AWARDS

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Interesting group of choices. It's a shame that Wall-E isn't eligible but I'm surprised David Hare didn't get a nom for The Reader or Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky and the same goes for Revolutionary Road and Gran Torino but I actually think this group (The Visitor! The Wrestler! Burn! TDK!) is more deserving, it just hurts the Oscar chances for those other films in the Screenplay categories. I've only seen three of the documentary nominees but I was hoping to see Man On Wire get mentioned but I don't know enough about the making of the movie to know if it qualifies.

BahHumbug on Jan 7, 2009

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Does Man on Wire count as a documentary? If so, I'm sorely disappointed it didn't get a nod.

Will S. on Jan 7, 2009

3

What else could it have been, even if it had a substantial amount of re-creation for a lot of the scenes.

BahHumbug on Jan 7, 2009

4

Burn After Reading was absolutely awful. And the Coen Brothers need to give that Oscar back for essentially taking No Country For Old Men word for word and calling it an adaptation.

Fuelbot on Jan 7, 2009

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#4: Burn After Reading is frickin' amazing, and while I did notice how there were several word-for-word scenes from the book in No Country, it worked so perfectly on screen and there were still some important changes.

scm1000 on Jan 7, 2009

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I feel like Burn is something people either got or they didn't. I felt like the film catered waaaaay too much to a fan of the Coen Brothers schtick but hey, I'm a fan. I thought the film was such a well conceived joke within a joke, the Coens have yet to make a film I didn't like. Even the movies that everyone shits on by them, I seem to like.

BahHumbug on Jan 7, 2009

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Burn After Reading is not frickin' amazing. It's a bunch of stupid people doing extremely stupid things, which I get is the joke, but was a film with some great performances I could've done without. And there weren't several word-for-word scenes.in No Country...it was more than half the book. Great editors, yes. Writers, no. It was extremely well directed and I admire them as directors, but as screenwriters they're a bit overrated. And the fact that they didn't even thank Cormac McCarthy when they won kinda pissed me off a bit.

Fuelbot on Jan 7, 2009

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They thanked Cormac at a few other award ceremonies. I honestly like them both as writers and directors. In fact, I don't believe they've directed anything that they haven't written themselves.

BahHumbug on Jan 7, 2009

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My Picks: The Wrestler Doubt Waltz With Bashir I've not seen Fuel or Boogie man, tho, but unless they're mind-blowingly amazing, I think Bashir will take that one pretty easily. Gran Torino was not really that great a script. It's a good flick, but judging it for it's screenwriting... meh.

Squiggly on Jan 8, 2009

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No "Rachel Getting Married?" No "Reader?" No "In Bruges?" And "Wall*E" wasn't even eligible? What the heck is going on here? I certainly hope the Oscar lists look different than this. Happy for "Dark Knight" and "Milk" though.

Dr. McPhearson on Jan 8, 2009