{"id":331,"date":"2006-10-11T19:43:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/11\/early-oscar-contenders\/"},"modified":"2006-10-11T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:46:00","slug":"early-oscar-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/10\/11\/early-oscar-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Oscar contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Germain of the Associated Press has written a piece about the early Oscar favourites<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Helen Mirren could be crowned best actress at the Academy Awards. Seven-time loser Peter O’Toole may finally win that elusive Oscar. Jack Nicholson could tie Katharine Hepburn with a record fourth win.<\/p>\n

And Clint Eastwood may establish himself as one of the winningest directors in Oscar history. Though plenty of Oscar-worthy films will not hit theaters until December, many potential contenders and a few early front-runners have emerged for Hollywood’s big night Feb. 25.<\/p>\n

Leading the way could be Eastwood, 2004’s top winner, who won his second best-picture and directing prizes with “Million Dollar Baby.” Eastwood is back with the World War II saga “Flags of Our Fathers,” a sprawling account of the Iwo Jima invasion and the controversial circumstances over the raising of the U.S. flag there, an event immortalized in Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal’s picture.<\/p>\n

Still to come late this year are such films as the musical “Dreamgirls,” with Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles and Eddie Murphy, the post-World War II tale “The Good German,” directed by Steven Soderbergh and featuring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, and “The Good Shepherd,” starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie in a CIA saga directed by Robert De Niro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It might be a few months before the BAFTAs and the Oscars but the awards season is already under way.<\/p>\n

It is still too early to come up with any solid predictions but I would think that Helen Mirren <\/strong>in The Queen<\/a> <\/strong>is already a very strong candidate for Best Actress whilst Clint Eastwood’s World War II drama\u00a0Flags of Our Fathers<\/a><\/strong> looks likely to be nominated in a few categories. Of the other early candidfates you would have to say that Dreamgirls<\/a><\/strong>, Babel<\/a><\/strong>, The Good German<\/a><\/strong>, Little Children<\/a><\/strong> are also early frontrunners.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what happens to Martin Scorcese and The Departed<\/strong>. Despite the rave reviews and solid box office, it is the kind of dark, violent and contemporary drama the Academy normally shuns. But given previous snubs will there be a feeling that they should just give Marty an Oscar to atone for past sins<\/a>?<\/p>\n

> Original article at the AP<\/a>
\n> Gurus of Gold at Movie City News<\/a>
\n>\u00a0The Envelope at the LA Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Germain of the Associated Press has written a piece about the early Oscar favourites: Helen Mirren could be crowned best actress at the Academy Awards. Seven-time loser Peter O’Toole may finally win that elusive Oscar. Jack Nicholson could tie Katharine Hepburn with a record fourth win. And Clint Eastwood may establish himself as one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}