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...Actress statuettes to their respectively slim and ample bosoms. I want to celebrate a night of surprises, with dark horses galloping past favorites toward the finish line on the Kodak Theatre stage: "The Pianist" for Adrien Brody (the first man under 30 to win Best Actor) and Roman Polanski (at 69, the oldest to win Best Director), plus richly deserved prizes to Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" (the first foreign-language film to win for Animated Feature) and Pedro Almod?var's "Talk to Her" (the first foreign language to take Best Original Screenplay since "A Man and a Woman...
...weekend (and did the NCAA tournament get even half the flak the Academy did for putting on its show?), low numbers won in Oscar pools this year. AMPAS members reversed longstanding traditions. The Directors Guild (a 91% accurate predictor of Oscar gold) had picked Rob Marshall as their man; Polanski won. The Screen Actors Guild chose Daniel Day-Lewis and Renee Zellweger as statuette sure shots. As for "Gangs of New York," you might not have picked it for Best Film vote, but you also didn't guess that the Martin Scorsese picture would win exactly as many Oscars...
...past, directors have tended to be nominated if their film makes the Best Picture slate, and this year will likely see that trend continue. Gangs of New York’s Martin Scorsese, Chicago’s Rob Marshall, The Pianist’s Roman Polanski, The Hours’ Stephen Daldry and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’ Peter Jackson will most likely make the category. The category’s underdogs are led by Adaptation’s Spike Jonze, Far From Heaven’s Todd Haynes and About Schmidt?...
This behavior, it turns out, is typical of Szpilman, on whose memoirs Roman Polanski, a survivor of Poland's wartime ghetto, has based his very good movie. Szpilman, portrayed with stoic grace by Adrien Brody, clings to every last shred of normality, despite confronting one of the great abnormalities in human history--the monstrous ghetto in which Warsaw's Jews were brutally forced to live...
Stevens’ adaptation of the play, opening tomorrow at the Adams Pool Theater, is a Dorfman-Polanski hybrid with a dash of Stevens’ own dialogue thrown...