Nosferatu Pix 2008

My movie picks are a little late this year. The Oscars show has just started. I'm still sick but I've started taking beta blockers so that my heart will quit going bananas.

As usual, all the films in each category are listed in alphabetical order, because we're all winners! Well, usually we're all winners.

Not a great year for movies. Ordinarily "The Bank Job" would get merely a mention, but beggars can't be choosers. I'm not even very disappointed that I didn't get to see all the movies I wanted to see. I can't believe "RocknRolla" wasn't better than it was. Surely 2009 will have better movies. Surely.

Best Movie

The Bank Job
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler

Honorable Mention

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Best Actor

Gerard Butler - “RocknRolla”
Mos Def – “Be Kind Rewind”
Robert Downey Jr. – “Iron Man”
Mickey Rourke – “The Wrestler”
Jason Statham - “The Bank Job”

Honorable Mention

Viggo Mortensen - “Appaloosa”

Best Actress

Saffron Burrows – “The Bank Job”
Melonie Diaz – “Be Kind Rewind”
Thandie Newton – “RocknRolla”


Best Supporting Actor

Ralph Fiennes – “The Duchess”
Robert Downey Jr. – “Tropic Thunder”
Werner Herzog – “Mister Lonely”
Heath Ledger – “The Dark Knight”
Dylan Moran – “Run Fatboy Run”

Honorable mention

Jeremy Irons – “Appaloosa”
Ben Kingsley – “The Wackness”
Adam Scott - “Step Brothers”

Best Supporting Actress

Marisa Tomei – “The Wrestler”

Glad to see them

Billy Connolly – “The X-Files: I Want to Believe”
Jackie Earle Haley – “Semi -Pro”
Mary Steenburgen – “Step Brothers”
Alicia Witt – “88 Minutes”

Adult Men Spending Time with Young People,

Something’s Wrong Here

88 Minutes
Gran Torino
The Rocker
Slumdog Millionaire

Dismemberment

Mother of Tears
Tropic Thunder
The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Wanted To See, But Didn’t Manage To

Diary of the Dead
Frost/Nixon
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Let the Right One In
Milk
Mongol
My Winnipeg
Quantum of Solace
Revolutionary Road
Shine a Light
Twilight
Valkyrie

P.S. Many scenes in "The Wrestler" take place in a strip club, so if nudity isn't a welcome part of your movie night, you've been cautioned.