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    Smile 81 Academy Awards nominations and (later) awards

    Full list of 81 Academy Awards Nominations (from michalz00 post, this should be now in first post, below you can find link to article which was here before):

    BEST PICTURE
    The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
    Frost / Nixon
    Milk
    The Reader
    Slumdog Millionaire

    BEST DIRECTOR
    David Fincher
    Ron Howard
    Gus Van Sant
    Stephen Daldry
    Danny Boyle

    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 SUPPORTING ACTOR
    Josh Brolin, Milk
    Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
    Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
    Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
    Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

    BEST ACTRESS
    Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
    Angelina Jolie, Changeling
    Melissa Leo, Frozen River
    Meryl Streep, Doubt
    Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
    Amy Adams, Doubt
    Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Viola Davis, Doubt
    Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
    Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    Frozen River
    Happy Go Lucky
    In Bruges
    Milk
    Wall-e

    BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
    Doubt
    Frost/Nixon
    The Reader
    Slumdog Millionaire

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
    Der Baader Meinhoff Complex
    The Class
    Departures
    Revanche
    Waltz with Bashir

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
    Bolt
    Kung Fu Panda
    Wall-E

    BEST ART DIRECTION
    Changeling
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    The Duchess
    Revolutionary Road

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Changeling
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    The Reader
    Slumdog Millionaire

    BEST SOUND MIXING
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    Slumdog Millionaire
    WALL-E
    Wanted

    BEST SOUND EDITING
    The Dark Knight
    Iron Man
    Slumdog Millionaire
    WALL-E
    Wanted

    BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
    Defiance, James Newton Howard
    Milk, Danny Elfman
    Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman
    WALL-E, Thomas Newman

    BEST ORIGINAL SONG
    "Down to Earth" -- WALL-E, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
    "Jai Ho" -- Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman and Gulzar
    "O Saya" -- Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

    BEST COSTUME
    Australia
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Duchess
    Milk
    Revolutionary Road

    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
    The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
    Encounters at the End of the World
    The Garden
    Man on Wire
    Trouble the Water

    BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
    The Conscience of Nhem En
    The Final Inch
    Smile Pinki
    The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306

    BEST FILM EDITING
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    Frost/Nixon
    Milk
    Slumdog Millionaire

    BEST MAKE-UP
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    Hellboy II: The Golden Army

    BEST ANIMATED SHORT-FILM
    La Maison en Petits Cubes
    Lavatory — Lovestory
    Oktapodi
    Presto
    This Way Up

    BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT-FILM
    Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
    Manon on the Asphalt
    New Boy
    The Pig
    Spielzeugland (Toyland)

    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    Iron Man

    This was here before nominations:

    Few days before nominations announcement I've found an interesting article about it. My choice of nominations is quite similar.

    BTW. Look at the bottom of the article.

    Full article you can found here
    Last edited by Mithrandir01; 01-22-2009 at 12:18 PM.


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    As much as I would love to see it happen, I don't think TDK is going to get a BP nod.
    You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together.

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    Don't be so pesimistic. Remember, Academy want to have big viewership. Last time was big with The Return of The King. Why? Because everyone watched it or just heard about it. Same situation we have today. Blockbuster with many nominations... With BP nod... A lot of people will watch the ceremony till the end.

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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 13 Nominations
    Slumdog Millionaire - 10 Nominations
    Milk - 8 Nominations
    The Dark Knight - 8 Nominations
    WALL-E - 6 Nominations
    The Reader - 5 Nominations
    Frost/Nixon - 5 Nominations
    Doubt - 5 Nominations

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    What happened to Revolutionary Road

    It's a better film than most on the list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harvey View Post
    What happened to Revolutionary Road
    Academy usually don't like movies which shows bad sides of American Dream.

    @michalz00 - I've quoted list of nominations in first post. Hope you don't mind Dear Friend...

    No Best Picture and Best Director nominations for The Dark Knight and Christopher Nolan is the biggest Academy mistake. With this two noms, they would have biggest ceremony viewership ever. But of course this isn't one and only reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harvey View Post
    What happened to Revolutionary Road
    I actually was wondering that, too. I figured Kate would be nominated for it (even though she is nominated for The Reader) and I am very surprised that it wasn't nominated for Best Picture and Director...

    I do like the fact that Benjamin Button is nominated though. I thought it was an excelent, well made film. Loved the score to it, the directing, the acting, the editing. It was like a nice little bedtime story.

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    My first bad opinions:

    BP - The Reader, Frost/Nixon out, WALL-E and The Dark Knight in
    BDir - Ron Howard? Come on! Just well directed. Christopher Nolan in his place.
    Actress - 1. Where's Kate in Revolutionary Road? Her best performance ever! 2. Where's Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky? Unbelivable...
    Animated - Walz with Bashir instead of Bolt
    Costumes - Joker's costumes deserves nomination
    Foreign - Where's "Let the right one in" from Sweden?
    Music - OMGod! What a choice - Defiance by James Newton Howard is just OK, same with Milk score by Danny Elfman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mithrandir01 View Post
    @michalz00 - I've quoted list of nominations in first post. Hope you don't mind Dear Friend...
    No problem (I have deleted my post, so there is no confusion).

    As for nominations. I must be the happiest person here This is Fincher year at last. I know what all Dark Knight fans feel (I was feeling the same thing last year when Zodiac was snubbed...).

    If one of those other guys nominated for Best Director wins over Fincher, I will hate them for life

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    Go Benjamin Button, Go!!



    Anne Hathaway got nominated?

    WTF?


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    Nominations trivia...

    The Nominations Sidebar

    This year’s most nominated film is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with thirteen nominations. This is one short of the current record of fourteen nominations held by two films, All about Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997).

    With her sixth nomination for Best Picture (for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Kathleen Kennedy has tied the record for nominations for individual producers in the category. Since 1951, when individual producers rather than companies were first cited in the Best Picture nominations, only two other producers, Stanley Kramer and Steven Spielberg, have received six nominations. Kramer never won the award; Spielberg won in 1993 for Schindler’s List. Kennedy has yet to win. Only two other women have more than one Best Picture nomination: Julia Phillips (two nominations, including one win) and Fran Walsh (three nominations, including one win).

    With her fifteenth nomination this year, Meryl Streep extends her lead as the most nominated performer. Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson are tied at twelve nominations each.

    Heath Ledger, who died one year ago on January 22, 2008, is the sixth performer to receive a posthumous nomination. The others were James Dean (Actor, East of Eden, 1955, and Actor, Giant, 1956); Spencer Tracy (Actor, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967); Peter Finch, the only posthumous acting winner to date (Actor in a Leading Role, Network, 1976); Ralph Richardson (Actor in a Supporting Role, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, 1984); Massimo Troisi (Actor in a Leading Role, The Postman (Il Postino), 1995).

    In the acting categories, nine individuals are first-time nominees. Five of the nominees (Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep and Marisa Tomei) are previous Oscar® winners.

    Supporting Actor nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman is the only performer who was also nominated last year (for Charlie Wilson’s War).

    At 33, Kate Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is the youngest performer to receive six nominations. The previous record holder was Bette Davis, who was 34 when she received her sixth nomination in 1942, for Now, Voyager.

    Frank Langella is the second actor nominated for playing former President Richard Nixon. Anthony Hopkins was nominated for his performance in Nixon (1995).

    For the fifth time since 1944, when the number of nominations in each category was standardized at five, the Directing and Best Picture nominations have honored the same five pictures. This has happened in 1957, 1964, 1981 and 2005.

    The two Original Song nominations for Slumdog Millionaire represent the third and fourth nominations for songs that are not in the English language. “Ave Satani,” from The Omen, nominated in 1976, is entirely in Latin. The Spanish-language “Al Otro Lado Del Río,”
    from The Motorcycle Diaries, won the Oscar in the category in 2004.

    Waltz with Bashir (Israel) is the first animated film to be nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.

    Lora Hirschberg is the third woman nominated in the Sound Mixing category. The others are Anna Behlmer (nine nominations) and Pud Cusack (one nomination).

    Andrew Stanton is the fourth person to have more than one nomination in the Animated Feature Film category. He joins John Lasseter, Hayao Miyazaki and Brad Bird, all of whom have two nominations in the category.

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    they forgot Cate Blanchett


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    First reactions you can find here and here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by j7wild View Post
    they forgot Cate Blanchett

    They forgot about a lot!

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    Exclamation

    Quote Originally Posted by Mithrandir01 View Post
    They forgot about a lot!
    you are right buddy!!



    Clint Eastwood had 2 excellent films in 2008!!



    they forgot him!!


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