BEST PICTURE
	Picture	Studio	Director	Stars	Comment
The Frontrunners (in alphabetical order - the mostly unseen)
Nov 19	Slumdog Millionaire	FxSch	Boyle		The Feel Good Movie-Movie
Nov 26	Milk	Focus	Van Sant	Penn Brolin	Turns out not to be "just" a gay issue film, but a classic underdog biopic
Dec 19	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Par	Fincher	Pitt	Unseen frontrunner... dangerous place to be...
Dec 5	Frost/Nixon	U	Howard	Langella Sheen	Rock solid if not overwhelming.
Nov 26	Australia	Fox	Luhrmann	Kidman Jackman	Tick tock. All the negativity (and positivity) is just guessing... a couple weeks away from first screenings
Dec 12	The Reader	TWC	Daldry	Winslet Fiennes	The one true dark horse in the race.
Dec 26	Revolutionary Road	ParV	Mendes	Winslet DiCaprio	Long leaders liked it... but they may be the least reliable indicators of anything but getting access to Leo and Kate
Dec	Gran Torino	WB	Eastwood	Eastwood	Is it "UnDirtyHarrien" or just Old Harry's Death Wish? We'll see.
Dec 12	Doubt	Mir	Shanley	Streep PS Hoffman Davis	The actors' movie.
Summer	The Dark Knight	WB	Nolan	Ledger	If Australia and Rev Road turn out to be soft, the cash machine becomes a major contender... if not, probably not.
And The Films O' Potential (in order of release date)
Open	The Visitor	Ov	McCarthy	Jenkins
Open	Rachel Getting Married	SPC	Demme	Hathaway Winger DeWitt
Open	Happy Go Lucky	Mir	Leigh	Hawkins
Dec 12	Seven Pounds	Sony	Muccino	Smith
Dec 19	The Wrestler	FxSch	Aronofsky	Rourke
Dec	Che	IFC	Soderbergh	Del Toro
Dec 29	Defiance	ParV	Zwick	Craig
Dec	Noting But The Truth	Yari	Lurie	Beckinsale

November 6, 2008
- by David Poland

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