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The OSCAR nominations!
Topic Started: Jan 22 2009, 02:12 PM (267 Views)
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Benjamin Button leads Oscar field

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has emerged as the frontrunner for this year's Oscars with 13 nominations.

Slumdog Millionaire, from Britain's Danny Boyle, was close behind with 10 nominations, including best film.

Dark Knight and Milk received eight nominations, with the late Heath Ledger receiving a best supporting actor nod.

Meryl Streep scored a 15th Oscar nomination for her role in the film Doubt, alongside Kate Winslet for best actress in Stephen Daldry's The Reader.

Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire are joined by Milk, The Reader and Frost/Nixon as contenders for the coveted best picture prize.


BEST FILM NOMINEES
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Also in contention for the best actress prize are Anne Hathaway, for Rachel Getting Married, Melissa Leo for Frozen River and Angelina Jolie for The Changeling.

Jolie is joined on the nominations list by real-life partner Brad Pitt, who leads the best actor nominations for his role as Benjamin Button - a man who ages in reverse.

Pitt goes head to head with Frank Langella, for his role as disgraced US president Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, Sean Penn, as gay rights activist Harvey Milk in Milk, Richard Jenkins for The Visitor and recent Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler.

The awards will be announced on 22 February at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Best picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire


Best director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk


Best actor
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best actress
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best supporting actress
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best supporting actor
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best foreign language film
Revanche - Austria
The Class - France
The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany
Departures - Japan
Waltz With Bashir - Israel

Best animated feature film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E


Best adapted screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire


Best original screenplay
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Wall-E
In Bruges
Frozen River

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Great movies!

Did anyone see Frost/Nixon?
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Oh I'd be so pleased if Benji Button won!

I am yet to see The Reader and Milk though

There are some really good films out there at the moment. I was looking for some to download a few months ago and it all seemed like bullcrap... but there's a handfull of really exciting ones at the moment
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Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder :lmao:
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Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance" (Paramount Vantage)James Newton Howard
"Milk" (Focus Features)Danny Elfman
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)A.R. Rahman
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney)Thomas Newman


Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

"Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
Lyric by Peter Gabriel
"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)Music by A.R. Rahman
Lyric by Gulzar
"O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
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There was a surprise for Kate Winslet when the nominations for the 81st annual Academy Awards were announced in Los Angeles today. She was nominated in the best actress category for her role as a former SS concentration guard in The Reader - the performance that secured her a best supporting actress gong at last week's Golden Globe awards.

But her performance in Revolutionary Road (which won her the best actress Globe) was snubbed. In fact, the adaptation of Richard Yates's novel of suburban disaffection in 50s America, which was directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes, failed to secure a single nomination.

Winslet's nomination for The Reader was one of four for the adaptation of the novel by Bernhard Schlink – it was also nominated for best picture, best director (Stephen Daldry) and best adapted screenplay (David Hare).

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, which is due to have its Indian premiere tonight, had three nominations: for best adapted screenplay, best director and best picture. The three other films in the running for best picture and best director are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher), Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard) and Milk (Gus van Sant).

Elsewhere, however, Brits did less well than expected when the list of nominees was read out by Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and 2006 best actor winner Forest Whitaker at the Samuel Goldwyn theatre in Los Angeles.

There was no best actress nomination for Sally Hawkins, whose sunny schoolteacher in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky had been expected to pick one up; although Mike Leigh's script did make an appearance in the best original screenplay category – a controversial inclusion, given that Leigh's films are largely the result of improvisation. And although Frost/Nixon picked up a raft of nods, including best picture, best director (Ron Howard) and best actor (for Frank Langella), the passing over of Michael Sheen (as David Frost) was a surprise.

There were raised eyebrows at other parts of the shortlist. Obscure Canadian drama Frozen River bagged two nominations: best actress for Melissa Leo, and best original screenplay for Courtney Hunt, who also directed. Richard Jenkins's critically-acclaimed (but also little-seen) role in immigration weepie The Visitor won him a best actor nomination – at the expense, perhaps, of Clint Eastwood, whose Gran Torino has been a hit with critics and audiences alike over the past month in the US.

The rest of the list was more by the book. As expected, Heath Ledger picked up a best supporting actor nod for his turn as the Joker in Batman sequel The Dark Knight.

The nominations were delayed two days so as not to clash with Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday. The ceremony will take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on 22 February.
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The only Oscar nomination "Revolutionary Road" deserved was for Score. Glad to see it didn't get anything anyway. It's simply not a very good film!
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Very disappointed for Sally Hawkins. As much as I love Meryl, she really doesn't need yet an other nomination for an Oscar that she will not win.
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Indeed. It's also a complete *travesty* that Eddie Marsan(the guy who played the driving instructor) has been totally overlooked by all the major awards too. He was *incredible* in that film.

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Jan 22 2009, 02:25 PM
But her performance in Revolutionary Road (which won her the best actress Globe) was snubbed. In fact, the adaptation of Richard Yates's novel of suburban disaffection in 50s America, which was directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes, failed to secure a single nomination.
That's actually not true. It has a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
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I really feel nothing towards, Revolutionary Road. It didn't even occur to me, the reteaming of DiCaprio and her.

Angelina was absolutely fucking amazing in, Changeling. For some reason though, Meryl slightly trumps it. It is definitely due to bias. I love Meryl to death.

Benjamin Buttons deserves an Oscar, hands down. Although it feels like one of those films that was made for the sheer sake of just getting an Oscar, and feels like a bit unoriginal to give this type of film one in certain respects. But it's undeniably a winner. Brad Pitt deserves to win. He was extraordinary.

Movies are getting way better, now that the independent features are more of the mainstream. They're made first with little money, and then bought by the big companies and distributed. There's more soul these days.

People say that all movies are horrible now, but it's simply because they've been brainwashed for two decades, awaiting the corporate-made CGI films, which they've been taught to deem as brilliant.

Movies today are being made by people who simply want to tell stories, without endless amounts of money backing them to do so.
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Jan 22 2009, 03:00 PM
johnnox
Jan 22 2009, 02:25 PM
But her performance in Revolutionary Road (which won her the best actress Globe) was snubbed. In fact, the adaptation of Richard Yates's novel of suburban disaffection in 50s America, which was directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes, failed to secure a single nomination.
That's actually not true. It has a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
blame the guardian, not me, nigga.
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Jan 22 2009, 02:26 PM
The only Oscar nomination "Revolutionary Road" deserved was for Score. Glad to see it didn't get anything anyway. It's simply not a very good film!
Yeah I was chuffed about that too!

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Jan 22 2009, 02:54 PM
Indeed. It's also a complete *travesty* that Eddie Marsan(the guy who played the driving instructor) has been totally overlooked by all the major awards too. He was *incredible* in that film.

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I agree - his performance was note perfect.
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it seem as if they dont have their affirmative action picks this year
must be a racist year for the academy
i expect the nigs to riot
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i just came across this poster of "the reader'. soooooo neat

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Jan 22 2009, 03:01 PM
Movies are getting way better, now that the independent features are more of the mainstream. They're made first with little money, and then bought by the big companies and distributed. There's more soul these days.
yeah like I said earlier... I was looking for films to download a little while ago and there was nothing... it was seemingly total tripe

But if i go on IMDB now there's a bunch I wanna see! :D
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