{"id":181,"date":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/idol-chatters-handydandy-oscar.html"},"modified":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","slug":"idol-chatters-handydandy-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/idol-chatters-handydandy-oscar.html","title":{"rendered":"Idol Chatter&#8217;s Handy-Dandy Oscars Refresher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/Statuette.jpg\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Now that the winners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/bfa\/\" target=\"_new\">Beliefnet Film Awards<\/a> have been announced (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/bfa\/\" target=\"_new\">click here<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t seen them yet), we can finally turn our attention wholeheartedly those <span style=\"font-style: italic\">other<\/span> awards, which are being given out Sunday night. Since there&#8217;s not a lot of time between now and then, we thought it would be helpful to remind you of all that Idol Chatter&#8211;and Beliefnet generally&#8211;have had to say about the Academy Awards. (These links will all pop open a new window, so just close that page to return here.)<\/p>\n<p>For starters, check out Kris&#8217;s predictions of who will&#8211;and who should&#8211;take home the top honors on Sunday night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/and-oscar-goes-to.html\" target=\"_new\">by clicking here<\/a>.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>Best Picture Nominees<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kris heaped praise on &#8220;Crash&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/02\/crash-on-collision-course-with-oscar.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Doug gave props to &#8220;Good Night, and Good Luck&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/02\/current-reality-in-living-black-white.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Donna generated lots of discussion with her thoughts on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2005\/12\/forbidden-love-that-lasts-lifetime.html\" target=\"_new\">Brokeback Mountain<\/a>,&#8221; which you can find here. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/01\/what-passion-effect.html\">Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/01\/standing-between-left-right-on.html\" target=\"_new\">Kris<\/a> also weighed in on &#8220;Brokeback)\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/181\/story_18137_1.html\" target=\"_new\">Saul Austerlitz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/181\/story_18160_1.html\" target=\"_new\">Shmuley Boteach<\/a> debated &#8220;Munich&#8221; here. And Michael offered his proverbial two cents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/01\/wanted-more-hate-in-munich.html\" target=\"_new\">here.\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nobody wrote about &#8220;Capote&#8221;: Does that make it the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">least<\/span> spiritual of the nominees? (Our sister Beliefnet blog Chattering Mind did discuss Truman Capote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/chatteringmind\/2005\/11\/capotes-christmas-memory.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Best Foreign Film<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael wrote about one of the Best Foreign Film nominees, &#8220;Sophie Scholl: The Final Days&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/02\/martyrs-death.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Hala Shah interviewed the director of &#8220;Paradise Now&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/178\/story_17800_1.html\" target=\"_new\">here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, Paul <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/01\/what-passion-effect.html\" target=\"_new\">asked here <\/a>whether the success of &#8220;The Passion&#8221; has had any noticeable effect on Hollywood. (And Kris responded to him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/02\/hollywood-church-dont-blame-everything.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy watching! And please let us know what you think by using the comments link below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the winners of the Beliefnet Film Awards have been announced (click here if you haven&#8217;t seen them yet), we can finally turn our attention wholeheartedly those other awards, which are being given out Sunday night. 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