You Pick the Nominees

[TJ Wells]

I got this idea from Awards Daily, basically, if you were the ONLY person who decided what movies/actors were nominated at the Oscars this year, what/who would you pick in the categories of Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress? Additionally, try to rank them from first pick to last pick (mine are like that, with the one I want the most at top and then down). Oh, and feel free to pick ANY movie from '08. If you want to nominate Paris Hilton for The Hottie and the Nottie, be my guest.

Also, head over to Awards Daily and do this there too. I'm very interested in how their results will turn out.

Best Picture
WALL-E
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
The Wrestler
Rachel Getting Married

Best Director
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Andrew Stanton for WALL-E
Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight
Courtney Hunt for Frozen River
Jonathan Demme for Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Sean Penn in Milk
Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Leonardo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor
Bill Irwin in Rachel Getting Married
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
Eddie Marsan in Happy-Go-Lucky

Best Actress
Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road
Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy

Best Supporting Actress
Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married
Rebecca Hall in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Missy Upham in Frozen River
Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Tilda Swinton in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[8:17am]

Mine is not a very thorough list, but I would definitely put Synecdoche, New York, in all of these categories.

Best Picture
The Dark Knight
Synecdoche, New York
The Wrestler
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Director
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

Best Actor
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche, New York
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor

Best Supporting Actor
John Malkovich, Burn After Reading
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight
Robert Downey Jr., Topic Thunder
Tom Noonan, Synecdoche, New York

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Melissa Leo, Frozen River

Best Supporting Actress
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Frances Conroy, Humboldt County
Samantha Morton, Synecdoche, New York
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona

[Ailite]

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-e
The Dark Knight
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director
David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Andrew Stanton for Wall-e
Christopher Nolan forThe Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant for Milk
Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon

Best Actor
Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn for Milk
Clint Eastwood for Gran Torino
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road
Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married
Michelle Williams for Wendy and Lucy
Sally Hawkins for Happy Go Lucky

Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt
Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder
James Franco for Milk
Dav Patel for Slumdog Millionaire

Best Supporting Actress
Tilda Swinton for The Curios Case of Benjamin Button
Amy Adams for Doubt
Rebecca Hall for Vicky Christy Barcelona
Penelope Cruz for Vickty Christy Barcelona
Rosemary Dewitt for Rachel Getting Married