2009 Oscar Awards

[frankie_fan]

Following the 2009 Razzie nominations, the nominations for this year's Oscars have been announced, and here they are:

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 Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder (as the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude! Sorry, couldn't resist!)
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight (Here's hoping for a win! )
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

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

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

Best Animated Feature Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

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 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 Documentary
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

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

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

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

Best Make-Up
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 - Wall-E
Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire
O Saya - Slumdog Millionaire

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

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

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

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

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Original Screenplay
Frozen River
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Milk
Wall-E

[Lynnie]

I'm all for Wall-E, The Dark Knight, and The Duchess. I'm not as much of a movie watcher as I use to be, but I still have my favorite types, along with favorite actors and directors. Good luck to all!

[Pawbah]

Yay, Wall-E. Besides that... Heath should get it. Those are the only two awards I care about.

[jekylljuice]

Yay, I'm so happy that Peter Gabriel's "Down to Earth" received a nomination for best original song.

Man on Wire was a good documentary - nice to see it receive it some recognition there, though sadly I'm not familiar with any of the competition.

[emperor26]

Those are good nominations, but I'm not pleased that the Dark Knight was left out in the Best Picture category.

Still, the list looks good, though.

[Kootiebirdo]

The fact that they even chose a low rated film like "The Reader" over "The Dark Knight" definitely says a lot about the Academy, doesn't it?
I'm surprised though that Robert Downey received a nomination for "Tropic Thunder" despite how the voters feel about comedy films getting any at all.

[jekylljuice]

Well, congratulations to Slumdog Millionaire, Sean Penn, Kate Winslet (hurrah, finally!), Heath Ledger (and all who loved and remember him), Penelope Cruz, Wall-E and Man on Wire! I'm particularly chuffed about the latter two taking home their respective prizes...they really were quite outstanding. I've still yet to see Slumdog Millionaire myself, but I look forward to it.

I am somewhat sorry that "Down to Earth" missed out on the best original song award (even without being familiar with the competition - well, it was a great song and Peter Gabriel is amazing) but at least it did manage to pick up a Grammy earlier this month.

[taranchula]

For the first time as long as I can remember I actually sat down and watched the Oscars, (Not all the way through though, I did turn it off after Mickey Rourke lost in the best actor category, no offense to Mr. Penn but I honestly thought that Mickey so deserved it, oh well at least he has the golden globe and image award to fall back on.)

Well anyways I can debate the winners from here to sundown, but for something completely different I would like to talk about the award show itself.


The Good.

I thought it was a great touch to have the main acting awards being presented by five former winners in each of the categories, it was a nice nod to history.

The always classy tribute to those who have passed away over the past year. The saddest thing is that so many great names had passed on, that a lot of the time I was thinking to myself "OMG she's/he's dead? When did that happen?"

No overlong speeches. Good to see everyone trying to keep it short and simple and not try to go over the mandatory allotted time.

The Bad

Sigh, can we 86 the cheesy musical numbers? I know many will disagree with me, but really they don't add anything to the show, and the time could be used for more awards or interviews.

Biggest "Oh Burn" of the night.

Jack Black stating that he makes so much money from doing voice over work, by taking the money he made from his Dreamworks roles and using it to bet on Pixar's movie at the awards.

Best Presenters

Tina Fey and Steve Martin

Best Acceptance Speech

Man on Wire

Only for the fact that Philippe Petit the subject of the film showed up for the acceptance speech as well, which is a nice touch as if it wasn't for him they wouldn't have a film and if they didn't have a film they wouldn't have the Oscar.

Most Emotional Acceptance Speech

Heath Ledger's Family

Pretty much speaks for itself.

I'm running out of things to say....

So congrats to all of the winners and nominated keep up the good work all of you.

[Lynnie]

Bravo T, grand acceptance speech review.

I didn't get to see it last night. Stupid work. I love seeing everyone walking up the red carpet and getting questioned by reporters, and seeing what they're all wearing. What can I say, I'm a girly-girl who likes the fashion. As for the awards themselves, I rarely have seen many of the nominees, but I still like to cheer my favorite actors/actress/producers/directors on. I'm a little bummed I missed it. But many congrats to the winners, especially Wall-E. Because I've actually seen that one.