Good Grief -- NBR Prediction Time

[rain Bard]

No way she's supporting in Never Forever. She's in pretty much every scene in the film.

[MovieWes]

Jesus dude, that's cold. :laugh:

[Sabin]

Fine. You made it first. What do you think you're a hero? You're not a hero. Not like this little guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....rl=http

So, yeah. You predicted Vera Farmiga. But you didn't drag her injured carcass of a Santiago freeway.

[MovieWes]

I doubt that the NBR will place The Dark Knight in their top 10. After all, they resisted all three Lord of the Rings pictures.

[flipp525]

Loving this Vera Farmiga choice.

I made it first!

[Sabin]

Loving this Vera Farmiga choice.

[VanHelsing]

Best Actress
Kate Beckinsale -- Snow Angels / Nothing but the Truth

Best Supporting Actress
Vera Farmiga -- Never Forever / Quid Pro Quo / The Boy in the Striped Pajamas / Nothing but the Truth

[rudeboy]

Top Ten

1. Milk
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. The Reader
5. Doubt
6. Happy-Go-Lucky
7. Frost-Nixon
8. Frozen River
9. The Dark Knight
10. In Bruges

Director: David Fincher
Actor: Sean Penn
Actress: Melissa Leo
Supporting Actor: Eddie Marsan
Supporting Actress: Viola Davis
Breakthrough Male: Dev Patel
Breakthrough Female: Sally Hawkins
Original Screenplay: Wall-E
Adapted Screenplay: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Animated Feature: Wall-E
Foreign Film: A Christmas Tale
Documentary: Walt with Bashir

[flipp525]

Top Ten
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Milk
3. Doubt
4. The Wrestler
5. The Dark Knight
6. The Reader
7. Revolutionary Road
8. Changeling
9. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
10. Brideshead Revisited

Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Supporting Actor: Emile Hirsch, Milk
Best Supporting Actress: Vera Farmiga, Nothing But the Truth/The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Best Director: John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Best Ensemble: Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Screenplay: Synecdoche, New York
Breakthrough (Female): Viola Davis, Doubt
Breakthrough (Male): Michael Shannen, Revolutionary Road
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Best Foreign Film: I've Loved You So Long



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[paperboy]

Top Ten
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Milk
4. The Dark Knight
5. Defiance
6. The Reader
7. Happy-Go-Lucky
8. Frost/Nixon
9. Mamma Mia!
10. Revolutionary Road

Actor: Sean Penn (Milk)
Actress: Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road & The Reader)
Supporting Actor: James Franco (Milk & The Pineapple Express)
Supporting Actress: Hiam Abbas (The Visitor)
Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Ensemble: Vicky Christina Barcelona
Adapted Screenplay: Frost/Nixon
Original Screenplay: Rachel Getting Married
Breakthrough (Female): Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
Breakthrough (Male): Brandon Walters (Australia)
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Best Foreign Film: I've Loved You So Long

[barrybrooks8]

Predictions:

Top Ten
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Revolutionary Road
3. Rachel Getting Married
4. Gran Torino
5. Milk
6. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
7. Happy-go-Lucky
8. Frost/Nixon
9. Defiance
10. Slumdog Millionaire
(longshot: Transsiberian)

Top Five Foreign
1. I've Loved You So Long
2. Reprise
3. Priceless
4. Tell No One
5. Let the Right One In

Actor: Frank Langella (although Ben Kingsley for Elegy won't stop crossing my mind)
Actress: Kate Winslet
Supporting Actor: James Franco
Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz
Director: Edward Zwick
Ensemble: Rachel Getting Married
Adapted Screenplay: Revolutionary Road
Original Screenplay: Synecdoche, New York
Breakthroughs: Melissa Leo, David Kross
Animated: Waltz with Bashir

[Eric]

like last year's Bucket List

Damn, I spent all year trying to forget that happened, and all that hard work has now been undone.

[Big Magilla]

I used to be good at predicting NBR choices but ever since they split their lists into mainstream and independent choices I haven't a clue guessing their best picture choices any more.

As for acting, I'm thinking Sean Penn (Milk), Kate Winslet (The Reader if not both The Reader and Revolutionary Road), Josh Brolin (Milk) just to be different because everyone else is picking James Franco over Brolin, and Emma Thompson (Brideshead Revisited).

[Sabin]

Best English-Language Film
1. The Reader
2. The Wrestler
3. The Visitor
4. Milk
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Rachel Getting Married
7. Doubt
8. Frozen River
10. Gran Torino

Best Foreign-Language Film
1. The Class
2. A Christmas Tale
3. Tell No One
4. Reprise
4. Silent Light

Best Actor - Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Best Actress - Kate Winslet, The Reader & Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actor - Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess, In Bruges, & The Reader
Best Supporting Actress - Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Director - Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Best Ensemble - Doubt
Directorial Debut - Lance Hammer, Ballast
Breakthrough Male Performance - Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Female Performance - Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Best Original Screenplay - Synecdoche, New York
Best Adapted Screenplay - Doubt
Best Documentary - Man on Wire
Best Animated Feature - WALL*E



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[flipp525]

Best Actor: Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Best Actress: Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) and (The Reader)
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, James Franco & Emile Hirsch (Milk)
(or, if they go for a single, Heath Ledger)
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis (Doubt)

Last year was also atypical in the fact that none of NBR's acting choices were left off the Oscar slate, something which seems to happens every other year if not more often (poor Catherine O'Hara). Out of your list above, could any of these suffer the same fate?