[CENTER][LEFT]I am looking forward to the Oscar's this year. I think we have a very good crop of pictures. Although I have not seen any of them yet, just from the trailers I can tell I am going to have a hard time picking a favorite.
That being said, I am a sucker for Ralph Fiennes period pictures (ala [I]The English Patient[/I]) so I have a feeling [I]The Reader[/I] will probably end up on the top of my list once the dust settles.
Of last years nominee's I thought [I]No Country for Old Men[/I] was the best of the bunch, but overall it was a questionable "Best Picture." [I]Micheal Clayton[/I] was an interesting thriller, but not an Academy Award winner. [I]Atonement [/I]was a tear jerker, but too scattered about in execution. [I]Juno[/I] was alright. [I]There Will Be Blood[/I] has thus far alluded me.
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[B]The Reader[/B]
In late 1950s Germany, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins an affair with Hanna, a woman in her mid-thirties. Hanna's past contains a dark secret, however, the revelation of which, in the decades following the period of his first experience with love, will both shock Michael and force him to confront his country's history.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDQgKJQyjrg"]YouTube - The Reader: Trailer[/URL]
[B]Frost/Nixon[/B]
Following his 1974 resignation, Richard Nixon withdraws from public life until talk show host David Frost persuades him--with the help of a sizeable payment--to participate in a series of television interviews. For Frost, the much-anticipated event offers a chance to establish himself as a serious journalist, while the disgraced former president regards the interviews as an opportunity to reestablish himself on the political stage.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibxs_2nDXUc"]YouTube - Frost/Nixon - Official Theatrical Trailer[/URL]
[B]MILK[/B]
As the emerging Gay Pride movement gathers force in the 1970s, it finds a champion and a public face in San Francisco camera store owner Harvey Milk. Leaving his closeted life in New York behind, Milk moves to California with his lover and soon turns his efforts to politics, campaigning for a spot on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors--a quest that will make him the country's first openly gay man to be elected to public office.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kD-9QZOs4"]YouTube - Official Milk Trailer[/URL]
[B]Slumdog Millionaire[/B]
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q"]YouTube - Slumdog Millionaire - Trailer[/URL]
[B]The Curious Case of Benjamin Button[/B]
Benjamin Button's life begins at the close of World War I, when he is born with the body of an old man. As the years pass, however, Benjamin discovers that he is gradually becoming younger even as he grows older in experience and wisdom--a situation that informs his relationship with the lovely Daisy, who reenters his life periodically as they grow closer together in physical age.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L6K3fkwr-Y"]YouTube - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Movie Trailer #2[/URL]
[URL="http://www.oscar.com/"]OSCAR.com - 81st Annual Academy Awards[/URL]
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