81st Academy Award Nominations (2 Viewers)

[Milker]

most of them any ways.....


Best Picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director:
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
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
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionry Road
Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P. Henson - Ben Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Best Original Screenplay:
Frozen River
Happy-Fo Lucy
In Bruges
Milk
Wall•E
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Film:
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL•E

 

[tim]

I've seen 0 of those films. Wrestler is the only one Im slightly interested in. They any use?

Ron Howard films are usually schmaltzy bullshit. This one an exception?

 

[evil bandit]

I've not seen Wall-E but thought that threre was little to know dialogue in it?

Surely there was more deserving contenders for best screenplay??

 

[Milker]

i've only seen Wall-e, Dark Knight and In Bruges...Frost/Nixon looks enjoyable. Want to see Wrestler.


For the record...Tropic Thunder was shit and Bob Downey was ok (wobbles a spread, level hand ) but Joker Ledger will take the Support Male because he was excellent...not just dead...transformed himself, the character and the film.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Is it just me or have all the Oscar movies come out later than ever this time? I've only seen the reader out of the Best Film nominees.

 

[Milker]

lookin at that list you'd swear there were only 8 movies made last year...maybe the rest were truly god-awful.


any films/actors that should be up there?

 

[pissypants]

I've not seen Wall-E but thought that threre was little to know dialogue in it?

Surely there was more deserving contenders for best screenplay??

There's dialogue after about 20 minutes.
Not that the dialogue is that good.

A screenplay is as much about how the story is told as the dialogue itself. I'd imagine the screenplay was very concisely written, especially the parts with no dialogue - which were the best parts of the film.

 

[evil bandit]

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

* “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
* “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
* “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman andMaya Arulpragasam

No Bruce

Worst nominations ever....

 

[Milker]

There's dialogue after about 20 minutes.
Not that the dialogue is that good.

A screenplay is as much about how the story is told as the dialogue itself. I'd imagine the screenplay was very concisely written, especially the parts with no dialogue - which were the best parts of the film.

Doesn't it just mean how much playing there was on screen?...wall&eve looked like they were having great fun buzzin around.

yeah a screenplay is the story, plot and characters...like a play...on screen

 

[jane]

No Bruce

Worst nominations ever....

I was just coming onto this thread with the assumption that Bruce HAD been nominated, and I was gonna go, "Can we not just give them all to Bruce?"

And now this!

THE ACADEMY OF TOTAL INJUSTICE

Well, now the Spook fellas have something in common with Bruce: both were totally robbed by being left of lists of award nominees.

BRRUUUUUUUUUUUCE!

 

[Yurn!]

I've not seen Wall-E but thought that threre was little to know dialogue in it?

Surely there was more deserving contenders for best screenplay??

God you're a berk. Is the award called 'BEST DIALOGUE'???

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

dark knight will win best cinematography and heath will win best supporting actor.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Is it just me or have all the Oscar movies come out later than ever this time? I've only seen the reader out of the Best Film nominees.

I think it's always well into Jan before we start to see the films with the big Oscar buzz released here.

It's a pain in the arse.

From what I see travelling there is normally not much difference between release dates any more except around this time of year when the oscar contenders are pushed earluer in the US.

 

[evil bandit]

God you're a berk. Is the award called 'BEST DIALOGUE'???

A pair of sexually repressed, mute robots noncing around in space because we didn't recycle??? Fuck that shit

As I said I haven't seen it

Donkey Punch was robbed.

THE ACADEMY OF TOTAL INJUSTICE

Well, now the Spook fellas have something in common with Bruce: both were totally robbed by being left of lists of award nominees.

BRRUUUUUUUUUUUCE!

Let us remember the good times
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QeIOtaydCyo
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QeIOtaydCyo

 

[Yurn!]

dark knight will win best cinematography and heath will win best supporting actor.

Nothing for Sex Drive?

 

[ratmonkey]

Rambo should have been there for best picture.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Awards for art are bollocks.

That said, fair play to Martin McDonagh, in fairness.
A win would make financing easier to get for his next gig.

 

[ratmonkey]

Awards for art are bollocks.

These aren't awards for art, they're for money generating vehicles which may occasionally masquerade as art.

 

[Goodbye]

I've not seen Wall-E but thought that threre was little to know dialogue in it?

Surely there was more deserving contenders for best screenplay??

Most idiotic comment so far this year

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

These aren't awards for art, they're for money generating vehicles which may occasionally masquerade as art.

It's still art. But the awards themselves are meaningless on that level.

Anyway, good to see someone whose stuff I like getting nominated which might mean that he can go on and make more stuff I might like.