Danny Boyle wins DGA

Yawn.

Now let's pretend...


That seems better to me.

Oscar nominees wrap-up

The Shocking:

• The Dark Knight snubbed for Picture and Director
  
• The Reader nominated for Best Picture and Director
• Winslet only gets one nomination
• Winslet is nominated for The Reader in Lead, despite campaigning for Supporting.
• Waltz with Bashir is snubbed for Best Animated Feature

The Surprisingly Good:

• Wall-E is not nominated for Best Picture
• Richard Jenkins is an Oscar nominee!
• Hellboy II is nominated for something (Make-up)!
• In Bruges for Original Screenplay!
• Michael Shannon deservedly taking the 5th spot in Best Supporting Actor (rather than Dev Patel)
• Gran Torino gets nothing; Eastwood misses out on obligatory acting nom.

The Obviously Good:

• The entire Best Supporting Actor category is pure gold
• Ben Button leads with 13 nominations
• Australia is deservedly nominated for costume design

The Bad:

• Christopher Nolan misses out on a directing nomination
• The Wrestler not getting in for Original Song
• Sally Hawkins misses out; who the fuck is Melissa Leo?

The Weird:

• On Oscar night, I will be barracking against my two favourite actors

Golden Globe Winners

Simple list courtesy of Awards Daily:

• Best Picture, Drama: Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Picture, Comedy Musical: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Actor, Drama: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
• Best Actress, Drama: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
• Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
• Best Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy: Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir
• Best Animated Feature: WALL·E
• Best Actor, Musical/Comedy: Colin Farrell
• Best Actress, Musical/Comedy: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
• Best Original Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millonaire
• Best Original Song: Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler

Directors Guild...

No surprises:

David Fincher, Benjamin Button
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant, Milk

The Best Picture nominees are seemingly locked up...

Cinema Audio Society

Nominees for outstanding achievement in sound mixing:

THE DARK KNIGHT
IRON MAN
QUANTUM OF SOLACE
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
WALL-E

Writers Guild nominees...

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Milk - Dustin Lance Black
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen
The Visitor - Tom McCarthy
The Wrestler - Robert Siegel

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
The Dark Knight - Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer
Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy

AMPAS finalists for visual effects & make-up

VISUAL EFFECTS:
“Australia”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight”
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army”
“Iron Man”
“Journey to the Center of the Earth”
“The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”

MAKE-UP:
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight”
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army”
“The Reader”
“Synecdoche, New York”
“Tropic Thunder”
“The Wrestler”

Both of these lists will be narrowed down to three for final nominations. As long as Hellboy II receives a make-up nod, I shan't complain...