Has the film world cracked? SAG winners!

Damn it, damn it , damn it!!! A week ago i was happy with the way the awards season was going. Sure, i'd have liked to see Waltz With Bashir getting best picture nominations and not just foreign film (and occasionally animated film). Yes there were some, typically, weird goings on with the BAFTA noms. But ultimately things were going well. Kate Winslet looked like she was finally going break her curse, albeit for the wrong film in most cases; the great Mickey Rourke was the runaway lock for best actor; Bashir was riding high in Foreign Film; WALL-E, in Bashir's absence, was dominating animation etc.

Then the bat-shit Oscar nominations came out the the whole thing went to hell.

Now SAG have put their oar in and things just got worse:

I'd always worried pre-Globes that Rourke couldn't win the Oscar, that he just pissed too many people off and would get Eddie Murphy-ied or Burt Reynolds-d. Then his win got the biggest reception of the night at the Globes and I thought, "maybe i was wrong, maybe they like him more than i thought. Maybe there's hope!" Ah, but we all know the actors make up the biggest slice of the Academy voters and yesterday we learned that the Screen Actors Guild stole the award from Mickey's riveting performance and gave it to, the still good but no Mickey, mannered performance of Sean Penn in Milk.

Listen up Oscars! This bullshit cannot happen again! You cannot let Penn take the Oscar away from its rightful recipient. Penn deserved it for Dead Man Walking (although i take nothing away from Nic Cage's performance that year but Penn was excellent) but in 2004 his histrionics in Mystic River (much as I love that film) were no match for the heart-breakingly subtle and career-transforming turn from Bill Murray in Lost In Translation. Rourke deserves this year's gong, give it to him. Forget your politics, or at least remember how much you used to hate Penn for similar bad-boy antics!

The only silver-lining i see here is that SAG may have thought it owed Penn. You see SAG didn't give him best actor in 2004 - no they didn't even give it to Bill, they gave it to Johnny Depp in Pirates of the sodding Caribbean! So maybe, just maybe, we can ignore this travesty and hope that Mickey can still grab the gold. I truly pray he does. And if he doesn't? Well Mr Penn just know that's two i'll be holding against you!

Back to last night and Winslet wins for The Reader, back to her pre-Globes regular slot. Did you see the announcement footage? It looked like she was just waiting for her name to be called, she looked kind of bored by the predictability! That aside the Oscars have put her up for Best Actress, this seems to me a way to screw our Kate yet again. Will voters vote for her as best actress in a film where she has only won supporting actress gongs to date - in a year with Meryl (who won the SAG Best Actress).

Mark my words, last year all 4 acting winners were non-Americans so this year the Academy will show the world by screwing all aliens and giving to the good ole US of A. Now it can't do that in supporting actor because that would mean screwing over the late Heath Ledger (Aussie), which would look bad. So instead they'll screw Kate and (with Kate out of the supporting actress race) obvious strongest supporting candidate Penelope Cruz. Watch them do it, i'm so worried they're going to.

At least SAG gave Slumdog ensemble, which with heavyweights like Doubt and Frost/Nixon to contend with, is another impressive feather in its hat in the march to be crowned best picture. Of course it is British and set in India so who knows?!

They did also get right the TV wins for 30 Rock and the fantastic Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney in John Adams, a series i'm currently loving on terrestrial TV in the UK.

I don't know what's going to happen but things just started to look even bleaker for my favourites of the year!

Bringing the axe down...on the joke that is the Oscar noms

This year the Oscars have really done it. They are a joke. So much so that for the first time since 1994 when i started staying up all night in the UK to watch the broadcast i am seriously considering not bothering this year. I just don't care what wins in most categories this year and moreover i know the best in certain categories can't win as they aren't nominated! This is the most lacklustre, and often offensive set of nominations i can recall from the Academy since Doctor Dolittle got a Best Picture nom! If they can't even get the noms right what chance have they got with the winners.

First up with have the ludicrous best actress category. While i agree that Kate Winslet should have been considered for Best Actress for The Reader not supporting actress the Academy never shows a mind of its own in ignoring the PR push on a title, which here was firmly pushing for supporting. The BAFTAs have a habit of showing independence like this (and indeed did again this year) but the Acaedmy just don't ever stray, so why now?

Then you have to ask where is Kristin Scott Thomas' extraordinary performance in French film I've Loved You So Long? Far better than Hathaway and even Streep, Scott Thomas' performance is rivalled only by Winslet's Revolutionary Road performance this year. Are the Academy so anti-French that they couldn't handle risking two French-language performances at the front of the Best Actress pack two years in a row? That's the only plausible explanation i can think of.

Which of course brings us to the real shocker: Kate Winslet not receiving a nomination for Revolutionary Road. This marks the first time EVER (that's over 65 years) that a Golden Globe winner of the Best Actress Drama award has not received an Oscar nomination. Let me repeat that "FIRST TIME EVER"! It has happened 4 times in history for Golden Globe Best Actor Drama winners - Spencer Tracy in The Actress, Anthony Franciosa in Career, Omar Sharif in Doctor Zhivago and, most recently and the only time in the past 40+ years, Jim Carrey in The Truman Show - but never, NEVER for a Best Actress Drama winner. What the hell is going on here?

There are of course numerous other issues. While perhaps not surprising do the Academy really believe that lacklustre great-performance-only films like Milk, Frost/Nixon (and to a certain extent The Reader) are better made, produced, etc films than The Dark Knight and WALL-E?

What the hell happened to Bruce Springsteen's song from The Wrestler which was previously considered the front-runner for the Oscar win. But no nomination! And yet the banalq Peter Gabriel song from WALL-E (the only irritating part of the movie) gets one!?!

While on the subject of music. No nominations for Thomas Newman's haunting, beautiful score for Revolutionary Road? Clearly the Academy despise this movie. Also no nomination for the stunning, driving score of The Dark Knight? What madness is this?!

Where is Waltz With Bashir in best Animated film, a far better film than any of the three nominees - yes, even the sublime WALL-E.

Why is the brilliant Rosemarie Dewitt not in supporting actress for Rachel Getting Married?

For the first time i can think of the Oscar nominations actually made me angry this year! The Oscars are a joke, the Academy is a joke and anyone that wins this year (with the exceptions - we hope and pray - of Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, Presto in animated short and Waltz With Bashir in foreign film) should know they will go down in history as part of a joke year, easily forgotten and dismissed.

Shame on you Academy, shame on you!

Top 10 Anticipated Movies of 2009

These are the films i am most looking forward to seeing in 2009 - the ones that if i were told i could only see 10 would be the chosen. Sure there are others i want to see (a lot) but for one reason or another these are the top 10 (in no order):

1. Avatar - James Cameron is back and he brought Siggy Weaver with him for a sci-fi 3D spectacular. Can. Not. Wait! I spoke to him about this project in June 2006 so it's been a looooooooooong time coming. Come on Christmas!

2. Gran Torino - Clint brings kick-ass Clint and awards-kudos Clint together for the first true time since Unforgiven. The greatest working director in my opinion i'm so looking forward to February for the UK release on this one and am just pissed that it didn't get a UK awards run.

3. Coraline - I am a huge fan of Nightmare Before Christmas and the creatures of Life Aquatic, less so James & the Giant Peach, but regardless a new Henry Selick film is cause to celebrate. Hoping it's good.

4. Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea - Miyazaki = brilliance, plain and simple and this looks great. The imagery makes me think Totoro and as that is my favourite of the master's work that can't be a bad thing!

5.The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus - despite a shakey decade or so my love of Terry Gilliam remains undiminished and i am really looking forward to what sounds like another wacky adventure from Gilliam. Great to hear he's back at work on Don Quixote finally but in the meantime we have this to keep us happy. Ledger's last film of course - it's amazing to think that the concept of his character becoming other actors in other worlds (Depp and Farrell, yeah, and Jude Law, oh well can't all be winners!) was forced on the movie, it's just so damn Gilliam!

6. Whatever Works - after the very funny Vicky Cristina Barcelona Woody Allen is back in New York for the first time since Melinda & Melinda in 2004. As if that weren't enough reason to watch it it stars Larry David! David and Allen in New York, sounds like a winning formula to this Allen fanatic! Plus the always reliable Patricia Clarkson, the hilarious Michael McKean and the excellent in The Wrestler Evan Rachel Wood are all along for the ride.

7. Up - A Pixar movie is always good reason to be excited. When the closest things to let downs the studio has ever produced are Cars and A Bug's Life you know you're on safe ground. That said they seem determined to continue to test the limits of commercialism following the brilliant and critically acclaimed but slightly lacking in box office luster WALL-E with a film about a geriatric adventurer! No doubt it'll be amazing but will the public love it?

8. The Human Factor - mark my words Best Actor Oscar for 2009 resides here. You heard it here first. Morgan Freeman has been involved in a Nelson Mandela project since 2000 when he was first linked to A Long Walk to Freedom and had numerous meetings with Mandela about playing him. Now finally we are set to see Freeman finally play Mandela. Enough of an Oscar chance in itself, but who has this Mandela/Freeman project bagged as director? Yup, it's living legend Clint "Oscar" Eastwood! Lest we forget Clint got Freeman his first Oscar win with Million Dollar Baby. No one else need compete this year Freeman has surely got this sown up - real-life character, instantly recognisable around the world, Clint "Oscar" Eastwood.

9. Watchmen - I am so intrigued by this project. I'm not especially attached to the comic book but it was interesting and the film looks very faithful to the comic so sure to look amazing. But will this so-called "unfilmable" comic really work on the big screen? Looking forward to finding out.

10. Star Trek - I am also very intrigued by this. Not having a massive attachment to the original Trek stories or actors i am happy to see a massive reboot. Some of the the bits in the trailed annoy me, but others look awesome. Can "good at ideas but not follow-through" director JJ Abrams reinvent Star Trek for a whole new audience? Again, looking forward to finding out.

Runners up: The Box, Shutter Island, State Of Play, Synecdoche New York, Where The Wild Things Are.

New Trailers

Okay, new here not totally new new in the grand scheme of things! Anyway now on the trailer bar to the right:

State Of Play - the new Kevin Macdonald film is looking pretty good. Have to admit i never saw the TV show so excited for this one.

The Young Victoria - looks a little shakey to me and the fact it is releasing fairly soon but did not release to qualify for awards season when it is so clearly awards bait rings of Other Boleyn Girl-like lack of confidence. I like Emily Blunt and Paul Bettany so i hope it's better than i suspect it's going to be.

The Informers - red band trailer for the interminably delayed Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, filmed back in 2007. Not sure about this one. Wasn't a huge fan of the film version of American Psycho. Rules of Attraction was better but not stunning. This looks somewhere in between. Still Mickey Rourke's in it so i'll watch it.

The Boat That Rocked - I make no bones about the fact i hate Love Actually. Hate it. It had a few funny moments sure but the whole is a baggy mess. Richard Curtis clearly needed an editor with some balls because he can't self edit. On Four Weddings and such he had another director to see the flaws in the script and bring the best of it out but jettisoning the extraneous. Not so in Love Actually which is weighed down by as much tedious crap as it has funny bits. I hope he has learned and that this one may be better. Damn it the idea combined with a cast of PSH, Nighy and Nick Frost out to bring the funny but the trailer is kind of underwhelming!

Those wacky BAFTAs!

God bless the BAFTAs. Year after year the press claim the BAFTAs want to be seen as a forerunner to the Oscars and year after year BAFTA voters attempt to disprove this theory by voting in all kinds of slightly odd choices. This year is no different. You've got to love it.

Sure, as expected Slumdog Millionaire leads the way, matching 11 nominations against Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But even Slumdog has those wacky nominations. Frieda Pinto is up for Best Supporting Actress. I'm not saying Ms Pinto isn't good in the film, i've seen it twice and she is, but she is barely in it and this does seem one of those typical "all in" votes, where by a film becomes so popular the voters just put it in everything. As good as he is there's even an argument that Dev Patel's Best Actor nomination is a bit left field given the overwhelming strength of that category this year.

Then there's our Kate! It comes as no surprise to me - not only did i predict it, i voted that way myself - but the BAFTAs (rightly) completely ignored the "supporting actress" propaganda of The Reader's campaign and put Ms Winslet up for two Best Actress nominations for The Reader and Revolutionary Road. I love BAFTAs refusal to play ball on such things. No double-win for Winslet at home though.

British Film features the excrable Mamma Mia! And given this is a Universal movie set in Greece with Swedish music and two Americans in the leads how it qualifies as British i do not know. Furthermore if that qualification comes way of Film Council recognition then Dark Knight (an infinitely better film) would also qualify, making this nomination even harder to swallow.

My favourite oddity (again because i voted that way too) is that Amy Adams made Supporting Actress for Doubt but Viola Davis didn't. Most attention has been on Davis in this category elsewhere. Personally i have railed against as Davis' role (while very well done) could have been done equally well me many actors because it is that kind of explosive showy supporting role that pops in. The writing on her scenes is exquisite and she benefots from that. Meanwhile Adams is the core of the story, the audience's eyes and the slightly thankless underwritten wet-drip role. I'm glad she's getting the attention here. That said with no Winslet in this category I guarantee Penelope Cruz will walk off with this one.

Speaking of Vicky Cristina Barcelona - no Woody Allen in best original screenplay?! No Tom McCarthy (for The Visitor) either? Hmmm!

Brad Pitt got two nominations by bagging one for Supporting Actor in Burn After Reading and is joined by Brendan Gleeson (marvellous and deserved) as another surprising choice alongside the more expected Heath Ledger, Robert Downey Jr and Philip Seymour Hoffman. No Michael Sheen in Frost/Nixon though? No David Kross in The Reader. No Ralph Fiennes in The Duchess or The Reader? Again, surprising.

And then that brings me to my biggest surprise. The first thing i did was look to Best Animated Film to make sure my favourite film of the year Waltz With Bashir had made the third nomination spot beside the accepted certainties of WALL-E and Kung Fu Panda. It had. Brilliant. But here was a surprise, Kung Fu Panda hadn't made it. Alongside WALL-E and Waltz With Bashir was Persepolis. Now i didn't see that coming. I worried Persepolis would get in instead of Bashir but i never considered they'd both be there at the expense of Po the Panda. I hope that doesn't hurt Bashir's chances of winner, though i fear it will.

Anyway, there they are. The BAFTA noms are out for al to see and are filled with the usual eccentricities. No doubt the press will just report on the Slumdog/Benjamin Button majorities and the presence of Mickey Rourke and Kate Winslet among the nominations and cal them "predictably safe, attempting to be relevant ahead of the Oscars" but we see the truth behind these false headlines. BAFTA always has been, always will be, slightly bafflingly at times, independent. And while i often disagree with where they go i love them for it all the more!

Golden Globes get it right shocker!!!

Never thought i'd agree almost totally with the Golden Globe winners but Slumdog being the big winner, Waltz With Bashir getting best foreign, Winslet winning for both, Vicky Cristina Barcelona getting Best film comedy, Mickey Rourke (yeah!) they really got it very right this year. And so glad to see Meryl didn't automatically win for Mamma Mia! Well done HFPA.

NSFC knows what it's doing

Waltz With Bashir was named best picture of the year by the National Society of Film Critics with 26 votes, ahead of Happy-Go-Lucky and Wall-E tied in second place with 20 votes apiece.

Top 10 of 2008

The best of the 08 releases as i currently feel about them. The year has only just ended and who knows i may feel differently once i've seen these more than once (or just more for those i have already seen multiple times):

1. Waltz With Bashir - who could have thought in the year of WALL-E i'd find an animated film i'd like more but this had everything. It was shocking and funny. Beautiful and disturbing. Inventive and straightforward. A masterpiece from the dog-chase opening to the real-life photography at the end.

2. WALL-E - the other great animated film couldn't be more different from Waltz With Bashir but was equally inventive. To take an all-but silent character and imbue him with such charm and charisma. The opening 45 minutes is amazing - easily the most beautiful animation i have ever seen. Ben Burtt should get some sort of special Oscar for this and i hope it isn't overlooked in cinematography too. The second half in space is fun and as good as anything Pixar has done... except the first half, and weirdly that is a negative! It feels like a film of two halves. Yes they are a genius half and a great half but it still jars slightly.

3. The Dark Knight - Not popular with at least one person who'll read this but my most watched film of 2008 (4 times in the cinema) was summer tent-pole filmmaking at it's finest. In a year that included the sass of Iron Man, the splendour of Hellboy 2 and the unashamed fun of Incredible Hulk this rose far above them all, never really feeling like a comic-book film. Like WALL-E for animation this was a film that transcended the term "comic-book movie" so that people could say "that was a great film" without having to shoe-horn the relevant term in. Chris Nolan is a stunning filmmaker and was served by a great ensemble on top of its game.

4. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - A change of pace and style for David Fincher but a fantastic one. Hollywood epic spectacle as done by a man with zero studio sensibilities. Avoids the saccharine of Forrest Gump (they share a writer) and the tendency to revel in its weird world as Tim Burton would have, and anchored by a great ensemble who never stand out from the story because they are serving it rather than themselves.

5. Slumdog Millionaire - a film that truly works. There is no weak point in this film. From performance, to style, to music, to editing, the whole film is one glorious loveable package - like a Frank Capra film for the 21st century. The out-house/signature scene was both the most disgusting and funniest thing i've seen all year. Danny Boyle has never made a film as good.

6. The Wrestler - A riveting central performance from Mickey Rourke is far from all there is to this measured and heart-breaking film that also serves up a wonderful 80s nostalgia for those of us who grew up in the time of Hulk Hogan wrestling. Evan Rachel Wood is also great as Randy "The Ram" Robinson's estranged daughter and Marisa Tomei delivered as usual (though i thought her better in last year's Lumet film Before The Devil Knows You're Dead). Aronofsky has made a surprisingly straight-forward film after the mind-bending Pi, Requiem For a Dream and The Fountain and it is both an interesting and good step for him. I like all those other three for different reasons but The Wrestler was his first where i just embraced the story rather than seeing the technical.

7. Revolutionary Road - depressing sure, and it takes an interesting alternate approach to the characters from the book but a strong cast on gripping form and Sam Mendes getting out the way and letting them and his technical them of costumers and set designers, etc, transport you hook, line and sinker to another time. For me Kate Winslet in this is the performance of the year, but i expect her more showy turn in The Reader will get more Oscar attention as the American Academy has never understood subtlety!

8. The Reader - not that The Reader is bad. David Kross (is that right?) is brilliant as the younger Ralph Fiennes and it is a gripping story delivered almost entirely by the performances rather than the story itself. Daldry's best film easily. Of course it has Oscar written all over it - accents, holocaust-edged, emotion, two acclaimed producers who are no longer with us (Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella). It is very good though for all that.

9. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Ah, Woody really back on form. Not just "best Woody for a while" this is best since Crimes & Misdemeanors - that's 20 years and spans many excellent films including his great early 90s run. Penelope Cruz has never been so good in English-language. Bardem is a superb lothario. Johansson is as sexy as she's ever been. Rebecca Hall easily holds the film together with a strong performance that forms the centre of the piece amongst all these more famous sex symbols. And you have Patricia Clarkson for good measure. After delivering his worst film ever (Cassandra's Dream) it also came as a relief to see Woody still had such skill and wit in him. Yeah for Woody!

10. Rachel Getting Married - a strange film that has grown on me more and more as i have thought about it. Starting as soon as i left the film it kept replaying in my head and getting better and better. No doubt about it the performances are excellent but i wasn't always sure about the style while watching it, and yet now it has gelled in my head. Still not all that keen on some of the music but the documentary style really works for what the film is trying to show and the scene between Anne Hathaway and Debra Winger is one of may favourites of the year.

Top 10 Films seen in cinema in 2008

I see a lot of classic and old movies in the cinema, this year it was somewhere in the region of 60, and there are, of course, often films i would consider the previous year's whcih you see again.

This is a literal best films i've seen in the cinema in 2008. Unfortunately no 2008 actually make it onto this list (although Waltz With Bashir came very very close and would have made a top 15 easily, alongside Blade Runner: Director's Cut, Alien: Director's Cut, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and The Killers).

A top 10 of 2008 films will follow.

Top Ten Films Seen At Cinema in 2008:

1. The Philadelphia Story - my third time seeing this wonderful film in the cinema.
2. The Godfather - second time on the big screen and it just gets better and better!
3. There Will Be Blood - My #1 film of 2007 was seen 2 more times in 2008 so achieves what the 2008 titles couldn't!
4. The Apartment - Again my third time on the big screen for my favourite Billy Wilder.
5. Ghostbusters - second time on the big screen for one of my true desert-island movies.
6. The Godfather, Part 2 - first time i've seen this on the big screen. very impressive.
7. Unforgiven - saw as part of a massive Eastwood season at the NFT. Many greats but this one's beautiful and brilliant.
8. Miller's Crossing - My favourite Coen film finally seen on the big screen. Also caught Blood Simple, Barton Fink and Fargo (which i saw on original release) in another NFT season.
9. Some Like It Hot - This was a bit special because Tony Curtis did a Q&A. My second time seeing it on the big screen. So great to see this with an audience.
10. The Lady Eve - as said in previous post my discovery of the year. Brilliant Preston Sturges film. I'm looking forward to catching up with more of his, especially Sullivan's Travels, this year.

Walk of Shame 2008 (+ Discoveries)

Ah, there are always those films aren't there. The ones you don't want to admit you've never seen, especially when you watch several hundred films per year (what excuse could you have?)!


Below is my top 10 Walk Of Shame for 2008. Those films which i have always intended to see and were every bit as good as i had expected but am ashamed to say i hadn't seen prior to 2008. They are in order of how much i liked them not the level of shame (if that were the chase #4 would have to be #1!)


1. The Big Sleep - fantastic Bogey & Bacall
2. Yojimbo - Damn Mifune was great. Years of watching Fistful of Dollars and now i've finally seen what it was ripping off!
3. It Happened One Night - Hilarious, Oscar-winning great
4. The Great Escape - the truly shameful! Now i can truly call myself British having seen this.
5. The Hired Hand - Leon always told me it was great, i shoulda listened sooner.
6. Get Carter - saw it in a cinema double with Italian Job. Carter has eluded me a long time. Now if i can just get around to seeing Point Blank!
7. An Affair To Remember - Sleepless In Seattle spends half its running time saying how great it is and i love Cary Grant but somehow hadn't seen this gem (not as good as Sleepless makes out though!)
8. Reds - Audacious Warren Beatty Oscar-winner (for director) with Beatty, Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson on fantastic form. How did this lose to Chariots Of Fire?
9. A Hard Day's Night - fun and quirky with some great inventive set pieces.
10. From Here To Eternity - it's interesting how out-of-context most referential films take the famous beach scene.


Special Mention: Delicatessen/City Of Lost Children - two wonderful, inventive, glorious to look at films from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Having finally seen them i can rank Jeunet amongst my very favourite directors. I didn't separate these out because i honestly can't decide which is better, they are both magnificent and should be placed alongside the early Guillermo del Toro films (Cronos, Devil's Backbone)


Discoveries - These 4 can't be included in the Walk Of Shame because the peramators for that dictate those are films i always intended to see and was ashamed to admit i hadn't. The following 4 films are all films that i should have been ashamed to have not seen but was not that aware of. All 4 are ones I strongly recommend to all film lovers and the first three would rank up with Big Sleep if they were in the above list.


1. The Lady Eve - my introduction to Preston Sturges (I have since seen another 4 of his) this is a wonderful comedy that showed a lighter side to the always marvellous Henry Fonda.
2. The Killers - One of the best examples of film noir and hands down the best film to star Burt Lancaster (and yes i am including Sweet Smell of Success) this is a stunning film, up there with Double Indemnity.
3. The Devil And Miss Jones - having been reminded of Charles Coburn's brilliance by The Lady Eve i caught this one on tv. A delightful Capra-esque comedy that i look forward to introducing people to.
4. Danger: Diabolik - a curio from horror maestro Mario Bava this is a lunatic colourful comic-book adaptation that may just be one of the best at capturing the visual feel of a comic. High camp but glorious.

My 2008 film year

I've been inexcusably absent of late enjoying my holidays but following are my summary charts of the film year that was 2008. I have a top 10 films seen in the cinema in 2008 and because 2008 wasn't able to generate a film good enough to make the top 10 (!) a top 10 films of 2008! (This will be better explained when you see the lists).

I also have a walk of shame top 10 - no not the worst films as i already posted these as a list at the bottom of the blog in December (see below). This is a list of excellent films i am ashamed to say i had always intended to see but had not seen until this year. These were not necessarily seen in the cinema.

The Executioner's Gongs themselves have yet to be 100% decided, for while i know what the best film of 2008 was i have not completely decided performances, etc. The Gongs themselves will follow in a couple of weeks probably.

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