Two new trailers are up now. Can Tale Of Despereaux put up a fight for the third animation nom spot beside what will surely be guaranteed places for WALL-E and Kung Fu Panda? There's a lot of varied competition from Madagascar 2, Igor (and in the US, Bolt) to Waltz With Bashir (and in the UK, Persepolis). That said the scream moment in this trailer already surpasses the entirety of the excrable Igor so you never know:
http://movies.yahoo.com/holiday-movies/Tale-Of-Despereaux/1809420569/trailers/164
Second up with have a Cannes best actor winner Benicio Del Toro throwing his hat into the best actor ring with Che. Del Toro of course won his supporting actor Oscar in a Soderbergh film but it is worth noting that no Cannes actor or actress winner has gone on to win the Oscar since Holly Hunter for The Piano in 1993! And the last two Americans to win best actor at Cannes (Tommy Lee Jones in 2005 for Three Burials, and Sean Penn in 1997 for She's So Lovely) weren't even nominated at the Oscars (shame for Jones).
But this could be the fourth political nom (alongside Langella's Nixon, Penn's Harvey Milk and Brolin's Bush) that can count each other out and help Mickey Rourke's Randy "The Ram" Robinson to be the first wrestling Oscar winner. Go Ram go!
http://download.wire9.com/substance/che_trailer/che_trailer_850k.mov
2 comments:
Why worry about the third title on the nomination ticket when you are going up against 'the greatest animated film of all time'® WALL-E? KUNG FU is the best film to have come out of DWA for years but Pixar's latest is worthy of a Best Picture nomination. Period.
But then how do we know an even more amazing aniamted film is not around the corner? Admittedly a tough call though for anything to have to go up against WALL-E.
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