Posted on February 23, 2009. Filed under: News | Tags: 2009, Benjamin Button, Danny Boyle, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Milk, Oscars, Penelope Cruz, Sean Penn, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E |
It’s afternoon, my bad. Got distracted helping a friend with an election campaign and then I was being a spare pair of hands for someone else, maybe I shuld say no more….
Here’s the winners from last night, I didn’t actually do too bad with my predictions…
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Well guessing this right wasn’t exactly hard. Brilliant to have a British film top the Oscars. 🙂
Best Director: Danny Boyle
I changed my prediction, stupidly. But after the BAFTAs it was clear Boyle had it.
Best Actor: Sean Penn
Didn’t predict this one but Milk is turning out to be a must see. Penn’s second statue after Mystic River in ’03, somehow it always seemed unlikely the Academy would follow BAFTA and give it to Rourke.
Best Actress: Kate Winslet
Fantastic news that Kate finally gets her Oscar. Another hit for the Brits.
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger
This one was never in doubt. The second actor to win a posthumous Oscar after Peter Finch in ’77. I still maintain he should have had one for Brokeback Mountain.
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz
Mirroring the BAFTAs, I hadn’t heard much about Vicky Cristina Barcelona when the nominations came in but the buzz is growing.
Best Original Screenplay: Milk
I had it as Wall-E, many others had it down as In Bruges, but that’s the Oscars for you!
Best Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Check!
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Right again 😉
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Beating Benjamin, yet again.
Visual Effects: Benjamin Button
Well, Slumdog couldn’t take them all.
Original Score and Orignal Song: Slumdog Millionaire
I was wrong it got both.
So there you are, Slumdog got 8 in the end to add to its 7 BAFTAs, while poor Benjamin only came away with 3. So no one has yet beaten the joint record of Lord of the Rings, Titanic and Ben Hur for 11 in one night. No huge shocks, I haven’t yet seen the footage to see if Kate cried, but I’m guessing she did. A great year for British cinema.
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Posted on February 22, 2009. Filed under: News | Tags: 2009, awards, Benjamin Button, Kate Winslet, Oscars, Slumdog Millionairre |
Yep, tonight we find out the answer to that all important question: Who are you wearing?
But besides that, there’s also a little award ceremony. Once again I’ve managed to put myself away from a computer at the critical moment, but I’ll get the winners list up ASAP. If not tonight then tomorrow morning.
In true British style, we’re already coming up with excuses for why we haven’t won; the favourite being the Academy always favour their own, but after 6 nominations I think this is finally Kate’s year.
Benjamin Button has equalled the record of Lord of the Rings and Chicago for 13 nominations, but I don’t think it’ll beat LOTR‘s 11 award record with competition like Slumdog Millionairre.
I guess we’ll find out tonight….
*Of course, most of it doesn’t get going stateside until I intend to be fast asleep…so tomorrow morning more likely.*
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Posted on February 9, 2009. Filed under: News | Tags: 2009, awards, BAFTA, Benjamin Button, Danny Boyle, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Mickey Rourke, Oscars, Penelope Cruz, Slumdog Millionaire, Terry Gilliam |
As promised, I’m back with a full list of the winners (‘cos who needs to write their dissertation presentation?)
I’m always going to miss Stephen Fry as host, but Jonathon Ross did a decent job, and kept Stephen’s game of getting a random word into the show via a twitter vote. Unfortunately I missed that bit when I was travelling but I’ll try and find it later. Just goes to show that twitter really is taking over the world…
The BAFTAs are a pretty good indicator of who’ll be taking home the Oscars, and I think some of my earlier predictions are a bit off now that I think about it. Here’s last night’s results:
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
No surprises there, it’ll get the Oscar too. (Somebody take me to the cinema so I can back this claim up having actually seen it!)
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke
As I said last night, this one shocked me, but I’m hearing nothing but good things about The Wrestler. He is nominated for the Oscar but I still don’t quite see him winning it. Something’s telling me Brad Pitt will get it, but Rourke’s in with a chance…
Best Actress: Kate Winslet
Well this one was obvious wasn’t it? You can’t not win when you’re nominated twice. Incidentally, she got it for The Reader rather than Revolutionary Road which I have on good authority is the most boring film ever.
Best Director: Danny Boyle
Continuing Slumdog’s sweep. He’s a dead cert for the Oscar I reckon
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger
Of course.
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona has only just come to my attention but I’m intrigued.
Best Music: AR Rahman-Slumdog Millionaire
In the little clips we got from the Noms, this was the only one that caught my attention. Might change my mind on my Oscar prediction based on that.
Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle-Slumdog Millionaire
That sweep just keeps going…
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy-Slumdog Millionaire
And going…
Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh-In Bruges
I really wanted to see this despite bad reviews, now I want to see it more!
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Had to be didn’t it?
Visual Effects: Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams-Benjamin Button
Again, it’s hard ot argue with that one. I completely take back my stupid prediction for the Oscars (I really wasn’t paying attention) Button is way ahead of the pack.
Academy Fellowship: Terry Gilliam
I wasn’t expecting this, but as soon as you watch that reel of all his movies you know he deserves it.
That’s not quite all of them, but it’s the biggies. Slumdog finished with 7 masks, and we can expect a repeat performance at the Oscars. I don’t think there’ll be much difference in the winner’s either, but I may well be eating those words in a couple of weeks. In the interests of fairness, I wont go and change my predictions from a couple of weeks ago, but the BAFTAs have changed my mind on a couple of them.
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Posted on January 22, 2009. Filed under: News | Tags: 2009, awards, Benjamin Button, Heath Ledger, Iron Man, nominations, Oscars, predictions, Slumdog Millionairre, The Dark Knight |
It’s that time of year again. Here’s the nominations for this year’s Oscars (thanks to Oscar.com) and who I think will win. Time to find out how psychic I actually am….
Best picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
It’s gotta be Slumdog.
Best director
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant – Milk
It’s between Slumdog and Benjamin Button I think. Probably Slumdog. Actually I’ve changed my mind. Button.
Best actor
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
I’ll come back to this when I’ve had a think…Maybe Brad Pitt but I haven’t seen it.
Best actress
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Winslet – The Reader
It’s tipped to be either Winslet or Hathaway. I think its Winslet’s year after the Golden Globes.
Best supporting actress
Amy Adams – Doubt
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
I’m gonna go with Benjamin Button as I’m predicting a sweep.
Best supporting actor
Josh Brolin – Milk
Robert Downey Jr – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
Ledger, no question.
Best foreign language film
Revanche – Austria
The Class – France
The Baader Meinhof Complex – Germany
Departures – Japan
Waltz With Bashir – Israel
I’m not gonna know I’m afraid. Psychic guess says The Class.
Best animated feature film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
Wall-E for sure.
Best adapted screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog.
Best original screenplay
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Wall-E
In Bruges
Frozen River
I reckon Wall-E
So there you go folks. I guess we’ll find out on 22nd Feb.
*Update*
In my hurry to blog this before anyone else, I missed some of the smaller categories, but having got some of them up I reckon I’ve got time to go back…
Cinematography
(A subject of much debate on this blog)
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionairre
Having only seen one of the nominations (sad isn’t it?) I can’t call it. I’m guessing Button.
Music (score)
My favourite
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionairre
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-E
I’ve only seen Wall-E and the music in that wasn’t groundbreaking…Slumdog or Benjamin Button. Incidentally, Slumdog is double nominated for best song (against Wall-E). It’s bound to win that so I don’t think it’ll win this.
Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
I think Dark Knight
It’s probably going to be a sweep by Slumdog Millionairre and Benjamin Button (which has 13 nominations). Button will get the most overall.
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