www.sonic-cinema.com<\/a><\/p>\n2009 Oscars: Brian’s Picks (in order of preference)<\/b>
\nBest Picture<\/i><\/b>
\n“Red Cliff”<\/i>
\n“Up”<\/i>
\n“Moon”<\/i>
\n“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”<\/i>
\n“Precious”<\/i>
\n“(500) Days of Summer”<\/i>
\n“Avatar”<\/i>
\n“Knowing”<\/i>
\n“The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans”<\/i>
\n“Drag Me to Hell”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Director<\/i><\/b>
\nJohn Woo, “Red Cliff”<\/i>
\nKathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”<\/i>
\nTerry Gilliam, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”<\/i>
\nLee Daniels, “Precious”<\/i>
\nAlex Proyas, “Knowing”<\/i><\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> Duncan Jones, “Moon”; James Cameron, “Avatar”; Marc Webb, “(500) Days of Summer”; Werner Herzog, “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans”; Steven Soderbergh, “The Informant!” & “The Girlfriend Experience”; Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”; Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”; Sam Raimi, “Drag Me to Hell”; J.J. Abrams, “Star Trek”; Neill Blomkamp, “District 9”; Wes Anderson, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”; Michael Booth, “Diary of a Bad Lad”; Ramin Bahrani, “Goodbye Solo”; John Hillcoat, “The Road”; Zack Snyder, “Watchmen”; Spike Jonze, “Where the Wild Things Are”; Sam Mendes, “Away We Go”; Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson, “The Invention of Lying”; Jim Sheridan, “Brothers”; Oren Moverman, “The Messenger”; Jeffrey Goodman, “The Last Lullaby”; Peter Jackson, “The Lovely Bones”; Michael Mann, “Public Enemies”; Russ Camarda, “Night for Day”; David Yates, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”; Brian Ackley, “Uptown”; Phil Messerer, “Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries- Part I”; Nicholas Jasenovec, “Paper Heart”; Robert Zemeckis, “A Christmas Carol”; Princeton Holt, “Cookies & Cream”; Guy Davis, “Zorg and Andy”; Doc Duhame, “The Open Door”; David C. Snyder, “The Quiet Arrangement”; Joel & Ethan Coen, “A Serious Man”; Scott Sanders, “Black Dynamite”<\/p>\n
Best Actor<\/i><\/b>
\nMatt Damon, “The Informant!”<\/i>
\nJoseph Gordon-Levitt, “(500) Days of Summer”<\/i>
\nSam Rockwell, “Moon”<\/i>
\nJoaquin Phoenix, “Two Lovers”<\/i>
\nNicolas Cage, “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans”<\/i><\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> Red West, “Goodbye Solo”; George Clooney, “Up in the Air” & “Fantastic Mr. Fox”; Patton Oswalt, “Big Fan”; Ricky Gervais, “The Invention of Lying”; Michael Jai White, “Black Dynamite”; Tobey Maguire, “Brothers”; Johnny Depp, “Public Enemies”; John Krasinski, “Away We Go”; Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”; Tom Sizemore, “The Last Lullaby”; Willem Dafoe, “Antichrist”; Tony Leung, “Red Cliff”; Ed Asner, “Up”; Ben Foster, “The Messenger”; Sam Worthington, “Avatar”; Adam Sandler, “Funny People”; Daniel Radcliffe, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”; Jim Carrey, “A Christmas Carol”; Max Records, “Where the Wild Things Are”; Michael Stuhlbarg, “A Serious Man”; Jamie Foxx, “The Soloist”; Robert Downey Jr., “Sherlock Holmes”; Ewan McGregor, “The Men Who Stare at Goats”; Sascha Baron Cohen, “Br\u00c3\u00bcno”; Michael Caine, “Is Anybody There?”; Jamal Woolard, “Notorious”; Chris Riquinha, “Uptown”; Michael Cera, “Paper Heart”; Adrian Brody, “The Brothers Bloom”; Seth Rogan, “Observe and Report” & “Funny People”; Brad Pitt, “Inglourious Basterds”; Jonathan Williams, “Diary of a Bad Lad”; Phillip Seymour Hoffman, “Pirate Radio”; Larry David, “Whatever Works”; Nicolas Cage, “Knowing”; Mark Robert Ryan, “carter.”; Paul Rudd, “I Love You, Man”<\/p>\n
Honorary Mention (Best Actor):<\/b> Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Actress<\/i><\/b>
\nGabourey Sidibe, “Precious”<\/i>
\nSaoirse Ronan, “The Lovely Bones”<\/i>
\nMeryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”<\/i>
\nJace Nicole, “Cookies & Cream”<\/i>
\nNatalie Portman, “Brothers”<\/i><\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> Meissa Hampton, “Uptown”; Maya Rudolph, “Away We Go”; Michelle Pfeiffer, “Cheri”; Sasha Grey, “The Girlfriend Experience”; Zooey Deschanel, “(500) Days of Summer”; Gwyneth Paltrow, “Two Lovers”; Alison Lohman, “Drag Me to Hell”; Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Antichrist”; Renee Zellweger, “My One and Only”; Amy Adams, “Sunshine Cleaning” & “Julie & Julia”; Zoe Saldana, “Avatar”; Charlyne Yi, “Paper Heart”; Meryl Streep, “It’s Complicated”; Devon Bailey, “Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries- Part I”; Amber Benson, “Strictly Sexual”; Nia Vardalos, “My Life in Ruins”; Rachel Weisz, “The Brothers Bloom”; Lily Cole, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”; Allyson Sereboff, “Baystate Blues”; Evan Rachel Wood, “Whatever Works”; Beyonce Knowles, “Obsessed”<\/p>\n
Best Supporting Actor<\/i><\/b>
\nChristoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”<\/i>
\nSouleymane Sy Savane, “Goodbye Solo”<\/i>
\nJackie Earl Haley, “Watchmen”<\/i>
\nChristopher Plummer, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”<\/i>
\nStanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”<\/i><\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> Zack Galifianakis, “The Hangover”; Billy Crudup, “Watchmen” & “Public Enemies”; Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”; Tom Waits, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”; Michael Gambon, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”; Jason Schwartzman, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”; Bob Peterson, “Up”; Anthony Mackie, “The Hurt Locker”; Steve Buscemi, “The Messenger”; Jake Ghyllenhaal, “Brothers”; Jeff Bridges, “The Men Who Stare at Goats”; Takeshi Kaneshiro, “Red Cliff”; Alec Baldwin, “It’s Complicated”; Jude Law, “Sherlock Holmes”; Christian Bale, “Public Enemies”; Tom Felton, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”; Zhang Fengyi, “Red Cliff”; Karl Urban, “Star Trek”; Verne Troyer, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”; Jason Segel, “I Love You, Man”; Brian Geraghty, “The Hurt Locker”; Jason Batemen, “Up in the Air”; Stanley Tucci, “Julie & Julia”; Robert Downey Jr., “The Soloist”; Zachary Quinto, “Star Trek”; Jim Broadbent, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”; James Gandolfini, “Where the Wild Things Are”; George Clooney, “The Men Who Stare at Goats”; Richard Dreyfuss, “My Life in Ruins”; Logan Lerman, “My One and Only”; Richard Kind, “A Serious Man”; Steve Martin, “It’s Complicated”; Ed Helms, “The Hangover”; Mark Ruffalo, “The Brothers Bloom”; Alan Arkin, “Sunshine Cleaning”; Eugene Levy, “Taking Woodstock”; Bill Milner, “Is Anybody There?”; Mark DiConzo, “New York Lately”; Rob Lowe, “The Invention of Lying”; Henry Goodman, “Taking Woodstock”; Ewan McGregor, “Angels & Demons”; Eric Bana, “Star Trek”; Clifton Collins Jr., “Sunshine Cleaning”; Liev Schreiber, “Taking Woodstock”; Ben Affleck, “State of Play”; Simon Pegg, “Star Trek”<\/p>\n
Best Supporting Actress<\/i><\/b>
\nMo’Nique, “Precious”<\/i>
\nMelanie Laurent, “Inglourious Basterds”<\/i>
\nAli Larter, “Obsessed”<\/i>
\nLeslie Mann, “Funny People”<\/i>
\nSamantha Morton, “The Messenger”<\/i><\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> Betty White, “The Proposal”; Mariah Carey, “Precious”; Rinko Kikuchi, “The Brothers Bloom”; Paula Patton, “Precious”; Marion Cottilard, “Public Enemies”; Lorna Raver, “Drag Me to Hell”; Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”; Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”; Imelda Staunton, “Taking Woodstock”; Kathy Bates, “Cheri”; Patricia Clarkson, “Whatever Works”; Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”; Diane Kruger, “Inglourious Basterds”; Emily Blunt, “Sunshine Cleaning”; Catherine Keener, “The Soloist”; Kristen Kerr, “Strictly Sexual”; Eilis Cahill, “Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries- Part I”; Jennifer Garner, “The Invention of Lying”; Zoe Saldana, “Star Trek”<\/p>\n
Best Original Screenplay<\/i><\/b>
\n“Moon”<\/i> (Nathan Parker, Duncan Jones)
\n“Knowing”<\/i> (Ryne Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine)
\n“The Invention of Lying”<\/i> (Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson)
\n“Up”<\/i> (Pete Doctor, Bob Peterson)
\n“(500) Days of Summer”<\/i> (Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber)<\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> “Goodbye Solo” (Bahareh Azimi, Ramin Bahrani); “Diary of a Bad Lad” (Jonathan Williams); “Away We Go” (Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida); “Two Lovers” (James Gray, Richard Menello); “Uptown” (Brian Ackley); “The Hurt Locker” (Mark Boal); “The Messenger” (Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman); “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown); “Inglourious Basterds” (Quentin Tarantino); “Knuckle Draggers” (Alex Ranarivelo); “Zorg and Andy” (V.Z. Montengo); “Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries- Part I” (Phil Messerer); “Cookies & Cream” (Princeton Holt); Geoffrey Stephenson, “A Good Alibi”; “The Girlfriend Experience” (Brian Koppelman, David Levien); “Avatar” (James Cameron); “The Last Lullaby” (Max Allen Collins, Peter Biegen); “Ponyo” (Hayao Miyazaki); “Funny People” (Judd Apatow); “Don’t Shoot the Pharmacist!” (Dave Broitman); “The Hangover” (Jon Lucas, Scott Moore); “A Serious Man” (Joel & Ethan Coen); “Night for Day” (Russ Camarda); “Baystate Blues” (Mark Lewis); “Observe and Report” (Jody Hill); “It’s Complicated” (Nancy Myers); “Antichrist” (Lars von Trier); “The Quiet Arrangement” (David C. Snyder); “I Love You, Man” (Larry Levin, John Hamburg); “Whatever Works” (Woody Allen); “The Open Door” (Doc Duhame); “Thirst” (Seo-Gyeong Jeong, Chan-wook Park)<\/p>\n
Best Adapted Screenplay<\/i><\/b>
\n“Precious”<\/i> (Geoffrey Fletcher)
\n“The Informant!”<\/i> (Scott Z. Burns)
\n“Watchmen”<\/i> (David Hayter, Alex Tse)
\n“Star Trek”<\/i> (Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci)
\n“Coraline”<\/i> (Henry Selick)<\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach); “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Steve Kloves); “Red Cliff” (John Woo, Khan Chan, Cheng Kuo and Heyu Sheng); “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans” (William Finkelstein); “The Lovely Bones” (Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens); “Up in the Air” (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner); “Brothers” (David Benioff); “Public Enemies” (Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman & Michael Mann); “Cheri” (Christopher Hampton); “District 9” (Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell); “The Soloist” (Susannah Grant); “Taking Woodstock” (James Schamus); “Br\u00c3\u00bcno” (Sascha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, and Jeff Schaffer)<\/p>\n
Best Original Score<\/i><\/b>
\n“Up”<\/i> (Michael Giacchino)
\n“The Lovely Bones”<\/i> (Brian Eno)
\n“The Informant!”<\/i> (Marvin Hamlisch)
\n“Coraline”<\/i> (Bruno Coulais)
\n“Star Trek”<\/i> (Michael Giacchino)<\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> “Black Dynamite” (Adrian Younge); “Where the Wild Things Are” (Carter Burwell); “Moon” (Clint Mansell); “Red Cliff” (Tar\u00c3\u00b4 Iwashiro); “The Brothers Bloom” (Nathan Johnson); “Night for Day” (Vincent Nigro); “Drag Me to Hell” (Christopher Young); “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans” (Mark Isham); “Ponyo” (Joe Hisaishi); “The Last Lullaby” (Ben Lovett); “Knowing” (Marco Beltrami); “Watchmen” (Tyler Bates); “District 9” (Clinton Shorter); “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Nicholas Hooper); “Avatar” (James Horner); “The Hurt Locker” (Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders); “A Serious Man” (Carter Burwell); “Land of the Lost” (Michael Giacchino); “Sherlock Holmes” (Hans Zimmer); “The Men Who Stare at Goats” (Rolfe Kent); “Up in the Air” (Rolfe Kent)<\/p>\n
Best Original Song<\/i><\/b>
\n“All Is Love” from “Where the Wild Things Are”<\/i> (Karen O & Nick Zinner)
\n“Dynomite” from “Black Dynamite”<\/i> (Adrian Younge)
\n“Dove of Peace” from “Br\u00c3\u00bcno”<\/i> (Sascha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, and Jeff Schaffer)
\n“The Spirit of Adventure” from “Up”<\/i> (Michael Giacchino)
\n“Sirens of the Sea” from “Coraline”<\/i> (Bruno Coulais)<\/p>\n
Other Top Choices:<\/i> “Capsize” from “Where the Wild Things Are” (Karen O, Aaron Hemphill, Dean Fertita & Bradford Cox); “Other Father Song” from “Coraline” (Bruno Coulais); “Trust Me” from “The Informant!” (Marvin Hamlisch); “Red Cliff” from “Red Cliff” (Tar\u00c3\u00b4 Iwashiro)<\/p>\n
Best Animated Feature<\/i><\/b>
\n“Up”<\/i>
\n“Coraline”<\/i>
\n“Fantastic Mr. Fox”<\/i>
\n“Ponyo”<\/i>
\n“The Princess and the Frog”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Foreign Language Film<\/i><\/b>
\n“Red Cliff”<\/i>
\n“Gamorrah”<\/i>
\n“Thirst”<\/i>
\n“Rudo y Cursi”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Documentary Feature<\/i><\/b>
\n“Michael Jackson’s This Is It”<\/i>
\n“The Cove”<\/i>
\n“Tyson”<\/i>
\n“Food, Inc.”<\/i>
\n“Earth”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Visual Effects<\/i><\/b>
\n“Avatar”<\/i>
\n“District 9”<\/i>
\n“Watchmen”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Sound<\/i><\/b>
\n“Red Cliff”<\/i>
\n“Avatar”<\/i>
\n“Up”<\/i>
\n“Star Trek”<\/i>
\n“Coraline”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Sound Editing<\/i><\/b>
\n“Drag Me to Hell”<\/i>
\n“District 9”<\/i>
\n“Avatar”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Cinematography<\/i><\/b>
\n“Red Cliff”<\/i>
\n“The Lovely Bones”<\/i>
\n“Black Dynamite”<\/i>
\n“Drag Me to Hell”<\/i>
\n“District 9”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Film Editing<\/i><\/b>
\n“Star Trek”<\/i>
\n“Red Cliff”<\/i>
\n“The Hurt Locker”<\/i>
\n“Drag Me to Hell”<\/i>
\n“Knowing”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Art Direction<\/i><\/b>
\n“Red Cliff”<\/i>
\n“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”<\/i>
\n“Watchmen”<\/i>
\n“Inglourious Basterds”<\/i>
\n“The Lovely Bones”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Makeup<\/i><\/b>
\n“Drag Me to Hell”<\/i>
\n“Star Trek”<\/i>
\n“Thicker Than Water: The Vampires Diaries- Part 1”<\/i><\/p>\n
Best Costume Design<\/i><\/b>
\n“Red Cliff”<\/i>
\n“The Lovely Bones”<\/i>
\n“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”<\/i>
\n“Watchmen”<\/i>
\n“Black Dynamite”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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