21 Jan
The time has finally arrived: my final 2008 Oscar nomination projections can now be seen on my Los Angeles Times blog “The Feinberg Files” — just click HERE!
12 Jan
BEST PICTURE
Projected Nominees
(1) Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight, 11/12, trailer)
(2) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount, 12/19, trailer)
(3) Frost/Nixon (Universal, 12/5, trailer)
(4) Milk (Focus Features, 12/5, trailer)
(5) The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers, 7/18, trailer)
Major Threats
(6) Gran Torino (Warner Brothers, 12/12, trailer)
(7) Doubt (Miramax, 12/12, trailer)
(8) The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight, 12/31, trailer)
(9) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company, 8/15, trailer)
(10) The Reader (The Weinstein Company, 12/12, trailer)
(11) WALL-E (Disney, 6/27, trailer)
On the Outside
(12) Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax, 10/10, trailer)
(13) Defiance (Paramount Vantage, 12/31, trailer)
(14) Rachel Getting Married (Sony Pictures Classics, 10/3, trailer)
(15) Revolutionary Road (Paramount Vantage, 12/26, trailer)
(16) The Visitor (Overture, 4/18, trailer)
BEST DIRECTOR
Projected Nominees
(1) Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
(3) David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(4) Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
(2) Gus Van Sant (Milk)
(5) Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
Major Threats
(6) Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
(7) John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)
(8) Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler)
(9) Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
(10) Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
(11) Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
On the Outside
(12) Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky)
(13) Edward Zwick (Defiance)
(14) Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married)
(15) Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road)
(16) Tom McCarthy (The Visitor)
BEST ACTOR
Projected Nominees
(1) Sean Penn (Milk)
(2) Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
(3) Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
(4) Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
(5) Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
Major Threats
(6) Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(7) Josh Brolin (W.)
(8) Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road)
(9) Dustin Hoffman (Last Chance Harvey)
On the Outside
(10) Will Smith (Seven Pounds)
(11) Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon)
BEST ACTRESS
Projected Nominees
(1) Meryl Streep (Doubt)
(2) Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
(3) Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
(4) Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
(5) Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Major Threats
(6) Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
(7) Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
(8) Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long)
On the Outside
(9) Kate Beckinsale (Nothing But the Truth)
(10) Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Projected Nominees
(1) Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
(2) Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
(3) Josh Brolin (Milk)
(4) Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
(5) Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)
Major Threats
(6) Ralph Fiennes (The Reader)
(7) James Franco (Milk)
(8) Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)
On the Outside
(9) Emile Hirsch (Milk)
(10) Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Projected Nominees
(1) Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
(2) Kate Winslet (The Reader)
(3) Viola Davis (Doubt)
(4) Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(5) Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
Major Threats
(6) Amy Adams (Doubt)
(7) Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married)
(8) Debra Winger (Rachel Getting Married)
On the Outside
(9) Kathy Bates (Revolutionary Road)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Projected Nominees
(1) Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)
(2) Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(3) Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
(4) Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight)
(5) John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)
Major Threats
(6) David Hare (The Reader)
(7) Clayton Frohman, Edward Zwick (Defiance)
(8) Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Projected Nominees
(1) Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
(2) Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
(3) Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky)
(4) Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married)
(5) Nick Schenck (Gran Torino)
Major Threats
(6) Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
(7) Robert D. Siegel (The Wrestler)
(8) Tom McCarthy (The Visitor)
On the Outside
(9) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Burn After Reading)
(10) Charlie Kaufman (Synechdoche, New York)
BEST ANIMATED FILM (FEATURE)
Projected Nominees
(1) WALL-E
(2) Kung Fu Panda
(3) Waltz with Bashir
Major Threats
(4) Bolt
(5) $9.99
(6) Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who
On the Outside
(7) The Tale of Despereaux
(8) Igor
(9) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM (FEATURE)
Projected Nominees
(1) Man on Wire
(2) Trouble the Water
(3) Standard Operating Procedure
(4) I.O.U.S.A.
(5) Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Major Threats
(6) Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
(7) At the Death House Door
(8) The Betrayal
(9) Encounters at the End of the World
(10) Crips and Bloods: Made in America
On the Outside
(11) Fuel
(12) Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
(13) In a Dream
(14) They Killed Sister Dorothy
(15) The Garden
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Projected Short-List
(1) Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
(2) The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany)
(3) Gomorra (Italy)
(4) Captain Abu Raed (Jordan)
(5) The Class (France)
(6) Departures (Japan)
(7) Everlasting Moments (Sweden)
(8) Revanche (Austria)
(9) Tear This Heart Out (Mexico)
Major Threats
(10) Tulpan (Kazakhstan)
(11) Lion’s Den (Argentina)
(12) Last Stop 174 (Brazil)
(13) Three Monkeys (Turkey)
(14) The Rest Is Silence (Romania)
On the Outside
(15) Mermaid (Russia)
(16) The Blind Sunflowers (Spain)
(17) Jerusalema (South Africa)
(18) O’Horten (Norway)
(19) Tony Manero (Chile)
7 Jan
Penelope Cruz is among the stars of Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona
BEST PICTURE
Projected Nominees
(1) Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight, 11/12, trailer)
(2) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount, 12/19, trailer)
(3) Frost/Nixon (Universal, 12/5, trailer)
(4) Milk (Focus Features, 12/5, trailer)
(5) The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers, 7/18, trailer)
Major Threats
(6) Gran Torino (Warner Brothers, 12/12, trailer)
(7) Doubt (Miramax, 12/12, trailer)
(8) The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight, 12/31, trailer)
(9) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company, 8/15, trailer)
(10) WALL-E (Disney, 6/27, trailer)
(11) Defiance (Paramount Vantage, 12/31, trailer)
On the Outside
(12) Rachel Getting Married (Sony Pictures Classics, 10/3, trailer)
(13) The Reader (The Weinstein Company, 12/12, trailer)
(14) Revolutionary Road (Paramount Vantage, 12/26, trailer)
(15) Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax, 10/10, trailer)
(16) The Visitor (Overture, 4/18, trailer)
Mike Leigh (left) directed Sally Hawkins (right) in Happy-Go-Lucky
BEST DIRECTOR
Projected Nominees
(1) Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
(3) David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(4) Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
(2) Gus Van Sant (Milk)
(5) Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
Major Threats
(6) Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
(7) John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)
(8) Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler)
(9) Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
(10) Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
(11) Edward Zwick (Defiance)
On the Outside
(12) Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married)
(13) Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
(14) Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road)
(15) Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky)
(16) Tom McCarthy (The Visitor)
Mickey Rourke stars as a past-his-prime wrestler forced to face the future in The Wrestler
BEST ACTOR
Projected Nominees
(1) Sean Penn (Milk)
(2) Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
(3) Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
(4) Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
(5) Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
Major Threats
(6) Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(7) Josh Brolin (W.)
(8) Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road)
(9) Dustin Hoffman (Last Chance Harvey)
On the Outside
(10) Will Smith (Seven Pounds)
(11) Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon)
Angelina Jolie stars as a mother whose child has gone missing in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling
BEST ACTRESS
Projected Nominees
(1) Meryl Streep (Doubt)
(2) Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
(3) Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
(4) Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
(5) Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Major Threats
(6) Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
(7) Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
(8) Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long)
On the Outside
(9) Kate Beckinsale (Nothing But the Truth)
(10) Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy)
Robert Downey, Jr. plays a pigment-altered actor in Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Projected Nominees
(1) Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
(2) Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
(3) Josh Brolin (Milk)
(4) Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
(5) Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)
Major Threats
(6) James Franco (Milk)
(7) Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)
(8) Ralph Fiennes (The Reader)
On the Outside
(9) Emile Hirsch (Milk)
(10) Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky)
Taraji P. Henson has already earned a SAG nod for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Projected Nominees
(1) Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
(2) Viola Davis (Doubt)
(3) Kate Winslet (The Reader)
(4) Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(5) Amy Adams (Doubt)
Major Threats
(6) Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
(7) Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married)
(8) Debra Winger (Rachel Getting Married)
On the Outside
(9) Kathy Bates (Revolutionary Road)
Clayton Frohman and Edward Zwick co-adapted Nechama Tec’s Defiance
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Projected Nominees
(1) Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)
(2) Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(3) Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
(4) Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight)
(5) John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)
Major Threats
(6) Clayton Frohman, Edward Zwick (Defiance)
(7) David Hare (The Reader)
(8) Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road)
Jenny Lumet wrote the family drama Rachel Getting Married
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Projected Nominees
(1) Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
(2) Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
(3) Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky)
(4) Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married)
(5) Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
Major Threats
(6) Tom McCarthy (The Visitor)
(7) Robert D. Siegel (The Wrestler)
(8) Nick Schenck (Gran Torino)
On the Outside
(9) Charlie Kaufman (Synechdoche, New York)
Pixar’s WALL-E is one of the year’s most commercially successful films
BEST ANIMATED FILM (FEATURE)
Projected Nominees
(1) WALL-E
(2) Kung Fu Panda
(3) Waltz with Bashir
Major Threats
(4) Bolt
(5) $9.99
(6) Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who
On the Outside
(7) The Tale of Despereaux
(8) Igor
(9) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM (FEATURE)
Projected Nominees
(1) Man on Wire
(2) Trouble the Water
(3) Standard Operating Procedure
(4) I.O.U.S.A.
(5) Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Major Threats
(6) At the Death House Door
(7) Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
(8) The Betrayal
(9) Encounters at the End of the World
(10) Made in America
On the Outside
(11) Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
(12) In a Dream
(13) They Killed Sister Dorothy
(14) The Garden
(15) Fuel
The Israeli film Waltz with Bashir is a rare type of documentary: one that is animated
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Projected Nominees
(1) Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
(2) The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany)
(3) Gomorra (Italy)
(4) Captain Abu Raed (Jordan)
(5) Everlasting Moments (Sweden)
Major Threats
(6) The Class (France)
(7) Revanche (Austria)
(8) Departures (Japan)
(9) Tear This Heart Out (Mexico)
(10) Tulpan (Kazakhstan)
On the Outside
(11) Lion’s Den (Argentina)
(12) Last Stop 174 (Brazil)
(13) Three Monkeys (Turkey)
(14) The Rest Is Silence (Romania)
(15) Mermaid (Russia)
(16) The Blind Sunflowers (Spain)
(17) Jerusalema (South Africa)
(18) O’Horten (Norway)
(19) Tony Manero (Chile)
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