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82nd Annual Academy Awards – Nominations List

1/22/2009 by

The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.


We’re less than 24 hours from the most gripping five minutes in filmdom: Oscar morning. After months of speculation we’ll finally know who’s in the running for the Academy Awards.

All Oscar season, we’ve tracked the contenders in these power rankings, and today is no exception.

Below is the final list of power rankings which are, as always, listed in order of likelihood of a nomination. It’s no longer time to check where they’ve been on the list before, all that matters is where they’ve ended up.

Best Picture
Rank Movie Comments
1 Slumdog Millionaire Why it’s in: It’s gotten more precursors than any other film, it seemed like everybody in the room at the Golden Globes was happy it won, and the critics are raving. Need any more evidence?
2 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Why it’s in: This is one of those films that everyone sort of pre-ordained as a nominee before it even hit theaters, and while it didn’t do anything to improve its stock after being released, it never really hurt it either.
3 The Dark Knight Why it’s in: It’s the second-highest grossing film of all time, and the Academy would really look out of touch for missing out on a film that was so popular and earned such high accolades including a WGA, DGA and PGA triple.
4 Frost/Nixon Why it’s in: It just kinda is. This movie doesn’t really have much of a shot at winning but it seemed to be fourth or fifth place at critics and industry awards all year long. This gets in based on volume of buzz rather than quality.
5 Milk Why it’s in: The most vulnerable of the bunch, but “Milk” gets in based on its WGA, DGA, and PGA sweep, plus the huge buzz for Sean Penn. There hasn’t been a lot of buzz on this film as of late, but it never dipped low enough to miss out.
6 The Wrestler Why it’s out: The buzz is rapildly growing for this film, but all those raves and attention probably came a bit too late. If the nominations were at the beginning of February like they used to be this would have a shot. As it stands, it’s more contender than champion.
7 Doubt Why it’s out: It got a ton of SAG award nominations, but that was about it. Seems that everybody loves the script and performances, but not the movie itself – blame that on the director.
8 Wall-E Why it’s out: It’s animated.
9 Revolutionary Road Why it’s out: This film never really took hold, popping up for brief moments as it earned a slew of Golden Globe nominations and one or two critics awards nominations, cut that was about it.
10 The Reader Why it’s out: Never got very good reviews despite a great pedigree and a surefire nomination for Kate Winslet. The Golden Globe love now looks like an albatross.

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