Upcoming
June 12
Call of the Wild 3D
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
June 16
June 19
Dead Snow
Whatever Works
June 24
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
June 26
Cheri
Fireflies in the Garden
July 1
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
July 3
The Girl from Monaco
I Hate Valentine's Day
July 10
July 15
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
July 17
July 24
All Good Things
The Answer Man
In the Loop
July 29
July 31
The Cove
August 7
When in Rome
August 14
A Perfect Getaway
District 9
The Goods: The Don Ready Story
Ponyo
Pool Boys
Spread
The Time Traveler's Wife
August 21
Five Minutes of Heaven
Goose on the Loose!
It Might Get Loud
World's Greatest Dad
August 28
The Boat that Rocked
September 4
Amreeka
Carriers
Citizen Game
Shanghai
September 9
September 11
The Red Canvas
Tyler Perrys: I Can Do It All Myself
September 17
The Burning Plain
September 18
Brand New Day
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Jennifer's Body
Splice
September 25
October 2
A Serious Man
Toy Story/Toy Story 2
2009
Always refining, always looking for reasons to eliminate. Yes, that's the process.
BEST PICTURE
Mandela/Playing The Enemy (Warner Bros.), d: Clint Eastwood; Biutiful (Universal), d: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu; Nine (Weinstein Co.), d: Rob Marshall; Amelia (Fox Searchlight), d: Mira Nair; Green Zone (Universal), d: Paul Greengrass; Shutter Island (Paramount), d: Martin Scorsese; The Informant (Warner Bros.), d: Steven Soderbergh; Up In The Air (Paramount), d: Jason Reitman; The Hurt Locker (Summit), d: Kathryn Bigelow; An Education (Sony Classics), d: Lone Scherfig; The Lovely Bones (Paramount), d: Peter Jackson; The Road (Weinstein Co.), d: John Hillcoat; A Serious Man (Focus Features), d: Joel and Ethan Coen; Bright Star (no US distributor), d: Jane Campion; Julie and Julia (Columbia), d: Nora Ephron; The Tree of Life (no US distributor), d: Terrence Malick.OTHER FORMIDABLES: Avatar (20th Century Fox), d: James Cameron; Men Who Stare at Goats (no US distributor), d: Grant Heslov; Leaves of Grass (no US distributor), d: Tim Blake Nelson; Dallas Buyer's Club (Universal), d: Craig Gillespie; Untitled Nancy Meyers (Universal), d: Nancy Meyers; Ondine (no US distributor), d: Neil Jordan; Forgiveness (no US distributor), d: Todd Solondz; The Last Station (no US distributor), d: Michael Hoffman; Love Ranch (no US distributor), d: Taylor Hackord; Coco avant Chanel (Warner Bros.), d: Anne Fontaine.
PLUS: Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void, a new Michael Moore documentary about profligate Wall Street bankers, Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control, Ken Loach's Looking For Eric, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank; Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs a tire-larigot.
BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood (Mandela/Playing The Enemy); Rob Marshall (Nine); Mira Nair (Amelia); Paul Greengrass (Green Zone); Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island); Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Biutiful); Jason Reitman (Up In The Air); Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life); Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker); Lone Scherfig (An Education); Peter Jackson (The Lovely Bones); Alejandro Amenabar (Agora); John Hillcoat (The Road); Jim Sheridan (Brothers); Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man); Jane Campion (Bright Star), Nora Ephron (Julie and Julia).
BEST ACTOR
Morgan Freeman (Mandela/Playing The Enemy); Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine); Javier Bardem (Biutiful); Matt Damon (The Informant/Green Zone); Viggo Mortensen (The Road); Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island); Johnny Depp (Public Enemies); George Clooney (Up In The Air, Men Who Stare at Goats); Sean Penn (The Tree of Life).
BEST ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan (An Education); Michelle Pfeiffer (Cheri); Shoreh Agdashloo (The Stoning of Soraya M.); Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia);Hilary Swank (Amelia); Rachel Weisz (Agora); Penelope Cruz (Broken Embraces); Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones); Helen Mirren (The Tempest/Love Ranch); Gabourey Sidibe (Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire); Audrey Tatou (Coco Avant Chanel); Maya Rudolph (Away We Go).BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plumber (The Last Station); Matt Damon (Mandela/Playing The Enemy); Richard Kind (A Serious Man); Ewan McGregor (Amelia); Stephen Lang (Public Enemies); Alfred Molina (An Education); Kodi Scott-McPhee (The Road).
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard (Nine/Public Enemies); Michelle Williams (Shutter Island); Mo'nique (Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire); Sophia Loren (Nine); Judi Dench (Nine); Rachel Weisz (The Lovely Bones).
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Nine (written by Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella; based on the novel by Arthur L. Kopit); Mandela/Playing The Enemy (written by Anthony Peckham, based on the book "Playing the Enemy" by John Carlin; Cheri (written by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Collette); Shutter Island (written by Brian Helgeland; based on the novel by Dennis Lehane); The Lovely Bones (written by Phillipa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh -- based on the novel by Alice Sebold); Public Enemies (written by Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Michael Mann -- based on the book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 " by Bryan Burrough); Amelia (written by Ronald Bass); Up in the Air (written by Jason Reitman; based on the novel by Walter Kirn);The Informant (written by Scott Z. Burns, based on the novel by Kurt Eichenwald).
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Up (written by Bob Peterson); An Education (written by Nick Hornby); A Serious Man (written by Joel and than Coen); Broken Embraces (written by Pedro Almodovar); Away We Go (written by Dave Eggars, Vendela Vida ; Biutiful (written by Amando Bo, Nicolas Giacobone, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu); Whatever Works (written by Woody Allen); The Hurt Locker (written by Mark Boal); The Limits of Control (written by Jim Jarmusch)
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 23, 2009 at 4:36 PM