If Special K Picked the Oscars!

BEST PICTURE
It's not just because Slumdog Millionaire was the only nominated film for Best Picture that it's my choice for the Oscar but because it really is a great movie, and I won't be surprised if we see it sweep a lot of awards. That and like, please, who wants to watch Frost/Nixon, seriously?

BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Gondry - Be Kind, Rewind. This movie didn't get a whole lot of play, but it was a nifty Gondry film, and a real tribute to the beauty and creativity of film-making AND film-watching (I knew sitting on my ass watching stuff on a screen was somehow me being involved in a creative process).

BEST ACTOR
I was fairly outraged when I heard Robert Downey Jr. was going to be in black-face in Tropic Thunder, but, they managed to make a decent statement about the black experience, and how attempts to co-op it are always going to fail. Comedic actors don't get a lot of respect in the Oscars, so it's pretty cool to see Downey Jr getting a nom, even if it's actually for supporting actor.

BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins plays a relentlessly cheerful woman in Happy-Go-Lucky, which would make for a pretty lame-ass movie, if she didn't run into a couple of sticky situations and manage to come out with dignity and ... cheerfulness!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Cruise and his big, meaty paws in Tropic Thunder was one of the most hilarious bits I've seen in a movie in a long time. Who knew that guy was so funny?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
I really did intend to see Doubt, but it's already come and gone from theatres around here. All those nominations! Meryl Streep! Philip Seymour Hoffman! Amy Adams! Viola Davis! At least one of those people ought to win, shouldn't they?

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WALL-E was a gorgeous film - so little dialogue, what an amazing story! And the first mainstream lesbian cartoon?

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Twilight - The book by Stephanie Meyer is perhaps one of the most ridiculous pieces of literature to be written in the past ten years and yet experience unprecedented fandom by teenagers and middle-aged women everywhere, did nevertheless translate into a not-completely ridiculous movie.