little Children”Embodying Queen...