Home Picture Director Lead Supporting Screenplay Animated/Documentary/Foreign Song/Score Technical-I Technical-II Shorts
| Up | Fantastic Mr. Fox | The Princess and the Frog | Coraline | The Secret of Kells |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Disney/Pixar | 20th Century Fox | Disney | Focus Features | Buena Vista |
| By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip. |
Fantastic Mr Fox is based on a children's novel written by Roald Dahl (by the same name). This story is about a fox named Mr Fox. At night, he steals chickens, ducks, and turkeys from three mean, stinky and wealthy farmers — Boggis, Bunce and Bean — in order to feed his family. The farmers are fed up with this and try everything to kill him.
|
The Princess and the Frog marks Disney's return to the warmth and grandeur of hand drawn animation. From the heart of Louisiana's mystical bayouts and the banks of the mighty Mississippi comes an unforgetable tale of love, enchantment and discovery with a trumpet playing alligator, a love sick Cajun firefly, and a host of other charming characters at every turn. | Bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life and the people in it – only much better. But then this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous and she may be trapped forever. | The animated story of the boy behind the famed Book of Kells. |
Uae the Full Screen Button
located on the bottom of each video to watch trailers in larger format. Use the [Esc] Button to return to normal screen size.
|
Analysis: It seems Up is the foregone conclusion here. The opening montage of the Fredrickson's marriage and life together was one of the most memorable scenes in film this year. The only movie in its way is the Fantastic Mr. Fox, but I feel it is hardly a threat to upset. Will Win - Up Should Win - Up Could Win - Fantastic Mr. Fox |
Best Documentary Feature
| The Cove | Food, Inc. | Burma VJ | The Most Dangerous Man in America | Which Way Home |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| In the 1960's, Richard O'Barry was the world’s leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television program Flipper. Day in and day out, O'Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. | In Food, Inc.,filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. | Celebrated filmmaker Agnes Varda (CLEO FROM 5 TO 7) turns the camera on herself for this autobiographical documentary. While roaming the beach, the beatific 80-year-old revisits her past--including memories of fellow Left Bank directors Jacques Demy (later her husband), Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker. Incorporating clips from Varda's work, animation, and photographs, the film plays like a fond scrapbook of a life well lived. -Rotten Tomatoes | Mingling archival footage, audio recordings (which capture Nixon at his most ruthless), animated sequences, dramatic re-enactments and interviews, Ehrlich and Goldsmith lend a keen investigative eye to a myriad of subjects. While the dramatic accounts of abuses of power and the role of the press prove duly fascinating, the intensely principled Ellsberg remains the heart and soul of this study. In recounting a tragic car crash from his childhood, he chillingly states that it left him understanding that authority figures could fall asleep at the wheel. In detailing Ellsberg's atonement for his own "shameful" lapse, this documentary becomes an inspirational tale of how inner peace can be achieved amidst the most harrowing circumstances. | A feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans, who are desperately trying to reach their parents in the US.; children like Jose, a ten-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center; and Kevin, a canny, streetwise fourteen-year old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach the U.S. and send money back to her. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the children you never hear about; the invisible ones. |
Use the Full Screen Button located on the bottom of each video to watch trailers in larger format. Use the [Esc] Button to return to normal screen size.
|
Analysis: The Cove is one of the finest, most compelling documetaries I have ever seen. The problem is, so is Food Inc. Where this may be a two horse race, The Cove is out way in front, having swept all of the Guild Awards. Will Win - The Cove Should Win - The Cove Could Win - Food, Inc. |
Best Foreign Language Film
| El Secreto de Sus Ojos | Das Weiße Band | Un Prophète | Ajami | La Teta Asustada |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The Secret in Their Eyes | The White Ribbon | A Prophet | Ajami | The Milk of Sorrow |
| Argentina | Germany | France | Israel | Peru |
|
The Secret in Their Eyes follows a retired prosecutor as he revisits a heartbreaking case. |
The story focuses on a children's choir in a village in northern Germany just before World War I. Strange events happen at the school which seem to be ritual punishment. Does this affect the school system, and how does the school have an influence on fascism? |
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans... |
This muscular, intensely realistic depiction of urban battles on the streets of Ajami, a city marbled with cultural and religious divisions, echoes the larger regional tensions. The story follows a moment of bloodletting that sends ripples through a rainbow of characters, and the film marks a notable development in Israeli cinema. | Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps |
Use the Full Screen Button located on the bottom of each video to watch trailers in larger format. Use the [Esc] Button to return to normal screen size
|
Analysis: The White Ribbon and A Prophet have received such raving reviews all year. However, this is the category that always seems to fall to chaos. Having seen The White Ribbon and A Prophet, I can see where the Academy members might feel that the German film is too heavy while the French film is too violent. What steps in? Argentina's emotional The Secret in Their Eyes perhaps? Will Win - The Secret in Their Eyes Should Win - Judging only the two I have seen, I prefer The White Ribbon Could Win - The White Ribbon |