Sunday 18 January 2009

Oscar Contenders 2008 (2009 ceremony)

This week we shall finally see which films will be nominated for the 2008 Academy Awards. After the major triumphs of "Slumdog Millionaire" at the Golden Globes, with major contenders "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Doubt", and "Frost / Nixon" going away empty-handed, which way will the Oscar voters be leaning?

Here is an alphabetical list of the movies that I think are potential Oscar-nominees across all of the categories. Movies in italics are the final short-list for the Foreign Language Film award. Movies in bold print WILL be nominated:

Adam Resurrected
Appaloosa
Australia
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Ballast
Blindness
Body of Lies
Bolt
Brideshead Revisited
The Brothers Bloom
Burn After Reading
Cadillac Records
Changeling
Che: Part One (The Argentine)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Class
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Defiance

Departures
Doubt
The Duchess

Elegy
Everlasting Moments
The Fall
Flash of Genius
Frost / Nixon
Frozen River
Gomorrah
Good
Gran Torino
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
In Bruges
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man

I've Loved You So Long
Journey To The Center of the Earth
Kung-Fu Panda
Last Chance Harvey
Local Color
Mamma Mia!
Milk
The Necessities of Life
Nothing But The Truth
The Other Boleyn Girl
Pineapple Express
Quantam of Solace
Rachel Getting Married

The Reader
Revanche
Revolutionary Road
Seven Pounds
Slumdog Millionaire
Snow Angels
Synechdoche, New York
3 Monkeys
Tear This One Out
Tropic Thunder
Valkyrie
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor

W.
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir
Wendy & Lucy
What Doesn't Kill You
The Wrestler

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