This Week's PCR Movie Review

Nolan B. Canova  productions presents:  "The OSCAR nominations" How did we--er--Mike do? by Nolan B. Canova

Frontpage La Floridiana Matt's Rail The Enlightenment Woo Woo Express Deadguy's Dementia Mike's Rant Archives 2002 2001 2000 PCR 2002 Home Crazed Fanboy The short list... Michael A. Smith was the only PCR contributor to send in a list of Oscar nomination guesses, but let's all try to give him a little more competition when the Awards are a little closer, shall we? Immediately below is the original table with his choices. Anything that didn't make it has a line thru it, and the "corrections" are in red. Mike, as you'll see, and as always, shows an almost prophet-like ability to forecast these things. I'll be back at the end with some comments. MIKE SMITH'S OSCAR PREDICTIONS And the final tally BEST ACTOR BEST ACTRESS RUSSELL CROWE A Beautiful Mind SISSY SPACEK In The Bedroom DENZEL WASHINGTON Training Day HALLE BERRY Monsters Ball SEAN PENN I Am Sam NICOLE KIDMAN Moulin Rouge TOM WILKINSON In The Bedroom RENNE ZELLWEGGER Bridget Jones's Diary BILLY BOB THORNTON Monsters Ball WILL SMITH JUDI DENCH Iris SLEEPERS WILL SMITH / Ali sleeper won! GUY PEARCE/Memento NAOMI WATTS Mulholland Drive BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS BEN KINGSLEY Sexy Beast HELEN MIRREN Gosford Park IAN McKELLEN The Lord of the Rings MAGGIE SMITH Gosford Park JIM BROADBENT Iris JENNIFER CONNELLY A Beautiful Mind JON VOIGHT Ali CAMERON DIAZ Vanilla Sky MARISA TOMEI CARL REINER Ocean's Eleven ETHAN HAWKE ANJELICA HUSTON The Royal Tannenbaums KATE WINSLET SLEEPERS HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN/JOE PANTALIANO Life As A House/Memento CATE BLANCHETT Bandits BEST DIRECTOR BEST PICTURE RON HOWARD A Beautiful Mind A BEAUTIFUL MIND PETER JACKSON The Lord of the Rings LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING RIDLEY SCOTT Black Hawk Down BLACK HAWK DOWN GOSFORD PARK BAZ LURHMANN Moulin Rouge DAVID LYNCH Mulholland Drive MOULIN ROUGE ROBERT ALTMAN Gosford Park IN THE BEDROOM SLEEPERS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Memento MEMENTO Incredible, Mike--with a perfect score for "Best Actress"! (I think that happened before didn't it?) In Mike's original piece, he commented that "Momento", while a blazingly original film, is usually not the type that takes Oscars for anything other than Best Original Screenplay. It is worth noting that it IS nominated for that, just as he suspected. "Memento" is the movie Mike and I saw together when he visited Tampa last year, so has additional fond memories for me.---Nolan. All contents of "This Week's Movie Review" page are ©2002 by Nolan B. Canova. All graphics this page are creations of Nolan B. Canova, ©2002, all rights reserved.