è sempre così: MAI fidarsi dell'Accademy………………………tutto già prestabilito, come da copione!

I would've liked to pick both of the last two choices, but ah well.

Boo, hiss!! Although let's be realistic here – Chris Nolan could have lovingly drawn every frame of The Dark Knight in his own blood and The Academy still wouldn't give it a Best Picture nom. And Hans Zimmer was robbed!!

Plus points are RDJr. and In Bruges' screenplay nom, and I'll be rooting for Slumdog on the night, I just won't stay up to watch because I don't want to waste the Skittles lobbing them at my TV in frustration…

@William: Yeah, I felt there would be those that generally just weren't satisfied and then there would be those that The Dark Knight was the main reason for their dissatisfaction. :)

Angie was phenomenal in 'Changeling"! Far, far better than Streep or Hathaway so leave off the cracks, OK!

FROM BRAD: Simmer down

Nolan, Aronofsky, Zimmer, Springsteen! how can they ignore these guys i mean what were they thinking that it would be embarrassing to let the director of a comic book movie to win an oscar or even have his film win best picture and what about the wrestler its a fantastic film the academy are so far up their own they knew nolan and arnofsky deserved nominations for those movies

My biggest disappointment is a nomination for Robert Downey Jr.–not worthy when there are three other very strong supporting actors in Milk, Jason Butler Harner in Changeling, Michael Pitt in Funny Games (though he was never going to get nominated), Bill Irwin in Rachel Getting Married, and Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire (unless he was considered to have a leading role…).
I also don't like that Wall-E got a Best Original Screenplay nomination over Rachel Getting Married–that's ridiculous. But, clearly, I'm not siding on the popular vote. Thrilled The Reader got a Best Picture nod and that Milk did so well!

Very interesting. The Academy should be destroyed by the Joker. Titanic won 11 oscars. TDK will win 3-4. Is Titanic better then TDK? It is 100 times better.

Where's Dark Knight???…..Y didn't it get a Best Picture nod?….n n n a Best Direction nod??…..screw the Oscars!!!!

woah titanic better than tdk…. and i'm the genie from aladdin. titanic was an over blown picture that james cameron knew he would get big bucks in the fact they gave that 11 oscars goes to show how retarded the academy is. Dev Patel deserves to be at least nominated for slumdog and nolan already knew that if he won it would taint the academy's look if a comic book movie managed to win in one of the big categories. TDK on the other hand well lets just say every one i spoke to about it says it was 100 times better than that depressing ass boat sinking movie.

i think these were the most apt nominations there could have been..dark knight was anyday better than curious case of benjamin button and slumdog deserves all its glory…i think AR Rahman will take the honours for both the original score and original song…proud to be an indian..

Sally Hawkins as I do not know what to think, all the best criticism was not nominated in any big prize except Golden globes, but with contempt of BAFTA, AMPAS would think at least some justice, but I think this is rubbish It'sa play-offs.
One of the biggest injustices that I have seen a completely ignore such a complex role and not be considered. someone said in a commentary "It's like listening to Aretha Franklin sing and say uhh, ahh, nothing more.
That disappointment.

@LJ: Excuse me? dark knight was an underdog?It was made to make big money!Wake up..!It's awful that they snubbed Revolutionary road

The writer hardly takes notice of Slumdog Millionaire. That is not good. But yes, I do say that The Dark Knight does get a big snub from the Academy members, a film like this deserves top nominations like Best Motion Picture, Best Direction and Best Score at least.

Nevertheless, I am over the moon with the nominations recieved by Slumdog Millionaire, especially the unbelieve 2 nominations in Best Original Song category. For the first time, not 1 but 2 hindi songs will be performed live. WOW. It is dream come true. I am very confident about Rahman's win for Best Original Score and will be in seventh heaven if it takes a nod for Best Original Song. O Saaya is great (MIA doesgreat work with Rahman), but I am all for the rousing Jai Ho (written by Gulzar). Still, Wall E's song was really marvelous. I have my finger's crossed here in India.

And though I am sad for Dev not getting a nomination, I know that this guy will prove his talent again and win an Oscar one Day.

JAI HO.

Well, I can see Angelina Jolie getting another nomination in few years for what she played in Beyond Borders, A Mighty Heart and Changeling. I personally think the direction and the original score of Changeling deserved the nominations more, oh well. Both Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas were snubbed royally. I hope Streep wins since they nominated Winslet for the wrong movie.

Also Brad Pitt finally getting another nomination for uninspiring mediocrity ahead of DiCaprio and Eastwood was baffling. I'll be happy if either Rourke or Penn wins. Kudos for nominating Jenkins.

I also think both Nolan and Aronofsky were snubbed.

The last thing that bothered me was the nomintaion of two songs from Slumdog Millionaire. The original score of that movie is more than oscar worthy but trust me when I say that A.R. Rahman had written songs a lot more non-commercial than those two. Check out his songs in BOMBAY, ROJA and DIL SE and you will see what I'm talking about. Snubbing Springsteen over Bollywood cheesinness is simply outrageous. The original score of The Dark Knight should've been nominated.

Frozen River and In Bruges got the recognitions that they deserved and I'm quite happy about that.

I know I'm only repeating myself but they should've nominated Nolan alongside Ledger. That was the least they could do!

I'm guessing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button might pull a Gangs of New York. Well, I hope it does!

@fdf: i don't give a damn if it was an underdog this is exactly what was expected and i am awake ! Its exactly whats expected from the oscars. What about Aronofsky for the wrestler i know for a fact that is better than benjamin button and the reader. The academy see disaster as cause for award giving titanic walked away with 11 oscars. I've watched it twice 2nd time just recently and i came to the conclusion that its far too long and way too boring. Ben-Hur is one of my favorite movies it deserved every oscar it got because it could keep you interested. I'm not a fan of Return of the King but i won't deny it was a brilliant film and in answer to it was made to make big money LOTR is in the top 10 of highest grossing films of all time how many oscars did the trilogy walk away with? TDK wasn't nominated for best picture or best director because its a comic book movie it was the highest grossing film of the decade so far and it was by far the best comic book movie i've sat and watched. The academy have no sense left if they put frost/nixon into the best picture category its a gd film aswell but not gd enough to earn a nod for best picture. And before any one says summit against that I still haven't forgiven Ron Howard for the Da Vinci Code.

@Bhavdeep I understand u feel a bit bad that the writer hardly took any mention of slumdog..but it is predictable since american movies have hardly been nominated in a USA based award show…either he knows that movie will win all the major awards and mentioning it wold be a waste of time….
as far as the people watching the oscars, even if half the population of india watches the show, it will be a hit…ledger deserves the oscar and so does slumdog….

And Mamma mia! ?
Why the Academy forget always the best?
And another question: ow is it possible that Kate Winslet got the Golden Globe supporting actress and here has and as main atress for the same role?

@Diletta: I'm not even gonna point out whats wrong with the first two questions in tht comment

I think it's important to note a possible backlash I've wondered about for the last couple of months. There was this strange period where everyone, this site including, kept saying the Academy had to nominate Dark Knight to stay revlevent and increase ratings. If there's one thing I know about people it's they don't like being told they have to do something when they have choices. Now add the egos of Hollywood to that and you have a potential backlash of Academy members thumbing their collective noses as if to say "We'll do whatever the hell we want."

It makes me sad because unfortunately I agree with the relevence part. With more and more opinions out there the importance of the Academy Awards is going down. Does this mean people suddenly care more about the African-American Film Critics Association which gave Dark Knight its Best Picture award? Hardly, but it does mean that sense of the Oscars being the final word drops with each passing year. The Academy should never be expected to include movies it does not think are worthy just to placate the public, but its failure to do so when deserved is evidence of an arrogant condescending belief that they know better and the public simply needs to accept that. It's that arrogance, that refusal to bend and accept what was once not acceptable which will eventually lead to Oscar's undoing if they're not careful. My only hope is the backlash to follow (and it will be massive) may force the Academy to take a good, hard look at itself. The breakdown of the Academy's membership is too skewed. Actors act in movies they do not make them and yes the hold far too much power based on their numbers in the Academy.

If it's going to survive, the Academy must stop being an elitist secret club and expand its membership dramatically to strip the Acting branch of its disproportionate power and include a much larger number of the real people who make movies — the directors, producers, writers and technicians truly responsible for the magic we see on the screen.

BTW, am I the only one who noticed the shocked "Well…" by the Academy president after the Best Picture nominees were announced? He could barely manage to choke out his "biggest event in movies" spiel after that This happened on his watch and he's about to take a lot of heat .. . and he knows it. He cannot be happy right now.

Tifo per la grande Meryl!

I am quite stunned with the Academy's choices this year. I mean, everybody speaks about TDK being ignored, and they're right, but… ¿where the hell is "Gran Torino"? ¿Where is Dev Patel, who was so great in "Slumdog"? ¿Why is Kate Winslet nominated as Best Leading Actress for "The Reader", when she always was named as Supporting Actress? All of it dislikes me deeply.

In the case of Kate's nomination for Best Leading Actress (which I love, for I think she's just such a great actress), that leads me to a very, very bad thought: that Penélope Cruz will win the statuette as Supporting Actress. Don't misunderstand me: I know you Americans loved "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", but I'm Spanish (and from Barcelona as well), and I assure you that here people didn't like the movie in any sense, nor Cruz's performance neither. The stereotype she gives about Spanish women is simply absurd and mismatched, with all that screaming and behaving as if she were out of her mind. I'd really love her to win an Oscar, but to do so for such a bad performance would be disappointing for everybody.

In the case of Heath Ledger's nomination (which I do agree absolutely), I know he will probably win (although, as Brad said, the absence of TDK in the other lead categories makes his win a reasonable doubt), but I don't think it would be fair. C'mon, I know he was superb as the Joker, but, assume it, he's dead, and that makes giving him an Oscar a little bit useless; when Peter Finch (who's the only actor who has won a posthumous Oscar) won, he had died just a few weeks before the ceremony. But Ledger died a year ago, when the film wasn't even released, and remember that even James Dean couldn't win after his death, although many people wanted him to win. If I had to choose, I'd rather give the Oscar to Robert Downey jr., who may be nominated for a "minor" film, but whose comeback last year was so amazing (as that of Mickey Rourke's, who I'm sure will win) that he deserves to be honoured only for that.

Why only one nomination for Kate ?
And no Leo ? no Clint ? Brad Pitt over both ??
No nominations for Rev Road ?
No Springsteen ?
I hate to say this .. but nothing for TDK ? (although I don't particularly like the movie)

Angie was phenomenal in 'Changeling"! Far, far better than Streep or Hathaway so leave off the cracks, OK!

@sunnydays: I'm afraid I have to agree with Brad. She was good, but was she better than Hawkins, Thomas

Although we do have to consider the possibility Winslet might have finished in the top five for both performances, but in accordance with Acting branch rules only the top vote getter is included and the other gets dropped. I think it's time for the Acting banch to start doing what critics do: if you get mentioned for a movie it all goes into one pot. I cannot help but wonder how many people would have been nominated over the years had every vote for every movie been counted as a vote for them.

I can't get the through of Anne Hathaway winning this year. She is sweeping the pre awards and now that Kate is in lead actress, it will be very hard for her to beat Streep and Hathaway who have gotten all the votes up until the GG.

This a bad move by the Academy today after not nominating TDK for picture, director, and adapted screenplay. I was hoping for the best, but the nod of The Reader makes me sick to my stomach. The movie was at best mediocre, and the performances wern't even that great. The snub of Nolan to Steven Daldry was a big mistake also. The snub of TDK joins Dreamgirls and Walk the Line in the history of big movies being snubbed. This will GREATLY affect the ratings of the ceremony, and if it is any indication that the Globes suffered at the hand of ratings due to the snub of TDK, imagine the hurt the Oscars in the end. I was happy with nods for Richard Jenkins (CALLED IT!), Downey Jr, Mellisa Leo, and the writing teams of In Bruges and WALL-e. The snub of the boss for The Wrestler was probably due to Slumdog fever. Ben Button can celebrate for now…but i feel like a one or two trophey count or a complete shut out of all 13 nods is possible. Im calling Slumdog the winner of Best Picture, and the rest of it's nods. The Reader will have a shut out on its nods, if that means anything, TDK was more worthy to get a nod than Reader…

I'm sad! I had hoped that Clint Eastwood would get nominated for best actor, and that Gran Torino would get nominated for best song! Every year there are snubs and surprise inclusions; I'll get over it.

Jolie over Sally hawkins??? STUIPID! SH was robbed!

Finally: Here are my picks, i got them right last year, here it is:
Best picture: Benjamin Button
Best Actor: Sean Penn- MILK
Best Actress: Meryl Streep- Doubt
Best Sup. Actor: Heath Ledger- Dark Knight
Best Sup. Actress: Viola Davis: Doubt
Best Director: Dan Boyle: Slumdog Millionaire

One thing I can say, Kate Winslet's nomination for The Reader solidified Meryl Streep's win for the OSCARS. If Meryl wins the SAG Award, she is a sure winner at the OSCARS.

I based this prediction on opinions, research, & previous critics picks. What I can say is the OSCARS really segregates itself from the Golden Globe! Which I really like!

See yah at the Oscars!

Reading over the comments here it's very interesting to see what everyone considers to be a snub. Dark Knight is obvious, but I wouldn't call Revolutionary Road or The Wrestler not being up for Best Picture snubs. They were considered to have an outside shot. Snubs are when someone or a movie are expected to get a nomination and then don't. I understand all of this is subjective, but let's not redefine words to meet our own preferences here.

I would love it if the Academy makes public the breakdown of how the nomination votes went, so we can see which film/actor just missed the cut. When TDK was not among the adapted screenplay nominees, I knew then that TDK will miss on Best Picture and it will now come down to The Reader and Wall-E. Suffice to say, The Reader took it (I would've preferred Wall-E). I hoped TDK and Wall-E would be in the best picture race. Only a few would say it's an act of charity to appease the masses, because the bottom line is that both films are worthy and are among the rare few wherein general audiences and critics see eye to eye on. Oh well, TDK's 8 noms and Wall-E's 6 are nice, and they should take home quite a few award (I think Wall-E can feasibly take home upwards of 4).Anyway, I really wish they would make public the voting tally. I actually think that Wall-E came much much closer to a best picture nomination than TDK.

The Academy hasn't always been as stodgy as they've become in the past, oh, fifteen or twenty years or so. The first movie to sweep the top five major categories was a screwball romantic comedy, for crying out loud. It's a real pity that they only recognize a certain kind of movie as being great these days.

I want to take back what I said about benjamin Button being worse than The Dark Knight. Thank god that the oscars slapped some sense into all the Dark Knight fanboys around the internet. People must understand that TDK was an entertaining and epic superhero movie, but it was nowhere near best picture material. I haven't seen a movie that picked me up so high just to let me crash down to the hard surface below and suffer a cranial crack. That last half hour was BOGUS PEOPLE! GETS IT THROUGH YOU DAMN TDK FANBOY SKULLS! It completely dragged the movie down all the way. There was a ton of great homages to Batman's extensive track record, but that couldn't make up for a trashy half hour ending to the most hyped up film of the decade.
But still, for what reason Benny Button was nominated for I don't know. I will say it is a spit in the face for Sam Mendes. Revolutionary Road was WAY more complex of a movie than Benjamin Button was. Benny Button was Forrest Gump without all the glitz and glam and replacing saturated colors with gold lighting and a bunch of shadows and a Dumb Tom Hanks for a Smarter yet sparser character that was Brad Pitt. If it wins best picture, I will lower my standards for the oscar's for years to come. Unbelievable that The Boss got snubbed for best song, that trumps all snubbing this year for me personally.

Sally Hawkins was among the snobbed actresses, she gave an incredible performance which I feel deserved a nod. I guess the academy really likes Jolie. I was also suprised to find that Leo and Clint were both snubbed, maybe Clint's racism was too much for the academy.

Seeing that Milk picked up it's well deserved nominations I hope that it wins. It would be great to see Van Sant pick up an oscar for Director or Best Picture. Well, we will all see who comes out on top in the next month or so. Good luck people, let the blogging begin.

How come rev. road wasn't nominated? Milk? no way!
dissapointed

"Are You Satisfied with the 2009 Oscar Noms and Brad’s Quick Reaction"

Well i couldnt see the broadcasting of the nominations live, so to know i could come here and see the complete list and all the comments so far was great :) And the video was a huge bonus, saved me from having to search for it on- and offline… So a big YES and 'thanks' to the second part of the title's question.

I am not pleased that Kate and Leo weren't nominated for Revolutionary Road. I am actually quite pissed. Revolutionary Road should of gotten more nominations in general. I mean, how can Kate win Best Actress at the GG and not even be nominated!?

@Brad: Okay, after reading through half of the reactions (and finding that many of them are either over-the-top, fan-boy type rantings — because a favorite movie or director, etc., didn’t make the cut; or the — and that at least one of them is a typical, American-male-who-is-insecure-in-his-sexuality-homophobic-slur), I have to say I don’t envy your job.

And while I don’t think Springsteen is crying in his wheaties this morning (he _did_ get a Golden Globe award, and was asked to perform at the more prestigious Presidential Inauguration concert), I _am_ puzzled as to why the Academy only nominated three songs for that particular award (even if they diidn’t pick “the Wrestler” as one of the two remaining nominees, I think there are two others that the Golden Globe folks, and a few others, found worthy of notice). Is less than five nominees for a fairly major slot something that has been done before?

@Dt Shindler: There is a new rule from the Music Branch which caused another little-known branch rule kick in. Let me explain: there were 79 songs eligible for nomination this year. Normally, that's more than enough to allow for five nominations. Unfortunately, most of those songs came from two movies — Repo: The Generic Opera and High School Musical 3: Senior Year — which conflicted with the new rule I mentioned which says no more than two songs from one movie can qualify. Since about 25+ of the songs came from those two movies that dramatically lowered the number of "available" songs from these movies (two songs times the number of movies with songs). That lowered the number of viable songs down below the threshhold for five nominees and triggered the little-known rule allowing the branch to decide lower the nominees from five to three.

First, thanks (stylewriter?) for fixing my typo screw-up regarding Brad's moniker. Second: if you aren't joking about the above comment, you should be! Holy Mother of Dick Cheney! Even the Bush Administration couldn't be more insidious (or confusing) regarding a reason for _not_ doing something the easy or right way!
Either way, thanks for putting a rictus grin on my face. Cheers.

@Dt Shindler: I wish I were joking. It's a stupid rule triggering an even dumber rule. Basically, there weren't enough movies with songs to warrant (in their opinion) five nominees this year. The different branches use similar rules (Animated Feature, for example, requires at least 17 eligible animated films to allow five nominations and since there were only 15 this year two movies got the shaft), but this was stretching it. Then again, remember this is the same branch which first ruled Dark Knight's soundtrack was ineligible because of "too many composers," reversed itself when there was a huge public outcry and the turned around and didn't nominate the score anyway when everyone else had. It's one of the more ineptly run branches of the Academy.

ANSWERING MY OWN QUESTION:
For those wondering why SPRINGSTEEN was "snubbed," here is what appears to be an official explanation (found on the Backstreets site):
A reader writes in to shed some light:

"I'm a member of the Academy, and they haven't even made this very clear to us, but there's been a change in rules, and now the only songs that are eligible for consideration are songs that appear in the body of the film, and not over the end credits. So 'The Wrestler' (and Clint's song) weren't eligible this year. Which is, I think, ridiculous, as 'The Wrestler' is so very much a part of the movie, and punctuates it beautifully. The idea, though, is to stop producers from just tossing in a Celine Dion song at the end. I suspect it'll change back eventually."

So it goes.

Of course, the above post could be muddled info, so don't take it as gospel. On the same site, another explanation involves a point system used to grade songs before they can be nominated…go figure.

: Here are my picks, here it is:
Best picture: Milk
Best Actor: Frank Langella – Frosty
Best Actress: Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Best Sup. Actor: Heath Ledger- Dark Knight
Best Sup. Actress: Trajani – Button
Best Director: Fincher – Button
Screenplay – In Bruges/Frosty

WHoops: hey, Style: thanks for the reply –didn't even see your new reply as I was posting my two new comments. In any case, thanks for all the info.
And, as Forrest Gump once said: "That's all I have to say about that."

My Pics:

Best Pic: Milk (without a doubt the most brilliantly crafted film of the year)
Best Director: Gus Van Sant (for directing the most brilliantly crafted film of the year)
Actor: Hard one, personally I would go for either Langella or Penn
Actress: Winslet – because it was the best performance of the year (not because she is overdue)
Supporting Actor: Ledger
Supporting Actress: Amy Adams (just because I love her)

Hey, I'm a mini-celebrity! Mentioned in a post. How about that. =) Yes, I'm here to eat crow. You were right, Brad, and congrats on that. It took balls to keep the pick even though everyone else dropped it. That said, I'm afraid, I do stand by what I said because I still think you put it there more for personal reasons. There really was no evidence and you were so certain, but it didn't come across as an "I have a hunch" certain. More like "I'm right and everyone else is wrong certainty." You were right and I tip my hat to you, but I still say there was zero evidence at the time and that's what I base my opinions and predictions on. That said my jaw dropped when his name came up and I cannot begin to repeat the texts I got from very angry friends who are not happy about Shannon's nomination.

Speaking of which, WTF??? The Reader?? Are you kidding me?? There were so many better movies than The Reader (and I like The Reader). No Dark Knight? No Wrestler? No WALL-E? No Revolutionary Road? I'm not like the fanboys here ripping the academy a new one for not giving the only movie to give them a hard on a Best Picture nomination, but holy cow. It deserved it and it's pretty bad it wasn't nominated. This reminds me of Chocolat's WTF nomination. Oh wait, wasn't that Harvey Weinstein, too? Yikes. Does he own that many voters?

i PERSONALLY agree with The Dark Knight being left of of Best picture but it should have gotten a best director nod

@Harry: I had lunch with a close friend who happens to be a voting member of the academy earlier. He told me that he along with a couple of voting colleagues penciled Wall-E no.1 in their nominating ballots (they had TDK in their 5 choices too). He too has heard that a good no. of fellow voters thought highly of it that it earned a place in their nominations list. However, he says that "no. 1 votes" are what's important in the nominating process, even "no. 2's" won't help a film at all he says. He believes that Wall-E in all likelihood was that 6th film and just missed out. He believes that there's a movement that's building towards animation being seen on the same plane as live action films. Although he does admit that while many members have become more accepting of animation, those of them that think that way are still the minority and the majority are still adamant in keeping a animation confined to their own category.

I agree with august, keep TDK out of best picture, but Nolan got snubbed for making one of the best superhero movies of all time. That had to take balls to direct that crazy ass movie. Just have to say I'm new to this whole analyzing movies thing, this is the first year I cared or managed to see enough great films to concoct my own opinions. That said forgive for the dumb things I say, my heinsight is 20/20. Thank you DTSchindler and stylewriter for shedding light on the snubbing of songs situation. I still think Benny Button is getting way too much credit. And on that note I found a video which explains how I feel about benjamin button, and why it should've been left completely out of this years Oscars.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/1d76506803/the-curious-case-of-forrest-gump-from-fgump44

I am not just sad that TDK was left out in the major categories, it is the fact that Wrestler missed out instead of the overrated Milk and Frost/Nixon, and Sally Hawkin's diss.

Oscar's still have a long way to go. It's a shame so many deserving people and films get left out.

Please let Button win best picture and director. It deserves it!

i agree with you adu ben button deserves to win best picture/director.

All of the nominees deserve their respective awards.

I'm guessing Brad will be posting his picks later in an article. But here are mine:

Best Actor: Sean Penn(Milk)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep(Doubt)
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger(The Dark Knight)
Best Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Hensen(The Curious blah blah)
Achievment in Directing: Danny Boyle(Slumdog Millionaire)
Adapted Screenplay: Doubt
Original Screenplay: Wall.E
Best Picture: Milk

What I don't like about these noms:

1. The Academy's low appreciation to The Wrestler. It deserves better.
2. No nom for Sally Hawkins
3. A new rule that disqualified Bruce Springsteen's The Wrestler. What a shame.

What I like:
1. Nom for Richard Jenkins
2. 3 nominations for AR Rahman. His previous efforts was way better than in Slumdog. Give him at least one Oscar, Academy!
3. Nom for Gus van Sant after snubbed by GG. Although my heart goes to Slumdog, I wanted van Sant to win Best Director.

My choices are:
Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best director: Gus van Sant
Best actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet, The Reader (Academy would feel guilty never awarded her after 6 nominations and no wins)
Best actor in a leading role: Mickey Rourke (it is more than just acting, it's a PERFORMANCE)
Best actress in a supporting role: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Christina Barcelona (I know, it will be the case of a talented actress winning for a wrong movie, but after seeing her in many Spanish movies, she deserved an Oscar)
Best actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger, The Dark Night

the oscars really messed up this year. TDK while a good movie i dont think it deserves much of that best picture nominations. My 2 biggest complains are nominating kate winslet ONLY for leading actress in the reader for doing a supporting performance (they must have done this on purpose so anne hathaway or merryl streep can more easily beat her), instead of her great golden globe winning performance from REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. Finally my second complain is nominating brad pitt's dull emotionless performance over clint eastwood or leonardo dicaprio's which were both full of emotion and requiered great acting skill other than putting a whole lot of make up on your face and every now and then saying some 3 sentence line like brad pitt did. That really pissed me off badly that is the worse deserved acting performance nomination over 2 other great ones. The golden globes really did light up this year for i agree with every single movie win. Usually i complain a lot about the globes but this year the choices were more than deserved, this year is the oscar's failure. According to the oscar nominations, heres how i think it should go
-Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
-Best Director: Danny Boyle (slumdog..)
-Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (the Wrestler)
-Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The dark knight)
-Best Actress: Kate Winslet (The Reader)———–but only because she still deserves to win best actress for Revolutionary Road, and they robbed her of a clear Supporting actress win.
-Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams (Doubt) – but only because Winslet is out
-Best Original Screenplay: Wall-E
-Best Adapted Screenpaly: Slumdog Millionaire
-Best Original Score: A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)

- Picture: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
- Director: Danny Boyle – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
- Actor: Brad Pitt – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
- Actrees: Kate Winslet – THE READER
- S.Actor: Heath Ledger – THE DARK KNIGHT
- S.Actrees: Viola Davis – DOUBT
- O.Screenplay: WALL·E
- A.Screenpaly: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Picture:Slumdog Millionaire

Director:Gus Van Sant-Milk

Actor:Mickey Rourke-The Wrestler

Actress:Meryll Streep-Doubt

Supporting Actor(tie):Heath Ledger(TDK) & Rob Downey.jnr(TT)

Supporting Actress:Penelope Crus(Vikcy Christina Barcelona)

Original Screenplay:WALL-E

Adapted Screenplay:Slumdog Millionaire