NUTSHELL: The technical category charts went through a lot more slipping and sliding in the update than the main charts, mostly because I didn’t dedicate as much time to the year-in-advance reseasrch a few months ago as I usually do. I’ve run through these with a comb now and turned up best guesses, but as alway, it’s EARLY. However, we are, after all, entering the summer months. And these categories represent their playground. The dominant film below is clearly “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” with six predicted nominations. But I’m well aware of how much that could be a reach. More in a few months.
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| ART DIRECTION | ||
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| 1 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Guy Dyas; Larry Dias, Alyssa Winter |
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| 2 | “Australia” Catherine Martin |
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| 3 | “Synecdoche, New York” Mark Friednamn; Lydia Marks |
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| 4 | “Red Cliff” Timmy Yip |
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| 5 | “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Stuart Craig; Stephanie McMillan |
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| 6 | “Defiance” Dan Weil; Véronique Melery |
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| 7 | “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” Roger Ford; Kerrie Brown |
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| 8 | “The Young Victoria” Patrice Vermette; Maggie Gray |
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| 9 | “Appaloosa” Waldemar Kalinowski; Linda Lee Sutten |
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| 10 | “Revolutionary Road” Kristi Zea; Debra Schutt |
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| CINEMATOGRAPHY | ||
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| 1 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Janusz Kaminski |
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| 2 | “Australia” Mandy Walker |
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| 3 | “Blindness” César Charlone |
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| 4 | “The Dark Knight” Wally Pfister |
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| 5 | “Defiance” Eduardo Serra |
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| 6 | “Revolutionary Road” Roger Deakins |
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| 7 | “Appaloosa” Dean Semler |
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| 8 | “Red Cliff” Lue Ye |
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| 9 | “The Reader” Chris Menges |
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| 10 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Claudio Miranda |
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| COSTUME DESIGN | ||
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| 1 | “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell |
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| 2 | “Revolutionary Road” Albert Wolsky |
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| 3 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Jacqueline West |
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| 4 | “Red Cliff” unknown |
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| 5 | “Doubt” Ann Roth |
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| 6 | “The Reader” Ann Roth |
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| 7 | “Changeling” Deborah Hopper |
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| 8 | “Australia” Catherine Martin |
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| 9 | “Speed Racer” Kym Barrett |
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| 10 | “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Jany Temime |
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| FILM EDITING | ||
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| 1 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Michael Kahn |
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| 2 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Angus Wall |
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| 3 | “Defiance” Steven Rosenblum |
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| 4 | “Frost/Nixon” Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill |
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| 5 | “Body of Lies” Pietro Scalia |
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| 6 | “Blindness” Daniel Rezende |
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| 7 | “Revolutionary Road” Tariq Anwar |
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| 8 | “Australia” Dody Dorn |
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| 9 | “The Reader” Claire Simpson |
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| 10 | “Doubt” Dylan Tichenor |
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| MAKEUP | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” | — |
| 2 | “Frost/Nixon” | NEW |
| 3 | “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” | |
| 4 | “The Dark Knight” | |
| 5 | “Tropic Thunder” | NEW |
| 6 | “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army” | NEW |
| 7 | “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” | |
| 8 | “Speed Racer” | |
| 9 | “The Young Victoria” | NEW |
| 10 | “Red Cliff” | NEW |
| MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) | ||
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| 1 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” John Williams |
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| 2 | “Wall-E” Thomas Newman |
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| 3 | “Revolutionary Road” Thomas Newman |
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| 4 | “The Argentine” Alberto Iglesias |
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| 5 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Alexandre Desplat |
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| 6 | “Defiance” James Newton Howard |
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| 7 | “Frost/Nixon” Hans Zimmer |
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| 8 | “The Soloist” Dario Marianelli |
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| 9 | “Australia” unknown |
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| 10 | “Appaloosa” unknown |
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| SOUND EDITING | ||
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| 1 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” | — |
| 2 | “Wall-E” | — |
| 3 | “Iron Man” | |
| 4 | “Defiance” | |
| 5 | “Hancock” | NEW |
| 6 | “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” | |
| 7 | “The Incredible Hulk” | — |
| 8 | “Speed Racer” | |
| 9 | “Quantum of Solace” | NEW |
| 10 | “Appaloosa” | NEW |
| SOUND MIXING | ||
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| 1 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” | — |
| 2 | “Wall-E” | — |
| 3 | “Defiance” | — |
| 4 | “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” | |
| 5 | “Iron Man” | |
| 6 | “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” | NEW |
| 7 | “Cloverfield” | |
| 8 | “Quantum of Solace” | NEW |
| 9 | “Appaloosa” | |
| 10 | “Hancock” | NEW |
| VISUAL EFFECTS | ||
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| 1 | “Iron Man” | — |
| 2 | “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” | — |
| 3 | “The Incredible Hulk” | — |
| 4 | “Hancock” | NEW |
| 5 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” | |
| 6 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” | |
| 7 | “Speed Racer” | |
| 8 | “The Spiderwick Chronicles” | |
| 9 | “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” | NEW |
| 10 | “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” | |