The 79th Academy Awards will be presented tomorrow on ABC-7 beginning at 5:30 PM. If you are not planning to attend the annual Academy of Friends Gala or the special Oscar party at the Balboa Theatre, then watching it on TV may be your only option (if you are an Oscar fanatic).
The Queen has been nominated for six Oscars: Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Achievement in Costume Design, Achievement in Directing, Achievement for Music Written for Motion Pictures (original score), Original Screenplay and finally ... the big one ... Best Motion Picture of the Year.
I saw The Queen and enjoyed it, but I did notice a number of inaccuracies between the Hollywood Queen and the real Buckingham Palace Queen. I visited the IMDb web site (Earth's biggest movie database) and found a number of documented goofs made by Hollywood. Here they are. Enjoy.
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Continuity: The Queen takes two black dogs and they get into her Landrover. When she gets out of the Landrover in the forest, telling Prince Charles that she will walk back to Balmoral, she lets three black dogs out.
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Anachronisms: When Blair is in his study surrounded by books using a telephone, a copy of "Carter Beats the Devil" is visible which wasn't first published in Britain until 2001. The film is set in 1997.
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Anachronisms: When Tony Blair is riding to the airport in the back of his Jaguar, in the background you can see a Mercedes Benz S-class with an 02 number plate (ie March-August 2002). There also appears to be an out-of focus 52 plate (September 2002-February 2003) later in the same scene. At this point in the film it is 1997.
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Anachronisms: In the first scene where Blair is talking to the Queen, when she puts down the phone he hears the old pulse dialing tone, this was phased out by BT, in London, long previous to 1997 when the film is set.
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Anachronisms: At the end of August the heather on the hills of Scotland would be in full bloom, so it was obviously filmed earlier in the year.
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Anachronisms: While in the back of his car, Tony Blair takes a call on his mobile phone from the Lord Chamberlain. Blair's handset is a Nokia 6210 which was not released until 2001 (four years after the film was set).
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Crew or equipment visible: In the scene in which the queen disables her Rover in the riverbed and is stranded, alone, when she opens the car door you can very clearly see in the window the reflection of a man looking on from the shore.
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