We’re revving up into awards season, and a number of regional critics associations have begun handing out their awards for 2008. Their picks are usually strong indicators for Oscar time… so let’s take a look at the films doing well in some of the already-announced awards.
Winner: Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston (tie)
Winner: London, Washington D.C., Boston (tie)
Among the group of cities we looked at, Wall-E and Slumdog Millionaire have the most honors. But is Oscar willing to bestow its award for Best Picture on either an animated flick, or a foreign one? It’s not typical, but perhaps this could be the year…
Winner: San Francisco, New York City
Winner: Las Vegas
Likewise, Milk and Frost/Nixon have been garnering wonderful reviews but the chances of either winning Best Picture have to be slim at best. Hollywood may be a festering cesspool of immoral liberalism, but the awards-givers usually don’t like to publicly celebrate that fact… (Crash over Brokeback, anyone?)
So if it’s none of these, which film do you think stands the best shot at winning?
WALL-E. Hands down.