10 Noms for Best Pic??

Wowsers, THIS changes EVERYTHING! Imagine if this were the situation in the past few years: Could WALL-E, Into the Wild, Children of Men, or (dare I say it) The Dark Knight have been included for Best Pic consideration, instead of snubbed like in reality?

So, it's back to how things were in the 1930s. How might things go this year for Best Pic noms? This is how I think it might go, with the year nearly half over (as of July 1st), give or take an extra five:

1. Up
2. Away We Go
   
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Nine
5. Precious
6. Avatar
7. Coraline
8. Bright Star
   
9. Public Enemies
10. Sita Sings the Blues
11. Green Zone
12. The Informant
13. Biutiful
    
14. The Hurt Locker
15. The Lovely Bones
    

All Signs Point to Mill Valley

Not to sound superstitious or anything, but today, I randomly received a note from someone giving positive site feedback. This person is named Christian Svanes Kolding.

christian svanes kolding, showreel, the "a-side" | 4 min. from svanes on Vimeo.

Why is this important, you ask? It's because his short film, Depression Served Six Ways, is listed as "great" on the Movie Ratings section of this site, and I had specifically viewed it at the 2005 Mill Valley Film Festival.

It's another reference to Mill Valley, and it had nothing to do with At the Core. Plus, it's always cool to get contacted by the filmmakers directly!

Not Bad!

First, I viewed Waltz with Bashir last night. Let me say how excellent a film it is. It is breakthrough animation -- fantastic, heartwrenching and mindblowing. If you get to see any of the great pics up for Best Foreign Film, see this one first. Not for kids, though.

Now for why I started writing. Being the Oscar fanatic that I am, I always enter the annual Awards Daily (er, Oscar Watch) contests, for both predictions and then awards. This is the first year my name made the list of runners up!

In this case, I think we could only vote for the top awards: picture, director, actor, actress, sup. actor, sup. actress, and then mayyybe orig. screenplay, adap. screenplay, and perhaaaaps animated film. (Things would have gotten out of hand with the tallies beyond that.)

You can see my '08 predix here and click Oscar Predictions at the bottom, then Nominations at the top. The top 5 numerical selections are my choices, and the actual noms are backed in gold.

Yay, Tilda

Though it's more of a cousin to this site than a direct relation, mostly not being about movies of Thomas Productions, we still have a portion called Garett's Film Ratings. It includes everything from a full-blown list of films Garett has viewed (good and bad), his annual Oscar Predictions, a best-by-year list, and more.

This is a good time to mention this part of the site due to a recent updating that now includes two more great films, "Michael Clayton" (2007) and "The Last Emperor" (1987).  This portion of the site is often updated without mention.  Check it out!