Academy Award Nominations
Okay, Benjamin Button got the most nominations? Geez. One of the least interesting major films I’ve seen this year, and it leads the nominations. (My review.) Not that it was actively bad most of the time, but boring. Not up to any of the participants’ best.
Kate Winslet only gets nommed for The Reader - I’ve heard she’s even more impressive in it than in Revolutionary Road, so I guess I’m gonna have to go see it. And Melissa Leo for Frozen River! Nice surprise there. I didn’t see Frozen River, but I heard fantastic things about it and her.
Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road - great supporting turn. He won’t beat Ledger, though, and that’s okay.
Only three nominees for Original Song? That’s not normal, is it? Two of them from Slumdog Millionaire. It would be hilarious (and somewhat awesome) if a Hindi song won an Academy Award.
Overall, a pretty uninteresting year for the Oscars. There were only about seven or eight films in serious running for any category. Has this been a bad film year? Or just bad for Oscar-type films? I’m thinking the second, because most year-end lists I’ve seen are mostly full of foreign and very small indie films.
