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Old 02-22-2009, 10:53 PM   #1
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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
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Old 02-22-2009, 10:58 PM   #2
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Why did you put exclamation points after Heath Ledger and the Dark Knight?
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Old 02-22-2009, 11:03 PM   #3
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Man, looks like Slumdog Millionaire is the big winner with 8 Oscars...I really need to see this film.
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Old 02-22-2009, 11:22 PM   #4
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Why did you put exclamation points after Heath Ledger and the Dark Knight?
Because it's probably the only actor and film on the list she recognizes.
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Old 02-22-2009, 11:48 PM   #5
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Glad I successfully ignored this train wreck this year.
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Old 02-22-2009, 11:55 PM   #6
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Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger!!
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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 01:04 AM   #7
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Man, looks like Slumdog Millionaire is the big winner with 8 Oscars...I really need to see this film.
What the crap is it about?
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Old 02-23-2009, 02:12 AM   #8
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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!!
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Old 02-23-2009, 02:53 AM   #9
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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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 04:06 AM   #10
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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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 04:31 AM   #11
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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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 05:49 AM   #12
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Don't get me wrong, Slumdog Millionaire was a good film but no way was it the best.
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Old 02-23-2009, 06:11 AM   #13
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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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 08:45 AM   #14
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Don't get me wrong, Slumdog Millionaire was a good film but no way was it the best.
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.
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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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 09:13 AM   #16
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Rourke should have won. I hate Saun Penn with a passion.
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Old 02-23-2009, 09:19 AM   #17
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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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 09:25 AM   #18
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I hate Saun Penn with a passion.
Amen to that.
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Old 02-23-2009, 09:43 AM   #19
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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.

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.
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Old 02-23-2009, 10:00 AM   #20
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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.
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.

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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.
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.
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