February 12, 2009

  • BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

     

    The Nominees Are:

    • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    • Defiance
    • Milk
    • Slumdog Millionaire
    • WALL-E

     

    Erin’s Pick: WALL-E

    My Mom’s Pick: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

     

    The Winner Last Year Was: Atonement

     

    WALL-E is the only one of these movies that we’ve seen, so there you go. Once again, very few of the “usual suspects” in Original Score have been nominated (No John Williams, James Horner, etc).

     

    BEST MAKEUP

     

    The Nominees Are:

    • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    • The Dark Knight
    • Hellboy II: The Golden Army

     

    Erin’s Pick: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    My Mom’s Pick: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

     

    The Winner Last Year Was: La Vie en Rose

     

    The Academy seems to fall into a pattern with the Makeup category, usually nominating a fantasy/sci-fi flick, a period piece, and a movie where someone gets aged throughout the course of the story. Benjamin Button is both a period piece AND an age-makeup flick, so they killed two birds with one stone in that one. Hence, we got ourselves two superhero (read: fantasy/sci-fi) movies.