LA Film Critics Awards Predictions
December 7th, 2008
Author: DaveThe LAFCA are important for one primary reason. They come second. What that means is that they can bestow momentum on a film or an actor/actress at the most critical time. Or they can take it away. “Slumdog Millionaire,” Clint Eastwood, and Anne Hathaway are riding high after their NBR wins, but which of the three can keep it going. LAFCA Best Picture winners have a good historical track record of being nominated for an Oscar. Past winners include “Brokeback Mountain,” “Sideways,” and “There Will Be Blood.” Here is our forecast this year.
Best Picture: “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Best Actress: Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie Dewitt, “Rachel Getting Married”
Best Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”After the Sunset rip
(via variety)
LAFCA gives Best Picture to Wall-E! A great story…
Best Picture: “Wall-E”
Runner-up: “The Dark Knight”
Best Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight”
Best Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk”
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Runner-up: Eddie Marsan, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Elegy”
Runner-up: Viola Davis, “Doubt”
Best Screenplay: Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, “Synecdoche, New York”
Best Foreign Language film: “Still Life”
Runner-up: “The Class”
Best Documentary: “Man on Wire”
Runner-up: “Waltz With Bashir”
Best Animation: “Waltz With Bashir”
Best Cinematography: Yu Lik Wai, “Still Life”
Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Production Design: Mark Friedberg, “Synecdoche, New York”
Runner-up: Nathan Crowley, “The Dark Knight”
Best Music/Score: A.R. Rahman, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
New Generation Award: Steve McQueen, “Hunger”
I read the book that Slumdog Millionaire is based off called “Q & A.” It was a fantastic read, and I like SM a lot more. I still want to see the movie, but it isn’t playing near me.
can they show the nomination list? because i wanna see the whole best picture noms. i would like to see Dark Knight, CCBB, Milk, slumdog millionaire and Frost Nixon.
still, my prediction is CCBB or Dark Knight.