Awards
Page Index
* OSCAR coverage here
'08 FiLM BiTCH
Awards
by Nathaniel
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Best
Sound
Mixing
(finished
soundscape: dialogue, score, effects all blended as one)
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Australia |
Burn
After Reading |
The
Dark Knight |
Quantum
of Solace |
WALL•E |
| Finalist:
The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button * |
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| Oscar's
Race for Best Sound |
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Best Sound Editing
(creation
of aural elements, sound effects, the overall sound design)
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The
Dark Knight |
Iron
Man |
Kung
Fu Panda |
Quantum
of Solace |
WALL•E |
| Finalists:
Australia
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * |
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| Oscar's
Race for Best Sound |
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Best
Original Score
the
musicians are
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Danny
Elfman Milk |
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Unique
blend of thriller motifs and comedic beats for this sharp
comedy |
Sinister
and engaging with a strong variety of moods |
Serious
but with a mischievous streak. Still one of my favorite composers |
Energetic
and audience rousing
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Magical
wistful witty accompaniment to fill those vast empty spaces |
| Finalists:
Nico
Muhly's quietly haunting melodies for The Reader |
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| Oscar's
Race for Best Score |
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Best
Original Song
at
the top of the charts you'll find
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'another
ringer with the slick trigger finger for Her Majesty... Another
one with the golden tongue poisoning your fantasy...' |
'Jai
Ho Jai Ho Jai Ho Jai Ho... Aaja aaja jind shamiyane ke tale...' |
'Feed
your family or you might as well leave em... Yours truly,
first responder, Black Kold Madina!' |
'We're
coming down to the ground, there's no better place to go,
we've got snow up on the mountains, we've got rivers down
below...' |
'Have
you ever seen a scarecrow filled with nothing but dust and
wheat? If you've ever seen that scarecrow than you've seen
me' |
| Finalists:
"Dracula's Lament" Forgetting Sarah Marshall
* "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" Hamlet 2 * |
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| Oscar's
Race for Best Song
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AWARDS TALLIES (Traditional Oscar Categories)
These first four awards pages follow the traditional awards categories.
33 films represented in some way out of the 115 I saw from 2008.
19 categories. I leave out Foreign Language, Documentary, and Shorts since most of those Oscar submissions aren't available for screening to the public
EXTRAS more categories if you need a fuller, crazier, more complete picture of the film year -- a cinematic scrapbook if you will
Statistics for the Traditional Categories
9 nominations
WALL•E (4 Gold. 1 Silver. 2 Bronze)
7 nominations
Rachel Getting Married (3 Gold. 5 Silver)
The Wrestler (2 Gold. 1 Silver)
6 nominations
The Dark Knight (2 Gold. 2 Silver. 1 Bronze)
Milk (3 Silver. 1 Bronze)
5 nominations
Burn After Reading (2 Bronze)
4 nominations
Australia (1 Bronze)
The Class (1 Gold. 2 Silver)3 nominations
Quantum of Solace (1 Bronze)
The Reader (1 Silver. 1 Bronze)
Reprise (1 Gold)
Synecdoche New York (1 Gold. 1 Bronze)
2 nominations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1 Gold. 1 Bronze)
Doubt (1 Bronze)
Elegy
The Fall
In Bruges (1 Silver)
Iron Man (1 Silver)
Kung Fu Panda (1 Silver)
Slumdog Millionaire (1 Silver. 1 Bronze)
1 nomination
The Duchess (1 Bronze)
Flight of the Red Balloon
Frozen River (1 Bronze)
A Girl Cut in Two
Happy-Go-Lucky (1 Gold)
The Incredible Hulk (1 Bronze)
Let the Right One In (1 Silver)
Savage Grace (1 Gold)
Tropic Thunder (1 Gold)
Trouble the Water (1 Bronze)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (1 Gold)
Waltz With Bashir (1 Bronze)
Wendy & Lucy
