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Golden Globe Nominations 2008

Golden Globe Nominations 2008

Best Picture (Drama)	Best Picture (Comedy/Musical)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon The Reader Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire	Burn After Reading Happy-Go-Lucky In Bruges Mamma Mia! Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Actor (Drama)	Best Actor (Comedy/Musical)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler	Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Colin Farrell, In Bruges James Franco, Pineapple Express Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges Dustin Hoffman, Last Chance Harvey
Best Actress (Drama)	Best Actress (Comedy/Musical)
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Meryl Streep, Doubt Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road	Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia! Emma Thompson, Last Chance Harvey
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight	Amy Adams, Doubt Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road	Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire David Hare, The Reader Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button John Patrick Shanley, Doubt

The Academy Award Race Has Begun

As I do every year, I’ll try to keep track of all the industry awards as they’re doled out, leading up to the Academy Awards.  Again, because I have two young children, and the last two films I’ve seen were Bolt and Wall-E, I’ll try to refrain from commenting or editorializing.  :)

So far, after just 4 award announcements, the key races look like this:

Best Picture	Best Director
Slumdog Millionaire – 2 Milk - 1 Wall-E - 1	Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire – 2 David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – 1 Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky - 1
Best Actor	Best Actress
Sean Penn, Milk – 2 Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino – 1 Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler - 1	Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky – 2 Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married – 1 Meryl Streep,Doubt - 1
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Josh Brolin, Milk - 2 Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight – 2	Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona – 3 Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married - 1

Craigslist

• David Poland says Hancock “is easily the most ambitious action script of the summer to date.”
• It’s Brad Pitt’s world.  We’re all just living in it.  Check out the trailers for Burn After Reading and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed by The Coen Brothers and David Fincher, respectively.
• So best.  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script.  Go read it and remind yourself how truly disappointing that film was.  I wonder if George Lucas is gonna just go and destroy all my childhood dreams.  Maybe he can remake Fletch, Ghostbusters, and Ferris Bueller next.
• This is old, but I still don’t get it.  Blockbuster is “testing in-store kiosks allowing consumers to download movies onto their portable devices.”  Wow.  Too bad I actually have to go to Blockbuster to do this… you know, the place where all the DVDs are anyway?  Gosh, if there was only a device in the home that was connected to the Internet, could download a movie the same way, and could sync content to my portable devices. Schmucks…
• If Film Studios Developed Videogames.  John August is brilliant.

Zodiac Trailer - FINALLY!

Well, I guess it's not coming out until 2007, but David Fincher's new film, Zodiac, finally has a release date and a trailer.  I can't decide if I like Robert Downey Jr.'s wardrobe or Mark Ruffalo's hair better.

Smokin' Aces Trailer

Most people on this series of tubes we like to call the Internet are all abuzz about how completely frenetic and insane visually this trailer is.  They're right.

However, while they are right, I'm more excited about the fact that Joe Carnahan is finally, finally directing another movie after Narc, my favorite film that no one saw way back in 2002.  He was one of the many directors attached to Mission: Impossible 3 (along with David Fincher) before Cruise kicked him to the side of the road found J.J. Abrams, but it looks like he really sunk his teeth into this one.  I can't even imagine what he would have done to Ethan Hunt and the M:I-3 franchise, but one can dream.

Oh, and see if you can even figure out which character is played by Jeremy Piven (before his title card appears).

Jeffrey Wells Says Zodiac Will Be Good

I can't help myself... I just get giddy with excitement when a David Fincher film comes out.  Se7en and Fight Club rocked my world, and Jeffrey Wells thinks that Zodiac has the stuff this year.

Of course, he hasn't seen it... just read the script.