I'm just going to go ahead and start this topic now, so we have a place to discuss the upcoming Oscars now up until they're actually awarded. I, like many of you, find myself bewildered/upset at some of the Academy's decisions aka I'm not really a fan of the Academy Awards, but I still find them interesting.
i wonder how much the guests goody bags with be worth this year...i'm sure it was somewhere around
this is some of the list from 2006 where i believe it was valued at somewhere around $80,000
-stays at the Opus Hotel in Vancouver and the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino
-dinner at five restaurants: Elixir, West, Coast, Pointe, Shelter
-yoga sessions, spa treatments
-kayaking in Clayoquot Sound, a scenic flight to a remote lake
-and always my personal favorite: two Oxia Oxygen Personal Canisters
Gaiam Gift Certificate ($500)
Signature Days Gift Certificate ($500) "Experiences range from kite-boarding and a ride on an America's Cup Sailboat to spa treatments, yoga, personal chefs and private dance lessons."
Krups XP4050 Premium Pump Espresso Machine and illy's Limited Edition Pistoletto Foundation Espresso Cup Collection (Value: $600)
Vonage, The VTech Expandable Broadband Phone System. (Value: $550)
Two Night Stay in a Suite at The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel in New York (Value: $2,300)
Frette cashmere leather trimmed Voyage travel blanket (Value: $1,495)
Firefly mobile phone for kids
The Cheese Impresario at-home artisanal cheese experience for six. These events celebrate fine American artisanal cheeses and wines. The gift certificates are hand-printed on an antique letterpress from the early 1800’s on fine Italian paper.
Moonstruck Chocolates: Twelve truffles within a custom hand-crafted Thai silk and teak wood box. (Value: $100+) This is the second year in the bag for this Portland, OR chocolatier.
The Loved Dog: Personal Training gift card, 3-night stay at Doggie Daycare, and a Luxury Dog Bed. Tamar Geller, a renowned life-coach for dogs and their people, will introduce dogs and their companions to her innovative methods for creating a better relationship.
Tara & Sons pearl and diamond necklace
Mr. Handyman gift certificate for one day of service
Four-night stay in the Vera Wang Suite at Halekulani Hotel, Waikiki Beach, a signature treatment at the famed SpaHalekulani, dinner for two at La Mer at Halekulani
Cornelia Day Resort "Unlimited Card" (worth $2,500), includes a $500 facial, massages, a whole range of beauty products and an entire day of beauty treatments
Dinner party in Morton's Private Boardroom at any of their 69 restaurants (Value: $1500) (this item is a constant in the bag)
Kay Unger vintage silk kimono ($500)
year’s supply of Manni olive oil
two nights (plus surfing lessons) at St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, CA ($5,700)
two nights (plus wine tasting) at Bernardus Lodge in Carmel Valley, CA ($2,500)
three nights at one of five Fairmont Hotel & Resorts ($2500)
A BRUGO Travel Mug (featuring the Perfect Temperature Zone)
Kristen Scott Thomas better get a nomination. I can never remember her name properly, that is it I think lol. Josh Brolin for Bush too, the transformation, now that is acting.
The Academy Awards have been getting kind of annoying lately. I love how last year the best special effects went to fvcking The Golden Compass instead of Transformers.
And if the Academy Awards are anything like the Golden Globes this year (AKA, the Dark Knight only has one nomination) than something is seriously, seriously wrong.
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... as much as it deserves to, I doubt Wall-e will get nominated.
In the 'hugely popular summer movie' category, TDK will be nominated- because it made more money and is more popular than Wall-e (IMO, it's a better movie, but I can definitely see why people will find Wall-e to be better...). Plus, it's 'adult' and 'dark', which will weaken down the Academy's wall of snobbery and make it easier for them to nominate a 'superhero movie'. And it will make their ratings WAY higher.
Neither will win, though. I predict either Slumdog or Benjamin Button will win best picture.
Wall.E will obviously win for the Best Animation Oscar... so it will win something at least, it should win if up against the ones in the Golden Globes.
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Yeah, but to a film like Wall-e, it's almost an insult to get stuck in the conventional 'best animated' category. Besides, is there honestly any question Wall-e will win that award? It just deserves... more recognition, y'know?
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Re: 2008 Academy Awards
Hugh might be a great host, he does have a singing background and he was on Broadway, so they could go big with him and do some very dynamic stage sequences that wouldn't be possible with Billy Crystal or John Stewart.
Just curious, Snake Eyes. How many of the movies that are nominated have you actually seen?
Milk will probaly win best picture. Penn is the golden boy of the academy, plus he plays a character that deepthroats other guys. Milk is the favorite. Its the kind of liberal trash the academy likes.
Not many, unfortunately. The majority of them haven't been released in theaters yet (at least wide-release), but when they are, I plan on seeing: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, Revolutionary Road and Synecdoche, New York. There are some that I have no interest seeing, such as: Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader. Others I'm content waiting until the DVD release: Milk, Changeling, etc.
But of course the Academy nominations haven't been announced yet, so we'll have to wait and see what the roster is.
Gender: Male Location: Sailing the seas of cheese.
I meant the obvious contenders of course. This year I don't think I'll have the time to see to many, so I probably won't appreciate the choices. But we'll see.
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