2009 Oscar Predictions

[zell]

It's almost like The Academy says "o.k.,you made a shit load of money at the box office and DVD/BluRay sales,so that's all the recognition that you need,be happy with that".I'm referring to The Dark Knight,of course.

 

[calpoon]

Just because it's popular doesn't make it a well made movie. that's why porn movies aren't nominated.

As to these people who say that nothing but trash comes out of Hollywood, do you only watch french films or what?

 

[member979979]

Just because it's popular doesn't make it a well made movie. that's why porn movies aren't nominated.

Thats the Woody's is for. :hatsoff:

 

[BlueBalls]

Sean Penn won the Best Actor Oscar!!!!


Honestly, Mickey Rourke wasn't that convincing to me. I'm glad Sean Penn won because let's face it, he's one of the best actors ever.

I agree, whilst I thought it was a great performance by Rourke I felt it was being over hyped because it was a great "come back". I thought Penn's performance was better.

Someone alive should have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, there I said it!!!

My feeling is, its not going to help Heath Ledger in anyway getting this award, if it was given to Josh Brolin (who was fantastic in Milk) for example his career goes up another notch. I personally thought if Heath Ledger were alive he wouldnt even win becasue lets face it as soon as the man died that performance was blown way over the top. Yes it was good, but was it better than any of the actors who were still alive, not in my eyes it wasnt.

Am I being deadist?

 

[maildude]

Aaaaaaggh....I finished 4-2. Not bad but not good. I'd better brush up on my future Oscarizations.

 

[STDiva]

I agree, whilst I thought it was a great performance by Rourke I felt it was being over hyped because it was a great "come back". I thought Penn's performance was better.

Someone alive should have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, there I said it!!!

My feeling is, its not going to help Heath Ledger in anyway getting this award, if it was given to Josh Brolin (who was fantastic in Milk) for example his career goes up another notch. I personally thought if Heath Ledger were alive he wouldnt even win becasue lets face it as soon as the man died that performance was blown way over the top. Yes it was good, but was it better than any of the actors who were still alive, not in my eyes it wasnt.

Am I being deadist?

Heath def shouldn't have won.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

I thought Angelina Jolie was fantastic in Changling and I'm not even a fan of hers.

 

[D-rock]

I am happy for Heath Ledger and his family,he definitely deserve it cause he did an incredible job as the joker.Its sad that he is not hear to accept it but not for one moment do I think he won because he died.

Maybe he did win because he died, but I think he probably deserved it so they got it right despite themselves this time. It's also nice to see somebody from an action movie win. Usually the voters just treat them as automatically not worth it.

I liked Winslet's winning speech. About Slumdog, I'm still unsure as to why it won best picture? It was a good movie, but it wasnt that great.

It was the "artsy" movie that came out at the right time. I think I can once remember Kevin Smith joking about that, (not that he's an expert on good movies or anything, but still he had a point.) I think often people will tactically make movies like that just to win the Oscar and not because they just wanted to make a movie like normal. (I'm not saying that happened this time.)

Just because it's popular doesn't make it a well made movie. that's why porn movies aren't nominated.

As to these people who say that nothing but trash comes out of Hollywood, do you only watch french films or what?

I don't know. It would seem with subjective things that the more popular they are the better they are by default. Otherwise things might fall into the trap of an elitist view most critics of any subject seem to have like the, "Only we know what's good and your not smart enough to figure it out." mindset a lot of them seem to project.

 

[member979979]

It was the "artsy" movie that came out at the right time. I think I can once remember Kevin Smith joking about that, (not that he's an expert on good movies or anything, but still he had a point.) I think often people will tactically make movies like that just to win the Oscar and not because they just wanted to make a movie like normal. (I'm not saying that happened this time.)

Or was it just a weak year for films?

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Or was it just a weak year for films?

A weak year for films that the Academy normally nominated for this stuff. The only two nominations I agreed with were Slumdog and Button.

 

[Violator79]

I think if Heath Ledger was alive he wouldn't have won, but he was definitely deserving of a nomination. I mean he carried The Dark Knight, and the movie alone should've gotten a best picture and director nomination, but since it's a comic book movie, it had no chance.

 

[zell]

I think if Heath Ledger was alive he wouldn't have won, but he was definitely deserving of a nomination. I mean he carried The Dark Knight, and the movie alone should've gotten a best picture and director nomination, but since it's a comic book movie, it had no chance.

I agree 100%.

 

[mrtrebus]

And the Oscar winner is most likely to look like this...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8551159.stm

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

2010

Hurt Locker - Best Film
Colin Firth - A Single Man Best Actor
Carey Mulligan - An Education Best Actress
Christoph Waltz- Inglourious Basterds Best Supporting Actor
Anna Kendrick - Up in The Air - Best Supporting Actress
Kathryn Bigelow - Hurt Locker - Best Director