Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air


Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire


Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds


Best Actress

Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Helen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
The GOAT - Julie & Julia


Best Actor

Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
CLOONEY - Up in the Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker


Best Director

Killa Cam - Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Q------ T-------- - Inglourious Basterds
The Self Hater Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air


Best Original Screenplay

Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
Q------ T-------- - Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon, Owen Moverman - The Messenger
Joel and Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy - Up


Best Adapted Screenplay

"Racist" Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell - District 9
Nick Hornby - An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannuci, Tony Roche - In the Loop
Self Hating Co-Consprirator Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air


Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami
El Secreto Desus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon


Best Animated Feature

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kels
Up


Best Art Direction

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria


Best Cinematography

Mauro Fiore - Avatar
Bruno Delbonnel - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson - Inglourious Basterds
Christian Berger - The White Ribbon


Best Costume Design

Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria


Best Documentary

Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home


Best Editing

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious


Best Makeup

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria


Best Score

James Horner - Avatar
Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders - The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer - Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino - Up


Best Song

“Almost There,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname,” Paris 36, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas
“Take It All,” Nine, Maury Weston
“The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham


Best Sound Editing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up


Best Sound Mixing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen


Best Visual Effects

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek


Best Documentary Short

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit à la Berlin


Best Animated Short

French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death


Best Live-Action Short

The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants


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That wouldn't have happened with only 5 slots.

have also been shut out of the Best Picture race without those extra slots... it's a surprisingly fun movie that deserves to be seen...

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Not that The Blind Side would've made my list, just saying.

I am glad The Blind Side made it over Invictus though.

Personally, I'd have put Star Trek on there. It's nice more than 5 critical darlings are getting some shine, but we all know it really comes down to Avatar, Hurt Locker, and Inglourious Basterds. I really don't think anything else has a shot in the Picture race.

I ain't trying to hear it, there's no way that movie was inferior to The Blind Side, even if it was directed by that "hack" Abrams, written by Kurtzman and Orci, and had the "annoying" lens flares...

... and Rockwell got robbed for his performance in Moon as well

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Shit I'd put The Hangover over The Blind Side

i know. it really is a shock to see it up there. rarely does the academy get one like D9 right.

and had that shit showing in the lower third of the announcement. that would have been much more appropriate, shown more integrity.

they didn't actually have to GIVE that piece of shit nominations.

And I don't mean Best Picture films... I mean any of the films nominated for anything.

number one, the whole rugby story is like the 17th most interesting thing that's ever happened to nelson mandela. there are bigger and better stories within his own life to tell.

number two, the 30-minute rugby scene in act 3 brought whatever momentum the film had to a grinding halt. i mean, i love clint eastwood, but edit much?

clint eastwood, matt damon, morgan freeman, and nelson mandela are four of my favorite people in the world, but this just didn't come together. i'm glad it didn't get a nod.

And of course my problem with the Big Rugby Game was that I couldn't understand what was going on; yeah, it's sort of a given that South Africa's going to win, but it would have been nice to get some kind of rundown of the rules and the scoring...

I love Mo Dogg, but his accent kept slipping, and there's just no way he was made up to resemble Nelson Mandela in any convincing fashion... and Matt Damon got nominated for the WRONG movie... the women were cute, however, so it had that going for it, but that's about it...

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especially considering, like you said, you already figure south africa's gonna win. also considering nothing was going on in or during the game other than the game. one team scores, the other team scores. so what? even in bad sports movies, there's usually something moving the narrative along during the big game. some teammates learn to get along or something. there was literally nothing going on for 30 minutes. it's like they cut away from the movie to show an entire rugby match. and the whole movie itself was like they cut away from the interesting parts of mandela's life (prison, politics, family, etc.) to focus on this rugby story.

I don't know what it is but any piece of crap that he puts out whether as an actor or director is instantly nominated in multiple categories regardless of its quality. I don't get it...

I mean, "not since Birth of a Nation" have we been "bamboozled" by such an insidious picture as Precious

That's what he said

I'm also poking fun at those who are upset about the film's color struck issues...

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>I mean, "not since Birth of a Nation" have we been
>"bamboozled" by such an insidious picture as Precious

I'm glad "A Serious Man" got the best pic. and original screenplay nomination. I don't expect it (or really think it should) win either category, but I'm happy it got some love.

I'm also happy "In the Loop" got the screenplay nomination. I wasn't aware it was an adaptation. I'd love to see it win.

I'm a little sad that the homie Scott Neustadter didn't get a nomination for "500 Days." Ah well, he's getting a lot of work these days, and he may well be back.

Finally, I really need to get around to seeing "Hurt Locker" and "An Education."

>I'm a little sad that the homie Scott Neustadter didn't get a
>nomination for "500 Days." Ah well, he's getting a lot of work
>these days, and he may well be back.

really, REALLY glad to see district 9 get a best picture nod. it would have made my short list of five. i also think sharlto copley (main character in d9) should have gotten a best actor nod over george clooney playing george clooney. somebody above already said star trek got robbed. i haven't seen the blind side yet so i can't speak on that, but i do know up in the air is the most mediocre romantic comedy to catch fire during awards season in decades.

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That was hands down the worst movie I saw this year.

That, or you pick your movies veeeeeery carefully.

That shit was just the worst to me. I can't even believe I made it all the way through. If i wasn't with my gf I probably would have left. Funny People was a close 2nd. But yeah, in general I avoid all the real trash = Old Dogs territory ha...

I might even say Inglourious Basterds was worse.

Not that I think (500) Days hung the moon or anything... I just think there were several worse movies, lol.

And I DID see Old Dogs.

For many reasons. In no way shape or form do I think (500) Days was better than Inglorious Basterds. I pretty much can't stand Tarantino and I was really impressed by that film. Even based purely on scope and ambition. C'mon man tell me you are finding a way to stick up for the last 20mins of (500) Days. That park bench scene was the most contrived set-up maybe I've ever seen in a movie...

that movie had 3 or 4 individual scenes that were well done and/or funny. the rest of the movie was cliche and sometimes just bad.

but to say it was the worst movie of the year is bringing the super hate.

Ah, well. Congrats.

How many years have we complained that they exiled Pixar movies to the "ghetto" of Best Animated Feature?

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"Ratoutouille" was in the running.

The last two years would have seen Pizar films nominated if extra slots had been available. I wish DAT TOUILLE had been the first Pixar to score a best pic nom.

that movie was terrific.

I still prefer Ratatouille.

I don't like having 10 best pic nominees, but it's nice that Up and District 9 got nom'd.

Acting ones aren't a surprise, I'll have to check out Julie and Julia though. People who saw it, did the GOAT get a nomination on name alone or is her performance really that good?

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-Cornel West

I'll check it out

meryl's problem is she makes it look too easy. anybody else would have been an oscar favorite off this performance. we shouldn't grade the GOAT on a curve.

has it been the same 5 in each category on every show so far? I feel like their is usually a few differences... Does everyone really have the same exact opinion?

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I'm SO pleased about the A Serious Man, District 9, and In The Loop nominations.

The only movies with multiple nods I haven't seen are The Messenger, The Last Station, and The White Ribbon. We haven't talked about these three much on the board... anyone care to chime in?

Harry Potter 6 getting a Cinematography nod is VERY deserved. Too bad it has zero shot with Avatar in the same category. Also deserved is District 9 for Best Visual Effects.

Biggest bullshit? No Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs for Best Animated Picture, (500) Days of Summer being shut out entirely, and though it was a longshot, no Matt Damon for The Informant!.

and we all know how the Academy loathes out and out comedies.

It MIGHT be my favorite performance of the year. Not necessarily the best, but possibly my favorite.

that movie just kind of disappeared. it was an oscar bait role for sure, but one with a performance that was actually worthy of some recognition.

Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox is probably the toughest competition for Up
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First time in a while they've had two traditionally animated films nominated.

A nomination for Samantha Morton (say over Vera Farmiga) woulda been nice, but Woody's to-be-expected nom and the justice served in the best original screenplay category is great (look at the quality of those five films--strongest category?).

Good look @ In The Loop.

Matt Damon for The Informant was, I thought, one of my more realistic wishes. Bridges, Clooney, Firth, and Freeman were probably locks though, and I can't really be mad at the Jeremy Renner pick. Not one of the five strongest performances in my mind but not underserved either. (Was Anthony Mackie for supporting actor too unrealistic?)

Is conventional wisdom that Avatar wins every technical award it's nominated for?

Anyone see The Last Station? The trailer makes it look like it has a sense of humor. Accurate?

Now if Netflix will stop messing around and send me Inglourious Basterds, I'll be doing better on seeing what I need to see.

i thought he was looking at some supporting actor buzz for sure, but everyone went with renner.

He's gonna get his due one day. If Hurt Locker wins he'll be in two best pictures.

They nominated the lesser two of the four eligible Princess and the Frog songs ("Ma Belle Evangeline" is my favorite song, movie or otherwise, period of 2009, and I liked Ne-Yo's end credits song), and I'm not familiar with the other three nominees.

It's a terrific song, holds a LOT of weight in the film, and it's got that T-Bone Burnett magic touch.

Though I was bummed that "All is Love" by Karen O and the Kids (from Where the Wild Things Are) didn't get a nomination

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Out of a list of nominations that makes me very angry, this by far makes me the angriest.

Mech

with the editing when I saw the film.

just curious.

The worst I saw was the scene where Precious first comes to the school nad meets Cornrows.

The editing overall is acceptable, but it wasn't really anything I'd consider Oscar worthy.

District 9? Damn, they were really out of ideas.

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honestly this is the worst list of nominees I can remember. No agenda push, no exaggeration. This is just not a good year for film and awards season has only made that more apparent.

I'd say in ranking the best of each category I saw this year, I see a large number of my list on this list.

I agree that I saw very very few 4-star films this year.

underwhelming.

That's why I call it underwhelming, since I can't really describe it as anything more glowing than solid. When 4 or 5 of the best 15 films I saw this year were animated, that (a) speaks strongly about the advancement of animation's storytelling prowess by more than just the usual suspects, and (b) speaks not as strongly of the live-action cinema 2009 had to offer.

What would your 4-star films have been this year?

>What would your 4-star films have been this year?

The films I loved that I saw in 2009 are ineligible - 35 Shots of Rum; The Secret of the Grain; Revanche; Still Walking; Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go; Wendy and Lucy; Sugar; Me and Orson Welles. I'd call of them great except for Me and Orson Welles. 2 great films that I can't say that I love are Hunger and Munyurangabo.

Even taking those out of the picture, I'd still call 2009 a good year because I think there was a bunch of good films.

>The films I loved that I saw in 2009 are ineligible - 35 Shots
>of Rum;
Revanche;
Sugar;

For me I'd add Gomorrah and Summer Hours. Where the Wild Things was also up there for me and that got zero love anywhere in any category. I figured at least Karen O would win something...

With all the noms The Piano got in 94, I figured a return by the same director to a period piece, which the Academy likes, would have garnered more nods. Maybe with a bigger distributor things would've been different. (Who makes awards marketing decisions - the distributor or production company?) A shame for Abbie Cornish who gave a great performance. I would swap either An Education for Bright Star for Best Pic, Mulligan for Cornish for Actress, and Nine for Bright Star for art direction. This year would've been great for voters to play politics having 2 female directors up for Best Director and 3 films by women directors up for Best Pic.

Second biggest surprise is An Education's You've Got Me Wrapped Around Your Little Finger not getting nominated.

Biggest acting snub since, off the top, Jeff Bridges for Door in the Floor that had no shot is Tilda Swinton's lead performance in Julia.

I had to look away. Powerful yes, but I only got about halfway thru before I decided I just didn't care to find out what other horrible things this woman was capable of.

I said I would kill myself if Faizon Love wasn't nominated for his portrayal of Clarice "Precious" Jones so I blew my brains out this morning

I might be the only one who enjoyed it more than Up.

I did too. Well I didn't see Up but I'm rooting for Mr. Fox.

>I might be the only one who enjoyed it more than Up.

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but how the fuck were Waltz With Bashir AND Gomorra not nominated for best foreign film?

last year as well; ineligible for the current one.

Oh, I guess it goes by the foreign release. I'm glad White Ribbon got a nom though

at least it makes sense why you didn't like it though.

I thought I was the only one! I really did. Well, to be fair I definitely wouldn't call it terrible. But it wasn't even good, let alone picture of the year, 9 nominations, massive hype good. I dunno how the hell its gotten so much attention.

still not as overrated as up in the air though.

after last years show I dont know if I can take it this year

I'm very pleased with the majority of those films being on there.

I feel it lessens the prestige of being nominated for best picture when you now share that distinction with films like The Blind Side. And now animated films will get pity nods instead of deserved ones.

...and District 9. If anything, I like the "bottom five" just as much if not MORE than the top 5.

Given I haven't seen a number of them, but I agree:

Avatar

Stupid action film, but enjoyable. In a good year wouldn't be considered, this year I think it's a banker.

The Blind Side

Not seen

District 9

I enjoyed it in a "it's different" kind of way. But parts were terrible, and overall it shouldn't even be on a top 50.

An Education

Boring

The Hurt Locker

Perhaps the most overrated movie of the past 10 years.

Inglourious Basterds

Fun. Not a usual Oscar nominee, but I can accept.

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Not seen

A Serious Man

Fairly indie for Oscars, but pretty good.

Up

Not even close to Pixar's best.

Up in the Air

Not seen.




Ok I've missed quite a bit, but it's not exactly awe-inspiring. Not one of them am I considering for my best of 00's list.

cause that might have wiped out, like, the next 100 years of the academy's credibility (if crash didn't do it already). i still think extending the list to 10 is too many and they should've just focused on getting the 5 right, but i'm not mad at the list they chose this year. at some point though, a hangover-caliber movie is gonna sneak through, at which point they'll cut the nominations for the next year down to 7.

Red West and Souleymane Sy Savane were two of my favourite actors of 2009 for their respective roles in this beautiful film.


Patton Oswalt brought the heat to Big Fan. HEATROCK.

get an Oscar nom? That's not on their radar. At all.

Patton did a great job there.

>Patton did a great job there.

of the year.

I guess it was positioned too early in the year, so it wasn't fresh on the voters' minds either.

But that was the best picture I saw this year. And you're right, the actors deserved some notice too.

EDIT: big fan, i mean. curious to see what patton oswalt do.

White Ribbon got nominated for best foreign. Nice! I'm rooting for that big time (although haven't seen A Prophet yet). Didn't expect that at all, and fully deserved. Actually that's about the only nomination I strongly support.

Edit: No it isn't. Il Divo for best makeup! Didn't notice anything about the makeup, just wanna see the film get some props. In fact I can't believe it wasn't nominated for best foreign as well.

Saw A Prophet last night, holy shit! That was one of the best films I've seen for YEARS. Wait I'm gonna make a whole thread for it. But I'd say it should be a shoe in for best international. In fact it's a real shame the Oscar judges are such dicks and are too scared to put foreign language films in the running. This is good enough for best picture.

and still got nominated... while everyone else was hobnobbing and doing the Q & As, she was in the ATL doing her talk show...

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mo did what she had to do. she ain't have to do much after that.

it's her award.

with that performance, she could've spent the last few months on the moon and still gotten a statue.

as long as avatar or qt win, i win. MAD

It would take an IB sweep to win Best Director for QT. It's gonna be a Cameron/Bigelow showdown.

period. it was at least as good as pulp fiction, if not better.

I thought it was his most interesting since Jackie Brown, and played host to some good scenes and a great performance by Christoph Waltz. But not as good as Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown to me. I didn't feel emotionally connected to the characters in the same way that I did in those two.

I agree. Minus Brad Pitt's embarrassment of a performance this is QT's best film (outside of True Romance which he only wrote). All of his ultra-annoying quirks are subtracted and you just get pure cinema. Some of those scenes (opening, bar) are HOF-ers. And as a screenwriter you can tell that he spent ALOT of time with this script to come up with all of those details. Very well written and thought out.

I dug his performance. *shrug*

I don't see how it was "an embarrassment"

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Ah, man, fuck it, the Academy never votes *right* -- we all know that.

But really though....Avatar was good, but fuck it getting the nod. I hope Cam's EX wipes the floor with him (but we all know the Academy).

And yes, Trek was snubbed, but good to see District in there.

because for the first time in ages, I've seen over half the movies nominated for Best Picture (Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Up and Up in the Air) and I still want to see Precious. I actually might watch the awards this year.....

if your movie hasn't been at least somewhat widely seen, there's a really good chance it wasn't the year's best picture. sometimes the academy unearths some gems that audiences overlooked, but more often than not we just get mediocre oscar bait like 'an education' that nobody's seen and for a good reason. what i'm saying is that there's a reason hurt locker only made $12 mil its entire run. it never found an audience because it's not the best picture of the year.

this is a spinoff of post #109 ("if your movie hasn't been at least somewhat widely seen, there's a really good chance it wasn't the year's best picture"). i think any movie that can't make $25 mil in its entire run should be looked at by the academy with extreme prejudice, barring extenuating circumstances (very late or very limited release, very niche subject matter, etc).

by the way, the last best picture winner to make less than $50 million was the last emperor in 1987 ($43.9 mil). before that, it was the deer hunter in 1978 ($49.0 mil). the point of this post is that the hurt locker is not the best picture of the year and an education is just wasting a spot.

1. Avatar - $598.5 million
2. Up - $293.0 million
3. The Blind Side - $238.1 million
4. Inglourious Basterds - $120.5 million
5. District 9 - $115.6 million
6. Up in the Air - $73.5 million
7. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - $45.5 million
8. The Hurt Locker - $12.6 million
9. A Serious Man - $9.2 million
10. An Education - $8.8 million

In the post-Crash world, I think screeners are going to dictate a winner more than ever before (screeners + internet hype = Academy momentum and then likely box office).

Slumdog Millionaire wasn't a huge hit before it starting picking up SERIOUS steam (IIRC), and Crash did okay but not until it picked up a lot of buzz with the genius campaign of waiting until it was on DVD to send it out to voters (something IB did this year...reducing cost yet still getting as much voting traction).

I think it's a 3 way race, and Avatar is leading right now.

It would take anti-Avatar backlash, little-movie backlash, and QT backlash for it to win... but it's made 75 million, has a star in it, is about timely subject matter, and has the slimmest of outside chances to sneak up.

Plus, with 10 nominees and a somewhat new system of how people will vote this time around, we're all basically pissing in the wind trying to figure this one out this year.

...has it won ANYTHING yet?

It won screenplay and score at one or two of the mid-major award shows. It's a fun film, but it's almost head scratching how many noms it's gotten.

Behind Avatar and Hurt Locker. If those two split the votes enough, and there's a big enough Cameron-backlash, it has a chnace of winning.

I did like Avatar better though. Haven't seen "Hurt Locker" yet.

the SAG win for the cast, plus one for waltz, suggests that the actors guild (largest oscar voting bloc) liked it more than UITA.

wow, didn't realize that.....

Damnit.

That's one of my favorite films of the year by far. Tyson and the Lil' Wayne doc should have been considered.

it's subject matter is scaring people into not nominating it.

I forgot that movie even came out until my homeboy mentioned it yesterday.

A two-hour economics lesson/lecture disguised as a "probing" documentary into What Went Wrong with The System

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Like he didn't submit "9/11" for a Best Doc. nom either. He pretty much said during the press before the movie he wasn't really sure it was a documentary anyway.

1.) Amelia - LOL...that shit looked like undeniable Oscar fare when the trailer came out. Several months later, it's fallen off the face of the Earth. Hilary Swank looked a lil too cartoonish, which is always a risk with biopics. Ewan McGregor is slowly becoming a pox on your project.

2.) Nine - I also thought this was a sure bet for an Oscar nod pre-release. Daniel Day, Kidman, Dench, Cruz...and a musical? I haven't seen it, but I wonder what happened there. Maybe one of y'all can fill me in.

3.) 9 - I haven't seen this one either, but it was getting metioned in the same breath as Wall-E. Then no best animated nod.

4.) The Time Traveler's Wife - I might be on an island with this one, but it was one of the best movies I've seen this last Oscars cycle. In past years, I wouldn't consider it the kinda movie that the academy would cosign. But given some of the noms this year in best picture category, I don't see how those were better films than this one. Eric Bana put together a very solid year, IMO. This, Star Trek, and his role in Funny People...all memorable appearances. I feel like there's a GREAT role floating around out there for him that he'll meet up with soon.

5.) Moon - If you didn't think that was one of the best performances of the year, male or female, I don't know what to tell you.

>
>3.) 9 - I haven't seen this one either, but it was getting
>metioned in the same breath as Wall-E. Then no best animated
>nod.
>

>1.) Amelia - LOL...that shit looked like undeniable Oscar
>fare when the trailer came out. Several months later, it's
>fallen off the face of the Earth. Hilary Swank looked a lil
>too cartoonish, which is always a risk with biopics. Ewan
>McGregor is slowly becoming a pox on your project.

Yeah McGregor automatically makes me think twice about seeing any movie he's in nowadays. Although for the record I never considered seeing Amelia.

>4.) The Time Traveler's Wife - I might be on an island with
>this one, but it was one of the best movies I've seen this
>last Oscars cycle. In past years, I wouldn't consider it the
>kinda movie that the academy would cosign. But given some of
>the noms this year in best picture category, I don't see how
>those were better films than this one. Eric Bana put together
>a very solid year, IMO. This, Star Trek, and his role in
>Funny People...all memorable appearances. I feel like there's
>a GREAT role floating around out there for him that he'll meet
>up with soon.

I think maybe he already got it with Chopper. He saved the last 1/2 hour from Funny People becoming completely unbearable but I didn't think he was that great in Star Trek.

I liked Kruger's performance more though felt nods would go to Laurent instead of her.