If I Voted in the Academy Awards
After letting so many good movies go by me, I’ve decided that I’m going to start catching all the Academy Award nominated films in the major categories from now on. My timeline is from the day of the nomination announcement to the day of next year’s announcement. So this time around, I’ve made my deadline.
Here’s how I would have voted in 2009—if I had a vote.
Best Picture:
- The Reader
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Milk
- Frost/Nixon
- Slumdog Millionaire (actual winner)
Actress in a Leading Role
- Meryl Streep in Doubt
- Kate Winslet in The Reader (actual winner)
- Melissa Leo in Frozen River
- Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
- Angelina Jolie in Changeling
Actor in a Leading Role
- Sean Penn in Milk (actual winner)
- Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
- Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
- Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
- Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
And here are some other categories thrown in just because.
- Wall-E (actual winner)
- Kung-Fu Panda
- Bolt
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
- Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Amy Adams in Doubt
- Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (actual winner)
- Viola Davis in Doubt
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (actual winner)
- Josh Brolin in Milk
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
- Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
- Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road (have not seen)
Original Screenplay
- In Bruges
- Frozen River
- Milk (actual winner)
- Wall-E
- Happy-Go-Lucky (have not seen)