Last week the nominations for this year's Academy Awards were announced. 
There were few surprises and it was, for the most part, a mellow year for
Hollywood.  So to spice up the event Grex will hold its own vote - we'll
get to see how our opinions compare to the experts. 

Sometime within the next couple of weeks Voteradm will fire-up the vote
program for those interested in supporting their favorite nominations. 
Everyone's vote will count - member, non-member, pseudo, lurker...  All are
welcome to participate. So below I'll list the categories and nominees. 
Then get out and see those last few movies you missed and think about your
choices. 

The Academy Awards will be televised on March 27th.  Our voting will
end sometime on the evening of the 26th.  

(Drum Roll)  AND THE NOMINATIONS ARE:

PICTURE:  "Forrest Gump"
          "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
          "Pulp Fiction"
          "Quiz Show"
          "The Shawshank Redemption"

ACTOR:    Morgan Freeman, "The Shawshank Redemption"
          Tom Hanks, "Forest Gump"
          Nigel Hawthorne, "The Madness of King George"
          Paul Newman, "Nobody's Fool"
          John Travolta, "Pulp Fiction"

ACTRESS:  Jodie Foster, "Nell"
          Jessica Lange, "Blue Sky"
          Miranda Richardson, "Tom & Viv"
          Winona Ryder, "Little Women"
          Susan Sarandon, "The Client"

DIRECTOR: Woody Allen, "Bullets Over Broadway"
          Robert Zemekis, "Forrest Gump"
          Quentin Tarantino, "Pulp Fiction"
          Robert Redford, "Quiz Show"
          Krzysztof Kieslowski, "Red"

26 responses total.

Forrest Gump is getting like, 7 or 8 nominations. The only other movie to
do that was Gone With the Wind.

And I still haven't seen it.
I vote for Pulp Fiction on everything.

You forgot best supportting actress/actor.

Can I do a write-in vote for best actor: Brad Pitt????!!!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!:)

no, he's most beautiful actor...i'm not really sure tht he could get
the best,though...`

 Try 13. And I hope FG wins all it's nominated for. I really enjoyed
this movie a lot.

Pulp Fiction...

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I'll include as many categories as votadm is willing to deal with.


SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

     Rosemary Harris, "Tom & Viv"
     Helen Mirren, "The Madness of King George"
     Uma Thurman, "Pulp Fiction"
     Jennifer Tilly, "Bullets Over Broadway"
     Dianne Wiest, "Bullets Over Broadway"

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

     Samuel L. Jackson, "Pulp Fiction"
     Martin Landau, "Ed Wood"
     Chazz Palminteri, "Bullets Over Broadway"
     Paul Scofield, "Quiz Show"
     Gary Sinise, "Forrest Gump"

#1: I think Ben Hur got 11 nominations.

I only saw one of the above movies.  Guess I need to get out more...

I thought West Side Story had the most.  *shrug*  

Voteadm has to write a front end to the vote program to enable it to
handle several votes at once, but it's not a huge task.  I expect I'll
have it in place sometime this coming weekend.

[Winter Agora item 124 is now linked as Arts item 100.]

re#1:  Forrest Gump got 13 nominations, which equals All About Eve.
As for Best Picture, I'd be happy to see either Gump or Pulp Fiction win, but
given the average age of academy voters, I think it's more likely to be
Forrest Gump.

How come Samuel L> Jackson is considered a supporting actor in Pulp Fiction and
not a lead actor?  I'm new to this system so you may have already covered this
territory.

Remmers, That would be cool if you could get the vote program to do this. We
could have our own grex grammys

re #15: He only appeared in two (three, maybe?) of the four short
        stories. His character was decidedly equal in importance to
        John Travolta's character, but Travolta's character was in
        all of the short stories, which made it more of a lead role
        than Jackson's. Jackson also probably has a better shot at
        winning a supporting actor award. I remember seeing him in
        "Loaded Weapon" and not thinking that much of him, but after
        seeing him in "Pulp Fiction" and "Fresh" (the film he *should*
        have been nominated for), I've come to appreciate his range of
        acting ability.

re #17:  I thought about what you said about John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, I
guess Isaw the movie as group pice.  Not one person more important than
another.  I liked "Fresh" but I like Sam Jackson in most of evrything he has
done recently.  

has Samuel Jackson been in anything else recently? I'm aware of "Pulp
Fiction" and "Fresh", but nothing else.

He was also in "Jurassic Park," and "Patriot Games," to name a few. (In 
"Jurassic Park," he was the guy who went out to the power shed, and later on
his severed arm fell on Laura Dern.)

How fun!  ALright- here we go!
        PICTURE: Pulp Fiction
        ACTOR:  John Travolta- "Pulp Fiction"
        ACTRESS: Winona Ryder: "Little Women"
        DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino: "Pulp Fiction"
        S.ACTRESS: Uma Thurman "Pulp Fiction"
        S. ACTOR:  Gary Sinise "Forrest Gump"

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                  Who I'd like to win:       Who I think will win:

Picture:          "Pulp Fiction"             "Forest Gump"
Actor (male):     John Travolta "PF"         Paul Newman, "NF"     
Actor (female):   Jessica Lange (BS)         Jodie Foster "Nell"
Supp. actor (male):Martin Landau "Ed Wood"   Samuel Jackson "PF"
Supp. actor (female):Dianne Wiest "BOB"      Helen Mirren "MOKG"
Best Director:    Quentin Terantino "PF"     Robert Zemekis "FG"   

gee - i hope you are wrong ....

I haven't seen either the Wiest or Mirren movies, but you can
guess who I hope wins - the erectogenic Ms. Mirren, of course.

Picture:pulp fiction
actor: tom hanjs
actress: jodi foster
director: quentin tarantino

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