After weeks of idle speculation by the likes of me, the awards season really kicks off this Thursday with the announcement of the National Board of Review’s list of honorees. A largely mysterious group made up of mostly older film historians and cinephiles, the NBR usually leans toward prestige films with a curve ball or two thrown in (The Bucket List on last year’s top 10, for instance). While they also give out awards for Best Actor and Best Actress (Clint Eastwood and Kate Winslet, I’m thinking), I’m most interested to see their top 10 list for this year. If I had to guess what their No. 1 film will be, I’d go the obvious route and say The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. And here are my predictions for their entire top 10:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
Post your top-10 guesses below. And on Thursday I’ll give a shoutout to the OscarWatcher who gets the most correct.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-E
Frost/Nixon
The Dark Knight
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
I would agree with all of those, except I still think The Dark Knight could sneak in. So I would say…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
#1 Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
The Wrestler
Happy-Go-Lucky
Doubt
Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-E
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
I don’t think The Dark Knight will be on the NBR’s Top Ten list because it wasn’t good enough. I would include Happy-Go-Lucky and The Edge of Heaven.
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
Wall – E
The Wrestler
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-E
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
I have Loved You So Long
Here it goes…
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Milk
- Doubt
- Frost/Nixon
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Visitor
- The Dark Knight
- Australia
- The Reader
- Revolutionary Road
Curveball? Umm… if they feel frisky, I’m going to say ‘The Brothers Bloom’… wouldn’t that be something?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Wrestler
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Dark Knight
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
Let’s give this a try…
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Rachel Getting Married
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Doubt
- Frost/Nixon
- Frozen River
- Milk
- Wall-E
- Revolutionary Road
- The Visitor
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Milk
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
Doubt
The Reader
The Wrestler
My predictions for the top 10 films on The
Wall-E
National Board of Review’s list are:
1) The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
2) Slumdog Millionaire
3) Milk
4) The Dark Knight
5) Rachel Getting Married
6) Revolutionary Road
7) I Have Loved You So Long
9) Happy-Go-Lucky
10) The Wrestler
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Reservation Road
W
Gran Torino
The Dark Knight and Wall-E both deserve recognition this year. I really hope it happens.
I am not going to predict anything here. I just want to say that I am more interested in seeing whether or not The Dark Knight makes it onto any Best Picture lists, including the Academy Awards. It broke so many stereotypes about superhero, summer, and popcorn movies that it would be great to see it recognized.
Any Top Ten List that does not include Wall-E pretty much invalidates itself instantly.
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Wall-E
-Frost/Nixon
-Milk
-The Reader
-Happy Go-Lucky
-The Dark Knight
-The Reader
-The Visitor
-Slumdog Millionaire
AUSTRALIA
my top 10
1 the curious case of benjamin button
2 gran torino
3 frost/nixon
4 doubt
5 the dark knight
6 wall e
7 rachel getting married
8 revolutionary road
9 the reader
10 milk
milk
frost/nixon
rachel getting married
wall-e
the dark night
revolutionary road
doubt
the curious case of benjamin button
the wrestler
australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Changeling
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Doubt
3. Frost/Nixon
4. The Dark Knight
5. Milk
6. Revolutionary Road
7. The Reader
8. Wall-E
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. The Visitor
Since they give a Best Film award and a separate Top 10, I’ll just name 10 and assume one of those will be chosen as Best Film.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
I won’t include Wall-E since it will likely get stuck with Best Animated Feature like Ratatouille did last year.
WALL-E
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
MILK
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Rachel Getting Married
Gran Torino
Doubt
I Loved You So Long
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Wall-E
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Gran Torino
Milk
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Australia
I Have Loved You so Long
In no particular order:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
Revolutionary Road
Gran Torino
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Dark Knigh (wishful thinking I know but what a fantastic film)
Is it just me, or does Frost/Nixon seem overrated? The dialogue from the trailer didn’t impress me, Ron Howard has never been the greatest director, and Frank Langella really overdoes the voice. I don’t think it will turn out to be all that great.
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Dark Knight
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
Frost/Nixon
Doubt
I think a curveball could go to Iron Man or a lesser known indie like Towelhead or Brideshead Revisited