For Your Consideration, Academy
nytimes.com 1/3/2009 — The New York Times’s film critics offer their own nominations for the year’s best. >

Directors 2008: The Great Leap Forwards
awardsdaily.com 12/28/2008 — If you believe the Best Director race is down to: Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Ron Howard, Gus Van Sant, Christopher Nolan, Andrew Stanton, Jonathan Demme, give or take, it seemed like a good time to reflect back on the varied careers of the major players. The most fun director to gaze ...

THE 2008 OSCARS: THE CURIOUS CASE OF DENNIS'S OSCAR BALLOT
sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com 2/22/2009 — Okay, so we’ve reached the portion of our program where your marginally interested host feigns interest in the actual Oscar awards long enough to go out on a limb and make his Oscar office pool picks public. This act of exhibitionism should in no ...

2009 Academy Award Nominations Are In!!!
aintitcool.com 1/22/2009 — Harry here with the Oscar Noms... Best actor: Richard Jenkins - THE VISITOR Frank Langella - FROST/NIXON Sean Penn - MILK Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married ...

Oscar predictions and pleas
eddieonfilm.blogspot.com 2/22/2009 — Yes, it's time for a few of us here at ECOF to make our predictions about the Oscar winners come Sunday night. First though, I have some business to attend concerning many of you out there: WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION? Now, just because my ...

The Oscar Nominees Are...
talkingmoviezzz.blogspot.com 1/23/2009 — I always thought that the Oscar nominees who, when told they were nominated, and they say "Oh, I didn't even know the nominations were today!" were lying. HOW could they not know when the Oscar nominations are? Yet, I wasn't even aware the Oscar ...

New DVDs: 'The Wrestler,' 'Frost/Nixon'
dvdspindoctor.typepad.com 4/24/2009 — "The Wrestler," that battered but proud underdog of a film, triumphed as one of the top two or three American films of 2008 -- no matter what the film Academy had to say. The Mickey Rourke comeback vehicle could beat to a pulp the Oscars' best picture candidates -- except, of course, for the ...

Can ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Sweep The Oscars Tonight?
sizzlingpopcorn.com 2/22/2009 — The preparations are finished. The red carpet is all set. People are starting to flock to Highland and Hollywood, where the high security zone which is being patrolled by hundreds of police officers and SWAT snipers will be home to the 81st Academy Awards. The celebrities and the nominees ...

OFCS: 2008 NOMINATIONS
antagonie.blogspot.com 1/7/2009 — Not that I'm ordinarily all that interested in awards-season hoo-hah, but obviously I have to make an exception for my own group. The 2008 nominees for the Online Film Critics Society Awards (and I don't mind admitting that I'm actually really proud ...

Fataculture’s Favourite Films of 2008
fataculture.wordpress.com 1/6/2009 — I don’t know about anyone else, but I couldn’t be happier to see the year that was 2008 come to an end. From economic woes weighing down the entire world, including the motion picture industry, to personal misfortunes, one thing I am grateful for is ...