My cellphone just told me that Kate Winslet will win next year’s Best Actress Oscar.
Who am I to argue? My phone is right about a lot of things — the time, my account balance, my friends’ numbers. It couldn’t tell me which film she would win for, but nobody’s perfect.
Admittedly, the tip didn’t come unprompted, but courtesy of Any Question Answered (AQA), the eerily knowledgable text-message service that comes in mighty handy for settling drunken pub quiz disputes when the internet is just too complicated for inebriated fingers. With no clear leads to go on in this year’s Oscar race so far, I thought I’d put it to their wisdom.
According to AQA, “Revolutionary Road” will win Best Picture. I was prepared to believe them until, further into the text, they described it as a “depression-era romance.” So much for the phone gods, then.
Nobody knows anything, indeed.
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4 responses to “The phone gods have spoken”
My guts tell me the winners will be:
Pic/Australia
Director/Baz Luhrman
Actor/Leonardo DiCaprio/RR
Actress/Kate Winslet/The Reader
Supp Actor/Heath Ledger/TDK
Supp Actress/Penelope Cruz (from Bardem’s hands)
Original Screenplay/Milk
Adapted Screenplay/Slumdog Milllionaire
Cinematography/Australia
Film Editing/TDK
Production Design/Australia
Costume Design/Australia
Sound Mixing/TDK
Sound Editing/Wall-E
Original Score/Revolutionary Road
Original Song/The Wrestler
Visual Effects/Iron Man
Make Up/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Foreign Film/Gomorra
Animated Film/Wall-E
Will Springsteen’s song from “The Wrestler” be eligible? If it is only heard over the closing credits I thought the academy would disqualify it.
I believe that the song from the Wrestler will qualify if it is the first song to play during the credits. If the score plays for a bit and then the song starts then it will be disqualified. That’s how I interpret the rules anyways.
The thing with songs and the Academy now is that those who select the nominees must see the song used in its context within the film. So if the song plays over the credits, they just see the credits (as the song plays, of course). That’s probably why there’s been a trend of songs that are used within the film that have benn nominated/winning. Last year with “Enchanted,” “Once,” and “August Rush” all of their nominated songs were used in the film and, therefore, were probably more entertaining and perhaps even more understandable.
In short, songs in credits are still eligible (as long as it’s the first cue), but you’d be better off if the song appears within the film.