Past Specials: The Best Movies of the first half of 2007 - Once - 300 -Grindhouse -The Lookout -Breach -Zodiac
Top Ten Most Anticipated Films of the Summer 1. Spiderman 3 2. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 3. Transformers 4. The Bourne Ultimatum 5. Knocked Up 6. Live Free or Die Hard 7. Ocean's Thirteen 8. The Simpsons Movie 9. 1408 10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The Oscar Winners! Best Picture: The Departed
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Best Editing: The Departed
Best Original Song - I Need to Wake Up, Inconvenient Truth
Best Original Screenplay - Little Miss Sunshine
Best Original Score- Babel
Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short - The Blood of Yingzhou District
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others
Visuals Effects - Pirates
Best Cinematography: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Sound Editing: Letters from Iwo Jima
Live Action Short: West Bank Story
Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet (first upset)
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth
This year belonged to Martin Scorsese. Congratulations to Academy Award Winner Martin Scorsese...
Damn, it felt good to say that.
If Casey LaMarca picked the Oscar Winners...
2006
was a great year for movies. We had two very successful 9/11 films that
created a load of controversy, we had Clint Eastwood regain his throne
as the true Oscar darling, and we may finally see Martin Scorsese win
his overdue Oscar. Here are my picks for the 79th Annual Academy
Awards...
Best Picture Will Win: The Departed Should Win: The Departed Snubbed Film: Blood Diamond Who Shouldn't be there: The Queen (this is a movie for Helen Mirren and by Helen Mirren)
Best Director Will Win: Scorsese Should Win: Scorsese Who was Snubbed: Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth/Alfonso Cauron for Children of Men
Best Actor Will Win: Whitaker Should Win: Dicaprio Who was Snubbed: Ken Watanabe for Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Actress Will Win: Mirren
Should Win: Dench
Best Supporting Actor Will Win: Murphy
Should Win: Wahlberg/Hounsou
Who was Snubbed: The entire cast of The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Will Win: Hudson
Should Win: Blanchett
Who was Snubbed: Maggie Gyllenhaal for World Trade Center/Stranger than Fiction
Best Original Screenplay Will Win: Little Miss Sunshine
Should Win: Little Miss Sunshine
Who was Snubbed: Stranger than Fiction/The Fountain
Best Adapted Screenplay: Will Win: The Departed
Should Win: The Departed
Who was Snubbed: V for Vendetta
The Best Films of 2006
1. The Departed 2. United 93 3. Blood Diamond 4. Children of Men/Letters From Iwo Jima 5. Notes on a Scandal 6. Pan's Labyrinth 7. WorldTradeCenter 8. Casino Royale 9. The Prestige/The Illusionist 10. The Fountain
Runner Ups: -Babel -Borat -Cars -The Last Kiss -Little Miss Sunshine -The Prestige -Rocky Balboa -Stranger than Fiction -V for Vendetta
The Worst Movies of 2006
1.
Pulse 2.
Date Movie 3. Stay Alive 4. Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj 5.
Scary Movie 4 6.
John Tucker Must Die 7.
The Omen 8. Nacho Libre 9.
Poseidon 10.
Stick It
December 8th, 2006: In the spirit of Christmas, here is my list of his favorite Holiday films...
-The Polar Express -The Santa Clause -Bad Santa -A Charlie Brown Christmas -Elf -Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (both original and 2000 version) -Home Alone -Planes, Trains, and Automobiles -It's a Wonderful Life -Scrooged -National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Top Ten Most Anticpated Films of the Summer of 2006 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2. Lady in the Water 3. X-Men: The Last Stand 4. The Da Vinci Code 5. Mission Impossible III 6. Cars 7. World Trade Center 8. Superman Returns 9. Talladega Nights: The Ballat of Ricky Bobby 10. Miami Vice
Worst Movies of 2005 -Alone in the Dark -Bad News Bears -Be Cool -Boogeyman -Deuce Bigalo: European Gigalo -Dukes of Hazzard -Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous -Saw II -Son of the Mask -White Noise
Top Ten Movies of 2005 1. King Kong 2. Cinderella Man 3. Crash 4. Brokeback Mountain 5. Sin City 6. A History of Violence 7. Walk the Line 8. Good Night and Good Luck 9. Capote 10. Wedding Crashers
Top Ten Most Anticipated Summer Releases
1. Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 2. War of the Worlds 3. Cinderella Man 4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 5. The Fantastic Four 6. The Dukes of Hazzard 7. The Island 8. Bad News Bears 9. Stealth 10. Red Eye
Best Movies of 2005 So Far -Cinderella Man -Star Wars Episode IV: Revenge of the Sith -Sin City -Kingdom of Heaven -War of the Worlds
Worst Movies of 2005 So Far -Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous -Boogeyman -White Noise -Be Cool
If I Picked the Winners 2004 BEST PICTURE- MILLION DOLLAR BABY BEST DIRECTOR- MARTIN SCORSESE "THE AVIATOR" BEST ACTOR- JAMIE FOXX "RAY" BEST ACTRESS- HILARY SWANK "MILLION DOLLAR BABY BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR- MORGAN FREEMAN "MILLION DOLLAR BABY" BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS- CATE BLANCHETT "THE AVIATOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY- ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND BEST ADAPTED SCREEPLAY- SIDEWAYS ANIMATED FEATURE FILM- THE INCREIDBLES
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE- SUPER SIZE ME
Top Ten Movies of 2004
1. Million Dollar Baby 2. Sideways 3. The Aviator 4. Kill Bill Volume 2 5. Collateral 6. Super Size Me 7. Spiderman 2 8. In Good Company 9. Friday Night Lights 10. Finding Neverland Worst Movies of 2004 1. Darkness
2. The Grudge
3. Alien vs. Predator
4. Dirty Dancing: Havana
Nights
5. Godsend
6. Napolean Dynamite
7. After the Sunset
8. Christmas with the Kranks
9. Paparazzi
10. Hellboy
Top Ten Movies of 2003
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. The Last Samurai
3. Kill Bill Volume 1
4. Finding Nemo
5. Big Fish
6. Matchstick Men
7. Lost in Translation
8. Seabiscuit
9. The School
of Rock
10. OpenRange
The Worst Movies of 2003
1. Timeline
2. Laura Croft: Tomb Raider- The Cradle of Life
3. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
4. The Core
5. Daddy Day Care
Top Ten Movies of 2002 1. The Lord of the Rings: The TwoTowers
2. Signs
3. We Were Soldiers
4. Road to Perdition
5. Minority Report
6. 25th Hour
7. Insomnia
8. Adaptation
9. Catch Me if you Can
10. Spiderman
Worst Movies of 2002 1. Swimfan
2. Solaris
3. Resident Evil
4. The Tuxedo
5. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Top Ten Movies of 2001 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Black Hawk Down
3. Memento
4. A Beautiful Mind
5. Training Day
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. Shrek
8. Ocean's Eleven
9. Donnie Darko
10. Zoolander
Worst Movies of 2001
1. Rollerball
2. The Others
3. Corky Romano
4. Spy Kids
5. See Spot Run
Best Movies of 2000
1. High Fidelity
2. Cast Away
3. Gladiator
4. Memento
5. Thirteen Days
Best of 1999
1. American Beauty
2. The Green Mile
3. Toy Story 2
4. Being John Malkovich
5. October Sky
Best of 1998
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Truman Show
3. Antz
4. Waking Ned Devine
5. Pleasantville
Best of 1997
1. Good Will Hunting
2. Titanic
3. Chasing Amy
