December 6, 2006

National Board of Review Predix

I don't really care that much, but I thought I'd throw my own seriously misjudged predictions into the ring alongside people like Adam and Kris and, ya know, all the rest. Did I say I was gonna be seriously misjudged?

[edit - I just realised that I didn't predict them to award Little Miss Sunshine anything. Probably quite ridiculous, but atm I'll keep it that way - except for the young performer awards which they may or may not award]

BEST PICTURE
Notes on a Scandal

TOP 10
Babel, Children of Men, The Departed, Dreamgirls, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, The Painted Veil, A Prairie Home Companion, The Queen, United 93

BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren, The Queen

BEST ACTOR
Forest Whitake, The Last King of Scotland

(What a royal acting duo!?)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal, Babel, The Good German (??)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Pedro Almodovar, Volver

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Todd Field, Little Children

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR
Sasha Baron Cohen, Borat!

BREAKTHROUGH ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Happy Feet

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Bobby

BEST DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Truth

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Volver
(although I really wanna say The Lives of Others just cause they like to mess around with us, ya know?)

TOP 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Volver

BILLY WILDER AWARD
Clint Eastwood for directing Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Guillermo del Toro for Writing/Directing/Producing Pan's Labyrinth
or
David Lynch for Writing/Directing/Producing/Distributing Inland Empire

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD
Sasha Baron Cohen, Borat!

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Judi Dench - for acting
John Williams - film film composing

and I think they might throw the next category in for this year (they've done it before)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNG ACTOR
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine

And they've sorta stopped doing the tech categories so I won't predict them. And... I'm done.

4 comments:

Yaseen Ali said...

Their top ten is kind of crazy this year - no Little Children, The Queen, or Dreamgirls? And The Devil Wears Prada and BLOOD DIAMOND instead?! That said, I totally should have seen The Painted Veil and Notes on a Scandal coming.

Good work on Actor/Actress. I was *this* close to predicting Whitaker, and then decided to go risky at the last second.

Glenn Dunks said...

LOL, I haven't seen the list yet but I think I'm gonna love it. I love their whacked out fucked up awards.

RC said...

hey, good job though on your list...i'm glad you threw your predicts in.

--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com

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