Oscar Time
After all of the hype and expectation, the winners of this year’s Oscars were announced in the early hours of this morning in Hollywood. Slumdog Millionaire lead the British invasion and swept the board winning eight Oscars including Best Film and Best Director for Danny Boyle. As anticipated, Kate Winslet picked up the award for Best Actress and Heath Ledger’s family picked up a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his brilliant portrayal of the Joker in the Dark Knight.
Surprisingly, Sean Penn won Best Actor for his portrayal of Harvey Milk and unsurprisingly Benjamin Button won the gong for Best Make Up.
My wife and I took a trip last night to our local multiplex last night and watched the new Wood Allen film, Vicky Christina Barcelona. Penelope Cruz’s character only appears half way through the film but she steals the show and definitely deserves this year’s Best Supporting Actress award. A really enjoyable movie with a good cast and well worth £8 of anyone’s money (Javier Barden is excellent in the male lead and a world away from his chilling portrayal of Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, a role he won Best Supporting Actor for in ‘08).
So, in keeping with the spirit of the occasion, my top five movies from last year are, in reverse order….
5 Frost / Nixon Frank Langella is great as Robert Nixon, Michael Sheen gets better as the film evolves
4 Wall-E Loved it. Made me laugh and my wife cry!
3 Slumdog Millionaire Great score and cinematography
2 The Dark Knight The best comic book movie ever (though I can’t wait for Watchmen..)
1 The Wrestler Rourke is back, and how… Raging Bull with choke holds and Spandex.!
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