Supporting Actress: I have to admit, I just dont care about the actresses this year. But, only because I dont think the film business does. But buzz for Cate Blanchett, so ok.
Best Actress: Just for my friend John I see at Starbucks, whose wife won an Oscar for animated short, Marion Cotilliard for La Vie En Rose. But it has to be said, I love Laura Linney. If Cate Blanchett can play Bob Dylan, I want Laura Linney to play me. Her films lately have been about messed up families, so she has the experience already.
Supporting Actor: Hal Holbrook was my emotional favorite, but since the NYTimes seems to think there's no one else but Javier Bardem... I just dont get it. Economy in a performance, like heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain is amazing. This was a limp and haircut, IMHO.
Best Actor: Tommy Lee Jones got me with In the Valley Of Elah (now on DVD) and he carries No Country for Old Men. I dont think there is much of a race here. Though, Viggo Mortenson was amazing in Eastern Promises. Full on naked and fighting is courageous at a minimum.
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, of course.
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men. To me, it channeled the culture this year. A country on the precipice and in danger of becoming what it says it is fighting against.
VOICE-OVER ... More than that, I don't want to know. A man would have to put his soul at hazard ... He would have to say, O.K., I'll be part of this world.
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