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December 18, 2008
11 Weeks To Oscar
The Greatly Settled
Every year, I quote Bill Condon's notion - which has more resonance with his Oscar gig this year ... and less - of The Great Settling.
All the critics' awards and nominations are laid out. Screeners are in every Oscar voter's stockings. People go on their annual big vacations to wherever with the family and the discs in tow. And as the pressures from the hard push of the studios and press are relieved, cooling the situation, the films themselves creep into perspective. Nomination ballots go out right at Christmas and are returned en masse when people get back from their holiday to their lives.
But this year ... not so much.
Posted by dpoland at December 18, 2008 05:18 PM
Comments
Having seen the "Top 5" as it were, I think the best film of the year is not even in that group:
Man On Wire. Period.
And, I'd even go on a limb and admit that (a few formulaic tropes aside) The Wrestler is better than any of those 5.
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at December 18, 2008 08:06 PM
My top 10, as of right now: Man on Wire; The Dark Knight; Rachel Getting Married; WALL-E; The Wrestler; Tropic Thunder; Shine a Light; The Fall; Kung Fu Panda; W.
Posted by: Nick Rogers at December 18, 2008 09:29 PM
Mine right now:
(4 Months, 3 Weeks 2 Days which is really a 2007 movie)
Man on Wire
Synecdoche, New York
The Dark Knight
Standard Operating Procedure
Let the Right One In
The Band's Visit
Ballast
Wall-E
Burn After Reading
Stuck
My most hated movie of the year:
Prom Night
Posted by: jeffmcm at December 19, 2008 12:02 AM
Concur on Man on Wire as best of the year. Still lots I haven't seen though.
Oh, and if Debra Winger gets nominated over Rosemarie DeWitt I may actually lose my mind. I like the movie well enough but DeWitt is easily the best thing in it - better than Hathaway, better than Bill Irwin, and certainly better than Winger. I love the vet-making-an-impression-in-her-whole-five-scenes bone-throwing angle, but give me a freaking break. There's no contest here.
Posted by: MarkVH at December 19, 2008 06:46 AM
I haven't been deemed worthy enough to see most of the awards contenders yet so I can't even begin to give a good top ten list. Having said that titles such as Paranoid Park, Up the Yangtze and Wall-e will definitely be in there.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at December 19, 2008 09:14 PM
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