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...most-Oscar-nominated-actor title, landing a fourteenth for her comic turn as the devilish Miranda Priestly. Kate Winslet could edge out the competition for “Little Children.” At 31, she is the youngest to ever have received five nominations. Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, “Blood Diamond”; Ryan Gosling, “Half Nelson”; Peter O’Toole, “Venus”; Will Smith, “The Pursuit of Happyness”; Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”While...
Remember when Leonardo DiCaprio fired guns called “Longswords” in that film version of Romeo and Juliet? Let Professor Marjorie Garber take your understanding of past and present one step further with a course that explores the interaction of Shakespeare’s plays with “Freud and Marx, Brecht and Beckett, film, contemporary politics, and American popular culture.” And you thought Henry V had nothing to do with the war in Iraq...
...SCORSESE We're talking Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York. So just give him the Oscar already! MEL GIBSON He's flawed, but Apocalypto was still one of the year's best foreign-language films made by an aging action star. BEST ACTOR LEONARDO DICAPRIO, Blood Diamond RYAN GOSLING, Half Nelson PETER O'TOOLE, Venus WILL SMITH, The Pursuit of Happyness FOREST WHITAKER, The Last King of Scotland FOREST WHITAKER He's big, he's bad, he's Idi Amin Dada, the cannibal king. The soft-voiced Whitaker will win for his booming turn. LEONARDO...
...Sorry, Leo, you were too good. Or, rather, two good - in both The Departed and Blood Diamond. Warner Bros., which released both movies, hoped to snag two citations for DiCaprio, and promoted him as Best Actor in Blood Diamond and as Supporting Actor in The Departed. The Academy took the lead and chose him for the lesser film...
...CORLISS FAVORITE: Leonardo DiCaprio LIKELY WINNER: Forest Whitaker...