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Because I'm hilariously bored, and prediction threads can get rather boring after a while (or...sooner), here are my own, uh, personal award preferences. And yes, I have these for every year.
Bear in mind, I still need to see Waltz with Bashir, which may crack my top five.
Here are my "nominees" for the very lame category this year of Best Actor in a Supporting Role
:
Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones in Milk.
More towards the very end of this clip.
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn in Doubt.
Kinda long, but kinda amazing.
Anil Kapoor as Prem Kumar in Slumdog Millionaire.
FOX Searchlight has some good clips.
Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
Duh
Charlie McDermott for Frozen River
Not great clips of him, but ya know.
And the winner is...(any predictions?)
I so want to be cool and different here, but I can't. He just blew everyone away. The winner is Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
Recent winners: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men, Jack Nicholson - The Departed, Mickey Rourke - Sin City (oh god, I think I have a villain fetish...)
And now for a much better category this year, Best Actress in a Supporting Role
. And the nominees are...
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Amy Adams as Sister James in Doubt.
I like Frosty the Snowman!
Penélope Cruz as Maria Elena in Vicky Christina Barcelona.
I'm so glad I found this clip.
Viola Davis as Mrs. Miller in Doubt.
One man is good to my son.
Marisa Tomei as Cassidy in The Wrestler.
Just one beer.
Elsa Zylberstein as Léa in I've Loved You So Long.
A trailer's the best I could do here, too. :(
And the winner is...
The divine Penélope Cruz for my personal favorite performance of the entire year in Vicky Christina Barcelona.
Recent winners: Samantha Morton - Control, Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration, Michelle Tratchenberg - Mysterious Skin
Now that those two categories are out of the way as is traditional, I'll go through the small sound awards which simply require YouTube clips, as opposed to the visual awards that will just be accompanied with pictures.
Best Sound Mixing
Australia
A trailer will have to do.
The Dark Knight
...close enough.
The Fall
Again, just a trailer.
Slumdog Millionaire
With a legitimate clip this time.
Wall∙E
And here's just an explanation.
And the winner is...
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, and Ben Burtt for WALL∙E.
Recent winners: Ratatouille, Apocalypto, King Kong
With no clips this time, Best Sound Editing
:
Australia
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL∙E
And the winner is...
Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood for WALL∙E.
Recent winners: Ratatouille, Apocalypto, War of the Worlds
Best music, otherwise known as Best Original Score
:
The Fall
Travel sequence
Frost/Nixon
Remix Beverly Hilton
Revolutionary Road
Route
Slumdog Millionaire
Mausum and Escape
WALL∙E
Define Dancing
And the winner is....
A.R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: There Will Be Blood, Cars, Brokeback Mountain
Best Original Song
"Down to Earth" from WALL∙E
By Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire
By A.R. Rahman ft. Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer
"O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire
By A.R. Rahman and M.I.A.
"Ringa Ringa" from Slumdog Millionaire
By A.R. Rahman featuring Alka Yagnik & Ila Arun
"The Wrestler" from The Wrestler
By Bruce Springsteen
And the winner is...
A.R. Rahman ft. Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer for Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: "Falling Slowly" from Once, "Our Town" from Cars, "Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica.
One of the categories I invented myself, Best Voice Work in an Animated Film
(if I see Waltz with Bashir soon and find those more worthy, I'll update this):
Jack Black as Po for Kung Fu Panda.
This is basically what he sounds like.
Ben Burtt as WALL·E/M-O in WALL·E.
Both his characters in some action
Dustin Hoffman as Shifu in Kung Fu Panda.
This was literally the best I could find.
And the winner is...
Ben Burtt (in a third consecutive win this year) as WALL·E/M-O for WALL·E.
Recent winners: Peter O'Toole for Ratatouille, Steve Carell for Over the Hedge, didn't bother in 05 so Holly Hunter for The Incredibles.
Now we, thankfully, move from the sound categories to the ones that don't require YouTube.
Best Costume Design
The Duchess
The Fall
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Michael O'Connor for The Duchess.
Recent winners: There Will Be Blood, Marie Antoinette, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Best Art Direction
Australia
The Duchess
The Fall
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Ged Clarke (production design), Riccardo Pugliese and Cynthia Sleiter (set decoration) for The Fall.
Recent winners: There Will Be Blood, Pan's Labyrinth, Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Makeup
The Dark Knight
The Reader
The Wrestler
And the winner is...
John Caglione Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan for The Dark Knight.
Past winners: La Vie en Rose, Pan's Labyrinth
Best Visual Effects
Australia
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Iron Man
And the winner is...
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber and Paul J. Franklin for The Dark Knight.
Past winners: Grindhouse (Planet Terror), Pan's Labyrinth, Sin City
Best Cinematography
Australia
The Fall
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Vicky Christina Barcelona
And the winner is...
Colin Watkinson for The Fall.
Past winners: There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, Batman Begins
Best Original Screenplay
Burn After Reading
Frozen River
Milk
Vicky Christina Barcelona
WALL∙E
And the winner is...
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Doctor for WALL∙E
Recent winners: Ratatouille, Science of Sleep, Match Point
Best Adapted Screenplay
Doubt
The Fall
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: No Country for Old Men, Borat, Mysterious Skin
Best Young Actor
Kyle Gallner in Red
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail in Slumdog Millionaire
David Kross in The Reader
Charlie McDermott in Frozen River
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: Ellen Page - Juno, Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine, Alex Etel - Millions
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Rebecca Hall as Vicky in Vicky Christina Barcelona
Also a good money scene for Penelope
Melissa Leo as Ray Eddy in Frozen River
So tragically underseen that I had to use a trailer.
Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius in Doubt
So many clips to choose from.
Kate Winslet as April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
Another trailer, but a fantastic one.
And the winner is...
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Recent winners: Ellen Page - Juno, Helen Mirren - The Queen, Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
Might as well use the same trailer.
Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon
Pretty much the whole movie can be his clip.
Dev Patel as Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire
So underrated!
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
Silly clip.
Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler
This legit gets me teary eyed.
And the winner is...
Leonardo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road.
Recent winners: Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood, Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland, Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin
Best Ensemble Cast
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep for Doubt.
Recent winners: Juno, The Departed, Sin City
Best Director
Darren Aronofksy for The Wrestler
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Gus Van Sant for Milk
Tarsem Singh for The Fall
Andrew Stanton for WALL·E
And the winner is...
Andrew Stanton for WALL·E.
Recent winners: Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men, Martin Scorsese - The Departed, Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Best Picture of the Year
The Fall
Slumdog Millionaire
Vicky Christina Barcelona
WALL·E
The Wrestler
And the winner is...
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Recent winners: No Country for Old Men, The Departed, Mysterious Skin
Updated. Finished! Enjoy!
Bear in mind, I still need to see Waltz with Bashir, which may crack my top five.
Here are my "nominees" for the very lame category this year of Best Actor in a Supporting Role
:
Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones in Milk.
More towards the very end of this clip.
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn in Doubt.
Kinda long, but kinda amazing.
Anil Kapoor as Prem Kumar in Slumdog Millionaire.
FOX Searchlight has some good clips.
Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
Duh
Charlie McDermott for Frozen River
Not great clips of him, but ya know.
And the winner is...(any predictions?)
I so want to be cool and different here, but I can't. He just blew everyone away. The winner is Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
Recent winners: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men, Jack Nicholson - The Departed, Mickey Rourke - Sin City (oh god, I think I have a villain fetish...)
And now for a much better category this year, Best Actress in a Supporting Role
. And the nominees are...
Amy Adams as Sister James in Doubt.
I like Frosty the Snowman!
Penélope Cruz as Maria Elena in Vicky Christina Barcelona.
I'm so glad I found this clip.
Viola Davis as Mrs. Miller in Doubt.
One man is good to my son.
Marisa Tomei as Cassidy in The Wrestler.
Just one beer.
Elsa Zylberstein as Léa in I've Loved You So Long.
A trailer's the best I could do here, too. :(
And the winner is...
The divine Penélope Cruz for my personal favorite performance of the entire year in Vicky Christina Barcelona.
Recent winners: Samantha Morton - Control, Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration, Michelle Tratchenberg - Mysterious Skin
Now that those two categories are out of the way as is traditional, I'll go through the small sound awards which simply require YouTube clips, as opposed to the visual awards that will just be accompanied with pictures.
Best Sound Mixing
Australia
A trailer will have to do.
The Dark Knight
...close enough.
The Fall
Again, just a trailer.
Slumdog Millionaire
With a legitimate clip this time.
Wall∙E
And here's just an explanation.
And the winner is...
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, and Ben Burtt for WALL∙E.
Recent winners: Ratatouille, Apocalypto, King Kong
With no clips this time, Best Sound Editing
:
Australia
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL∙E
And the winner is...
Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood for WALL∙E.
Recent winners: Ratatouille, Apocalypto, War of the Worlds
Best music, otherwise known as Best Original Score
:
The Fall
Travel sequence
Frost/Nixon
Remix Beverly Hilton
Revolutionary Road
Route
Slumdog Millionaire
Mausum and Escape
WALL∙E
Define Dancing
And the winner is....
A.R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: There Will Be Blood, Cars, Brokeback Mountain
Best Original Song
"Down to Earth" from WALL∙E
By Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire
By A.R. Rahman ft. Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer
"O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire
By A.R. Rahman and M.I.A.
"Ringa Ringa" from Slumdog Millionaire
By A.R. Rahman featuring Alka Yagnik & Ila Arun
"The Wrestler" from The Wrestler
By Bruce Springsteen
And the winner is...
A.R. Rahman ft. Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer for Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: "Falling Slowly" from Once, "Our Town" from Cars, "Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica.
One of the categories I invented myself, Best Voice Work in an Animated Film
(if I see Waltz with Bashir soon and find those more worthy, I'll update this):
Jack Black as Po for Kung Fu Panda.
This is basically what he sounds like.
Ben Burtt as WALL·E/M-O in WALL·E.
Both his characters in some action
Dustin Hoffman as Shifu in Kung Fu Panda.
This was literally the best I could find.
And the winner is...
Ben Burtt (in a third consecutive win this year) as WALL·E/M-O for WALL·E.
Recent winners: Peter O'Toole for Ratatouille, Steve Carell for Over the Hedge, didn't bother in 05 so Holly Hunter for The Incredibles.
Now we, thankfully, move from the sound categories to the ones that don't require YouTube.
Best Costume Design
The Duchess
The Fall
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Michael O'Connor for The Duchess.
Recent winners: There Will Be Blood, Marie Antoinette, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Best Art Direction
Australia
The Duchess
The Fall
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Ged Clarke (production design), Riccardo Pugliese and Cynthia Sleiter (set decoration) for The Fall.
Recent winners: There Will Be Blood, Pan's Labyrinth, Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Makeup
The Dark Knight
The Reader
The Wrestler
And the winner is...
John Caglione Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan for The Dark Knight.
Past winners: La Vie en Rose, Pan's Labyrinth
Best Visual Effects
Australia
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Iron Man
And the winner is...
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber and Paul J. Franklin for The Dark Knight.
Past winners: Grindhouse (Planet Terror), Pan's Labyrinth, Sin City
Best Cinematography
Australia
The Fall
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Vicky Christina Barcelona
And the winner is...
Colin Watkinson for The Fall.
Past winners: There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, Batman Begins
Best Original Screenplay
Burn After Reading
Frozen River
Milk
Vicky Christina Barcelona
WALL∙E
And the winner is...
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Doctor for WALL∙E
Recent winners: Ratatouille, Science of Sleep, Match Point
Best Adapted Screenplay
Doubt
The Fall
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: No Country for Old Men, Borat, Mysterious Skin
Best Young Actor
Kyle Gallner in Red
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail in Slumdog Millionaire
David Kross in The Reader
Charlie McDermott in Frozen River
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire.
Recent winners: Ellen Page - Juno, Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine, Alex Etel - Millions
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Rebecca Hall as Vicky in Vicky Christina Barcelona
Also a good money scene for Penelope
Melissa Leo as Ray Eddy in Frozen River
So tragically underseen that I had to use a trailer.
Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius in Doubt
So many clips to choose from.
Kate Winslet as April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
Another trailer, but a fantastic one.
And the winner is...
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Recent winners: Ellen Page - Juno, Helen Mirren - The Queen, Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
Might as well use the same trailer.
Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon
Pretty much the whole movie can be his clip.
Dev Patel as Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire
So underrated!
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
Silly clip.
Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler
This legit gets me teary eyed.
And the winner is...
Leonardo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road.
Recent winners: Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood, Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland, Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin
Best Ensemble Cast
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
And the winner is...
Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep for Doubt.
Recent winners: Juno, The Departed, Sin City
Best Director
Darren Aronofksy for The Wrestler
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Gus Van Sant for Milk
Tarsem Singh for The Fall
Andrew Stanton for WALL·E
And the winner is...
Andrew Stanton for WALL·E.
Recent winners: Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men, Martin Scorsese - The Departed, Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Best Picture of the Year
The Fall
Slumdog Millionaire
Vicky Christina Barcelona
WALL·E
The Wrestler
And the winner is...
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Recent winners: No Country for Old Men, The Departed, Mysterious Skin
Updated. Finished! Enjoy!