Fantasy Football is over.
I know I could play in some silly “playoff league” but I’m actually ok with taking a break from fantasy sports at this time of the year. Baseball season is right around the corner.
However I’m always itching to analyze, make some picks, and play some fantasy games. Well something besides Fantasy Congress.
So I’ve decided to startup my prep work to dominate my Oscar pools. Last year I participated in a pool and I had a great time trying to watch the nominated films and make some educated picks. I quickly realized I didn’t have enough time to watch them all so I’m going to start watching now. Not only will my movie watching make me better informed for Oscar time, it’ll also force me to keep up with my films (in a time where I’ve been terrible with my Netflix queue.)
So even though Oscar nominations probably won’t come out til the end of January, I’m going to get a head start by choosing some films from the Golden Globes nominees. Here’s my list of films I think could get Oscar nods:
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Burn After Reading
- Revolutionary Road
- Milk
- Doubt
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Dark Knight
- The Wrestler
- Frost/Nixon
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- In Bruges
- The Reader
- Happy-Go-Lucky
So fire up my Netflix queue and grab your movie tickets- I’m playing to win this year!
Update: I had so much fun treating The Oscars like a fantasy sport I’m making this an annual tradition! Click on the Oscar Watch link above to see all my Oscar reviews and subscribe to my RSS feed to get all my reviews for this year’s Oscar watch!
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I would highly suggest placing Wall-E in your list for Best Picture. There’s was a mounting campaign to include the animated pic in the nomination for Best Picture this year. The movie was fantastic, a visual spectacle, had subtle messages of consumerism/environmentalism, and several newspaper movie critics have already named it their Number 1 film of the year. Both Meryl Streep and Frank Langella are probably front runners in their respective category. Both were amazing and of lately, the acting awards have gone differently than the Best Picture prize. Meryl Streep plays a nun who suspects a priest of pedophilia in Doubt and Frank Langella plays Richard Nixon in his infamous interview with David Frost in Frost/Nixon. I plan on seeing Revolutionary Road this weekend so I might very well change my mind with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, but as of now, those two are hard to beat. Brad Pitt is probably a top contender as well. Finally, I will take the final leap and predict The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to not only be nominated, but probably win Best Picture since it had a combined presence in acting, cinematography, writing, music, and directing. If not Benjamin, either Frost/Nixon or The Dark Knight. Here’s my list prediction:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road (from what I read, it’s good)
The Dark Knight
Wall-E (wishful thinking?)
the dark horse…Doubt (probably more of an acting movie than worthy of a Best Picture nod)
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