So, the nominees are:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This seems to me to be a very good film with good actors based on a famous, required reading, short story. No way it wins this year!
2. Frost/Nixon
Uh, Nixon, not gonna win.
3. The Reader
Another good film, starring a popular actress. It even has a point to make, but even the Oscars underrated it in how they treated it during the opening number. Not gonna win.
4. Slumdog Millionaire
This film has a chance and could be the upset win, but so far, I have yet to have heard anything positive about it from anyone that has actually seen it, outside of the critics of course.
5. Milk
Hmm... in a year when California legally voted to overturn gay marriage and the losers in the battle are now acting sorely by trying to get the results of a legal election overturned, I'd say this film is close to the hearts of many academy voters. It also stars very popular actors in Sean Penn and Josh Brolin. So, guess what, I think this film has the right mix of cause, sentimentality and moviemaking to win this year.
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Well, I said it could be the upset of the night and it did! Good for it. Now I'll actually have to watch it.
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