[NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)

[Okri]

1. Preserve Richard Burton

2. Preserve Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in B/W Cinematography

3. Preserve Fantastic Voyage in Visual Effects.

[FilmFan720]

Group 2: 7 Women replaces The Fortune Cookie in Black-and-White Cinematography.

Group 3: 7 Women replaces Mister Buddwing in Back-and-White Art Direction.

Umm, that's a color movie Magilla

[Cinemanolis]

Group I
Innokenti Smoktunovsky "Hamlet" replaces Steve McQueen

Group II
Editing: Seconds replaces The Fantastic Voyage

Group III
Art Direction Color: The Chase replaces Sand Peebles



Edited By Cinemanolis on 1290114760

[OscarGuy]

Group 1: Preserve Liz Taylor
Group 2: Preserve Virginia Woolf in Adapted Screenplay
Group 3: Preserve Virginia Woolf in Art Direction

[Big Magilla]

Hustler is away until Sunday.

Group 1: Sylvie in The Shameless Old Lady replaces Anouk Aimee in Best Actress.

Group 2: 7 Women replaces The Fortune Cookie in Black-and-White Cinematography.

Group 3: 7 Women replaces Mister Buddwing in Back-and-White Art Direction.

[Sabin]

pass.

[Big Magilla]

Group 2: Adapted Screenplay, replace The Professionals with The Shop on Main Street.

File this under "learned something new today":

I had thought The Shop on Main Street was an original screenplay, but according to Wikipedia it was published in short story form by the screenwriter several years earlier.

[dws1982]

Group 1: Preserve Ida Kaminska in Best Actress.

Group 2: Adapted Screenplay, replace The Professionals with The Shop on Main Street.

Group 3: B&W Costume Design, preserve The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

[FilmFan720]

Belated 1999 Tallies:

NODS:
10: Talented Mr. Ripley
6: The End of the Affair; Eyes Wide Shut; Fight Club; The Sixth Sense
4: American Beauty; Being John Malkovich; eXistenZ; Three Kings
3: Magnolia; The Matrix; Titus; Topsy Turvy

CHANGES
+6: Eyes Wide Shut
+5: Fight Club; The Talented Mr. Ripley
+4: The End of the Affair; eXistenZ; Three Kings
-3: Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace
-4: The Green Mile; American Beauty
-5: The Insider
-7: The Cider House Rules

[The Original BJ]

Sorry, FilmFan.

1. Replace The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming in Best Picture with Blow-Up.

2. Replace The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming in Best Film Editing with Blow-Up.

3. Replace The Oscar in Best Color Art Direction with A Man for All Seasons.

[rain Bard]

group 1: replace Claude Lelouch with Jean-Luc Godard for Masculine-Feminine.

group 2: replace original screenplay to A Man And A Woman with Loves Of A Blonde, screenplay by Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer and Vaclav Sasek.

group 3: add The Sword of Doom to sound effects.

[FilmFan720]

GROUP 1: Preserve Alan Arkin
GROUP 2: Preserve The Russians Are Coming in adapted screenplay (this is a movie I love, and can picture being an early victim in the game).
GROUP 3: Add Blow-Up to Sound Effects Editing

[OscarGuy]

Film Fan leads off 1966.

[Big Magilla]

Preserve Haley Joel Osment.

[Okri]

Okay, I see that there's a slot available in best director, but it says locked. On the presumption that it's not locked....

Replace Michael Mann with David O'Russell, Three Kings. He may be an asshole, he may get into fist fights with George Clooney, but his handling of this war film is top notch.