Nate Predicts the Oscars

Actor In a Leading Role

• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor (movie about Illegal Immigration – Nope)
• Sean Penn – Milk (Loses just for deceptive title which tricked me into going to see it – Nope)
• Frank Langella – Frost/ Nixon (about time Nixon gets some respect)
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (He ages backwards?  I aged watching this movie)
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler (Can’t beat pro wrestling for excitement)

Winner: Frank Langella

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Josh Brolin – Milk (Actually, just because he played Bush he gets support here)
• Robert Downey – Tropic Thunder (Finally a war movie gets recognized)
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt (Papist)
• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (Played the John McCain type in this liberal propaganda)
• Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road (He plays a guy in a mental institution.  The Academy always recognizes this)

Winner: Micahel Shannon

Actress in Leading Role

• Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married (I don’t like the pro-drug message of this film)
• Angelina Jolie – Changeling (I don’t like the anti-police message of this film)
• Melissa Leo – Frozen River (I don’t like the global warming message of this title)
• Meryl Streep – Doubt (I don’t like the Papist message of this film)
• Kate Winslet – The Reader (I hate reading almost as much as I hate Nazis)

Winner: Kate Winslet

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Amy Adams – Doubt (Papist)
• Penelope Cruz – Vickie Cristina Barcelona (Too foreign)
• Viola Davis – Doubt (Papist)
• Taraji P. Henson – Curious Case of Private Benjamin (Still don’t get this aging backwards thing)
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler (Loved her in My Cousin Vinnie)

Winner: Marisa Tomei

Best Song

• Down to Earth – Wall E (I’m assuming that a liberal propoganda movie like this probably got Randy Newman)
• Jai Ho – Slumdog Millionare (What’s a Jai Ho?)
• O Sava – Slumdog Millionare (Doesn’t anybody talk English anymore)

Winner: Ballad of the Green Berets

Best Picture

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Bratt  (ZZZZZZ)
• Frost/Nixon – (Finally a movie showing how Nixon stood up to David Frost’s tough questioning)
• Milk – (I am not seeing another movie named after a beverage again without seeing the trailer first)
• The Reader – (Who wants to see a movie about reading?  I go to the movies so I don’t have to read)
• Slumdog Millionare – (A pro-capitalism movie shows that anybody can pull themselves up out of the slums)

Winner: Slumdog Millionare

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