Looking ahead to the 81st Academy Awards

Wilhelm

Can anybody remember who won the Oscar for best film last year ?

Nope, exactly.

Fergus Pickering

Should win? You mean in your opinion it should win.

Should be: King Maximillian IV. Actually is: Max Kaye

Who's the robotic bloke in the photo?

Susan Hill

Slum Dog is the flavour of the month movie and everyone will feel they get the high moral ground voting for it. Bad film but there you go. I`m not entirely confident about Kate Winslet but so long as we don`t get the Weepie 'thank you children for being with Mummy on this journey' sick-bag speech I don`t really care.

David

Cruz and Jolie? Really?!

Changeling was a film almost entirely about hats, and I never knew that shouting in Spanish in boring, tired and range-tinted films was good acting.

Travis Bickle

I'd so like to thank my........... zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Matthew Blott

I'm not sure I agree with Peter Hoskin's alternative winners but he does make an important point. Invariably the film that scoops the most gongs isn't always that good (remember Titanic) but is the film with the widest appeal. The trend has got worse in the past twenty years with studios afraid to take risks and also relying on screen testing (and then changing) their films.

Up all night

i have a feeling slumdog will win nothing. Unfortunately we Brits have an inflated sense of our own relevance when it comes to these things

Owen Morgan

"Who's the robotic bloke in the photo?"

I think he writes Harriet Harman's speeches.

biggestaspidistra

pompous and self righteous. Oh I'm sorry did I say that aloud?

GeoffH

'The Reader' has been subject to a ridiculous campaign that it's a 'soft on Nazis' movie, so that makes Kate Winslet's job a bit too hard.

IN any event, Meryl Streep in 'Doubt' is on stronger form.

I haven't seen 'Slumdog' or 'The Changeling' but reviews suggest they are too flawed to match 'Doubt' and, in a rational world, 'The Reader'.

Steve

You list your should win Best Picture as Frost/Nixon and your should win Best Director as Gus Van Sant for Milk. So presumably Frost/Nixon directed itself?

Alf Tupper

Are we supposed to give a flying shite who gets what?

Alex

I just saw The Wrestler last night

Micky Rouke was superb. He deserves to win the oscar.

If there's anyone out there who hasn't seen The Wrestler. See it - you'll love it.

teledu

You're right Alex. I saw The Wrestler last week with my daughter and we both agreed it was a cracker. You could almost smell the linament and taste the blood in your mouth. Rourke was outstanding and deserves an Oscar. Go see it you doubters.

Fergus Pickering

Come along, Alf Tupper. Would you say that if they were talking about bloody sport?

Tiberius

Kate Winslett should win something for her role in the film version of Thomas Hardy's novel "Jude" ;)

Alf Tupper

Praps it was a bit strong. It's just I can't stand all that luvvie dahling aren't we just the most beautiful people - stuff.
Well that and the old blood pressure's kicked off again. And me gout. And they get paid too much.
And there's one of these bloody events every three weeks, how many times a year do they want to stroke each other's ego? Eh?

Sorry again, but obody's inflammable are they?

Archie

B-O-R-I-N-G!