Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Babel !!!

I did pretty well in the globes, basically I just missed Pan's Labyrinth in the foreign language category (The favorite Letters from Iwo Jima won), of all the bets I made. I'm excited for the Oscar season, I've always loved movies and I've been always a pretty good prognosticator in award season, but actually this is the first time I bet on it and I did pretty well, I won around $3500, thanks mainly to my Babel bets, I'm happy with the Babel winning, because of my bets of course, but also because this is a very good year for the Mexican film industry, with 3 very good movies by the three amigos, Babel by Alejandro Gonzalez IƱarrirtu, who won best director at Cannes Festival and best movie drama at the globes; Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro, Pan's won best picture by the National Society of Film Critics and has won many best foreign film awards; and Children of Man by Alfonso Cuaron, which just won best film in Vancouver.
I think there is a chance to win more good money in the Oscars, let's hope things go well.

Golden Globes results (Film)

Best Drama: Babel

Best Comedy/Musical: Dreamgirls

Best Actor Drama: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress Drama: Helen Mirren - The Queen

Best Actor Comedy/Musical: Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat

Best Actress Comedy/Musical: Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada

Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Best Director: Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Best Screenplay: The Queen

Best Original Song: The Song of the Heart - Happy Feet

Best Original Score: The Painted Veil

Best Animated Feature: Cars

Best Foreign Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima

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