by PETER BESAS
Okay, it’s a bit late to be sounding out all the muggs, with only ELEVEN days to go before the Academy Award ceremonies on February 24. But here we go again, trying to maintain a Simesite tradition. Also, I KNOW most of you haven’t seen the majority of the films, but that could even prove an advantage in more ways than one.
So… hurry, hurry, and send me your nods for the TWELVE categories selected. Send your breathtaking selections directly to me in Madrid at: pbesas@hotmail.com. and our computer maverick in London, Ian Watkins, will upload them posthaste on the Simesite.
Following are your choices:
BEST FILM
Atonement
Hollinger, Besas
Juno
Bryer, Marich, Torres
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
Adams, Watkins, Michie, Harris
There Will Be Blood
Kindred, Silverman(Mike), Hoineff, Segers
BEST LEADING ACTOR
George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”
Marich, Torres
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood”
Kindred, Silverman(Mike), Hoineff, Adams, Segers, Hollinger, Watkins, Michie, Besas, Harris
Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd”
Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah”
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises”
Bryer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James”
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men”
Hoineff, Adams, Segers, Marich, Hollinger, Watkins, Michie, Besas, Harris
Philip Seymour-Hoffman for “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Kindred, Torres
Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild”
Bryer
Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton”
Silverman(Mike)
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth”
Kindred, Hoineff, Marich, Besas
Julie Christie in “Away From Her”
Hollinger, Watkins, Michie
Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose”
Torres, Harris
Laura Linney in “The Savages”
Ellen Page in “Juno”
Silverman(Mike), Adams, Bryer, Segers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There”
Adams, Marich, Watkins, Michie
Ruby Dee in “American Gangster”
Silverman(Mike), Bryer, Segers, Besas
Saorise Ronan in “Atonement”
Kindred, Hoineff
Amy Ryan in “Gone Baby Gone”
Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton”
Hollinger, Torres, Harris
ART DIRECTION
American Gangster
Bryer, Torres
Atonement
Kindred, Hoineff, Segers
The Golden Compass
Hollinger
Sweeney Todd
Silverman(Mike), Adams, Marich, Watkins, Besas, Harris
There Will Be Blood
Michie
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Segers, Hollinger, Michie, Harris
No Country for Old Men
Kindred, Adams, Bryer, Torres
There Will Be Blood
Silverman(Mike), Hoineff, Marich, Watkins, Besas
DIRECTING
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Jason Reitman (Juno)
Bryer, Marich, Torres
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
The Coen Bros. (No Country for Old Men)
Silverman(Mike), Adams, Segers, Hollinger, Watkins, Michie, Besas, Harris
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Kindred, Hoineff
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight
Hollinger
Operation Homecoming
Hoineff, Adams, Segers, Watkins, Besas
Sicko
Kindred, Silverman(Mike), Bryer, Michie, Torres, Harris
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
Marich
FILM IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Beaufort (Israel)
Silverman(Mike), Hoineff, Besas
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Kindred, Hollinger, Watkins, Torres, Harris
Katyn (Poland)
Adams, Segers, Marich
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)
Bryer, Michie
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno
Kindred, Silverman(Mike), Adams, Segers, Marich, Hollinger, Watkins, Michie, Besas, Torres, Harris
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Hoineff
Ratatouille
The Savages
Bryer
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Atonement
Bryer, Marich, Watkins
Away From Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Segers, Hollinger
No Country for Old Men
Hoineff, Adams, Michie, Besas, Torres, Harris
There Will Be Blood
Kindred, Silverman(Mike)