Word: juno
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...just change the name, from the Oscars to the Independent Spirit Awards? That was the first thought on hearing today's nominations for the Academy Awards. All five finalists for Best Picture were made independently of the big studios, and four of the five - Atonement, Juno, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood - were released by the so-called indie subsidiaries of the majors. Michael Clayton is the one official studio release, and that got made only when its star, George Clooney, ever so charmingly put a gun to Warner's corporate groin, cocked the trigger...
...Rush Hour 3) were among the highest-grossing films, how can Corliss justify suggesting that the awards go to more popular films? Discounting Ratatouille, you have to scroll way down the rankings to find anything that warrants consideration - like Charlie Wilson's War, No Country for Old Men and Juno. Moneymaking could be considered an art and a science, but I doubt that's what is meant by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Christopher Bruno, Rahway, New Jersey...
...Rush Hour 3) were among the highest-grossing films, how can Corliss justify suggesting that the awards go to more popular films? Discounting Ratatouille, you have to scroll way down the rankings to find anything that warrants consideration?like Charlie Wilson's War, No Country for Old Men and Juno. Moneymaking could be considered an art and a science, but I doubt that's what is meant by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Christopher Bruno, RAHWAY...
...Country for Old Men) and Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There). For you xenophobes keeping score, yes, that's five foreign winners - two Anglos, a Frenchwoman, a Spaniard and an Aussie - and an American who lives in France. All these winners are shoo-ins for Oscar nominations. So is Juno, the indie comedy that has that Little Miss Sunshine sheen and has already topped Sunshine's total box-office gross...
...Juno this year's Little Miss Sunshine? The superficially spiky, deeply sentimental indie film got nominations for Best Comedy and Best Actress (Ellen Page). Since neither Knocked Up nor Waitress was nominated, Juno has to represent all the 2007 comedies about a woman who gets pregnant without wanting to but brings the thing to term and gets ennobled along the way. (Radical idea for a movie: unmarried heroine has unwanted pregnancy and, like more than a million women every year, gets an abortion, then goes on to live a happy, fulfilled life...