November 17, 2008

The Dark Knight Begins The Crusade for Best Picture!

With this FYC Ad:
will it happen?
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM

    Can and will happen. Unless the remainder of the season sets up to plate, The Dark Knight is going to outshine the competition for miles. This is where I see the top 5, along with 5 runner ups

    Top 5:

    The Dark Knight
    The Curious case of Benjamin Button
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Milk
    Revolutionary Road/Australia

    Runner Ups:

    The Wrestler
    Frost/Nixon
    The Reader
    Doubt
    Gran Torino


    Australia needs reviews. Milk has been getting good reviews since the premiere, Slumdog Millionaire is still at 90 something percent on RT, Benjamin Button is supposedly getting a lot of buzz. Revolutionary Road is generating interest. So far, The Dark Knight and Slumdog Millionaire are the only two that seem safe at this point.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 17, 2008 at 5:52 PM

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Should WIN
    Picture
    Director
    Supp Actor
    Adapted Screenplay
    Cinematography
    Score
    Editing
    Sound Mixing
    Sound Editing

    And be nominated for

    Supp Actor: Aaron Eckhart
    Supp Actress: Maggie Gyllenhaal
    Makeup
    Visual Effects

    The best Movie, of the year, the decade and the best movie ever to come out since I've been alive!!!

    -Andrew

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  3. AnonymousNovember 17, 2008 at 6:31 PM

    Hey, I just wrote a post on my blog about why The Dark Knight WILL be nominated for Best Picture. Check it out here: http://entertainmentblur.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/darkknight-best-picture/



    I fully agree with neo78056 as my early picks for Best Picture are: The Dar Knight, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, and Revolutionary Road.

    But I really don't believe The Dark Knight will win. It'll be the public favorite since it'll be the most viewed film of the nominees (just like Juno last year), but I can't see TDK taking home the award.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 17, 2008 at 8:32 PM

    This film is overrated! I like it...but the best picture of the year? no...a nomination for Best picture yes...

    WALL-E was the most critically acclaimed movie of the year, it deserves a nomination...

    I think Rotten Tomatoes is not good for Oscar predicting…Changeling was great...56% RT! 8.1 imdb...

    Revolutionary Road review!

    The Hollywood Reporter’s review is a bit negative…
    Variety: Revolutionary Road” is a very good bigscreen adaptation……Winslet’s perf is less surprising….”

    If i had the control:

    Changeling
    Australia
    Wall-E
    The curious case of Benjamin Button
    Slumdog millionaire/TDK

    but my prediction:
    Australia
    The curious case of Benjamin Button
    Slumdog millionaire
    TDK
    Milk

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  5. Joey MagidsonNovember 17, 2008 at 9:54 PM

    Some good points my friends....my predicted 5 and 5 runner ups would be:
    -Nominees
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    Milk
    WALL-E
    The Wrestler
    -Runners Up
    Australia
    Gran Torino
    Rachel Getting Married
    Revolutionary Road
    Slumdog Millionaire

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  6. AnonymousNovember 18, 2008 at 12:17 AM

    Wall-E, while great, is not going to be nominated for Best Picture. Here's why.

    When the Academy created the Best Animated Feature Category, it was for two big reasons.

    1. The backlash from film purists who were up in arms about Beauty and the Beast being nominated for Best Picture.

    2. So that great films like Wall-E and other great animated films would not have to compete with live action films. If they put Wall-E in the Best Picture shortlist, it would never have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. But in the Best Animated Feature category, it can still win a prestigious award without having to deal with voter prejudice against animated films.

    Plus, if they nominated it for both, it would basically be like admitting that their categories were redundant an unnecessary, and would completely undermine the point of having a Best Animated Feature category in the first place. Isn't it better that The Dark Knight AND Wall-E can be nominated for oscars, rather than having to choose between one or the other? Buzz is also important, and honestly, despite the FYC ads and dvd release this week, the Best Picture buzz is fading faster than a speeding bullet. Critics talked about it initially, but I haven't heard a peep about it since. The Dark Knight, on the other hand, is still being talked about, more than three months since the film's release. Plus, the dvd will be released in early December, as well as a theatrical re-release just before oscar ballouts are cast. The Dark Knight will be nominated for Best Picture, end of story.

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  7. Joey MagidsonNovember 18, 2008 at 12:20 AM

    my only main issue with the arguement against WALL-E is that if a foreign film can be nominated in the foreign film category and for Best Picture, why can't an animated film do so as well?

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  8. AnonymousNovember 18, 2008 at 2:17 AM

    A good point, but the foreign language category has been around for a lot longer than the animated film category, and as we've seen before, only very rarely has a foreign film been nominated in both categories (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was the last one I can remember).

    However, the foreign language film category is so screwy in its eligibility process and whatnot that its hard to make an argument about the logic of nominations using the foreign language film category as a reliable example.

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  9. Matthew BarkerNovember 19, 2008 at 3:43 AM

    Whether or not it should happen, I don't think it will. Remember - they voted Shakespeare in Love best picture a few years back.

    And then, who would have thought Gangs of New York, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist or The Hours, would lose out to Chicago for Best Picture!

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