G’Day, Sorry, this is very late but living in Australia meant it took longer to see some films (I still haven’t seen as many as I would like). Hopefully this time of year will mean this doesn’t clutter the forum up as much.
This is my 3rd film awards. Nods selected from all films eligible for the 2008 Oscars (81st). Category placement was decided by me.
Usually I ask you guys to vote for winners but due to last year’s lack of response coupled with the lateness of these I won’t bother this year. However I am still on the fence with some categories so feel free to make the case for your favourites. I will take any comments under consideration (especially in those undecided categories). I’ll post winners in about a week.
BEST PICTURE: The Dark Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E
DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
LEAD ACTRESS: Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth Cate Blanchett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt
LEAD ACTOR: Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon Michael Sheen, Frost/Nixon
SCREENPLAY: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan & David S. Goyer, The Dark Knight John Patrick Shanley, Doubt Andrew Stanton, Pete Doctor & Jim Reardon, WALL-E
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alan Alda, Nothing But the Truth Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Bill Murray, The City of Ember Oliver Platt, Frost/Nixon
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Evan Rachael Wood, The Wrestler Marissa Tomei, The Wrestler
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT The Dark Knight Lee Smith (Editing), Wally Pfister (Cinematography), Nathan Crowley & Peter Lando (Art Direction), Lindy Hemming (Costumes), John Caglione, Jr. & Conor O’Sullivan (Makeup), John Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer (Music), Richard King & Laura Hirschberg & Gary Rizzo & Ed Novik (Sound), Nick Davis & Chris Corbould & Tim Webber & Paul Franklin (Visual Effects) Changeling Tom Stern (Cinematography), James J. Murakami & Gary Fettis (Art Direction), Deborah Hopper (Costumes), Clint Eastwood (Music) Frost/Nixon Mike Hill & Dan Hanley (Editing), Hans Zimmer (Music) Slumdog Millionaire Chris Dickens (Editing), Anthony Dod Mantle (Cinematography), A.R. Rahman (Music), Glen Freemantle & Tom Sayers & Ian Tapp & Richard Pryke & Resul Pookutty (Sound) WALL-E Stephen Schaffer (Editing), Jeremy Lasky & Danielle Feinberg (Cinematography), Ralph Eggleston (Art Direction), Thomas Newman & Peter Gabriel (Music), Ben Burt & Matthew Wood & Tom Meyers & Michael Semanik (Sound), Andrew Stanton & Jim Morris & Lindsay Collins & Nigel Hardwidge (Visual Effects)
Congratulations West Wing, Emmys most honored drama. 27 Emmys including 4 best drama series "What's Next?"
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This is quite a great interesting set of nominees you got here!!!
2010 Oscars FYC:
Lead Actor - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer Lead Actress - Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Original Screenplay - Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, (500) Days of Summer
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Most Nominations Frost/Nixon: 7 Doubt: 6 The Dark Knight: 6 WALL-E: 4 Slumdog Millionaire: 3 Gran Torino: 2 Frozen River: 2 Nothing But the Truth: 2 The Wrestler: 2 Vicky Cristina Barcelona: 2
People with Multiple Nominations (not counting best picture) Clint Eastwood: 3 Andrew Stanton: 3 Christopher Nolan: 2 Hans Zimmer: 2
Most nominations of all time The Departed: 8 There Will Be Blood: 7 Michael Clayton: 7 Frost/Nixon: 7 The Dark Knight: 6 Doubt: 6 United 93: 5 Little Miss Sunshine: 5
Also this year marks Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman's 3rd Noble Award nomination and brings Clint Eastwood to 4.
Congratulations West Wing, Emmys most honored drama. 27 Emmys including 4 best drama series "What's Next?"
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G'Day, very sorry about the lateness of the winners, I got caught up with all the emmy stuff. Suerly October has to come close to a record for latest awards for the previous year.
Anyway if anone is still interested in my winners you can check out my blog which had nice pictures for each category.
If you do not want to go elsewhere I will post the list of winners in this thread tomorrow. I won't post them now in order to preserve the suspence for those scrolling down the blog. However feel free to comment on any or all of the winners.
Congratulations West Wing, Emmys most honored drama. 27 Emmys including 4 best drama series "What's Next?"
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Thanks babypook, I found it so hard choosing between Dark Knight and WALL-E for best picture and director (they kept on switching in my mind).
Well my US trip was released on youtube this year so who knows you may see it pop up at my 4th anual film awards. (in all seriousness a film needs to be eligible for the oscars to get nominated for a Noble).
Congratulations West Wing, Emmys most honored drama. 27 Emmys including 4 best drama series "What's Next?"
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Not sure I agree PSH was a lead in Doubt. He was a huge presecnese but just didn't have the screentime, especially with Adams playing co-lead to Streep.
But, it's really great to see Kate Beckinsale here. She should have been nommed for an Oscar, it sucks that she didn't get a campaign. And even though i wouldn't have nominated her, I LOVED Rebecca Hall in "VCB" and thought she was miles better than ScarJo and was on par(or slightly less) than Penlope Cruz(who I consider the BSA of last year).
I always like seeing that other people agree with me about Melissa Leo.
Also, while I didn't like Wall-E at all, I appreciate the recognition that animated films actually have directors. Too bad Hollywood hasn't seemed to figure this out yet.
G'Day, G.Penn Hoffman was just as lead as Streep in Doubt in my opinion. Adams did have quite a bit of screentime but was more a background device to the story with the focus being on Streep and Hoffman.
Yeah I liked Beckinsale and Hall but was least confident in my lead actress line-up. Leo was the only one I really loved in my group. I missed a few key performances there which is a shame. I did think Cruz was the standout in VCB but prefered the Doubt ladies.
Glad you liked the Leo mention MysteriousRent, she was so good in the film and Frozen River came so close to a picture and director nod. Also respect on your WALL-E comments. I feel so strongly that Pixar is just producing films at the very top level and the fact that the academy hasn't realised that is a huge shame.
As promised here is my list of winners for those who didn't want to go to the blog:
BEST PICTURE: The Dark Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E
DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
LEAD ACTRESS: Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth Cate Blanchett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt
LEAD ACTOR: Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon Michael Sheen, Frost/Nixon
SCREENPLAY: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan & David S. Goyer, The Dark Knight John Patrick Shanley, Doubt Andrew Stanton, Pete Doctor & Jim Reardon, WALL-E
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alan Alda, Nothing But the Truth Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Bill Murray, The City of Ember Oliver Platt, Frost/Nixon
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Evan Rachael Wood, The Wrestler Marissa Tomei, The Wrestler
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT The Dark Knight Lee Smith (Editing), Wally Pfister (Cinematography), Nathan Crowley & Peter Lando (Art Direction), Lindy Hemming (Costumes), John Caglione, Jr. & Conor O’Sullivan (Makeup), John Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer (Music), Richard King & Laura Hirschberg & Gary Rizzo & Ed Novik (Sound), Nick Davis & Chris Corbould & Tim Webber & Paul Franklin (Visual Effects) Changeling Tom Stern (Cinematography), James J. Murakami & Gary Fettis (Art Direction), Deborah Hopper (Costumes), Clint Eastwood (Music) Frost/Nixon [I]Mike Hill & Dan Hanley (Editing), Hans Zimmer (Music) Slumdog Millionaire Chris Dickens (Editing), Anthony Dod Mantle (Cinematography), A.R. Rahman (Music), Glen Freemantle & Tom Sayers & Ian Tapp & Richard Pryke & Resul Pookutty (Sound) WALL-E Stephen Schaffer (Editing), Jeremy Lasky & Danielle Feinberg (Cinematography), Ralph Eggleston (Art Direction), Thomas Newman & Peter Gabriel (Music), Ben Burt & Matthew Wood & Tom Meyers & Michael Semanik (Sound), Andrew Stanton & Jim Morris & Lindsay Collins & Nigel Hardwidge (Visual Effects)
Congratulations West Wing, Emmys most honored drama. 27 Emmys including 4 best drama series "What's Next?"
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Myltiple wins by films at the Noble Awards: The Queen (3) Frost/Nixon (2) Little Miss Sunshine (2) Michael Clayton (2) Ratatouille (2) There Will Be Blood (2) WALL-E (2)
Multiple wins by Indivisuals: Amy Adams (2) Peter Morgan (2) Michael Semanik (2) Andrew Stanton (2)
Best Picture Winners: 2006: Letters From Iwo Jima 2007: There Will Be Blood 2008: The Dark Knight
Congratulations West Wing, Emmys most honored drama. 27 Emmys including 4 best drama series "What's Next?"
Posts: 2458 | Location: Sydney, Australia | Registered: September 07, 2005
