Thursday, November 6, 2008

LA Times Oscar contenders as of early November 2008

Actresses: Kate Beckinsale (Nothing But the Truth), Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Penelope Cruz (Elegy), Dakota Fanning (The Secret Life of Bees), Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married), Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky), Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Nicole Kidman (Australia), Keira Knightley (The Duchess), Melissa Leo (Frozen River), Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City*), Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long), Meryl Streep (both for Doubt and Mamma Mia), Emma Thompson (Last Chance Harvey), Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy), Kate Winslet (both Revolutionary Road and The Reader). Read the LA Times online article about the actresses here.

Links are to my blog entries on the ones I have seen since I started posting in September. Those marked with a * I saw, I liked, but have not posted on the blog (and even though I liked Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker has no chance of an Oscar nomination for best actress this year).

Actors: Josh Brolin (W.), Daniel Craig (Defiance), Tom Cruise (Valkyrie), Benicio Del Toro (Che), Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man*), Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino), Michael Fassbender (Hunger), Ralph Fiennes (The Reader), Dustin Hoffman (Last Chance Harvey), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Synecdoche, New York), Hugh Jackman (Australia), Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), Ben Kingsley (Elegy), Greg Kinnear (Flash of Genius), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Viggo Mortensen (Good), Sean Penn (Milk), Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon), Will Smith (Seven Pounds). Read the actors' article here.

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