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Ikrik:
So I've been looking through these wonderful Oscar Nominations for 2009...and wow am I not impressed. http://www.oscar.com/nominees/?pn=nominees.  Benjamin Button is practically everywhere. The movie has 13 nominations (I think) and that's a frightening amount for a film that is just Forrest Gump again. 

the nominations I'm happy about are

Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn are nominated for Best Actor (The Wrestler and Milk respectively)
Heath Ledger for Supporting Actor
Kate Winslet for Best Actress (The Reader)
Wall-E for Animation
Man on Wire for Documentary
Waltz with Bashir for Foreign Language Film
and that's really it.
Other than that they look alright and I'm really praying that Benjamin Button doesn't win as many as it's nominated for, it really only deserves it for makeup and visual effects. It's being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay...

Dazed:
Robert Downey Jr. being nominated for Tropic Thunder is pretty fantastic. He obviously won't win, I think Heath Ledger's name is already etched on the trophy, but the nomination is pretty awesome.

Also, glad to see Slumdog Millionaire up for a lot of stuff.

De_El:
So many nominations for Benjamin Button what the HELL ASS
That movie was not good. It was not even so bad that I hate it. It is just silly to have a strong opinion on such a waste of time.

TheFuriousWombat:
Ledger will surely win best supporting actor, Rourke will take best actor. I think a lot of these are up in the air. I'm thinking that, despite all its undeserved nominations, Benjamin Button won't win anything big. Because it's an underdog success story, I can see Slumdog taking some big prizes, including best picture/director. It's quite possible methinks. I'm bummed that Wall-E didn't get a best picture nomination. Obviously it wouldn't have won and clearly it will win best animated picture but the best pic nomination and would have given the current breed of animated films (at least from Disney/Pixar) the legitimacy they've deserved over the last couple years (I still think Ratatouille was one of the best movies of the year by far when it came out).

Inlander:
Glad to see the Class nominated in the Best Foreign Language film category - I saw it last night and it's superb, a real throw-back to all those wonderful humanist French films that were coming out in the 90s. It'd be great to see Happy-Go-Lucky win Best Screenplay, thought it's obviously the outsider in that category - but dammit, that film was such a joy and I want to see it recognised. I haven't seen most of the films for Leading Actress, but isn't it about time the Academy came out of its English-language bunker? Kristin Scott-Thomas's performance, in French (her second language), in I've Loved You So Long, was simply stunning and without question the best performance - by a man or a woman - I've seen in years.

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