The Nominations... or Oops ( sorta).

Well, the Oscar nominations came out this morning. And, as some of you know, I sent out my predictions the night before. My results? So-so.
A number of surprises, I thought...

The Screen Actors Guild awards are this Sunday night. I should have a better sense of possible winners by then.

The recap. List of nominations will follow.

I did alright on Best Picture. 4 outta 5.
I had hoped for The Dark Knight, but The Reader was a total shock. I thought it was good, I grant you, but I was not expecting Best Picture. Tho, seeing Kate Winslet mostly naked during the first half of the movie is a nice treat. Don't see it winning. That honor will probably belong to Slumdog Millionaire.

Best Director.
Again 4 of 5. As in Best Picture I had included The Dark Knight. But, instead of DK,Stephen Daldry of The Reader got the nod. Again, a surprise.

Best Actress
Not as bad as I thought 3 1/2 out of 5. I thought Kate Winslet would get her nomination for Revolutionary Road but instead she got it for The Reader. No Sally Hawkins, that was quite a disappointment. But, my dark horse pick was included! Melissa Leo for The Frozen River. Have not seen this movie, or know anything about it.

Best Actor
5 outta 5!

Supporting.

Actress....
Pretty good. Again the 4 out of 5, I am beginning to think I'm not doing so bad after all. Instead of Kate Winslet for The Reader, which ended up in Best Actress, we got Taraji P. Henson from Benjamin Button. A disappointment....

Actor

I got 3 out of 5. I missed Robert Downey, Jr. That was fine.
And I debated and debated Michael Shannon from Revolutionary Road..


Screenplays.

Adapted..I got 4 of the 5.
Original. 2 of 5. Bummer.

Strictly speaking number wise, of the 40 nominations I got 29 1/2.

The Actual Nominations

* correct guesses
BEST PICTURE
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Frost/Nixon
*Milk
The Reader
*Slumdog Millionaire

BEST DIRECTOR
*Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
*David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
*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 ACTOR
*Josh Brolin, Milk
*Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
*Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*Amy Adams, Doubt
*Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
*Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Frozen River, Courtney Hunt
*Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh
In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
*Milk, Dustin Lance Black
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
*Doubt, John Patrick Shanley
*Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan
The Reader, David Hare
*Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory — Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

BEST ART DIRECTION
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306

BEST EDITING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)

BEST MAKEUP
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
Defiance, James Newton Howard
Milk, Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman
WALL-E, Thomas Newman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
''Down to Earth,'' WALL-E
''Jai Ho,'' Slumdog Millionaire
''O Saya,'' Slumdog Millionaire

BEST SOUND EDITING
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man