Oscar Nominations

The most glamorous night in Hollywood is just a month away…the 81st Annual Academy Awards. The nominations were announced today.

Last year, I told Chad that it was my goal to see every Best Picture nominee. Out of the 5 nominations I have only seen one of the films…The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It looks like I have my work cut out for me over the next four weeks if I am going to meet my goal. I need to get to the Cineplex and see the following: Frost/Nikon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire. Fortunately, all of these films look good. Unfortunately, I don’t think they are all playing here in the Phoenix area.

Life would be easier if The Dark Knight had been nominated for Best Picture. Unfortunately, (and un-deservedly, might I add) the film was left out of some major categories including: Directing and Writing. Not surprisingly, however, Heath Ledger was nominated for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.

Again, it’s going to be a big night for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Both are nominated in lead acting categories. So once again we will be forced to watch the camera pan to them during every break and audience reaction. Neither one of them stands a true chance of actually winning their respective categories, but we will still see more of them than the actual winners; which will probably be: Mickey Rourke and Kate Winslet (The Reader) or Meryl Streep.

I am extremely sad to see Revolutionary Road miss out on some major nominations. It looks like the Academy has no love for Leonardo DiCaprio. I would have liked to see the nominations play out for Kate Winslet they way they did at the Golden Globes…supporting role for The Reader and lead role for Revolutionary Road.

Click on the link below for a complete list of nominations

http://www.oscar.com/nominees/?pn=nominees