What the hell? This is the biggest bunch of bull I've seen from the Academy. What the hell? The Dark Knight was completely left out from the top categories. No Best Picture, no Best Director, not even the bloody screenplay.Sure it still got 8 nominations but it does not do The Dark Knight justice. You know why they left The Dark Knight out? Because it wasn't artsy enough or dramatic enough or maybe just because it's freaking based on a comic book. I mean, give credit where it's due man. The Dark Knight Is the best film of 2008. Nothing can even compare. It was the most talked about, it earned the most and it's the most raved about. This makes no freaking sense at all.
But I won't complain much about the other Best Picture nominees cause I've seen all of them and they're all great. Except for The Reader which totally doesn't deserve to be nominated. It's just not as good as the other films.
Now with The Dark Knight out of the running, I'm all for Slumdog to win. Anyways, here is the complete set of nominees and who I think should win and who I predict will win.
BEST MOTION PICTURE
The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonFrost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Who will win?: Slumdog Millionaire. Benjamin Button and The Reader can suck my genitals
BEST DIRECTORDanny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
Gus Van Sant (Milk)
Who will win?: Danny Boyle. The best genre director ever.
BEST ACTORRichard Jenkins (The Visitor)
Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Sean Penn (Milk)
Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Who should win?: Sean Penn. He made me like gay people
Who will win?: Mickey Rourke. No problems with him winning either but Sean Penn was still the best.
BEST ACTRESSAnne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Kate Winslet (The Reader)
Who should win?: Anne Hathaway. I never knew she could act that well.
Who will in?: Kate Winslet. Yea yea same old emo faced Kate Winslet bla bla bla.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTORJosh Brolin (Milk)
Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)
Who should and will win? You know lah.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSAmy Adams (Doubt)
Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
Who should win?: Marisa Tomei. Cause she flashed her boobs like no bodies business. She's hot.
BEST ANIMATED FILMBolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
Who should win: Waltz With Bashir. It should have at least been nominated to.
Who will win?: Obvious right.
Original ScreenplayDustin Lance Black, Milk
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon, WALL-E
No comment
Adapted ScreenplayEric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
David Hare, The Reader
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Who should win?: Slumdog Millionaire. "Maximum pineapple!"
Best Foreign Language Film of the YearThe Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
Who should win?: Waltz With Bashir
Original ScoreAlexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
James Newton Howard, Defiance
Danny Elfman, Milk
A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Thomas Newman, WALL-E
Who should win?: A.R. Rahman. Enough dramatic violin scores. Let modern tempo win for once
Original Song"Down to Earth," Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; WALL-E
"Jai Ho," A.R. Rahman and Gulzar; Slumdog Millionaire
"O Saya," A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam; Slumdog Millionaire
Who will win?: Jai Ho. Damn beautiful song. Even more catchy then HSM.
Achievement in Art DirectionChangeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road
Achievement in CinematographyChangeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Achievement in Costume DesignAustralia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road
Best Documentary FeatureThe Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
Best Documentary Short SubjectThe Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness—From the Balcony of Room 306
Achievement in Film EditingThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Achievement in MakeupThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Short Film La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory—Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up
Best Live Action Short FilmAuf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Achievement in Sound EditingThe Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
Achievement in Sound MixingThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
Achievement in Visual EffectsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man