And The Oscars Will Go To…

The announcement of the coveted Oscar nominations took place this morning, presented by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and the Academy President Sid Garis. Let’s put it this way, there weren’t a whole lot of surprises. Leading the nominations include “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” receiving 13 nods, “Slumdog Millionaire” receiving 10 nods, and “The Dark Knight” and “Milk each receiving 8 nominations. The one big surprise that absolutely floored me was the fact that my homegirl Kate Winslet received a nomination for her role in “The Reader” but NOT “Revolutionary Road”. I know?! What the deuce? Anyhow, check out the full list of nominees below.

BEST MOTION PICTURE:

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

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:

*Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
*Angelina Jolie – The Changeling
*Melissa Leo – Frozen River
*Kate Winslet – The Reader
*Meryl Streep – Doubt

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:

*Mickey Rourke- The Wrestler
*Frank Langhella – Frost/Nixon
*Sean Penn – Milk
*Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
*Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

*Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
*Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
*Amy Adams – Doubt
*Viola Davis – Doubt
*Taraiji P Henson – the Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

*Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
*Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
*Josh Brolin – Milk
*Robert Downey Jr – Tropic Thunder
*Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING:

*Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
*David Fincher – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
*Ron Howard – Froxt/Nixon
*Gus Van Sant – Milk
*Stephen Daldry – The Reader

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE OF THE YEAR:

*Wall-E
*Bolt
*Kung-Fu Panda

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

*The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
*The Class (France)
*Departures (Japan)
*Revanche (Austria)
*Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

BEST WRITING: (Adapted Screenplay)

*Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
*Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
*Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
*David Hare – The Reader

BEST WRITING: (Original Screenplay)

*Courtney Hunt – Frozen River
*Mike Leigh – Happy Go Lucky
*Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
*Dustin Lance Black – Milk
*Andrew Stanton – Wall-E

BEST MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURE: (Original Score)

*WALL-E – Down to Earth
*Slumdog Millionaire – Jai Ho
*Slumdog Millionaire – O Saya

BEST MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURE:(Original Song)

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
*Defiance – James Newton Howard
*Milk – Danny Elfman
*Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman
*WALL-E – Thomas Newman

BEST ART DIRECTION:

*James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis – The Changeling
*Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando – The Dark Knight
*Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway – The Duchess
*Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt – Revolutionary Road

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*The Changeling
*The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
*The Dark Knight
*The Reader
*Slumdog Millionaire

BEST SOUND MIXING:

*The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
*The Dark Knight
*Slumdog Millionaire
*WALL-E
*Wanted
*Frost/Nixon

BEST SOUND EDITING:

*The Dark Knight
*Iron Man
*Slumdog Millionaire
*WALL-E
*Wanted

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

*Australia
*The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
*The Duchess
*Milk
*Revolutionary Road

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

*The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
*Encounters At The End Of The World
*The Garden
*Man on Wire
*Trouble the Water

BEST DOCUMENTARY: (Short Subject)

*The Conscience of Nhem En
*The Final Inch
*Smile Pinki
*The Witness
*From The Balcony Of Room 306

FILM EDITING:

*The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
*The Dark Knight
*Frost/Nixon
*Milk
*Slumdog Millionaire
*WALL-E

BEST MAKEUP:

*The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
*The Dark Knight
*Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:

*La Maison en Petits Cubes
*Lavatory – Lovestory
*Oktapodi
*Presto
*This Way Up

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:

*Auf Der Strecke (On the Line)
*Manon On The Asphalt
*New Boy
*The Pig
*Spielzeugland (Toyland)

VISUAL EFFECTS:

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

Any predictions? Ok, ok, we won’t get into that just yet…we must remember, as a wise man once said…it is just honored to be nominated. Ummm, yeah. To that we say, may the BEST BEOTCH win! Good Luck, peeps!

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