oscar nominations!

BEST PICTURE
"Atonement" (Focus Features)
A Working Title Production
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight)
A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production
Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
A Clayton Productions, LLC Production
Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production
JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros.,
Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson’s War" (Universal)
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett in "I’m Not There" (The Weinstein Company)
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson - "There Will Be Blood"
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - "No Country For Old Men"
Tony Gilroy - "Michael Clayton"
Jason Reitman - "Juno"
Julian Schnabel - "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Brad Bird - "Ratatouille"
Diablo Cody - "Juno"
Tony Gilroy - "Michael Clayton"
Tamara Johnson - "The Savages"
Nancy Oliver - "Lars and the Real Girl"

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson - "There Will Be Blood"
Ethan & Joel Coen - "No Country for Old Men"
Christopher Hampton - "Atonement"
Ronald Harwood - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Sarah Polley - "Away from Her"

ANIMATED FEATURE
"Persepolis" - (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Ratatouille" - (Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Distribution) Brad Bird
"Surf’s Up" - (Sony Pictures Releasing_ Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Beaufort" - Israel
"The Counterfeiters" - Austria
"Katy?" - Poland
"Mongol" - Kazakhstan
"12" - Russia

ART DIRECTION
"American Gangster" (Universal) Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

CINEMATOGRAPHY
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.) Roger Deakins
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Seamus McGarvey
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Janusz Kaminski
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production; Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production; Richard E. Robbins
"Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production; Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production; Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"I Met the Walrus" A Kids & Explosions Production; Josh Raskin
"Madame Tutli-Putli" (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production; Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
"Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production; Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)" (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production; Alexander Petrov
"Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
"At Night" A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production; Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)" (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production; Andrea Jublin
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Karé Production; Philippe Pollet-Villard
"Tanghi Argentini" (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production; Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
"The Tonto Woman" A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production; Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

VISUAL EFFECTS

"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End" (Walt Disney) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

COSTUME DESIGN

"Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

"Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production; Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
"La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production; Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
"Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production; Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
"Sari’s Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production; James Longley

FILM EDITING
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Christopher Rouse
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Juliette Welfling
"Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Jay Cassidy
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor

SOUND MIXING
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

SOUND EDITING

"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Matthew Wood
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

ORIGINAL SCORE

"Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics) Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami

ORIGINAL SONG

"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.) Nominees to be determined
"So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"That’s How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

MAKEUP

"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End" (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

where have I been?

Been pretty busy lately. Doing a lot of writing, and I have two major and somewhat ambitious projects I am working on with constant deadlines to meet. Trying to focus on that, I guess.

Plus I get bloggishly lazy sometimes.

Also, American Idol started on Tuesday. It's so comforting. And even though we're only in auditions (for 4 whole weeks), American Idol has a tendency to take over my life during the 4 1/2 months it's on the air. Just wait till we get to the Top 24. From then on it's like all I think about. Go team Johnston.

I'm going to be moving this blog to another blogger address today or tomorrow, so keep a look out so you can change it on your bloglines, bookmarks, and whatever.

Everybody having a good week?

american idol starts tonight!

golden globe winners

An incredible amount of Surprises here. Atonement's win is one, Mad Men, a show I have never seen (have you??) won two major television awards, and the genius that is 30 Rock, only came away with one (Total cheers though, Tina Fey!!)

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Atonement

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Julie Christie – Away From Her

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Javier Bardem – No Country For Old Men

Best Animated Feature Film
Ratatouille

Best Foreign Language Film
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (France, United States)

Best Director - Motion Picture
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
No Country For Old Men

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Atonement
Composed by Dario Marianelli

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Guaranteed" – Into The Wild
Music & Lyrics By: Eddie Vedder

Best Television Series - Drama
Mad Men (AMC)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Glenn Close – Damages (FX NETWORK)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)

Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Extras (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
David Duchovny – Californication (SHOWTIME)

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Longford (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Queen Latifah – Life Support (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jim Broadbent – Longford (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Samantha Morton – Longford (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO)

the story of my life...

Jack Donaghee: You wanna get drunk Lemon.

Liz Lemon: No. There's too many phones around here.

- 30 Rock

i've said it before and i'll say it again...

.... I'm going back to dating my T.V.

no golden globes

Looks like it's pretty much official, No Golden Globes this year!

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1/2 dialogue

How am I doing? I'm alright I guess.

What?

Yes! Okay. I still have that one song from Hairspray on repeat.

I don't know how many times I've listened to it today. 13 maybe?? Who knows.

Ugh. I don't wanna talk about it.

No thank you. Seriously.

Wait wait wait hold on the good part's coming up.......

.................love love love................

..................no no no........doo doo doo.....

Ok. Yeah. So. What?

I didn't write about National Britney day on Thursday because I figured out that everyone pretty much had it covered. And what can you say about that anyway?

Celebrity Crushes? No one has ever asked me that before...

No it's not unorthodox. I have 3.

Hayden Panetierre, Amanda Bynes, and Rachel Ray.

I know I know! She runs her mouth a bit. But consider the possibilities. She's gorgeous and an amazing cook. I mean. Come on.

Watch it dude! Amanda Bynes is way past her Nickelodeon days my friend. Step off.

Yes that's what I said. Can I help you?

Exactly. Bitch.

No it's not true that I don't like theatre anymore. I love theatre. I just don't have the attention span to actually watch plays very often. I still like directing them.

Who told you that.

Whatever.

That's what she said.

Whatever.

Well. If I was a woman I would want Tina Fey's talents and career. But I'm a dude so I want to be Mike Nichols.

What celebrity do I secretly want to be?

Exactly, it won't be a secret anymore if I say -

Alright alright. Ryan Seacrest. There, I said it. Right that up in your phony column tomorrow.

No no, thank you. This has been a lot of fun for you I'm sure.

another spears' career dies...

Nickelodeon has cancelled Zoey 101. Apparently they didn't want to write teen pregnancy into Zoey's story line. Those morons.

troy and gabriella broke up!

Apparently The Zefron dumped the scandalous Vanessa. This is going to kill their chemistry for High School Musical 3!

today's random thought

The theatre community would benefit enormously from ridding themselves of the guilt they have for consuming and enjoying parts of mainstream culture.

Get over it already. We're not judging you! And if somebody does, they're not worth your thoughts anyway.

get out of my head!

Hairspray soundtrack! Especially Without Love!

I don't understand why but for the past 2 days, Without Love had been the only song running through my head. Which leads me to listen to it on repeat over and over and over again. I can't solve it, it's an epidemic.

I am worried it has something to do with a secret weird jealousy for Zac Efron. Houston, we have a problem.

i just feel like writing a blog entry.

I just feel like writing a blog entry.

So what's going on in my life. Well. I bought a new geek toy. A 22" widescreen flat panel monitor for my home computer. It makes that endless stream of 30 Rock look much more bitchin'.

I have two major projects that I am working on, or supposed to be, that I need to finally get grinding on. My headspace has been occupied with lots of other things recently and it's time to get to work. Especially since one of them is incredibly ambitious and I'm supposed to be co-writing/co-producing/co-directing/co-creating it. Yeah. Need to get on that.

In theatre news, I just cast my next play which will go up at the end of this month. So. Nice. It's just a one performance dealie but it is going to take an exorbitant amount of originality on my part which kind of scares the living shit out of me, but I like to meet insurmountable challenges head on. That's what she said.

Also, I somehow have fallen into a lifestyle which is starting to feel very odd to me right now and I'm trying to get back on track.

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am officially quitting my terrible weekday habit of drinking wine, watching two and a half men, and eating baked Doritos. None of which are healthy things. I'm a mad scientist for boiling them in the same pot. I do like that two and a half men though.....

mean girl

Ha! The Lohaniac was up to her old tricks over the holidays. Smoking cigarettes, boozing it up, and getting groped by moderately attractive random Italian dudes. Oh we missed you The Lohaniac. We don't like to see you like this. But you bring it on yourself.

no more holidays

Weird huh. To have the holidays done with now and things go back to normal. To be honest I usually look forward to this every year. Not that I don't enjoy the end of December, but everything is so irregular and I personally get thrown off every year and things get weird. So. Happy to be back.

Hope ya'll had a good new years. Mine wasn't bad, nothing too crazy. Just your average Nosedive drinking event, which apparently still had me looking like this by the end of the night:

hot mess ?

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

say it ain't so cheerleader....

referral of the day

Somebody just searched for "DIRTY NEW YEARS GAMES" (caps and all) and google sent them here. Awkward.

it's new year's eve.

and I'm in my cubicle.


I'm drinking later. Muchly.

did you know...

.... that they're making a movie of Doubt, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep?

good morning baltimore!

brief reviews of movies i watched this weekend...

Hairspray:
This movie was so deliciously fun that it kept me smiling for 2 hours straight. Easily the best movie musical since Moulin Rouge. And what a cast! Nikki Blonsky was awesome in the lead role, John Travolta in drag was probably his best role in a decade, and Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Allison Janney, the always hilarious Amanda Bynes, and of course, the Zefron. REALLY loved this one.

The Elephant Man:
This movie just touches you. It has just enough David Lynch in it to feel like you are entering a somewhat obscured universe, but it still feels so familiar. An outsider pushed to the fringes of society. It's more than just a 'don't judge a book by its cover' story, though. Really great film.

Dune:
Masterful film adaptation. Agent Cooper rox out in a Lynch film once again.the first 2/3 of the movie are brilliant and interesting and mysterious. The last third of the film is where I felt it started to run away with itself a bit. I could see Lynch trying to shove tons and tons of time and space into a small amount of screen time and it just felt very rushed and plottish. But generally I think it's a great film.

Junebug:
Eh. Kinda interesting. Also kinda boring. No real opinion. Probably a bad sign.

idling

Man. Things are slow on the intraweb right now.

Nothing really crazy or fun to report on in pop culture or the arts or any of that other shit I talk about on this blog. So I'll spare you my scraping for posting material.

I work out 5 days a week, and have been for awhile. And still I am sore from playing so much wii over the holidays. What's wrong with me? Odd muscles I didn't know I had are twitching in odd ways. Damn you Nintendo!

Since I'm still the only dumbass in town now, I have a fun-filled weekend of watching screens ahead of me.

DVD wise we're looking at Dune (David Lynch), Junebug, and maybe a rewatch of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

I'll be watching lots of Heroes on Netflix on demand this weekend as well, still only halfway through the first season. I'm digging it much more now. I finished season 3 of Weeds last night, which I surprisingly really took a liking to over the past season and a half. But now I'm out, have to wait for season 4.

And if I do in fact get the motivation to leave my apartment and get on the subway, it'll be for Sweeney Todd, and/or Atonement.

screens screens screens.

I am so interesting.

back!

exclamation point?

But yeah, I'm back in New York City after an enjoyable holiday where I spent most of my time playing wii and drinking merlot. Because that's the kind of classy mo fo that I am.

I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday. Of course, most of you are probably luckier than I and are still basking in the glow of your respective holidays; sitting in larger than life hot tubs, sipping finely tuned glasses of aged chardonnay and nibbling chocolate covered strawberries while gently gripping your blackberries and emailing the poor mother fuckers like me who are sitting in their cubicles, fully clothed, formatting excel spreadsheets.

sigh.

Next year I'm taking a month off. Mark my words. Mark them.

exclusive with jamie lynn!

so funny.

thundercats are go!!!

don't know what I'm talking about? Then go see the movie already! Gee Whiz.

Roger Ebert just released his top 10 movies of 2007


Guess who's #1........

paperlilies

Her Amy Winehouse impression.

this girl is FUNNY. You should really watch all of her videos by clicking here.

Especially the ones where she answers a bunch of questions about the UK and lies her ass off. Funny girl.

Apparently she's like the biggest youtube superstar. So that's something. Bet there's a tv deal on the way for her!