BEST PICTURE
	Picture	Studio	Director	Stars	Comment
The Frontrunners (in alphabetical order)
Dec 19	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Par	Fincher	Pitt	Looking more and more the one to beat.
Nov 19	Slumdog Millionaire	FxSch	Boyle		When you see it, you'll know it. This is the one true feel-great film of the season.
Dec 5	Frost/Nixon	U	Howard	Langella Sheen	First reviews are soft, but so are the people reviewing... we'll see in two weeks.
Dec 12	Doubt	Mir	Shanley	Streep PS Hoffman	Long lead rumblings are that it is an acting-only film, but a film with a strong moral undercurrent may be stronger than some think...
Nov 26	Milk	Focus	Van Sant	Penn Brolin	The big question in the end will be whether it moves us as much or more than the doc... we'll see in two weeks
Nov 14	Australia	Fox	Luhrmann	Kidman Jackman	Right there in the starting gate... Baz can deliver romance like no other... but will this be enough like "other" for Academy to embrace it?
Dec	Gran Torino	WB	Eastwood	Eastwood	We'll now when we know... can't assume anything less than the usual December awards runner
Dec 26	Revolutionary Road	ParV	Mendes	Winslet DiCaprio	Fighting bad buzz that is coming out of nothing but gossip... we'll see
Summer	The Dark Knight	WB	Nolan	Ledger	Knock out a couple of the films above it on this chart and the possibility is real... but still unlikely
And The Films O' Potential
Spring	The Visitor	Ov	McCarthy	Jenkins	Jenkins is a real opportunity, but BP would be a small miracle
Oct 3	Rachel Getting Married	SPC	Demme	Hathaway Winger DeWitt	Strong emotions on both sides, but we're probably too far from the finish line now and major critics groups are unlikely to find agreement on it
Oct 10	Happy Go Lucky	Mir	Leigh	Hawkins	No muscle-y enough
Nov 11	The Road	TWC/ MGM	Hillcoat	Theron Mortensen	Looks like TWC might be saving money on a release by pushing
Nov 21	The Soloist	DW	Wright	Downey, Jr Foxx	They swear it's not saccharine
Dec	Che	IFC	Soderbergh	Del Toro	Grauman's Chinese, Nov 1, may tell the story.
Dec 12	Defiance	ParV	Zwick	Craig	Why aren't people more excited?
Dec 12	The Reader	TWC	Daldry	Winslet Fiennes	It's coming... it's said to be quite powerful... but will the industry politics get in the way
Dec 12	Seven Pounds	Sony	Muccino	Smith	I like Muccino. My fingers are crossed. No way of knowing until we see it.
Dec 19	The Wrestler	FxSch	Aronofsky	Rourke	Rourke seems like a lock... screenplay... perhaps an actress... but picture is unlikely.
Buh-bye
Oct 10	Body of Lies	WB	Scott	DiCaprio Crowe	-
Oct 17	W.	LGF	Stone	Brolin Burstyn	-
Oct 24	Changeling	U	Eastwood	Jolie	-

October 16, 2008
- by David Poland

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