With this depressing economic climate, do you even want to start thinking about the dismal ratings of next year's Golden Globes and Academy Awards? Sure you do! Especially since the first winners have already been named, from The National Board of Review, which usually keeps their awards pretty class.
So who are the winners that might portend the future nominees for next season's glitz and gala? Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle walked away with Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Male Breakout Performance. And maybe it's the dark cynic in me, but with all the shit going on in Mumbai right now, where the movie takes place, probably won't hurt the film's chances when the real awards come a'calling.
See the rest of the winners, after the jump.
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Top Ten Films: Burn After Reading, Changeling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Defiance, Frost/Nixon, Gran Torino, Milk, Wall-E, The Wrestler
Best Actor: Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Milk
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Ensemble Cast: Doubt
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Viola Davis, Doubt
Best Director: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Wow!! That's great. I'm sure the 15 people who have seen Slumdog are very happy that their fav film won something.
Please tell me why only these "artsy-fartsy" movies win the awards? It's nuts. Nobody but critics have ever heard of them. And people wonder why the ratings for the Oscars and Golden Globes are in the toilet. Who wants to see somebody named Dev Patel on the red carpet?
ohmigod, i KNOW. and Dev Patel is totally brown, so who wants to see him. Let's just nominate Titanic again.
seriously, you turd, maybe Slumdog is actually, you know, THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR??? ever think of that?
I've been dying to see Slumdog Millionaire. Why don't you stick with your "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and "Twilight" movies, mslewis? God forbid you expand your horizons to movies that are intelligent, different, and creative.
And let's remember that dozens of pundits and industry officials and filmmakers and movie industry analysts and others closely associated with the industry are also focusing on major award considerations, nominations and wins for: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (at least two stories have pegged this film as the early frontrunner for Best Picture, Best Diector and Best Actor); "Milk," see "Button," on frontrunner status for similar awards and nominations; "Revolutionary Road," but its depressing nature could derail it; "Frost/Nixon," again, for directing, acting, production, writing; "Definance," which apparently is excellent but is not being marketed early now as it should be; and "Doubt," with yet more acting attention, but apparently deserved, for Hoffman and Streep. And remember that the National Board tends to award very early–before, according to some industry folks, its members have even seen most of the prestige films that they should see. That National Board of Review should wait and announced their awards in early January–after its members have seen all of the films that the members should actually see.