Slumdog Millionaire took Best Picture honors from the National Board of Review, with Clint Eastwood and Anne Hathaway winning the Best Actor and Best Actress Read the full post.
Dec 4
2008
07:29 PM ET
NBR goes for 'Slumdog'
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I think some awards shows are going to bypass Ledger (for the win) simply because then they’ll have to go through the depressing moment of having someone else (his parents? Nolan?) accept the award on his behalf.
And, yes, the NBR definitely has a strange affection for Eastwood. I mean, didn’t the rather mediocre (Letters From Iwo Jim was obviously good) Flags Of Our Fathers make the cut last year as well?
Typo…that would be Letters From Iwo Jima.
What a joke. Eastwood has been doing the same old tired mumbling and grumbling for 40 years. How could any group of movie acting critics honor him as “Best Actor?” Penn, Rourke, Langella, Jenkins and countless other real actors were superior.
The other pics are not so hard to believe…unfortunately Kristin Scott-Thomas deserves accolades and so does Heath.
To Ruben: If you look closely none of the best film winners (documentary, feature and foreign) is included in their best lists, because the NBR first chooses a winner and then picks additional films for the best of the year list.
Happy about Wall-E, not so sure about Burn after Reading and Changeling.
I can’t really put much faith in the NBR. First off, I thought Burn After Reading was an awful movie. (and I’m a big fan of the Coen Brothers.) It has also received decidedly mixed reviews and Defiant is also receiving such mixed reviews. Slumdog Million was a good, but not great movie. I haven’t seen Gran Torino so I can’t comment, but the NBR certainly loves their Clint Eastwood. I’m also surprised about the inclusion of Penelope Cruz for Vicky Christina Barcelona. I’m most pleasantly surprised about David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was a great film and amazingly directed by Fincher.
Hummmm…. Bet they had to really dig to come up with a top ten for Best Film. So far this year’s movie offerings have been really poor. No “standouts” this year for sure.
Where is “The Visitor” in this list? The movie is driven by affecting performances including a gem by Richard Jenkins and dramatizes issues of the post 9/11 world.
You people are crazy. Slumdog Millionaire DEFINITELY deserves the Best Picture title…freakin’ TDK diehard fans are starting to get on my f***ing nerves. Stop trying to downplay every other film just to make TDK seem even better. YES, it was good…but it is not the second coming!!
Please check out my NBR commentary on my new blog. I’m welcoming any helpful format/content suggestions…
http://monikerjones.blogspot.com/2008/12/national-board-of-review-2008-2009.html
Josh Brolin should not win. Heath Ledger should win and they know it. His performance is much more memorable and it has more depth to it than Brolin’s performance. Heath Ledger was much more in Character than Brolin ever was. But hey it’s just the National Board review not the Oscars.
I was so excited to see Changeling on the list. I don’t get the mixed reviews at all, and I hope that hasn’t fueled some of the negativity surrounding it. Audiences rate it really highly, and while I’ve only seen Rachel Getting Married, Australia, and Changeling, it’s my favorite so far (and I liked the other two).
to sam: the dark knight is a lot better than slumdog millionaire. slumdog was good,dont get me wrong but TDK, MILK, WALLE, Frost/Nixon, and The Wrestler were better. To be honest i thought KUNG FU PANDA were better than Slumdog.
i meant was not were
Slumdog Millionaire was amazing it desrves the Oscar, I loved it!
“Slumdog Millionaire” deserves every plaudit it gets! Must say, Kate Winslet simply cannot be omitted fom any award this year. Outrageous. “Revolutionary Road” is far better than “Benjamin Button”. Ironically, Pitt is better at playing characters, but boring as hell as a leading man.