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[Maet]

From www.imdb.com

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Academy Awards, USA: 2009
Just Announced...

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)

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The Oscar winners for 2008.

Slumdog Millionaire won 8 out of 10 Oscars it was nominated for, while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button only won 3 out of a possible 13. Neither were my pick for the best film of the year (that honour belongs to Frost/Nixon out of the nominees), but it's an interesting upset considering the Oscars are what they are.

Oh, and Mickey Rourke got snubbed for Best Actor. That's my biggest outrage.

What do you think? Do you even care about the Oscars?

Quick Numbers
Slumdog Millionaire won 8 out of a possible 10 Oscars.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won 3 out of a possible 13 Oscars.
The Dark Knight won 2 out of a possible 8 Oscars.
Milk won 2 out of a possible 8 Oscars.

The Only Winners people actually might care about
The Reader won a single Oscar for Best Actress (Kate Winslet).
Vicky Christina Barcelona won a single Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Penelope Cruz). (!)
Milk won an Oscar for Best Actor (Sean Penn).
The Dark Knight won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Heath Ledger).
Slumdog Millionaire won both Best Picture and Best Director.

 

[Shivari]

I loved Slumdog Millionaire, so it deserved everything that it won, that movie was beautiful. I was also kinda cheering for Mickey Rourke to get Best Actor, but I do want to see Milk sometime, so I'll be able to judge whether I agree with that decision at another time.

 

[Fenring]

How did Slumdog Millionaire not win best foreign film and win Best Motion Picture.

 

[wahi]

coz its a hollywood production shot in india.

 

[Maet]

Thanks, pity noone will probably read that now since we have a raid going on.

Excellent timing then since this was a (no text) thread for a little while. The raid saved me from humiliation in that respect. Guess they're good for somethings after all..

(I always tell myself I'll never make a (no text) thread in such a haste)

 

[minoes]

I hate Sean Penn so much.

 

[Peach_hat]

Lol @ Benjamin Button getting 2 out of 13 nominees

 

[ThePoodonkis]

These awards were well deserved and given. Congratulations to all the winners.

 

[Maet]

The spam appears to have subsided, so I'm just giving my thread a quick little bump.

 

[Adam Jenson]

YES! WOOT! GO SLUMDOG!

 

[Hey Joe]

My predictions were pretty accurate, but I'm pissed that Rourke got passed over. That acceptance speech would've been awesome-o-saurus.

 

[Adam Jenson]

My predictions were pretty accurate, but I'm pissed that Rourke got passed over. That acceptance speech would've been awesome-o-saurus.

Joe, you really didn't expect the academy to welcome back someone like Rourke did you? Jackie Earl Hayley I can understand but Rourke was never Hollywoods favourite son.

 

[peduncle]

why would they give an award to a dead guy?

 

[Larenxis]

I thought it was odd that Heath Ledger wasn't in the memoriam, but I really liked the way they did the acting nominations. I'll grumble about them overlooking In Bruges except for one paltry nomination later...

 

[Hey Joe]

My predictions were pretty accurate, but I'm pissed that Rourke got passed over. That acceptance speech would've been awesome-o-saurus.

Joe, you really didn't expect the academy to welcome back someone like Rourke did you? Jackie Earl Hayley I can understand but Rourke was never Hollywoods favourite son.

No, I didn't think he was going to win. I'm still pissed though, it would've been the best ACCEPTANCE SPEECH OF ALL TIME.

"Uhh...I'd like to thank that chick...the one with the cans...Melissa?"

 

[Maet]

Really the only justice served tonight is that walle won and not Bolt.

That win wasn't even a question. The only doubt that could have possibly been cast would be because Wall-E was a summer release where as Bolt was a later fall release, and therefore fresh in the Academy's mind.

My predictions were pretty accurate, but I'm pissed that Rourke got passed over. That acceptance speech would've been awesome-o-saurus.

Joe, you really didn't expect the academy to welcome back someone like Rourke did you? Jackie Earl Hayley I can understand but Rourke was never Hollywoods favourite son.

No, I didn't think he was going to win. I'm still pissed though, it would've been the best ACCEPTANCE SPEECH OF ALL TIME.

"Uhh...I'd like to thank that chick...the one with the cans...Melissa?"

Giving Rourke best actor for that speech is a far better cause than giving The Dark Knight best picture in a feeble attempt at making the Oscars "relevant" again.

 

[Hey Joe]

What did we all think of Hugh Jackman as a host?

 

[Adam Jenson]

What did we all think of Hugh Jackman as a host?

Was he any good? He's had some experience when he hosted the Tony's