Oscar Nominations

[OnePimpTiger]

Released yesterday:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Animated Feature
WALL-E
Kung Fu Panda
Bolt



So has anybody actually seen any of these? I've seen Dark Knight and Kung Fu Panda...I want to see a few of them and I'm dying to see Tropic Thunder. I'm astounded Downey got an Oscar nomination from a movie like that. Ledger was good, not sure his performance was Oscar-worthy though...of course, he wouldn't even be on the list if he hadn't died. That's about all I know though...anybody else have any thoughts?

[RenegadeLonghorn]

The Dark Knight shut out. The #2 grossing picture of all-time doesn't get a nomination. The Academy is a JOKE.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/...ar_nominations

[Gtbballer20]

Amen...i think that movie should have best picture totally!!! ™™™?!?!?!?!

[hector234]

Easily the best movie this year, but then again, comic books movie adapts aren't highly regarded by the panel.

[daniel3417]

Exactly. I thought it was great, but it's a comic book. I can't blame them too much. Plus, Benjamin Button kicked ***.

[NyFanCam01]

What??!!??!

That movie was amazing!!!

[cubsarelife]

The Dark Knight is probably the best movie I have ever seen... That is BS that it wasn't nominated!!!

[OnePimpTiger]

Merged with already open Oscar Nominations thread...

The Dark Knight was really good...but it's not Oscar-worthy and it's not the 2nd best movie all-time (as voted on IMDB.com). I really don't understand why people are saying it's the best ever or close to it...

[ensbergcollector]

i don't understand why in the last decade, the movies voted for best picture have to be ones that no one has seen. It seems as though there is never more than 1 or 2 at the most that were major releases. I'm not saying that less viewed movies can't get nominated or that box office numbers decide things but come on. 10 years ago and before nearly every movie was one people has seen. This just futhers the idea that it is a bunch of rich elitists giving awards to themselves.

[hector234]

Merged with already open Oscar Nominations thread...

The Dark Knight was really good...but it's not Oscar-worthy and it's not the 2nd best movie all-time (as voted on IMDB.com). I really don't understand why people are saying it's the best ever or close to it...

Because at a time when movies haven't been as strong as they used to be, it was a gem. It was non stop action, and very well done. I won't consider it one of the greatest movies ever, but in the last 10 years or so, its one of the better movies