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...NOMINEES WHO WILL WIN WHO SHOULD WIN WHO WAS ROBBED BEST PICTURE BABEL THE DEPARTED LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE THE QUEEN BABEL No sure shots here, but we're guessing this panoramic epic will touch the same chords that Crash did last year. THE DEPARTED A gnarly plot, a pack of stars feasting on meaty roles, the Boston air stenchy with betrayal ... that's enough for us. UNITED 93 One of the few films to deal with the war on terrorism at its first flash point, this fine 9/11 docudrama merited a slot. BEST DIRECTOR CLINT EASTWOOD...
...time the war was over, he was in Tokyo, where he survived the city's horrific firebombing- and still has scars on his hands to prove it. When I recently had lunch with Iguchi, the 75-year-old diplomat-turned-academic brought up the Clint Eastwood film Letters from Iwo Jima, which he had seen the previous day. He wondered aloud whether the film would resonate with Japanese today, most of whom had been born after the war. As for himself, Iguchi had found Letters unexpectedly moving: "That was the war as we lived...
...Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel Paul Greengrass, United 93 Martin Scorsese, The Departed...
...sometimes Academy members look beyond the numbers and at The Man: Clint Eastwood, at 76 the industry's most active and cherished elder statesmen. The Japanese-language Iwo Jima has cadged only $2.4 million in North America (though it's earned a robust $38.7 million in Japan). No matter that civilians haven't roused themselves to see Iwo Jima. The Academy can't help loving that...
...what about the five films that were named finalists? The list includes many worthy films, no flat-out masterpieces. Each movie has a "yes, but" rider attached. We've already touched on the Iwo Jima problem. Babel? Grand and sprawling, but maybe too sprawling, and it still hasn't connected with American audiences. The Departed? All-star, well-made, but a gangster movie, and a remake - of the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. (If you're wondering what the last famous film of its type was, and how many Oscars it received, the answers are Scarface and none.) Little Miss...