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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All those movies were pretty good, even Benjamin Button. But, after watching The Wrestler again, it’s one of my favorite films of this bunch. And I hate wrestling. I hope Slumdog Millionaire gets everything, because that’s what I guessed for my Oscar pool.
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February 22, 2009 at 6:29 am
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February 22, 2009 at 5:58 pm