Highlights in Film :: 2009

To celebrate the 82nd Annual Academy Awards and the decent year in film this past year, we present to you this montage of most of your favourite films from 2009 and our wants/predictions for the Oscar ceremonies this evening:

Here are greenT's predictions for some of the awards that will be presented tonight:

Category: Want / Prediction

Best Picture: Avatar / The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow / James Cameron
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges / Jeff Bridges
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan / Sandra Bullock
Best S. Actor: Christoph Waltz / Christoph Waltz
Best S. Actress: Mo'nique / Mo'nique
Best Animated: Fantastic Mr. Fox / Up
Best O. Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds / Inglourious Basterds
Best A. Screenplay: In The Loop / Up in the Air
Best Foreign Language: Un Prophète / Das Weisse Band
Best Documentary: The Cove / The Cove
Best Art Direction: Avatar / Avatar
Best Cinematography: Avatar / Avatar
Best Film Editing: Inglourious Basterds / Inglourious Basterds

Roger Ebert finds his voice.

Starting in late 2006, Roger Ebert could not talk, eat, or drink because of his battle against thyroid and salivary cancer.. but now with a little help from modern technology and his own history of outspoken criticisms and praises, Ebert's unmatched legacy of words about film now allows the man to continue to speak as much as he wants: "After I lost my speaking voice, everybody thought they had this brilliant idea. 'Hey! Why don't you just take your voice from your old shows and put it on a computer?' Sounded good to me."

It seems like Roger Ebert is back to his old self again with an eye-opening article in Esquire Magazine that reveals his new jawless frame, and a more recent visit on Oprah where he will show off his new technological partner in crime, as he does here to his wife of 18 years, Chaz:

Continue following Roger Ebert's journey through his official website or on his more updated blog, and I'm sure we will see that man that has done so much for film at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this Sunday at 8|5pm.

The best minute in :: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

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Wes Anderson's new animated feature called Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name, takes the directoral familiarities of Anderson and applies them to the previously untouched medium of CGI and the result is a cuuuute film that casts Anderson's usually crew: Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson; with the big name newcomers George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Willem Dafoe.

The film is up for "Best Animated Feature" and "Music (Original Score)" at this years Academy Awards.