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Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:09 pm · February 3rd, 2009
→ 22 Comments Tags: Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, Heath Ledger, Mickey Rourke | Filed in: Daily
→ 22 Comments Tags: Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, Heath Ledger, Mickey Rourke | Filed in: Daily
22 responses so far
1 2-03-2009 at 12:35 pm
Jim said...
They were all nice but it would have been great if they had the originality to put John Patrick Shanley with Viola Davis.
2 2-03-2009 at 12:59 pm
michael mckay said...
Kris…sorry…off topic…do you i”efilmcritic” is going to do there Oscar pool contest again this year??
Can’t seem to find anything about it…are you going to have a predict the oscars contest here on your site??
3 2-03-2009 at 1:05 pm
J.S. said...
I love the Cruz/Allen shot. Beautiful.
4 2-03-2009 at 1:20 pm
Kristopher Tapley said...
Michael: No idea. But I’m sure I’ll put up a post asking for everyone’s predictions.
5 2-03-2009 at 1:29 pm
Emily said...
David Fincher is hot. His picture should be there.
I like the picture with Gus Van Sant and Sean Penn.
6 2-03-2009 at 1:48 pm
Victoria said...
I like how Clint is all by himself. :)))) All you need in a movie-him doing everything.
7 2-03-2009 at 2:33 pm
/3rtfu11 said...
Emily: Fincher looks older than he should these days.
Alien 3 – must have taken years off his life.
8 2-03-2009 at 2:40 pm
/3rtfu11 said...
Aronofsky is Charlie Chaplin.
9 2-03-2009 at 3:34 pm
AmericanRequiem said...
arronofsky is one of the greats
10 2-03-2009 at 3:47 pm
JAB said...
is the nolan/ledger picture a shopped picture?
also, a clint/angelina picture might have been more relevant to the oscars than a clint picture…
My favorite is the Boyle/Patel.
11 2-03-2009 at 3:50 pm
Chad said...
boo to the ledger/nolan photo being a composite.
12 2-03-2009 at 3:56 pm
JP said...
I thought the Kidman/Luhrman pic was fairly stunning. And the Boyle/Patel was interesting.
13 2-03-2009 at 4:06 pm
Lane said...
Those are beautiful.
14 2-03-2009 at 4:14 pm
THE Diego Ortiz said...
sucks that the nolan/ledger pic is photoshop.
i wonder if winslet is thinking about dicaprio in that pic?
15 2-03-2009 at 4:58 pm
Chris said...
Never seen that one with Ledger before. I assume, like everyone else, that it’s photoshopped.
16 2-03-2009 at 5:03 pm
/3rtfu11 said...
Ledger’s dead. The composite is a haunting illusion. A tastefully done tribute.
17 2-03-2009 at 8:29 pm
Matthew said...
I love the Nolan/Ledger composite. That distance between them gives the photo a very interesting composition. Also am a big fan of the Boyle/Patel shot.
18 2-03-2009 at 8:39 pm
sophie said...
i love the ledger/nolan shoot.
it’s a beautiful tribute… the picture of him is from 2005.
love it!!!!
19 2-04-2009 at 12:51 am
Michael Rogers said...
I know this sounds weird and a little creepy, but the Ledger/Nolan shot makes me feel like he is still here. I mean this is the sorta thing we would have seen if he were… makes me sad.
20 2-04-2009 at 1:06 am
Glenn said...
“I like how Clint is all by himself. :)))) All you need in a movie-him doing everything.”
Angelina was probably off kidnapping some more children for her brood of soulless do-gooders.
j/k, j/k, j/k
Love (most of) these photos.
21 2-04-2009 at 5:27 am
RichardA said...
Well, Darren Aranofsky kinda looks like Christian Bale. Perhaps, the new Batman?
22 2-04-2009 at 10:51 am
Eunice said...
@Jim: I agree. If they couldn’t go with that, I’d love to see Shanley with all of his Oscar-nominated actors. Actually, I’d love to see ensemble shots for Milk and The Dark Knight.
I love the Boyle/Patel, Cruz/Allen, Nolan/Ledger (haunting and poignant–never mind that it was a composite), and Clint Eastwood shots (Clint’s surprised me by throwing in a ‘Bridges’ reference).
I’d love to try to connect all the photographs together, in a ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ way, but that might take a while. I’ll get back to this site, Kris, once I have it figured out. :)