2008
The winner is listed first, in CAPITAL letters.
Filmsite's Greatest Films
of 2008
Best Picture
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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008)
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
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Frost/Nixon (2008)
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Milk (2008)
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The Reader (2008)
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Best Animated Feature Film
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WALL-E (2008)
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Bolt (2008)
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Kung Fu Panda (2008)
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Actor:
SEAN PENN in "Milk," Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor," Frank
Langella in "Frost/Nixon," Brad Pitt in "The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Mickey Rourke in "The
Wrestler"
Actress:
KATE WINSLET in "The Reader," Anne Hathaway in "Rachel
Getting Married," Angelina Jolie in "Changeling," Melissa
Leo in "Frozen River," Meryl Streep in "Doubt"
Supporting Actor:
HEATH LEDGER in "The Dark
Knight," Josh Brolin in "Milk," Robert Downey,
Jr. in "Tropic Thunder," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt," Michael
Shannon in "Revolutionary Road"
Supporting Actress:
PENELOPE CRUZ in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Amy Adams
in "Doubt," Viola Davis in "Doubt," Taraji
P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Marisa
Tomei in "The Wrestler"
Director:
DANNY BOYLE for "Slumdog Millionaire," Stephen Daldry
for "The Reader," David Fincher for "The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button," Ron Howard for "Frost/Nixon," Gus
Van Sant for "Milk”
2008
represented the continued rise of smaller studios and development
companies, proven by the dominance of the Best Picture-winning
independent film Slumdog Millionaire. The
low-budget film was made for only $15 million, had no American
superstars, lots of foreign-language dialogue, and it struggled
to find a distributor. It also had a 'feel-good' theme and
romantic sub-plot, a song/dance finale, an Oscar-winning song "Jai
Ho," while at the same time exhibiting the extreme poverty
of India.
Its major competitor, the big-budget The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, was produced by
a major studio (a co-production between Warner Bros. and
Paramount), featured major stars, an extensive marketing
campaign, a well-respected director, and expensive CGI-effects.
And it suffered a record loss among films with 13 nominations
-- it had the fewest wins for any film with that
many nods.
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,
a Warner Bros./Paramount Film co-production
- Frost/Nixon, from Universal
- Milk, from Focus Features
- The Reader, from The Weinstein
Company
- Slumdog Millionaire, from
Fox Searchlight
All five titles of the Best Picture-nominated
films referred to the film's characters (this also occurred
in 1964), and were mostly tales from the past. The Best Picture
winner became more strongly favored as the Oscar season progressed:
- director Danny Boyle's dark horse crowd-pleasing Slumdog
Millionaire (with 10 nominations and 8 wins),
based on the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, about
an impoverished, 18 year-old orphaned slum thief Jamal
Malik (Dev Patel) who is arrested for cheating (presumably
due to his unsavory, lower-class background), when only
one question away from winning the top prize of 20 million
rupees in the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire." The film's other wins included Best
Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best
Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score,
and Best Original Song ("Jai Ho");
[Note: Slumdog Millionaire was only the fifth
film in the past 50 years to win without any acting nominations,
repeating the feat of The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Braveheart
(1995), The Last Emperor (1987),
and Gigi (1958). It was one of only eleven
films in all of Academy history that have won Best Picture without receiving
a single acting nomination.]
The other Best Picture nominees were:
- director David Fincher's sweeping 2 3/4ths
hour, big-budget fantasy epic The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button (with 13 nominations and only 3
wins, including Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup, and Best
Art Direction), based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 jazz
age short story (from Eric Roth's screenplay from a screen
story by Roth and Robin Swicord) that followed the life of
'curious' everyman Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) and was set
in New Orleans - the title character was born in his 80s
and aging in reverse, growing younger rather than older;
the film was one of the most nominated films in Academy history,
and had the largest box-office revenue of the five nominees,
just over $100 million, although it lost in most of its categories
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[Note: Out of eight films from the past with thirteen nominations,
five films have won Best Picture, including: Gone
With the Wind (1939), From
Here to Eternity (1953), Forrest Gump
(1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Chicago
(2002). Those that lost were: Mary Poppins
(1964), Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).]
- director Gus Van Sant's Milk (with
8 nominations and 2 wins, including Best Actor and Best Original
Screenplay), a historical biography about California's first
openly-gay, openly-elected public official, mayoral aide
Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) who was assassinated alongside San
Francisco's mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber)
- director Stephen Daldry's The Reader (with
5 nominations and 1 win), the story of a young German teen
Michael Berg's (David Kross and Ralph Fiennes) complex relationship
with an illiterate train conductor/ex-Nazi concentration
camp guard Hanna Schmitz (Best Actress-winning Kate Winslet)
in the 1950's, and his dealing with her past decades later,
based on Bernhard Schlink's best-selling and controversial
1995 novel
- director Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon (with
5 nominations and no wins), an adaptation of the successful
Tony-winning Broadway drama about the famous series of interviews
of Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) conducted by British talk
show host David Frost (Michael Sheen) that aired on May 19,
1977, during which Frost memorably had Nixon admitting complicity
in the Watergate scandal ("When the President does it,
it's not illegal")
For the first time in three years, all five Best
Picture directors were nominated for Best Director – a
rare occurrence! This happened only four other times in Oscar
history: 1957, 1964, 1981, and 2005. The nominated directors
included two first-time nominated directors, one of whom won
the Best Director Oscar:
- 52 year-old British director Danny Boyle (with
his first nomination and win) for Slumdog
Millionaire, who had previously directed such films
as Trainspotting (1996), A Life Less Ordinary (1997),
and 28 Days Later (2002)
The four other Best Director nominees included:
- 46 year-old former music video director David
Fincher (with his first nomination) for The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, after directing
such films as Se7en (1995), Fight
Club (1999), Panic Room (2002),
and Zodiac (2007)
- 54 year-old Ron Howard (with his second directorial
nomination) for Frost/Nixon, previously
winning two Oscars: Best Picture (as producer) and Best Director
for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- 47 year-old Stephen Daldry (with his third nomination)
for The Reader, previously nominated for Billy
Elliott (2000) and The Hours (2002) -
he became the first director ever to receive Best Director
nominations for his first three films
- 56 year-old Gus Van Sant (with his second nomination)
for Milk, previously nominated for Good
Will Hunting (1997)
All of the nominated Animated Feature Films were
CGI creations. The winner was the overwhelming favorite:
- Wall-E (Disney Pictures/Pixar
Animation) (with six nominations and this sole Oscar win),
Pixar's 9th film and their 4th Best Animated Feature Film
Oscar win -- a science fiction tale about a lonely garbage-compacting
robot Wall-E stranded on post-apocalyptic, trash-laden Earth
who encounters a sleek metallic female robot Eve who seeks
plant life to signal a colony ship's return after 700 years
of exile
[Note: It tied with Beauty and the
Beast (1991) as the most nominated animated film.]
The other two nominees in the category were:
- Bolt (Walt Disney Pictures),
about dog actor Bolt (voice of John Travolta) who believes
the science fiction/action television show he stars in is
real, and learns he has no superpowers when lost from the
set
- Kung Fu Panda (Dreamworks
Animation), a martial arts comedic fantasy about a slovenly,
fat kung fu-obsessed giant panda named Po (voice of Jack
Black) who is thrust unwittingly into the role of Dragon
Warrior to save the countryside from a dangerous villain
snow leopard Tai Lung (voice of Ian McShane)
A bit of an upset occurred in the category of
Best Foreign Language Film. The overwhelming favorite was the
animated documentary Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
(the Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film), the first animated
film ever to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. But
the category was won by Departures (Japan) (aka
Okuribito), a film about an unemployed cello player
who became a mortician preparing bodies (and "assisting
departures") for funerals and burials. It was the first Japanese
film to ever win a competitive Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film. [Note: Three Japanese films were previously given honorary
Oscars before the official category of Best Foreign Language
Film was created in 1956 - Rashomon (1950, Jp.), Gate
of Hell (1953, Jp.) (aka Jigokumon), and Samurai
I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954, Jp.).]
There were nine first-time nominees in
the 20 acting performance slots. Five of the acting nominees
were previous winners: Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Angelina
Jolie, Meryl Streep and Marisa Tomei. Sean Penn became the ninth actor
in Academy history to win a second Best Actor Oscar. All four
Oscar-winning performers this year: Penn, Winslet, Ledger,
and Cruz, had been nominated at least once before, something
that hadn't happened since 1994.
The Best Actor winner was:
- 48 year-old Sean Penn (with his fifth nomination – all
for Best Actor -- winning for Mystic River (2003) and
now for his role as openly pioneering San Francisco gay camera
store owner Harvey Milk who successfully was serving in public
office as mayoral aide, and was killed in 1978 at the same
time as the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone
(Victor Garber), in Milk; Penn was also
previously nominated for Dead
Man Walking (1995), Sweet and Lowdown (1999),
and I Am Sam (2001)
The other Best Actor nominees were:
- 61 year-old Richard Jenkins (with his first nomination
and his first leading role) as lonely widower college professor
Professor Walter Vale, who finds two squatters (Haaz Sleiman,
Danai Jekesai Gurira) living in his little-used Manhattan
apartment, in writer/director Tom McCarthy's The
Visitor (2007) (the film's sole nomination
- the film debuted in Canada in 2007, but was Oscar eligible
only after its 2008 US release)
- 71 year-old Frank Langella (with his first nomination)
for his reprised Tony-award winning role (in 2007) as shamed
ex-President Richard Nixon who was a talk show guest on Frost
on America, where he battled wits with host David Frost
(Michael Sheen, reprising his stage role as well), in Frost/Nixon [Note:
Langella is the second actor to be nominated for Best Actor
for playing Nixon (Anthony Hopkins was also nominated for Nixon
(1995) but lost to Nicolas Cage for Leaving
Las Vegas (1995))
- 45 year-old Brad Pitt (with his second nomination,
previously nominated for his supporting role in 12
Monkeys (1995)) for his role as Benjamin Button,
who is born an elderly man and grows younger through the
years, in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- 56 year-old Mickey Rourke (with his first nomination)
as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a broken-down, formerly
famous 80s headliner pro wrestler who now fights in the small
circuit 20 years later; the role is best known for his inspiring
closing speech ("I'm still standing here and I'm The
Ram"), in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler (with
2 nominations including Best Supporting Actress, and no wins);
[Rourke had been a longtime Oscar snub, being overlooked
for such roles as Diner (1982), Rumble
Fish (1983), The Pope of Greenwich Village
(1984), 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), Angel
Heart (1987), and Barfly (1987).]
The Best Actress nominees included two oft-nominated
Oscar favorites - Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet, with the latter
winning her first Oscar:
- 33 year-old British actress Kate Winslet (with
her 6th nomination, her 4th Best Actress
nomination and her first win!) for her role as Hanna Schmitz,
an illiterate train conductor/ex-Nazi concentration camp
guard who had an affair with a fifteen year old boy, in The
Reader; Winslet was previously
nominated in a leading role for Titanic (1997), Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Little
Children (2006), and in a supporting role for Sense
and Sensibility (1995) and Iris (2001)
[Note: With her sixth nomination, Winslet became the youngest
individual (at age 33) to have six Oscar nominations. She was
one year younger than Bette Davis who (at age 34) received
her sixth for Now, Voyager (1942)]
The other Best Actress nominees included:
- 26 year-old actress Anne Hathaway (with her first nomination)
as Kym, a recovering drug addict who is given a day pass
from her rehabilitation clinic to attend her sister Rachel's
(Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding, in Rachel Getting Married (its sole nomination);
Hathaway had memorably been snubbed for her supporting role
in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- 33 year-old actress Angelina Jolie (with her second nomination,
having won for her supporting role in Girl, Interrupted
(1999)) for her role as real-life Christine Collins,
a desperate Los Angeles single mother during the Great Depression
whose son vanishes, and is given another boy who is claimed
to be the missing son by the corrupt police department, in
director Clint Eastwood's Changeling (with
three nominations and no wins)
- 48 year-old Melissa Leo (with her first nomination),
the former NBC-TV star of Homicide: Life on the Street,
in her role as Ray Eddy, a struggling, cash-needy lower-class
single mother of two in upstate New York who becomes involved
in a people-smuggling ring across the US/Canadian border
in an attempt to avoid losing her home, in the independent
drama Frozen River (with two nominations
and no wins)
- 59 year-old Meryl Streep (with her astonishing 15th nomination
- an all-time record, and her 12th Best Actress
nomination (tying her with Katharine Hepburn), and a winner
in 1979 and 1982) for her role as Sister Aloysius Beauvier,
the suspicious, domineering strict head of a Bronx Catholic
school in New York City in the 1960s who believes that progressive
new priest Father Brendan Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
is a pedophile, in writer/director John Patrick Shanley's
adaptation of the Broadway play Doubt (with
five nominations and no wins, including Best Screenplay Adaptation,
Best Supporting Actor, and two Best Supporting Actress nominations)
The Best Supporting Actor winner was the heavily-favored
28 year-old deceased Australian actor Heath Ledger (with his second nomination,
following a Best Actor nomination for Brokeback Mountain
(2005)) as the wildly psychotic villain, The Joker,
in Christopher Nolan's moody cape-and-cowl superhero sequel The
Dark Knight (with 8 nominations and only 2 wins,
including Best Sound Editing); this was the seventh posthumous
nomination in Academy history (won only once previously
by Peter Finch).
The other Best Supporting Actor nominees were:
- 40 year-old Josh Brolin (with his first nomination
after being snubbed for lead roles in No Country
for Old Men (2007) and this year's President Bush
biopic W.) as conservative former fireman
Dan White, an alcoholic who is married with children (and
possibly closeted gay), elected to the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors along-side openly-gay Harvey Milk; he later
murders Milk along with Mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber)
in 1978 during a drunken tirade, in Milk
- 43 year-old Robert Downey, Jr. (wth his second nomination,
following his Best Actor nomination for Chaplin (1992)),
in the over-the-top comedic role as obsessive, faux-black
white Australian Method actor Kirk Lazarus who has medical
surgery to transform himself into a black man to completely
immerse himself in a dark-horse role in a Vietnam war movie,
in Ben Stiller's comedy Tropic Thunder (its sole nomination)
- 41 year-old Philip Seymour Hoffman (with his third nomination,
following a win for his lead role in Capote (2005) and
nominated supporting role in Charlie Wilson's War
(2007), this year's only back-to-back nominee) as
Father Brendan Flynn, a progressive priest in 1960s New York
City whose keen interest in his Bronx Catholic school's first
black student inspires suspicion from its head nun (Meryl
Streep), in Doubt
- 34 year-old Michael Shannon (with his first nomination)
as John Givings, an unstable mathematician and wrongfully-interred
mental institution patient who makes brutally honest, incisive
observations about his unhappily-married neighbors and hosts
Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
reunited in their first pairing since Titanic (1997))
and his parents during a dinner party in 1950s Connecticut,
in Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road (with
3 nominations)
The Best Supporting Actress winner was:
- 34 year-old Spanish-born actress Penélope
Cruz (with her second nomination and first win)
as Maria Elena, a newly-divorced, crazy Spanish artist/temptress,
who experienced a menage a trois with her ex-husband
painter/lothario Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) and inquisitive,
traveling American photographer Cristina (Scarlett Johansson),
in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona (its sole nomination
and win)
[Note: Cruz previously had a lead nomination for Volver
(2006, Sp.) when she became the first Spanish
woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for
a non-English speaking role; with her win, she became the first Spanish-born
actress to win an Oscar]
[Note: Cruz' win joined her with two other Woody Allen actresses
who have won Best Supporting Actress Oscars: Dianne Wiest
(twice) for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets
Over Broadway (1994), and Mira Sorvino for Mighty
Aphrodite (1995); she was, in
fact, the 4th 'Woody Allen' actress to receive an
Oscar, if Diane Keaton's Annie Hall
(1977) Best Actress
Oscar win was also counted; other 'Woody Allen' actresses
with Supporting Actress nominations (nine in total) include:
Maureen Stapleton for Interiors (1978), Mariel
Hemingway for Manhattan (1979),
Judy Davis for Husbands
and Wives (1992), Jennifer Tilly for Bullets
Over Broadway (1994), and Samantha Morton for Sweet
and Lowdown (1999).]
[Note: Cruz became one of many actors/actresses to receive
a nomination for a role performed in two different languages,
following after, for example, Ingrid Bergman's Swedish language-role
in Autumn Sonata (1978), Robert DeNiro's
Sicilian in The Godfather Part
II (1974), Meryl Streep's Polish/German in Sophie's
Choice (1982), and Benicio Del Toro's Spanish in Traffic
(2000). Sophia Loren's Italian in Two Women
(1960) (aka La Ciociara), Roberto Benigni's Italian
in La Vita è bella (1997) (aka Life is Beautiful),
and Marion Cotillard's French in La Vie En Rose (2007) were
fully in one language.]
[Note: If Woody Allen had been nominated for Best Original
Screenplay, it would have been his 15th Best Original Screenplay
nomination.]
The remaining Best Supporting Actress nominees
included two nominees for Doubt:
- 34 year-old Amy Adams (with her second nomination,
following her supporting nod for Junebug (2005))
as sensitive and innocent novitiate Sister James, in Doubt
- 43 year-old Viola Davis (with her first nomination)
in a 12-minute scene as African-American Mrs. Miller, the
conflicted mother of a student who is suspected of being
sexually-abused by a new Catholic priest (nominee Philip
Seymour Hoffman) at his 1960s New York City school, in Doubt
- 38 year-old Taraji P. Henson (with her first nomination)
as African-American Queenie, a New Orleans nursing-home employee
who rescues abandoned old man-child Benjamin Button and adopts
him ("You are as ugly as an old post but you're still
a child of God"), in The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button
- 44 year-old Marisa Tomei (with her third nomination,
following her semi-controversial win for her supporting role
in My Cousin Vinny (1992), and her supporting
role nomination for In the Bedroom (2001))
as Cassidy, a middle-aged, tattooed exotic stripper and single
mother who forms a bond with has-been wrestler Randy Robinson
(fellow nominee Mickey Rourke), in The Wrestler
Doubt became the 4th film in
Academy history to receive 4 acting nominations WITHOUT a Best
Picture nomination. The other three were: My
Man Godfrey (1936), I
Remember Mama (1948), and Othello (1965).
Jerry Lewis, who was never nominated for an Academy
Award, was presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Oscar Snubs and Omissions:
Although Doubt had tied the
record for four acting nominations, it did not receive either
a Best Director or Best Picture nomination and came away empty-handed.
Christopher Nolan's box-office blockbuster and popular summer
hit - the despairing comic book Batman tale The
Dark Knight scored eight nominations (mostly technical
areas, and scored two wins for Best Supporting Actor and Best
Sound Editing), but was devoid of a Best Picture or Best Director
nomination. It became the most nominated superhero
film in Academy Award history. [Note: Dreamgirls (2006) also
had eight nominations without a nomination for Best Picture
or Best Director.]
Although Jonathan Demme's innovative and critically-hailed Rachel
Getting Married had a single acting nomination (and
lost), it had no other nominations (specifically Best Director
or Best Picture, and Rosemarie DeWitt's supporting role).
And most glaringly, there were no nominations for actor/director
Clint Eastwood, either for his dramatic role in Gran
Torino or for his directing of Changeling.
Remarkably, Slumdog Millionaire was
lacking in any acting nominations (for Dev Patel and Freida
Pinto), fairly rare for a Best Picture-winning film.
Director Darren Aronofsky was denied an Oscar
nomination for The Wrestler, and the film's
nominations were unsuccessful. And Oliver Stone's biopic W. starring
Josh Brolin as President George W. Bush was devoid of any Oscars'
recognition - and it was a surprise that Brolin was nominated
for his supporting role in Milk instead. Unfortunately,
there were no acting nominations for Saul Dibb's splendid 18th
century costume drama The Duchess (with two
nominations and one win (Best Costume Design) and Best Art
Direction), although they were deserved for Keira Knightley
as the title character - a witty and attractive 17 year-old
naive aristocrat Georgiana Spencer, who was set up and then
trapped in an emotionally-distant, arranged marriage with callous,
loathsome, but regal and powerful Duke of Devonshire William
Cavendish (Ralph Fiennes).
Best Animated Feature Film winner Wall-E was
not nominated for Best Picture (although it had six nominations
total and only one win), thereby preserving Beauty
and the Beast (1991) as the only animated feature
to be nominated for the top Oscar. Wall-E's
six nominations tied it with Beauty and the Beast (1991) as
the most-nominated animated film.
It was a surprise to have Kate Winslet nominated
for her lesser role in The Reader (which then
became a momentous first Oscar win for her), rather than as
a Best Actress candidate for her husband/director Sam Mendes' Revolutionary
Road, and that her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for the
latter was un-nominated for his portrayal of Winslet's husband.
Two glaring acting omissions included Sally Hawkins
for her role as North London schoolteacher Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky,
and Kristin Scott Thomas as released and ravaged murder convict
Juliette Fontaine in writer/director Philippe Claudel's debut
French film I've Loved You So Long, as well
as nominations for Jeffrey Wright (as Muddy Waters) and Beyonce
Knowles (as Etta James) for their performances in writer/director
Darnell Martin's fictionalized musical biopic of the 1950s-60s
Chicago-based Chess Records saga, Cadillac Records.
In addition, Michelle Williams was left out for her role as
struggling, downtrodden and broke drifter Wendy with her dog
Lucy, in director Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy.
Three other performances were overlooked: Benicio
del Toro as the revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Steven
Soderbergh's two-part epic biopic Che, Philip
Seymour Hoffman as regional theater director Caden Cotard staging
his magnum opus in New York City in first-time director Charlie
Kaufman's black comedy Synechdoche, New York,
and James Franco as Harvey Milk's (Sean Penn) pre-election
gay lover Scott Smith in Milk.
There was some question about Brad Pitt's nomination
for his CGI-assisted role as the title character in The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, when his role as
unscrupulous gym trainer Chad Feldheimer in the Coen Brothers' Burn
After Reading was more memorable, while Pitt's co-star
Cate Blanchett was ignored for her role as Benjamin Button's
romantic soulmate Daisy. Many critics were surprised by the
blatant snub-omission of Bruce Springsteen in the Best Original
Song category (he won the Golden Globe Award) for the theme
song (in the closing credits) for The Wrestler.
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