Sunday, February 22, 2009

Oscar Winners

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Music Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Song: Jai Ho, Slumdog Millionaire

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Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire
Best Foreign Language Film: Departures (Japan)
Best Sound Editing: The Dark Knight
Best Art Direction: Benjamin Button
Best Makeup: Benjamin Button
Best Visual Effects: Benjamin Button
Best Costume Design: The Duchess
Best Live Action Short: Toyland
Best Animated Short: La Maison en Petites Cubes
Best Documentary Short: Smile Pinki

1 comment:

Lawyer said...

Overall, I liked the ceremony. Hugh Jackman did a good job - he doesn't take himself seriously and didn't get in the way of the show. A few random observations:

1. I finally figured out who Danny Boyle looks like, after trying for the past 2 months - Rudy Giuliani.
2. Nice dragon tattoo on your should, Whoopi.
3. Why was John Mayer sitting so close to the stage (JenAniston shouldn't be that close either).
4. They should've done more for Heath, even though there was a tiny tribute last year.
5. Please ban Queen Latifah.
6. Note to the Milk winners - don't misinterpret artistic kudos for support for gay marriage - my grandkids will thank me for not kowtowing to false moralizing, Sean. Say hi to Fidel and Chavez.
7. Enough already with the pans to Brangelina.
8. Adrien Brody totally degraded the stage for the Best Actor presenttation - where's DDL??
9. Mendes needs to lose the Bernanke beard.
10. I thought Philip Pettite's antics accepting the Man on Wire statuette were among the best moments of the night.
11. I didn't have too many problems with the winners - I picked most of them right - but the screenplays winners were weak. Milk has a good screenplay, but that category should award originality and that screenplay is really an adapted screenplay given its basis on actual events.
12. WORST MOVIE YEAR EVER. The only clips that made me happy were from Rachel Getting Married and Frozen River.
13. I liked the montages of the different genres from 2008, especially Apatow's - which I'll give a B+.
14. I'd listen Werner Herzog talk about anything.
15. Nice trailers over the ending credits - had no clue about the Larry David movie.