Well, kids, another Oscar season has rolled around again. Though we know that many of you don’t go out to the full-screen cinema much anymore, we hope you are still interested enough in our old stamping grounds and in the Simesite to cast your vote for this year’s Oscars.
The excuse of “I haven’t seen any of these films” is not valid, since few of us have seen any of them, and even if we had it wouldn’t necessary follow that it would help us in picking the winners. Nor, perhaps, do some of us even want to see them.
So please have a look at the list below, check out the films, if you like, on the Academy Award site (via Google) where you can see clips and other info on each of the films, and send us your TWELVE big picks sometime before Oscar night, which is February 22 (known in days of yore to us old-timers as Washington’s Birthday, when there used to be off from school)
Please send your entries to: pbesas@hotmail.com or ian@asteriskonline.com
Following are the nominations for the 2009 Academy Awards. Ceremony to be held on February 22. Pick one film from each of the TWELVE categories listed below.
Following are your choices:
BEST FILM
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Hollinger
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Segers, Kindred, Galloway, Bryer, Besas, Watkins, Marich, Harris, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike), Lombardi, Stenzel
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor”
Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon”
Galloway, Besas, Watkins
Sean Penn in “Milk”
Hollinger, Marich, Harris, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike), Lombardi
Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”
Segers, Kindred, Bryer, Stenzel
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin in “Milk”
Kindred, Bryer
Robert Downey Jr in “Tropic Thunder”
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”
Besas, Marich
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”
Segers, Hollinger, Galloway, Watkins, Harris, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike), Lombardi, Stenzel
Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road”
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”
Bryer
Melissa Leo in “Frozen River”
Lombardi
Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
Galloway, Marich
Kate Winslet in “The Reader”
Segers, Hollinger, Kindred, Besas, Watkins, Harris, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike), Stenzel
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams in “Doubt”
Bryer
Penelope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Segers, Hollinger, Kindred, Galloway, Rosenstein, Lombardi
Viola Davis in “Doubt”
Taraji P Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Harris, Silverman(Mike)
Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler”
Besas, Watkins, Marich, Stenzel
ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Bryer
Kung Fu Panda
Kindred, Galloway, Besas
Wall-E
Segers, Hollinger, Watkins, Marich, Harris, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike), Lombardi, Stenzel
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kindred, Watkins, Silverman(Mike)
The Dark Knight
Segers, Hollinger, Galloway, Besas, Marich, Rosenstein, Stenzel
The Reader
Bryer
Slumdog Millionaire
Harris, Lombardi
DIRECTING
David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
Galloway, Bryer, Besas
Gus van Sant (Milk)
Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Segers, Hollinger, Kindred, Watkins, Marich, Harris, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike), Lombardi, Stenzel
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Baader Meinhoff Complex (Germany)
Bryer, Besas
The Class (France)
Segers, Kindred, Marich, Harris
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Australia)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
Hollinger, Galloway, Watkins, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike), Lombardi, Stenzel
VISUAL EFFECT
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Segers, Bryer, Besas, Watkins, Harris, Silverman(Mike)
The Dark Knight
Hollinger, Kindred, Marich, Rosenstein, Lombardi, Stenzel
Iron Man
Galloway
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Frozen River
Marich
Happy-Go-Lucky
Watkins
In Bruges
Galloway
Milk
Segers, Hollinger, Kindred, Besas, Harris, Lombardi, Stenzel
Wall-E
Bryer, Rosenstein, Silverman(Mike)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hollinger, Galloway
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Bryer, Besas, Watkins, Marich, Silverman(Mike)
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Segers, Kindred, Harris, Rosenstein, Lombardi, Stenzel