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Kingsley won’t win the Oscar, but will likely siphon enough tragedy-embracing voters from Penn, whose chances aren’t improved by the fact that he has stopped campaigning for the award, to give Murray the win. You speak of Penn’s four nominations; well, Murray hasn’t been nominated once despite the often remarkable work he’s done in the past, and all of the Lost in Translation fans that pushed it to a Best Picture nod will vote for his nuanced work. I think there?...
...SOSKIN: Yep, The Pianist’s Oscar wins were stunners. They weren’t entirely unexpected, though—the normally off-the-wall National Society of Film Critics predicted all three of its big wins (Director, Actor and Screenplay) two months before the Oscars...
Besides, The Pianist’s Academy trifecta was the biggest dark-horse Oscar upset in our lifetimes; what was the last year that a film won in at least three of the top eight categories when it wasn’t the odds-on favorite in any of them? The only year in the last twenty that I could make a case for was 1992, when The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars in a year when most were predicting victories for Bugsy, JFK, or The Prince of Tides. We shouldn’t expect numerous Oscar shockers...
...Acting categories—have come and gone, and they’ve pretty much confirmed my predictions; Theron, Robbins and Zellweger all won in their respective categories. I don’t think Zellweger can act, but I do think that she’s due for an Oscar, and unless Shohreh Aghdashloo has starred in Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion, I don’t see much chance that Renee will be upset. Aghdashloo wasn’t even nominated for a SAG; this doesn’t make an Oscar win for her impossible?...
Since you brought up how much you loved Kingsley, let’s commiserate: why can’t the Oscars be in the business of honoring quality and quality alone? This is an organization that never gave an Oscar to Richard Burton but gave two to Shelley Winters (zero would have been too many). It hasn’t gotten the Best Picture award right in over a decade. It’s seen fit to honor hacks and one-hit wonders galore, but has never gotten around to giving a nomination to Donald Sutherland. Ian Holm wasn?...