NUTSHELL: What else is there to say? Here’s a final stab…
Column: “Taking a final stab”
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| 1 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Fox Searchlight Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures |
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| 2 | “Milk” Focus Features |
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| 3 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Paramount Pictures |
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| 4 | “The Reader” The Weinstein Company |
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| 5 | “Frost/Nixon” Universal Pictures |
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| DIRECTING | ||
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| 1 | Danny Boyle “Slumdog Millionaire” |
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| 2 | David Fincher “The Curious case of Benjamin Button” |
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| 3 | Gus Van Sant “Milk” |
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| 4 | Stephen Daldry “The Reader” |
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| 5 | Ron Howard “Frost/Nixon” |
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| ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE | ||
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| 1 | Mickey Rourke “The Wrestler” |
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| 2 | Sean Penn “Milk” |
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| 3 | Frank Langella “Frost/Nixon” |
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| 4 | Brad Pitt “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” |
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| 5 | Richard Jenkins “The Visitor” |
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| ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE | ||
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| 1 | Kate Winslet “The Reader” |
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| 2 | Meryl Streep “Doubt” |
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| 3 | Melissa Leo “Frozen River” |
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| 4 | Anne Hathaway “Rachel Getting Married” |
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| 5 | Angelina Jolie “Changling” |
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| ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE | ||
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| 1 | Heath Ledger “The Dark Knight” |
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| 2 | Robert Downey Jr. “Tropic Thunder” |
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| 3 | Michael Shannon “Revolutionary Road” |
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| 4 | Josh Brolin “Milk” |
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| 5 | Philip Seymour Hoffman “Doubt” |
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| ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE | ||
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| 1 | Penélope Cruz “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” |
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| 2 | Viola Davis “Doubt” |
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| 3 | Marisa Tomei “The Wrestler” |
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| 4 | Taraji P. Henson “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” |
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| 5 | Amy Adams “Doubt” |
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| WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) | ||
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| 1 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Written by Simon Beaufoy Based on the book “Q and A” by Vikas Swarup |
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| 2 | “The Reader” Written by David Hare Based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink |
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| 3 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Written by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth, Robin Swicord Based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| 4 | “Frost/Nixon” Written by Peter Morgan Based on his stage play |
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| 5 | “Doubt” Written by John Patrick Shanley Based on his stage play |
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| WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) | ||
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| 1 | “Milk” Written by Dustin Lance Black |
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| 2 | “WALL-E” Original story by Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton Screenplay by Jim Reardon, Andrew Stanton |
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| 3 | “In Bruges” Written by Martin McDonagh |
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| 4 | “Happy-Go-Lucky” Written by Mike Leigh |
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| 5 | “Frozen River” Written by Courtney Hunt |
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| ANIMATED FEATURE FILM | ||
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| 1 | “WALL-E” Walt Disney Pictures |
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| 2 | “Kung Fu Panda” DreamWorks SKG |
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| 3 | “Bolt” Walt Disney Pictures |
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| FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM | ||
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| 1 | “Departures” Japan Directed by Yojiro Takita |
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| 2 | “Waltz with Bashir” Israel Directed by Ari Folman |
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| 3 | “The Class” France Directed by Laurent Cantet |
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| 4 | “The Baader Meinhof Complex” Germany Directed by Uli Edel |
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| 5 | “Revanche” Austria Directed by Götz Spielmann |
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