Oscar Watch Update
I’m at the halfway point — two weeks (and two days) since the Oscar nominees have been announced; two weeks (and a day) before the actual ceremony. So how’s my Oscar Challenge going? Well.
Looking at the big six categories: I’ve only seen one Best Picture nominee…and, therefore, one Best Director nominee (Slumdog Millionaire); one Best Actor nominee (The Wrestler); one Best Actress nominee (Rachel Getting Married); two Supporting Actor nominees (The Dark Knight and Tropic Thunder); and one Supporting Actress nominee (The Wrestler again).
So of the 15 movies that comprise the top six categories, I’ve seen seven. Two more — Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Best Supporting Actress) and The Visitor (Best Actor) — are here from Netflix, so those’ll probably be knocked out today. And I’m hoping to go see either The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or The Reader this weekend, either of which would get me up to ten of fifteen, which is not a bad ratio to go with two weeks. I can do five movies in two weeks. (I think.)
To the greater tally of Oscar nominees, you can add WALL•E, In Bruges, and Iron Man to my list (which gives me two Original Screenplay and one Best Animated Film nominees, so it’s not a bad showing).
What’s tempting is the more obscure stuff. A theater near here is showing The Class and Waltz With Bashir, two Best Foreign Film nominees, and another theater is running this week only all ten Best Live-Action and Best Animated shorts. I really want to see all of those, but I don’t know if it’s worth sacrificing movie-going time that could be used for one of the remaining big six nominees to go to them, so we’ll see.
Tags: 31 movies in 16 days, oscars, oscars 2009