I made a star next in each category on who I think is going to win, only the categories i might know.

OSCAR NOMINATIONS-

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 13 nominations
*Slumdog Millionaire - 10 nominations
The Dark Knight - 8 nominations (But none in the leading categories )
*Milk - 7 nominations
*Frost/Nixon - 5 nominations
*The Reader - 5 nominations
Doubt - 5 nominations


Best motion picture of the year
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
*Slumdog Millionaire

Performance by an actor in a leading roleRichard Jenkins (The Visitor)
Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Sean Penn (Milk)
Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
*Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin (Milk)
Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
*Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
*Kate Winslet (The Reader)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams (Doubt)
*Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)

Best animated feature film of the year
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
*WALL•E

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

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

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

Achievement in art direction
Changeling
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Achievement in cinematography
Changeling, Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister
The Reader, Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
*Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in costume design
Australia, Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Jacqueline West
*The Duchess, Michael O’Connor
Milk, Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road, Albert Wolsky

Achievement in directing
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 feature
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

Achievement in makeup
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Greg Cannom
The Dark Knight, John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in film editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
The Dark Knight, Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon, Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
Milk, Elliot Graham
*Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Departures
Revanche
Waltz With Bashir

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
Defiance, James Newton Howard
Milk, Danny Elfman
*Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman
WALL•E, Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
*“Down to Earth” from WALL-E (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
“Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
“O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman andMaya Arulpragasam

Achievement in sound editingThe Dark Knight, Richard King
*Iron Man, Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Sayers
WALL•E, Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
Wanted, Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
*The Dark Knight, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
Slumdog Millionaire, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
WALL•E,Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
Wanted, Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
The Dark Knight, Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
Iron Man, John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay
Eric Roth & Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)
*Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
David Hare (The Reader)
Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)

Original screenplay
Courtney Hunt (Frozen River)
Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky)
Martin McDonagh (In Bruges)
Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
*Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon (WALL•E)

Wow, you think Wall-E is a "lock" for a Best Picture nom? I don't see that happening at all. Animated, sure, but not overall. I thought when seeing EW's recent breakdown that it wasn't even in the "possibles" category.

I am however looking forward to seeing Fincher get his first Best Director nod and Pitt get his first Best Actor nod. And yea, I guess it would be cool to see Ledger win Best Supporting Actor.

i forgot Doubt.

And I just had a feeling that the Academy will want to make up for the lost opportunities with other Pixar films. And there is a first time for everything.

i mustve been under a rock this whole year because i have not heard of any of those movies you have mentioned except for Wall-E and Dark Knight.

oh, wait...thats right! I've been playing video games.
BioShock for Best Screenplay anyone?

i watch a lot of trailers

Slumdog Millionaire looks good.

yeah perhaps you are right samwise about Wall-E. Not just yet.

I do as well, and collect them. I assume as a trailer fan you know of these?

http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/
http://www.movie-list.com/


oh and to TJ, as far as not recognizing any titles -- remember, it's not at all uncommon for the bulk of the films genuinely up for real awards consideration to come out at the end of the year, and even in limited release at that. PLENTY of times it's happened in the past where the studio gives a film a limited release in literally like just a couple of theatres in NY and/or LA for just a week right before the qualifying window (& I'm not entirely sure what that is, btw) just so it can be eligible for the Oscars, then the wider release comes later.

ha, no i don't, but those are great ones. I just look at Cinemablend, Movies.com, yahoo movies, and youtube.

as does revolutionary road

dark knight will probably get best picture its hollywood and that movie made money. i don't think it'll be that much of a stretch to say so.

I haven't heard of most of those.

As you may or may not know, I'm really into the paranormal etc, and Eastwood is going to be directing a supernatural thriller called HereAfter, and supposedly it is in the same realm as Sixth Sense (aka methodical build up, no special effects, character development).

Eastwood does no wrong. Just because of this I hope he gets nominated again.

Really? I love Eastwood.

I really need to go see some movies, I haven't seen anything in the theater since Pineapple Express.

Also IHRM, isn't Malick's Tree of Life coming out this year?

next year. tied for my most anticipated.

Actually a three way tie.

Malick's Tree of Life
Scorsese's Shutter Island
Mann's Public Enemies

They shot a lot of PE in Wisconsin. Wisconsin was in a Johnny Depp craze for about a month.

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/tw ... ers-arrive


really good couple of trailers for Revolutionary Road. I'm feeling quite strongly about Dicaprio and this movie winning. Perhaps Kate Winslet as well.

Will the 6th time be the charm for Katie? Well I mean I've said this in other threads, Kate Winslet's long been my dream girl, always will be. The perfect woman. Titanic to me was actually by far the worst performance of her career (it's kinda hard when you've got shit dialog to work with, but thats Cameron for ya). I've always dug DiCaprio, and Sam Mendes is a solid 3-for-3 so far (his only real fault being the rat bastard married the love of my life )