I think that this is a very interesting Oscar race. Aside from the supporting categories I have no idea who or what will win or be nominated. Unless Penelope Cruz is this year's Amy Ryan.

I'm glad Taraji was recognized for something.

Good for The Dark Knight and Wall. E for picking up some awards.

Wowww… this is the first top tep i see that included Synecdoche, New York. I really think The Dark Knight deserves all this awards because it's really a good movie.

@Sebastian: So the another movies weren't really good? Was "The Dark Knight" the only "really good" movie?

Geez, Ignorant people are making me really hate "The Dark Knight"…..

@Jerzey Jon: so because he thought it was really good hes ignorant? he clearly knows what a good movie is, for mentioning synecdoche. i was tired of the hype of the movie at first, but now im more tired of people hating it because it gets hype. its not the fault of the dark knight that some people love it so much, personally i thought it was really good and was how a batman comic truly is (more detective then action) but i admit it isnt movie of the year or anything of that sort.

@david: I didn't say he was ignorant I was speaking in general. In every forum, article, or any movie site, there's always so guy mouthing off on how the dark knight is going to sweep the Oscars, ignoring the fact that they are other contenders who have a better chance than the dark knight.

The movie was great (for it's genre) but it's getting way too much attention. In my views was too much!! I've seen comments they have say that TDK is greatest movie of all-time, ignoring the works of Hitchcock, Spielberg and others in the last 100 years of American cinema. I'm sick of it and i just needs to rant off there for a bit.

Well, The Dark Knight is probably my favorite movie of all time, just for my own personal entertainment. I do realize that it is not the GREATEST movie of all time, though. However, I am glad that it finally won Best Picture and Best Director for a critics' awards. I do think it'll get nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, but I am not expecting it to win. Personally, Milk is my favorite movie of the year, and I'd love to see that win, but I think that The Dark Knight should at least be nominated. Judging from the way things are going, though, I think that Slumdog Millionaire may be taking home the big prize.

I've also seen Wall-E, and just truly find it to be overrated. I don't understand the hype. It was a sweet story, beautifully made and stunning to look at, but I don't see why it would be Best Picture worthy. It will win Best Animated Feature, and that's where it belongs.

@Chris:

How is TDK your favorite movie of all time but not your favorite movie of the year?

TDK is currently my favorite of the year (it won't be beat, just because I love epic movies with great characters), but I have a ton of other stuff I still have to see.

Great to see TDK get some awards.

@Scott: I guess in a way I am somewhat biased with TDK. I've loved Batman since I was younger growing up, and the cast and director are some of my favorites (notably Christian Bale being my favorite actor, watching his films is what got me to love movies in the first place). Raiders of the Lost Ark was my all time favorite movie before seeing TDK, and that is because I can watch it several times and never get tired of it. That's the same thing with The Dark Knight, which is why I consider it my favorite movie. However, I do realize that The Dark Knight is not a perfect movie and has flaws here and there, but as far as entertainment goes, I could watch it probably 20 times and never get sick of it. I've seen it 7 times already, and will be watching it many more.

I look at Milk from the viewpoint of the acting, writing and direction, which I can't name any flaws of. I also found Milk to be the most moving film I have seen all year, and had one of the most, if not the most important messages in any movie I have seen in recent years. So, that is what I mean by Milk being my favorite of the year. They were tied with my favorite movies of the year, and I guess that's a more fair way to look at it, but I considered the facts of what I just wrote and realized that I think Milk is a better film.

And if none of this makes sense, then, oh well. I am just glad that TDK has finally won some other awards besides supporting actor, cinematography and other technical stuff.

You can tell how good a year it was by the diversity of all the top ten lists I've been reading. Seems like "Slumdog", "Milk" and "Frost/Nixon" are the shoe-ins for Best Pic nominations, and it'll be interesting to see what the Academy does with the other two spots. I feel like "Dark Knight" and "Wall-E", even though they are deserving, we must remember that the Academy is a tad older. They're progressive, but a bit old-fashioned, so they'll give Heath Ledger the prize, along with a couple technical awards, and hand Best Animated Film to "Wall-E".

That leaves "Gran Torino", "Doubt", "Revolutionary Road", "Benjamin Button", and "the Reader" to fill out the other two spots. I loved "the Wrestler", but again, the Academy isn't going to get around to it as quickly as the rest of us because the older members are going to feel like it's a movie for fanboys.

All the awards just being handed out arbitrarily to TDK bother me. It wasn't the Second Coming. In fact, Wizard Magazine ranked IRON MAN as the best comic book movie ever (mostly because it was 10 times better). TDK was good, sure, but it wasn't as good as everyone is saying. There are many movies that deserve the awards given to TDK much much more.

Iron Man is a popcorn flick, and nothing more. It has very little to offer in terms of an emotional core, or any kind of real theme. Both of these things The Dark Knight has in spades.

TDK is made with more thought, precision, and skill than Iron Man, and as good as Robert Downey Jr. is as Tony Stark, I would only hold his performance up to other "comic-bookie" performances such as Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

The performances in The Dark Knight transcend the genre, and create serious conflicts for more realistic characters. Harvey Dent and Jim Gordon are especially down to earth, and I would argue the movie is more about them than Batman and The Joker.

I still don't understand why anyone would even compare Iron Man to The Dark Knight. I can understand if you were, on a pure entertainment scale, more impressed with Iron Man (although I can't see how Iron Man tops anything action-wise from the armored truck sequence in TDK), but I have not as of yet heard any argument that is in any way convincing for why Iron Man should be considered the better film.

If you want more proof, just go back and read interviews with Christopher Nolan and Jon Favreau. Favreau focuses more on things like action and humor, whereas Nolan is always constantly talking about themes, psychology, etc. TDK is the deeper film.