Academy Award Nominaaa....yawn...

Batutta

Batutta

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I've never been more disinterested in the outcome of these awards. None of the Best Picture nominees are films I will watch again come several years time. The only film released last year that I think will become a classic worthy of my repeat viewing time is The Dark Knight, and it got the shaft. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it was the most satisfying piece of entertainment I'd seen. And The Wrestler didn't get a best picture nom either!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_en_tv/oscar_nominations
 
Richard Jenkins got a nod??

I liked the Visitor, but as a category nom he was pure filler even for the Spirit awards. If he decided to skip the Oscars I'm not sure the presenters would even notice. The Visitor was a good role and well acted, don't get me wrong, but it's not groundbreaking like Rourke, Penn, or (from what I've heard) Langella.

The Batman snubs are irksome, but not surprising. The Revolutionary Road snubs are surprising, at least to me.
 
MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin)
“Frost/Nixon” (Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner)
“Milk” (Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen)
“The Reader” (nominees to be determined)
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Christian Colson)

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
David Fincher, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Ron Howard, “Frost/Nixon”
Stephen Daldry, “The Reader”
Gus Van Sant, “Milk”

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”

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”


PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams, “Doubt”
Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Viola Davis, “Doubt”
Taraji P. Hensen, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler”

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Josh Brolin, “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr, “Tropic Thunder”
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt”
Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Courtney Hunt, “Frozen River”
Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Martin McDonough, “In Bruges”
Dustin Lance Black, “Milk”
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docte, “Wall-E”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Eric Roth, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
John Patrick Shanley, “Doubt”
Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon”
David Hare, “The Reader”
Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire”

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Bolt” (Chris Williams and Byron Howard)
“Kung Fu Panda” (John Stevenson and Mark Osborne)
“WALL-E” (Andrew Stanton)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“The Baader Meinhof Complex” (Germany)
“The Class” (France)
“Departures” (Japan)
“Revanche” (Austria)
“Waltz With Bashir” (Israel)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath)
“Encounters at the End of the World” (Werner Herzog)
“The Garden” (Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
“Man on Wire” (James Marsh)
“Trouble the Water” (Tia Lessin, Carl Deal)

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Down To Earth” (WALL-E)
“Jai Ho” (Slumdog Millionaire)
“O Saya” (Slumdog Millionaire)

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC (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

ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
“The Dark Knight,” Lee Smith
“Frost/Nixon,” Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
“Milk,” Elliot Graham
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Chris Dickens

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Changeling,” Tom Stern
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Claudio Miranda
“The Dark Night,” Wally Pfister
“The Reader,” Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Anthony Dod Mantle

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
“Changeling,” James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
“The Dark Night,” Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
“The Duchess,” Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
“Revolutionary Road,” Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
“Australia,” Catherine Martin
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Jacqueline West
“The Duchess,” Michael O’Connor
“Milk,” Danny Glicker
“Revolutionary Road,” Albert Wolsky

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
“The Dark Knight,” Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
“Iron Man,” John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
“The Dark Knight,” Richard King
“Iron Man,” Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Tom Sayers
“WALL-E,” Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
“Wanted,” Wylie Stateman

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
“The Dark Knight,” Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
“WALL-E,” Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
“Wanted,” Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Greg Cannom
“The Dark Knight, John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“The Conscience of Nhem En,” Steven Okazaki
“The Final Inch,” Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
“Smile Pinki,” Megan Mylan
“The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306,” Adam Petofsky, Margaret Hyde

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“La Maison de Petits Cubes,” Kunio Kato
“Lavatory - Lovestory,” Konstantin Bronzit
“Oktapodi,” Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
“Presto,” Doug Sweetland
“This Way Up,” Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Auf der Strecke” (On the Line),” Reto Caffi
“Manon on the Asphalt,” Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
“New Boy,” Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
“The Pig,” Tivi Magnusson, Dorte Høgh
“Spielzeugland” (Toyland), Jochen Alexander Freydan
 
Wow!!! I can't believe Robert got nominated... I never thought the Academy would nominate a spoof movie like Tropic Thunder, good movie and nomination well deserved. But we all know who's gonna win that award for best supporting actor.
 
capitalP said:
W...I can't believe Robert got nominated... I never thought the Academy would nominate a spoof movie like Tropic Thunder, good movie and nomination well deserved. But we all know who's gonna win that award for best supporting actor.
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It should have been Brendan Gleeson.

Benjamin Button is good, but it ain't 13 nominations good. That just goes to show how weak the year was.

I am pulling for Frost/Nixon
 
I pretty much agree with Battuta. I don't feel passionate enough about any of those nominees to care much this year. Was it sort of a mediocre year in film?

I was relieved Dark Knight wasn't nominated for best picture at least. I enjoyed it. Watched it twice. But it's still just another superhero movie to me.

Interesting that the Editing noms all just mirror the Best Picture nominations. It's like no one in the Academy really gets what editors do, so the Best Editing has to be in the Best Pictures right? :-)
 
i believe, and could be wrong, that only editors nominate editors and then the entire academy votes on a winner from those five.
 
Ah. That might be true. I just sometimes think the "Best Editing" in reality is probably on a movie that was just sorta okay, because if not for the editor "saving it in post" it would have been awful. Heheh.

Guess I have to see The Reader. Looked so uninteresting... Anyone seen it?
 
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Josh Brolin, “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr, “Tropic Thunder”
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt”
Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road”
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I would imagine this is down to Hoffman and Ledger. Hoffman was better (as can usually be said). But there will probably be a lot of momentum behind Ledger.
 
I think that these people who makes the nominations need to see alot more films. I wonder how many films they actually see? Every year it seems they pick from this little pool of movies? I am not surprised.

On a side note, I don't quite understand how Slumdog Millionaire qualifies for best picture and not best foreign? I also don't understand how it gets nominated anyway. It was fun, I guess, but best picture? Slumdog Milliionaire is like City of God if it was made by network executives.
 
I can't believe that Bruce Springsteen wasn't nominated for Best Song. But two of the songs from Slumdog Millionaire were nominated?
 
David Jimerson said:
I would imagine this is down to Hoffman and Ledger. Hoffman was better (as can usually be said). But there will probably be a lot of momentum behind Ledger.
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I have to disagree on this one, Shannon's role in RR was quite possibly the best supporting performance I've ever seen. I know that's a leap but man, it completely knocked my socks off and proved how far an actor who is truly consumed by his character can take a role. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!
 
It's hilarious that Robert Downey Jr. got a nod for playing a character who was an Oscar darling. Of course TT wasn't a serious film, but Downey was amazing in his role.
 
It's always good to see a comedic performance go up for an Oscar. I'm going to have to agree with the thread title. The yawn part, that is. 2008 was pretty boring. Especially compared to 2007, which was the exact opposite. I couldn't be any less interested in The Reader and Forst/Nixon. Benjamin Button was okay. Milk, Slumdog, and The Wrestler are the only other seemingly interesting movies of '08, next to Dark Knight, and The Wrestler and Dark Knight got snubbed quite a bit, although Dark Knight did get a good amount of nominations.
 
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