2009 Oscar Preview: Picture
Continuing this year’s slightly different version of my Oscar preview we look at the best picture category and pick a head and a heart winner.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Heart Pick: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Again I’m a slacker this year and I haven’t seen a single one of the nominees. That being said, the one I’m most interested in is Button. Directed by one of my favorites and starring two of my top actors in Pitt and Blanchett I can’t imagine this movie not being uber pleasing. Then again I’ve heard it called Forest Gump II and if you want to turn me off on a movie that would do it. I’m giving Fincher and company the benefit of the doubt and will pull for this Oscar night.
Head Pick: Slumdog Millionaire
Whether you’ve seen it or not I can’t imagine anyone will be upset if Danny Boyle’s picture takes home the top prize other than Harvey Weinstein. It’s a small pic with unknown talent in front of the camera but a wealth of talent behind it. Compared to the boring (Frost/Nixon), the weird (Button), the standard (Milk), and the undeserving (The Reader) I think this is the strangest slam-dunk the Oscar’s have ever seen.
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