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Nominees 2009

posted 16 years ago by ShaneM_Anderson
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Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Dark Knight

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Achievement in Directing
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Michel Gondry - Be Kind Rewind

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Best Writing,Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Best Achievement in Editing

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Bernie Pollack,Mary Zophres - Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Best Achievement in Makeup

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

Best Achievement in Sound

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Best Documentary, Features

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Best Short Film, Animated

Best Short Film, Live Action

copy an add to the list as many as you want, no flames please.

Most recent movie I've watched
Cinemas:The Dark Knight 10/10
DVD :No Country For Old Men 10/10

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[–] fuzzout987 16 years ago

Yes, The Dark Knight deserves nominations for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor for Ledger and Oldman. Sadly only Ledger will be nominated and that is only because he died. The Dark Knight won't get any other nominations because the Academy has a prejudice against action movies and movies made for a wide audience(Titanic notwithstanding). Quality and Quantity can go hand in hand.

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[–] CitizenVeen 15 years ago

the Academy has a prejudice against movies made for a wide audience

The academy awards are awards for high grossing, highly populair, easy watchables films (hollywood mostly). Also the Foreign language nominee films are also allways movies for wide audiences made for the public (rather then for the sake of art). Same for BAFTA's.

For high prestige awards which are more focussed on art, progressiveness, society related and complicated stories (which usually reach a lot less people then the oscar nominees) you should look for prices awarded at Cannes, Venice or Berlin for example.

Enjoy!

[–] kyukyu2020 16 years ago

um, Ledger would actually be up for supporting actor for Dark Knight, as Batman is kinda the lead role...

[–] noldcw 16 years ago

That actually does not matter. The Academy nominates as it sees fit. Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor when he was only on screen for 20 minutes. In 1945, Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the exact same role as Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way.

Basically, it depends on Warner Bros.' campaign strategy. Best Actor is not out of the question, but it would be much harder to achieve than Best Supporting Actor.

[–] fuzzout987 16 years ago

I'd actually like to see a supporting actor race between Ledger for The Dark Knight, Oldman for The Dark Knight, Downey for Tropic Thunder and Franco for Pineapple Express then maybe the Oscars would be interesting. Be nice to see them do something original. Sadly, I don't think they will.

[–] nykiel31 15 years ago

My Oscar Predictions (Its off because I don't really expect The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to recieve like 12-14 nominations, nor will The Dark Knight Recieve as many. A lot depends on how Revolutionary Road is reviewed and a few others and if Milk can get a best pic nod. This is how I am looking at it..for now!

Best Picture:

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

Best Director:

Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight

Best Actor:

Richard Jenkins, The Vistor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon*
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sean Penn, Milk
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress:

Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Mellisa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt*
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor:

Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight*
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Supporting Actress:

Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P. Hensen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, The Reader*

Best Original Screenplay:

Milk*
Rachel Getting Married
Synecodoche, NY
The Wrestler
Wall-E

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Slumdog Millionaire*
The Reader or The Dark Knight
(IDK, it depends on whether the Academy Shows Love for The Dark Knight, If it gets the Nods for director and or picture then maybe)

Best Animated Feature:

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E*

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Australia
Revoloutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight*

Best Achievement in Editing

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

Best Achievement in Art Direction

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
Revolutionary Road
Changeling
Duchess
The Dark Knight

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Changeling
Duchess
Revolutionary Road
Sex And The City
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*

Best Achievement in Makeup

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
The Dark Knight

Best Original Score

Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire*
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-E

Best Original Song

The Wrestler, Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler*
Down to Earth” by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Wall-E
Gran Torino, by Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Once in a Lifetime, Cadillac Record
Jaiho, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

Iron Man
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight*

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Wall-E*

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Iron Man*

Best Documentary

American Teen
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire*
Standard Operating Procedure
Troubles The Water

Best Foreign Language Film

The Class (France)
Captain Abu Raed (Jordan)
Gomorra (Italy)
Tony Manero (Chile)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)*