The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning and, once again, I just don’t get most of the nominations:
The nominees for best picture are “The Departed,” “Babel,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Little Miss Sunshine” and “The Queen.”
The nominees for best actor are Forest Whitaker (”The Last King of Scotland”), Leonardo DiCaprio (”Blood Diamond”), Ryan Gosling (”Half Nelson”), Peter O’Toole (”Venus”) and Will Smith (”The Pursuit of Happyness”).
The nominees for best actress are Helen Mirren (”The Queen”), Judi Dench (”Notes on a Scandal”), Penelope Cruz (”Volver”), Meryl Streep (”The Devil Wears Prada”) and Kate Winslet (”Little Children”). Streep’s nomination is her 14th; she’s won two Oscars.
The nominees for best supporting actor are Murphy (”Dreamgirls”), Arkin (”Little Miss Sunshine”), Jackie Earle Haley (”Little Children”), Djimon Hounsou (”Blood Diamond”) and Wahlberg (”The Departed”).
The nominees for best supporting actress are Hudson (”Dreamgirls”), Adriana Barraza (”Babel”), Blanchett (”Notes on a Scandal”), Breslin (”Little Miss Sunshine”) and Rinko Kikuchi (”Babel”).
The nominees for best director are Scorsese (”The Departed”), Eastwood (”Letters From Iwo Jima”), Stephen Frears (”The Queen”), Paul Greengrass (”United 93″) and Gonzalez Inarritu (”Babel”)
To be fair, I haven’t seen most of these movies. But I’ve got to admit I don’t get the hype over Little Miss Sunshine. It wasn’t funny. It was dramatic. It wasn’t anything. Someone tell me what I’m missing there.
It was good to see United 93 get one nomination, but having seen both, I can’t believe that it was passed over for Best Picture and Little Miss Sunshine was not.
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
People who have a dysfuntional family find the humor in Little Miss Sunshine.