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Okay I’m done now 
And the winner is … NOT ME! lol 8/21 is my final score. Just 2 better than last year. I really thought I’d do at least a little better than that. It was still a far from disappointing night, though. I think back to last year’s Slumdog sweep and I don’t know how my love of Oscar even survived that. Baldwin/Martin gags were lame but made me laugh buckets … even Sandra Bullock earned her win with a beautifully engineered speech. And I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go back to regular Moët after sipping a Grand Vintage over 4 hours!
Best Picture: Up in the Air (that’s my final answer) I still really want Up in the Air, but feel like Inglourious Basterds is the one I’ll be most happy with in years to come. I’ll be fine with Avatar or The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) I’m fairly convinced this is hers.
Best Actor: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) I don’t want Jeff Bridges to win this (if he does, I’ll pretend it’s for The Big Lebowski). I’d prefer Jeremy Renner of The Hurt Locker, and this is the first time I’ve ever really been happy with a Clooney nomination. I’ve still not seen A Single Man. Really, anyone but Bridges or Freeman (I didn’t think either were very good at all).
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) As with Bridges in the Actor category, I don’t want Bullock to win this (if she does, I’ll pretend it’s for 28 Days). Until I saw Julie & Julia the other day (review soon hopefully), I was Gabby Sidibe all the way on this – it just doesn’t seem they could give the Oscar to Mo’Nique and then not recognise her too, and she is fantastic in Precious (review of that soon too). Then I saw Julie & Julia and I haven’t seen a more joyous movie all year. It’s the first time in my lifetime that Meryl Streep has been nominated and I actually really wanted her to win. I haven’t seen The Last Station.
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) One of the few cases where I couldn’t be happier with the favourite.
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious) I’d love for one of the Up in the Air girls to win but even I can’t pick just one so I concede it must be Mo’Nique’s.
Best Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) I wish this was a bigger no brainer than it seems…
Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) This seems to be the only one I can seriously hope for for my favourite movie of the year.
Best Editing: The Hurt Locker I thought I was as torn on this category as the other smaller tech categories, then what Roger Ebert wrote in his predix made me realise why my gut had chosen The Hurt Locker and now I’m certain. This is almost as deserving of a win as Thelma Schoonmaker’s work on The Departed was 3 years ago.
Best Cinematography: The Hurt Locker
Best Animated Feature: The Princess and the Frog This might be one of my “wasted predix” but I just found this one so much better than the other nominees.
Best Art Direction: Avatar One of the few you really can’t argue that this movie actually deserves.
Best Costume Design: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Just ‘cos of the ones I’ve seen this was the movie I liked most, but not that much. Inglourious Basterds shoulda been in here.
Best Make-Up: Star Trek Another “meh” category. I simply haven’t seen the other nominees.
Best Visual Effects: Avatar No-brainer of the year.
Best Sound Effects Editing: Inglourious Basterds Shrugs lol. Another I might change before the show. None really stood out greatly to me as better than the others.
Best Sound Mixing: Avatar See above. Just, nothing for Transformers 2, please.
Best Score: The Hurt Locker I swapped this out of my nominations predix for the Public Enemies score at the last minute and was surprised when it came up. I watched the movie again a week or so ago and was reminded why I originally thought it should be nominated.
Best Original Song: “Almost There”, The Princess and the Frog I know, it’s probably “Crazy Heart”, but I just didn’t even like the song in that movie let alone Bridges. I’d much prefer my fave song from Princess get this, like Disney used to.
Best Documentary Feature: The Cove I’m sure this one’s between Food Inc. and The Cove (reviews to come soon hopefully), and I think Food Inc is a much more important movie, but The Cove packs an emotional punch you just can’t forget and with its closing line about “if we can’t stop this, than we can’t stop anything“ (words to that effect), arguably does make it more important too than the all-embracing Food Inc.
Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon has it, I think. Pretty sure this is between The White Ribbon and Un Prophete … I hope to see both in the next couple of days…
I also hope to watch 6 of the nominated shorts before Sunday, in which case I might include those categories for the first time. (thought there were some on Sky Anytime but they were old ones, grr). Anyway, that is all for now
Nominations Predictions from earlier
*Currently tallying*… doing this way too fast, alert me if I’ve made an error with any of my red/green right/wrong indicators 
53/96 … almost exactly the same as last year!
Okay, I think I’m done. Nominations are tomorrow. As always, my final list is a complex combination of actual informed expectations, personal preferences, and the odd wild card, with the final deciding factor always being “does it sit well with me?” 2010 has been that rare year where I can truly say all of the following sit pretty darn well with me, and that happens to match up nicely with the prevailing trends on predicting sites. As I’ve said already, once I saw Up in the Air and loved it so darn much, I knew everything was gonna be okay.
Edit: lol and I already made a swap – Michael Gambon is the only thing I think Half-Blood Prince should be up for. It’s almost less likely even than Isabelle Fuhrman but I’ll probably get less WTFs for it
Best Picture
- Up in the Air [WIN]
- Inglourious Basterds
- Avatar
- The Hurt Locker
- An Education
- Up
- Precious
- District 9
- Star Trek
- The Lovely Bones
Best Director
- Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
- Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker [WIN]
- Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
- James Cameron, Avatar
- Lee Daniels, Precious
Best Actor
- Sam Rockwell, Moon
- Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
- George Clooney, Up in the Air
- Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
- Michael Sheen, The Damned United
Best Actress
- Zoe Saldana, Avatar
- Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones
- Carey Mulligan, An Education
- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
- Gabby Sidibe, Precious
Best Supporting Actor
- Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds [WIN]
- Alfred Molina, An Education
- Christan McKay, Me and Orson Welles
- Michael Gambon, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Matt Damon, Invictus
Best Supporting Actress
- Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan
- Sigourney Weaver, Avatar
- Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
- Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
- Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Original Screenplay
- Moon, Nathan Parker
- The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
- Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
- Up
- (500) Days of Summer
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Up in the Air
- The Road
- An Education
- The Lovely Bones
- The Damned United
Best Editing
- Dana E. Glauberman, Up in the Air
- Chris Innis, Bob Murawski, The Hurt Locker
- Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds
- Maryann Brandon & Mary Jo Markey, Star Trek
- Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron, Avatar
Best Cinematography
- Robert Richardson, Inglourious Basterds
- Mauro Fiore, Avatar
- Tom Stern, Invictus
- Roger Deakins, A Serious Man
- Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
Best Score
- Coraline – Bruno Coulais
- The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
- Up – Michael Giacchino
- Public Enemies – Eliot Goldenthal
- Up in the Air – Rolfe Kent
Best Original Song
- “Dreaming” – Bruno Coulais, Coraline
- “Butterfly Fly Away” – Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard, Hannah Montana: the Movie
- “Almost There” – Randy Newman, The Princess and the Frog
- “I See You” – Avatar
- “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” – Crazy Heart
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Animated Feature
Best Visual Effects
Best Art Direction
- Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Avatar
- Inglourious Basterds
- Hideki Arichi, Josh Fifarek, Moon
- Coraline
- Star Trek
Best Costume Design
- Coraline
- Inglourious Basterds
- Public Enemies
- Cheri
- The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Best Make-Up
- Star Trek
- District 9
- The Road
Tags: 2009, Academy Awards, lists, oscars
BEST FILM
1939
A Serious Man
All Good Things
Amelia
An Education
Away We Go
Biutiful
The Boat that Rocked
Bright Star
Brothers
Broken Embraces
Che, The Argentine, Part II
Chéri
Chloe
The City of Your Final Destination
Coco Avant Chanel
The Countess
Crazy Heart
Creation
Crossing Over
Dirt Music
Dorian Gray
Edge of Darkness
Everybody’s Fine
Get Low
Good
Green Zone
Flying Lessons
From Time to Time
Harry Brown
Home
The Hurt Locker
The Informant
Inglorious Bastards
Invictus
Is Anybody There?
Julie & Julia
Last Night
Leaves of Grass
Long time gone
Love Ranch
Lovely, Still
The Lovely Bones
Mammoth
My Suicide
My Own Love Song
Nine
Nottingham
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Public Enemies
The Road
My Sister’s Keeper
Shanghai
State of Play
Sherlock Holmes
Shuttter Island
Solitary Man
The Soloist
The Stoning of Soraya M.
The Taking of Pelham 123
Taking Woodstock
The Tempest
Tetro
The Tree of Life
Up in the Air
The Wolfman
Whatever Whings
Where the Wild Things
Within the Whirlwind
The Young Victoria
BEST ANIMATED FILM
9
Astro Boy
A Christmas Carol
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
G-Force
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Planet 51
Mary and Max
Monsters vs. Aliens
The Princess and the Frog
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Vanilla Gorilla
Up
BEST DIRECTOR
Stephen Poliakoff – 1939
Andrew Jarecki – All Good Things
Mira Nair – Amelia
Lone Scherfig – An Education
Sam Mendes – Away We Go
Tony Goldwyn – Betty Anne Waters
Richard Curtis – The Boat that Rocked
Jane Campion – Bright Star
Jim Sheridan – Brothers
Pedro Almodóvar – Broken Embraces
Steven Soderbergh – Che, The Argentine, Part II
Stephen Frears – Chéri
Atom Egoyan – Chloe
James Ivory – The City of Your Final Destination
Jon Amiel – Creation
Wayne Kramer – Crossing Over
Phillip Noyce – Dirt Music
Martin Campbell – Edge of Darkness
Kirk Jones – Everybody’s Fine
Aaron Schneider – Get Low
Vicente Amorin – Good
Paul Greengrass – Green Zone
Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Steven Soderbergh – The Informant
Quentin Tarantino – Inglorious Bastards
John Crowley – Is Anybody There?
Nora Ephron – Julie & Julia
Tim Blake Nelson – Leaves of Grass
Adam Davidson – Long time gone
Peter Jackson – The Lovely Bones
Taylor Hadford – Love Ranch
David Lee Miller – My Suicide
Rob Marshall – Nine
Ridley Scott – Nottingham
Rebecca Miller – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Michael Mann – Public Enemies
John Hillcoat – The Road
Guy Ritchie – Sherlock Holmes
Martin Scorsese – Shuttter Island
Brian Koppelman & Davil Devien – Solitary Man
Joe Wright – The Soloist
Julie Taymor – The Tempest
Kevin Macdonald – State of Play
Tony Scott – The Taking of Pelham 123
Ang Lee – Taking Woodstock
Francis Ford Coppola – Tetro
Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
Joe Johnston – The Wolfman
Woody Allen – Whatever Works
Spike Jonze – Where the Wild Things
Michael Haneke – The White Ribbon
Marleen Gorris – Within the Whirlwind
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Paul Bettany – Creation
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
Michael Caine – Harry Brown
Michael Caine – Is Anybody There?
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Russell Crowe – Dirt Music
Russell Crowe – Nottingham
Russell Crowe – State of Play
John Cusack – Shanghai
Willem Dafoe – Antichrist
Matt Damon – Green Zone
Matt Damon – The Informant
Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine
Benicio Del Toro – The Wolfman
Benicio Del Toro – Che, The Argentine, Part II
Johnny Depp – Public Enemies
Robert De Niro – Everybody’s Fine
Leonardo DiCaprio – Shuttter Island
Michael Douglas – Solitary Man
Robert Downey Jr. – The Soloist
Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
Colin Farrell – Crazy Heart
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Rupert Friend – Chéri
Mel Gibson – Edge of Darkness
Ryan Gosling – All Good Things
Jake Gyllenhaal – Brothers
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Boat that Rocked
Anthony Hopkins – The City of Your Final Destination
Jeremy Irons – The Tempest
Martin Landau – Lovely, Still
Demitri Martin – Taking Woodstock
Ewan McGregor – Amelia
Viggo Mortensen – Good
Viggo Mortensen – The Road
Bill Murray – Get Low
Liam Neeson – Chloe
Bill Nighy – 1939
Edward Norton – Leaves of Grass
Joe Pesci – Love Ranch
Brad Pitt – Inglorious Bastards
Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Adam Sandler – Funny People
Peter Sarsgaard – An Education
David Strathairn – The Tempest
Michael Stuhlberg – A Serious Man
Gabriel Sunday – My Suicide
Denzel Washington – The Taking of Pelham 123
Mark Wahlberg – The Lovely Bones
Ben Whishaw – Bright Star
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Amy Adams – Julie & Julia
Shohreh Aghdashloo – The Stoning of Soraya M.
Kate Beckinsale – Everbody’s Fine
Halle Berry – Frankie & Alice
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Ellen Burstyn – Lovely, Still
Jennifer Connelly – Creation
Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
Penélope Cruz – Broken Embraces
Julie Delpy – The Countess
Cameron Diaz – My Sister’s Keeper
Romola Garai – 1939
Marcia Gay Harden – Home
Rebecca Hall – Dorian Gray
Keira Knightley – Last Night
Gong Li – Shanghai
Laura Linney – The City of Your Final Destination
Kate Mera – Flying Lessons
Helen Mirren – The Tempest
Helen Mirren – Love Ranch
Demi Moore – Happy Tears
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Michelle Pfeiffer – Chéri
Natalie Portman – Brothers
Christina Ricci – Long time gone
Saorise Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
Amanda Seyfried – Chloe
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Maggie Smith – From Time to Time
Hilary Swank – Amelia
Hilary Swank – Betty Anne Waters
Audrey Tautou – Coco Avant Chanel
Charlize Theron – The Road
Charlize Theron – The Burning Plain
Emma Thompson – The Boat that Rocked
Emily Watson – Within the Whirlwind
Rachel Weisz – Agora
Rachel Weisz – Dirt Music
Michelle Williams – Mammoth
Evan Rachel Wood – Whatever Works
Robin Wright Penn – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Renee Zellweger – My Own Love Song
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ben Affleck – State of Play
Alan Arkin – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Philip Baker Hall – All Good Things
Alec Baldwin – My Sister’s Keeper
Christian Bale – Public Enemies
Henry Cavill – Whatever Works
Chris Cooper – The Tempest
Billy Crudup – Public Enemies
Alan Cumming – The Tempest
Matt Damon – Invictus
Jeff Daniels – Away We Go
Danny DeVito – Solitary Man
Richard Dreyfuss – Leaves of Grass
Robert Duvall – Get Low
Robert Duvall – The Road
Jackie Earle Haley – Shuttter Island
Colin Farrell – Dirt Music
Jamie Foxx – The Soloist
Harrison Ford – Crossing Over
Richard Gere – Amelia
Paul Giamatti – The Last Station
Brendan Gleeson – Green Zone
Djimon Hounsou – The Tempest
Jason Isaacs – Good
Jason Isaacs – Green Zone
Richard Kind – A Serious Man
Ben Kingsley – Shuttter Island
Jude Law – Sherlock Holmes
Ray Liotta – Crossing Over
Christopher Lee – 1939
Josh Lucas – Long time gone
Anthony Hopkins – The Wolfman
Tobey Maguire – Brothers
James McAvoy – The Last Station
Jeremy Northam – Creation
Alfred Molina – The Tempest
Bill Nighy – The Boat that Rocked
Sean Penn – The Tree of Life
Keanu Reeves – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Sam Rockwell – Betty Anne Waters
Liev Schreiber- Taking Woodstock
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Road
Timothy Spall – From Time to Time
Jim Sturgess – Crossing Over
John Travolta – The Taking of Pelham 123
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Max Von Sydow – Shuttter Island
Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Bastards
Robin Williams – World’s Greatest Dad
Ray Winstone – Edge of Darkness
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Norma Aleandro – The City of Your Final Destination
Kim Basinger – The Burning Plain
Drew Barrymore – Everybody’s Fine
Kathy Bates – Chéri
Kate Beckinsale – Everybody’s Fine
Maria Bello – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Monica Bellucci – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Emily Blunt – The Wolfman
Abigail Breslin – My Sister’s Keeper
Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life
Julie Christie – 1939
Patricia Clarkson – Shuttter Island
Patricia Clarkson – Whatever Works
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Penélope Cruz – Nine
Judi Dench – Nine
Minnie Driver – Betty Anne Waters
Kate Hudson – Nine
Anjelica Huston – Long time gone
Ashley Judd – Crossing Over
Catherine Keener – The Soloist
Nicole Kidman – Nine
Melissa Leo – Betty Anne Waters
Juliette Lewis – Betty Anne Waters
Sophia Loren – Nine
Virginia Madsen – Amelia
Rachel McAdams – Sherlock Holmes
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Mo’Nique – Precious
Julianne Moore – Chloe
Julianne Moore – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Emily Mortimer – Shutter Island
Amy Ryan – Green Zone
Winona Ryder – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Susan Sarandon – Leaves of Grass
Susan Sarandon – The Lovely Bones
Susan Sarandon – Solitary Man
Sissy Spacek – Get Low
Imelda Staunton – Taking Woodstock
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Emma Thompson – An Education
Emma Thompson – The Boat that Rocked
Rachel Weisz – The Lovely Bones
Michelle Williams – Shuttter Island
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Amelia
Brothers
Chéri
Coco Avant Chanel
Crazy Heart
Creation
Dorian Gray
Get Low
Good
Green Zone
From Time to Time
The Informant
Invictus
Julie & Julia
Long time gone
The Lovely Bones
Nine
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
The Road
Sherlock Holmes
Shuttter Island
The Soloist
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Taking Woodstock
Up in the Air
The Wolfman
Within the Whirlwind
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1939
A Serious Man
All Good Things
An Education
Away We Go
Biutiful
The Boat that Rocked
Bright Star
Broken Embraces
Che, The Argentine, Part II
Chloe
The Countess
Crossing Over
Dirt Music
Edge of Darkness
Everybody’s Fine
Flying Lessons
Harry Brown
Home
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Bastards
Is Anybody There?
Last Night
Leaves of Grass
Love Ranch
Lovely, Still
Mammoth
My Own Love Song
My Suicide
Nottingham
Public Enemies
My Sister’s Keeper
Shanghai
Solitary Man
State of Play
The Stoning of Soraya M.
The Tempest
Tetro
The Tree of Life
Up
Whatever Whings
Where the Wild Things
World’s Greatest Dad
The Young Victoria
BEST FILM
01) Shuttter Island
02) Nine
03) Invictus
04) The Lovely Bones
05) Chéri
06) An Education
07) Whatever Whings
08) The Soloist
09) Taking Woodstock
10) Public Enemies
BEST DIRECTOR
01) Martin Scorsese – Shuttter Island
02) Clint Eastwood – Invictus
03) Stephen Frears – Chéri
04) Rob Marshall – Nine
05) Peter Jackson – The Lovely Bones
06) Lone Scherfig – An Education
07) Woody Allen – Whatever Works
08) Jane Campion – Bright Star
09) Mira Nair – Amelia
10) Taylor Hadford – Love Ranch
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
01) Leonardo DiCaprio – Shuttter Island
02) Michael Caine – Is Anybody There?
03) Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine
04) Morgan Freeman – Invictus
05) Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
06) Peter Sarsgaard – An Education
07) Joe Pesci – Love Ranch
08) Robert De Niro – Everybody’s Fine
09) Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life
10) Johnny Depp – Public Enemies
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
01) Michelle Pfeiffer – Chéri
02) Audrey Tautou – Coco Avant Chanel
03) Hilary Swank – Amelia
04) Emily Watson – Within the Whirlwind
05) Carey Mulligan – An Education
06) Helen Mirren – The Last Station
07) Robin Wright Penn – The Privates Lives of Pipa Lee
08) Jennifer Connelly – Creation
09) Carey Mulligan – An Education
10) Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
01) Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
02) Bill Nighy – The Boat that Rocked
03) Matt Damon – Invictus
04) Ben Kingsley – Shuttter Island
05) James McAvoy – The Last Station
06) Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Bastards
07) Jason Isaacs – Good
08) Christian Bale – Public Enemies
09) Jeff Daniels – Away We Go
10) Ewan McGregor – Amelia
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
01) Judi Dench – Nine
02) Kathy Bates – Chéri
03) Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
04) Rachel Weisz – The Lovely Bones
05) Patricia Clarkson – Whatever Works
06) Imelda Staunton – Taking Woodstock
07) Emily Mortimer – Shutter Island
08) Susan Sarandon – The Lovely Bones
09) Penélope Cruz – Nine
10) Michelle Williams – Shutter Island
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
01) Shuttter Island
02) Chéri
03) The Lovely Bones
04) Nine
05) Invictus
06) The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
07) Amelia
08) Within the Whirlwind
09) Julie & Julia
10) From Time to Time
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
01) Up
02) Is Anybody There?
03) An Education
04) Tetro
05) Whatever Whings
06) Inglorious Bastards
07) Public Enemies
08) A Serious Man
09) My Sister’s Keeper
10) Love Ranch
Awesome Oscar, I need to update this post some time soon and haven’t been following all this enough, you’ve given me a lot to look into, thanks
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR FOR VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE, NO ONE PUT HER ON THE LIST FOR A POSSIBLE NOMINNE, BUT I THINK SHE DESERVE, HER PERFORMACE IS AMAZING….
I know that many probably disagree with this but Joan Cusack should be nominated for supporting actress for my sister’s keeper. Her performance as Judge De Salvo for the few minutes she was in the movie was epic. She had total control of her part.
I didn’t know Cusack was in that movie, I was putting off seeing it but no more, I love her
I really need to update this list too, lol.
How about Gong Li for Shanghai(Lead)? Come’on she steals any movie she’s in. In more ways than one.
I haven’t seen it yet, but the buzz about “Precious” seems to suggest a lock in the best picture, actress and supporting actress categories. Also, Colin Firth in “A Single Man” seems to be a lock in the best actor category.