Wall-E is on a roll.
Thanks to Jack K for sending in, source: Rope of Silicon
The complete list of winners is listed below.
Best Picture: WALL•E and Slumdog Millionaire (tie)
Best Actor: Sean Penn for Milk and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler (tie)
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Director: Gus Van Sant for Milk and Paranoid Park
Best Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black for Milk
Best Cinematography: Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li for Paranoid Park
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Foreign-Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Animated Film: WALL•E
Best Film Editing: Chris Dickens for Slumdog Millionaire
Best New Filmmaker: Martin McDonagh for In Bruges
Best Ensemble Cast: Tropic Thunder
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Sure Wall-E is on a roll, but Slumdog Millionaire ain’t doing bad either.
SALLLLLLY!!!!
Going by critics’ awards thus far, one can assume WALL-E and Slumdog Millionaire are the Best Pic faves. So, too, Sally Hawkins for Best Actress.
And, I suppose, Penelope Cruz for Support: she would seem to be this year’s Amy Ryan (but we know how that tale ended come Oscars). And again I ask, why?
Okay, the Disney people really need to use all this to their advantage. Wall-E’s campaign needs a boost.
EDIT: I was going to call Sally this year’s Amy Ryan. I can’t see her winning the Oscar, even with all this support from critics.
Sally Hawkins is doing so good with these. If the movie gets a bigger release and some promotion it could do very well at the box office.
I think if anyone is on a roll it appears to be Sally Hawkins. She’s looking more and more like a likely winner everyday…
Also the Best Ensamble for Tropic Thunder is highly confusing. Especailly considering that many of the other movies this year were Ensambles too, and far better than TT
Well it’s only the critics, though.
Heads up– voting with the New York Film Critics Online has completed, with Slumdog taking the top prize and several others. I’m sure the official announcement will be out shortly– I just got back from voting myself.
Oh, and notch one more for Sally Hawkins!
Idd, strange Tropic Thunder call. Also, is there any threat for Penelope Cruz? She’s won everything to date. I thought Winslet was supposed to be a strong contender in this category.
Btw, didn’t WALL-E also get a NBR nom? I don’t see it on the right.
I remember that I started Oscarwatching back in 2001, and I remember seeing Mullholland Drive winning lots of critics’ awards, but we all know how that ended. Then again, I don’t think I need to tell anyone here that the critics’ groups aren’t gospel, even if they are USUALLY a good indicator. Though I would love to see Wall-E in the final 5, I wouldn’t bet on it.
Wall-E is getting stronger each day, as is Sally Hawkins and Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder.
But I don’t see Wall-E making it to the final lot.
To me, the top 5 will be Benjamim Button, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight and Frost/Nixon.
I really don’t understand this much love for Sally…Am I the only one??? She is not bad but the best????
I don’t think WALL-E is going in the final five. This is another big win for Slumdog, though, but even more so for Milk (Director, Actor, Screenplay)
Tropic Thunder, best ensemble? Wow.
Am I the only one that thinks our top 5 has come down to Button, TDK, Slumdog, Milk (agreed upon mostly) and Frost/Nixon and Wall-E fighting for that last spot?! It would be such a welcome surprise to see Wall-E get it, even if that pushed out TDK. One or the other makes me happy, BOTH makes me ecstatic
the one thing about sally compared to streep,winslet,blanchett,hathaway,leo,beckinsale,knightley,williams,jolie & scott thomas is that she is happy and upbeat its a performance we havent seen this yr or in previous years and i am now wondering with streep and winslet underwhelming whether she can win!!!
Um, should we start SERIOUSLY (re)considering Wall-E for BP? I mean, the roll it’s on, plus the BFCA list? Not to mention, gasp, it deserves the nod?
I still think the list will end up like this:
CURIOUS CASE
FROST
MILK
SLUMDOG
and hopefully TDK though I think RR may sneak in
But man, what I would give to have a list that included both TDK &
WALL-E.
Amazing. A movie that is really not that much better than Pixar’s other films is sweeping the critics awards. I’m really quite shocked.
Sally Hawkins probably isn’t this year’s Amy Ryan, but the two have some undeniable similarities. Just as Ryan introduced doubt into the Supporting Actress race last year when Blanchett seemed to have it won, Hawkins is shaking things up this year in a currently overcrowded Actress race. She’s been winning over a huge amount of major contenders. Yet, this is just the thing. There’s so many of them trailing her lead and, to be honest, Hawkins isn’t looking likely for the Oscar win. Once the nominations come out, it could all switch in favor of, say Streep.
On the other hand, Penélope Cruz really does seem to be sweeping up like Ryan. But didn’t so many of us see it coming? So does Cruz have it won outright? Well, no. Because what about Kate Winslet? I agree with Johan; once upon a time, she was looking strong for a win. She could very easily win the Globe…
Remember when Julianne Moore swept the critics awards for Far from Heaven? In fact, remember when Far from Heaven was one of the critics’s favorite films of the year, possibly even their complete favorite? Just a thought…
Up Sally
kate,
did rachel getting married get anything? was anne hathaway close for actress?
Re: Mark, ‘Winslet underwhelming’
Do you mean in The Reader? Because Winslet is just as fierce, brave and passionate in Revolutionary Road as she has ever been. I’d certainly nominate her ahead of Jolie, Hathaway, Hawkins and Scott Thomas.
This is yet another affirmation of the greatness of MILK, winning three of the top Boston Film Critics Awards, and a concensus building for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and the animated WALL-E.
This is also further affrmation of the rather dismal critical awards showing by BENJAMIN BUTTON, essentially an over-rated (by preview) film that, in the tradition of FORREST GUM, is really just a well-mounted ball of fluff.
When acknowledging genuine greatness, look foremost to the New York Film Critics Circle, the second oldest and most venerable of the critical bodies. They’ve been consistently right on target for the whole of their history, with preferances for bona fide masterpieces standing the test of time, whether opting for CITIZEN KANE over HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY in 1941 or HIGH NOON over AMPAS’ horrendous choice of THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH in 1952; likewise in 2005 with the selection of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN over CRASH.
If one makes that list as the year’s best, that’s really the ballgame as far as imprimatur–not the long ago tainted AMPAS Oscars and the rather frivolous (this year more so than ever) HFPA Golden Globes.
The best of the year, quite obviously: MILK (NYFCC have the headiest seal-of-approval and should weigh the most), with SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE a close runner-up, and WALL-E supreme as an animated choice.
THE READER, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, FROST/NIXON, and DOUBT–the first two very much critical mixed bags, and the latter two rather staid filming of acclaimed plays–are clearly also-rans.
However, expect both AMPAS and HFPA to confer BUTTON with their top award–being the feel-good ball of fluff; the FORREST GUMP (both adapted by Eric Roth) of 2008.
But, like CITIZEN KANE, HIGH NOON, and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN before it, expect MILK, long after many homophobes are ancient history, to prevail brilliantly in the annals of time.
Revolutionary Road is hardly “a critical mixed bag.” It still has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes…
I still don’t think Sally Hawkins is a lock even for a nomination.
Juggernaut Streep, Winslet, Hathaway, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jolie, Leo, Blanchett. I could see ANY of those 7 women beating out Hawkins.
I mean, we’re talking AMPAS here, aren’t we? They’re not critics.
And all of the above 7 women have lots of friends in SAG, as well.
I always like it when the winner of the big prize doesn’t follow the logic of who won the other categories. Case in point, here Milk is decided to have the best acting, writing, and direction of the year, but it is not the best movie.
I’m glad Gus Van Sant is being honored. Especially after the Golden Globes weirdness.
I just saw Happy-go-lucky and Sally Hawkins totally deserves all the awards she’s been getting. Great Performance.
SAG, are elected by friendship instead performance?
that bad!!!
Sally good one of the best or the best of the year
I have mixed feelings about these results. I just saw “Milk” for the first time yesterday, and let me just say, wow. I mean, wow. It was a terrific film with a great script, wonderful direction, and wonderful acting. I was very glad to see Sean Penn win for his terrific performance, and Dustin Lance Black for his equally terrific screenplay (I was also satisfied to see Gus Van Sant win for Director. The only other film I’ve seen of his was “Good Will Hunting”, which was also loved by me). But….. C’mon. “Wall-e” and “Slumdog Millionaire” for Best Picture? “Wall-e” was a well-made film with some clever messages, especially for a movie that’s primarily aimed at children, but just because it’s a great children’s movie, I wouldn’t necessarily call it a great movie. And as for “Slumdog”, sure, the film had a unique, stylish, colorful look that managed to work with the film’s story, which had some clever jabs against the social classes of India, but the story itself was also pretty conventional. I am concerned that “Slumdog” will win Best Picture at the Oscars as it’s winning most of the critic awards (look at last year’s winner, “No Country for Old Men”), and because it’s not my personal favorite film of the year. But neither was “Wall-e” nor “Milk”. The best film I’ve seen so far this year is “The Dark Knight” (congrats to Ledger by the way), as it features a story that’s deeper than your average superhero movie, and made with more care and consideration than say, “Spider-Man 3″. It’s highly likely “The Dark Knight” will get nominated for Picture, but I hope it wins.
WALL-E is not a children’s film, Alex, and I’m glad the critics are agreeing.
Re: 25. John
Jolie got a SAG nod last year (A Mighty Heart) and deservedly so, but no Oscar love. And her perf in Changeling was not as good as that.
And if Blanchett was lucky to be nominated for The Golden Age, she would be even luckier to get a nod for Benjamin Button; I just don’t think she does anything noteworthy in BB.
I think Sally Hawkins has a better than good shot at an Oscar nom; actors know acting and know just how tricky that role was.
Wall-E’s a great movie in spite of being a children’s movie. It’s smart, and passionate, and beautiful, and endearing and it speaks universal truths about compassion and understanding that are missing in almost all movies, let alone children’s films.
I really hope Wall-E gets in that top 5.
Fair enough. I think Sally Hawkins will be IN, too. I just think the possibility for a freak upset is there, as well.
Ya know, nothing says ‘endearing’ like a clumsy robot. Seriously, I think Wall-e’s third act was pretty damn conventional. So much, I laughed at a lot of what Auto, the sudden villian of the film, kept saying (i.e., Not Possible) in that monotonous voice. Wall-e could’ve been a great movie, but the last act was too conventional and pedestrian for my tastes. As for The Dark Knight… well, that certainly couldn’t be called pedestrian or conventional. Same goes for Milk.
P.S. Dr. Strangelove, I love that movie. Just as relevant today as it was 45 years ago.
predicted top 5
curious case of benjamin button
the dark knight
milk
slumdog millionaire
wall-e
Penélope Cruz is not this year’s Amy Ryan…
Amy Ryan is not a star and she was not in a Woody Allen movie: two things that make a HUGE difference in an Oscar race.
I’m sorry, I still think it’s ridiculous that people think that Wall-E is some masterpiece and better than almost every movie out this year.
However, judging from what’s been going on recently, the top 5 at the Oscars are going to end up being either one of these lists:
List 1:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Milk
List 2:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
P.S. I thought the ensemble casts in The Dark Knight and Milk were better than the one in Tropic Thunder. I’m also glad to see Let The Right One In getting recognition, as well as Gus Van Sant.
Alright. I’m going to be one of the first to CALL Wall-E AND The Dark Knight making the AMPAS top 5, knocking out the well-liked but not loved Frost/Nixon and Revolutionary Road. (Gran Torino or The Wrestler may by that stage sneak in and overtake the fluff of Button, but I’m not calling that one yet…)
CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, THE
DARK KNIGHT, THE
MILK
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
WALL-E
bowie, i’ve only noticed that 3 of us think wall-e and tdk will make the top 5. me, u, and chris. but he made 2 lists. so it could be considered only me and u so far on these boards
If Cruz’ Volver nomination had been last year, I would say that she was a lock for a nod and the win this year. However, I’m not yet convinced. That said, this year’s nominees will probably include Cruz, Viola Davis and Kate Winslet. But beyond that I expect to be surprised (as usual) by the Academy’s picks.
im hoping that the voters realize winslet’s perf in the reader, is actually a LEAD perf and not a supporting one.
“Feel-good ball of fluff”?
Larry, that characterization of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads me to doubt that you have actually seen it, as well as Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, WALL-E, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Frost/Nixon, Doubt, Forrest Gump, Citizen Kane, How Green Was My Valley, High Noon, The Greatest Show on Earth, Brokeback Mountain and Crash — all films you cite in your sermon above.
I was going to post the same thing, Winston…
I have nothing against Kate and I really hope she wins an Oscar someday but this category fraud situation is not fair for other performances that truly belong to the Supporting category, like Elsa Zylberstein for example…
The critics didn’t bought the Winslet-Reader-Supporting thing and I hope the Academy does the same thing.
I don’t understand why these critics circles are overlooking “Tell No One,” which was well received by most critics when it was first released earlier this year. I mean, really, “Let the Right One In” is the BEST foreign film this year??!! If the Academy of Arts and Sciences is often criticized as having a short-term memory, then these so-called savvy critics should also start taking some ginko biloba
I don’t understand why Sasha Stone and Kris Tapley suddenly put Blanchett at the top of their prediciton lists.
I mean, TCCOBB is not exaclty an actor’s film and she’s not the central character. Do they really think she’s gonna win for this ?
I read a lot of reviews on countless blogs and in various newspapers and nothing indicated that it was a sure-to-win-an-Oscar type of performance.
When it comes to Winslet, it seems to me that she’s hurt by 2 things :
- category confusion
- the critical reception for The Reader is… not very enthusiastic to say the least. I just checked metacritic and it’s not looking good
How about a Supporting Actress nominees list such as:
Hiam Abbas – The Visitor
Viola Davis – Doubt
Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Misty Upham – Frozen River
Elsa Zylberstein – I’ve Loved You So Long
Sally Hawkins is getting the early kudos Melissa Leo should be getting in my opinion – it’s typical critics’ nonsense. I really hate to see them rally around a decent enough performance but at the expense of the really good ones? Uh….. If Kate Winslet is knocked out for the win, it probably goes to Streep.
I’m kind of thinking that if they nominate Milk it’s gonna receive the “Brokeback” treatment from the academy… I don’t see it winning… and I don’t see them nominating a cartoon or Batman either….well maybe Batman because it made so much damn money and it might be hard to ignore.
They could just give it to Heathe as payback for the “Brokeback mess” and wipe their hands clean. Isn’t the academy all about the payback anyway? It seems to me they are a very lazy group and they wait and see who the critics and other award groups give it to and then they make their own choices. I don’t think they have much of a clue. After they pick their nominations they give it to whoever isn’t over exposed or awarded by the “others”. Very high brow. They are full of shit but I love to watch the whole train wreck.
Anyway I loved Little Miss SlumDog Millionaire…it made me feel good and I hope it goes far… and I loved Streep in Doubt she scared the shit of me…but it’s a personal thing. But I think the payback winner has to be Winslet for all those damn nominations that she lost out on…but I don’t have access to all the campaigning going on so I guess who ever runs the slickest contest or pays the most will be rewarded…But I don’t know anything.
Without a Globe nomination, Milk is a highly unlikely Oscar winner. Since 1943 when the Globes began, only 2 films without Globe nods won the Oscar. The first, The Sting, was considered an error, as it split its own vote between Drama and Comedy, they didn’t know how to classify it (plus Sting had the National Board of Review Best Pic prize when it was one of very few precursors and the DGA). The second, Crash, is the most undeserving winner in Oscar history against masterpiece Brokeback Mountain, that has the most Best Picture and Director precursors ever, and dominance second only to Schindler’s List. In fact, its interesting that people still take the precursors so seriously as indicators post-Brokeback. But why not, people are FINALLY starting to admit the truth that many of us have been screaming since the 2005 debacle, that the Academy is no different than the rest of right wing America, and with Prop 8 passing in California, Brokeback lost out of a combo of old-school homophobia (a la Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine and “all their friends”) and fear of being perceived as too gay-friendly by many other conservative Academy members. That’s why I don’t watch anymore, since they prefer politics over art. Yeah yeah, I should know better, they have done that since the beginning, films like Kane and High Noon and Reds and Saving Private Ryan also lost for political reasons, but 2005 was far more insidious. And transparent, as no film with half of Brokeback’s credentials had ever lost. Personally, I thought Milk was a very fine political film, but left me wanting more of Harvey the person, his film relationships felt too sketchy. It will deserve its nomination, but not the win. That should go to Wall-E, a visionary tale with enormous heart, imagination and intelligence that packs a wallop much more lasting than the momentary charms of Slumdog.
No film this year deserves a BP nom as much as WALL-E does, but I feel we’re setting ourselves up for disappointment.
WALL-E will lose steam when it gets no mention by SAG and DGA. A PGA nod is certain, but it’ll only be competing with other animated films. The huge contingent of AMPAS made up of actors, directors, and producers will not see fit to nominate it for the top prize.
The only field where it will likely have really strong support is with the writers, and I can see its precursor success translating into an Original Screenplay nod (a la Ratatouille, and so many Pixar films before that), but nothing more.
I don’t know, N8. My trick knee is telling me Andrew Stanton is going to get a shocker DGA nod.
I wouldn’t underestimate the directors. Directing an animated film requires even more work, as you must unify animators and control nearly every aspect of the film.
@ winston: I’ve got both THE DARK KNIGHT and WALL-E in my Best Picture prediction lineup, too:
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
MILK
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
WALL-E
I’ve got Benji Button scoring 8 nominations, but no Best Picture. It’s sort of turning into my thing this season.
I have:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Milk
4. Ben Button
5. WALL-E
With Frost/Nixon not far behind.
I’ve said it before and people don’t seem to understand. Wall-E will crush everything. It’s not because it’s the best film of the year, but because it’s almost uniformly well-regarded, and it’s something everyone can agree on.
‘Tis the season to beat “Wall-E,” indeed.
I’m surprised no one’s really talking about Paranoid Park’s performance on this list. I don’t expect it to receive any Oscar attention, but it’s still an interesting choice for cinematography.
Sasha, you should really put Sally Hawkins on top of your contender tracker, won´t ya?
But I bet the tracker is not really based on consensus buzz but on personal preferences..?
I think the ensemble cast in Tropic Thunder was fantastic, but not better than the ensemble cast in a film like Milk. An interesting choice.
Critics may be confused about whether Kate Winslet (in The Reader) is supporting or leading, but it doesn’t even matter.
What matters is that if Winslet is nominated, the Academy feels the pressure (unlike any critic) to vote for someone who has been nominated many times before (that would be her sixth with no wins?) and that would make Winslet the frontrunner even if Penelopé Cruz won all the critic awards. Cruz is in a Woody Allen film which helps her in this category, but maybe not enough.
Still, the category is supporting actress where weirder things have happened. Winslet in this category is no stranger – even though, some people say she will have to wait until she can be rewarded in a leading category.
At the moment, it looks like WALL-E and FROST/NIXON are battling for that 5th spot…
I agree with Nick (#35 above). Wall-E’s third act was overly conventional. If it hadn’t been for this section of the film, I would have LOVED the film rather than just really liked it. And, at the end, are we to assume everything will be alright? And, really, that is going to happen to Wall-E and Eve?
With that said, I think Stanton deserves a BD nomination.
And, for the record, Sally Hawkins deserves all the wins she is getting. Just because hers is not a dramatic performance like the rest does not discredit her work in the least bit.
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