What A Great Year For Movies, It Was…
Below, is the list of the best films of the year, according to the ‘Members of the Academy’…The “Best Picture” Oscar Nominees. One of them will win an Academy Award, on February 22, 2009.
Following, on the list, are all the other Oscar categories, and their respective nominees. (I use that word ‘respective’, respectfully! All of them are important to the industry, even though the rest of the world may not be as familiar with their category, or job…)
Yesterday, I posted the Oscar Nominees for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress Categories. (Click here for that Hollywood Actor Prep Oscar Nom Cheat Sheet…It’s printable, also…)
For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting quite a bit on the Academy Awards 2009. My focus, of course, will be the acting performances that are under Oscar consideration.
I also have some thoughts on these “Best Picture Nominees”: what films made the list, and those that didn’t. The surprises, and the expectations.
There’s a lot of stuff to talk about…So stay tuned, and stay involved!
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OSCAR CONTENDERS LIST
Best Picture: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire.
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.
Foreign Film: The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany; The Class, France; Departures, Japan; Revanche, Austria; Waltz With Bashir, Israel.
Adapted Screenplay: Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; John Patrick Shanley, Doubt; Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon; David Hare, The Reader; Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire.
Original Screenplay: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River; Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky; Martin McDonagh, In Bruges; Dustin Lance Black, Milk; Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter, WALL-E.
Animated Feature Film: Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, WALL-E.
Art Direction: Changeling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Duchess, Revolutionary Road.
Cinematography: Changeling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire.
Sound Mixing: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Slumdog Millionaire, WALL-E, Wanted.
Sound Editing: The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Slumdog Millionaire, WALL-E, Wanted.
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.
Original Song: “Down to Earth” from WALL-E, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; “Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman and Gulzar; “O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam.
Costume: Australia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Duchess, Milk, Revolutionary Road.
Documentary Feature: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), Encounters at the End of the World, The Garden, Man on Wire, Trouble the Water.
Documentary (short subject): The Conscience of Nhem En, The Final Inch, Smile Pinki, The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306.
Film Editing: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire.
Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Animated Short Film: La Maison en Petits Cubes, Lavatory — Lovestory, Oktapodi, Presto, This Way Up.
Live Action Short Film: Auf der Strecke (On the Line), Manon on the Asphalt, New Boy, The Pig, Spielzeugland (Toyland).
Visual Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Iron Man.
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“A movie star, and the rest….”
Anybody ever seen the vintage TV show, “Gilligan’s Island”?? Remember the song from that show? I do!
Catchy; it described all the people who were on the show…
“A movie star, and the rest, are here on Gilligan’s Island!”
Well, the movie stars are listed on my prior post. All the rest, (all the categories that are ‘bathroom breaks’ for the rest of the country, while, in the industry, they are very important artists….are on this one. )
Except for the Best Picture Winner, of course.
NO one in the world takes a bathroom break during that Oscar envelope opening? Do they?
I don’t think anyone I know even eats during that moment. Even if famished.
Let me know on Twitter… In the meantime, I’m going to listen to some modern music….
…Because, I can’t get the theme from Gilligan’s Island outa my head…
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Best,
;*Dana
