And the Oscar goes too
 

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz for Vicky Barcelona
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Milk (written by Dustin Lance Black)
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
Best Animated Feature film: Wall-E
Best Animated Short Film: La Maison en petits cubes
Art Direction: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Costume Design: The Duchess (MiChael O'Conner)
Best Make-up: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Cinamatography: Anthony Dog Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire
Best Live Action Short: Spielzeugland
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger!!
Best Documentary: Man On Wire
Best Documentary Short: Smile Pinki
Outstanding Visual FX: Benjamin Button
Outstanding Sound Editing: Dark Knight!
Outstanding Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Score: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Song: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Language film: Departures (Japan)
Best Directing: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Best Lead Actress: Kate Winslet For The Reader
Best Lead Actor: Sean Penn for Milk
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire

Why did you put exclamation points after Heath Ledger and the Dark Knight?

Man, looks like Slumdog Millionaire is the big winner with 8 Oscars...I really need to see this film.

Because it's probably the only actor and film on the list she recognizes.

Glad I successfully ignored this train wreck this year.

Ohmygod!!!! A pity nom leads to a pity win!!! AWESOME!!!


EDIT: My favorite part was when Efron and Hudgens popped up in the musical tribute.

What the crap is it about?

Slumdog Millionaire is f*cking sh*t. I saw it like three days ago. What a waste of time.

Either way, I never pay attention to this garbage, anyways. Hooray for movies no one will mention a year from now!!

Slumdog Millionaire's praise is just Hollywood kissing the butts of the country that will own their asses after American currency collapses and Hollywood studios start going bust.

You're all bitter because that Batman movie got nothing but one pity Oscar due to the public pressure from fans, who'd commit mass suicides if Ledger wasn't awarded.

Uh, no. I don't give a rat's ass if Dark Knight wins an Oscar or not. Those things haven't meant anything for years now except to the people who write actor's paychecks, and the silly little Brad Pitt fangirls who love to drool over Hollywood gossip.

Don't get me wrong, Slumdog Millionaire was a good film but no way was it the best.

Oh, it's flaming time now? k.

Anyway, I don't really care, so I guess there's no point in me posting in this thread. But you gotta admit, Heath Ledger was amazing in Dark Knight and deserved that award, alive or not.

At least it wasn't another social political whine fest or the Holocaust drama of the year. And I really say Benjimin Button didn't deserve to win either. It seemed like a vanity project to me.

And I have to say, Mickey Rourke was robbed. I knew Sean Penn only did a sociopolitical film to get an Oscar. Mickey pulled his ruined life up and came back in a big way... he deserved it way way more just for that. Though, again... glad that it didn't go to Brad Pitt for being in a movie where they made him ugly... it always goes to the pretty person that plays an ugly person. Like it's some sort of sacrifice.

Wow, a lot of Slumdog Millionaire hate in here. I thought it was a f*cking fantastic movie and was better than every other movie nominated...although I haven't seen Milk yet.

Rourke should have won. I hate Saun Penn with a passion.

I'm no fan of Sean Penn, either but after I heard that there were protests against "Milk" in front of the Kodak theatre I'm glad he won. Stupid f*ckers.

Amen to that.

Same here, and I saw all of the big nominees...some more than once. Slumdog Millionaire is a fantastic film and became one of my all-time favorite shortly after seeing it.

Anyway...

In Bruges deserved best original screenplay over this year's standard biopic. Oh well, In Bruges got totally snubbed this year, it deserved a few moe nominations.

Hellboy 2 should've won make-up. I don't care how old they made Brad Pitt look, it doesn't compare to Hellboy and Abe.

Tough call on visual effects, but I would've given it to Iron Man.

As amazing as Sean Penn was in Milk, I still say Mickey Rourke deserves that award. He went through so much more for his role in The Wrestler.

Toughest category this year was by far Supporting Actor. With the exception of Philip Seymour Hoffman (I still haven't seen Doubt) all of the nominees deserved that award equally. Can't really complain about Heath winning, although deep down I was hoping Robert Downey Jr. would win.


Other than that, I can't say I disagree with any of the winners.

I don't understand how a biopic is an original screenplay. Isn't it adapted in the terms that it was based on actual events? I think Wall*e should have one that one as well... think about it. They had to convey so much without words. And that is a feat, I tell you.

I have a feeling they wanted Benjamin Button to win something, even if it was technical. It really didn't deserve special effects or make-up at all. Ooh, we made a young guy look old. And we used computers to do it, so we wouldn't even bother applying the stuff.

Slumdog Millionaire is about this kid from the slums of India who goes on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and just as he's getting to the final question the government is all paranoid and wondering how some poor kid with no education knows all the answers, so he's arrested and then proceeds to tell his life story. Doesn't sound like something I'd be interested in...but I'll probably end up watching it just to see what all the hype is about.

Reminds me of when Titanic won every fraking award at the Oscars back in 97... ugh..I can't stand that movie.

Yeah I'm quite surprised myself. Slumdog is a great film. I'd never watch it again but compared to what it was up against I'd say it was the better film. Though like you I haven't seen Milk yet. Personally I'm baffled that Gran Torino and The Wrestler didn't get best picture nominations.

Benjamin Button deserved to get hammered like this. That movie wasn't worth the time taken to watch it. I'm completely baffled as to why it won the special effects and make-up awards.

You know about as much about this as you do about good games; sh*t.

Re: Sean Penn.
I guess if playing an autistic guy doesn't get you an Oscar, play a gay man, because the "commie homo loving sons of guns" in the Academy will vote for you.

*feels like watching Tropic Thunder right now.*

I love how as soon as Dark Knight became super f*cking popular, it was cool to hate it. Gotta love the sheep out there.

I loved The Dark Knight just as much as the next reasonable person (i.e. not geekish fanboy) and I say Ledger's performance was the only Oscar-worthy thing about the movie. He might not have won it if he hadn't died but he deserves it nevertheless.

Sorry I missed this post the first time around. You do know Slumdog was made in and produced by European studios? That means Hollywood had nothing to do with putting cash into it.

Well, that's fine. Either way, I wasn't trying to say anything about the movie. I actually enjoyed it a lot. It just annoys me that another American past-time (movies) will likely be bought up by foreign interests during the second great depression here.

I was disappointed about the Best Make Up choice because I wanted it to be Hellboy. It's a movie that uses makeup and costumes in a way I appreciate and would like to see more.

There were a many things I enjoyed in Benjamin Button but I am not sure if it should have gotten the Visual Effects award over Iron Man and Batman.

I literally saw the wrestler right before I watched the Oscars yesterday and after seeing Mickey Rourke's performance I had hoped he would win.

I have not seen Slumdog but I have heard so many positive things about it. I can't say either way but I think the competition was stiff all around. Good films are also a matter of opinion by many people.
Despite not having seen the film I do love Danny Boyle so seeing him win made me happy.

It was so sad they that would shun The Dark Knight for its visual effects. They didn't fake a car crash. They took a lot of wire and actually flipped an 18-wheeler. Sadly though, giving Dark Knight an award wouldn't exactly help get the resident CG Studios in LA and India more contracts, so the deserving movie doesn't win. And Mickey Rourke should have won for that movie. The story he presented was gut wrenchingly good.

TMB, you're boring with your conspiracy theories.

Dustin Hoffman got an Oscar for playing an autistic guy in "Rain Man".

And actually, playing a gay person doesn't ensure getting any awards, even for Heath Ledger, so I don't really understand what you're whining about.

Penn was nominated for lead actor in I am Sam...and lost to Denzel Washington in Training Day.

I think the thing that bugged me was that Sean Penn, though admittedly jokingly, did infact call the Academy "commie homo loving sons of guns." Just seemed a bit off putting to me.

I see what you mean there... but I can't help wonder if he was referring to the antagonist in the film... or at least some dime store partisan radio hack like Michael Savage, who'd clearly spend the time whining about how he won an award for a sociopolitical film.

I never did care for those. Seems Hollywood only makes these sort of pictures when they're safe. If this film came out 15 years or more ago, it really would have been controversial and daring. Now, it's like... who's eyes are you gonna open? Indie films and documentaries always do these films when they are unpopular subjects, and no one ever hears much about them.

That said, I wish they made that other Milk film... years ago there was talk that Oliver Stone was to make the film and Robin Williams was to play the lead.

Robin Williams and Oliver Stone. Now you tell me that wouldn't have been epic crazy.

I disagree. Right now is a perfect time for this film, especially after the passing of Prop 8 in California.

I just noticed the title of this thread says "And the Oscar goes too", lol.

Exactly. And as I said before, Penn mentioned protesters against the film in front of the Kodak theatre. This sh*t is relevant.

Not saying it isn't relevant... though I can't imagine they predicted that would happen when they made the film. All I'm saying... this REALLY would have rattled cages decades ago. You know, sort of like how during the Vietnam war they had films that were allegories about the war, but they didn't actually have films about the war. And the films about that war were all underground.

I greatly enjoyed Slumdog Millionaire. I think the haterade for it is typical "fashionable opinion" since it sweeped the board. Ledger earned that oscar, his role in The Dark Knight was ground-breaking with a major influence on the culutural world. The fact some retards think his fans were the reason he got proves the scope of thier mental facaulties.