"The Dark Knight" not nominated for Best Picture

[Tech]

Oscars 2009 - Nominations

The main categories...

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Actor
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best Foreign Language Film
Revanche - Austria
The Class - France
The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany
Departures - Japan
Waltz With Bashir - Israel

Best Animated Feature Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Original Screenplay
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Wall-E
In Bruges
Frozen River

 

[Pain]

The Oscars.

lol.

 

[Big04pimpin]

Out of all of those movies, I have only seen Dark Knight and Tropic Thunder. Are the rest that good? I just got the Wrestler and I heard that was pretty good. I guess we'll see.

 

[pGhi]

TEAM JOLIE!!

 

[Tech]

the only reason Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got nominated is so they'd actually show up to the awards show.

both of their movies sucked ass.

 

[jnutz19]

how did The Dark Knight not get nominated for Best Picture?

 

[Johnny Bravo]

how did The Dark Knight not get nominated for Best Picture?

Because it's overrated.

 

[Tech]

Because it's overrated.

there's lots of overrated movies........but how many of them gross half a billion dollars?

 

[Kanav]

with the exception of slumdog millionare, the rest of the movies in best picture category suck.

Im shocked that the dark knight didnt even get nod tho. wtf

 

[pGhi]

Yea I know that Changeling sucked....But hey its Jolie!

 

[Pain]

I'm more surprised a movie about wrestling is up there.

 

[Ironslave]

I don't think Dark Knight deserved a "best picture" nomination. Sure, it was the biggest blockbuster of the year, and it was pretty sweet, with some cool effects, but there were some holes and strange things in the plot. Line will speak up, I'm sure...

 

[Line]

Best Picture (Yes, The Dark Knight is better than any film nominated here)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 6
Frost/Nixon - 6.5
The Reader - 4
Slumdog Millionaire - 6

Best Actor
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler - 8

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married - 7.5
Angelina Jolie - Changeling - 5
Meryl Streep - Doubt - 5

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 7

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder - 3.5
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight - 7

Best Animated Feature Film
Kung Fu Panda - 5.5
Wall-E - 7.5

Best Original Screenplay
Happy-Go-Lucky - 7.5
In Bruges - 5.5

 

[Zigurd]

Yo Line, Wall-e should be an 8, right at the same category as the Wrestler.

DO NOT MAKE ME ANGRY LINE. YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE ME ANGRY

 

[tim290280]

Best Actor
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

WTF?!?!?!

Brad Pitt does a passable impersonation of Brad Pitt at times, but Best Actor?

Although he did actually act in some of his early films, just haven't seen anything recently (Snatch is an exception).

 

[Line]

Yo Line, Wall-e should be an 8, right at the same category as the Wrestler.

DO NOT MAKE ME ANGRY LINE. YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE ME ANGRY

It very well could be an 8. My score for it fluctuates, as does any rating I give really and the last time I watched it I found it to be a bit simple in its handling of its themes. Of course, this is a constraint largely due to it being a family film, but the realization of its goals within the genre isn't enough to propel it above a film like The Wrester, for example. If it makes you feel better, they are neck-and-neck in my top films of the year.

 

[Zigurd]

It very well could be an 8. My score for it fluctuates, as does any rating I give really and the last time I watched it I found it to be a bit simple in its handling of its themes. Of course, this is a constraint largely due to it being a family film, but the realization of its goals within the genre isn't enough to propel it above a film like The Wrester, for example. If it makes you feel better, they are neck-and-neck in my top films of the year.

Can I have sex with you now Line ? That is all I wanted.

 

[tim290280]

^^ Back of the queue thankyou very much!!

 

[jnutz19]

Because it's overrated.

it might have been overrated but did you like it? and was it not the second top grossing movie of ALL time?

 

[Duality]

what a joke. pitt's movie gets a nod even though it's nothing compared to TDK. it doesn't matter, the public know TDK was one of the best films of the year even if it's not nominated