Why This Is Hell

Best film: No Country for Old Men

Best director: No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen
A brilliant film, but I’m a sucker for the Coens.


Best actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
DDL chews the scenery from all accounts. I’m dubious about him, and Paul T. Anderson made the excrable Magnolia, less interesting as a film than a colour for walls.


Original screenplay: Juno
Not caught yet – I want to.


Documentary feature: Taxi to the Dark Side

Documentary short: Freeheld
Not seen and unlikely to see.


Original score: Atonement
So wanted to be The English Patient, and sank without trace.


Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Roger Deakins’s votes split between his two films?


Song: Falling Slowly, Once
Haven’t heard. Part of a weird Irish/Slovak musical that I saw the trailer for a dozen times.


Foreign language film: The Counterfeiters
A splendid film: thriller set in a concentration camp. Very impressive if let down by the frame narrative.


Honorary Oscar: Robert Boyle
Was having a law named after him not enough? An art director – worked with Hitchcock, has been retired for thirty years.


Film editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Roderick Jaynes was robbed. S-h_A-k-e-y-C-A-m rulz.


Best actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
When she won the BAFTA “more well known” actresses were snubbed. It’s not the most famous, it’s the best. I missed the biopic both times; maybe I ought to give it a go.


Sound mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum

Sound editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
The difference being... Skip Lievsay was robbed.


Adapted screenplay: No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen
Because they couldn’t win original.


Supporting actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
The blessed Tilda. Glory be! I want to see this.


Animated short: Peter and the Wolf
This has been out for years – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh_dRnq7pZE and by the same director. It is very good.

Live action short: Le Mozart des Pickpockets
No seen.


Supporting actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Define supporting. All three stars were equally important, but a great performance.


Art direction: Sweeney Todd
Will see tomorrow.


Visual effects: The Golden Compass
Figures


Makeup: La Vie en Rose
For aging Piaf.


Animated feature: Ratatouille
Not much competition I suppose


Costume: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Tokenism? The first one did rather better.