Academy Awards Nominees

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    Best Picture Noms:
    Gran Torino (I feel Dark Knight deserves it more, but the old timers in the academy love clint)
    Revolutionary Road
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Frost/Nixon
    Benjamin Button

    Best Actor:
    Sean Penn
    Clint Eastwood (winner)
    Frank Langella
    Mickey Rourke

    Best Actress:
    Kate Winslett (winner)
    Cate Blanchet
    Ann Hathaway
    Sally Hawkins (happy go lucky)

    Best Supporting Actor:
    Heath Ledger (winner)
    Michael Shannon (Crazy Dude from Revolutionary Road may take the prize)

    Best Original Screenplay:
    Gran Torino
    The Wrestler
    Vicki Christina Barcelona (actually one of my favs of 2008)
    Burn After Reading
    Slumdog Millionaire (winner - this award always goes to the best picture that should have won Best Picture that year, but the Academy is too chicken shit to vote on independents- i.e. Sideways in '05, Lil Miss Sunshine in '06, Juno in '07, etc.)

    Best Adapted Screenplay:
    Frost/Nixon (winner)
    The Dark Knight (Nolan should win, but Peter Morgan has been passed up far too many times and he's bout due)
    Revolutionary Road

    Best Animated Feature:
    Wall E

    Best Foreign Film:
    Mongol

    Best Documentary Feature:
    Man On Wire

    Best Cinematography:
    One of Roger Deakins' films (surprisingly has yet to win): The Reader, Doubt, Revolutionary Road (all Rudin films)

    Best Score:
    Revolutionary Road (Tom Newman- also did WALL E & American Beauty among many others)

    *I think Dark Knight may rack up the most awards (overall total) with the smaller awards- i.e. effects, music editing, music composition, sound, technical editing, etc.

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