Westminster Film Expert Predicts Academy Winners
Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and Public Relations, has made her predictions for the Academy Award winners.
"I believe Brokeback Mountain will get Best Film; its director Ang Lee will get the Best Director award; and it will also get the Best Adapted Screenplay," Mitchell said. "Best Actor will go to Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote. Best Actress will be Felicity Huffman for Transamerica, although this one could be close because Reese Witherspoon is a strong contender for her role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line.
"The Supporting Actor Award should go to Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man and the Supporting Actress will go to Catherine Keener for Capote, although you can never count Frances McDormand out for North Country. Original Screenplay, well this is a tough one, but I'm betting on Good Night, and Good Luck, as a nod to George Clooney."
Mitchell's background includes film studies, literature, composition, public relations, print and broadcast journalism, and advertising. She completed her doctoral work in film studies at Case Western University under the direction of Dr. Louis Giannetti, author of Understanding Movies, Flashback and Masters of the American Cinema. Mitchell's work has appeared in Literature and Film Quarterly and she has presented several papers at national film and literature conferences. She presented her paper on Australian film at the Millennium Film Conference in Bath, England in the summer of 1999 and recently helped initiate the film studies minor at Westminster College. She has written and produced television commercials, television programs, and printed material.
Mitchell's book Diane Keaton: Artist and Icon was published in 2001, and along with Dr. Elizabeth Ford, a Westminster professor of English Emeritus, she co-authored The Makeover in Movies: Before and After in Hollywood Films, 1941-2002.
Contact Mitchell at (724) 946-7030 or e-mail dmitchel@westminster.edu for more information.
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