The Academy Awards usually are like one of those high school popularity contests where all the other contenders show up, but there's that one girl everybody just knows is going to be crowned.
February 22, 2007 (Press Release) --
Not this time.
For the first year in longer than anyone in Hollywood can remember, the best-picture category is so wide open that any of the five films could come away with the big prize.
The typical Oscar ceremony has a clear front-runner or two, with the other best-picture nominees lumped into the thanks-for-showing-up crowd.
The main trophy for the 79th annual Oscars this Sunday is up for grabs among the far-flung ensemble drama "Babel," the crime epic "The Departed," the war story "Letters From Iwo Jima," the road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and the British-royalty tale "The Queen."
A final look at the five nominees going into the homestretch:
"BABEL" A shot fired in the African desert is heard 'round the world as the wounding of an American tourist holds stinging repercussions for families in North America and Japan.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's tale had the grandest of coming-out parties, premiering at last spring's Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker winning the best-director prize there the same weekend as the publicity frenzy over the birth of a daughter to Angelina Jolie and "Babel" star Brad Pitt.
Though not a universally beloved film, "Babel" has ridden a wave of admiration over its intricate structure, which weaves passionate stories in multiple languages, the action flitting back and forth among characters on three continents.
"Always through the whole process, I was very conscious of how I was going to put in four stories, three continents, five languages, and translate that into a visual grammar, a visual language in one single film that makes sense," Inarritu said.
Source: http://www.msn.com
For the first year in longer than anyone in Hollywood can remember, the best-picture category is so wide open that any of the five films could come away with the big prize.
The typical Oscar ceremony has a clear front-runner or two, with the other best-picture nominees lumped into the thanks-for-showing-up crowd.
The main trophy for the 79th annual Oscars this Sunday is up for grabs among the far-flung ensemble drama "Babel," the crime epic "The Departed," the war story "Letters From Iwo Jima," the road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and the British-royalty tale "The Queen."
A final look at the five nominees going into the homestretch:
"BABEL" A shot fired in the African desert is heard 'round the world as the wounding of an American tourist holds stinging repercussions for families in North America and Japan.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's tale had the grandest of coming-out parties, premiering at last spring's Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker winning the best-director prize there the same weekend as the publicity frenzy over the birth of a daughter to Angelina Jolie and "Babel" star Brad Pitt.
Though not a universally beloved film, "Babel" has ridden a wave of admiration over its intricate structure, which weaves passionate stories in multiple languages, the action flitting back and forth among characters on three continents.
"Always through the whole process, I was very conscious of how I was going to put in four stories, three continents, five languages, and translate that into a visual grammar, a visual language in one single film that makes sense," Inarritu said.
Source: http://www.msn.com
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