(thanks to Rodrigo Junqueira Perticarari)
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up: The Dark Knight
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Original Screenplay: Tom McCarthy, The Visitor
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Production Design: Donald Graham Burt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Editing: Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Ensemble Performance: Frost/Nixon
Body of Work for 2008: Richard Jenkins for The Visitor, Burn After Reading, Step Brothers, and The Tale of Despereaux
(& thanks to ladylurks for the additions)
Kate Winslet finally getting some traction?
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It isn’t looking great for Kate right now. Especially since her wins are being split between RR and The Reader. She’ll have to fend off Meryl Streep for the Globe win to gain some real traction, and then Streep and Hawkins for SAG. It’s looking more and more like Sally Hawkins could take the Oscar. But then again I remember Amy Adams cleaning up all the critics awards for Junebug and losing the Globe, SAG and Oscar to Rachel Weisz. At least the race is still interesting, it’s more fun when there isn’t a clear frontrunner.
I know it isn’t typical Oscar fare, but who wants to bet Sweden is wishing they had submitted “Let the Right One In” instead of “Everlasting Moments”?
I really think that Winslet being in both The Reader and Revolutionary Road (two serious films that debut, what, within a week or so of each other?) is hurting her. I haven’t seen either, but no doubt both performances are incredible. If one was a lighthearted comedy and the other a serious period piece, then perhaps she would be receiving more recognition. Just a thought. I’m happy to see runner-up Best Film for The Dark Knight! At this point, if it does not receive a Best Picture nomination from the Academy, people will die. Starting the night of the nominations. I’m a man of my word. HEHHAHAHEHAHA!!!! (By the way, not an actual threat).
Why does Slumdog keep getting recognized for cinematography?
Wally Pfister’s wok was unbeatable, especially when the IMAX incorporation is considered.
Here are the rest of the San Diego awards:
Best Editing: Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Ensemble Performance: Frost/Nixon
Body of Work for 2008: Richard Jenkins for The Visitor, Burn After Reading, Step Brothers, and The Tale of Despereaux
Phil, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I think, since Slumdog is a clear favorite, many just give the rest of the awards to it (it is, of course, arguable whether or not it deserves them). It seriously seems that way.
Interesting………
this is the second time Kate and Tomei won
Could the critic darlings switch from Sally and Cruz to Winslet and Tomei
This year is really great!
I would think that the Golden Globes placement would have dispelled The Reader/RR confusion for the bigger voting bodies for the most part.
***Why does Slumdog keep getting recognized for cinematography?
Wally Pfister’s wok was unbeatable, especially when the IMAX incorporation is considered.***
Neither are the year’s best… that would be the breathtaking work on “Australia.”
While it’s true that the cinematography in TDK is great, so it is in Slumdog as well, but in a different way. Without the acting heavyweights of Milk or Doubt, for example, Slumdog will be relying instead on its technical artistry if it expects to win Best Picture.
I’m beginning to suspect that TDK will get quite a few nominations, including best pic, but may win in very few — or no — categories.
Cinematography is about more than picture and composition, it’s also about the innovation of how the movie was filmed. I have no problem with SLUMDOG winning all these Cinematography awards, though obviously there were works much better this year.
Pierre, that’s what a lot of people are thinking (probably most of which are TDK fans–at least the ones I know of). I’m a big TDK fan, and, for me, the nominations are enough (although I’m not going to lie and say that the wins aren’t better). I simply want the nominations, because it is a film that deserves them. However (!), if Heath Ledger does not win Best Supporting Actor (assuming he is nominated), that will be tragic and unnjust!
Australia’s cinematography was ruined by the BRUTAL cg that ended up wrecking some really nice moments in that film. It’s unforgivible for them to GREEN SCREEN backgrounds of the Australian outback when you’re actually there and could have shot them in REAL LIFE. I get why TV shows have to green screen certain shots – like peope on rooftops in Heroes, but for Australia to do it when they were on location and didn’t have to use CG/green screen is just plain stupid.
As far as Slumdog goes… it had a lot of thing working for it. A lot of elements made the film very enjoyable. Cinematography is not one of them. Poop jokes was not one of them. Dance numbers was not one of them. So, I would be upset to see SM win an award for Best Poop Joke over Zack and Miri, or to win Best Dance Number over Tom Cruise and Bill Hader in Tropic Thunder, or Best Cinematography over Wally “IMAX” Pfister.
Oh man…yet another snub of Thomas, this time for a performance I KNOW is inferior (sorry, Kate). I haven’t seen Revolutionary Road yet, though she looks very much familiar to her character from Little Children. I could be wrong.
A.R. Rahman’s score for Slumdog Millionaire is so much fun.
Although I love Newman’s Wall-E score and Zimmy and Howard’s score for TDK the Slumdog Millionaire is getting way more play in my itunes as of right now. Plus I love M.I.A.
I don’t think Sally Hawkins could win (too quirky for them, they like showy stuff), or Meryl (too mediocre a performance), or Jolie (too mediocre a movie) or Blanchette (buuz on film is centered on visuals, Fincher, Roth, and Pitt) or Winslet(I really think she’ll cancel out with the reader and revolutionary road; plus the reader is a poor reviewed film and in RR she looks like she’s playing the same character she played in Little Children) or Scott Thomas(very, very, very internal performance, like I said they like showy stuff, and french at that – the diving bell and the butterfly…)
So that leaves only two people, Hatahway or Leo. Hathaway may be too young, and though her performance is certainly Oscar worthy in my opinion, the role is not the kind that wins. Leo is the perfect fit, an actor’s actor, but the only problem is she is not getting the critics attention I thought she would – those are going to Hawkins. So maybee she’ll have to settle for a surprise nom come announcements…
So then, who will win??????????????????
Again, in my opinion, we do not yet have a front-runner. We probably won’t have one till GG and SAG time, or this category could become extremely competitive a la 2007 best supporting actress race, where no clear front-runner really emerged – they all had a chance
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I very much doubt that an actress of Winslet’s calibur will ‘cancel herself out’. This almost never happens with someone who is a big star (Hopkins, Kidman), even if you accept that both are leading roles. Which I don’t. (And neither do Chicago Critics, Globes or BFCA)
GO KATE!!!!
SLUMDOG’s front runner gravy train certainly hasn’t back fired against it yet. By this point, you think critics would try to be rallying another film, but they haven’t done it yet. It’s mostly been SLUMDOG with MILK winning the others.
Jake — jeez, I forgot Heath. That performance seems posed to win.
Jorge — your thinking, similar to mine, perhaps, could lead to a win for Streep by sort of a default.
I agree Ledger is TDK’s best shot at an Oscar win. Who knows…maybe the Chicago Crix will surprise everyone and give TDK a BP win. That would be fun!
Still have my hopes up for Ms. Scott-Thomas on a SAG nod. And perhaps a nomination from AMPAS.
Hope Marisa Tomei wins the oscar!
So, The Dark Knight still has that shot at the Oscar for a Best Picture Nomination. Slumdog Millionaire sweeps this one.
Acting awards will go to Mickey Rourke, Kate Winslet, Heath Ledger and Marisa Tomei.
I’m happy Wall-E is winning over Kung Fu Panda and I’m happy for Man on Wire
Don’t know if these San Diego critics are great, but I am watching right now in my country on a mainstream TV (writing during the comercial break), Stephen Frear’s “Dirty Pretty Things”. They gave Chiwetel Ejiofor the prize for Best Actor of 2003 – as I remember the solo no Bill Murray – Lost in Translation no Sean Pen-Mystic River critic award of that year.
They were right. It’s a f… subtle and powerful perfomance.
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