Final Oscar 2008-2009 Nomination Predictions
Will The Dark Knight get its Best Picture nod? Will Slumdog nab the most nominations? Will Woody Allen spoil the day for another director? Will Kate Winslet get the two nods she deserves? What’s going to happen?! Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EST/5:30 p.m. PST the Academy will announce the Oscar nominees. Anyone who has watched the Oscar knows there are bound to be surprises. People are starting to doubt The Dark Knight, but I’m not betting against it. TDK fans will have their day. My final predictions are listed below, but check out the Oscar Predix page to see the evolution of Oscar 2008/2009. Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire – And the winner is… The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Solid, classy, the future of Hollywood. Milk – The kind of politically-charged, fight-for-what’s-right kind of story the Academy loves....
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)–**** Zemeckis, an undisputed master of film technology, shows off an equal aptitude for vivid storytelling in bringing Winston Groom’s picaresque novel to screen. –Rita Kempley’s 1994 Washington Post review of Forrest Gump Seriously? I hated Forrest Gump. Hated, hated, hated Forrest Gump, as Roger Ebert would say. Every time I see the 1994 Best Picture winner on television, I dislike it even more. The notion of the story, the film’s saccharine sentimentality and the unbelievable protagonist, grate on my sensibilities as a moviegoer. And then there are the visual effects, which in those early days of computer technology killed my already challenged suspension of disbelief. Why mention this in a review of David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Because if there was any film that succeeded exactly where Forrest Gump...
Read MoreOscar Predictions Posted
Will David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button get all the attention Oscar watchers are predicting? Will Heath Ledger get a nomination or even a win for The Dark Knight? Will WALL•E at least get a nod for Best Picture? It’s never too early to start making wild predictions. Hell, Entertainment Weekly started doing it as soon as No Country for Old Men won Best Picture in February. So check out my first set of Oscar predictions....
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