Cinema awards for every taste...

This weekend will be rich in statues & prizes for the 7th art. After the spanish Goyas (boring this year), the british BAFTA, and finaly the Berlinale awards a couple of days ago, this friday evening will see the french "Césars" awards evening in Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet). Sunday will see the curtains open up at the stage of the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, for the 79th Oscar awards.

Off Hollywood, on a different approach, there will be the Razzie Awards, parody of the Oscars, which will annouce the worst actors and films of the year... Expected as favourite, 'Basic Instinct 2' gets the big share in the categories worst film, actrice, director and screenplay... (I've seen the film, believe it or not - long story - and it's not as bad as it may seem...). But France doesn't stay behind, with the Gérard du cinéma, awarded yesterday, and the Bidets d'or to be awarded also this friday, where 'Les Bronzés 3' & 'Incontrôlables' will probably 'shine'...

Yet the palme d'or for radicalism goes straight to the scandinavian site oscartorrent.com. That site, pirating Hollywood, proposes to vote for the nominated films, and, above all, to download them! They believe that each one should have the right to see the nominated films, before making their own mind, and the site explains how to download them in all legality, despite the threats of the swedish authorities. So go running before they close the site... And if you want to try a bet/vote, you can do it in the spanish site 'blog de cine"...

As for me I will try to stay awake for the Oscars... just for the fun...

And I bet the outcome of the Oscars will be as follows:

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'Babel' for best film,
Martin Scorsese with 'The Departed' for best director,
Forest Whitaker in 'The last king of Scotland' for best actor in a leading role,
Alan Arkin in 'Little Miss Sunshine' for best actor in a supporting role,
Kate Winslet in 'Little Children', for best actress in a leading role,
Abigail Breslin in 'Little Miss sunshine' for best actress in a supporting role,
'Babel' for best original screenpaly,
'Little Children' for best adapted screenpaly (can you believe it, 'Borat' was nominated?...),

and finally, ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ for best foreign language film...

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