Best Picture:
Predicted Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor:
Predicted Winner: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Best Actress:
Predicted Winner: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Best Supporting Actor:
Predicted (hoped?) Winner: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Best Supporting Actress:
Predicted Winner: Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
Best Director:
Predicted Winner: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
The rest are largely unimportant. The technical awards will probably be mostly taken by Benjamin Button, and Wall E as animated feature is a lock
Now, a rant, one you all probably saw coming and it's really my own f**king fault for giving into the overall consensus and not keeping with my pessimistic nature. The Dark Knight snub. And yes, it was a snub. Every guild had shortlisted it on their best film lists, the critics all listed it on their end of years list and the common belief among Oscar watchers was that it would be nominated. Instead, the Academy showed their true colours, by instead picking a film with no momentum in The Reader. Honestly, it appears these jokers pick only based on how Oscar worthy they look and the subject matter they tackle as opposed to actually basing the noms on merit. And in this regard, a film about a man running around in a batsuit was hardly going to get nominated ahead of Another Important Holocaust Movie, no matter how relevant or mature the themes presented. It would appear that the genre of superhero movie will never be seriously considered by the Academy. And don't give me that crap about Watchmen possibly having a chance. Batman was always the material that could best be translated into an best picture worthy film and even the best possible effort wasn't enough. They didn't even nominate the most consistent director of modern times (and my Film Person Of The Year) Christopher Nolan. The man is way past his due. Oh well, if he sets Batman 3 during WW2 maybe his has a chance next time round. With this debacle, the apparent certainty that Ledger would win Best Supporting Actor is also on shaky ground. Nothing seems certain anymore. Still, at least the Academy can now never take the film from us. Their nomination of it for Best Pic would have been largely to service their own benefits, and boost ratings. Now instead of being an exercise in elitist backslapping, it remains the fans' films, as it was always intended to be. Years from now, most of those Oscar nominated films will be long forgotten, but The Dark Knight's legacy with remain undiminished and outlive them all
Also, even though it was slightly overrated, The Wresler got a raw deal. It deserved a Best Pic nom. And Best Director. And why the f**k did Bruce Springsteen not get nominated under best original song for The Wrestler. And, the standout score of the year in TDK score was ignored. It deserved the nom just for the fantastic theme Zimmer dreamt up for The Joker. Disturbing and unsettling
So yeah, the Academy is a f**king shambles. No changes then
Peace. I'm off to listen to the new Springsteen album
Comments
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TDK got 8 nominations, 7 of them middly important, like editing, direction on editing and stuff. I'd like to see one of those a$$holes doing Christian Bale's Batman voice. I loved Caine on TDK! and nothing! sh!t.
As disappointing as it can be, you gotta take everything the Academy does with a grain of salt. I mean, Kevin Costner has won Best Director. Does that mean he's a better director than Christopher Nolan, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, David Fincher, Spike Lee, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma and the greatest director of all time Stanley Kubrick? Heck no.
Acting is the same. Nicholas Cage has won a best actor award so does that mean he's better than Clint Eastwood, Peter O'Toole, Johnny Depp and DiCapprio? God no.
Unfortunately the Academy has always been in shambles and it's probably not gonna get any better any time soon.
I have to admit I was pretty pissed about the Bruce Springsteen snub. The Dark Knight one I expected but snubbing The Boss is so not cool. Especially since they only have 3 nominees and usually they have 5. Seems like they did that on purpose. Sally Hawkins not getting nominated was disappointing as well but she got the Golden Globe so whatever.
I think your predictions are pretty good except I think Fincher will get Best Director, Kate Winslet for Best Actress and Penelope Cruz for Supporting Actress. But that's just a guess on my part.
Plus you Dee Radiohead Syndrome-d it to me even from the beginning.
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Ledger will win,but its a shame that it took his death in order to bring major attention to tdk, which really is ingenious, although as a batman fan, i may be more than a bit biased.