The Academy Awards

[Paradox]

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

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

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

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"

Best 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"

Best Foreign-language 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
Alexandre Desplat, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
James Newton Howard, "Defiance"
Danny Elfman, "Milk"
A.R. Rahman, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Thomas Newman, "WALL-E"

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 Design
"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"

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

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

They really messed up on the Best Picture nominations, there were a lot of more enjoyable movies they could have placed there. So I was wondering about the thoughts of the .Org's movie-goers. Are the academy awards just a sham or are the nominations fair and unbiased? Did The Dark Knight deserve an Oscar nomination or is it just a comic book movie that has no place in the Oscars? Oh and, Robert Downey Jr for best supporting actor!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The dark knight should be in there for sure, but the oscars have always been amusingly pretentious. Half the fun is waiting for the inevitable award winner who chokes up while talking about how working on his movie really made him feel for the plight of blind/deaf/handicapped people or whoever.

Everyone knows robert downey is a great actor though

[Ronin]

ohhh really?...the Oscars are coming again?

let´s see how much I care about the Oscars and other awards...for movies or music



it´s not looking good.


The best movie of the year is whatever movie you liked more.....for the studios it´s gonna be which one made more money.

who cares about some statues?

[Hooahguy]

the dark knight should have gotten a nomination for best picture. b/c they didnt, i couldnt care less about the awards. its a sham. seriously, how could you not give an award to the film that, IIRC, is the 2nd highest grossing movie of all time?

also, 'the reader", which got horrible reviews, is high up there? what?

[PanzerJaeger]

The last couple of years they've complained about ratings, but its pretty easy to see why they've been in the crapper. Unless Frost/Nixon turns out to be a blockbuster in the few theatres it will be played at - which it won't - Button is the only grossing movie on the list. Nobody is going to tune in to see whether Slumdog, which was decidedly not brilliant, has a good night.

[KukriKhan]

ohhh really?...the Oscars are coming again?

let´s see how much I care about the Oscars and other awards...for movies or music



it´s not looking good.


The best movie of the year is whatever movie you liked more.....for the studios it´s gonna be which one made more money.

who cares about some statues?

[Hooahguy]

The last couple of years they've complained about ratings, but its pretty easy to see why they've been in the crapper. Unless Frost/Nixon turns out to be a blockbuster in the few theatres it will be played at - which it won't - Button is the only grossing movie on the list. Nobody is going to tune in to see whether Slumdog, which was decidedly not brilliant, has a good night.

actually, slumdog was really good.
and so was gran torino.

[Ronin]

the dark knight should have gotten a nomination for best picture. b/c they didnt, i couldnt care less about the awards. its a sham. seriously, how could you not give an award to the film that, IIRC, is the 2nd highest grossing movie of all time?

also, 'the reader", which got horrible reviews, is high up there? what?

well...considering that the number 1 grossing movie of all time is that titanic turd I don´t see why being the 2nd should guarantee it an oscar nomination

[Hooahguy]

well...considering that the number 1 grossing movie of all time is that titanic turd I don´t see why being the 2nd should guarantee it an oscar nomination

good point...

[Scurvy]

well...considering that the number 1 grossing movie of all time is that titanic turd I don´t see why being the 2nd should guarantee it an oscar nomination

I quite liked it.... but yeah, they have to balance ratings with quality...

I wanted Wall-E to be nominated for Best Picture (my favourite of the year) but happy enough with the lineup...

The Dark Knight was good, but not as good as Batman Returns, or Benjamin Button\ Slumdog Millionaire but was much better than The Reader, so maybe should have been nominated over that (havn't seen the other 2) - I thought it was about 45mins too long.... and Heath Ledger is a shoe-in for the best supporting actor (competition --> Robert Downey Jr.)

[Lemur]

Any list of best movies of 2008 that doesn't include Wall-E lacks credibility for me. But really, who watches the Academy Awards anymore? I can't take three hours of Hollywood congratulating itself.

[Paradox]

also, 'the reader", which got horrible reviews, is high up there? what?

They probably stuffed that in there due to their false sense of entertainment. Even The Wrestler wasn't nominated, and after seeing it, I doubt The Reader was a better movie.

And I agree that Wall-E should have been nominated for Best Picture, it's an animated masterpiece.

[a completely inoffensive name]

The Academy Awards are such a joke sometimes.

[King Jan III Sobieski]

Does anyone really care? Really? I don't. I couldn't care less if Frank Langella or Heath Ledger wins some award or another. I still have to wake up the following morning and carry on with my miserable life.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Sad apathy is sad.

[desert]

As the Sith illusions in KOTOR 2 once said, "Apathy is death."

"Apathy is death."

[a completely inoffensive name]

I would give you a balloon for mentioning KOTOR (one of the best RPG series), but I have none of my own to give to you.