Monday, March 3, 2008

Next Year's Oscar Race

Hollywood Elsewhere has a great list of next year's Oscar contenders:

The top eight: (1) Baz Luhrmann's Australia (20th Century Fox) with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman; (2) Steven Soderbergh's The Argentine and (3) Guerilla (Focus Features) with Benicio del Toro; (4) Gus Van Sant's Milk (Focus Features) with Sean Penn; (5) Gabriele Muccino's Seven Pounds (Sony) with Will Smith; (6) David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount/Warner Bros.) with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett; (7) Joe Wright's The Soloist (DreamWorks) with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.; and (8) Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (Warner Bros.) with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. Click below for more possibilities.

Also in the mix: Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road (Paramount Vantage/DreamWorks) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet; Clint Eastwood's The Changeling (Universal) with Angelina Jolie; Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon (ditto); Joel & Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton; John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (Miramax) with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman; Fernando Meirelle's Blindness with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo; Ed Zwick's Defiance (Paramount Vantage) with Daniel Craig; Saul Dibb's The Duchess (Par Vantage) with Keira Knightley; Bryan Singer's Valkyrie (MGM-UA) with Tom Cruise; and Stephen Daldry's The Reader (Weinstein Co.).

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