Instead, they continue to prove themselves out of touch with the masses by fanatically promoting gay films and boring crap nobody ever sees. And they wonder why viewership is down.
In this, the finest year of comic book movies ever, they threw us a few bones, but I for one believe it is time to hold our own awards show and stop believing that Oscar hold any real credibility any more.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Sean Penn in Milk
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin in W
Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie in Changeling
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Kate Winslet in The Reader
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in Doubt
Penelop Cruz in Vicky Christina Barcelona
Viola Davis in Doubt
Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best animated feature film of the year
Bolt
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda
Achievement in art direction
Changeling: James J. Murakami
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Donald Graham Burt
The Dark Knight: Nathan Crowley
The Duchess: Michael Carlin
Revolutionary Road: Kristi Zea
Achievement in cinematography : Person/persons
Changeling: Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight: Wally Pfister
The Reader: Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
Slumdog Millionaire: Anthony Dod Mantle
Achievement in costume design
Australia: Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Jacqueline West
The Duchess: Michael O'Connor
Milk: Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road: Albert Wolsky
Achievement in directing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: David Fincher
Milk: Gus Van Sant
Frost/Nixon: Ron Howard
Slumdog Millionaire: Danny Boyle
The Reader: Stephen Daldry
Best documentary feature
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
MThe Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
Best documentary short subject
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
Achievement in film editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Kirk Baxte, Angus Wall
The Dark Knight: Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon: Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
Milk: Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire: Chris Dickens
Best foreign language film of the year
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Departures
Revanche
Waltz with Bashir
Achievement in makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Greg Cannom
The Dark Knight: John Caglione Jr., Conor O'Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Mike Elizalde, Thomm Floutz
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Alexandre Desplat
Defiance: James Newton Howard
Milk: Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman
Wall-E: Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Down to Earth" from Wall-E: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
"Jal Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman
"O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire: Person/persons
Best motion picture of the year
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best animated short film
Le Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up
Achievement in sound editing
The Dark Knight: Richard King
Iron Man: Frank Eulner, Christo
Slumdog Millionaire: Tom Sayers
Wall-E: Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted: Wylie Stateman
Achievement in sound mixing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: David PArker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
The Dark Knight: Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
Slumdog Millionaire: Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
Wall-E: Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
Wanted: Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montano, Petr Forejt
Adapted screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Eric Roth
Doubt: John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon: Peter Morgan
The Reader: David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire: Simon Beaufoy
Original screenplay
Frozen River: Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky: Mike Leigh
In Bruges: Martin McDonagh
Milk: Dustin Lance Black
Wall-E: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon