Sneak Peak: Best Picture - page 2

20-11-2008 12:13

This is Hathaway staking a claim as a serious actress and it could see her rewarded with a Best Actress nod. Also doing well on the festival circuit was Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler which scooped the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was the strongest from a very lack luster line up.

But after the blockbusters of the summer a string of movies who believe they are Oscar contenders come out of the woodwork and this year is no different as the movies from the three leading actresses for Best Actress could find their films in Best Picture.

There's a double chance for Kate Winslet as both The Reader, which also stars Ralph Feinnes and Revolutionary Road, a return to the big screen for Oscar winning director Sam Mendes could both be potential winners.

Changeling is the best chance for Clint Eastwood to win Best Film and Best Director, as he did with Million Dollar Baby, however his film Gran Torino could also be recognised.

John Patrick Shanley brings his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play Doubt to the screen as a gripping story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction, and it could find itself walking away with the top prize.

Meryl Streep leads an all star cast as Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of sexually abusing a new black student, charges that he denies.

But there are also chances for Baz Lurhman's romance and war epic Australia as well as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a film that is still being kept under wraps.

But don't be surprised if blockbuster The Dark Knight is also included.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw