2008 Match-Cut Film Awards

[Boner M]

Me or someone else will do the tallyin' early next year.

Here are the categories, from which you may select up to 5 nominees:

BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[Boner M]

My work-in-progress ballot:

BEST PICTURE
Flight of the Red Balloon
Hunger
Let the Right One In
My Winnipeg
WALL·E

BEST DIRECTOR
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Lance Hammer, Ballast
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Flight of the Red Balloon
Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg
Steve McQueen, Hunger

BEST ACTOR
Michael Fessbender, Hunger
James Franco, Pineapple Express
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Lee Pace, The Fall
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon
Ronit Elkabetz, The Band’s Visit
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Kristin Scott-Thomas, I've Loved You So Long
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, Cassandra’s Dream
Hafsia Herzi, Secret of the Grain
Jane Lynch, Role Models
Olivia Thirlby, Snow Angels
Tarra Riggs, Ballast

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr, Tropic Thunder
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Burn After Reading
Milk
Secret of the Grain
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woman on the Beach

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Baghead
Burn After Reading
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Woman on the Beach

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Gomorrah
Let the Right One In
Wendy and Lucy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Flight of the Red Balloon
Gomorrah
Let the Right One In
Silent Light

BEST EDITING
Ballast
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Paranoid Park
My Winnipeg
The Tracey Fragments

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Speed Racer
WALL·E

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Paranoid Park
Silent Light
WALL·E

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hunger
My Winnipeg

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST MAKEUP
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Man on Wire
My Winnipeg
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WALL·E

[Ezee E]

BEST PICTURE
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Let The Right One In
Rachel Getting Married
The Wrestler

BEST DIRECTOR
Tomas Alfredson -- Let the Right One In
Jonathan Demme -- Rachel Getting Married
Fernando Meirelles -- Blindness
Cristian Mungiu -- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Christopher Nolan -- The Dark Knight

BEST ACTOR
François Bégaudeau -- The Class
Josh Brolin -- W.
Robert Downey -- Iron Man
Richard Jenkins -- The Visitor
Mickey Rourke -- The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Kate Beckinsale -- Snow Angels
Anne Hathaway -- Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie -- Changeling
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Kate Winslet -- Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bill Irwin -- Rachel Getting Married
Heath Ledger -- The Dark Knight
Eddie Marsen -- Happy-Go-Lucky
Brad Pitt -- Burn After Reading
David Straithairn -- My Blueberry Nights

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ari Graynor -- Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist
Lina Leandersson -- Let the Right One In
Gwyneath Paltrow -- Iron Man
Natalie Portman -- My Blueberry Nights
Marisa Tomei -- The Wrestler

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Blindness
My Blueberry Nights
Rachel Getting Married
Snow Angels

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Joel and Ethan Coen -- Burn After Reading
Jenny Lumet -- Rachel Getting Married
David Mamet -- Redbelt
Martin McDonagh -- In Bruges
Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon -- Wall-E*

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Maurizio Braucci -- Gomorrah
David Gordon Green -- Snow Angels
Justin Haythe -- Revolutionary Road
John Ajvide Lindqvist -- Let the Right One In
Stanley Weiser -- W.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
César Charlone -- Blindness
Claudio Miranda -- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wally Pfister -- The Dark Knight
Robert Richardson -- Standard Operating Procedures
Hoyte Van Hoytema -- Let the Right One In

BEST EDITING
The Class
The Dark Knight
Gomorrah
Rachel Getting Married
W.

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Cloverfield
CJ7
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Let the Right One In
The Strangers

BEST ART DIRECTION
Blindness
Changeling
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Revolutionary Road

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Changeling
The Fall
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
My Blueberry Nights
Revolutionary Road

BEST MAKEUP
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
My Blueberry Nights

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Danny Elfman -- Milk
Marco Antônio Guimarães -- Blindness
James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer -- The Dark Knight
AR Rahman -- Slumdog Millionaire
Max Richter -- Waltz with Bashir

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Boats and Hos" -- Step Brothers
"Genetic Repo Man" -- Repo! The Genetic Opera
"Jai Ho" -- Slumdog Millionaire
"O... Saya" -- Slumdog Millionaire
"The Wrestler" -- The Wrestler

BEST DOCUMENTARY
American Teen
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
Standard Operating Procedures
Waltz with Bashir

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Waltz with Bashir
Wall-E

[Mysterious Dude]

U.S. release dates, right?

[Sycophant]

BEST PICTURE
Wall-E
The Fall
CJ7
Rachel Getting Married
Burn After Reading

BEST DIRECTOR
Woody Allen - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Tarsem Singh - The Fall
Joel & Ethan Coen - Burn After Reading
Jonathan Demme - Rachel Getting Married
Neil LaBute - Lakeview Terrace

BEST ACTOR
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Lee Pace - The Fall
Josh Brolin - W.
Steve Carrell - Get Smart
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Xu Jiao - CJ7
Catinca Untaru - The Fall
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
James Cromwell - W.
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
John Goodman - Speed Racer
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Brad Pitt - Burn After Reading

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Danai Jekesai Gurira - The Visitor
Elizabeth Banks - W.
Susan Sarandon - Speed Racer
Tilda Swinton - Burn After Reading
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Speed Racer
W.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Burn After Reading
Rachel Getting Married

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Jenny Lumet - Rachel Getting Married
Joel & Ethan Coen - Burn After Reading
Stephen Chow et al - CJ7
Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Andy & Larry Wachowski - Speed Racer
Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember - Get Smart

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Danielle Feinberg & Martin Rosenberg - Wall-E
Frederick Elmes, Synecdoche, New York
Dick Pope, Happy-Go-Lucky
David Tattersall, Speed Racer
Maryse Alberti, The Wrestler

BEST EDITING
Roger Barton & Zach Staenberg, Speed Racer
Andrew Weisblum, The Wrestler

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Synecdoche, New York

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Amy Westcott, The Wrestler

BEST MAKEUP
Synecdoche, New York
The Wrestler

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Jon Brion, Synecdoche, New York
Gary Yershon, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[Ivan Drago]

BEST PICTURE

Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Revolutionary Road
Tropic Thunder

BEST DIRECTOR

Matt Reeves, Cloverfield
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ACTOR

Josh Brolin, W.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS

Elizabeth Banks, Zach and Miri Make A Porno
Cate Blanchett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

James Cromwell, W.
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
John Malkovich, Burn After Reading
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, Doubt
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Susan Sarandon, Speed Racer

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
Tropic Thunder
W.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Burn After Reading
Cloverfield
Milk
Tropic Thunder
W.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Tropic Thunder

BEST EDITING

Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

Cloverfield
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Tropic Thunder

BEST SOUND EDITING

Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Rambo
Tropic Thunder
Valkyrie

BEST ART DIRECTION

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Revolutionary Road
Speed Racer
W.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Milk
Revolutionary Road
Valkyrie

BEST MAKEUP

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Speed Racer
Valkyrie

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Rock Me Sexy Jesus" by The Ralph Sall Experience, Hamlet 2
"Another Way To Die" by Jack White and Alicia Keys, Quantum of Solace
"Jai Ho" by A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, et al., Slumdog Millionaire
"Love Me Sexy" by Will Ferrell, Semi-Pro
"Down To Earth" by Peter Gabriel, WALL-E

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E

[ledfloyd]

BEST PICTURE
A Christmas Tale
The Wrestler
Wall-E
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Let The Right One In

BEST DIRECTOR
Woody Allen
Cristian Mungiu
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Kelly Reichardt
Arnaud Desplechin

BEST ACTOR
Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button)
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Colin Ferrell (In Bruges)
Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Kare Hedebrant (Let the Right One In)

BEST ACTRESS
Asia Argento
Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky)
Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy)
Juliette Binoche (Flight of the Red Balloon)
Lina Leandersson (Let the Right One In)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder)
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Javier Bardem (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Eddie Marsan (Happy Go Lucky)
Mathieu Amalric (A Christmas Tale)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams (Doubt)
Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
Rosemarie Dewitt (Rachel Getting Married)
Chiaro Mastroianni (A Christmas Tale)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
W
A Christmas Tale
Milk
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rachel Getting Married

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Rachel Getting Married
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
A Christmas Tale
In Bruges

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Let the Right One In
Frost/Nixon
Wendy and Lucy
The Duchess
Benjamin Button

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Ashes of Time Redux
Wall-E
Flight of the Red Balloon
Wendy and Lucy

BEST EDITING
Wall-E
My Winnipeg
A Christmas Tale
Ashes of Time Redux
Let the Right One In

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Wall-E
Iron Man
Benjamin Button
Ashes of Time Redux
Let the Right One In

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Wall-E
Iron Man
The Dark Knight

BEST ART DIRECTION
Flight of the Red Balloon
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Let the Right One In
City of Ember

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Indiana Jones
Happy Go Lucky
The Duchess

BEST MAKEUP
The Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
The Duchess
Let the Right One In
Benjamin Button

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Let the Right One In
Wall-E
Happy Go Lucky
Waltz With Bashir
In Bruges

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Down to Earth (Wall-E)
Little Person (Synecdoche, NY)
The Wrestler (The Wrestler)
Good Morning Lebanon (Waltz With Bashir)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Gonzo
Man on Wire
My Winnipeg
Waltz With Bashir
Encounters at the End of the World

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir

[Ezee E]

Indiana Jones? Really?

[Ezee E]

There's still a good amount of movies that I'm curious about, or missed when they were in theaters

Left to see for 2008:

Australia
Frost/Nixon
Quantum of Solace
Nothing But the Truth

Ballast
Tell No One
The Last Mistress

That would take me to 99 for the year. I guess I'll add in X-Files for 100.

[Watashi]

BEST PICTURE

Happy-Go-Lucky
WALL-E
Speed Racer
The Dark Knight
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR

Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Andy and Larry Wachowski, Speed Racer
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ACTOR

Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Redbelt
Michael Fassbender, Hunger
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche New York
Sean Penn, Milk

BEST ACTRESS

Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Kate Beckinsale, Snow Angels
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
David Strathairn, My Blueberry Nights
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Hiam Abbass, The Visitor
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Samantha Morton, Synecdoche New York
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Susan Surandon, Speed Racer

BEST ENSEMBLE

Speed Racer
The Dark Knight
Rachel Getting Married
Synecdoche, New York
Tropic Thunder

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
John Aljvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Andy & Larry Wachowski, Speed Racer

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche New York
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Ben Stiller & Justin Theroux & Etan Coen, Tropic Thunder

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

David Tattersall, Speed Racer
Claudio Miranda, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Doyle, Paranoid Park
Sean Bobbitt, Hunger
John Toll, Tropic Thunder

BEST EDITING

Speed Racer
The Dark Knight
Rachel Getting Married
Iron Man
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Speed Racer
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

Kung Fu Panda
Speed Racer
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
WALL-E

BEST ART DIRECTION

Speed Racer
WALL-E
Changeling
Synecdoche New York
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Speed Racer
Changeling
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
The Fall

BEST MAKEUP

The Dark Knight
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tropic Thunder
Synecdoche, New York

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Dark Knight
Speed Racer
In Bruges
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
WALL-E

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Down to Earth”, WALL-E
"The Wrestler", The Wrestler
"Little Person", Synecdoche New York
"Dracula's Lament", Forgetting Sarah Marshall
"Gran Torino", Gran Torino

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Man on Wire
Encounters at the End of the World

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

WALL-E
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Bolt
Horton Hears a Who!

[Derek]

My work-in-progress ballot:

Why no Hunger?

[Stay Puft]

Yeesh. I'll start working on a ballot in 2009.

Last year the final date for submission was Feb. 10, yeah? Are we going to do the same thing this year?

[Spinal]

BEST PICTURE
City of Ember
Burn After Reading
The Edge of Heaven
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Let the Right One In

BEST DIRECTOR
Ethan and Joel Coen, Burn After Reading
Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Andy and Larry Wachowski, Speed Racer
Catherine Breillat, The Last Mistress
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In

BEST ACTOR
Armand Assante, California Dreamin'
Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Anthony Head, Repo! The Genetic Opera
Stephen Rea, Stuck
François Cluzet, Tell No One

BEST ACTRESS
Asia Argento, The Last Mistress
Asia Argento, Boarding Gate
Naomi Watts, Funny Games
Mena Suvari, Stuck
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bill Murray, City of Ember
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
George Clooney, Burn After Reading
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Michael Madsen, Boarding Gate

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Patrycia Ziolkowska, The Edge of Heaven
Kristin Scott Thomas, Tell No One
Samantha Morton, Mister Lonely

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Burn After Reading
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Edge of Heaven
California Dreamin'
Let the Right One In

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Edge of Heaven
California Dreamin'
Stuck

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
City of Ember
The Last Mistress
Let the Right One In
Slumdog Millionaire
Tell No One

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Paranoid Park
Speed Racer
Slumdog Millionaire
Encounters at the End of the World
Let the Right One In

BEST EDITING
Speed Racer
Cloverfield
Let the Right One In
Boarding Gate
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Speed Racer
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Iron Man
Repo! The Genetic Opera

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Speed Racer
Wall-E
The Strangers
The Dark Knight
Kung Fu Panda

BEST ART DIRECTION
City of Ember
Speed Racer
Slumdog Millionaire
Repo! The Genetic Opera
California Dreamin’

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Speed Racer
The Last Mistress
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Mongol
The Fall

BEST MAKEUP
Repo! The Genetic Opera
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
W.
Let the Right One In

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
City of Ember
Let the Right One In
Tell No One
Standard Operating Procedure
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Religulous
Standard Operating Procedure
Encounters at the End of the World
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
The Gits

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda
Horton Hears a Who!

[Winston*]

A chance of Sally Hawkins taking best MC actress maybe?

[Rowland]

Too soon. I'll chime in after a few weeks of catch-up.

[Boner M]

Why no Hunger?
Bumped to 2009.

[Ezee E]

A chance of Sally Hawkins taking best MC actress maybe?
Not seen enough to win probably.

Plus, Streep/Winslet/Blanchett haven't had their movies yet.

[Boner M]

Bumped to 2009.
...and apparently re-instated, according to Sicinski's page. Ballot updated accordingly.

[kamran]

BEST PICTURE
Che (No idea how this is will be tallied - as one film, or two? If the latter, my vote is actually for Part Two.)
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Strangers

BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy 2
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Steven Soderbergh, Che
Gus Van Sant, Milk

BEST ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro, Che
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges
Matthew Goode, Brideshead Revisited
Sean Penn, Milk

BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Julianne Moore, Blindness
Liv Tyler, The Strangers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Gary Oldman, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST EDITING

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

BEST ART DIRECTION

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

BEST MAKEUP

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[Philosophe_rouge]

BEST PICTURE
A Christmas Tale
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Happy-Go-Lucky
Let the Right One In
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR
Woody Allen, Vicky Christina Barcellona
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Andrew Stanton, Wall-E
Arnaud Desplechin, A Christmas Tale

BEST ACTOR
Colin Farrell, In Bruges
Josh Brolin, W
Sam Rockwell, Choke
KÃ¥re Hedebrant, Let the Right One In

BEST ACTRESS
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
Keira Kneightley, The Duchess

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Mathieu Amalric, A Christmas Tale
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elizabeth Banks, W
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Chiara Mastroianni, A Christmas Tale
Hayley Atwell, The Duchess

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
A Christmas Tale
Rachel Getting Married
The Dark Knight
Happy-Go-Lucky
W

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Emmanuel Bourdieu & Arnaud Desplechin , A Christmas Tale
In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Vicky Christina Barcelona, Woody Allen
Rachel Getting Married, Jenny Lumet
Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Speed Racer, Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski
Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Duchess, Jeffrey Hatcher,
Anders Thomas Jensen

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Let the Right One In
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Duchess
A Christmas Tale

BEST EDITING
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Happy-Go-Lucky
Wall-E
A Christmas Tale
Let the Right One In

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Let the Right One In (even with the CGI cats, the rest is great)

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Dark Knight
The Strangers
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Let the Right One In

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Dark Knight
Speed Racer
Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST MAKEUP
The Dark Knight
Let the Right One In

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Dark Knight
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Happening
Iron Man
Let the Right One In

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Standard Operating Procedure

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E

[Pop Trash]

BEST PICTURE
The Wrestler
Paranoid Park
My Blueberry Nights
Wall-E
The Dark Knight

BEST DIRECTOR
Wong Kar Wai -My Blueberry Nights
Gus Van Sant -Paranoid Park/Milk
Andrew Stanton -Wall-E
Christopher Nolan -The Dark Knight
Jonathan Demme -Rachel Getting Married

BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke -The Wrestler
Chiwetel Ejiofor -Redbelt
James Franco -Pineapple Express
Michael Shannon -Shotgun Stories
Sean Penn -Milk

BEST ACTRESS
Asia Argento -The Last Mistress
Anne Hathaway -Rachel Getting Married
So far this category is weak for me...

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger -The Dark Knight
Brad Pitt -Burn After Reading
John Malkovich -Burn After Reading
David Strathairn -My Blueberry Nights
Danny McBride -Pineapple Express

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rosemarie DeWitt -Rachel Getting Married
Penelope Cruz -Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Natalie Portman -My Blueberry Nights
Francis McDormand -Burn After Reading
Debora Winger -Rachel Getting Married

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Burn After Reading
The Dark Knight
Pineapple Express
Rachel Getting Married
Shotgun Stories

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Synecdoche, New York
Burn After Reading
Redbelt
Pineapple Express
The Wrestler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Dark Knight
???

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
My Blueberry Nights
Paranoid Park
The Strangers
Pineapple Express
Rachel Getting Married

BEST EDITING
Wall-E
The Dark Knight
Paranoid Park
Cloverfield
My Blueberry Nights

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Wall-E
Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull
The Dark Knight
The Strangers
Cloverfield

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Dark Knight
Synecdoche, New York
Be Kind Rewind
Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull
My Blueberry Nights

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Be Kind Rewind
The Last Mistress
My Blueberry Nights
Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull
The Dark Knight

BEST MAKEUP
Tropic Thunder
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
My Blueberry Nights
Synecdoche, New York

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Redbelt
Synecdoche, New York
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
The Strangers

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Pineapple Express" -Huey Lewis and the News
"The Wrestler" -Bruce Springsteen
"Rock Me Sexy Jesus" -The Hamlet 2 Kids
That pretty song from Synecdoche, New York
Peter Gabriel's Wall-E song

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Man on Wire
Encounters at the End of the World

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E

[Pop Trash]

Bump. Are peeps waiting until the end of year for this?

[Boner M]

Updated my ballot w/ VCB (ensemble, Cruz) and Snow Angels (supporting actor - Griffin Dunne)

[Kurosawa Fan]

Bump. Are peeps waiting until the end of year for this?

Yes. There's far too much to see. My ballot would likely completely change.

[Ivan Drago]

Added Bolt to Best Animated Feature.

EDIT: Did we PM our edits last year? If so are we doing the same thing this year?

[ledfloyd]

Added Bolt to Best Animated Feature.

EDIT: Did we PM our edits last year? If so are we doing the same thing this year?
i have been editing mine like a madman so i hope nt.

[Ezee E]

I think when nominations are made, we PM our votes.

[Ivan Drago]

Added Slumdog Millionaire to:

Best Director - removed Guillermo Del Toro for Hellboy II
Best Adapated Screenplay - removed The Incredible Hulk
Best Cinematography - removed Cloverfield
Best Editing - removed W.
Best Original Score - removed Indiana Jones

[Silencio]

BEST PICTURE

Milk
The Wrestler
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wendy and Lucy
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR

Gus Van Sant, Milk
Steve McQueen, Hunger
Zhang Ke Jia, Still Life
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married

BEST ACTOR

Sean Penn, Milk
Michael Fassbender, Hunger
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Colin Farrel, In Bruges

BEST ACTRESS

Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon
Kristin Scott-Thomas, I've Loved You So Long

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Debra Winger, Rachel Getting Married
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Amy Adams, Doubt

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Rachel Getting Married
Milk
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hunger
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wendy and Lucy
The Dark Knight
Let the Right One In
Flight of the Red Balloon

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Still Life
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Flight of the Red Balloon
Hunger
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST EDITING

Dear Zachary
The Dark Knight
Rachel Getting Married
The Fall
Let the Right One In

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk

BEST MAKEUP

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Waltz with Bashir
Milk

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Little Person", Synecdoche, New York
"The Wrestler", The Wrestler
"O...Saya", Slumdog Millionaire

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Dear Zachary
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Wall-E
Waltz with Bashir

[dreamdead]

Keeping a placeholder. Will continue editing as I catch up on releases.

BEST PICTURE
Still Life
Woman on the Beach
Rachel Getting Married
Reprise
Summer Palace

BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Jia Zhang-ke, Still Life
Hong Sang-soo, Woman on the Beach
Joachim Trier, Reprise
Lou Ye, Summer Palace

BEST ACTOR
Anders Danielsen Lie, Reprise
Espen Klouman-Høiner, Reprise
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon
Go Hyun-Jung, Woman on the Beach
Hao Lei, Summer Palace

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
David Strathairn, My Blueberry Nights
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Guo Xiaodong, Summer Palace
Richard Jenkins, Burn After Reading
Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Tao Zhao, Still Life
Viktoria Winge, Reprise
Hanna Schygulla, The Edge of Heaven

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Rachel Getting Married
Woman on the Beach
The Edge of Heaven
Jellyfish

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Woman on the Beach
Summer Palace
Reprise
Burn After Reading

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Still Life
Reprise
Flight of the Red Balloon
Summer Palace
Jellyfish

BEST EDITING
Reprise
Flight of the Red Balloon

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Up the Yangtze

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda

[Melville]

I think I've only seen about ten movies from this year, but here's a placeholder list:

BEST PICTURE
Synecdoche, NY
Burn After Reading
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Let the Right One In
Waltz with Bashir

BEST DIRECTOR
Guy Maddin - My Winnipeg
Cristian Mungiu - 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Joel & Ethan Coen - Burn After Reading
Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche New York
Hou Hsiao-Hsen - Flight of the Red Balloon

BEST ACTOR
Philip Seymore Hoffman - Synecdoche, NY
Sean Penn - Milk

BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins - Happy Go Lucky
Annamaria Marinca - 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Juliette Binoche - Flight of the Red Balloon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Brad Pitt - Burn After Reading
Eddie Marson - Happy-Go-Lucky
Ralph Fiennes - In Bruges

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Burn After Reading
Synecdoche, NY
Milk

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Synecdoche, NY
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Let the Right One In
Paranoid Park
Flight of the Red Balloon
Waltz with bashir

BEST EDITING
Synecdoche, NY
Burn After Reading
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
My Winnipeg
Paranoid Park

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
The Dark Knight
Quantum of Solace

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Dark Knight
Synecdoche, NY
Let the Right One In

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Burn After Reading

BEST MAKEUP
The Dark Knight

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Dark Knight

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Encounters at the End of the World

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Waltz with Bashir

[Ivan Drago]

Added Slumdog Millionaire and Hamlet 2 to Best Original Song.

[trotchky]

BEST PICTURE

Synecdoche, New York
Role Models
Reprise
The Witnesses
Frownland

BEST DIRECTOR

Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
Ridley Scott, Body of Lies
Andre Techine, The Witnesses
Toby Wilkins, Splinter
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight

BEST ACTOR

Dore Mann, Frownland
Leonardo DiCpario, Body of Lies
Phil Hoffman, Synecdoche, New York


BEST ACTRESS

Julianne Moore, Blindness
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Rudd, Role Models
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS


more to come.

[eternity]

With a bunch of films left to see:

BEST PICTURE
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Cloverfield
-Wendy and Lucy
-Rachel Getting Married
-The Wrestler

BEST DIRECTOR
-David Fincher- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Matt Reeves- Cloverfield
-Kelly Reichardt- Wendy and Lucy
-Andy and Larry Wachowski- Speed Racer
-David Gordon Green- Snow Angels

BEST ACTOR
-Brad Pitt- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Steve Coogan- Hamlet 2
-Richard Jenkins- The Visitor
-Mickey Rourke- The Wrestler
-Sam Rockwell- Choke

BEST ACTRESS
-Michelle Williams- Wendy and Lucy
-Anne Hathaway- Rachel Getting Married
-Kate Beckinsale- Snow Angels
-Naomi Watts- Funny Games
-Cate Blanchett- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
-Brad Pitt- Burn After Reading
-Emile Hirsch- Milk
-Michael Angarano- Snow Angels
-Michael Shannon- Revolutionary Road
-Russell Brand, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
-Lizzy Caplan- Cloverfield
-Alison Pill- Milk
-Natalie Portman- My Blueberry Nights
-Rosemarie Dewitt- Rachel Getting Married
-Penelope Cruz- Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
-Cloverfield
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Rachel Getting Married
-Burn After Reading
-Milk

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
-Drew Goddard, Cloverfield
-Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
-Andrew Stanton, Wall-E
-Robert Siegel, The Wrestler
-Joel and Ethan Coen, Burn After Reading

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
-Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Kelly Reichardt and Jonathon Raymond, Wendy and Lucy
-Andy and Larry Wachowski, Speed Racer
-David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
-Clark Gregg, Choke

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Cloverfield
-My Blueberry Nights
-JCVD
-Paranoid Park

BEST EDITING
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Cloverfield
-Frost/Nixon
-Milk
-Burn After Reading

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Cloverfield
-Speed Racer
-Iron Man
-Wanted

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Cloverfield
-Speed Racer
-Wall-E
-The Dark Knight

BEST ART DIRECTION
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Cloverfield
-Speed Racer
-My Blueberry Nights
-Wall-E

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Revolutionary Road
-Frost/Nixon
-Slumdog Millionaire
-The Dark Knight

BEST MAKEUP
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Cloverfield
-Speed Racer
-Revolutionary Road
-The Dark Knight

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
-Alexandre Desplat- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Thomas Newman- Wall-E
-James Newton Howard and Hanz Zimmer- The Dark Knight
-Danny Elfman- Milk
-Michael Giacchino- Speed Racer

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
-Dracula's Lament by Jason Segel- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
-The Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen- The Wrestler
-Down to Earth by Peter Gabriel- Wall-E
-Little Person by Jon Brion- Synecdoche, New York
-Rock Me Sexy Jesus by Phoebe Strole- Hamlet 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY
-Dear Zachary: A Letter From A Father To His Son
-Bigger, Stronger, Faster
-Religulous
-My Winnipeg
-Waltz with Bashir

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
-Wall-E
-Kung Fu Panda
-Horton Hears a Who
-Space Chimps
-Waltz with Bashir

[Lazlo]

BEST PICTURE
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight”
“In Bruges”
“Rachel Getting Married”
“WALL-E”

BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Demme – “Rachel Getting Married”
David Fincher – “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Christopher Nolan – “The Dark Knight”
Tarsem – “The Fall”
The Wachowski Brothers – “Speed Racer”

BEST ACTOR
Colin Farrell – “In Bruges”
Richard Jenkins – “The Visitor”
Frank Langella – “Frost/Nixon”
Sean Penn – “Milk”
Brad Pitt - “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – ““The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Anne Hathaway – “Rachel Getting Married”
Kiera Knightly – “The Duchess”
Meryl Streep – “Doubt”
Catinca Untaru – “The Fall”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ralph Fiennes – “In Bruges”
James Franco – “Pineapple Express”
Bill Irwin – “Rachel Getting Married”
Heath Ledger – “The Dark Knight”
Haaz Sleiman – “The Visitor”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Hiam Abbass – “The Visitor”
Amy Adams – “Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day”
Penélope Cruz – “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Rosemary DeWitt – “Rachel Getting Married”
Kate Winslet – “The Reader”

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
“The Dark Knight”
“Frost/Nixon”
“In Bruges”
“Milk”
“Rachel Getting Married”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“In Bruges” (Martin McDonagh)
“Pineapple Express” (Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg; story by Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg)
“Rachel Getting Married” (Jenny Lumet)
“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (Woody Allen)
“WALL-E” (Andrew Stanton)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Eric Roth; short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“The Dark Knight” (Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer; comic books by DC Comics, Batman created by Bob Kane)
“Doubt” (John Patrick Shanley; from his play)
“Iron Man” (Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway; comic books by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Liber, Jack Kirby)
“Let the Right One In” (John Ajvide Lindqvist; from his novel)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Claudio Miranda)
“The Dark Knight” (Wally Pfister)
“The Duchess” (Gyula Pados)
“The Fall” (Colin Watkinson)
“Speed Racer” (Douglas Tattersall)

BEST EDITING
“The Dark Knight” (Lee Smith)
“The Fall” (Robert Duffy)
“Rachel Getting Married” (Tim Squyres)
“Shine a Light” (David Tedeschi)
“Speed Racer” (Roger Barton and Zach Staenberg)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Eric Barba)
“The Dark Knight” (Nick Davis)
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Jeppe N. Christensen and Michael J. Wassell)
“Iron Man” (Ben Snow)
“Speed Racer” (John Gaeta and Dan Glass)

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
“The Dark Knight” (Richard King)
“Iron Man” (Christopher Boyes)
“Quantum of Solace” (James Boyle and Martin Cantwell)
“Speed Racer” (Dane A. Davis)
“WALL-E” (Ben Burtt)

BEST ART DIRECTION
“Australia” (Catherine Martin)
“The Duchess” (Michael Carlin)
“The Fall” (Ged Clarke)
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Stephen Scott)
“Speed Racer” (Owen Paterson)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“Australia” (Catherine Martin)
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Jacqueline West)
“The Duchess” (Michael O’Conner)
“The Fall” (Eiko Ishioka)
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Sammy Sheldon)

BEST MAKEUP
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” (Paul Engelen)
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Greg Cannom)
“The Dark Knight” (Peter Robb-King)
“The Fall” (Leon von Solmes)
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Mike Elizalde)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“Cassandra’s Dream” (Philip Glass)
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Alexandre Desplat)
“The Dark Knight” (Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard)
“The Fall” (Krishna Levy)
“WALL-E” (Thomas Newman)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Another Way to Die" - "Quantum of Solace" (Jack White and Alicia Keys)
"Barking at the Moon" - "Bolt" (Jenny Lewis)
"Dracula's Lament" - "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (Jason Segel)
"O Saya" - "Slumdog Millionaire" (A.R. Rahman and M.I.A.)
"The Wrestler" - "The Wrestler" (Bruce Springsteen)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“The Business of Being Born”
“Man on Wire”
“Religulous”
“Shine a Light”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
“Bolt”
“Kung Fu Panda”
“WALL-E”

[NickGlass]

For Your Consideration in all categories:

Jellyfish
http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/jellyfish.jpg

The Edge of Heaven
http://moonandstarsproject.org/img/the-edge-of-heaven-Flyer.jpg

Reprise
http://ariasfilms.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/reprise_onesheet.jpg

All are available on DVD, slackers. Get to work.

[Ivan Drago]

Added The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to:

Best Picture - removed Burn After Reading
Best Director - removed Burn After Reading
Best Actor - removed Hellboy II
Best Actress
Best Adapted Screenplay - removed Hellboy II
Best Cinematography - removed Hellboy II
Best Editing - removed The Incredible Hulk
Best Visual Effects - removed Hancock
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Make-Up - removed Tropic Thunder
Best Original Score - removed The Incredible Hulk

Added Doubt to:

Best Actor - removed Iron Man
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress - removed W.
Best Ensemble Cast - removed Quantum of Solace
Best Adapted Screenplay - removed Quantum of Solace
Best Cinematography - removed W.
Best Costume Design

[B-side]

My very much in progress ballot:

BEST PICTURE- The Dark Knight
BEST DIRECTOR- Christopher Nolan- The Dark Knight
BEST ACTOR- Leonardo DiCaprio- Revolutionary Road
BEST ACTRESS- Michelle Williams- Wendy and Lucy
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR- Heath Ledger- The Dark Knight
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS-
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST- Milk
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY- Wall-E
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY- The Dark Knight
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY-
BEST EDITING-
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS- Cloverfield
BEST SOUND EFFECTS- The Dark Knight
BEST ART DIRECTION- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
BEST COSTUME DESIGN- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
BEST MAKEUP- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE- The Dark Knight
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE- Wall-E

[Barty]

BEST PICTURE

The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Valkyrie
W
The Reader

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E
Bryan Singer - Valkyrie
David Fincher - Benjamin Button
Stephen Daldry - The Reader

BEST ACTOR

Brad Pitt - Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Sean Penn - Milk
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road
Josh Brolin - W

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett - Benjamin Button
Kat Dennings - Nick & Norah
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Gary Oldman - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Shia Leabouf - Indiana Jones

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Tilda Swinton - Benjamin Button
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading
Marsiea Tomei - The Wrestler

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

The Dark Knight
Valkyrie
Step Brothers
Milk
Rachel Getting Married

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Wall-E
W
Step Brothers
Milk
The Wrestler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
The Reader
Nick & Norah
Revolutionary Road

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
Valkyrie
Australia
Revolutionary Road

BEST EDITING

The Dark Knight
Valkyrie
Wall-E
Benjamin Button
The Reader

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Benjamin Button
Cloverfield
Wanted

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones
Wall-E
Iron Man
Australia


BEST ART DIRECTION

The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Valkyrie
Australia
Benjamin Button

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Dark Knight
Valkyrie
Revolutionary Road
Iron Man
Indiana Jones

BEST MAKEUP

The Dark Knight
W
Benjamin Button
Tropic Thunder
Australia

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones
Wanted
Kung-Fu Panda
Valkyrie

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

The Wrestler - The Wrestler

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Wall-E
Bolt
Kung-Fu Panda

_____

Will keep updating

[Ezee E]

Put Ari Graynor in your Supporting Actress field Barty.

[Spinal]

Boner, what's the deadline?

[NickGlass]

Remaining unseen releases, which will be viewed by the deadline: Waltz with Bashir, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Gran Torino, The Secret of the Grain, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. [edit: Seen them all now. Only one made a difference.]

BEST PICTURE
The Class
The Edge of Heaven
The Secret of the Grain
Jellyfish
Milk

BEST DIRECTOR
Laurent Cantet, The Class
Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg
Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
Joachim Trier, Reprise

BEST ACTOR
François Bégaudeau, The Class
Michael Fassbender, Hunger
Sean Penn, Milk
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Seung-woo Kim, Woman on the Beach

BEST ACTRESS
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Julianne Moore, Savage Grace
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin, Milk
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
John Malkovich, Burn After Reading
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Hafsia Herzi, The Secret of the Grain
Flo Jacobs, Momma's Man
Samantha Morton, Synecdoche, New York
Tarra Riggs, Ballast
Hanna Schygulla, The Edge of Heaven

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
American Teen (just kidding: replace with A Christmas Tale)
The Class
Jellyfish
Milk
Secret of the Grain

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Milk
Reprise
Synecdoche, New York
Woman on the Beach

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Class
Elegy
The Last Mistress
Let the Right One In
Savage Grace

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Flight of the Red Balloon
Hunger
In the City of Sylvia
Let the Right One In
Tokyo Sonata

BEST EDITING
Burn After Reading
The Class
In the City of Sylvia
Paranoid Park
Reprise

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Little Person," Synecdoche, New York
"The Wrestler," The Wrestler

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Crawford
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
My Winnipeg
Trouble the Water

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E

[Ezee E]

Nice one Nick with Bégaudeau and Marinca.

But Emile Hirsch, really? Over Franco?

[Watashi]

Nice one Nick with Bégaudeau and Marinca.

But Emile Hirsch, really? Over Franco?
and over Ledger.

I think mine are pretty much set in stone.

[NickGlass]

But Emile Hirsch, really? Over Franco?

Absolutely. Franco is fine, but Hirsch imbues a historically important, if a bit cinematically streamlined, with revolutionary panache. His character, and performance, never let the film lose sight of the celebratory nature of victory against homophobic institutions. Plus, he makes Penn's line of dialogue, "You're so adorable," extremely plausible.

[eternity]

Hirsch > Franco in Milk. Franco's character was practically an afterthought.

[Boner M]

Boner, what's the deadline?
Nothing's set yet. Probably in a month.

[B-side]

I haven't been around for this before, so are we doing US release dates?

[Ezee E]

I haven't been around for this before, so are we doing US release dates?
Yeah

[Ivan Drago]

Added Valkyrie to:

Best Director - removed Slumdog Millionaire
Best Supporting Actor - removed Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight
Best Adapted Screenplay - removed Iron Man
Best Editing - removed Quantum of Solace
Best Sound Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Original Score - removed WALL-E

[B-side]

Yeah

Alright. Thanks.

[Duncan]

Franco's character was practically an afterthought. What?

[soitgoes...]

BEST PICTURE
Hunger
Burn After Reading
Paranoid Park
Let the Right One In
WALL-E

BEST DIRECTOR
Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg
Matteo Garrone, Gomorrah
Steve McQueen, Hunger
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Benicio Del Toro, Che
KÃ¥re Hedebrant, Let the Right One In
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Michael Fassbender, Hunger

BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Kate Beckinsale, Snow Angels
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading
David Strathairn, My Blueberry Nights
Liam Cunningham, Hunger
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Mathieu Amalric, A Christmas Tale

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Anne Consigny, A Christmas Tale
Chiaro Mastroianni, A Christmas Tale
Hanna Schygulla, The Edge of Heaven

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
A Christmas Tale
Burn After Reading
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Milk
Reprise

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Reprise
Hunger
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Redbelt

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Speed Racer
Gomorrah
Wendy and Lucy
Snow Angels
Let the Right One In

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Edge of Heaven
Snow Angels
My Blueberry Nights
Paranoid Park
Let the Right One In

BEST EDITING
Speed Racer
My Winnipeg
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Reprise
Let the Right One In

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Speed Racer
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
WALL-E
Speed Racer
Cloverfield
Let the Right One In
Gomorrah

BEST ART DIRECTION
Speed Racer
City of Ember
The Fall
Sukiyaki Western Django
Blindness

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Fall
City of Ember
Speed Racer
The Dark Knight
The Last Mistress

BEST MAKEUP
The Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
The Fall
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Che

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Man on Wire
At the Death House Door
Encounters at the End of the World
My Winnipeg

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Waltz with Bashir
WALL-E
Kung Fu Panda
Bolt
Horton Hears a Who!

[Mysterious Dude]

What?
He was basically a housewife.

[jesse]

He was basically a housewife. There is some truth to this I suppose, but how much it underrates! Scott is such a rare character in "gay films" that make some kind of cross-over into the mainstream (and perhaps even in queer cinema in general)--a confident, sexy, nondramatic romantic interest who genuinely loves his partner... not only is he the antithesis of Luna's Jack, but of the countless Jack-like caractures that often pass for depictions of gay men, particularly young ones.

But more than that, he's such an integral part of the narrative arc--the representation of paradise lost, and the demonstration that Milk lost much more than his life through his ascension into the history books. Personally, I loved Franco's characterization--breezy but quietly strong, and the loose, intuitive countermelody to Penn's wound-up pipe organ of a performance (which is actually not a knock--he's impressive). I wish Van Sant would have trusted their unbearably poignant final conversation to provide the understated emotional resonance to Milk's murder instead of hamfistedly inserting the opera at the last moment. It was so beautifully played.

[eternity]

I love you.

I love you but I want you to stop doing this Harvey.

That's it, I'm leaving.

I'm still gone.

/end

[Spinal]

Here were last year's winners:

BEST PICTURE: No Country for Old Men

BEST DIRECTOR: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST ACTOR: Daniel-Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS: Julie Christie, Away From Her, Christina Ricci, Black Snake Moan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

BEST ENSEMBLE: Zodiac

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Brad Bird, Ratatouille

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, No Country for Old Men

BEST EDITING: Angus Wall, Zodiac

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Zodiac

BEST SOUND EFFECTS: No Country for Old Men

BEST ART DIRECTION: Zodiac

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Atonement

BEST MAKEUP: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Jonny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Falling Slowly", Once

BEST DOCUMENTARY: The King of Kong

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Paprika

[Ezee E]

I hardly remember anything about Away From Her.

I guess that's sort of ironic.

[Pop Trash]

Added The Wrestler for pic, actor, and song.

[Ezee E]

Starting to get curious at how this'll turn out.

Updated with The Wrestler and Revolutionary Road nominees. Hopefully nothing is being tallied up just yet.

[soitgoes...]

What is the consensus on how Che will be counted? Separately or as one entity? I think it makes sense to have it as one film, otherwise split voting will lessen its impact.

I watched the first part last night with the intention of watching the second tonight, and as of now I can only maybe see a Best Actor and Editing nom from me. We'll see how it plays out though.

[Ezee E]

What is the consensus on how Che will be counted? Separately or as one entity? I think it makes sense to have it as one film, otherwise split voting will lessen its impact.

I watched the first part last night with the intention of watching the second tonight, and as of now I can only maybe see a Best Actor and Editing nom from me. We'll see how it plays out though.
I'd just make it one movie. I haven't really heard of a dissenting opinion on one being better than the other.

[DavidSeven]

Here were last year's winners:

Matched the Academy winner-for-winner in eight different categories. No such luck this year, I presume.

[Ezee E]

Matched the Academy winner-for-winner in eight different categories. No such luck this year, I presume.
Hmm...

Predictions for Match-Cut:
Picture: Wall-E
Director: Tomas Alfreddson, Let The Right One In
Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler or Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
S-Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
S-Actress: Rosemary DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married

Although Marisa Tomei's tits could just take the Supporting Actress Award. Not her, the tits.

And, I was glancing through the nominations, and I think I saw Charlize Theron nominated for Hancock. Hmm...

[Spinal]

There is no way that The Dark Knight isn't winning Best Picture.

[Ezee E]

There is no way that The Dark Knight isn't winning Best Picture.
Sarcasm?

[Spinal]

Sarcasm?

No. I think it's a lock.

[DSNT]

Still a lot to see, but this will do for now.

BEST PICTURE
Wall-E
The Wrestler
Burn After Reading
The Fall
Milk

BEST DIRECTOR
Stanton, Wall-E
Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Coen, Burn After Reading
Allen, Vicky Christy Barcelona
Singh, The Fall

BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Sean Penn, Milk
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Michael Sheen, Frost/Nixon
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor

BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Beckinsale, Snow Angels
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Naomi Watts, Funny Games

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Josh Brolin, Milk
Javier Bardem, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Amy Adams, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Evan Rachel Wood, The Wrestler
Mila Kunis, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
The Wrestler
Burn After Reading
Doubt
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Frost/Nixon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Wall-E
In Bruges
Burn After Reading
Tropic Thunder
The Wrestler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Frost/Nixon
Slumdog Millionaire
Snow Angels
The Dark Knight
Doubt

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Fall
Slumdog Millionaire
Benjamin Button
Tropic Thunder
Burn After Reading

BEST EDITING
Slumdog Millionaire
The Fall
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Burn After Reading

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
Iron Man
Wanted
The Fall

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
I don't know.

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
The Fall
Milk
Burn After Reading

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Milk
Benjamin Button
The Wrestler

BEST MAKEUP
Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy 2

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Slumdog Millionaire
Benjamin Button
Wall-E

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler
Jai Ho, Slumdog Millionaire
O Saya, Slumdog Millionaire
Paper Planes, Slumdog Millionaire (can I count this?)
Rock Me Sexy Jesus, Hamlet 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Religulous
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter Thompson
Wanted and Desired
Man on Wire
Encounters at the End of the World

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda

^^^ really really need to see Waltz with Bashir.

[Spinal]

That Hamlet 2 song is so lame. Everything about that film is lame.

[Rowland]

That Hamlet 2 song is so lame. Everything about that film is lame.I think it was supposed to be lame, a lampooning of flamboyant camp theater in the vein of Momma Mia!. After all, Coogan is shown again and again to be a shallow thinker and an uninspired artist. Where the film slips up most for me in this sense is that it also seems to genuinely attempt to justify his play as artistically valid because of its sincerity or whatever, which I suspect is a case of poorly thought-out thematic coherence on the writing front.

[Spinal]

I think it was supposed to be lame, a lampooning of flamboyant camp theater in the vein of Momma Mia!. After all, Coogan is shown again and again to be a shallow thinker and an uninspired artist.

Well, yes that's obvious. I'm saying that it's not clever in its attempt to not be clever. It's just tiresome.

[Rowland]

Well, yes that's obvious. I'm saying that it's not clever in its attempt to not be clever. It's just tiresome.I agree that it isn't all that funny. The movie would have been more interesting if it was more of a character study that invested in the raw, exposed wounds Coogan is dealing with in his play, rather than devoting most of its time in the third act to the ostensibly comedic numbers. I do give it credit though for smartly utilizing David Arquette's non-existence as an actor and Elizabeth Shue's mediocrity to further emphasize the modesty of Coogan's artistic ambitions.

[Spinal]

I agree that it isn't all that funny. The movie would have been more interesting if it was more of a character study that invested in the raw, exposed wounds Coogan is dealing with in his play, rather than devoting most of its time in the third act to the ostensibly comedic numbers.

It's clear that the film doesn't even know its central character. The acting class scenes and the way Coogan's character teaches bear no resemblance to reality and therefore do not register at all. It's really easy to find humor in a loopy drama teacher character, but it has to start with a kernel of truth. The film also doesn't understand how difficult it is to mount a theatrical production, even a bad one. Why do those kids with no prior interest in drama come together? We don't know. When and where do they get together to rehearse? We don't know. Why should explicit sexual content be acceptable in a production for high schoolers? "Oh, just because there are meanies who don't understand freedom of expression." No, that's not really how it works. You don't have a constitutional right to write a script for high schoolers that includes group sex (which conveniently, the end of the film ignores). The film spends so much time trying to ridicule incompetent theatre, but doesn't know the subject well enough to even reference it. Instead we get gags about Erin Brockovich and Leaving Las Vegas, which last I checked are films. Waiting for Guffman understood its characters and what makes their myopia funny. This film has no clue.

[eternity]

Did I nominate Hamlet 2 for BP?

*checks*

Yeah, I did.

[Spinal]

My other major complaint is that the film doesn't even lampoon Hamlet!

[Ezee E]

No. I think it's a lock.
Eh, we'll see. I just didn't think The Dark Knight was praised as highly as Wall-E here. Liked for sure, but not loved.

As for Hamlet 2, if it weren't for Coogan, it'd be down in my worst of the year list.

[Ivan Drago]

BIG update:

Added Frost/Nixon to:

Best Picture (removed W.)
Best Director (removed Valkyrie)
Best Actor (removed Quantum of Solace)
Best Supporting Actor (removed Valkyrie)
Best Ensemble (removed Doubt)
Best Adapted Screenplay (removed Valkyrie)

Added Milk to:

Best Actor (removed Doubt)
Best Original Screenplay (removed Zack and Miri Make a Porno)
Best Editing (removed Valkyrie)
Best Costume Design (removed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Best Original Score (removed Speed Racer)

Added Doubt to:

Best Supporting Actor (removed W.)

Added The Dark Knight to:

Best Visual Effects (removed Hellboy II)

[Kurosawa Fan]

Checked the first post and didn't see a deadline. Has one been established? I don't want to miss it, but there's a lot I still want to see before submitting a ballot.

[NickGlass]

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Michael Sheen, Frost/Nixon


No. Just...no.

[Boner M]

No. Just...no.
His was a devastating portrayal of mild bemusement.

[Ivan Drago]

No. Just...no.

Hey, it's not the craziest thing I've said/done here.

[Ezee E]

Hey, it's not the craziest thing I've said/done here.
It's not even his craziest nomination.

[Ivan Drago]

It's not even his craziest nomination.

I'm not sure if these are what you're referring to - 3 of those Best Actress and Supporting Actress nominations are filler until I see more stuff. I've still got to see The Wrestler, Rachel Getting Married, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, to name a few.

[Spinal]

Are we reacting to the quality of the performance or that Sheen is a lead and not supporting? Haven't seen the film, but everything I've seen strongly suggests it is a lead performance.

[NickGlass]

Are we reacting to the quality of the performance or that Sheen is a lead and not supporting? Haven't seen the film, but everything I've seen strongly suggests it is a lead performance.

Precisely. It's the category selection, not the performance.

[jesse]

Offering this up, well aware it won't make a difference one way or the other...

BEST PICTURE
Chansons d'amour (Love Songs)*
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Savage Grace
Une vielle maîtresse (The Last Mistress)
Le Voyage du balloon rouge (Flight of the Red Balloon)

BEST DIRECTOR
Catherine Breillet, Une vieille maîtresse*
Christophe Honoré, Chansons d'amour
Hou Hsio-Hsein, Voyage du balloon rouge
Carlos Reygadas, Stellet licht (Silent Light)
Eric Rohmer, Les amours d'Astrée et Céledon (The Romance of Astrea and Celedon)

BEST ACTOR
Tanner Cohen, Were the World Mine
Guillaume Depardeiu, Ne touchez pas la hache*
Louis Garrel, Chansons d'amour
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Sean Penn, Milk

BEST ACTRESS
Asia Argento, Une vielle maîtresse*
Jeanne Balibar, Ne touchez pas la hache
Juliette Binoche, Voyage du balloon rouge
Julianne Moore, Savage Grace
Kristen Stewart, Twilight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Nathaniel David Becker, Were the World Mine
James Franco, Milk
Emile Hirsch, Milk*
Eddie Redmayne, Savage Grace
David Strathairn, My Blueberrry Nights

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Audrey Dana, Roman de gare
Ari Graynor, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist*
Clotilde Hesme, Chansons d'amour
Chiara Mastroianni, Chansons d'amour
Rachel Weisz, My Blueberry Nights

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Les amours d'Astrée et Céledon*
Chansons d'amour
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Son of Rambow
Une vieille maîtresse

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Chansons d'amour
Milk
Paranoid Park
Son of Rambow
Were the World Mine*

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Les amours d'Astrée et Céledon
Ne touchez pas la hache
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Une vieille maîtresse*

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
My Blueberry Nights*
Paranoid Park
Savage Grace
Stellet licht
Une vielle maîtresse

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anita O'Day: Life of a Jazz Singer
Guest of Cindy Sherman*
Jump!
The Rape of Europa
The Wrecking Crew

(* denote my favorite in given category)

[NickGlass]

Offering this up, well aware it won't make a difference one way or the other...

BEST PICTURE
Savage Grace

This film is so, so delightfully sleazy.


BEST ACTOR
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire


jesse le fou.

[Ivan Drago]

Is Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist that good? Or was 2008 that weak of a year?

[Ezee E]

Is Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist that good? Or was 2008 that weak of a year?
It's a nice, and dare I say, cute comedy that is certainly watchable for a few actors/actresses that will be headlining movies in a few years.

[jesse]

This film is so, so delightfully sleazy. Yes, but also very sad. I found it quite haunting, if only because the film manages to explain, well, exactly nothing about the situation it depicts.


jesse le fou. I liked his performance (obviously). The character is a bit thinly drawn, but I thought he did some nice work through his body language and through his eyes.

[jesse]

Is Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist that good? Or was 2008 that weak of a year? Is N&N an objectively good, Art-with-a-capital-A film type of film, better than some of the titles it inevitably displaced, films like Touchez pas la hache, Les amours d'Astrée et Céledon, Milk, Paranoid Park, Silent Light?

Well, no, not exactly. But for me it's a very special film, one I love and one I know I'll be returning to more often than any of the titles I listed above. I'm hoping to do a year-end write up in the next few days and I'll inevitably explain a bit more then.

[ledfloyd]

when is the cutoff for these?

[Ezee E]

We did these shortly after the Oscars didn't we? The results that is.

[Spinal]

We did these shortly after the Oscars didn't we? The results that is.

Yeah, I started posting results pretty much right after the Oscar broadcast ended.

[ledfloyd]

which would mean voting would have start in a week or two no?

[Ezee E]

which would mean voting would have start in a week or two no?
ideally.

[Raiders]

Still have a few I want to see, but I doubt I'll get to them before the deadline (only The Class seems possible), so here goes...

BEST PICTURE
WALL·E
Rachel Getting Married
Paranoid Park
Pineapple Express
Che

BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
Isabel Coixet, Elegy
Steven Soderbergh, Che
Wong Kar-Wai, My Blueberry Nights

BEST ACTOR
Ben Kingsley, Elegy
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
James Franco, Pineapple Express
Lee Pace, The Fall
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Redbelt

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Elegy
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Amy Adams, Doubt
Tilda Swinton, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST EDITING

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

BEST ART DIRECTION

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

BEST MAKEUP

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[Mysterious Dude]

BEST PICTURE
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Let the Right One In
Waltz With Bashir

BEST DIRECTOR
Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Tarsem Singh, The Fall
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Joachim Trier, Reprise
Ari Folman, Waltz With Bashir

BEST ACTOR
Andrew Garfield, Boy A
Karl Markovics, The Counterfeiters
Fu'ad Ait Aattou, The Last Mistress
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche, New York
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
Samantha Morton, Synecdoche, New York
Asia Argento, The Last Mistress

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Peter Mullan, Boy A
John Malkovich, Burn After Reading
Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin, Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Catherine Keener, Synecdoche, New York
Lizzy Caplan, Cloverfield
Tilda Swinton, Burn After Reading
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Hanna Schygulla, The Edge of Heaven

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Burn After Reading
The Edge of Heaven
Synecdoche, New York
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Synecdoche, New York
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Reprise
The Edge of Heaven

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Boy A
The Dark Knight
The Last Mistress
Let the Right One In
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Fall
Let the Right One In
Paranoid Park
Reprise

BEST EDITING
Cloverfield
Dear Zachary
Reprise
Synecdoche, New York
The Tracey Fragments

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Let the Right One In
Synecdoche, New York

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Let the Right One In
Wall-E

BEST ART DIRECTION
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Fall
The Last Mistress
Mongol
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Dark Knight
The Fall
The Last Mistress
Mongol
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST MAKEUP
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Let the Right One In
Mongol
Synecdoche, New York

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Dark Knight
Let the Right One In
Paranoid Park
Slumdog Millionaire
Synecdoche, New York

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Jai Ho," Slumdog Millionaire
"O Saya," Slumdog Millionaire
"Little Person," Synecdoche New York
"The Wrestler," The Wrestler
"Down to Earth," WALL-E

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Dear Zachary

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Horton Hears a Who!
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir

[Watashi]

No Stanton or Del Toro, Raiders?

[Raiders]

No Stanton or Del Toro, Raiders?

I felt compelled to include Stanton, but I was saving my WALL-E choices for cinematography and writing and figured he didn't really stand much chance anyway. Del Toro is good, but the film's style doesn't really allow for much in the way of performance, so I went in another direction.

[Stay Puft]

BEST PICTURE

Ashes of Time Redux
The Edge of Heaven
Flight of the Red Balloon
Reprise
Speed Racer

BEST DIRECTOR

Ethan and Joel Coen, Burn After Reading
Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Hsiao-hsien Hou, Flight of the Red Balloon
Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai, Mad Detective
Andy and Larry Wachowski, Speed Racer

BEST ACTOR

Leslie Cheung, Ashes of Time Redux
Lee Pace, The Fall
Fu’ad Ait Aattou, The Last Mistress
Anders Danielsen Lie, Reprise
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS

Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon
Asia Argento, The Last Mistress
Emily Mortimer, Transsiberian
Gillian Anderson, The X-Files: I Want to Believe

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

George Clooney, Burn After Reading
Bill Murray, City of Ember
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
David Strathairn, My Blueberry Nights
Billy Connolly, The X-Files: I Want to Believe

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Brigitte Lin, Ashes of Time Redux
Hanna Schygulla, The Edge of Heaven
Natalie Portman, My Blueberry Nights
Viktoria Winge, Reprise
Susan Sarandon, Speed Racer

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Ashes of Time Redux
Blindness
Burn After Reading
The Edge of Heaven
Speed Racer

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Joel and Ethan Coen, Burn After Reading
Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Ka-Fai Wai and Kin-Yee Au, Mad Detective
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, Reprise

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Jonathan and Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis and Tarsem Singh, The Fall
Catherine Breillat, The Last Mistress
Andy and Larry Wachowski, Speed Racer
Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter, The X-Files: I Want to Believe

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Peter Zeitlinger, Encounters at the End of the World
Colin Watkinson, The Fall
Pin Bing Lee, Flight of the Red Balloon
Darius Khondji, My Blueberry Nights
David Tattersall, Speed Racer

BEST EDITING

William Chang and Patrick Tam, Ashes of Time Redux
Ethan and Joel Coen, Burn After Reading
Kevin Rafferty, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
William Chang, My Blueberry Nights
Roger Barton and Zach Staenberg, Speed Racer

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Speed Racer
The Transporter 3

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

City of Ember
The Dark Knight
Quantum of Solace
Speed Racer
The Transporter 3

BEST ART DIRECTION

City of Ember
The Fall
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
My Blueberry Nights
Speed Racer

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Ruth Myers, City of Ember
Lindy Hemming, The Dark Knight
Eiko Ishioka, The Fall
Sammy Sheldon, Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Anaïs Romand, The Last Mistress

BEST MAKEUP

Blindness
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Wrestler

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Frankie Chan and Roel A. GarcÃ*a, Ashes of Time Redux
Marco Antônio Guimarães, Blindness
James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight
Xavier Jamaux, Mad Detective
Ola Fløttum and Knut Schreiner, Reprise

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Encounters at the End of the World
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Man on Wire

[Stay Puft]

Do we have a final deadline yet? I submitted my ballot now to be sure I didn't miss it. There are a few more films I'd like to see, but I don't know how soon I'll have time as I have a bunch of assignments to mark this week.

[Ezee E]

Unless Boner opposes, I'd like to try and tally the nominations by the end of the the week.

We'll still have the same award show format. I'd actually request someone to take opening portion of it, while other posters present the awards. I'll just tally and announce the nominations, possibly take the ballots if nobody else does.

Any disagreements on this?

Unless the Boner gets his act together and starts working again.

[Barty]

There's still some I'd like to change, so let us know when the deadline is.

[Sycophant]

Yes, I need to revise my ballot heavily.

Also, I'm going to lobby yet again for these to be called "The Cutties."

http://www.bombdotcom.net/wordpress/shit/cutty.jpg

I will make a gold statuette JPEG of him if that will help.

[ledfloyd]

Yes, I need to revise my ballot heavily.

Also, I'm going to lobby yet again for these to be called "The Cutties."

http://whatnotstudios.com/shit/cutty.jpg

I will make a gold statuette JPEG of him if that will help.
i support this ideas.

[Boner M]

Unless Boner opposes, I'd like to try and tally the nominations by the end of the the week.

We'll still have the same award show format. I'd actually request someone to take opening portion of it, while other posters present the awards. I'll just tally and announce the nominations, possibly take the ballots if nobody else does.

Any disagreements on this?

Unless the Boner gets his act together and starts working again.
Sorry, I totally forgot to reply to your last PM.

I can tally/present the awards anytime this week.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I need to submit my ballot, so yeah, let me know when the official deadline will be.

[Llopin]

So, I've decided to get off my lazy ass and take a part on this

But first, I should know, are we going by the US release dates of doom, or is there more range?

[Watashi]

So, I've decided to get off my lazy ass and take a part on this

But first, I should know, are we going by the US release dates of doom, or is there more range?
U.S. release dates.

[Ivan Drago]

So...have these been tallied?

And E, did you get my PM?

[Ezee E]

So...have these been tallied?

And E, did you get my PM?
I'm not tallying them, but I got your PM. Talk to Boner about presenting.

[chrisnu]

If these haven't already been tallied, I'm as ready as I'm gonna be with submitting a ballot. If that can be posted or submitted via PM, let me know.

[Sxottlan]

I'm trying to do these up as quick as I can!

[Kurosawa Fan]

Give me two more days! I'm going to squeeze in a few more movies before the end of the week.

[Raiders]

Yeah, I am planning on editing in the remaining categories tomorrow. Can we hold off closing this down until then? If not, it's cool. I'll try and get 'em done tonight.

[Ezee E]

I'll attempt Vicki Cristina Barcelona and The Reader by the end of hte week as well.

[Sxottlan]

Admittedly, some of these are filling out the categories. A so-so year.

BEST PICTURE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Synecdoche, New York
Wall-E

BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight
Tarsem: The Fall
Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche, New York
Andrew Stanton: Wall-E

BEST ACTOR
Josh Brolin: W.
Robert Downey, Jr.: Iron Man
Sean Penn: Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Synecdoche, New York
Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep: Doubt
Catinca Untaru: The Fall
Melissa Leo: Frozen River
Anne Hathaway: Rachel Getting Married
Kate Winslet: Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brad Pitt: Burn After Reading
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Doubt
Heath Ledger: The Dark Knight
James Franco: Pineapple Express
Robert Downey, Jr.: Tropic Thunder

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frances McDormand: Burn After Reading
Penelope Cruz: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Maggie Gyllenhaal: The Dark Knight
Marisa Tomei: The Wrestler

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Doubt
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Milk
Tropic Thunder

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Be Kind, Rewind
Burn After Reading
In Bruges
Synecdoche, New York
Wall-E

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Horton Hears a Who
Iron Man
Revolutionary Road

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Revolutionary Road
Tropic Thunder

BEST EDITING
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Valkyrie
Wall-E

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace

BEST ART DIRECTION
Australia
City of Ember
The Fall
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Quantum of Solace

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Milk

BEST MAKEUP
The Dark Knight
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Synecdoche, New York
Tropic Thunder
The Wrestler

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Kung Fu Panda
Revolutionary Road
Wall-E

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Another Way to Die" from Quantum of Solace
"Down to Earth" from Wall-E
"Pineapple Express" from Pineapple Express
"The Wrester" from The Wrestler

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Encounters at the End of the World
My Winnipeg

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Appleseed: Ex Machina
Horton Hears a Who
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

[Sycophant]

BEST PICTURE

Ashes of Time Redux

Oh, shit. It didn't even occur to me to consider this a 2008 movie.

I just edited my ballot again (many categories with only one or two or less nominations). I'm gonna try to catch a few things before this thing closes, and if I do, I'll consider Wong's film when I reevaluate things.

[Rowland]

if only because the film manages to explain, well, exactly nothing about the situation it depicts.I disagree. How does it explain nothing?

[jesse]

I disagree. How does it explain nothing? I don't know, did you walk away feeling enlightened? I felt there was extremely little in the way of analysis or hell, even coherent characters arcs. We just got hit with the big moments: boom! (forced reading of Bataille as a little boy), boom! (hey, that's a boy he's making out with on the beach!), boom! (now he's in bed with mom and her gay boyfriend!), boom! (now mom is riding him on the couch!), etc, etc, and there was remarkably little to connect each of these sequences to the next.

Whether intended or not, the screenplay seemed to dramatize events almost at random, throwing them at the viewer and more or less saying "alright, you put the pieces together." And that's exactly what I did like so much about the film. I didn't want a heavy-handed Freudian reading or anything. Often "real life" is a mystery and films that dramatize them often seem to forget about that.

I did write more extended thoughts on the film--don't know if you saw it here (http://memoriesofthefuture.wordpress. com/2009/01/20/its-strictly-a-family-affair/).

[Rowland]

I don't know, did you walk away feeling enlightened? I felt there was extremely little in the way of analysis or hell, even coherent characters arcs. We just got hit with the big moments: boom! (forced reading of Bataille as a little boy), boom! (hey, that's a boy he's making out with on the beach!), boom! (now he's in bed with mom and her gay boyfriend!), boom! (now mom is riding him on the couch!), etc, etc, and there was remarkably little to connect each of these sequences to the next. I thought the film was rather explicitly about the fission between the son's desire and eventual need to take his father's role with his homosexuality, further complicated by his mother's desire to heteroize him as well as their cosmopolitan lifestyle, which over time drives him increasingly mad. Given Tom Kalin's thematic preoccupation with homosexuality, I'd argue that the film at its core is about the conflict between the homosexual lifestyle and the burden of a hetero society's expectations.

[Ezee E]

If the amount of discussion decided what movies were nominated for Best Picture, these would be our nominations:

The Dark Knight - 2580
The Happening - 388
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull - 562
Speed Racer - 317
Wall-E - 473

I think all the posts from every movie released in 2008 may not even add up to the godly amount in The Dark Knight thread.

[Ezee E]

Associated Press -


[b]Match Cut Gears Up For 4th Annual “Cutties["/b]

Match-cut.org, a bizarre place that refuses to give dogs cupcakes. A place that deems Megan Fox worthless. A place that loves Repo: The Genetic Opera and Southland Tales.

“Only on Match Cut,” is a term that can sum up the strange place that attracts zombiefreaks, basketball lovers, up to five girls, and snobs.

Speculation on the 4th Annual Cutties is as high as their own disappointment in the Oscars. Unlike last year, where the Cutties matched the Oscars on many categories, the Cutties may not even have a match in the Best Picture category.

History shows that Match-Cut tends to vote for a certain type of film each year. There is always an animated film. Always. Expect Wall-E to have that.

With the previous Best Picture winners, Match-Cut voters tend to vote for “dark and gritty” films. The Dark Knight was considered darker and grittier than any other comic book movie before, and this looks like a frontrunner.

What else? Match Cut loves its banners, as they are typically colorful. Could that mean The Fall will fall (hehe) into place?

Despite the compositions, Match-Cut likes to keep it real. You know, real dark, and with a naturalistic touch. This is a prime example of why Megan Fox is deemed worthless. Rachel Getting Married, The Wrestler, and Milk were just that. Although Sean Penn smiled a lot, so that may lose some voters. Marisa Tomei’s hotself could single-handedly get voters to err towards The Wrestler. She nearly did it a year ago with Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. Too bad the movie sucked donkey balls.

Don’t forget how pretentious their voters are. Flight of the Red Balloon, Synecdoche, New York, Hunger, and Wendy & Lucy could have a chance if enough voters got to see the movies in time. Perhaps the voters will combine their pretentiousness with the dark/gritty and vote in Let the Right One In: The Swedish Vampire Movie?

Voters love their Asia Argento. Unfortunately, her films The Last Mistress, and Boarding Gate were too underseen to be voted in this year. Expect The Last Mistress to be raved about upon its DVD release.

Perhaps Match-Cut will change things up a bit, and go for the lulz this year. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Happy-Go-Lucky or Burn After Reading? They have the type of humor that Match-Cut loves, and one of those may sneak in.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

PREVIOUS WINNERS:
A History of Violence - 2005
Children of Men – 2006
No Country For Old Men – 2007

[jesse]

I thought the film was rather explicitly about the fission between the son's desire and eventual need to take his father's role with his homosexuality, further complicated by his mother's desire to heteroize him as well as their cosmopolitan lifestyle, which over time drives him increasingly mad. Given Tom Kalin's thematic preoccupation with homosexuality, I'd argue that the film at its core is about the conflict between the homosexual lifestyle and the burden of a hetero society's expectations. Oh, I suppose I just took that interpretation as a given--I mean, that's the "theme" attached to depictions of most gay characters in art. And besides for the actual incest, a lot of the pressures depicted are ones I'd say the majority of gay people deal with in their own lives--so why did this particular turn out so spectacularly different? The film, I don't think, really deals with this.


I'd argue that the film at its core is about the conflict between the homosexual lifestyle and the burden of a hetero society's expectations God, I hope not--that means I'm giving the film much more credit than it deserves. I think you underrate the sheer oddness of the film, and, admittedly, I might overrate it.

That said, one way or the other I am glad you liked it--there doesn't seem to be many. Have you seen any of other of Kalin's films? Swoon is lurking near the top of my Netflix queue--I'll probably be seeing it in the next month or two.

[Rowland]

God, I hope not--that means I'm giving the film much more credit than it deserves. I think you underrate the sheer oddness of the film, and, admittedly, I might overrate it.The oddness comes in the telling of the story, most certainly... but that's not the only theme, only the core. The Moore character is a prototypical portrait of self-destructive, pseudo-sophisticated goldigging, combined with the emptiness and sheer dislocation of their lifestyle, expressed through the disarmingly elliptical, fractured structure and the heavy-handed dog-chain metaphor, are important facets of the piece. What did you make of the twist that his narration was in fact a written letter to his father, was that supposed to signify anything?


That said, one way or the other I am glad you liked it--there doesn't seem to be many. Have you seen any of other of Kalin's films? Swoon is lurking near the top of my Netflix queue--I'll probably be seeing it in the next month or two. Nope, but I may eventually. I'll certainly keep my eyes open for whatever he does next.

[chrisnu]

I'm done. :cool:


BEST PICTURE

Rachel Getting Married
Burn After Reading
The Wrestler
Milk
Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST DIRECTOR

Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Gus Van Sant, Milk
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Joel Coen, Burn After Reading
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST ACTOR

Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Sean Penn, Milk
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Josh Brolin, W.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road

BEST ACTRESS

Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Kate Beckinsale, Snow Angels
Julianne Moore, Blindness
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
James Franco, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Viola Davis, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Burn After Reading
Funny Games

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Burn After Reading
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Snow Angels
Funny Games
The Dark Knight

[Mysterious Dude]

Could someone please tell me what word or phrase it is that is so hazardous to Spinal's sanity? I must have missed the inciting incident of that story.

[Ezee E]

Could someone please tell me what word or phrase it is that is so hazardous to Spinal's sanity? I must have missed the inciting incident of that story.
lulz.

[Mysterious Dude]

lulz.
kthx.

[Mara]

kthx.

I still don't get it.

[Raiders]

I still don't get it.

Spinal hates the word "l-u-l-z" and it was being used so much at one point a few months back he threatened, I believe, to start neg-repping people. So I made a word filter/replacement that whenever someone types "l-u-l-z" it automatically replaces it with "[Edited for Spinal's Sanity]." By now I should probably remove the filter, but I find it rather amusing.

[Mara]

Spinal hates the word "l-u-l-z" and it was being used so much at one point a few months back he threatened, I believe, to start neg-repping people. So I made a word filter/replacement that whenever someone types "l-u-l-z" it automatically replaces it with "[Edited for Spinal's Sanity]." By now I should probably remove the filter, but I find it rather amusing.

Okay, that's fun. It reminds me of how-many-incantations-ago when all swear words were replaced with funny things like "I am a potty mouth."

[Spinal]

It really has helped. I feel much more serene these days.

[Kurosawa Fan]

BEST PICTURE
Burn After Reading
Wall-E
Rachel Getting Married
Let the Right One In
A Christmas Tale

BEST DIRECTOR
The Coen Bros.
Andrew Stanton
Jonathon Demme
Tomas Alfredson
The Wachowski Bros.

BEST ACTOR
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Sean Penn - Milk
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon

BEST ACTRESS
Catherine Deneuve - A Christmas Tale
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep - Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Eddie Marsan - Happy-Go-Lucky
James Franco - Pineapple Express
Bill Irwin - Rachel Getting Married

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Debra Winger - Rachel Getting Married
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Christina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Rosemary Dewitt - Rachel Getting Married
Anne Consigny - A Christmas Tale

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
A Christmas Tale
Burn After Reading
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Pineapple Express

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Milk
A Christmas Tale
Rachel Getting Married
Wall-E

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Let the Right One In
Speed Racer
Doubt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Let the Right One In
Milk

BEST EDITING
Milk

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
Doubt
Let the Right One In
A Christmas Tale

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Man on Wire

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda


This is my preliminary ballot. I'd like to see a couple more before I'm done, but we'll see.

[Raiders]

Did we ever decide on a deadline? Since we didn't get in in time for the Oscars, I would request, if possible, a couple more weeks since Two Lovers, Gomorrah and maybe Hunger will all be releasing here over the next two weeks.

[Derek]

Did we ever decide on a deadline? Since we didn't get in in time for the Oscars, I would request, if possible, a couple more weeks since Two Lovers, Gomorrah and maybe Hunger will all be releasing here over the next two weeks.

Which will make them 2009 by US release date, right?

EDIT: Actually, Hunger and Gomorrah had official US releases in 2008, so only Two Lovers will be 2009 for our purposes.

[Raiders]

Which will make them 2009 by US release date, right?

EDIT: Actually, Hunger and Gomorrah had official US releases in 2008, so only Two Lovers will be 2009 for our purposes.

Oh, I thought Two Lovers and an NY/LA or some such release in '08. But I see it did not. Oh well.

[Derek]

Oh, I thought Two Lovers and an NY/LA or some such release in '08. But I see it did not. Oh well.

I didn't think Gomorrah did, so I was wrong too. Regardless, do see Hunger. :)

[Spinal]

Let's get this party goin' already!

[Boner M]

Yeah, I don't wanna wait two weeks for Raiders to see some movies.

Y'know, I've got a lot of free time this week so I'm willing to tally both these awards and the top tens. Then I can PM 'em to willing participants who can do the presentation/announcing. Eh guys?

[Mysterious Dude]

I just as soon get it over with. We've had a few delays already. 2008 is going out of style.

[Spinal]

Y'know, I've got a lot of free time this week so I'm willing to tally both these awards and the top tens. Then I can PM 'em to willing participants who can do the presentation/announcing. Eh guys?

Wait, aren't we going to get a final ballot to vote from?

[Ezee E]

I'll participate if needed.

[Sycophant]

I'm always a willing participant. ;)

[Boner M]

Wait, aren't we going to get a final ballot to vote from?
Umm... oops. Yeah, that first. :|