It's Time...

But First: Click here for a fantastic report on the Altman memorial. Tim Robbins was especially fabulous:

"There's a hilarious new movie in pre-production up in heaven that Bob is putting together for a film called The Memorial," he said. "And we are making the film as we speak. He's watching the people on stage, yes, but there are other cameras looking around the theater today at the subplots, the subterfuge, the silliness, the whispered comments, the backstage preening." He looked out into the crowd at Kathryn Altman. "Kathryn, you have a beautiful close-up and a camera dedicated to you, but everybody else -- beware. He's going to find us out, and God will laugh."


Even though I know it will have absolutely NO bearing on anyone, and is probably a colossal waste of my time, here are my Oscar picks for this year:

Best Actor: Ryan Gosling (Coz Forest Whitaker would be so boring + so predictable)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (Coz she IS the oh-so-subtle best)
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Wahlbert (Coz he was the only good thing in that fart of a movie)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson (Coz she made people actually CLAP during a movie)
Best Film: Babel (No film moved me more..!)
Best Director: Inarritu, Babel (Scorcese will get another more deserving nomination+win)

Best Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth (Beautiful, brilliant, excellent)
Best Cinematography: That fabulous Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men (Um, did ya seee it?)
Best Costume Design: The Devil Wears Prada (coz.. )
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (coz, its a hot topic, and it was a decent doc)
Best Editing: Stephen Mirrione/Doug Crise, Babel (coz it perfected Arriaga's screenplay)
Best Foreign Flick: Pan's Labyrinth (coz it SHOULD be in the Best Picture race)
Best Make Up: Pan's Labyrinth (coz it's on kind of a roll on these minor awards isn't it?)
Best Score: Gustavo Santaolalla (coz no score moved me more... !!!)
Best Original Song: One of the Dreamgirls songs (Coz they won't win Best Pic, I pick: Patience)
Best Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima (Nice and clean, though I didn't see Apocalypto)
Best Sound Mixing: Letters From Iwo Jima (War films are tough, again could be Apocalypto)
Best VFX: Pirates? (wow, they all suck but Superman ESPECIALLY sucked, so)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Children of Men ('coz The Departed screwed up Infernal Affairs)
('coz Notes on a Scandal screwed up the lovely book)
('coz Little Children, though excellent, was nowhere as good as the book)
('coz Borat couldn't possibly win)
(plus I heart Alfonso, so I'd like him to be Oscar winner Alfonso)
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine (even though Babel is exquisite, this film should get a little Sudshine)
Best Animated Film: Cars (Its a revenge of the hack situation here, nothing really rocked)

Best Doc Short: Go figure, I'll pick: Two Hands (coz I loved Kahn's The Architect)
Best Animated Short: I KNOW THIS ONE: It's... um... Maestro? Sure.
Best Live Action Short: West Bank Story (coz there's a Ravi Malhotra in there...)

It would be a different list if I were PREDICTING the winners. So. Go Gosling!