check the topic dude theres like three people saying HMM JUNO 2.

oh i thought you meant like legitimate movie critics or ACTUAL PEOPLE. not a bunch of ole dummies on GW

check the topic dude theres like three people saying HMM JUNO 2.

oh jesus christ you are an idiot

you still don't get it

im esh i got called out on bein stupid as hell it's time to do what i do every topic and accuse YOU of not getting it.


that breeze you feel? its me backpedaling. see either I'm a dick who purposefully led strangeluv on and now I'm trying to poke you in the side and wink heh we tricked that fuckin browny into thinking a movie was Juno 2 despite this being the worlds least funny joke or I'm a dick who thinks all indie movies are juno 2 and am now trying to act like i was playing. it doesn't matter to me anyways, to me a movie's quality is dependent on how many squinty eyed china women are in it. well see ya guys, post ya later.

other people? nah its just me. its your old pal esh again. strangeluv isnt a person, im the only one who said anything, trolled ya ryan. you got fooled by me, eshhy p. well post ya later. youve been trolled by the best, or should i say besht? someone warn steel for trolling, or just delete his posts. semper me.

madness? THIS. IS. SPARTAAA :fogetleonidas:

it doesn't matter to me anyways, to me a movie's quality is dependent on how many squinty eyed china women are in it.

hahahahhahahah holy shit this is the best line ever

heres what i predict: it'll be hella dumb!

Fuckin bullshit nominations. TDK gets 8 nominations but no Director and Picture. Fuckin Waltz with Bashir not in animated. Gomorrah not there. What the fuck is The Reader

81st Oscar Nominations

Performance by an actor in a leading role

* Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
* Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
* Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
* Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
* Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

* Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
* Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
* Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

* Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
* Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

* Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
* Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
* Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Best animated feature film of the year

* “Bolt” (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
* “Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

Achievement in art direction

* “Changeling” (Universal), Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
* “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
* “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Achievement in cinematography

* “Changeling” (Universal), Tom Stern
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Claudio Miranda
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Wally Pfister
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in costume design

* “Australia” (20th Century Fox), Catherine Martin
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Jacqueline West
* “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Glicker
* “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Albert Wolsky

Best documentary feature

* “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
* “Encounters at the End of the World” (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
* “The Garden” A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
* “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
* “Trouble the Water” (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

* “The Conscience of Nhem En” A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
* “The Final Inch” A Vermilion Films Production, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
* “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
* “The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306” A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lee Smith
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Elliot Graham
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year

* “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany
* “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
* “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
* “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
* “Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel

Achievement in makeup

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
* “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Universal), Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.),Alexandre Desplat
* “Defiance” (Paramount Vantage), James Newton Howard
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Elfman
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

* “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
* “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
* “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman andMaya Arulpragasam

Best animated short film

* “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
* “Lavatory - Lovestory” A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
* “Oktapodi” (Talantis Films) A Gobelins, L’école de l’image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
* “Presto” (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
* “This Way Up”, A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

* “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
* “Manon on the Asphalt” (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
* “New Boy” (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
* “The Pig” An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
* “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in sound editing

* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King
* “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Tom Sayers
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
* “Wanted” (Universal),Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney),Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
* “Wanted” (Universal), Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
* “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
* “Doubt” (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay

* “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
* “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh
* “In Bruges” (Focus Features), Written by Martin McDonagh
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Achievement in directing

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Fincher
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Ron Howard
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Gus Van Sant
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Stephen Daldry
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

Best motion picture of the year

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production,Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
* “Milk” (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Nominees to be determined
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production,Christian Colson, Producer

The Oscar shortlist usually follows a specific formula. I don't even know if they know it. Let's go back ten years:

1. Blockbuster/People's Choice (the "we see popular movies too!" slot)
2. Biopic/Period Piece/Literary Adaptation (the "big budget sprawling epic" or "here is the movie about the life of a great guy" slot)
3. Indie Sleeper Hit/Critics' Darling/Musical (the "we recognize the little guys" slot)
4. Gritty/Quirky/Sappy/Foreign (the "we have variety" slot)
5. Emotional Powerpunch/Political Drama (the "controversy" or "heartbreak" slot)

See how formulaic it is? And though it's super early, this is how I think it's going to go for the next one:

Blockbuster - The Dark Knight
Period Piece - Revolutionary Road
Indie Hit/Critics - Rachel Getting Married
Sappy/Quirky/Foreign - Slumdog Millionaire
Politics - Milk

Maybe I should start betting money on this shit from now on.

Damn I was wrong.

My formula still somewhat works though:

Blockbuster - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Period Piece - The Reader
Indie Hit/Critics - Milk
Sappy/Quirky/Foreign - Slumdog Millionaire
Politics - Frost/Nixon

It's kinda odd that grampas would nominate Robert Downey Jr for Tropic Thunder but snub TDK.

Benjamin Button shouldn't be up there either. For the tech awards yeah, and probably Pitt and Henson. Even up to the Director award. But Picture and Screenplay, man?

They could've swapped Reader and BB for Wall E and TDK. But meh, that's Oscars for ya. It's cool Michael Shannon got some recognition. Hopefully this'll throw him more into the light. For a little while at least.

what the fuck.

dude I don't think you got panda's point when he said "why do you care about this."

it's not about "heh list rolleyes" but the fact that the oscars are pretty goddam meaningless. in a year when the maltese falcon and citizen kane came out, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY won best picture (falcon was not even nominated I think). crash won because lionsgate actually sent every member of SAG a copy of crash. JUNO. TROPIC THUNDER.

and then you're arguing about THE DARK KNIGHT like it was anything other than a pretty decent movie based on comic books or Wall-E like it's not just a good kid's movie.

I will say The Reader should not be there, but only because The Wrestler should. who gives a shit about Wall-E or TDK which pulled in fuckloads of money (TDK second highest grossing film of all time they don't need any other honors). if you're going to argue for a point to the Oscars it's to add a spotlight to movies that might otherwise be ignored and guesssss what they don't even do that so whatever.

how was the wrestler i really want to see it

how was the wrestler i really want to see it

From everyone I've talked to that's seen it, it's supposed to be really good.  I'm going to try and see it this weekend, especially now that Rourke is going to wrestle Chris Jericho at WrestleMania. 

The wrestler was pretty good I thought, not best picture material imo, but performance wise it was stellar.

Nah I just expected TDK to show up somewhere other than Ledger and tech awards. The Best Pic snub wouldn't have really mattered if Nolan got nominated. Daldry has made 3 movies and has 3 Best Director nominations so far, for Reader, The Hours and Billy Elliot. The Hours was pretty dull, I thought. But I enjoyed Billy Elliot. BUT this is assuming that Daldry was 5th spot and nobody knows if he was. And yeah, I haven't seen The Reader so I shouldn't say anything about it until I do.

Glad In Bruges got a screenplay nomination. Terrific movie.

* Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)

* Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)

RDJ didn't go retard at all...

but Sean Penn went full f*ggot... so he won't win

never go full f*ggot...

Ask Jake Gyllenhaal, 2005, Brokeback Mountain.. went full f*ggot.. went home empty-handed.

The only nominations I agree with are David Fincher for best director just because he's made my favorite movie(Fight Club) but since I haven't seen Benjamin Button I wont say too much.

Good show so far... Nice set and more down to a personal level than previously.

Ben Stiller's spoof on Joaquin Phoenix was hilarious. Oh yeah, Ledger won the Oscar.