(thanks to N8)
BEST PICTURE
WALL*E
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Let the Right One In
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Man On Wire
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WALL*E
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
BEST ACTRESS
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WALL*E, Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister
BEST EDITING
Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
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Who is this group, Ryan? I am losing track.
I’m really liking all of the Let The Right One In love, and yay Marisa Tomei!
Lee, wiki says:
OFCS 2008 winners:
BEST PICTURE: No Country For Old Men
BEST DIRECTOR: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS: Julie Christie, Away From Her
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Diablo Cody, Juno
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, No Country for Old Men
BEST EDITING: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Johnny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood
BEST DOCUMENTARY: The King of Kong
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France-USA)
BEST ANIMATED FILM: Ratatouille
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Sarah Polley, Away From Her
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER: Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
And their 2007 winners here.
YES! Lina Leandersson Best Breakthrough Performance
“Let the Right One In” for adapted screenplay. Now THAT choice I like!
Congrats to Ms. Tomei, Mr. Rourke, and Ms. Williams as well–lovely to see some surprises. And I also concur with N8–nice choice on screenplay
If the Oscar winners played out this way, I’d be extremely pleased.
Why can’t some of these winners be nominees in their categories come Thursday? Michelle Williams, I’ve said it before and I will say it again, gives on fo the best performances of the year. I am ecstatic about the “Let the Right One In” love. Such an amazing little film.
I’ve seen both Wall·E and The Dark Knight three times already… and I have to say TDK gets better and better, and Wall·E is falling a bit in my taste. I mean, I have extremely minor issues with Batman and just minor issues with the cute robot… It’s good they underlined Wall·E as a movie and not just “animated”, though. If you look at my top 4 of 2008, I guess you’ll get how happy I am with this result:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Camino *
3. Let the Right One In
4. Wall·E
*Camino should open in 2009 in the USA. By previously Oscar-nominated Javier Fesser. Watch out of this one, top 10 material.
This is the best list of winners from a single organization I’ve seen all year. If only the Oscars could come remotely close to this (it would be wonderful if Let the Right One In could get an Adapted nom, I feel like it’s been a really weak year for that category and I’d love to see it sneak in)
I hope Director repeats at the Oscars!!!!!!!! As well as Actor!!!!
I totally agree with the Editing award. I can see it going to Slumdog come Oscar night.
Good to see Heath ever more closer to a WIN lock. It will be emotional, to say the least.
Even though it is my 2nd favorite of the year, I still don’t believe Wall*E will make it to the final 5.
Slumdog (wins), Ben Button, Milk, F/N and TDK, my guessing for now
T.
Let the Right One In should be nom’d for… (at least I’d put them on my ballot)
Picture
Director, Tomas Alfredson
Supp. Actress, Lina Leandersson
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography
Film Editing
Foreign Film
Lovely to see Michelle Williams get some more attention, well deserved attention. I would love to see this translate to more attention this week. Let us keep our fingers crossed.
Also, just saw The Wrestler, and Marisa Tomei graced us with an OUTSTANDING/HONEST/BARE performance. Very Impressive
Well, very nice for us LTROI fans, and The Wrestler recognition is deserved. I’ve long ago given up on Picture and Director, so no harm done there…
Glad to see TDK getting more awards. I honestly think that Christopher Nolan is the runner up if Danny Boyle loses Best Director at the Oscars. I think TDK has a good chance at winning cinematography at the Oscars, should win or at least be nominated for the score, and Heath is definitely going to win Best Supporting Actor. He’s won everything else, just like Philip Seymour Hoffman did for Capote.
Great batch of awards.
Let The Right One In really needs to rake in some nominations…that final scene still haunts me.
And HUZZAH for Wall-E.
I really do feel it has a chance because a lot of people feel that it’s a truly remarkable animated film, much like Crouching Tiger was a truly remarkable foreign film.
The WALL-E love is much appreciated, since it’s the best film of the year! Also loving the love for Let The Right One In, well deserved. I’d say Heath Ledger deserved his award, but I’d definitely give Best Score to WALL-E too, the music was just much better and more important to WALL-E thani t was TDK.
Slumdog didn’t have the best editing of the year. In Bruges was much better.
That said, I’m actually pleased with these results… to a degree. TDK is a better film than WALL•E, but I’d gladly see Johnny 5 win the BP than Slumdog Millionaire. If TDK can’t take home the big prize then at least we can get rid of the stupid notion that animated films can’t win BP. And Wally 5, while not my favorite movie of the year, is much better than the ‘pretty good’ Slumdog.
Very happy for Michelle Williams (and Heath, of course). Apart from that, I can’t find much to like here. The snubs of Milk are particularly discouraging.
This is a pretty good list. I agree with almost all of the winners. I have this feeling that Slumdog is only going to win director. I just have this intuition that it will not win picture.
Mark my words, no guts no glory: The Dark Knight is the Oscar winner for Picture, Director, Supp. Actor, Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound and Make Up. Maybe Score, too.
Slumdog takes Adapted Screenplay.
Benjamin Buttom, Costume, Art Direction and Visual Effects.
Milk goes empty-handed.
Wall·E takes Animated, Original Screenplay, Song and Sound Editing.
Rev. Road takes Actress
The Wrestler takes Actor
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Supp. Actress
am I forgetting anything big? Lol.
(and yes, I’ve seen Slumdog Millionaire)
Have you fanboys even paid attention to past Oscars and past precursor seasons?
Jesus fucking Christ. You people make me hate TDK.
Nice going for Rourke and Tomei! Bummer — no Kate. But thrilled, so thrilled to see all the love for “Let The Right One In.” All deserved — I still hope the film makes it in on Thursday in some categories (e.g., Adapted Screenplay).
Rahulio…. I can’t speak for the other fans of TDK but I can speak for myself. I’ve closely followed the Oscars for years… You might say I’m an oscar nut. And I have seen every even remotely possible oscar pick.
The one constant is the TDK holds up strong for a good run at BP, a solid Best Supporting Actor, and large grouping of tech awards.
It is in my mind the front runner. With Slumdog close behind.
Go Christopher Nolan!
Online Film Critics Society Awards Winners…
The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is a professional association for film critics as well as film journalists, scholars, and historians who publish their reviews, interviews and essays on the Internet. The OFCS was founded in 1997. ……
2009
best movie; the dark knight
best director; christopher nolan
best actor; mickey rourke
best actress; kate winstler or sally hawkins
best supporting actor; heath ledger
best supporting actress; marisa tomei
that’s the real deal
“It is in my mind the front runner. With Slumdog close behind.”
Are you kidding?
http://moviecitynews.com/awards/2009/scoreboard_critics.html
Only a fanboy would deny reason.
TDK is not the frontrunner. Slumdog has won substantially more precursors, and has been cited by virtually all the same technical guilds as TDK.
I think that this fanboy obsessing about TDK is making The Envelope’s previous hyperventilating about Moulin Rouge, Sweeny Todd, and Dreamgirls seem RESTRAINED in comparison.
To David,
Objectively speaking, can you please explain to me how TDK is the frontrunner? Please?
You can be a fan of TDK (as I am) without being unreasonable. Ought doesn’t always imply is. Simply b/c TDK should win (opinion for some), it doesn’t follow it will win. All evidence at this point seems to suggest Slumdog will win. It is clearly the frontrunner.
On-Line Film Society Winners are awesome this year. Surprised by Michelle Williams.
Go TDK go! You deserve Best picture nod! AAnd if not, i will kill Clint Eastwood or Stephen Daldry. Oh yeah I am crazy.
Yay Michelle Williams! I am so pleased by that. Please, please let her get a surprise Oscar nomination!
Thank you to everyone.
It’s a decent film, but it’s not the frontrunner and hasn’t even won that many MAJOR precursors. I don’t understand where these proclamations that it’s going to win Best Picture/Director, sweep the Oscars, win 12 Oscars, tie Titanic, all this nonsense is coming from.
These fanboys are just beyond irritating. You can’t even watch a film objectively and enjoy it for what it is. It’s frustrating to say the least and you give people who genuinely champion a film like TDK, despite having seen ALL major films of the year, a bad name.
I don’t have a problem if you think TDK is the best film of the year. I have a problem when you think it’s the best film of the year and the only other movie you’ve seen is Mall Cop.
Note to Oscar: let the right script in.
Nicely put, Silencio
By now its safe to say TDK is not a safe lock in the BP race. Only locks seem to be Slumdog, Benjamin Button and Milk. Frost / Nixon seems likely, and the 5th slot is up for grabs at the moment. The Dark Knight, Revolutionary Road, The Reader. Though it seems TDK is better positioned to take that spot. But I don’t see it winning BP or any major award apart from Supporting Actor.
T.
Mickey Rourke! Yes!
I think TDK is a lock for the nomination, I just don’t know about the win.
I think Ben Button and Frost/Nixon are more at risk. With no precursor wins and only nominations, I think there aren’t as many die-hard fans for those films as others out there.
I think TDK will get nominated. But only the most delusional fanboy would proclaim TDK as a frontrunner because it has only won Austin and Utah for pete’s sake!
When you conflate subjective passion with objective award predicting, this is bound to occur. I believe you have to separate the two. Otherwise you get ludicrous statements like: “TDK is the frontrunner in this year’s awards season.”
I do believe AD has added fire to fuel by constantly subjecting us to a barrage of articles either explicitly or implicitly supporting TDK. I think the backlash against AD’s support of TDK stems in large part from many of your reader’s (including myself) perception of this support. While most of us believe this is an objective predicting website, some of your articles seem to suggest something quite different from our stated perspective. I might be wrong. And if so, please enlighten me.
I come here to discuss which films we believe we’ll get nominated and which ones will ultimately win. I believe AD has done a fine job of that 95% of the time. However, a few times you haven’t been quite so subtle (especially a few comments Sasha made).
Fanaticism acts in stark contrast to objectivity. It is clear that some fans of TDK are fanatics. Hence, it is not surprising some have made off beat comments regarding frontrunners this year. AD should be held responsible for this, however.
“AD should not be held responsible” (sorry about that)
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: David Fincher
Best Actor: Too close to call
Best Actress: Kate Winslet
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis
Best Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Screenplay: Milk
Slumdog was not my favorite movie of the year, but I think it’s going to be very difficult for any movie, including TDK, to upset it for best picture and best director. Besides that Slumdog is obviously the precursor favorite, the movie just seems like it’s part of the Zeitgeist right now–Hollywood meets Bollywood, East meets West, underdog becomes top dog, ride that wave of hope to your destiny (best picture?) etc. I mean, when NBC Nightly News does a profile on the movie, you know something is happening with the film that is beyond Internet Oscar buzz, trade paper ads and Oprah plugs. The movie has crossed over from just entertainment and has become part of the news cycle, and so has entered the national consciousness in a different way than the other contenders, I think.
Hard to defeat a movie that is getting that kind of coverage and exposure.
COME ON THE DARK KNIGHT!!!!!!
It can win if given the chance!!
Great to see Nolan & Ledger rewarded by the online critics and
hopefully it can happen again!
There’s no reason why The Dark Knight can’t win – it WAS 2008’s best
film and one of the best films of the decade, as good as LOTR: Return of The
King or The Departed so why not reward a comic-book adaption?
Go on Academy!!!
“There’s no reason why The Dark Knight can’t win – it WAS 2008’s best
film and one of the best films of the decade, as good as LOTR: Return of The
King or The Departed so why not reward a comic-book adaption?”
Only fascists speak with superlatives.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Let The Right One In completely ineligible this year? So, I’m pretty sure it can’t even be nominated in any categories until next year (weird, I know). However, if it were eligible, if nothing else, it deserves a Best Cinematography nod, and the win. I didn’t think any film could touch Wally Pfister’s work, but I stand corrected.
@ Silencio, Dorothy Porker (#38, 39)
Unfortunately, “Let the Right One In” is not eligible in any category for this year’s Oscars.
http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/reminderlist2008_titles.html
Edit: Yes, Adam, you are correct. A nomination for either its screenplay or its cinematography is not a longshot—it’s an impossibility.
abit baffled by the slumdog mania and the tdk mania too. ha ha..
but awesome post robert and thanks for the link ta.
really i hope 2009 is better year (for me.seems most are having some fun this year) film wise…
ROBERT:
I completely agree, it will be very difficult to beat Slumdog on account of its huge number of precedents and its zeitgeist feeling. However, there is precedent. Brokeback Mountain won even more precursors than Slumdog, including the top two critics prizes, Los Angeles and New York, which Slumdog lost (to Wall-E and Milk, respectively. Like Slumdog, Brokeback was not the favorite going into awards season, that would have been Munich. Brokeback also was not expected to do any box office, yet it did much bigger box office in both America ($85m) and worldwide ($200m) than Slumdog to date, and was named the top box office story of 2005 by boxofficemojo.com. The cast was on Oprah, many profiles were done, and it too became a big part of the news cycle, bigger than Slumdog among most, it was the water-cooler movie of the decade but for Lord of the Rings (maybe). Like you said, “hard to defeat a movie that is getting that kind of coverage and exposure.”
I write this in the hope that people will continue to consider how Brokeback really lost, considering the foregoing (and a lot more, I’ll spare you all more!). I seriously doubt that Ernest Borgnine and Tony Curtis and “all their friends” won’t even watch Slumdog because “John Wayne would roll over in his grave” (or Gandhi, lol?), I seriously doubt the Academy will receive threats of protests, I seriously doubt Slumdog will be banned anywhere on account of its subject matter. Slumdog will win Best Picture at the Oscars, and while it was not my favorite movie of the year either (that was Wall-E), it should, it is a zeitgeist, it is acclaimed. So was Brokeback, but even bigger. Brokeback was robbed, for very very bad Prop 8 style reasons. That’s why I no longer watch the Oscars, they should be ashamed of themselves for voting against an overwhelmingly acclaimed film that there was no precedent before or since for voting against. And the movie that beat it had a 69 at metacritic and won essentially nothing, there was no Shakespeare in Love lurking (against Private Ryan) with at least some crix prizes, the most nominations, a Golden Globe (Crash wasn’t even nominated), etc. You guys should think about this before continuing to support the Academy.
RYAN: This is completely off topic from what anybody has raised on this thread thus far, but in case you are reading, see today’s imdb.com daily poll. Long story short, 20% of the people who participated had not ever seen the following movies (among a few others): Casablanca, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Raging Bull, The Third Man, Notorious, and La Dolce Vita. Again, these people saw NONE of those movies. As such, I don’t see how anyone can take their Top 250 remotely seriously as anything but an interesting gauge of fanboy opinion (which it certainly is, lots of people partipate (myself included), it has its place…but it is in no way shape or form a barometer of the world’s great films because far too great a percentage of the voters haven’t even seen the world’s greatest films!
Marisa Tomei for Supporting Actress? DARK KNIGHT for Cinematography?
… WHAT?
Marisa Tomei is absolutely nothing special in THE WRESTLER, and likewise for Pfister’s nice-looking but mostly average cinematography. If anything should be winning for its camerawork it should be BENJAMIN BUTTON, AUSTRALIA, SLUMDOG, MILK… not Batman.
Yet another collection of tools that doesn’t really understand what makes a great director or a great cinematographer.
Absolutely pathetic.
ok…. so we have the favorite 5
Milk
CCBB
Slumdog
Frost Nixon
and possibly, hopefully TDK
now I NEED AN EXPLANATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how is frost/nixon a better movie than REVOLUTIONARY ROAD???????????….
And yes… i agree with some, if slumdog doesnt win, then TDK will take the award
People, listen, it’s not that The Dark Knight wins, it’s that Slumdog and Benjamin Button, in the end, might lose ’cause they haven’t got what AMPAS likes to have in its winners, ’cause of politics, ’cause in the end, Oscar loves the “unexpected” to happen. They love awarding “Crash” over “Brokeback Mountain”, “Titanic” over “LA Confidential”, “Braveheart” over “Apollo 13″, “Forrest Gump” over both “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Pulp Fiction”… in the end, what gives the Oscar edge to TDK over Slumdog Millionaire is that most precursors in the end means shit for the final victory.
And from my window, comfortably, I can say that I see more reality check on TDK fanboys – I love it, but I hardly would consider myself a fanboy of it, I don’t NEED it to win and later get the backslash “a la Titanic” – than on Slumdog Millionaire’s.
Fuck the Drama Globe, fuck most precursors, the reality check is that Slumdog won’t probably be the most nominated movie (Buttom and or TDK are likely to be over 9 noms), Slumdog is not safe to even have an acting nom – let’s not talk about WIN. Slumdog is full of unknowns and the gravitas of Heath Ledger gives it an even bigger edge. Ignoring the feeling, is being blinded by Slumdog’s fantasy. The precedents scream a big NO to a possible Slumdog Millionaire victory… how soon has people forgotten Sideways’ even more impressive streak of victories in precursors, and starred by Paul Giamatti which almost everyone was claiming to be “overdue” and almost frontrunner for Best Actor.
Truth is, that the reviewers and precursors hasn’t been all that unanimous on Slumdog. Wall·E won the LAFCA. Milk won something, The Dark Knight, too. Even Benjamin. Those are my predicted quintet, but when all is said and done, truth appears and is that the movie that has the biggest Oscar appeal in all terms is The Dark Knight, which is closer in its scope and characteristics to Titanic, Gladiator or Return of the King than everyone is analyzing. The Dark Knight in the end, is on the line of Blade Runner… just think of what would have happened if Blade Runner didn’t bomb back in 1982 and was instantly acknowledge with the status it has today. Then you can wonder if Gandhi or even ET (Wall·E’s the similar movie this year) would have had stood a chance against Ridley Scott’s masterpiece.
Plus, precedents of non-nominated movie sequels winning: Silence of the Lambs, oddly enough, with a huge, huge social phenomenom of a psycho named Hannibal Lecter. (Silence of the Lambs was the second movie with the character)
So, recent precedents for TDK: Return of the King, Gladiator, Titanic, Silence of the Lambs… (blockbuster being a social phenomenom with fantasy elements – in the case of Titanic, it’s a disaster/action romance).
Recent precedents for Slumdog: none. Maybe we can think of The Last Emperor, at most. Marty, even. Gandhi not, certainly.
Thank you Online Critics Society for recognizing Michelle Williams amazing work.
they snubbed winslet. grrr…vote split
Ben:
You’re right. Brokeback Mountain was the “zeitgeist” movie of 2005 and still lost the Oscar. I also agree with you about the reason why that is. Like you, I doubt Slumdog is going to suffer a similar fate as BM. I will, however, still watch the Oscars because I’m weak like that.
Jesus:
I disagree with you that AMPAS is always voting because they like the “unexpected” to happen. Titanic and Forrest Gump were not “unexpected” wins. Anyone in their right mind knew those movies were going to win the Oscar. It’s true that they weren’t the critical favorites, but it’s not like they won because the Academy just decided “we want something different.” It was because those were the movies that had Academy Award written all over them. Those were the type of movies that the Academy loved (cringe, cringe).
True that there isn’t a lot of precedent for a Slumdog-like BP win. That’s why I think it WILL win this year. It’s part of the national mood–CHANGE, baby. The little underdog movie finally actually wins. Break those barriers. Embrace the world again. Global cinema etc. (P.S. Slumdog won’t get the most nominations and that doesn’t matter anymore. That “rule” of what movie will win was kicked to the wayside years ago)
Ben:
You’re right. Brokeback Mountain was the “zeitgeist” movie of 2005 and still lost the Oscar. I also agree with you about the reason why that is. Like you, I doubt Slumdog is going to suffer a similar fate as BM. I will, however, still watch the Oscars because I’m weak like that.
Jesus:
I disagree with you that AMPAS is always voting because they like the “unexpected” to happen. Titanic and Forrest Gump were not “unexpected” wins. Anyone in their right mind knew those movies were going to win the Oscar. It’s true that they weren’t the critical favorites, but it’s not like they won because the Academy just decided “we want something different.” It was because those were the movies that had Academy Award written all over them. Those were the type of movies that the Academy loved (cringe, cringe).
True that there isn’t a lot of precedent for a Slumdog-like BP win. That’s why I think it WILL win this year. It’s part of the national mood–CHANGE, baby. The little underdog movie finally actually wins. Break those barriers. Embrace the world again. Global cinema etc. (P.S. Slumdog won’t get the most nominations and that doesn’t matter anymore. That “rule” of what movie will win was kicked to the wayside years ago)
I fail to see why Oscar 2008 is going to be affected from Obama’s “change”.
I mean, really.
And “Titanic” and “Forrest Gump” winning wasn’t surprising for anyone with common sense, I agree on that. But fact was, Pulp Fiction and L.A. Confidential were championed by critics and precursors, they even fooled some to think they stood a chance or even were the frontrunners (L.A. Confidential, specially, as people claimed the lack of Screenplay nomination for Titanic was doom for its chances at the big prize). This year is same story all over again. People’s argument against TDK winning is, wait for it… a superhero movie. When the fact is, that it has dignified the genre among reviewers. The genre that is bringing – along with animation – the most bucks to Hollywood. And God forgive us, the movie actually has some of the best reviews of the year, is winning awards and is in most top 10 lists. But still, people think that somehow Hollywood is going to snub it for a little movie set and shot in India with unknowns and little budget by a director that has only delivered bombs in Hollywood (remember, Trainspotting and 28 Days Later are british films).
I could personally think TDK is shit or “da shit”, that doesn’t change the facts. Facts and history and precedents -which doesn’t mean precursors – are against Slumdog. And don’t get me wrong, Slumdog Millionaire would be a nice addition to the Best Picture winners, is a really nice movie, and at the same time would allow TDK or Benjamin Buttom to avoid backslash in the future. But for a wide, really wide variety of reasons, Slumdog is playing now on another level, on a totally different game, called Oscar. An Award designed to promote a certain kind of cinema, in its core, the studio one, not the independent. Movies like Midnight Cowboy, Ordinary People or Marty are the exceptions to the rule, and were they fighting against a phenomenom like The Dark Knight?
I’ll believe Slumdog is winning when it walks away with 2 technicals, Adapted Screenplay and Danny Boyle gets up from his seat. Then, I’ll know the miracle has really happened. But not before.
Let’s say… I have no faith in Hollywood.
I don’t think Slumdog is going to win. I doubt any one besides movie buffs even know it exists. If you were to poll people at yet say in front of a grocery store and say what is there favorite movie they would probably say Dark Knight. If you were to ask them about Slumdog they would most likely say that they never heard of the movie. I have yet to see any tv ads for Slumdog.
Hurrah for Ms. Tomei. She was absolutely terrific in The Wrestler.
Her character could have been very easily a one-note performance.
But then again, Ms. Tomei can always be counted for (always) giving reliable and interesting performances. Her performance was nuanced, naturalistic and far from being one-note!
emily >> which planet or galaxy are you in?
in earth slumdog is rocking box office allover.
with just 582 prints, it has already overtaken Button which has 2223 prints. and you say nobody heard about it? LOL
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/
I’m disappointed that no one is talking about how great it is that, once again, Wall-e, was named best picture. Not best animated – best picture. That now makes it, what, five best pic wins? LA, Boston(tie), Chicago, Ohio, and now this. That’s an amazing feat for an animated film. You can keep your Slumdogs and Dark Knights. Wall-e, bar none, is the best film of the year. The one that evokes truly lovely emotions. It does what every film should.
So shame on all of you for missing the point – the best film won in this case.
emily = douchebag
lol. Emily is so funny. Luckily for the world, ordinary people on the street don’t have a vote.
TDK is a fine movie. I’d be fine with it winning.
Benjamin Button is a terrible movie and it won’t win.
Milk was my personal favorite movie of the year, and it should win after Brokeback’s ridiculous snub, and in light of prop 8 and Obama and general efforts to put the foolishness of the American past behind us. Milk is also, in my opinion, in the best position to unseat Slumdog, having won the second most critical awards this season.
That said, Slumdog is clearly the favorite. TDK hasn’t been nominated at Golden Globes or BAFTA or SAG. It is a comic book film. While one can build paper arguments based on past history of films that one might consider similar, the fact is, TDK has won very little outside of Ledger.
Slumdog is the favorite, with Milk in second position.
Matthew: new reality check, is that TDK is a PGA, DGA and WGA nominee. It could be little, but enough to give it credit.
To say Milk is in the best position to unseat Slumdog, shutters at the thought, is just as bad as saying TDK is the film that’s in the best position to do so. As of this moment it’s Slumdog and then….everybody else. Once the nominations are announced and we see the precursor wins then we could safely say who’s behind Slumdog.
Wall-E is a good film. The elements are futuristic, economical, conservative and loving.
The Dark Knight WAS the best film of 2008. GET RIGHT IN THERE!!!
The Joker will have the last laugh and so may The Batman!
Go on my son!!
Braveheart, as much as I love The Dark Knight and hope it wins, it is not the best film of 2008. I repeat I would love for it to win, but it is not the best. Let the Right One In, Wall-E, and The Wrestler are all better.
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