Oscar Nominees is released today, Slumdog Got 13 Hooray and Benjamin is getting 10!!!

Well, with the Golden Globe off, the award season is on, there will be the SAG award and of course today also mark the day that the OSCAR nominee is announced.

It is a mix emotional day with the nominee.

We are very very excited with the OSCAR going for a long list of Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button Nominee.

The 81^st OSCAR will be an exciting one, with a new host coming, Hugh Jackman, and plenty of great wonderful movies.

It’s a bit of a shame for the OSCAR to let go of Revolutionary Road. yup, It only receive a couple of the technical awards. Kate and Leo even Sam Mendez is snubs. Kate however got in with a Best Actress nominee with The Readers.

Taking about leading actor and actresses nominees, it is as strong as any year, everyone of the nominee is more than deserving, Frank Langella gave the most impressive impersonation of Nixon in (Frost/Nixon), Sean Penn in Milk as the first Gay Senator is one of the most captivating character in movies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, taking in 13 Nominees, Brad Pitt is the most rewarding one acting Benjamin from young to old or should we say old to young, and the Golden Globe dubbed Mickey Rourke will the underdog story repeat itself in the golden statue?

As for actress in the lead takes in Anne Hathaway from Rachel Getting Married which is one of the most inspiring character in this year independent film, Angelina Jolie in Changeling is sure nominee this year, but is it good enough for the award? Melissa Leo from The Frozen River is the only black horse that have not been appearing much in any award lately even with a great performance in the this sensitive story, or is it again a fight between 2 most controversial role this year, a nun who is going to Discloses a priest “Bad” habit, Meryl Streep in Doubt and the Kate Winslet in WWII holocaust movie, The Readers.

Of course the supporting role have an interesting mix where we are all rooting for the late Heath Ledger from “The Dark Knight”, mixes with Josh Brolin – finally for the role in Milk, he totally got snub from the movie W., of course not to forget the great Philip Seymour Hoffman who already is a winner looking for another win this year as the “bad” priest, or would Revolutionary Road take home the only nomination for actor, Michael Shannon which is a total surprise for me.

However we are most glad when Taraji P. Henson from Benjamin Button is nominated, she finally get the recognition she deserve together with Doubt’s Viola Davis, and of course Amy Adams is fighting for her second Oscar win with the character of the nun in the same movie, and who could let go of the sexy, beautiful Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Marisa Tomei from the Wrestler.

On the Animation side, I think that it’d be a great time for a comedy like Kungfu Panda to win but I believe the more up to the award standard format type is Wall-E.

Slumdog which did not take in any actor, actresses nominee is however my bet for Best Movie, of course with a strong cast movie like The Readers, Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon not to mention the most inspiring movie all year long, Milk (which come with the most amazing cast that is totally overlook this year), is a tough vote. Will the underdog really be the dog to go? We’ll have to wait and see.

As for original screenplay I’m pretty sure that Milk is the taker, as for the Adapted Screenplay there will be a big fight, it is a big year for almost all of the writing, from Benjamin Button to Doubt, to Frost/Nixon, Slumdog Millionaire and The Reader, all story that is worthy of a best movie nomination, where all 4 except Doubt is up for the Best movie this year OSCAR.