NUTSHELL: What else is there to say? Here’s a final stab…
Column: “Taking a final stab”
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| ART DIRECTION | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Donald Graham Burt; Victor J. Zolfo |
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| 2 | “Changeling” James J. Murakami; Gary Fettis |
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| 3 | “The Duchess” Michael Carlin; Rebecca Alleway |
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| 4 | “Revolutionary Road” Kristi Zea; Debra Schutt |
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| 5 | “The Dark Knight” Nathan Crowley; Peter Lando |
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| CINEMATOGRAPHY | ||
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| 1 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Anthony Dod Mantle |
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| 2 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Claudio Miranda |
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| 3 | “The Dark Knight” Wally Pfister |
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| 4 | “Changeling” Tom Stern |
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| 5 | “The Reader” Roger Deakins, Chris Menges |
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| COSTUME DESIGN | ||
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| 1 | “The Duchess” Michael O’Connor |
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| 2 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Jacqueline West |
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| 3 | “Revolutionary Road” Albert Wolsky |
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| 4 | “Australia” Catherine Martin |
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| 5 | “Milk” Danny Glicker |
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| FILM EDITING | ||
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| 1 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Chris Dickens |
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| 2 | “The Dark Knight” Lee Smith |
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| 3 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall |
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| 4 | “Milk” Elliot Graham |
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| 5 | “Frost/Nixon” Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill |
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| MAKEUP | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Greg Cannom |
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| 2 | “The Dark Knight” John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan |
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| 3 | “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz |
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| MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) | ||
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| 1 | “Slumdog Millionaire” A.R. Rahman |
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| 2 | “WALL-E” Thomas Newman |
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| 3 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Alexandre Desplat |
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| 4 | “Defiance” James Newton Howard |
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| 5 | “Milk” Danny Eflman |
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| MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) | ||
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| 1 | “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” A.R. Rahman; Gulzar |
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| 2 | “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” Peter Gabriel; Thomas Newman |
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| 3 | “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” A.R. Rahman; Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) |
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| SOUND EDITING | ||
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| 1 | “The Dark Knight” Richard King<.em> |
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| 2 | “WALL-E” Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood |
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| 3 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Glenn Freemantle, Tom Sayers |
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| 4 | “Iron Man” Christopher Boyes, Frank Eulner |
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| 5 | “Wanted” Wylie Stateman |
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| SOUND MIXING | ||
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| 1 | “The Dark Knight” Lora Hirschberg, Ed Novick, Gary Rizzo |
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| 2 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Ian Tapp |
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| 3 | “WALL-E” Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick |
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| 4 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Mark Weingarten |
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| 5 | “Wanted” Chris Jenkins, Petr Forejt, Frank A. Montaño |
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| VISUAL EFFECTS | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Burt Dalton, Steve Preeg |
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| 2 | “Iron Man” Shane Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick |
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| 3 | “The Dark Knight” Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber |
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| DOCUMENTARY FEATURE | ||
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| 1 | “Man on Wire” James Marsh, Simon Chinn |
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| 2 | “Trouble the Water” Tia Lessin, Carl Deal |
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| 3 | “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath |
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| 4 | “Encounters at the End of the World” Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser |
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| 5 | “The Garden” Scott Hamilton Kennedy |
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| DOCUMENTARY SHORT | ||
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| 1 | “The Conscience of Nhem En” Steven Okzaki |
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| 2 | “The Final Inch” Irene Taylor Brodsky, Brad Grant |
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| 3 | “The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306” Margaret Hyde, Adam Pertofsky |
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| 4 | “Smile Pinki” Megan Mylan |
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| SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) | ||
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| 1 | “La maison en petits cubes” Kunio Kato |
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| 2 | “Presto” Doug Sweetland |
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| 3 | “This Way Up” Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes |
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| 4 | “Lavatory — Lovestory” Konstantin Bronzit |
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| 5 | “Oktapodi” Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand |
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| SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) | ||
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| 1 | “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” Djochen Alexander Freydank |
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| 2 | “Grisen (The Pig)” Tivi Magnusson, Dorte Høgh |
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| 3 | “Manon on the Asphalt” Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont |
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| 4 | “New Boy” Tamara Anghie, Steph Green |
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| 5 | “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” Reto Caffi |
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