PGA Award Nominations 2009

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And the PGA nominees are:

• Slumdog Millionaire
  
• Milk
  
• Frost/Nixon
  
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  
• The Dark Knight

To  all of you who keep freaking out over The Dark Knight actually appearing on this list, may I present you with a great big helping of so the f what. 

The facts are these:

The PGA is the group that nominated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Shrek for their top honor in the same year.  Quality big money movies get in.  It’s certainly good that the producers are backing the picture, but the Directors Guild of America, with the exception of last year, is a better test of a film’s chances. The director’s have gone five for five with Oscar’s Best Picture nominations before (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), whereas it’s common to see one of the PGA names left off Oscar’s short list.  

That said, consensus says the pictures above will also likely be your DGA nominees. I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re going to see a Darren Aronofsky nod for The Wrestler when the DGA nominations announced with a noticeably absent Ron Howard.

The Dark Knight fans, you’ll get your nod. But celebrating a PGA nomination is just silly. (Especially when The Dark Knight is not the first superhero movie to get nominated. That was The Incredibles.)  Wait for it. Let it happen.

Right now, I’m just going to sit back a cry that WALL-E wasn’t nominated.  If there was any place for it to gain steam, the PGA nods would have been it.