[Waycos]

The Nominees Are...

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Stephen Daldry - The Reader

Best Actor
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Taraji Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Original Screenplay
Courtney Hunt - Frozen River
Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter - WALL-E

Best Adapted Screenplay
Eric Roth and Robin Swicord - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
David Hare - The Reader
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Feature
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E

Best Animated Short
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory — Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Best Foreign Language Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Departures
Revanche
Waltz With Bashir

Best Art Direction
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Costume Design
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Best Documentary Feature
Man on Wire
The Garden
Encounters at the End of the World
Trouble the Water
The Betrayal

Best Documentary Short
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306

Best Editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Live Action Short
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Best Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
James Newton Howard - Defiance
Danny Elfman - Milk
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Thomas Newman - WALL-E

Best Original Song
"Down to Earth," Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman - WALL-E
"Jai Ho," A.R. Rahman and Gulzar - Slumdog Millionaire
"O Saya," A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Best Sound Mixing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Best Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

[Cybercat]

Well, they can hand out the one for best supporting actor now, because it's quite obvious who will win. (Though it makes me wonder whether it'd be quite as obvious had he still been alive...)

[Evil Pig]

(Though it makes me wonder whether it'd be quite as obvious had he still been alive...)

I doubt it.

I have yet to see The Curious Case. I'll probably go this weekend if it still plays near my place.

[Waycos]

I think you'd be hearing a lot more about Josh Brolin if Ledger was still alive.

[Useless Trivia Man]

Am I the only one who finds it hysterically funny that Robert Downey, Jr. got a nod for Tropic Thunder?

[Waycos]

Maybe.. I think he did a great job.

[Malcontent]

I agree -- Tropic Thunder was brilliant on many levels, and Downey's work was amongst the best. Hell, he should get a nod for the faux trailer alone. But who the hell else could pull off playing a blonde Australian playing an African American? It was brilliant all around.

As for Ledger... I also kind of doubt he would have got so much recognition if he was still alive. Simply because the Academy is a bunch of frakkin' snobs and they like to dis comic book movies. Granted, many of them weren't exactly Oscar-worthy anyway, but The Dark Knight certainly was, and Ledger's acting.

What I find ironic: I watch TONS of movies, and I haven't seen a single one of the Best Picture Nominations. Kinda wanted to see Button, but never ended up doing so. I imagine it'll stick around in theatres a bit longer now it's been nominated, so I'll get another chance.

[Cybercat]

For me it's very common not to have seen best picture nominations, quite often I've seen none of them. This year is no different.

Of course it doesn't help that of the 5 nominations 3 aren't out in the Netherlands yet, one opened yesterday and the last one last week. Didn't they make *any* good movies early in 2008 or has the academy just forgotten them already? (Though I must say, I doubt I'll be watching any of them even when they do get out, most of them probably not even once they're on tv.)

[Scarlet Speedster]

As for Ledger... I also kind of doubt he would have got so much recognition if he was still alive. Simply because the Academy is a bunch of frakkin' snobs and they like to dis comic book movies. Granted, many of them weren't exactly Oscar-worthy anyway, but The Dark Knight certainly was, and Ledger's acting.

I think the nominations that came out of TDK, and those that didn't, were completely deserved. The technical stuff was fantastic. Ledger did an outstanding job in his performance, creating a very memorable character that completely becomes "real" to the viewer. When you look beyond his performance though, TDK had a lot of faults that absolutely brings it short of being in contention for any writing awards or Best Picture. Perhaps Nolan should have gotten a nom for Directing, but I cannot honestly say having not seen all of the films that directors were acknowledged in that category for. It doesn't matter much though because if it were just Fincher and Nolan, Fincher would win.

[Joe Dalton]

For me it's very common not to have seen best picture nominations, quite often I've seen none of them. This year is no different.

Of course it doesn't help that of the 5 nominations 3 aren't out in the Netherlands yet, one opened yesterday and the last one last week. Didn't they make *any* good movies early in 2008 or has the academy just forgotten them already? (Though I must say, I doubt I'll be watching any of them even when they do get out, most of them probably not even once they're on tv.)

I just came back from the states and didn't watch any of em either We would have seen the curious case had time allowed, but all in all we felt Bolt in 3D, was much more worth the time.