Official 81st Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) Thread

[lostnfound]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of the movies yet (only clips). But it seems to me that Anne Hathaway has been getting a lot of buzz.

I read on JustJared that the GoldenGlobe website accidentally labeled Anne Hathaway as having won Best Actress on the nominees list. They promptly fixed the "error."

Maybe she won... We'll find out tonight.

 

[justndav]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

I think its an absolute joke that Vicky Christina Barcelona beat out Mamma Mia for Best Comedy/Musical. How MM cannot win in a musical category and against those other pictures is a mystery. I get so sick of these people who vote for these awards. I dont know beyond the awards for Adams on HBO that I agree with any of the choices.
This is the same kind of thinking that will likely prevent Milk from winning and the same attitude that gives us best picture for Crash and not Brokeback Mountain.

 

[JarodA]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

The Golden Globes were pretty good. Nice to see Colin Farrell get some love (not that he wouldn't get plenty of that anyway ), and Kate Winslet with her double-dipping of course. Mickey Rourke looks like he deserved it for "The Wrestler", and Heath got it of course. So I've got no complaints really.

 

[grantt]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

I predict that this time the Oscars will NOT rubberstamp the Golden Globes, except Heath Ledger is a likely repeat.

 

[xyboyms]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

Slumdog Millionare needs to sweep it all except for......

......Best Actress which MUST go to the incredible Kate Winslet.

She's been due for a loooooooong time.

 

[translation]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

Best Picture--Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor--Mickey Rourke
Best Actress--Meryl Streep
Best Supporting Actor--Heath Ledger
Best Supporting Actress--Kate Winslet
Best Director--Gus Van Sant

 

[Paxton]

List of 2009 Academy Awards nominees

Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Sean Penn (Milk)
Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Kate Winslet (The Reader)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Josh Brolin (Milk)
Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams (Doubt)
Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)

Best Achievement in Directing
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 Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Frozen River
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Milk
WALL·E

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Achievement in Editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Best Achievement in Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL·E

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
"Jai Ho" (Slumdog Millionaire)
"O Saya" (Slumdog Millionaire)
"Down to Earth" (WALL-E)

Best Achievement in Sound
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL·E
Wanted

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL·E
Wanted

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL·E

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Germany)
Entre les murs (France)
Revanche (Austria)
Okuribito (Japan)
Vals Im Bashir (Israel)

Best Documentary, Features
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

Best Short Film, Animated
Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Best Short Film, Live Action
Auf der Strecke
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland

 

[thevofl]

Re: List of 2009 Academy Awards nominees

Lame. Lame. Lame.

 

[Paxton]

Re: List of 2009 Academy Awards nominees

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" leads Academy Awards contenders with 13 nominations, among them Best Picture and acting honors for Brad Pitt and Taraji P. Henson, and a directing slot for David Fincher.

"Slumdog Millionaire" comes in second with 10 nominations, including a directing spot for Danny Boyle and two of the three song slots.

The largest blockbuster in years, "The Dark Knight" had eight nominations, but other than Heath Ledger's honor, its scored only in technical categories such as cinematography, visual effects and editing.

 

[sonny10305]

Re: List of 2009 Academy Awards nominees

Great thread, thanks for putting that together

I loved Benjamin Button, it should do very well.

 

[Ontariobear]

Re: List of 2009 Academy Awards nominees

Thanks for the list. Pretty safe and predictable. The Boss didn't get Best Song nod despite winning the Golden Globe in the same category.

 

[Paxton]

Re: List of 2009 Academy Awards nominees

Thanks for the list. Pretty safe and predictable. The Boss didn't get Best Song nod despite winning the Golden Globe in the same category.

The Best Song nominees, except for Peter Gabriel's "Down to Earth", are rather lame. Bruce Springsteen's "Working on a dream" is by far the best song for a motion picture released last year.

 

[joshz88]

Re: 81st Annual Academy Award Nominations

If I got to choose the nominations, it would have gone something like this:

Best Picture: Benjamin Button; Slumdog Millionaire; WALL-E; The Dark Knight; In Bruges

Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk; Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler; Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon; Josh Brolin, W; Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actress: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road; Meryl Streep, Doubt; Julianne Moore, Blindness; Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But The Truth; Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight; Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading; James Franco, Milk; Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt; Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Doubt; Viola Davis, Doubt; Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading; Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona; Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight; Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire; David Fincher, Benjamin Button; Gus Van Sant, Milk; Charlie Kauffman, Syndecdoche, NY

Also, I think they should have had 5 nominees for best original song, adding in "I Thought I Lost You" from Bolt and Springsteen's "The Wrestler." Those two seemed like shoo-ins for a nomination and did deserve a nomination.

 

[grantt]

Re: List of 2009 Academy Awards nominees

Robert Downey, Jr.'s nomination is a joke.

I'll be rooting for Meryl Streep and Viola Davis.

Robert Downey Jr. is a comeback story that Hollywood loves. The film was hillarious, but no Oscar noms, please. Ledger will get his oscar early in the show, then we can turn the channel........

 

[gaz1978]

Re: 81st Annual Academy Award Nominations

I think that the increasing numbers of Brits in the academy is what helps good-but-not-great films like Slumdog and the Reader into Best Picture.

The reporting of these nominations here was a disgrace. I had to go online to see what they were because all I heard was the word "brit" 435 times during the news.

And quite how Springsteen's "The Wrestler" didnt get a nomination is beyond me. Was there a better film song last year? Not one I heard.

 

[gaz1978]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

I think its an absolute joke that Vicky Christina Barcelona beat out Mamma Mia for Best Comedy/Musical. How MM cannot win in a musical category and against those other pictures is a mystery.

VCB was an original film that took creativity and skill to write and direct.

Mamma Mia was a lazy jukebox musical that could have been made by anyone, such was the creative vacuum it exists in.

 

[wastingmymind]

Re: The 2009 Academy Awards.

Slumdog
Rourke
Winslet
Ledger
Davis (although Cruz will probably win)

I'm not sure about director yet, but GVS seems better than Boyle.

 

[Blueboy369]

Academy Awards, Oscar Winners LEAKED!

Hello Boys,
A top secret letter that should not have been made public has leaked. Included are all of the names of this Sunday's Oscar winners! If you want to know who wins Best Picture and all the rest of the major awards, Here you go:

http://pinkisthenewblog.com/home/2009/02/has-the-winners-list-for-this-years-academy-awards-leaked/

 

[Blueboy369]

Re: Academy Awards, Oscar Winners LEAKED!

Damn, just when I started getting excited for Mickey Rourke & Slumdog Millionare. I do hope they take home the gold on oscar night.

 

[gsdx]

Re: Academy Awards, Oscar Winners LEAKED!

The Oscars have tighter security than Fort Knox. There are 'leaks' every year.