BEST PICTURE
Picture - Studio
Slumdog Millionaire	FxSch	PGA, SAG, BFCA, HFPA	Your Oscar Winner (50%)
Milk	Focus		The most passionate Phase II push... but it ain't Crash and Slumdog ain't Brokeback (5%)
Frost/Nixon	U		(5%)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Par		(3%)
The Reader	TWC		(2%)

BEST DIRECTOR
Director - Film		Comment
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire	BFCA, HFPA, DGA	Your Oscar Winner (85%)
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button		(6%)
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon		(4%)
Gus Van Sant - Milk		(3%)
Stephen Daldry - The Reader		(2%)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film		Comment
Wall-E Andrew Stanton Jim Reardon Peter Doctor	-	(50%)
Milk Dustin Lance Black	WGA	(46%)
Happy-Go-Lucky Mile Leigh	-	(2%)
Frozen River Courtney Hunt		(1%)
In Bruges Martin McDonagh	-	(1%)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film		Comment
Slumdog Millionaire Simon Beaufoy	BFCA, HFPA, WGA	Your Oscar Winner (85%)
Frost/Nixon Peter Morgan		(7%)
Doubt John Patrick Shanley		(5%)
The Reader David Hare		(2%)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Eric Roth		(1%)

Previous Charts February 5, 2009 January 29, 2009 January 22, 2009 January 8, 2009 December 18, 2008 December 11, 2008 December 4, 2008 November 20, 2008 November 13, 2008 November 6, 2008 October 23, 2008 October 16, 2008 September 25, 2008 July 31, 2008

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February 19, 2009
- by David Poland

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