I apologize for the title of the post but I was trying to sound intelligent and academic but it just sounds ridiculous so I apologize but if anyone has another title for my award show, please let me know. It needs a new name. But here are my awards. There will be 5 nominees in each category and then I will put the winner directly below it although I think that will be pretty easy to follow. (In films with less than 5 nominees possible, I will put the maximum, i.e. the Actress categories)
Best Picture Nominees:
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Seventh Seal
Runaway Train
Unforgiven
Dr. Strangelove
Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Director Nominees:
Lewis Milestone - All Quiet
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
Alex Proyas - Dark City
Christopher Nolan - Memento
Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove
Winner: Orson Welles
Best Actor Nominees:
Jon Voight - Runaway Train
Guy Pearce - Memento
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
William H. Macy - Fargo
Rufus Sewell - Dark City
Winner: Peter Sellers
Best Supporting Actor Nominees:
Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
Morgan Freeman - Unforgiven
Kiefer Sutherland - Dark City
Eric Roberts - Runaway Train
(William Hurt - Dark City)
Winner: Gene Hackman
Best Actress Nominees:
Ginger Rogers - Top Hat
Frances McDormand - Fargo
Winner: Frances McDormand
Best Supporting Actress Nominees:
Rebecca DeMornay - Runaway Train
Dorothy Comingore - Citizen Kane
Bridget Fonda - A Simple Plan
Jennifer Connelly - Dark City
Helen Broderick - Top Hat
Winner: Jennifer Connelly
Best Screenplay Nominees: (Original or Adapted -- it's too much work to see which are which)
Runaway Train
Dark City
Dr. Strangelove
Unforgiven
Fargo
Winner: Dr. Strangelove
I hope these picks are suitable and acceptable although probably slightly unorthodox. I couldn't pick just 5 supporting actors because #3-6 were too close for me to just pick 3 of them. Also, it was very close between Jennifer Connelly and Bridget Fonda. Let me know how wrong I am with my picks and look for my next post where I list my favorite movies, from the top 15. Believe me, it will be a very unorthodox list probably. Enjoy!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I Am Shocked
When Mr. Bennett announced at the end of the class today that he was leaving, I was literally shell-shocked, amazed and saddened at the same time. After finishing watching the Atomic Cafe and the effect of dropping the Atom Bomb, Mr. Bennett dropped an atomic bomb on our class with the revelation.
Let me just say, and Rob Marotta also said this, but the school will not be the same without you Mr. Bennett. I don't want to speak for the whole class but I will anyway, I know we all loved the film class and were so happy that we were able to take it. Same goes for myself in AP American and I'm sure for all those who had you in Global. (I hope I'm not stealing Nick's role as mayor). But without your presence Mr. Bennett, the school will be lacking an essential element that we all enjoyed, and I'm saddened that I won't be able to come back and visit you at Tech next year. But I am happy for you that you are leaving and also it is pretty cool to say that we get to be the last class to have Mr. Bennett as a teacher. I guess when the statue is built in honor of you at Tech in a few years, we can all say that we were there the last time you taught.
I don't want to keep going on but I want to thank you for everything you have taught myself (and the class) about American History, Film, and most importantly in Life. You will be missed and I hope you enjoy the next chapter of your life. Getting to know you has been an honor, privilege, and a blessing. (I don't want to get too melodramatic here though like Requiem for a Dream.)
I will continue posting on this blog over the months and years to come, including a few more this year on a summary of the class and my favorite movies of the year.
Thank you again for everything Mr. Bennett!
Let me just say, and Rob Marotta also said this, but the school will not be the same without you Mr. Bennett. I don't want to speak for the whole class but I will anyway, I know we all loved the film class and were so happy that we were able to take it. Same goes for myself in AP American and I'm sure for all those who had you in Global. (I hope I'm not stealing Nick's role as mayor). But without your presence Mr. Bennett, the school will be lacking an essential element that we all enjoyed, and I'm saddened that I won't be able to come back and visit you at Tech next year. But I am happy for you that you are leaving and also it is pretty cool to say that we get to be the last class to have Mr. Bennett as a teacher. I guess when the statue is built in honor of you at Tech in a few years, we can all say that we were there the last time you taught.
I don't want to keep going on but I want to thank you for everything you have taught myself (and the class) about American History, Film, and most importantly in Life. You will be missed and I hope you enjoy the next chapter of your life. Getting to know you has been an honor, privilege, and a blessing. (I don't want to get too melodramatic here though like Requiem for a Dream.)
I will continue posting on this blog over the months and years to come, including a few more this year on a summary of the class and my favorite movies of the year.
Thank you again for everything Mr. Bennett!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Dr. Strangelove - Late Thoughts
I know that Dr. Strangelove is nearly out of us teenagers, short attention-spans but I have been unable to post anything the last couple of days because I was doing stuff for college, and then last night I didn't get home from my track meet until after 10:30 PM so I didn't have time but there was one thought that I wanted to make about something that Mr. Bennett mentioned during the film. (Almost all of my other ideas were covered during our 1.5 day long discussion on the film.)
When Major Kong was speaking on the plane and he says "Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff." Now, as Mr. Bennett said, the original screenplay said the city Dallas, but because it was released the month after Kennedy's assassination they didn't want to bring back memories of the city where he was killed. However, throughout the film, at least twice, as Mr. Bennett also stated, the movie referenced a Gap, like the mine-shaft gap and a doomsday gap. Now, I felt that if they were trying to avoid breaching the topic of Kennedy then why did they include these two references to Kennedy.
It just seemed odd personally that they would include some references to Kennedy that would be fresh on people's minds since his Presidency had just ended, but remove the line about Dallas, unless they felt that was too close to home. I don't know, maybe someone could enlighten me on the quasi and selective censorship of the Kennedy dialogue. It was just something I had thought about since we finished the film.
When Major Kong was speaking on the plane and he says "Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff." Now, as Mr. Bennett said, the original screenplay said the city Dallas, but because it was released the month after Kennedy's assassination they didn't want to bring back memories of the city where he was killed. However, throughout the film, at least twice, as Mr. Bennett also stated, the movie referenced a Gap, like the mine-shaft gap and a doomsday gap. Now, I felt that if they were trying to avoid breaching the topic of Kennedy then why did they include these two references to Kennedy.
It just seemed odd personally that they would include some references to Kennedy that would be fresh on people's minds since his Presidency had just ended, but remove the line about Dallas, unless they felt that was too close to home. I don't know, maybe someone could enlighten me on the quasi and selective censorship of the Kennedy dialogue. It was just something I had thought about since we finished the film.
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