BEST PICTURE
-	-	-	Picture	Studio	Director	Stars	Comment
The Frontrunners For Nomination
	1	Dec 25	Nine	TWC	Marshall	Day-Lewis Et al	The big buzz starts this weekend with the junket
	2	open	Up	Disney	Docter Petersen	-	Will the Disney turmoil put this in jeopardy?
	4	Nov 13	Up In The Air	Par	Reitman	Clooney	Yeah... it'll be there
	5	open	An Education	SPC	Scherfig	Mulligan Sarsgaard	1968 lives
	6	Nov 6	Precious	LG	Daniels	Sidibe Mo'Nique	Guilty displeasure
	7	Dec 11	Invictus	WB	Eastwood	Freeman	Likely to be either great or ungainly... time will tell
	3	Dec 18	Avatar	Fox	Cameron	?	The ground is rumbling
	8	open	A Serious Man	Focus	Coens	Stuhlbarg Kind	Hard to imagine it falling out... but needs to push
	9	Nov	A Single Man	TWC	Ford	Firth	Right there at the edge
	10	open	The Hurt Locker	Sum	Bigelow	Renner	If they see it, they will vote
		?	The Last Station	-	Hoffman	Plummer Giamatti	Could break into the 10... built for this audience
	11	open	Inglourious Basterds	TWC	Tarantino	Waltz	Just waiting for some film to fall... a well-liked movie
	12	Dec 25	The Lovely Bones	Par/DW	Jackson	Weiss Ronan Wahlberg Tucci	Still waiting
	13	open	Julie & Julia	Sony	Ephron	Streep Adams	Quietly waiting for the chance to pounce
The Chasers (by release date)
		open	District 9	Sony	Blomkamp	Copley	Needs Avatar to flop to even be in real play
		Nov 25	The Road	TWC	Hillcoat	Theron Mortensen	Tough, great movie
		Dec 4	Brothers	Lions	Sheridan	Maguire Gyllenhaal	Strong performances
		Dec 16	Crazy Heart	FxSear	Cooper	Bridges	A performance film
		Dec 25	Sherlock Holmes	WB	Ritchie	Downey	Par loves it... but the Ritchie hyperactivity keeps it suspect.
		Dec 25	It's Complicated	U	Meyers	Streep Baldwin Martin	Audiences enjoy Meyers' work... Academy voters don't seem to take it very seriously though
Falling Off My Chart
		Dec 4	Everybody's Fine	Mir	Jones	DeNiro	Nope.
		Nov 20	The Blind Side	WB	Hancock	Bullock Bates	Will outgross Precious, but critics will slap it for being too populist
		Nov 20	Broken Embraces	SPC	Almodovar	Cruz	Quality film... not the kind of film that breaks awards ground
		Nov 6	Men Who Stare At Goats	Over	Heslov	Clooney Bridges	Nope.

November 12, 2009
- by David Poland

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