Who Will Win at The 81 Academy Awards?
Live blogging nominations. Who will make the cut?
Best Actor
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Richard Jenkins
Mikey Roarke, The Wrestler
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie. The Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River (I had to look her and the movie up. A nomination out of left field.)
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet, The Reader (Will she have momentum from the Globes?)
Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (I had his name typed even before the nominations were read!)
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Junior, Tropic Thunder (the gasp/murmur in the crowd suggested this is a big surprise and it is. many didn’t see this coming because Downey was in blackface.)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Viola Davis, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Director
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Animated Picture
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
So, some interesting surprises. Despite lots of talk, no Best Picture nom for either The Dark Knight or Wall-E. The Dark Knight is represented in the technical categories. Slumdog Millionaire continues it’s remarkable journey. I was kind of surprised that Bruce Springsteen was not nominated in the Best Original Song category. So, the speculation begins and we’ll see who wins when the Oscars air on February 22nd.
Isn’t it amazing how some small time film maker can come up with a movie like Slumdog Millionaire that makes it into the Oscar nominations. Must really piss off some of the big boys with their big budgeted movies.
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I liken this to any number of hit songs that were produced on a shoestring budget by unknown bands that flatten the over payed no talent hacks that had to have $1M in production work done to their song before it was ready for airplay. The question is now that the people behind this movie have proven themselves worthy of bigger budgets will they still make quality movies or will they say screw it and let the studio go through all the trouble of fixing it up?
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