BEST PICTURE
		Picture	Studio	Director	Stars	Comment
The Frontrunners For Nomination
1	Dec 25	Nine	TWC	Marshall	Day-Lewis Et al	With all the trouble, still looking like the pedigree choice
2	open	Up	Disney	Docter Petersen	-	Just have to keep reminding people that its okay to vote animated
3	Dec 18	Avatar	Fox	Cameron	?	Could still come up way short... but could also come up Rings
4	Nov 13	Up In The Air	Par	Reitman	Clooney	Solid contender
5	open	An Education	SPC	Scherfig	Mulligan Sarsgaard	Old School fave
6	Nov 6	Precious	LG	Daniels	Sidibe 'Nique	Media loves it
7	Dec 11	Invictus	WB	Eastwood	Freeman	Is it Mandela Time yet?
8	open	A Serious Man	Focus	Coens	Stuhlbarg Kind	Some Jewish pushback, but with 10, a strong pick
9	Nov	A Single Man	TWC	Ford	Firth	Right there at the edge
10	open	The Hurt Locker	Sum	Bigelow	Renner	Will there be enough push to get the votes it deserves?
11	open	Inglourious Basterds	TWC	Tarantino	Waltz	Could be damaged by an Avatar surge
12	Dec 25	The Lovely Bones	Par/DW	Jackson	Weiss Ronan Wahlberg Tucci	In-house word of mouth improved... we'll know when we see it.
13	open	Julie & Julia	Sony	Ephron	Streep Adams	Could easily sneak in
The Chasers (by release date)
	open	District 9	Sony	Blomkamp	Copley	Sony wants to believe it
	Nov 6	Men Who Stare At Goats	Over	Heslov	Clooney Bridges
	Nov 20	Broken Embraces	SPC	Almodovar	Cruz
	Nov 25	The Road	TWC	Hillcoat	Theron Mortensen
	Nov 20	The Blind Side	WB	Hancock	Bullock Bates
	Dec 4	Brothers	Lions	Sheridan	Maguire Gyllenhaal
	Dec 4	Everybody's Fine	Mir	Jones	DeNiro
	Dec 25	Sherlock Holmes	WB	Ritchie	Downey
	Dec 25	It's Complicated	U	Meyers	Streep Baldwin Martin
	?	The Last Station	-	Hoffman	Plummer Giamatti

October 30, 2009
- by David Poland