What’s up with Oscar this year?

##Picture

• **Should Win: Saving Private Ryan**.
• **Did Win: Shakespeare In Love**.
• **Comments**: I just don’t understand this. In 20 years, nobody will remember
  

  Shakespeare In Love, but everyone will remember Saving

  Private Ryan.

##Director

• Steven Spielberg, *Saving Private Ryan*
• Steven Spielberg, *Saving Private Ryan*
• Of course he deserved it. How anyone could pull off what he did still amazes me

##Actor

• Ian McKellen, *Gods and Monsters*
• Roberto Benigni, *Life Is Beautiful*
• Very surprising. What’s a knight to do?

##Actress

• Gweneth Paltrow, *Shakespeare In Love*
• Gweneth Paltrow, *Shakespeare In Love*
• I was in love with her. That’s good enough for me!

##Supporting Actor

• James Coburn, *Gods and Monsters*
• James Coburn, *Gods and Monsters*
• Good for him. I was pulling for him the whole time. With his career
  

  he should have been recognized long ago.

##Supporting Actress

• Judi Dench, *Shakespeare In Love*
• Judi Dench, *Shakespeare in Love*
• She *was* Queen Elizabeth… ’nuff said!

##Cinemetography

• Janusz Kaminski, *Saving Private Ryan*
• Janusz Kaminski, *Saving Private Ryan*
• Duh!

##Visual Effects

• *What Dreams May Come*
• *What Dreams May Come*
• Thank God this won! This was the most original effects I’ve ever seen.

##Editing

• *Saving Private Ryan*
• *Saving Private Ryan*
• How the hell did they pull off that beach scene?

##Sound

• *Saving Private Ryan*
• *Saving Private Ryan*
• I could hear the bullets flying past my head.

##Sound Effects Editing

• *Saving Private Ryan*
• *Saving Private Ryan*
• Any questions?

##Foreign Language Film

• *Life Is Beautiful*
• *Life Is Beautiful*
• This was a lock the whole time

##Screenplay (Original)

• Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, *Shakespeare In Love*
• Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, *Shakespeare In Love*
• One of the wittiest scripts I’ve heard in a *long* time.

##Screenplay (Adaptation)

• Scott B. Smith, *A Simple Plan*
• Bill Condon, *Gods and Monsters*
• This surprised me. I didn’t see either one, but from all the press
  *that A Simple Plan* got, I figured it had to win something.

##Original Musical or Comedy Score

• *Shakespeare In Love*
• *Shakespeare In Love*
• The music fit the movie perfectly

##Original Dramatic Score

• *Saving Private Ryan*
• *Life Is Beautiful*
• This was a surprise… Someone beat John Williams!!

##Makeup

• *Saving Private Ryan*
• *Elizabeth*
• I suppose it had to win something.

##Costume Design

• *Shakespeare In Love*
• *Shakespeare In Love*
• Duh!

##Art Direction

• *What Dreams May Come*
• *Shakespeare In Love*
• I just don’t understand this. I mean What Dreams May Come
  

  actually took place partially in a Monet painting! What better Art Direction

  could you ask for?

##Original Song

• When You Believe, *Prince Of Egypt*
• When You Believe, *Prince Of Egypt*
• Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston… ’nuff said.

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##Totals