Just In Time!

Oh thank god! The well that was the Golden Globes had just about run dry. I had pored over every fashion stitch and mis-step, I had chuckled (cynical and knowing as I am) about the 90 member "Hollywood Foreign Press" feeding off of American studio money while awarding prizes to non-American actors and movies. I had wrung every drop of excess and snark out of "Miss Golden Globes"--isn't that J.Lo's title-for life?

Face it. I had used it up. No more highs to be gotten from the remaining husks of that event.

So now what?

The Oscar noms are up! I'm good for another month now!






















Best Picture:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor:

• Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn, Milk
• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress:

• Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
  
• Angelina Jolie, The Changeling
  
• Melissa Leo, Frozen River
  
• Meryl Streep, Doubt
  
• Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Supporting Actor:

• Josh Brolin, Milk
  
• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
  
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
  
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
  
• Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress:

• Amy Adams, Doubt
  
• Penelope Cruz, Vicki Cristina Barcelona
  
• Viola Davis, Doubt
  
• Taraji P. Henson, Benjamin Button
  
• Marissa Tomei, The Wrestler

I'll stop there for now, but boy, are we going to have fun with this list!