10 Potential Oscar Nominated Movies

Although they haven’t been announced officially yet, the critics and the audience may have already chosen their candidates for the 81st Annual Academy Award ceremony. Haven’t you picked your favorites? Then check this preview of the productions with more potential to be in the nominees list.

1. Changeling

A movie from Clint Eastwood as director sounds always a sure candidate for the main prize. This time, the story (inspired in actual events occurred in 1928) about a mother looking for her missing child is not an exception. Eastwood has already won four Oscars for producing and directing Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.

Superstar Angelina Jolie, who played one of the leading roles, could go for her second Oscar (she won one for Girl, interrupted in 2000).

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2. Australia

Baz Luhrmann’s epic and romantic movie has all the ingredients to be nominated for Best Picture: it’s a $ 130 million production with drama, adventure and the Oscar winner (for The Hours, in 2002) Nicole Kidman.

3. Revolutionary Road

The Titanic couple (Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet) came back with powerful performances in a big screen adaptation of a Richard Yates novel, with high chances of getting a couple of nominations. The direction of Sam Mendes winner with American Beauty in 2000 (and Winslet’s husband) is a plus.

4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The 1920’s Scott Fitzgerald’s story about a man “born under unusual circumstances” had a succesful adaptation to Hollywood made by David Fincher. Sex symbol Brad Pitt may get a nomination for Best Actor and Cate Blanchet is always a candidate (she won in 2005 for The Aviator and got three nominations in 2007 and 2008).

5. The Dark Knight

Best chances are for his director, Christopher Nolan or, mainly, for Heath Ledger, who could win a post mortem Oscar for his role as the Joker. Ledger had already received a nomination in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain.

6. W

Can a biopic movie about president George W. Bush be nominated for an Oscar in the Obama era? We’ll see. Director Oliver Stone can make it again after other works about prime minister’s lives such as J.F.K. and Nixon.

7. Milk

Another biopic film, in this case about the gay activist Harvey Milk, that could fight for the main prize and other categories such as Best Direction (Gus Van Sant) and Best Actor (Sean Penn).

8. Wall-E

An animated film never won as best picture before, but this year there’s a rumour about a possible nomination for this Pixar work.

9. Frost/Nixon

The last Ron Howard’s film (which recreates an historic television interview to the ex president Richard Nixon) is one of the big favorites for the Golden Globe Awards (it got 5 nominations) so it’s expected to have a good performance with the Oscars too.

10. Slumdog Millonaire

It’s the only film in the list without a cast of celebrities but it has been acclaimed by the critics as a brilliant portrait of the modern India.

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