Jan 22 2009So Here's the Full Oscar Nominations List

I enjoyed Benjamin Button... Is "The Last Inch" about sexual intercourse?

No TDK?
Why bother?

I think we all could've used a little more Dark Knight and a lot less Benjamin Button

How could they not have nominated the Dark Knight for Music(Score). WtF It had an awesome sound track. And also Directing??? Really Heath should not be in best supporting actor just because( Now dont hate me I loved his performance) he passed away. Its called a sympathy award. No one wants to admit it. But still good for. But Chris Nollan really should have been nom for Best Director and the movie should have been up for best picture. And also best sound track. Like

I said don't think I am just hatting on Heath. I really did enjoy him bringing the Joker character to life.

Gran Torino should be in the hunt.

Wall-E sucked!

I truly marked Button and Milk as the least impressive major motion pictures I saw last year.

Milk was not impressive filmmaking. But if the Academy wants to give an Oscar to Gus just for the sake of doing so, so be it.

I'm actually surprised that we still care what these Hollywood insiders consider "art".

We need a huge asteroid to kill off these dinosaurs. Maybe "global warming" will do the trick.

While a bit lengthy, Benjamin Button and Milk (as already said) were probably the best films of 2008.

And I thought all the deliberation said TDK was eligible for a nomination for score?

I seriously can't fathom how WALL-E could lose. WALL-E already gets points for being a Pixar movie (justified or not), but I found it to be some amazing storytelling. The first half of the movie was a great exercise in silent storytelling, with only a handful of spoken words to get the watcher through. ...And I've truly never seen heaps of trash look more beautiful. WALL-E is art, I tell you!

Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you freaking kidding me? The Pig and
Spielzeugland are in the running for best live action short? Are you kidding me?

Oh my God, what the eff are they thinking?

For Christ's sake, that's totally fecking ruined my day. Where's Die Einschengler Du Mein Jugendheberge? Where's Kovkalnikoff's epic Zartok im Plendershav? Where's The Inane Beauty of the Innocent Hermitages? Seriously, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Now, I agree that DK should be there for Best Pic and Directing but honestly, Benjamin was an amazing film. It is so refreshing to go to a theater and be able to truly watch and original movie, in every respect. People complained that it was boring but if you consider amazing screen writing, direction, cinematography, acting, scoring, editing, make-up, mixing and overall production quality boring because there are no firefights, car wrecks or "controversial content" then you're view of how to appreciate a movie is a little askew.
That being said, it's all a matter of opinion of course.

#12. Button was not an original movie, in "every respect". It was an adaption based off a short-story. An original movie would have a script with an original.

This isn't a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact. But I will say that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a great movie, though. Very good use of cinema to illustrate the original work.

The Oscars are going to get incredibly low ratings this year.

Remember when movies were so good that even Martin Scorsese couldn't win an Oscar? What a great time in cinema...

Repo the genetic opera should have gotten an oscar nod for best song. Sarah Brightman people! f sakes.

#12

You consider Forest Gump part 2 to be original??

did forest gump already win the oscar? so why do they insist on giving it another one? and not even a nomination for TDK in best picture or director? why do people wonder why less people watch this every year? and i also feel that the oscars should include fan votes and not michael bay

How is Philip Seymour Hoffman nominated as best supporting actor? He was in the whole damn movie! Did the producers of Doubt think he'd stand a good chance against Heath Ledger or something?

The problem with the Oscars is that it's douchebag actors campaigning and voting for each other. They'll never vote a best picture or director for anything out of the norm. They probably figure, well, we gave an award to Lord of the Rings, what more do you people want?

It's like pop music, studies show the popularity of the crap is based largely on whether people think *other* people will like it, not whether the reviewer themselves like it or think it's good.

Also, don't underestimate all the bigshot dbags from Paramount campaigning for Button because the movie wasn't as good as they thought it was before it was released and they didn't make enough money on it as they thought they would. I suspect if you looked at late December release movies that win big Oscar awards, they're not the financial winners that the studios thought they would be.

#12 obviously hasn't seen Forrest Gump.

I can't believe Brad Pitt got a nod. I cant. I just can't.
and Cate doesn't.

I'm really happy with the nominees this year. I thought slumdog millionaire was an amazing movie, in story, cinematography and music. It was one of the first movies I felt like was actually a film instead of a video with a sequence of actions in it. Go Danny Boyle, you are truly an artist/filmmaker! My only hope is that slumdog and kung fu panda wins!

No DELGO??!?!? WTF!!!!

Im calling man on wire for best doc, although only because its the only one i've seen. How is wearing blackface and talking in a deeper voice Oscar-worthy? Robert downey doest deserve shit, even if he went all method for tropic thunder by buying heroin for 6 years prior

Here are my reactions (specifically how the hell The Reader could get a Best Pic nom): http://thefilmstage.com/2009/01/22/the-reader/

I totally forgot 'In Bruges' came out in 2008. Such a shame it only got 1 nomination, but it got nominated in the right category.

Okay, The Dark Knight was awesome, and Heath more than deserved the Best Supporting nod, but it was certainly not deserving of a Best Picture or Director nod.
And I didn't care much for WALL-E, so I won't even comment on that one.
#16, I agree. However, Repo was way too violent and sexual for the Oscars.
Also, In Bruges was robbed. One nomination? Really?

who fucking cares they always get in wrong. slumdog gets 2 song nominations for 2 songs that basically sounds the same, and bruce springsteen doesnt get one?! the wrestler got fucked in the ass too, as did the dark knight, but i was expecting that

as long as heath and rourke win i could care less about the rest, but i have a feeling that slumdog is gonna win most of the ones it was nominated for, which is kinda a present to india for all that mumbai shit that happened

hey, at least ill admit to that

Let's set the record straight here: Benjamin Button sucked. Sorry, if I wanted to watch Forrest Gump again, I would just watch Forrest Gump again. But I don't. Because Forrest Gump isn't all that great either.

The point being: no Synecdoche?

ok i take back that slumdog comment, i saw that movie tonight and it was one of the best ive seen in years

i hope it wins everything it was nominated for

Benjamin Button was horrible. You can't compare it to Forrest Gump because it wasn't like it in any shape or form. Forrest Gump actually did something. He travelled the world, was amazing at ping pong, actually did something in the military, etc. Benjamin Button did nothing worthwhile. He just aged backwards. That's about it. He was in the navy, but did absolutely nothing. It was just basically a movie that told about some dude that lived a life of aging backwards and what girl he was interested to/having sex with at the time. Unnecessary three hours.

And best costume? Really? The transition from him being a young adult to a teenager was just putting him in loose-fitting clothes. Come on.

The Dark Knight was probably the best Batman movie so far... but Best Picture? Seriously? It wasn't THAT good.