BEST PICTURE
Picture	Studio	Director	Stars		Comment
The Frontrunners (in alphabetical order)
Slumdog Millionaire	FxSch	Boyle	Patel Pinto	G	The prohibitive favorite
Frost/Nixon	U	Howard	Langella Sheen	G	The only legit shot at taking down The 'Dog
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Par	Fincher	Pitt	G	Too big to ignore, too cold to love
Milk	Focus	Van Sant	Penn Brolin	-	The second indie-minded film in the group... thrilled to be there
The Dark Knight	WB	Nolan	Ledger	-	Critics showing their independence by voting up the #2 all-time domestic film... The Joker wins.
Still Hunting
Doubt	Mir	Shanley	Streep PS Hoffman Davis	-	Hoping that SAG means something
Rachel Getting Married	SPC	Demme	Hathaway Winger DeWitt	-	Hoping that SAG means nothing.
Wall-E	Dix	Stanton	Garlin	-	Happy to be loved
Globes Only
Revolutionary Road	ParV	Mendes	Winslet DiCaprio	G	Just not the movie, but Winslet is, as always, spectacular and could win more gold.
The Reader	TWC	Daldry	Winslet Fiennes	G	Just not the movie, but Winslet is, as always, spectacular and could win more gold.-
And Still Simmering (in order of release date)
The Visitor	Ov	McCarthy	Jenkins	-	-
Vicky Cristina Barcelona	TWC	Allen	Cruz Bardem Hall	-	-
Happy Go Lucky	Mir	Leigh	Hawkins	G	-
Australia	Fox	Luhrmann	Kidman Jackman	-	-
Gran Torino	WB	Eastwood	Eastwood	-	-
The Wrestler	FxSch	Aronofsky	Rourke	-	-
Seven Pounds	Sony	Muccino	Smith	-	-
Che	IFC	Soderbergh	Del Toro	-	-
Defiance	ParV	Zwick	Craig	-	-

December 18, 2008
- by David Poland

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