Oscar Nuñez as Oscar Martinez

every year we instantly pick the Academy Award winners
and every day we pick our nose…

Best Picture

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire, cause who’s gonna bet against a Fox Searchlight film that’s actually hamazin and not juss quirky?

Actor

• Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn, Milk
• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

WINNER: no love for Clint in Torino? esp over Pitt in Curious Snoozefest? don’t matter as beat down Mickey Rourke is the one to beat

Actress

• Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Jolie, Changeling
• Melissa Leo, Frozen River
• Kate Winslet. The Reader
• Meryls Streep, Doubt

WINNER: this is a tuffy, outside of Angelina, who doesn’t deserve a nomination for basically redoing Mel Gibson’s role in Ransom. Winslet shoulda been nominated for Rev Road instead of The Reader, so we’re gonna give it to Streep

Supporting Actor

• Josh Brolin, Milk
• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

WINNER: we’d be stoopid to not pick Ledger, but Downey deserves it more

Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis, Doubt
• Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

WINNER: another toughy category filled with phenomenal heavyweight performances, but we’re thinking on the lighter side, as Cruz may cruise

Director

• David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
• Gus Van Sant, Milk
• Stephen Daldry, The Reader
• Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER: it boils down to Danny Boyle… and no one else

Foreign Film

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
• The Class (France)
• Departures (Japan)
• Revanche (Austria)
• Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

WINNER: Bashir will Waltz away with it

Adapted Screenplay

• Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
• Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
• David Hare, The Reader
• Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER: Slumdog plays the screen!

Original Screenplay

• Dustin Lance Black, Milk
• Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
• Mike Leigh, Happy Go Lucky
• Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
• Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon, WALL-E

WINNER: Milk‘s gotta get something, and this may be it

Animated Feature Film

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• Wall-E

WINNER: the first 1/3 of WALL-E

Art Direction

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Duchess
• Revolutionary Road

WINNER: Ben Butt‘s stinks

Cinematography

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER: what’s with the Changeling and all these noms? didn’t anyone realize how much that movie sucked? Slumdog Millionaire

Sound Mixing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL-E
• Wanted

WINNER: WALL-Eeeeeeeeeee

Sound Editing

• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL-E
• Wanted

WINNER: WALL-Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Original Score

• Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• James Newton Howard, Defiance
• Danny Elfman, Milk
• A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
• Thomas Newman, WALL-E

WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire shoots and scores!

Original Song

• “Down to Earth,” Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; WALL-E
• “Jai Ho,” A. R. Rahman and Gulzar; Slumdog Millionaire
• “O Saya,” A. R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam; Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER: no Bruce Springsteen? we don’t really care for his Wrestler song, but WTF? The Slums cancel each other out so the award goes to Peter Gabriel & Thoman Newman’s jawn

Costume

• Australia
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess
• Milk
• Revolutionary Road

WINNER: The Duchess, cause all the other ones don’t really have costumes

Documentary Feature

• The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
• Encounters at the End of the World
• The Garden
• Man on Wire
• Trouble the Water

WINNER: hooray for The Betrayal‘s nod, but wethinks Man on Wire will make the others retire

Documentary (short subject)

• The Conscience of Nhem En
• The Final Inch
• Smile Pinki
• The Witness—From the Balcony of Room 306

WINNER: the secret of Nhem!

Film Editing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER: Slumdog

Makeup

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER: will Ledger’s make-up alone win it for Dark Knight? probababablysz

Animated Short Film

• La Maison en Petits Cubes
• Lavatory—Lovestory
• Oktapodi
• Presto
• This Way Up

WINNER: he poops he scores with Lavatory—Lovestory

Live Action Short Film

• Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
• Manon on the Asphalt
• New Boy
• The Pig
• Spielzeugland (Toyland)

WINNER: Manon on the Asphalt is the new Man On Wire

Visual Effects

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man

WINNER: Ben Butt

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