Best Picture
Frost/Nixon
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader!!!???
Best Director
Ron Howard
David Fincher
Gus Van Sant
Danny Boyle
Stephen Daldry
Best Actor
Frank Langella
Sean Penn
Brad Pitt
Richard Jenkins
Mickey Rourke
Best Actress
Angelina Jolie
Melissa Leo
Meryl Streep
Anne Hathaway
Kate Winslet - FOR THE READER!!??
Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin
Heath Ledger
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Robert Downey jr.
Michael Shannon!!!???
Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz
Taraji P. Henson
Amy Adams
Viola Davis
Marisa Tomei
Best Original Screenplay
Wall-E
Frozen River
Happy Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Best Cinematography
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
Best Art Direction
The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road
Changeling
Best Costume Design
Australia
Milk
The Duchess
Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
Editing
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Benjamin Button
Makeup
The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
Hellboy II
Score
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
Milk
Defiance
Benjamin Button
Song
Wall-E
Slumdog Millionaire Jai ho
Slumdog Millionaire O Saya
(NO SPRINGSTEEN!!!)
Sound Mixing
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Benjamin Button
Wall-E
Wanted
Visual Effects
The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
Iron Man
Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Wanted
Wall-E
Slumdog Millionaire
Benjamin Button - 13 nominations
The Dark Knight - 8 nominations (And not Best Picture or Director, Shennanigans!)
Slumdog Millionaire - 8 nominations
Milk - 7 nominations
The Reader - 5 nominations
Frost/Nixon - 5 nominations
Wall-E - 5 nominations (amazing for an animated film and no Best Picture, Shennanigans!)
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2 comments:
I'm not sure why you're so surprised with Michael Shannon. He's been getting pretty great reviews in magazines since Revolutionary Road premiered.
Also, I've seen 3 of the 5 best picture nominees and will be seeing the juggernaut this weekend. I have to say...all three I have seen are more deserving of the best picture than Dark Knight. I can't speak for Milk or Button (yet).
I'm pretty surprised that The Reader was nominated, although, judging by the crowd when I saw it (a packed theater of elderly people) and the reception to it, I guess I'm not that surprised.
I wouldn't have put it over Wall-E, but...that's the way the cookie crumbles I guess. Let's here it for the Best Narrative Drama Directed by a White Male nominees.
I heard the buzz about Michael Shannon too, but it had seemingly dissapated. Either way, I'm glad he was nommed instead of not-that-good lead Patel or mediocre James Franco. It's esepscially odd because of the almost entire snub of Revolutionary Road.
As for me, this is a bad year. I like TDK over any of the current nominees (haven't seen the Reader) I was really pulling for Wall-E as well. I think this is a step backwards for the Academy. I feel like we're going back to the days of Best Picure being Best Romantic Drama or Biopic. Only Slumdog Millionaire marks any departure from the dark days of the mid 80's to early 90s thematic homogeny.
Two of the best movies this year were a comic book film and an animated film. Lush locations, famous faces, extensively researched costumes and sets... these things to make the Oscar important: great filmmaking does. Or at least it should.
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