Oscar Poll - Best Picture

7G · Post by 7G » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:16 pm

I saw all movies mentioned here but only in one i shade a tear

Benjamin Button...

but that's just me

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:24 pm

LoopStationZebra wrote: No Country For Old Men
Hype hype hype. Interesting film and watchable, but c'mon. The novel was okay. No 'The Road', but it was okay.

Haven't seen the film but I very highly recommend the novel. The Road is an absolutely fucking incredible novel and I defy any film-maker to even approach it. Cormac McCarthy has to be my favourite author - one of the greatest, if not the greatest writer alive at the moment.

Having looked again at the original question... I answered with what films I thought should win. The film I think will actually win is Benjamin Button.

LoopStationZebra · Post by **LoopStationZebra** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:26 pm

Tone Deft wrote:sounds more like you watch too much TV and have too short of an attention span for long movies.

Nah. Length has nothing to do with it. The hyper-inflated sense of importance that surrounds all of PT's stuff is more likely the culprit.

But I'm glad you liked it!

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:27 pm

^ I gotto say that There Will Be Blood had the best soundtrack of a movie in years! It was no surprise when I learned it was scored by a Radiohead member.

LoopStationZebra · Post by **LoopStationZebra** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:35 pm

telekom wrote:
LoopStationZebra wrote: No Country For Old Men
Hype hype hype. Interesting film and watchable, but c'mon. The novel was okay. No 'The Road', but it was okay.
Haven't seen the film but I very highly recommend the novel. The Road is an absolutely fucking incredible novel and I defy any film-maker to even approach it. Cormac McCarthy has to be my favourite author - one of the greatest, if not the greatest writer alive at the moment.

Having looked again at the original question... I answered with what films I thought should win. The film I think will actually win is Benjamin Button.

Yeah, I've read both The Road and No Country. The Road was spectacular. They've already wrapped production on the film version, but after audiences in test screenings began complaining that the movie was too bleak they decided to reshoot some scenes. Shame, really. I can't think of a novel that was more relentless in it's misery.

You should watch No Country. I'd be curious to see what you think. I'm a big Coen Bros fan, but it just didn't do it for me. I thought the characters in the novel were incredibly drawn out and focused. The movie kind of muddled them up. *shrug*.

john doe by choice · Post by **john doe by choice** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:45 pm

I'll just say what everyone expects from me at this point and nominate T4 even though it's not out yet

/sarcasm

David Fincher is a genius...that said, his movies sometimes lack concision, but so do I, so I don't mind.

I think Milk will take it, just based on the quality of acting that Sean Penn is delivering nowadays, plus supporting cast is awesome.

Frost/Nixon deserves honorable mention as a docudrama documenting the death of hard news..the funny thing is, Frost was not known for reporting hard news prior to that, but still an important landmark - if it weren't for those interviews, our latest presidents wouldn't have had all of that footage to learn from (and by learn from, I mean learn to hide everything from US citizens until its way too late to do anything) - if it were made 20 years from now, it would have been absolutely shocking, since the path that the media is on currently will result in the worldwide removal of reporting on important events supported with hard facts...if it's not about some celebrity bitching, murdering, eating, shitting, or screwing around, it won't even make it to the news by the time our kids are watching.

But yeah, Milk is my guess.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:57 pm

nebulae wrote:
Peter Package wrote:
thx1138 wrote:Gran Torino
There ya go. Best Movie and Best Actor.
best comedy in a very long while - I LOLed throughout the whole movie.

Very entertaining movie that was about more than just his car - the urban landscape is changing and Gran Turino was a very good reflection of those changes

Asian Gangsters - yeah right!

Peter Package · Post by **Peter Package** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:13 pm

djadonis206 wrote:
nebulae wrote:
Peter Package wrote: There ya go. Best Movie and Best Actor.
best comedy in a very long while - I LOLed throughout the whole movie.
Very entertaining movie that was about more than just his car - the urban landscape is changing and Gran Turino was a very good reflection of those changes

Asian Gangsters - yeah right!

Yes much, much more. About the end of America, as it has been known. The Car represents what it once was, the thing everyone wants. His kids/grandkids, represent what it has become, spoiled rotten and unworthy of its own heritage. Many other things on many other levels going on, that someone whom would enjoy the POS that is DK, would not get.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:18 pm

djadonis206 wrote:Asian Gangsters - yeah right!

Seattle's pretty sheltered, huh? I guess some days are too cold for drive bys. drive bies? drivebies? I need the urban dictionary to look up the plurality of gangsterisms.

glad to hear it's a good movie.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:37 pm

I was being sarcastic - Seattle, a major hub in the PAC RIM is Asian Gangsta central - I think they're big into the PAC RIM Heroine trade

But the emerging gangs in Seattle are not just black - they're Ethiopian and Asian (Vietnamese dawg)

But the black gang problem has been escalating in Seattle as well

Gran Turino, yes, go see it - great movie

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:45 pm

gotcha, it didn't make sense, but I don't know Seattle.

I had a gun pulled on me on the highway in Denver, Asian gangmembers out having fun. I looked over and could only see the rectangular end of the gun, right down the barrel. good times!

anyone watch the BAFTA awards? same night as the Grammies a few weekends ago.

Slumdog question - are Indian TV shows that bilingual? they would constantly flip between English and Hindi. for that matter what about other countries? ignorant question, sorry.

john doe by choice · Post by **john doe by choice** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:00 am

Winners according to IMDB (I may be late on this, whatever):

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Christian Colson
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Sean Penn for Milk (2008/I)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008)
Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: Okuribito (2008)(Japan)
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar("Jai Ho")
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - A.R. Rahman
Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Chris Dickens
Best Achievement in Sound
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: The Dark Knight (2008) - Richard King
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Smile Pinki (2008) - Megan Mylan
Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Man on Wire (2008) - James Marsh, Simon Chinn
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008)
Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: Spielzeugland (2007) - Jochen Alexander Freydank
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Anthony Dod Mantle
Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) - Greg Cannom
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: The Duchess (2008) - Michael O'Connor
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) - Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: Maison en petits cubes, La (2008) - Kunio Katô
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: WALL·E (2008) - Andrew Stanton
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Simon Beaufoy
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Milk (2008/I) - Dustin Lance Black
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

pulsoc · Post by **pulsoc** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:11 am

Slumdog slumdog slumdog bleck

What a load of horsepoo

Geezus · Post by **Geezus** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:20 am

eisnein wrote:write in for Synecdoche NY!

+1

also though dark knight should have been nominated, maybe even won cause I definately thought it was a better movie than most of the others nominated.

stringtapper · Post by **stringtapper** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:21 am

nebulae wrote:^ I gotto say that There Will Be Blood had the best soundtrack of a movie in years! It was no surprise when I learned it was scored by a Radiohead member.

Definitely a great soundtrack. He didn't score all of it though (probably the only reason he didn't win the Oscar). Some of the pieces were chosen for the film, namely the Cello arrangement of Pärt's Fratres, which is killer, and of course the third movement of the Brahms violin concerto that plays in the middle and at the very end after he says "I'm finished!" Such a great ending piece!

Oscar Poll - Best Picture

Which movie will win Best Picture?