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...Gaultier gowns and Armani tuxes right after lunch - it seemed as if Oscar might be following the Super Bowl, the Grammys and the Democratic presidential primaries in providing a slate of improbable winners. Cotillard, who poured her 5ft. 6in. frame into the shivering, shimmering 4ft. 8in. personality of chanteuse Edith Piaf, was only the second Best Actress winner from a foreign-language film. (Sophia Loren won in 1962 for Two Women.) Swinton, a Brit much admired for her fearless choice of indie roles, was an even longer shot as the scheming executive in Michael Clayton. But that wasn...
...wondrous, haunted, funny, scary--and on key Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood A superb actor in an opaque role--it's all snarl, no soul Julie Christie Away from Her She radiates the vague cunning of dementia, its creeping oblivion Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose Her Edith Piaf has the big gestures but lacks the sad internal music
...Which is how The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, an adaptation of stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiography, beat out the screen version of Ian McEwan's Atonement for best adapted screenplay. And how newcomer Marion Cotillard - who played Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose - nabbed the best actress award that was all but already on Julie Christie's mantelpiece. The upset has British awards-watchers seething and might have left Christie a little peeved, too: on Monday morning she was quoted in the free daily Metro calling the BAFTAs "a night for the media to fill gaps...
...cheer. "I turn back. There's this little lady standing there," he recalled in Aiken, S.C., not long ago. "She got a big hat. And she's smiling at me. She says, 'Fired up! Ready to go!' And it turns out that this young lady's name is Edith Childs, and she's a councilwoman from Greenwood. And she is famous for her chant. They call her the chant lady. And for the next, it seemed like, five minutes, she just kept chanting. I don't really know what to do. But here's the thing, Aiken: after about...
...three Charlie Wilson stars got nominated. Which brings to seven the number of nominees playing actual people: Marion Cotillard's Edith Piaf (in La Vie en rose), Casey Affleck's Bob Ford (in The Assassination of...) and Cate Blanchett's Queen Elizabeth (The Golden Age) and Bob Dylan (I'm Not There). Unfortunate omission: Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the much-lauded French film about a magazine editor who suffers a stroke and is able to move only one eye. The Globers also ignored Crowe's real-life cop in Am Gang...