kittypimms

Oscar Wins:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound Mixing
Best Adapted Screenplay

My Thoughts:

Trivia:
The first Best Cinematography Oscar winner to be predominantly shot in digital. This is also the first Best Picture Oscar winner since 1928 not to be shot on Kodak film (35mm segments were filmed on Fuji stocks).

Why? You ask …

I’m trying to live a more active lifestyle, and whilst doing a class at the gym the other day, I found myself struggling after about 7 push-ups.
It seemed like everyone else was just breezing through effortlessly (and half the class was doing them on their toes, not the modified knee version!) whilst I huffed and puffed and then gave up after about 12.

I want to be able to comfortably do 20 push-ups and not feel like a fool in my Body Attack class!

The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006).

Oscar Wins:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Adapted Screenplay

My Thoughts:
Wow. That’s all I can say right now. The Departed was screened on TV last night and it was the first time I had watched it. Damn, I wish I had seen it a lot sooner.

Brilliantly shot and about time Scorsese won for Best Director! I could go on forever about the use of colour, the use of landscape and space.

Every actor is this film just nailed their performance. Damon and Di Caprio should both have definetely received Oscar nods as they were freaking amazing. And yay for Mark Walhberg who was just hilarious and spot-on and was incredibly worthy of his own nomination (I feel Wahlberg is massively underrated).

Trivia:
This is the movie with the most uses of the word “fuck” and its derivatives (237) to win the Best Picture Oscar.