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Oscar 2008/2009 Season

Well,

Looks like one of the studio's "Warner Bros" have offered Blu-Ray Oscar nominations screeners this year.

Info from Ken Rudolph's movie site.

Happy days ahead I hope

wonderful

any early thoughts on winners for the next oscars?

Just seen the trailer for "The Soloist" and think it has a nomination for Foxx written all over it.

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In Bruges
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The Orphanage

In Bruges yeh
The Orphanage meh

Not seen many real Oscar candidates this year, the films I've liked have either been based on comic book characters or been comedies.

Favourite movie so far this year ; Pineapple Express - Oscar chances? ZERO.

Looks like I'll have to finally spend some fucking money and buy something that can output HD rips to my TV

... Pity the 360 and PS3 are shit for streaming HD, I don't need another fucking PC.

Couple of movies I saw trailerized at the cinema tonight look like likely candidates.

Pride and Glory ;

Edward Norton, Jon Voight and Colin Farrell.

Body of Lies

With Russel Crowe and Leonardo Di Caprio - plus directed by Ridley Scott.


They look like the type of movies that get whored over by academy members. I'll probably get my first chance to see them by way of pirated award screeners. Its their own fault, i'd gladly pay to watch them if they could only beat those pesky pirates to release.

in bruges... i can see a push happening for best screenplay and ralph fiennes for best supporting.

but i really doubt either of those will happen. and yeah i liked in bruges. i just don't think oscar noms are gonna happen..

and as for the orphanage. well the orphange had it's chance last year. it was spain's entry in the foreign language category. it didn't make the cut to be one five films to get a oscar nom.


but everyone knows last year forirgn film category was pretty messed up. i mean how many people thought 4 months 3 weeks 2 days would get a nom. and of course it didn't....

cupid... body of lies.... well what recent movie staring leo has gotten some sort of oscar nom. (pretty much all of them right ??)

it would be interesting to see if the streak ends here...



pride and glory. well after in bruges. i want to see this. go c.f.


but i don't know if either of these will get oscar noms seems only one populist 'action' movie a year gets noms

last year it was 'no country'/before that 'the departed'.

it it will take a cool combo of box office/critic push/acclaim a dn god knows what else to put these officialy on the oscar nom sheet (plus goona have to check what else is coming out)

i think these films could have an easier time/may be more of a 'lock' for something like the golden globes(or whatever it's called sorry)


but really if the academy is gonna go 'populist' and is thinking of pushing ratings higher than it's been in oh a decade or so. i bet the use the surprise movie and nom something called 'the dark knight' (and yeah it seems heath is lock for best supporting nom.)


'the soloist' yeah the academy really loves this based on true story stuff....and seems goos on paper. we'll see...

and a really surprise move i read elsewhere. what if for 'the soloist' they push robert for best actor and jamie for best supporting ???


sounds smart since the robert for lead actor thing could be viewed as vote for his body of work for the year (iron man/ tropic t. and the soloist)

and since jaimie won a best actor for ray pretty recently. the deck could be stacked against him to another lead actor race in a bio movie. so putting him supporting would be a stronger move ???

well would clooney have won his oscar if he was in the lead acyor race ??? doubt it. so this approach could work...

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Well, new Oscar DVD out 23/10 - VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

New Woody Allen film I think.

Begining to trickle out now. November always seems a good month for Oscar releases

11/5 BURN AFTER READING Focus Features (FedEx) DVD

Some new Oscar DVD's out

11/18 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Fox Searchlight (UPS) DVD
11/19 TRAITOR Overture Films (FedEx) DVD
11/19 LAST CHANCE HARVEY Overture Films (FedEx) DVD
11/19 QUANTUM OF SOLACE Sony (FedEx) DVD
11/19 RACHEL GETTING MARRIED Sony Pictures Classics (FedEx) DVD

Hopefully we may see a few of these being released in the near future

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A few more sent out now :

11/25 SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK Sony Pictures Classics (FedEx) DVD
11/25 FROST/NIXON Universal Pictures (FedEx) DVD
11/25 THE DUCHESS Paramount Vantage (mail) DVD

Wonder when the first one might be released and by which group

Two more :

11/26 NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Yari Film Group (mail) DVD
11/26 WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU Yari Film Group (mail) DVD

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A few more :

11/28 CHE (2 disks) IFC Films (mail) DVD
11/28 THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF Corbelle Film Prods. (mail) DVD
11/29 WALL*E Disney/Pixar (mail) DVD

blindness scr is out...

One More :
12/2 MILK Focus Features (FedEx) DVD

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One More :
12/2 MILK Focus Features (FedEx) DVD

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12/2 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3
12/3 THE CHANGELING

12/3 MADAGASCAR ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Paramount DreamWorks (UPS) DVD
12/3 THE WRESTLER Fox Searchlight (UPS) DVD

Bit disappointed with the lack of Oscar rips.

So far I have an erection to see Synedoche, New York, not too fussed about the rest.

Oscars

Wow ...is it just me, or does it seem this year (unlike past years) that the screeners are taking forever to be released. All those oscar screeners sent out, and still not one around....strange!!!! (even cams are becoming a rarity!!!!)

Couple more :

12/10 CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Paramount (UPS) DVD
12/10 DOUBT Miramax (UPS) DVD

The first one i'm really looking forward to

12/12 INDIANA JONES: CRYSTAL SKULL Paramount (mail) DVD
12/12 W. Lionsgate (mail) DVD

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12/12 INDIANA JONES: CRYSTAL SKULL Paramount (mail) DVD
12/12 W. Lionsgate (mail) DVD

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Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone biopic that traces the head of state's rise to power from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. Co-written by Stanley G. Weiser, Bush is produced by fellow Stone collaborators Moritz Borman and Jon Kilik, with Elizabeth Banks co-starring as the first lady, James Cromwell as the elder President Bush, Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush and Richard Dreyfuss as Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/

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W.!!!!

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12/15 DEFIANCE (2 disks) Paramount Vantage (UPS) DVD
12/15 REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Paramount Vantage (UPS) DVD
12/15 THEN SHE FOUND ME Think Film (mail) DVD

12/16 BOLT Disney (UPS) DVD

12/18 SEVEN POUNDS Sony/Columbia (UPS) DVD
12/18 TALE OF DESPEREAUX Universal (FedEx) DVD
12/18 THE READER Weinstein Co. (FedEx) DVD

I WANT DOUBT NOW!!!!

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12/19 GOMORRAH IFC Films (mail) DVD
12/19 CROSSING (with Hollywood Reporter) DVD

12/22 WHAT JUST HAPPENED Magnolia Pictures (mail) DVD
12/22 WALTZ WITH BASHIR Sony Classics (mail) DVD

12/23 NOBEL SON ? (mail) DVD
12/23 BOTTLE SHOCK ? (mail) DVD
12/23 AUSTRALIA (2 disks) FOX (UPS) DVD

So many good movies not being released.

There have been great releases so far: Frost/Nixon, Cadillac Records, Revolutionary Road, Seven Pounds, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, and Gran Torino.

Of course, we're still waiting for The Wrestler, Synecdoche New York, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, W, and The Reader.

It seems we're about 50/50.

You could've mentioned Pride And Glory, Passengers, Choke, Passchendaele, Take, In the Electric Mist, Che: Part One...or any of about 50 others.

I cannot remember any previous Oscar season bringing so many titles to the party, there has been a deluge this year truly unlike previous ones...it'll take me to March to get through them all

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You could've mentioned Pride And Glory, Passengers, Choke, Passchendaele, Take, In the Electric Mist, Che: Part One...or any of about 50 others.

I cannot remember any previous Oscar season bringing so many titles to the party, there has been a deluge this year truly unlike previous ones...it'll take me to March to get through them all

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Unbelievable number of titles out, far too many to list them all, but two worth noting that most will be interested in: Benjamin Button and The Wrestler both available.

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Yupp thank you to the non-scene groups.

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12/31 MOSCOW BELGIUM NeoClassics Films (mail) DVD
12/31 THE BLACK BALLOON NeoClassics Films (mail) DVD
12/31 CAPTAIN ABU RAED NeoClassics Flms (mail) DVD
12/31 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
12/31 EDGE OF HEAVEN.

Rachel Getting Married

Now if we could just get "Rachel Getting Married" the Oscar-movies would be complete (:

No TDK? What a load of tosh. Guess you have to have, as one starlet so mused, a role in some trash "holocaust" movie. Wonder why. And how grossly repugnant this situation is.