Tomorrow I’ll post a poll of 30 or 40 films that seem to be the most likely Best Picture contenders. When we did this last year, the poll results were collected the week after the Oscars, March 2008. We scored 4 eventual nominees in our first 7 poll positions. So as frivolous as this might seem when we’ve seen none of the films, it can yield interesting results.
March 2008 Poll results
- 1. Revolutionary Road
- 2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- 3. Australia
- 4. Frost/Nixon
- 5. Milk
- 6. Doubt
- 7. The Reader
- 8. Changeling
- 9. Blindness
- 10. The Soloist (ack!)
(if nothing else, it’ll be fun at the end of the year to see our most insane choice.)
You’ll find the long list after the cut. Help me narrow it down to about half this size by mocking the titles you think are least likely.
À l’origine
Adventureland
Agora
Amelia
Antichrist
Avatar
Away We Go
Biutiful
The Boat that Rocked
Bright Star
Broken Embraces
Chéri
Coco Avant Chanel
Coraline
Creation
District 9
An Education
Everybody’s Fine
(500) Days of Summer
Funny People
Goodbye Solo
Green Zone
The Hangover
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
The Informant
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
In the Loop
Invictus
Is Anybody There?
Julie & Julia
The Last Station
Love Ranch
The Lovely Bones
Moon
9
Nine
1939
Ondine
Ponyo
Precious
The Princess and the Frog
The Prophet
Public Enemies
The Road
A Serious Man
Seraphine
Sherlock Holmes
Shutter Island
Sin Nombre
The Soloist
Star Trek
Sugar
Summer Hours
Taking Woodstock
The Tempest
Tetro
That Evening Star
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Tulpan
Tyson
Untitled Nancy Meyers Film
Up
Up in the Air
Watchmen
Whatever Works
The White Ribbon
Within the Whirlwind
Where the Wild Things Are
