Oscarwatch has posted their forum award (INOCA) nominations

http://www.oscarwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13190

Lots of Kong love (11 tying with BBM).

Four nominations for Downfall, wow!

You know, I wouldn't mind if the Academy thinks like them.

Kong and 2046 - wow.

2046?

Damn, Kilcher didn't sneak in.

2046 is good, but it's not *that* good.

Would have prefered to see Constant Gardener or something.

All of you should follow the example at nominate Bruno Ganz at the awards here as well!

and here is their perfect picked category, IMO.

BEST ACTRESS
• Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
• Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
• Keira Knightley, Pride and Prejudice
• Naomi Watts, King Kong
• Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Pretty good nominations yes. As a INOCA voter myself, you can partially hold me responsible for the Kong love and of course for Ganz nomination in Best Actor.

That said, you should definitely participate in voting the WOKJ Movie Awards! : )

Oscarwatch posters are my enemies. ENEMIES. Except Sasha and Engin and Xiayun, they are cool.

What's with the love for 2046? It looked strong in the art/direction department, but the WOM here seemed to suggest it was just OK.

Nice to see a mix up of different movies from abroad, though. And I like the love for Kong, which really was a great blockbuster.

But all I want to be is your... friend?

Oscarwatch taught me how to hate sigs.

I've lurked there for like I dunno... how long as the site been there.

Isn't the same since The Mistress left

Woohoo Kong...

Hopefully I contributed to Downfall's success too.

Now I kind of regret that we combined so many categories in our WOKJ awards.

At least Sasha's Kong campaign worked on her own people.

This sentence can be interepreted as...

"Let's all celebrate how horrible the Oscar nominations are going to be this year!"

Me too, especially with the art direction category and costumes category not existing by their own...but it will still be great and there is always room for improvement in the future. : )

And good job for voting for Downfall!!! : )

and, IMO, a big BOO to the Best Actor Nominations for leaving out DS in Good Luck and Good Night.

It's a close call, but I too preferred Strathairn to Fiennes.

Precisely. The combination of the design categories was a really terrible call because it really downplays all of the talent and effort that really makes movies so great. Bigger items like Geisha and smaller films like 2046 really loose their chance to shine.

I can't complain about the nominations this year at all. Even if Capote gets a BP nomination, the other 4 (Brokeback Mountain, Walk the Line, Crash, and Good Night, and Good Luck) all got identical A- grades from me, and they all appear to have mucho support across the board from the majority that have seen them.

Oscarwatch's lack of focus this season was definitely something that I noticed. They were all over the map without a clear idea of much more than what they wanted to happen, not what everything pointed to. Not only the Kong stuff that was being preached by them, but they were the main culprits that were preaching that Munich, a movie that wasn't even finished and nobody had seen a frame of, was somehow the frontrunner to "win it all" over films that had been seen and getting high marks.

Sasha Stone and David Poland were both God awful this year, and it's like they've never followed this stuff before. I doubt it very seriously that I'll give much weight to their Oscar winner picks or their nominations picks next year if I see anymore of those shannanigans. They're supposed to be objective, but their picks and crusades have been full of personal bias this year.

I really agree. Who advocated for the categories to be merged together? I guess it's all opinion, but I think we should have kept them the same. People were more worried about making the awards more mainstream, but we're a movie fanatic site! We don't need to, heh.

Oh well. I might still send in a ballot anyways, but I dunno. I personally haven't seen enough films anyways. I thought the awards would start late February, early March, since I thought people were talking about having time to see smaller films and such. *shrug*

Anyways, before I get too offtopic, I really like these noms!

I would have taken Viggo out of Best Actor and put David Straihairn there. I'm very happy to see Ralph nominated!!

PEACE, Mike.

Mike, these awards were started rather early so the same thing as last year doesn't happen to the same extent (that the awards will simply mimic the Oscars). Also, there is still time till February 15th. I should be the first to complain actually, considering that living overseas, I won't even get to see many flicks because of release dates, but I am still fine with that deadline. For those living in the US, it should not be much of a problem to catch most flicks before the deadline.

On another note, you should really watch Downfall, Mike : )

Overall great nominations. The lack of love for Goblet of Fire is pathetic, though.