Best Films of 2009

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Inglorious basterds 2 1/2 stars..Indulgent..Pitt miscast, and Hugo Stiglitz? geez Quentin

"Hello, Mr. Ashie. This is Mr. Tarentino... have you met Mr. Tarentino before?"


AMPAS voters' thoughts as to the top 10 (i.e., your Oscar noms):

Avatar
The Blind Side (Ed note: Really? I mean... REALLY?)
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

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[Vic Sage]

43 features got Oscar nominations today. I've seen about 6 of them.

Nominations by Picture:

Best Picture -

Avatar (9)
-Best picture
-Directing
-Film editing
-Original score
-Sound editing
-Sound mixing
-Visual effects
-Art direction
-Cinematography

The Hurt Locker(9)
- Best picture
- Directing
- Original screenplay
- Best Actor (Jeremy Renner)
- Cinematography
- Film editing
- Original score
- Sound editing
- Sound mixing

Inglourious Basterds(8)
- Best picture
- Original screenplay
- Directing
- Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz)
- Film editing
- Cinematography
- Sound editing
- Sound mixing

Up in the Air (6)
- Best picture
- Directing
- Adapted screenplay
- Best Actor (George Clooney)
- Best Supporting Actress (Vera Farmiga)
- Best Supporting Actress (Anna Kendrick)

Precious(6)
- Best picture
- Adapted screenplay
- Directing
- Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe)
- Best Supporting Actress (Mo�Nique)
- Film editing

Up (5)
- Best picture
- Best animated feature film
- Original screenplay
- Original score
- Sound editing

District 9(4)
- Best picture
- Adapted screenplay
- Film editing
- Visual effects

An Education (3)
- Best picture
- Adapted screenplay
- Best Actress (Carey Mulligan)

A Serious Man(2)
- Best picture
- Original screenplay

The Blind Side(2)
- Best picture
- Best Actress (Sandra Bullock)


Best Animated Feature -

Up (5)
- Best picture
- Best animated feature film
- Original screenplay
- Original score
- Sound editing

The Princess and the Frog(3)
- Best animated feature film
- Original song, �Almost There�
- Original song, �Down in New Orleans�

Fantastic Mr. Fox(2)
- Best animated feature film
- Original score

Coraline (1) -Best animated feature film

The Secret of Kells (1) - Best animated feature film


Best Foreign Film -

The White Ribbon (2)
- Best foreign language film (Germany)
- Cinematography

El Secreto de Sus Ojos(1) - Best foreign language film (Argentina)

Ajami (1) - Best foreign language film (Israel)

Un Proph�te (1) - Best foreign language film (France)

The Milk of Sorrow(1) - Best foreign language film (Peru)


Best Documentary Feature -

Burma VJ(1) - Documentary feature

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers(1) -Documentary feature

Which Way Home(1) - Documentary feature

The Cove (1) - Documentary feature

Food, Inc.,(1) - Documentary feature


technical / Miscellaneous -

Nine(4)
- Best Supporting Actress (Pen�lope Cruz)
- Art direction
- Costume design
- Original song, �Take It All�

Star Trek (4)
- Makeup
- Sound editing
- Sound mixing
- Visual effects

Crazy Heart(3)
- Best Actor (Jeff Bridges)
- Best Supporting Actress (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
- Original song, �The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)�

The Young Victoria(3)
- Art direction
- Costume design
- Makeup

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus(2)
- Art direction
- Costume design

Invictus(2)
- Best Actor (Morgan Freeman)
- Best Supporting Actor (Matt Damon)

The Last Station(2)
- Best Supporting actor (Christopher Plummer)
- Best Actress (Helen Mirren)

The Messenger (2)
- Best Supporting Actor (Woody Harrelson)
- Original screenplay

Sherlock Holmes (2)
- Art direction
- Original score

Bright Star(1) - Costume design

Coco before Chanel(1) - Costume design

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(1) - Cinematography

Il Divo(1) - Makeup

In the Loop(1) - Adapted screenplay

Julie & Julia(1) - Best Actress (Meryl Streep)

The Lovely Bones(1) Best Supporting Actor (Stanley Tucci)

Paris 36(1) - Original song, �Loin de Paname�

A Single Man (1) - Best Actor (Colin Firth)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (1) - Sound mixing

[Benjamin Grimm]

Up gets a best picture nomination!

Is it the first animated feature to get that nomination? (I'm thinking it's not. I seem to think that The Lion King was nominated. Or maybe Beauty and the Beast.)

I'm pretty sure that it would be the first to win, if that were to happen.

[Guest sharpie]

Beauty and the Beast was also nominated.

With the inflation of Best Picture noms from 5 to 10 I think really only the five that got director nominations would have gotten nominated in past years and that those are the only ones that have a chance. The others get to put it on the DVD boxes though.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Up gets a best picture nomination! Is it the first animated feature to get that nomination? (I'm thinking it's not. I seem to think that The Lion King was nominated. Or maybe Beauty and the Beast.) I'm pretty sure that it would be the first to win, if that were to happen.

Right on the first count-- Beauty and the Beast was indeed it, in 1991 (presented in 1992). On the second, too-- BatB lost to The Silence of the Lambs.

Oddly enough, Avatar and District 9 represent only the 3rd and 4th science-fiction movies-- if you count E.T.-- to get BP nods EVER; either would be the first to win. (By comparison, 5 Vietnam movies have been nominated, with 2-- Platoon and The Deer Hunter-- winning. Put another way: before this year, as many X-rated films as sci-fi films had been nominated for Oscars, and more disaster movies-- 3, if you don't count Love Story.)

[metirish]

I just got a wire from Ireland , actual latest odds from Paddy Power




Best Picture

Avatar - 1/2
The Hurt Locker - 11/8
Up In The Air - 10/1
Inglorious Basterds - 14/1
Precious - 33/1
The Blind Side - 50/1
An Education - 66/1
A Serious Man - 66/1
Up - 80/1
District 9 - 100/1


Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow 8/13
James Cameron 6/5
Jason Reitman 16/1
Quentin Tarantino 25/1
Lee Daniels 40/1

The Rest here

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_search&sClass=-1&sCriteria=oscars

[RealityChuck]

I see nearly all my films on DVD, so I'm behind on the list. However, I think Inglorious Basterds is the best film of those I've seen, and a fine file overall. And if Christoph Waltz doesn't win Best Supporting Actor, the Oscars are fixed.