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MovieWes wrote:I think this will be the Best Picture line-up.
agreed. now all we need is the dga to confirm it.
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MovieWes wrote:
Mister Tee wrote:Word is Wall-E was restricted to animation, which would make this less than meaningful in foretelling the Dark Knight/Wall E Oscar outcome.

Are you sure about that? They did, after all, nominate Shrek.
And The Incredibles, but I'm told that, subsequent to that, they inaugurated an animation category (I apologize if my info is incorrect, but since I heard it prior to the nominations today, I assumed it was the case).
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Mister Tee wrote:Word is Wall-E was restricted to animation, which would make this less than meaningful in foretelling the Dark Knight/Wall E Oscar outcome.
Are you sure about that? They did, after all, nominate Shrek.
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I think this will be the Best Picture line-up.
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And speaking of groups showing no imagination...


(OG) Full List of Nominations, including Documentary and Animation, here:

http://www.oscarguy.com/Oscars/Annual/81st/Precursors.html#PGAN

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Ceán Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall)
“The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas)
“Frost/Nixon” (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard)
“Milk” (Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Michael London)
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Christian Colson, Paul Ritchie)


Word is Wall-E was restricted to animation, which would make this less than meaningful in foretelling the Dark Knight/Wall E Oscar outcome.




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