Wednesday, September 26, 2007

New Predix: Best Original Screenplay/Best Supporting Actress

This category DESPERATELY needed an update.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. The Savages
2. Margot at the Wedding
3. The Bucket List
4. I'm Not There
(I've given in)
5. Juno
IN THE RUNNING
6. Ratatouille (seriously...where's the buzz?)
7. Knocked Up/Superbad (see above)
8. Waitress
9. Eastern Promises
10. In the Valley of Elah

Supporting Actress could use an update, too.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Jennifer Jason Leigh-Margot at the Wedding-She's so overdue for a nod that it hurts, and the raves are in. She looks solid.

2. Cate Blanchett-I'm Not There-Sigh. She got the reviews. My bomb-of-the-year prediction has failed.

3. Romola Garai-Atonement-The strongest looking contender so far this year, the Academy is likely to nominate it everywhere it can.

4. Evan Rachel Wood-In Bloom-Probably not, but this is a very slow category, so she'll act as our space filler.

5. Julia Roberts-Charlie Wilson's War-See above

IN THE RUNNING
6. Helena Bonham Carter-Sweeney Todd-Sadly, she'll probably be nominated in this category, but we'll leave her out until we're 100% sure.

7. Meryl Streep-Rendition-The reviews haven't been that good, so now she just has to rely on being Meryl (though that may be enough).

8. Saoirse Ronan-Atonement-A very meaty role, but she still has to overcome the youth factor.

9. Abbie Cornish-The Golden Age-Like "Rendition", the trailer was downright amazing, but the reviews have been pretty bad.

10. Susan Sarandon-In the Valley of Elah-It would be typical of Paul Haggis to campaign this to death, but the reviews haven't quite been good enough for that.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The reviews for The Golden Age haven't been bad, they've been mixed. And because of that the only way anyone besides Cate Blanchett gets nominated is if they are loved by the academy, I am of course talking about Samantha Morton. Who allegedly was amazing in her big scene.

Anonymous said...

And I forgot to add that Elizabeth got mixed reviews too, but was pushed into the huge categories because of Blanchett