Score: Eno vs. Giaccino

Has Biutiful been screened yet? Any responses so far?

Who voted for 5 films?

Top 11 Films so far

Up - 8/8

Nine - 7/8
The Hurt Locker - 7/8

The Lovely - 6/8
Bright Star - 6/8

Invictus - 5/8
An Education - 5/8
Avatar - 5/8

The Road - 4/8
Shutter Island - 4/8
500 Days of Summer - 4/8

we still may see Tree of Life this year

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2009/08 ... licks.html

And it's going to be distributed by something called Apparition, who have also secured the domestic rights for Bright Star. Has anyone ever heard of them?

sounds like an anime villain .

update

Up - 12/12

The Hurt Locker - 11/12
Nine - 10/12
The Lovely Bones - 9/12

Invictus - 8/12
Shutter Island - 8/12
Amelia - 7/12
Bright Star - 7/12

500 Days of Summer - 6/12
Avatar - 6//12
An Education - 6/12
Precious - 6/12

District 9 has a 100% RT after 11 reviews with an 8/10 avg score... if it wasn't for Avatar, I would totally start whispering its name 'round these parts. But maybe those who have seen it have a better idea of whether or not it's a film the Academy would open up to at all, since the marketing has been a bit unclear.

I saw it last week. Not really a BP 10.

do you think it's worthy of a nom?

Yes. But it won't get one. It's too fucking awesome.

yeah, that's what i thought.

District 9's reviews are starting to get spooky:

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/district9

It'll do as well as Casino Royale did. And its a much better film than CR.

Casino Royale has 3 100s total, District 9 has 3 100s with only 5 reviews in.

slight update, Top 11

Up - 13/13

The Hurt Locker - 11/13
Nine - 11/13

The Lovely Bones - 10/13
Invictus - 9/13
Shutter Island - 9/13
Amelia - 8/13

Bright Star - 7/13
500 Days of Summer - 7/13
Avatar - 7//13
Precious - 7/13

Turns out Ponyo's reviews are better than originally heard, 90 at MC with 5 100s. Still probably only locks up an animated nom.

Like I said, if it makes $15 million, maybe screenplay. Then again, isn't it loosely adapted?

Via EW, Tree of Life has a confirmed release date of December 25th.

If that's not big enough, Peter Weir's Siberian gulag drama The Way Back could get a qualifying run in the winter.

Weir and Malick!? All bets are off people and the Ten BP nominees get completely mixed around.

Is that the big news?

I guess if you dont know who Peter Weir (5 Oscar noms, 3 BP noms) and Terrence Malick (2 Oscar noms, 1 BP nom) are. Combined, their filmography accounts for 39 Oscar nominations and 6 wins since 1978.

Peter Bart at Variety is floating D9, the Oscar BP nominee

http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2 ... steal.html

That'd be amazing. It's not going to happen. Maybe, MAYBE, Original Screenplay, and they'd have to campaign for it and have a few contenders shit the bed.

LOL it was me who posted that originally.

I posted the story at 6AM.

IMO:

Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Invictus
The Lovely Bones
Nine
A Serious Man
Shutter Island
The Tree of Life
Up in the Air

And the big controversy will be "Up" missing despite the new 10-film rule.