Lemonade Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 I've only seen one of the movies up for Best Picture so I best get my finger out and see the other 4. Heath Ledger has got a Best Supporting Actor nod, which will please a lot of people, and Mickey Rourke for the Wrestler is up for Best Actor, which will also please a lot of people. "Doubt" seems to have a lot of nominations, I've never heard of it, but Philip Seymour Hoffman makes any film watchable, so I'll probably try to see that. Robert Downey Jr for Tropic Thunder is an odd one, as the Academy tends to ignore comedy films. And horror for that matter. Bastards. Where's Johnny Depp's Oscar eh?!?!?!?Best PictureThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best DirectorDavid Fincher The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Stephen Daldry The Reader Gus Van Sant Milk Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire Ron Howard Frost/Nixon Best ActorRichard Jenkins The Visitor Sean Penn Milk Frank Langella Frost/Nixon Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Brad Pitt The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Best ActressAnne Hathaway Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie Changeling Melissa Leo Frozen River Meryl Streep Doubt Kate Winslet The Reader Best Supporting ActorJosh Brolin Milk Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman Doubt Michael Shannon Revolutionary Road Heath Ledger The Dark Knight (posthumous) Best Supporting ActressAmy Adams Doubt Penelope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis Doubt Taraji P. Henson The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei The Wrestler Best Original ScreenplayWALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh Frozen River - Courtney Hunt In Bruges - Martin McDonagh Milk - Dustin Lance Black Best Adapted ScreenplayThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan The Reader - David Hare Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy Doubt - John Patrick Shanley Best Animated FeatureBolt Chris Williams and Byron Howard Kung Fu Panda Mark Osborne and John Stevenson WALL-E Andrew Stanton Best Foreign Language FilmRevanche Austria The Class France The Baader Meinhof Complex Germany Departures Japan Waltz With Bashir Israel Best Animated ShortLa Maison En Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato Lavatory - Lovestory - Konstantin Bronzit Oktapodi - Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand Presto - Doug Sweetland This Way Up - Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes Best Art DirectionChangeling James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo The Dark Knight Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando The Duchess Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway Revolutionary Road Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt Best CinematographyChangeling Tom Stern The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Claudio Miranda The Dark Knight Wally Pfister The Reader Chris Menges, Roger Deakins Slumdog Millionaire Anthony Dod Mantle Best Costume DesignAustralia Catherine Martin The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Jacqueline West The Duchess Michael O'Connor Milk Danny Glicker Revolutionary Road Albert Wolsky Best Documentary FeatureNerakhoon (Nerakhoon) Encounters at the End of the World The Garden Man on Wire Trouble the Water Best Documentary ShortThe Conscience of Nhem En The Final Inch Smile Pinki The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306 Best Film EditingThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall The Dark Knight Lee Smith Frost/Nixon Mike Hill, Dan Hanley Milk Elliot Graham Slumdog Millionaire Chris Dickens Best Live Action ShortOn the Line (Auf der Strecke) Manon On the Asphalt New Boy The Pig Toyland (Spielzeugland) Best MakeupThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button Greg Cannom The Dark Knight John Caglione, Jr. and Conor OSullivan Hellboy II: The Golden Army Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz [edit] Best Original ScoreThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button Alexandre Desplat Defiance James Newton Howard Milk Danny Elfman Slumdog Millionaire A.R. Rahman WALL-E Thomas Newman Best Original Song"Down to Earth" from WALL-E Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman (music), Peter Gabriel (lyrics) "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire A. R. Rahman (music), Gulzar (lyrics) "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire A. R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam Best Sound EditingThe Dark Knight Richard King Iron Man Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes Slumdog Millionaire Tom Sayers WALL-E Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood Wanted Wylie Stateman Best Sound MixingThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten The Dark Knight Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick Slumdog Millionaire Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty WALL-E Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt Wanted Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montao, Petr Forejt Best Visual EffectsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron The Dark Knight Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin Iron Man John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan Jean Hersholt Humanitarian AwardJerry Lewis Films with multiple nominations13 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 10 Slumdog Millionaire 8 The Dark Knight, Milk 6 WALL-E 5 Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader 3 Changeling, Revolutionary Road 2 The Duchess, Frozen River, Wanted, The Wrestler, Iron Man 81st Academy Awards nominees and winners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 Ugh, wonder what the odds are on Ledger winning the posthumous best supporting actor are... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 I'm gutted at the lack of Best Actor nomination for Clint Eastwood. I changed my avatar for nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 robert downing junior?? is that cause no one could believe it was him cause he was black?Never really paid much attention to the oscars who normally decides on what should be nominated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Where's Johnny Depp's Oscar eh?!?!?!?For what?! Playing the same cookey-goth character in Tim Burton's "films"?Burton used to be great ('Edward Scissorhands', 'Mars Attacks' etc), but is a shitey parody of himself now, same for Depp. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 For what?! Playing the same cookey-goth character in Tim Burton's "films"?Burton used to be great ('Edward Scissorhands', 'Mars Attacks' etc), but is a shitey parody of himself now, same for Depp.I agree with you on Burton. He hasn't made a decent film since Ed wood and yet is still every goth's hero. (Might have to rewatch Mars Attacks, remeber it being pish apart from Jack Nicholson) Depp is still a legend in my eyes though. Can't stand pirates of the caribean but he was great in the first one. He was good in that peter pan one too.As for the Oscars... Can't believe Gomorrah didn't get nominated. It is excellent. Saying that, I haven't seen the other films in the foreign language category.Whilst we're on the topic... Does anyone remember the Oscars show a few years back presented by Jonathan Ross with guests Ronni Ancona and Rob Brydon? I remember it being one of the most cringeworthy television shows ever. Ancona was acting all pissed up and Brydon was ripping into her at every opportunity while Ross was taking the piss out of Brydon. It totally messed with my head because I couldn't figure out whether it was all just a bit of 'schtick' or whether they all genuinely fell out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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