Oscar Best Supporting Actor

I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriff's at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carry one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Borkins wouldn't wear one up in Camanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself gainst the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how theyd've operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."


Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald

Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller

Running time: 122 minutes




My review:

I absolutely adored this film. This is without a doubt one of the best films of 2007. Before watching this film I was surprised that this film beat Atonement to Best Picture but after I watched it, I am not surprised that it won. It totally deserved it. The acting in this film is absolutely fantastic from the entire cast. Tommy Lee Jones was brilliant in the leading role as cop as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell. He should have had an Oscar nomination for Best Actor instead of his Oscar nomination in In The Valley Of Elah. Javier Bardem was absolutely sensational in his Oscar winning performance as serial killer Anton Chigurh. He was the best out of the whole cast because he is a very fearful character and one of the most terrifying characters in film history. Josh Brolin was very good as Llewelyn Moss and so was Kelly MacDonald as Carla Jean Moss. The setting and cinematography of this film is absolutely fantastic. I love the art direction around the hotel and in the West. It looks like a western film but it isnt one at all. Fantastic film by the great directors Joel And Ethan Coen. This is my favourite film from the 5 nominees that were nominated Best Picture.

Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18... Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.


Directed by: Jonathan Dayton
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Running time: 101 minutes





My review:

Little Miss Sunshine is one of the most heartwarming films I have ever seen. This film brings out a lot of stress and pressure within all of the characters in the film but it also brings out the beauty that all of the characters have. And they are all different beauties. The film mostly follows up a family who each have personal problems of their own. Richard the father of the family is an arrogant business man who is going in debt, his wife Sheryl is the mother of the family who has stress at home because of the bizarre teenage son Dwayne, her so called beauty queen daughter Olive and her gay brother trying to kill himself after being rejected by his lover. Dwayne is a really grumpy teenager who is admired of Friedrich Nietzsche. and has taken a vow of silence until he goes to flying school. The grandfather of Olive Hoover and father of Richard Hoover, is a foul mouthed aging man who likes talking about having sex and being with women and also takes heroin which turns into a turning point into this film. Frank is the brother of Sheryl, who tries to commit suicide after his lover rejected him and went with someone else. He feels like a tortured soul who has lost his love and has lost the will to live but as the film moves on he soon changes that and starts to rebuild his life with his family. Olive is a 7 year old little girl who really admires watching Little Miss Sunshine on the TV and loves dancing but when she is entered as a contestant she feels like she can win the competition but her father makes a mean difference between winners and losers in this world. Because she appears ugly particularly with her glasses and she feels like she is fat aswell. Her father acts really harsh with her like not learning about Franks suicide attempt and also about not eating ice cream because it has so called fat in it and Richard doesnt want his daughter to appear fat for the competition. This family suffer a tragedy which changes the whole film around and builds the family together again. Not only does a tragedy happen in this film but this film becomes absolutely hilarious when things happen and things go wrong for the family like the car can?t start so they push it along and then jump in to make it start. This film is a real adventure. I am so glad that it was nominated for all the Oscar nominations it got. It deserved Best Picture nomination, it deserved Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin but Mark Wahlberg should have won instead even though Alan Arkin was awesome. Abigail Breslin should have won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar instead of Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls. It deserved its Oscar winning Original Screenplay because the script was superb. I think this film should have had the Best Leading Actress Oscar nomination for Toni Collette. I thought her performance was awesome. Best performance was Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover. This is my second favourite film of 2006 after Martin Scorseses The Departed.

To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can't just tell 'em to forget everything you know if you gotta make 'em forget even their bones... make 'em so tired they only listen to you, only hear your voice, only do what you say and nothing else... show 'em how to keep their balance and take it away from the other guy... how to generate momentum off their right toe and how to flex your knees when you fire a jab... how to fight backin' up so that the other guy doesn't want to come after you. Then you gotta show 'em all over again. Over and over and over... till they think they're born that way.<


Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter

Genre: Drama/Sport

Running time: 132 minutes




My review:

In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, boxing trainer Frankie Dunn has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time until Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym. In a life of constant struggle, Maggie got herself this far on raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. But more than anything, she wants someone to believe in her. The last thing Frankie needs is that kind of responsibility, let alone that kind of risk, but won over by Maggies sheer determination, he begrudgingly agrees to take her on. In turns exasperating and inspiring each other, the two come to discover that they share a common spirit that transcends the pain and loss of their pasts, and they find in each other a sense of family they lost long ago. Yet, they both face a battle that will demand more heart and courage than any they have ever known. This film was really depressing but the most dramatic of all of the boxing films that I have watched before. Hilary Swank delivers a brilliant Oscar winning performance as Maggie Fitzgerald because Hilary really looked like a true boxer and a boxer with a great passion and really makes the character inspiring and pleasureable to watch. She seems like a really nice person whos life was falling apart but she gains the spirit. Clint Eastwood was really good in an acting performance as Frankie Dunn. I really liked Morgan Freeman in his Oscar winning performance. I really like Clint Eastwood directing films but I prefer Mystic River to this, Unforgiven, Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. I was surprised that this film won Best Picture Oscar. In my opinion, Finding Neverland should have won it. This is still an absolutely brilliant boxing piece of filmmaking from Clint Eastwood.

I'm walking to my car, and this guy comes up to me. Asks for a light. I say I don't smoke. He says neither does he. So then my heart starts clocking a buck fifty, 'cause there's no one else here except me and him. So then he pulls the knife on me. Says, 'Your wallet or your life, bitch. I'm leaving with one of them'. So I try to brush past him, and that's when he slices me.


Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery

Running time: 137 minutes




My review:

I really liked this film first time around, but second time round I loved it even more. This is a masterpiece from master actor and director Clint Eastwood. This film is one of the most depressing and dramatic films that I have ever seen in my life. Driven apart by a childhood trauma, three men meet again when Jimmy's daughter is murdered, cop Sean investigates and loner Dave emerges as a likely suspect. Soon an air of vigilantism begins to poison their Boston neighbourhood. Sean Penn delivers one outstanding performance as Jimmy Markum. He probably did deserve his Oscar but it was a tight one with the other nominees between Sean Penn in this, Bill Murray in Lost In Translation and Johnny Depp in Pirates Of The Caribbean. Seans performance was more of a dramatic performance which probably did get him the Oscar that he deserved. Jimmy is a snobbish ex-con who runs a neighbourhood store. He is friends with Sean who is portrayed by Kevin Bacon and Dave is portrayed by Tim Robbins. Tim Robbins was absolutely fantastic as Dave Boyle. He deserved his Oscar in this film. Dave is like a tortured and an extremely dangerous soul after he was kidnapped and possibly raped by elderly aged male paedophiles. This affects Daves life and never seems to let go and it sort of haunts him. His wife becomes sort of afraid of him and is unsure what he is capable of. He is like possessed because he doesnt know what he has done and he doesn?t know what he hasnt done. Dave is the most emotional character in the whole film and Tim delivers the most emotional performance in this film too. Marcia Gay Harden gives out another emotional performance as Celest Boyle. This film has a place in everyones heart from all of the characters in it. This has now become of my all time favourite drama films and has now become on my favourite films list now. Definitely my favourite Clint Eastwood (director) film so far. Masterpiece!!

I have to go right home. I know how to finish the script now. It ends with Kaufman driving home after his lunch with Amelia, thinking he knows how to finish the script. Shit, that's voice-over. McKee would not approve. How else can I show his thoughts? I don't know. Oh, who cares what McKee says? It feels right. Conclusive. I wonder who's gonna play me. Someone not too fat. I liked that Gerard Depardieu, but can he not do the accent? Anyway, it's done. And that's something. So: "Kaufman drives off from his encounter with Amelia, filled for the first time with hope." I like this. This is good.


Directed by: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jay Tavare

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Running time: 114 minutes




My review:

Nicolas Cage deserved his Oscar nomination as Charlie/Donald Kaufman. It is really clever how they get the same man playing two different people in the same scene. The film is very well written and the way it is told about the history of different sorts of flowers and also of how much flowers and plants have changed the world ever since 4 billion years ago when the world started. Chris Cooper deserved his Oscar for his role as John Larouche who lost his mother and uncle is a car crash, in the car that he was driving and his wife divorced him after she got out of her coma after the crash. That is what brought him and Susan together because her life was a mess with her husband who didnt really love her as his wife and her work life is going down the drain. It is also a heartbreaking love story aswell because Charlie has always loved Susan but he loves another woman he has been dating. He thought of Susan as his hero (or heroin). I think she was his hero because she was the one who can help bring his life together. It is a film that every man, woman and child has to watch.

I didnt kill my wife.

I dont care.


Directed by: Andrew Davis
Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, Joe Pantoliano

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller

Running time: 130 minutes




My review:

The Fugitive is in my personal opinion one of the most fun action packed thrillers that have ever been made. This film has almost everything that a thriller should have. There are the tense action sequences with extremely tense music. But there isnt just tense music in the action scenes but through every scene in the film really. Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through this breathless manhunt movie inspired by one classic TV series and which in turn inspired yet another. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble, a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who committed the crime. Jones (the 1993 Academy Award, Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critics Award winner as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard, an unrelented bloodhound of a U.S. marshal. They are hunted and hunter. And as directed by Andrew Davis, their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed: all-out. Harrison Ford was good as Richard Kimble but I personally believe that he could have been a bit better but he was still good though. If Harrison nor Tommy was in this film, this film wouldnt have turned out half as good as it really is. Tommy Lee Jones was absolutely outstanding in his Oscar nominated performance as Marshal Sam Gerard because Sam is like a stubborn and obsessive character who just wants to get what he wants and even will get what he needs like he needs to get Richard to get better at his job. As good as Tommy was in this film, I think that Leonardo DiCaprio should have won for Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?. I am not saying that because DiCaprio is my third favourite actor but because I thought he was better and stronger with his performance. This film shows about the difference between villains and heroes because everyone thinks Richard is a villain but he really isnt. He is innocent but Sam just does his job but acts a bit of a criminal because he states that he doesnt care about what happens to people in this world which is quite bad for a US Marshal. I could easily feel the chemistry between Richard and Sam because they are both completely different personalities and that they both try to achieve two different goals. Richard tries to mystify his wifes murder while he is fugitive and Sam just tries to find him and catch him. Also, I dont know why but I could feel that they somehow knew each other in the past, like in their childhood or something. When we first see Richard and Sam in a scene together when Richard says I didnt kill my wife. and Sam said I dont care. That quote shows that Sam only wants to get what he wants by getting him not by seeing Richards guilt or innocence of the crime he committed. Harrison and Tommys on screen partnership is one of my favourites because it is a total clash of characters. This film is obviously thrilling and action packed but it is also quite a depressing story because of what Richard wants to achieve and how he is going to achieve but mostly about his wifes murder. It is a shame because Richard was the only one found in the house when his wife was murdered but there are some scenes that appear of Richard fighting a man who beat up his wife. Richard fighting the man was true but was only in his head not from a video or a photograph. I simply love cat-and-mouse, fugitive and chasing films an awful lot because they are obviously tense but are a load of fun aswell. No Country For Old Men is similar because of the cat-and-mouse game that Anton plays against Llewelyn. This film was the runner-up in my opinion to Schindlers List for Best Picture. The Fugitive is my favourite from the 5 nominees and is my favourite film from 1993. This film has achieved a lot for me like one of my favourite thrillers, one of my favourite on-screen partnership, one of my favourite cat-and-mouse films, made Tommy Lee Jones one of my favourite actors (Harrison Ford already is) but mostly it has become one of my favourite films of all time.

Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone "Are you married?" and hearing "My wife left me this morning," or saying, uh, "Do you have children?" and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. You see, Wanda, we'll all terrified of embarrassment. That's why we're so... dead. Most of my friends are dead, you know, we have these piles of corpses to dinner. But you're alive, God bless you, and I want to be, I'm so fed up with all this. I want to make love with you, Wanda. I'm a good lover - at least, used to be, back in the early 14th century. Can we go to bed?


Directed by: Charles Crichton
Starring: John Cleese,

Genre: Comedy/Crime

Running time: 108 minutes




My review:

The plot of this film is basically after a successful diamond heist, lovers and partners in crime Otto and Wanda double-cross their boss and land him in jail. However, as only he knows where the loot is, Wanda is then enlisted to 'get close' to his barrister, jaded Etonian Archie Leach. But when Archie and Wanda start falling for each, much to Otto's chagrin, the plan starts to go awry in the tradition of the very best Ealing comedies...This is without a doubt one of the funniest films I have ever set my eyes on ever. This is one of the most remarkable and most hilarious films of the 1980s. John Cleese delivers a fantastic and hilarious performance as lawyer Archie Leach. His humorous attitude and sarcasm reminded me a lot of his character as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. He acts a lot ruder and has a stronger and more dramatic character in this film. He is more of a charming sort of character that has a lot of power over his job but doesnt have any personally involving his wife and daughter. He acts like a serious character yet a hilarious mischievous character aswell. John Cleese deserved his Golden Globe nomination in this film and so did Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie Lee Curtis delivers a brilliant performance as Wanda Gershwitz. Jamie is a real beautiful, sexy and a really seductive lady that can fool anyone under her command. She tries to seduce Archie into getting as much information as possible about gaining Georges freedom. As she starts to spend time with Archie and try and fool him into giving her information, she starts to fall in love with Archie. At that moment things in the film change around completely. Kevin Kline delivers a really fine Oscar winning performance as Otto. His performance in this film was definitely the funniest from the whole film and is definitely one of the funniest performances of all time. He acts like a total asshole but he also acts like a really light hearted asshole with alot of issues and a lot of personal problems within himself. He acts like a nosey pervert when Jamie has her private time with Archie. It is pretty funny that it happens though because he cant help but love her and that he wants to be with her. Michael Palin made me laugh a lot in this film aswell because he acts like a stuttering guy who loves his fish particularly his black fish which is called Wanda. John Cleese writes the script of this film really well; his script is perfect for every single actor and for every single character in this film. Apparently, John Cleeses real life daughter portrayed his on screen daughter in this film aswell which is pretty cool. I love John in Fawlty Towers and now this; he has become one of my favourite actors of all time. I just thought that this film was just so hilarious. If it wasnt for the swearing, I would say that this was a family sort of film.

Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?


Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale

Genre: Drama/Thriller

Running time: 200 minutes




My review:

Possibly the greatest film sequel ever made. The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba. The acting was once again superb in this one just like it was in the first Godfather film. A lot of people would say that this sequel is better than the first one. It is fair enough but the first Godfather is the classic one in the trilogy. This film won 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director-Francis Ford Coppola, Best Supporting Actor-Robert De Niro, Best Adapted Sreenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Music, Original Score. When you first see this film advertised or when you see the cover on the DVD, it looks like a good film but unsureable about it because it has two stories with present time with Michael Corleone and the past with the younger Vito Corleone, but when you actually watch the film it is just as much of a classic masterpiece as the first film is. The acting from the whole cast was once again a gigantic success just like the first Godfather. Al Pacino was absolutely fantastic as Michael Corleone because he acted really cold toward his brother and towards his wife aswell but he also had a lot of power in the family and probably from some of the families in all of America in which Michael could not control. Despite Als cold and aggressive performance he was also very emotional and heartfelt and sort of made us feel sorry for Michael even though he was a cold hearted villain. This film changed Michaels life a lot because in the first film, he didnt want anything to do with the family business but when his father died and experienced a taste of death, he became a man that none of the Corleone family knew that Michael had inside of him before. The best performance was without a doubt from Robert De Niro as the younger Vito Corleone because Robert pulled off a really good Italian accent for an American. He spoke the Italian language ever so well and he also pulled off a really good raspy voice for Vito Corleone just like Marlon Brando did really well as in the first Godfather. I was unsure about Diane Keaton as Kay Corleone. I think Diane is micast in this film. She is a great actress but I dont think that she is that good in the Godfather trilogy. I liked Lee Strasberg aswell in this film as Hyman Roth. Hyman became the main suspect in the assassination attempt on Don Corleone and his wife. This film is the most emotional and powerful one of the trilogy but I dont think that it is the best of the three. The film ends like nobody is sure whether there will be a third Godfather film because Al Pacino needs to grow older to play Michael and he might lose the touch of his character in which I think he did in the third Godfather. One of my favourite film sequels of all time. A classic phenomenon from Francis Ford Coppola.