And the Oscar goes to the Oscar! (Academy Awards (Oscars))

Member Name: sajjadali2008

Product:	Academy Awards (Oscars)
Date:	23/01/09 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Brillant nominations

Disadvantages: Whats different to oscar than a GG SAG awards

Ask me a year ago and i would have said that the Oscar was widely useless and a award that didnt mean as much as people and actors think it does. Ask me now, and i would say it's the best award a movie actor or actress can get, not only will their profile be raised and they be entitled to a more generous salary but they will gain acclaim, status and would be offered more better roles in future.

Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker, Reese Witherspoon etc

With the Oscar nominations annouced today i thought it fitting to review the system. A great system but is it a conicidence that the Oscar and SAG wins are the same as the Oscars, are the right people invited to vote from the industry, i heard Jennifer Aniston is a voter hmmmm and Steve Carell? hmmmmmmm - but over the years the Oscar awards have honoured a good diversity of different movies and i tend to mostly agree, they manage to make five films have brillant exposure and showcase to me movies i'd like watch, i plan to watch all five of this years Best Picture nominations at the least.

The nominations annouced today....where quite biased towards Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button and i was abit bemused why the same sort of movies where up for Screenplay, director, acting, producing and best picture etc

Best Film
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

A good combination, Well done Oscar! I think Slumdog Millionaire has this in the bag, strangely i can see Milk winning in a twist. I think there might be a suprise win?

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

I think Danny Boyle will win this easily.

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

I think Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler will win very easily, Brad Pitt i mean come on! he is not a GREAT actor sorry....i think Sean Penn could be a suprise winner

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

Heath Ledger will win this, the others can almost not turn up! it's not even competitive competition apart from Hoffman.

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

Suprised no double nomination for Kate Winslet as i thought but then she would have lost because of splitting the vote. Kate Winslet will win! 100% sure of it

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

I can see Penelope Cruz winning this quite easily.

Adapted Screenplay
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
David Hare - The Reader
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire

Tough one, i think Slumdog Millionaires got this sewn up

Original Screenplay
Courtney Hunt - Frozen River
Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter - WALL-E

I think Milk will win this not any of the others!

Animated Feature
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E

I want Kung Fu Panda but surely WALL-E will win?

Art Direction
Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Tough one but i think Dark Knight will/should win. Jolie v Pitt ha ha ! but they'll both lose...

Cinematography
Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

See the same movies again, this gets pointless! Dark Knight to win.

Costume Design
Australia
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Button's got this me thinks. Or Revolutionary road?

Documentary Feature
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters At The End Of The World
The Garden
Man On Wire
Trouble The Water

I thin maybe The Garden cause it sounds good not seen anyone of them though LOL!

Documentary Short
The Conscience Of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness - From The Balcony of Room 306

The Witness, it sounds better LOL! sorry not seen this

Editing
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Isnt it great Dark knight up for actor, producing directing etc etc and its not up for best picture. Editing wise i thin Millionaire will win

Best Foreign Language Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Departures
Austria
Waltz With Bashir

Waltz with Bashir will win no contest

Makeup
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Dark Knight LOL! cause you cant beat it????

Original Score
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
James Newton Howard - Defiance
Danny Elfman - Milk
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Thomas Newman - WALL-E

I think Slumdog will win this of course, top score
Original Song
'Down to Earth' - WALL-E
'Jai Ho' - Slumdog Millionaire
'O Saya' - Slumdog Millionaire

Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Sound editin Dark knight the best but i think WALL-E will get this

Sound Mixing
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Wall E how is this different from the above category LOL!

Visual Effects
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Dark Knight no contest, i am sure it'll win this one

Animated Short
La Maison de Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Not heard of them but i think La Maison got a better chance?

Live Action Short
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon On The Asphalt
New Boy
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Spielzeugland (Toyland)

I think New Boy might win sounds clever.


what a great set of nominations but mainly the same movies up for lots of different nominations?

Summary: Academy Awards now in its umpeeth year and better than ever