The Dark Knight The Dark Knight: Who will get the Oscar noms?

[Harrygucha]

Two for certain: Heath Ledger (Best Supporting)
Wally Pfister (Best Cinematography)

 

[TheDarkVictory]

yeah im thinking those two for sure....i think in like...crazy bizarro world we'd be getting best director and best picture, but i really, really doubt it....as much as TDK has broken some barriers, i think the academy is still too snobby. i could definitely see best original score and best special effects/sound effects. maybe, maybe adapted screenplay if the academy gets the stick out of its butt.

 

[The Chris]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say

Christopher Nolan (director and adapted screenplay)
Heath Ledger (supporting actor)
Wally Pfister (cinematography)
Jonathan Nolan (adapted screenplay)
The producers (Best Picture)
Lee Smith (editing/can't tell a great story without great editing)
sound editors and mixers

Yes, wishful thinking, but hopefully they look past the genre and see the intellect, just like they looked past the violence and saw the intellect of The Departed, No Country for Old Men, and Silence of the Lambs, and looked past the genre for The Lord of the Rings.

 

[Cyrusbales]

Death = Success.

Oscars bear no relevance to quality, so this movie will probably pick up somehting.

 

[Harrygucha]

yeah im thinking those two for sure....i think in like...crazy bizarro world we'd be getting best director and best picture, but i really, really doubt it....as much as TDK has broken some barriers, i think the academy is still too snobby. i could definitely see best original score and best special effects/sound effects. maybe, maybe adapted screenplay if the academy gets the stick out of its butt.

There's alot of talk in Hollywood about Nolan getting the best director nod and the brothers Nolan getting the nod for adapted screenplay. Gary Cogill and Roeper are among the critics saying it certainly deserves it. Gary Cogill said it would have beaten 'No Country' for best picture, had it come out last year.

 

[Batman137]

Aaron Eckhart for something. He was really good on making you like him as harvey.
Wally Pfister
Heath Ledger-obvious
Gary Oldman

Those guys really did a great job.

 

[The Sage]

Hopefully both Ledger and Eckhart for Best Supporting Actor.

 

[Spider-Fan]

There is a difference between what I think it deserves, and what I think it will get.

I think Heath gets a Best Supporting Actor knod, and so does Wally Pfister for Cinematography.

I think that is it though. I think it deserves a whole slew of other noms, but until a comic movie gets nominated for BP and all those other awards, I am not going to bank on it.

 

[Cyrusbales]

Best cinematography? I don't get that one at all.

 

[Harrygucha]

Best cinematography? I don't get that one at all.

Pfister was nominated for his last two films. Begins and Prestige.

 

[donk70]

Gary Oldman stole the show as Gordon, so him

 

[Cyrusbales]

Pfister was nominated for his last two films. Begins and Prestige.

But will never win, especially with a film that has very little to offer in that department, an oscar nomination means next to nothing, especially these days. Also, the cinematography in TDK is pretty average.

 

[MiniBond]

my thought (both likely and unlikely but I'm a dreamer):

Likely:

Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger (and yeah maybe Aaron Eckhart too....a combined oscar for the two of them would be awesome)
Best cinematography: Wally pfister
Best music: Hans Zimmer and JNH
Best screenplay: Jonah and Chris Nolan
Best CGI

Unlikely:

Best director: Chris Nolan
Best supporting actress: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Best picture: The Dark Knight



But i'd like to say that my "unlikelies" might be awfully wrong considering how The Dark knight seems to have no limits whatsoever !t:t:

 

[TheDarkVictory]

Best cinematography? I don't get that one at all.

really? i thought the cinematography was one of the best aspects.

 

[Dr. Crane]

Ledger, Phister, for sure.. i think sound design deserves it as well.... i mean when Batman pushed Maroni of that fire escape... the whole theater gasped when he landed and his ankle cracked.. and they didn't show a thing.. good stuff.

to be honest.. i think Aaron did a find job with ol' Harvey as well...
special fx wise, wouldn't mind seeing the boys get a nod for the tumbler and the bat-pod.. i mean they work so well... and the pod alone... there's some engineering getting that thing to work like it did...

would love to see nolan get a nod as well.. but it is the academy... and i suspect they'll stay home and not see this movie... too dark they'll say....
we'll see...

 

[TheDarkVictory]

But will never win, especially with a film that has very little to offer in that department, an oscar nomination means next to nothing, especially these days. Also, the cinematography in TDK is pretty average.

what you think an oscar means and what it actually means seems to be two different things. an oscar means nothing to someone like you, sure, but to the general movie going public its still a sign of "OH MAN THIS MOVIE MUST BE AWESOME YEAAAAAH", and in the industry its still a big deal, it opens a lot of doors. guarantee you the coen brothers got films greenlit that before they wouldnt even think about getting made after winning their oscar last year. an oscar pretty much means you have carte blanche in terms of your next project, its up to you what you do with it, which is why a lot of celebrities blow it.... and i'm going to have to disagree with you about the cinematography, not only was it waaaay above average, it was groundbreaking, and people in the industry know that.

 

[ChrisB]

The Dark Knight isn't an "Oscar" movie. They'd be lucky to get Best Cinematography, but that's it.

 

[Cyrusbales]

really? i thought the cinematography was one of the best aspects.

I found it rather simplistic, occasionally punching a message through far too ferociously, or just being so bland and subtle, that there isn't really much to captivate or point to many of the frames.

 

[The Chris]

Not exact screen shots, but images like these really spoke volumes about the cinematography

 

[wikum]

Wally Pfister (Best Cinematography)

He HAS to win. I have never seen such a beautifully shot film in my life. The first scene made my jaw drop when I saw it on Imax. What makes that even more impressive is the fact that I had already seen that particular scene ten times at the very least.

 

[Cyrusbales]

what you think an oscar means and what it actually means seems to be two different things. an oscar means nothing to someone like you, sure, but to the general movie going public its still a sign of "OH MAN THIS MOVIE MUST BE AWESOME YEAAAAAH", and in the industry its still a big deal, it opens a lot of doors. guarantee you the coen brothers got films greenlit that before they wouldnt even think about getting made after winning their oscar last year. an oscar pretty much means you have carte blanche in terms of your next project, its up to you what you do with it, which is why a lot of celebrities blow it.... and i'm going to have to disagree with you about the cinematography, not only was it waaaay above average, it was groundbreaking, and people in the industry know that.

No, groundbreaking is Christopher Doyle or Affonso Beato. You couldn't be further from the mark here.

 

[Cyrusbales]

Not exact screen shots, but images like these really spoke volumes about the cinematography

Cinematography is about more than just making something look pretty on a simple level...

 

[Jack O Lantern]

Seriously, are we doing this? Really?

Are we actually claiming who deserves what without seeing their competition? This time last year the films that were nominated for the major awards weren't even on most people's radar yet.

Really?

 

[The Chris]

Cinematography is about more than just making something look pretty on a simple level...

Yeah. I know. It helps express the mood. It helps give you a sense of what the characters are thinking and going through and where the story is going as a whole. This film does that.

Plus you're saying that it's bland and subtle, and i think you're wrong and those are three out of the many images in the film that makes me think you're wrong. Subtle yep, bland, hell no.

 

[TheDarkKnight08]

To me:

Christopher Nolan- Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture
Jonathan Nolan- Best Adapted Screenplay
Heath Ledger- Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale- Best Actor (Ok, it might not happen, but I thought he did an amazing job here.)
Wally Pfister- Best Cinematography
Lee Smith- Best Editing

Everyone else deserves one, but I don't wanna push it.t: