And here we go:
-BEST PICTURE
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
The Wrestler
-BEST ACTOR
-BEST ACTOR
Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
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
-BEST ACTRESS
Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Meryl Streep - Doubt
-BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
James Franco - Milk
-BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
-BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Vera Farmiga - Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Kate Winslet - The Reader
-BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
-BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
-BEST DIRECTOR
-BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant - Milk
-BEST WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay)
-BEST WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay)
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
-BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
-BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir
-BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)
-BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)
Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross - The Reader
Dev Petal - Slumdog Millionaire
Brandon Walters - Australia
-BEST ACTION MOVIE
-BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wanted
-BEST COMEDY MOVIE
-BEST COMEDY MOVIE
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
-BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
-BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
John Adams
Recount
Coco Chanel
-BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
-BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I’ve Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol
Waltz With Bashir
-BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
-BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
I.O.U.S.A.
Man On Wire
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young At Heart
-BEST SONG
-BEST SONG
“Another Way to Die” (performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, written by Jack White) - Quantum of Solace
“Down to Earth” (performed by Peter Gabriel, written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman) - Wall-E
“I Thought I Lost You” (performed Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, written by Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele) - Bolt
“Jaiho” (performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar) - Slumdog Millionaire
“The Wrestler” (performed by Bruce Springsteen, written by Bruce Springsteen) - The Wrestler
-BEST COMPOSER
-BEST COMPOSER
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
Danny Elfman - Milk
Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
-Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button lead the way with 8 nods, 6 for The Dark Knight, Doubt, and Slumdog Millionaire...thoughts?
Posts
Revolutionary Road and Gran Torino were most hurt here...everything else seemed to do rather nicely
ReplyDeleteI must say its great to see Wall-e amongst the best films of the year. Well deserved. Shocked at Winslet snub
ReplyDeleteRevolutionary Road seems to be getting shut out by everyone, a sign to come maybe?
ReplyDeleteI am pleased with the buzz that Clint's picking up for his performance in Gran Torino...I'd really like to see him finally get recognized for his criminally unrewarded career. It'd be really cool to see him get nominated for Best Score too...
ReplyDeleteWHAT??? where is kate winslet?????
ReplyDeleteLet us remember that into the wild had a ton of nods last year and took away nothing.
ReplyDeletewhat just happened? Kate Winslet is poised to be this year's Cate Blanchet by having 2 noms... come on!! changeling wasn't that good... hopefully GG,SAG,AA will think slightly differently
ReplyDeleteI didn't believe it at first, but it seems like Robert Downey Jr. has to be seriously considered for a nomination this year. I'll have to wait for the Globes and SAG first (the latter means more to me), but it would be totally awesome if he got nominated for that role.
ReplyDeleteSo far I have seen no love for Revolutionary Road whatsoever. Very curious.
ReplyDeleteThe WALL-E nod for Best Picture is pleasantly surprising, but I'm not holding my breath for it to win or for that trend to continue.
I'm not sure why everyone is panicking that Winslet got snubbed, she got a nod is Supporting for The Reader, which has always looked like the more awards-friendly role. Overall I'm very pleasantly surprised by how well the Reader and Doubt did, given their respective flagging buzz.
I'm not sure what to think about Downey anymore. On the one hand, he's amazing, period, and deserves to win for something. Also, he was unflinchingly the best part of Tropic Thunder, and transcended his genre and could well be a contender. I guess my real reservation is that outside his performance, I found Tropic Thunder very underwhelming and somewhat weak of a movie (and I know I'll be in the minority here). After his fantastic body of work, I'd be a tad bummed if he ended up going back to the ceremony for the first time in coming up on two decades for a movie that didn't meet his performance halfway. But that's just my take. Still rooting for him to get it.
Sally Hawkins is disappearing and it's pissing me off...
ReplyDeleteit's a definitely interesting list
ReplyDeleteI must say I am loving the love for DOUBT here. Not many people are predicting it to get nominated for best picture... I think it's on the fence right now. I think that Benjamin Button, Milk, The Dark Knight, and Slumdog Millionaire are all locks already, and with Wall-E taking the LAFCA for best picture, I think that Doubt and Wall-E will fight it out for the fifth spot. I am really hoping for Doubt to show up, though. An acting masterclass, amazing and enthralling.
ReplyDeleteAlso, remember that no movie that has been nominated for three acting oscars went unnominated in the picture category.
I would be fine with Wall-E as well, though.
I do not want to see Wall-E get nominated for Best Picture. It will win its own category and that is fine with me. I am looking forward to the Curious Case of Benjamin Button more and more each day, Slumdog Millionaire and Milk were both fantastic films, The Dark Knight was unbelievable. I would love to see those four get nominated with possibly The Reader, Doubt, or even Frost/Nixon. But what is the deal with Revolutionary Road? I was so excited before, now I have little expectations...
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that whoever voted on these nominations had not seen Revolutionary Road yet. That is the only assumption I can come up with because it got ZERO nominations.
ReplyDeleteBack in 1982, Victor Victoria got three acting nominations, but no Best Picture (Julie Andrews, Robert Preston and Lesley Ann Warren were nominated). That's the only example I can think of off the top of my head.
ReplyDelete