NUTSHELL: Nothing to add beyond some slipping and sliding this week. The brain overload has kicked in. Let’s let 2008 wash away and start anew next week.
Column: “Memo to the Academy”
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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 | “Australia” Catherine Martin |
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| 3 | “Revolutionary Road” Kristi Zea; Debra Schutt |
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| 4 | “The Duchess” Michael Carlin |
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| 5 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Guy Dyas; Larry Dias, Alyssa Winter |
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| 6 | “Defiance” Dan Weil; Véronique Melery |
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| 7 | “Valkyrie” Lily Kilvert, Patrick Lumb, Tom Meyer; Bernhard Henrich |
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| 8 | “Changeling” James J. Murakami; Gary Fettis |
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| 9 | “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” Stephen Scott; Elli Griff |
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| 10 | “The Fall” Ged Clarke; Riccardo Pugliese, Cynthia Sleiter |
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| CINEMATOGRAPHY | ||
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| 1 | “The Dark Knight” Wally Pfister |
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| 2 | “Defiance” Eduardo Serra |
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| 3 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Anthony Dod Mantle |
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| 4 | “Revolutionary Road” Roger Deakins |
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| 5 | “Australia” Mandy Walker |
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| 6 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Claudio Miranda |
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| 7 | “Milk” Harris Savides |
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| 8 | “Changeling” Tom Stern |
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| 9 | “Valkyrie” Newton Thomas Siegel |
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| 10 | “Blindness” César Charlone |
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| COSTUME DESIGN | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Jacqueline West |
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| 2 | “The Duchess” Michael O’Connor |
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| 3 | “Revolutionary Road” Albert Wolsky |
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| 4 | “The Other Boleyn Girl” Sandy Powell |
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| 5 | “The Fall” Eiko Ishioka |
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| 6 | “Changeling” Deborah Hopper |
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| 7 | “Australia” Catherine Martin |
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| 8 | “Defiance” Jenny Beaven |
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| 9 | “Leatherheads” Louise Frogley |
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| 10 | “Brideshead Revisited” Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh |
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| FILM EDITING | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall |
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| 2 | “Slumdog Millionaire” Chris Dickens |
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| 3 | “Defiance” Steven Rosenblum |
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| 4 | “Milk” Elliot Graham |
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| 5 | “The Dark Knight” Lee Smith |
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| 6 | “Frost/Nixon” Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill |
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| 7 | “Doubt” Dylan Tichenor |
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| 8 | “Revolutionary Road” Tariq Anwar |
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| 9 | “Iron Man” Dan Lebental |
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| 10 | “Quantum of Solace” Matt Chesse, Richard Pearson |
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| MAKEUP | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” | — |
| 2 | “Synecdoche, New York” | — |
| 3 | “Tropic Thunder” | — |
| 4 | “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” | — |
| 5 | “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” | — |
| 6 | “The Dark Knight” | — |
| 7 | “Frost/Nixon” | — |
| 8 | “The Reader” | — |
| 9 | “W.” | — |
| 10 | “Australia” | — |
| MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Alexandre Desplat |
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| 2 | “WALL-E” Thomas Newman |
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| 3 | “Revolutionary Road” Thomas Newman |
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| 4 | “Defiance” James Newton Howard |
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| 5 | “Slumdog Millionaire” A.R. Rahman |
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| 6 | “Milk” Danny Eflman |
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| 7 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” John Williams |
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| 9 | “The Dark Knight” James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer |
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| 9 | “The Reader” Nico Muhly |
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| 10 | “Frost/Nixon” Hans Zimmer |
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| MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) | ||
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| 1 | “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” Peter Gabriel |
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| 2 | “The Wrestler” from “The Wrestler” Bruce Springsteen |
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| 3 | “I Thought I Lost You” from “Bolt” Miley Cyrus |
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| 4 | “I Want It All” from “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” Cast of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” |
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| 5 | “Jaiho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” AR Rahmen |
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| 6 | “Gran Torino” from “Gran Torino” Clint Eastwood, Jamie Callum |
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| 7 | “Rock Me Sexy Jesus” from “Hamlet 2” Phoebe Strole |
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| 8 | “Another Way to Die” from “Quantum of Solace” Alicia Keys, Jack White |
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| 9 | “Little Person” from “Synecdoche, New York” Jon Brion |
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| 10 | “All Dressed Up in Love” from “Sex and the City” Jennifer Hudson |
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| SOUND EDITING | ||
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| 1 | “Wall-E” | — |
| 2 | “The Dark Knight” | — |
| 3 | “Iron Man” | — |
| 4 | “Defiance” | — |
| 5 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” | — |
| 6 | “Valkyrie” | — |
| 7 | “Body of Lies” | — |
| 8 | “Quantum of Solace” | — |
| 9 | “Hancock” | — |
| 10 | “The Day the Earth Stood Still” | — |
| SOUND MIXING | ||
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| 1 | “Wall-E” | — |
| 2 | “Defiance” | — |
| 3 | “The Dark Knight” | — |
| 4 | “Iron Man” | — |
| 5 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” | — |
| 6 | “Valkyrie” | — |
| 7 | “Body of Lies” | — | 8 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” | — |
| 9 | “Cloverfield” | — |
| 10 | “Australia” | — |
| VISUAL EFFECTS | ||
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| 1 | “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” | — |
| 2 | “Iron Man” | — |
| 3 | “The Dark Knight” | — |
| 4 | “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” | — |
| 5 | “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” | — |
| 6 | “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” | — |
| 7 | “The Spiderwick Chronicles” | — |
| 8 | “Hancock” | — |
| 9 | “The Incredible Hulk” | — |
| 10 | “Journey to the Center of the Earth” | — |