Mores for Gays video blog (Ep. 26): Gay old Oscar

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Best Actress: Kate Winslet (The Reader)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)

Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Original Screenplay: In Bruges

Tiebreak: Best Adapted Screenplay - Slumdog Millionaire

so it's tough to be too bold...

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk)

Best Actress: Kate Winslett (The Reader)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black (Milk)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best Picture:  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Actor: Sean Penn - Milk 

Best Actress: Meryl Streep – Doubt

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight 

Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis – Doubt 

Best Director: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire 

Best Original Screenplay: WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter 

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord 

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By the way, I LOVE the new intro. 

Best Picture: Milk

Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Best Actress: Kate Winslet (The Reader)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams (Doubt)

Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black (Milk)

Great blog, but I'm to the point right now I'd watch you read the phone book.  I'm glad that TPTB have finally realized that for a visual medium like a video blog you need someone who has presence, and a performance background doesn't hurt.  The writing is good, but you make it work. The British call them presenters and they probably have their own award over there. You have my vote.

Nous Sommes Tous Sauvages.

Best Picture:  Milk - the only movie I've seen, but nonetheless I think it ranks as one of the best films ever made

Best Actor:  Sean Penn (Milk) - someday Milk will play in a double bill with Dead Man Walking and the world will realize that acting is an art form

Best Actress:  Meryl Streep (Doubt) - I haven't seen the movie but Sister Aloysius is a brilliantly written and challenging character

Best Supporting Actor:  Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder) - the movie was mediocre at best, but Rob gave a classic comic performance, this nomination also gives the academy a chance to be naughty and vote for something that borders on being offensive

Best Supporting Actress:  Viola Davis (Doubt) - once again I didn't see the movie, but what a tragic, "throw the play out of whack", character Mrs. Muller is

Best Director:  Gus Van Sant (Milk) - not only because Milk was a great film, but also because Gus should have won for Mala Noche and Drugstore Cowboy

Best Animated Feature Film:  Bolt - I didn't see it but the trailers made it look fun, and it's also my pick because I thought Wall-E was really overrated

Best Screenplay:  Dustin Lance Black (Milk) - my only pick that will probably win and deservedly so

Best Adapted Screenplay:  Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) - I haven't seen it but a good friend of mine loved it and thinks it will win

Best Song: Down to Earth (Wall-E) - I thought it was really catchy 

Best Foreign Language Film:  It's a tie! - The Class and Waltz with Bashir - they are two films I'm really looking forward to seeing when they come out on DVD

And, by the way, may I exchange the Starbucks gift certificate for a Peets

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk)

Best Actress: Kate Winslett (The Reader)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black (Milk)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Love your video blog, Daniel!

If gay is (supposedly) the new black, then wouldn't a straight actor playing a gay character be like "blackface".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface

(I don't mean to offend any African-Americans. Sorry if I did.)

Though I am bisexual, live action movies with LGBT people don't really appeal to me. Most of my queer friends (including me) like animated movies. 

BEST ACTOR: Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)

BEST ACTRESS: Kate Winslet (The Reader) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

BEST DIRECTOR: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST PICTURE: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Milk 

After The 2006 Injustice, I sent out a several-page rant to my nearest and dearest (a hundred or so of them), explaining Why I No Longer Gave A Damn About The Oscars.  I've seen all the nominees aside from "Frozen River," but that's for my own personal curiousity, not because I feel a need to kowtow to The Golden Ball-less Wonder.

The media decided weeks ago that "Slumdog Millionaire" and Mickey Rourke were worthy of all their attention, and have had their noses firmly jammed up against respective sphincters ever since.  Will voters go that way?  Who knows?  I can almost guarantee you that the most deserving films and performances will walk away unrewarded by the Oscars, as have most of the best films in history.  (Look at the AFI list.)  Time decides these things, not a bunch of spoiled, petty Hollywood types who decide that they don't want to watch their screeners because of God knows why.  (Matt Damon suggested that we have the awards 10 years after the films come out, so we can get a more accurate judge.)

I can't take the emotional investment anymore--now it's just another damn award show.  It hurts too much to care, even with a Starbucks card in the offing.

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Doubt)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Original Screenplay: Milk

BEST ACTOR: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

BEST ACTRESS:  Kate Winslet (The Reader) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

BEST DIRECTOR: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST PICTURE: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: In Bruges

whooo exciting !

ps your head movements entertain me 

BEST ACTOR: Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button)

BEST ACTRESS: Kate Winslet (The Reader) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams (Doubt)

BEST DIRECTOR: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST PICTURE: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: WALL-E  

 Kitty

for Indies -- beating Sean Penn.

James Franco won Best Supporting and Dustin Lance Black Best Screenplay, however.

Odds are Dustin will win Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars (Franco wasn't nominated for Best Supporting.)

As for Best Supporting Actor

Maybe it's just me, but Rourke's performance reminds me of one those "freak show" turns like Dustin Hoffman in "Rainman" that seems "brave" at the time, but in retrospect is painful to watch.

Best Actor: Sean Penn Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Best ActorSupporting: Heath Ledger,Best ActressSupporting: Viola Davis. Best Picture: Milk  Best Director: Danny Boyle, Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black