Awards Season 2008

[Chull]

LA Film Critics (according to MovieCityNews):
Picture: “Wall-E”

Animation: “Waltz With Bashir”

Uh, whaa?

[swo17]

I'll stick with my predictions from a couple of weeks ago:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Milk
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Pardon the pun, but I'm curious what the case is for Benjamin Button getting a best picture nom. Fincher has received approximately zero Academy love with all of his previous films, and some of those were actually supposed to be good.

[Barmy]

Button needs to get a nom because it cost a kajillion dollars and it is an art movie with stars. There always needs to be at least one art movie with stars on the slate. (Sean Penn is not a "star".) I'm not sure Revolutionary Road will make the cut.

[Jeff]

Pardon the pun, but I'm curious what the case is for Benjamin Button getting a best picture nom. Fincher has received approximately zero Academy love with all of his previous films, and some of those were actually supposed to be good.

The Academy has little interest in "good." They've surprised me with their choices the past couple of years, but maudlin, "inspiring," crowd-pleasing dramas are their bread and butter. It would be perfectly in keeping with their modus operandi to reward Fincher for a lesser film. The film supposedly appeals to the Academy's aged constituency, and despite the mixed reviews, is still favored by most pundits to lead the nominations. I don't think it has any chance of winning Best Picture, but I'd be pretty surprised if it didn't get a nom.

New York Film Critics Circle:

Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Best Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Milk
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Best Director: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best First Film: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Best Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Picture: Milk

[HelenLawson]

At this point, we can probably say that Penelope Cruz is a shoo-in for the Oscar.

[exte]

New York Film Critics Circle:

Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Milk

I think we have yet to see the best of Brolin and his supporting performance in Milk definitely wasn't up there, not the best of the whole year certainly.

[Antoine Doinel]

Jerry Lewis to be given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars. France rejoices.

[domino harvey]

As much as he deserves an Oscar, I'm not especially looking forward to the next three months' worth of Jerry Lewis jokes

[knives]

Jokes by Lewis or about? I'm with you if it's the later. Wonder who the Griffith award will go to.

[lacritfan]

Cartography for your viewing pleasure!

OK...obviously this blue part here is the land...

[Jeff]

Detroit Film Critics

Best picture: "The Dark Knight", "Frost/Nixon", "Slumdog Millionaire", "WALL-E", "The Wrestler"

Best director: Darren Aronofsky for "The Wrestler," Danny Boyle for "Slumdog Millionaire," Ron Howard for "Frost/Nixon," Christopher Nolan for "The Dark Knight" and Andrew Stanton for "WALL-E."

Best actor: Josh Brolin for "W.", Leonardo DiCaprio for "Revolutionary Road," Frank Langella for "Frost/Nixon," Sean Penn for "Milk" and Mickey Rourke for "The Wrestler."

Best actress: Anne Hathaway for "Rachel Getting Married," Sally Hawkins for "Happy-Go-Lucky," Melissa Leo for "Frozen River," Meryl Streep for "Doubt" and Kate Winslet for "Revolutionary Road."

Best supporting actor: Robert Downey Jr. for "Tropic Thunder," James Franco for "Milk," Heath Ledger for "The Dark Knight," Eddie Marsan for "Happy-Go-Lucky" and Michael Sheen for "Frost/Nixon."

Best supporting actress: Amy Adams for "Doubt," Elizabeth Banks for "W.," Penelope Cruz for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Rosemarie DeWitt for "Rachel Getting Married" and Marisa Tomei for "The Wrestler."

Best ensemble: "Burn After Reading," "Frost/Nixon," "Rachel Getting Married," "Revolutionary Road" and "Tropic Thunder."

Best newcomer: Rosemarie DeWitt, actress, "Rachel Getting Married"; Rebecca Hall, actress, "Frost/Nixon" and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"; Danny McBride, actor, "Pineapple Express"; Martin McDonough, writer/director, "In Bruges"; Dev Patel, actor, "Slumdog Millionaire"; Catinca Untaru, actress, "The Fall."

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
1. Milk
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Dark Knight
4. Frost/Nixon
5. WALL-E
6. Revolutionary Road
7. The Visitor
8. Doubt
9. Rachel Getting Married
10. Man on Wire

Richard Corliss, Time
1. Wall-E
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. My Winnipeg
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
5. Milk
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Iron Man
9. Speed Racer
10.Encounters at the World End

[domino harvey]

Best supporting actor: Eddie Marsan for "Happy-Go-Lucky"

This makes me very happy, he definitely deserves to be Oscar nommed with Hawkins

[mfunk9786]

You can say that again. He disappeared into that role.

[rs98762001]

No actor this year deserves recognition more than Marsan. He was just a force of nature in that role.

[Jeff]

Golden Globes

Picture, Drama
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture, Comedy or Musical
Burn After Reading
Happy Go Lucky
In Bruges
Mamma Mia
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Colin Farrel, In Bruges
James Franco, Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleason, In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman Last Chance Harvey

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, The Reader

Director
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, Ben Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor
Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Tunder
Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas, I’ve Loved you So Long
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia
Emma Thompson, Last Chance Harvey

Foreign Language Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
Everlasting Moments (Sweden)
Gomorrah (Italy)
I’ve Loved You So Long
Waltz with Bashir

Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Frost/Nixon
Benjamin Button
Doubt

Score
Benjamin Button
Changeling
Defiance
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon

Song
Down to Earth, Wall-E
Gran Torino, Gran Torino
I Thought I Lost You, Bolt
Once in a Lifetime, Cadillac Records
The Wrestler, The Wrestler

[Antoine Doinel]

Wow, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is emerging as a dark horse in the race this year. It will be great for Allen if it picks up some noms, and more importantly, some wins.

[mfunk9786]

Whoa. That might be the worst slate of nominees I've ever seen. Even coming from the Globes this is shocking.

No Milk or Doubt, which is surprising. Burn After Reading and Mamma Mia nominated in the Comedy/Musical category... huh? I like the actor in a comedy category, especially Farrell and Gleeson both being nominated. But what the hell is going on in the Supporting Actor category? Cruise, really? Is that really how hard they were scraping the bottom of the barrel? No Marsan, Franco, Brolin... eep. Just awful work by these voters this year.

[souvenir]

The Globes always do this and they're always a joke. Cruise and Dicaprio have both now been nominated 7 times, Brad Pitt 4 and Angelina Jolie 5. Their whole thing is about bribing movie stars to attend a televised party.

[domino harvey]

Was anyone else's first reaction "What the fuck is Last Chance Harvey"?

[Adam]

LA Film Critics (according to MovieCityNews):
Picture: “Wall-E”

Animation: “Waltz With Bashir”

Uh, whaa?

spreadin' the wealth, man. what's wrong with that?

[Adam]

The Globes always do this and they're always a joke. Cruise and Dicaprio have both now been nominated 7 times, Brad Pitt 4 and Angelina Jolie 5. Their whole thing is about bribing movie stars to attend a televised party.

correct. no reason to take any of their nominations seriously.
of course, there' not really any reason to take anyone's nominations seriously. Unless you're invested in how box office might perk up due to nominations, which is why the Academy Awards exist to begin with (and to have dinner with celebrities, if you're everyone else).

[domino harvey]

To be fair, their Supporting Actress nominations are pretty much 5/5 what I'd predict for the Oscars right now

Edit: Well, maybe DeWitt gets in somewhere, so 4/5

[Matt]

Was anyone else's first reaction "What the fuck is Last Chance Harvey"?

I knew what it was only because I received a screener of it a few days ago. My WTF moment came when I opened the envelope. I like Emma Thompson, but probably not enough to watch this movie.

[Antoine Doinel]

Last Chance Harvey has quietly been hyped/pushed for an Oscar nod for Hoffman over the past year. Summit actually delayed its initial release date for Oscar consideration.

[knives]

Was anyone else's first reaction "What the fuck is Last Chance Harvey"?

Yes, always