Yeah, I was bit surprised at the results myself. I wonder how close the Oscars will match up. I have a copy of Slumdog Millionaire and will watch it before the Oscars.
My predictions for Oscar winners as of this moment (without having seen Slumdog Millionaire or Revolutionary Road):
Best Picture:
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2nd: Frost/Nixon
3rd: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director:
David Fincher
2nd: Danny Boyle
3rd: Gus Van Sant
(I don't think they will give Ron Howard another one, bad form)
Best Actor:
Frank Langella
Tie for 2nd: Mickey Rourke/Sean Penn
Best Actress
Meryl Streep
2nd: Cate Blanchett (they LOVE Cate)
3rd: Kate Winslet
Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger
Tie for 2nd: Ralph Fiennes/Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Best Supporting Actress
Kate Winslet (The Reader)
2nd: Abigail Adams
Best Screenplay:
Slumdog Millionaire
2nd: Frost/Nixon
3rd: Doubt
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
