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Director
Big surprises in the director nominees: No Clint Eastwood, no Nolan for “The Dark Knight.” Wow.
Here are the nominees:
David Fincher, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”; Ron Howard, “Frost/Nixon”; Gus Van Sant, “Milk”; Stephen Daldry, “The Reader”; Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Fincher, Van Sant and Boyle should be the leading contenders here. All are deserving, and a win by any one of these would be hunky-dory in my book.
I can’t say the same for Howard and Daldry. Both are good directors, but neither movie is an overall success in my book. “Frost/Nixon” has fine performances, but I can’t see any Oscar-worthy nomination for direction. And “The Reader” is not a fine movie. So I don’t get that one at all. Obviously, the Academy disagrees.
Charlie Kaufman should have been in this group for “Synecdoche.” Mike Leigh should also have been included for “Happy-Go-Lucky.”
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