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Potential 2009 Oscar Contenders, Anyone?

ralch

over 3 years ago

Well, Den, Wernah ate his shoe, will you keep your promise? :-D

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

I will but i doubt I have much to worry about

Dimitri​s Psachos

over 3 years ago

Star Trek belongs to that list Den…it’s as stupid as 500 Days of Summer was.

(even if the love duo was the only positive element)

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

I dont see 500 on that list either maybe I am ridicuous but I don’t see either of those making it

Dimitri​s Psachos

over 3 years ago

well,take anything you want,Star Trek,500 Days,Amelia,Nine,they’re all the same.

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

not that i want this

I think Up will be nominated for animated and best picture

also up in the air, precious, the hurt locker, inglorious basterds, this is it!, Invictus, Julie and Julia, The lovely bones and nine

I think precious or This is It! will win.

Doinel

over 3 years ago

I liked Star Trek. Good popcorn movie.

KJ

over 3 years ago

Clint can’t be given a third statue, can he? Rob Marshall, maybe? Katherine Bigelow? I’m not hating on Clint. Long time fan. Just sayin’…

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

It will be Peter Jackson or Nora Ephron

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

Jackson will be rewarded with nomination for his return to smaller personal stories after the trilogy. Ephron if she is nominated (a lot of people love Julie and Julia) will win because Eastwood (who will be nominated is not gonna win a third) Marshall (not deserving of a second) wont and the precious director is too green. Hollywood will rally behind Ephron who has been in this business for ever. Nicholson, it was stated at the time, campaigned for Polanski to win for The Pianist. he will probably do likewise for Ephron who he has done a movie (heartburn) with.

Dimitri​s Psachos

over 3 years ago

oh man,i can’t believe Ephron will be over-praised by those blood-sucking executives,one of the worst female directors around this globe…

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

you may be right but I have a hunch

ralch

over 3 years ago

I forgot animated film:

Winner:
Coraline
Nominees:
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up
(if 2 more)
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog

Dimitri​s Psachos

over 3 years ago

Ralch,i hear they decided for 5 animation nominees this year,if i’m correct,so it seems your hunch is right

(but i still think Up will get the love,just a cute flick)

Sean Walker Hutton

over 3 years ago

Up will win because it is Pixar, and that alone.

The Princess and The Frog could win since most people want Disney to return to it’s old days of hand drawn classic stories.

It’s hard not to enjoy and stop animated film so The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline could win.

Sorry Ponyo.

Who should win? who knows.

McBean

over 3 years ago

I’m just wondering whether Tarantino’s pic will be announced as Inglourious Basterds or just Inglourious. My guess is the latter.

KJ

over 3 years ago

A stronger, more just case should have been made for Elaine May. Norah Ephron is insipid. Never fear, such a case will never be introduced. Looks like May, now in her late-seventies, has retired.

Taylor Kyles

over 3 years ago

2009 Best Picture – Nine

Taylor Kyles

over 3 years ago

or Million Dollar Baby Redux

Jack Hemingw​ay

over 3 years ago

i really hope coraline doesn’t get nominated. it was such a godawful movie. Up was funny for a while, but gets tiresome. fantastic mr. fox should win best animated picture.

Daniel McCarth​y

over 3 years ago

It’s unlikely but I’d like to see In The Loop pick up some award nods such as Supporting Actor for Peter Capaldi and Adapted Screenplay.

Best Actor will probably be:

Colin Firth, A Single Man
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
????

I don’t know who’ll win, but I think those four will almost certainly be nominated. Maybe the fifth would be Daniel Day-Lewis? I don’t think so, but you never know…

Savvy

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

prob alec baldwin zach
I think jeff bridges wud win

Den, really? Alec Baldwin? I mean, it’s not impossible, but I’d be kind of pissed, actually…

Savvy

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ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE

over 3 years ago

What’s wrong with Alec Baldwin??? He’s awesome!

ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE

over 3 years ago

And George Clooney is gonna win without a doubt.

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

clooney won already recently
and bridges is probably due

ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE

over 3 years ago

I thought Clooney never won an Oscar!

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

syrianna