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Don't know about Sheen. He was fine in The Queen (though some may recall I wasn't enamored of that film) but watching Frost/Nixon I will admit to thinking "hey, this is just Tony Blair again in 70s clothes."
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Apparently it wasn't in this thread but I don't want to go looking for it. But somewhere after the Golden Globe nominees were announced I said that the exclusion of Milk as best picture didn't necessarily bother me since I didn't think it was a great film and could easily imagine that there were five better ones. At the time I hadn't seen any of the nominees.
Well, I've now seen four out of the five, and while it is certainly possible there were five better movies than Milk last year, none of those four are among them. Slumdog Millioniare is just overhyped "dignity of the poor" pablum. Frost/Nixon is quality product telling an uninteresting story that only gains in interest when it stretches the truth it is based on. There's nothing particularly wrong with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but it just isn't exceptional beyond the CGI. Revolutionary Road is another entry in the artists' condescention that people living in the suburbs must be either self-loathing or self-delusional. Good movies have been made on this, even if it is vaguely insulting, but while well acted, Revolutionary Road adds nothing new and feels like Sam Mendes just returning to the trough of his greatest success. Interestingly the same could be said of Benjamin Button screenwriter, Eric Roth, who also wrote the very similarly structure Forrest Gump. Anyway, so Milk should be up there based on waht I've seen so far, though the Wall-E and Man on Wire both probably deserve it even more (and will get nothing at the Academy Awards since they are ghetto consigned. |
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Best Achievement in Cinematography
Changeling (2008): Tom Stern The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Claudio Miranda The Dark Knight (2008): Wally Pfister The Reader (2008): Roger Deakins, Chris Menges Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Anthony Dod Mantle Best Achievement in Editing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter The Dark Knight (2008): Lee Smith Frost/Nixon (2008): Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill Milk (2008): Elliot Graham Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Chris Dickens Best Achievement in Art Direction Changeling (2008): James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo The Dark Knight (2008): Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando The Duchess (2008): Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway Revolutionary Road (2008): Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt Best Achievement in Costume Design Australia (2008): Catherine Martin The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Jacqueline West The Duchess (2008): Michael O'Connor Milk (2008): Danny Glicker Revolutionary Road (2008): Albert Wolsky Best Achievement in Makeup The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Greg Cannom The Dark Knight (2008): John Caglione Jr., Conor O'Sullivan Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008): Mike Elizalde, Thomas Floutz |
For the first time ever I saw the award announcement live, I didn't even realize they were due out today. It was a thrill (that's sarcasm).
An extremely boring and predictable set of nominations. I've said elsewhere but The Reader better be a great movie because none of the other four are. That isn't to say they're bad, just that if those truly are the best it was a lackluster year. |
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Alexandre Desplat Defiance (2008): James Newton Howard Milk (2008): Danny Elfman Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman WALL·E (2008): Thomas Newman Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, Gulzar("Jai Ho") Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam("O Saya") WALL·E (2008): Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman("Down to Earth") Best Achievement in Sound The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten The Dark Knight (2008): Ed Novick, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty WALL·E (2008): Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt Wanted (2008): Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt Best Achievement in Sound Editing The Dark Knight (2008): Richard King Iron Man (2008): Frank E. Eulner, Christopher Boyes Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Tom Sayers WALL·E (2008): Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood Wanted (2008): Wylie Stateman Best Achievement in Visual Effects The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron The Dark Knight (2008): Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin Iron Man (2008): John Nelson, Ben Snow, Daniel Sudick, Shane Mahan Best Animated Feature Film of the Year Bolt (2008): Chris Williams, Byron Howard Kung Fu Panda (2008): John Stevenson, Mark Osborne WALL·E (2008): Andrew Stanton Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)(Germany) Entre les murs (2008)(France) Revanche (2008)(Austria) Okuribito (2008)(Japan) Vals Im Bashir (2008)(Israel) |
Best Documentary, Features
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (2008): Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath Encounters at the End of the World (2007): Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser The Garden (2008/I): Scott Hamilton Kennedy Man on Wire (2008): James Marsh, Simon Chinn Trouble the Water (2008): Tia Lessin, Carl Deal Best Documentary, Short Subjects The Conscience of Nhem En: Steven Okazaki The Final Inch: Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant Smile Pinki: Megan Mylan The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306: Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde Best Short Film, Animated La Maison en Petits Cubes: Kunio Kato Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (2007): Konstantin Bronzit Oktapodi (2007): Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand Presto (2008): Doug Sweetland This Way Up (2008): Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes Best Short Film, Live Action Auf der Strecke (2007): Reto Caffi Manon sur le bitume (2007): Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont New Boy (2007): Steph Green, Tamara Anghie Grisen (2008): Tivi Magnusson, Dorthe Warnø Høgh Spielzeugland (2007): Jochen Alexander Freydank |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the most overrated movie of our time. Best Picture and 12 other nominations?! What a crock.
Unless I'm missing something. Can someone point to an element of the film that commented on the unique experience of living life backwards? I saw only a pretty neat love story and the character arc of any adventurous man whose instincts could have been engendered by any number of life experiences. It seems to me living backwards would have produced some very unique curiousities ... but I saw none. Bah. Spoiler:
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No, it was pleasant but not great.
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