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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Changeling • Buy the DVD • Buy the Blu-ray | WINNER: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • Sign up for the DVD • Sign up for the Blu-ray | The Dark Knight • Buy the DVDs • Buy the Blu-ray | The Duchess • Buy the DVD • Buy the Blu-ray | Revolutionary Road • Buy it on DVD • Buy it on Blu-ray |
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published |
WINNER: Dustin Lance Black, Milk (Buy the DVD | Blu-ray) Martin McDonagh, In Bruges (Buy it) Courtney Hunt, Frozen River (Buy the DVD | Blu-ray) Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky (Buy it on DVD | Sign up for Blu-ray) Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter, Wall-E (Buy it on DVDs | Blu-ray) | WINNER: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire (Buy it on DVD | Blu-ray) Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Sign up for the DVD | Blu-ray) Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon (Buy it on DVD | Blu-ray) John Patrick Shanley, Doubt (Buy it on DVD | Blu-ray) David Hare, The Reader (Sign up for the DVD | Blu-ray) |
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Milk Movie Trailer -
When a famous person, like the nation's first openly gay male city supervisor, inspires an acclaimed book (The Mayor of Castro Street) and Oscar-winning documentary (The Times of Harvey Milk), a biopic can seem superfluous at best. Taking over from Oliver Stone and Bryan Singer, Gus Van Sant, whose previous picture was the more experimental Paranoid Park, directs with such grace, he renders the concern moot. Unlike Randy Shilts' biography, which begins at the beginning, Dustin Lance Black's script starts in 1972, just as Milk (Sean Penn, in a finely-wrought performance) and his boyfriend, Scott (James Franco, equally good), move from New York to San Francisco. Milk opens a camera shop on the Castro that becomes a safe haven for victims of discrimination, convincing him to enter politics. With each race he runs, Harvey's relationship with Scott unravels further. Finally, he wins, and the real battle begins as Milk takes on Proposition 6, which denies equal rights to homosexuals. He does what he can to rally politicians, like George Moscone (Victor Garber) and Dan White (Josh Brolin). While the mayor is willing, the conservative board member has reservations, and after Milk fails to back one of White’s pet projects, the die is cast, leading to the murder of two beloved figures. If Van Sant’s film captures Harvey in all his complexities (he was, for instance, a very funny man), Milk also serves as an enticement to grass-roots activism, showing how one regular guy elevated everyone around him, notably Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch), the ex-street hustler who created the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial. Released in the wake of Proposition 8, California’s anti-gay marriage amendment, Milk is inspirational in the best way: one person can and did make a difference, but the struggle is far from over. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
The Reader (2008) New Trailer Movie
Years later, the two cross paths again, and Michael (played as an adult by Ralph Fiennes) learns, slowly, horrifyingly, of acts that Hanna may have been involved in during the war. There is a war crimes trial, and the accused at one point asks the panel of prosecutors: "Well, what would you have done?" It is that question--as one German professor says later: "How can the next generation of Germans come to terms with the Holocaust?"--that is both heartbreaking and unanswerable. Winslet plays every shade of gray in her portrayal of Hanna, and Fiennes is riveting as the man who must rewrite history--his own and his country's--as he learns daily, hourly, of deeds that defy categorization, and morality. "No matter how much washing and scrubbing," one character says matter of factly, "some sins don't wash away." The Reader (with nods to similar films like Sophie's Choice and The English Patient dares to present that unnerving premise, without offering an easy solution. --A.T. Hurley
Tags: The Reader, Oscars
Monday, February 23, 2009
Best Achievement in Directing
WINNER: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire (Buy the DVD | Blu-ray)
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Sign up for the DVD | Blu-ray)
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon (Buy it on DVD | Blu-ray)
Gus Van Sant, Milk (Buy it on DVD | Blu-ray)
Stephen Daldry, The Reader (Sign up for the DVDs | Blu-ray)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Slumdog Millionaire is Winning
Danny Boyle (Sunshine) directed this wildly energetic, Dickensian drama about the desultory life and times of an Indian boy whose bleak, formative experiences lead to an appearance on his country's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Jamal (played as a young man by Dev Patel) and his brother are orphaned as children, raising themselves in various slums and crime-ridden neighorhoods and falling in, for a while, with a monstrous gang exploiting children as beggars and prostitutes. Driven by his love for Latika (Freida Pinto), Jamal, while a teen, later goes on a journey to rescue her from the gang's clutches, only to lose her again to another oppressive fate as the lover of a notorious gangster.
Running parallel with this dark yet irresistible adventure, told in flashback vignettes, is the almost inexplicable sight of Jamal winning every challenge on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," a strong showing that leads to a vicious police interrogation. As Jamal explains how he knows the answer to every question on the show as the result of harsh events in his knockabout life, the chaos of his existence gains shape, perspective and soulfulness. The film's violence is offset by a mesmerizing exotica shot and edited with a great whoosh of vitality. Boyle successfully sells the story's most unlikely elements with nods to literary and cinematic conventions that touch an audience's heart more than its head. --Tom Keogh
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • Buy the CD | James Newton Howard, Defiance • Buy the CD | Danny Elfman, Milk • Buy the CD | WINNER: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire • Buy the CD | Thomas Newman, WALL-E • Buy the CD |
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Race To Witch Mountain [Trailer 1] [HD] 2009
Ice Age 3 Dawn Of The Dinosaurs [Trailer 1] [HD] 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Underworld 3 Rise Of The Lycans [Trailer 1] [HD] 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Dragonball Z movie / Original Trailer 2009