Oh crap, Johnny Depp lost again. Why does the Academy routinely ignore the guy? He's a brilliant actor who specializes in off-beat, unconventional roles and he does it so well. I'm not sure if I liked Edward Scissorhands, I don't care about his stint in 21 Jumpstreet but I enjoyed the Legend of the Sleepy Hollow (adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe classic) immensely, even in the incomprehensible Pirates of the Carribean (too much details, at least for my taste) he stood out, bringing life to otherwise one-dimensional characters.
Sure, Daniel Day-Lewis is a fine actor who, by the way, speaks like an English Lit professor, peppering his statements with lots of metaphor, (although I haven't seen There Will Be Blood, the movie adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 socialist novel, Oil!) but he has won the acting award before, for My Left Foot (which I saw at the UP Film Centre). His role as a paraplegic in that movie literally begged for the Best Actor trophy.
Finally, Spanish actor Javier Bardem got noticed and won the Best Supporting award. He got nominated before and lost. His countryman Antonio Banderas should get lessons from him. Banderas used to be a first-rate actor under Pedro Almodovar, when he moved to Hollywood, he seemed to have nosedived and made mostly popcorn-movies such as Zorro.
I plan to watch Atonement. Looks interesting. It is based on a best-selling book by Ian McEwan, by the way.
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