Since this year's Academy Awards ceremony may be shorter than the films nominated for best shorts, I will keep this entry to a bare minimal.
The Best Picture nominees are:
"Juno"
"There Will Be Blood"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Atonement"
This is tricky because "Atonement" was a film that was made for an Oscar nomination. It is this year's "The English Patient."
"Blood" and "Old Men" are dividing the critic's lists as the top choice. And, last year, the Oscars actually chose a great film "The Departed" though they have been known to actually do that occasionally, ie. the Best Picture Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby."
"Juno" and "Michael Clayton" have as much as chance of winning as Fred Thompson does in Florida.
Well, I'm getting hungry, so let's get this over with............
My pick is "No Country for Old Men."
The broadcast is scheduled for..............oh, let's not talk about this any further until the writer's strike is over with!
UPDATE: I was stunned to see that "No Country for Old Men" is even showing at a movie theatre in the small town of Eden, NC. For those of you who live in the Roanoke/Blacksburg area in Va., the Coen Brothers film will be showing at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg starting on Friday.
"There Will Be Blood" is currently showing at the Grandin in Roanoke. Other regional cinemas showing that film are The Carousel Grand (Greensboro, NC) and The Galaxy Cinema (Cary, NC).
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