Who *will* win the best director Oscar for 2009? Who *should* win the Best director Oscar for 2009? - Featured?

Who Will Win – Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). I think Slumdog is going to sweep the Oscars, with no exception in this category. Who Should Win – Gus Van Sant (Milk).

I say this because I think this was a difficult film to direct. He did a marvelous job. If you haven't seen Boyle's film 'Sunshine' or Van Sant's film 'Elephant', you should definitely check them out!

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I believe Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle will win because the story itself (even the look of the movie) is so UNIQUE. I don't mind Danny Boyle winning (and he probably does deserve it), but a strong case could be made for David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) because of the difficulty of directing a story which is complex and involves a character's entire lifespan.

WILL WIN: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire SHOULD WIN: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire Even the Academy should be able to recognize this as the best of the best.

Danny Boyle will win for Slumdog Millionaire. Gus Van Sant should win for Milk.

Will win: WALL-E It earned near-universal praise from film critics and audiences alike, it's nominated in five other categories -- there was even some talk of nominating it for Best Picture. Should win -Kung Fu Panda The Jack Black comedy swept the 36th Annual Annie Awards, which honor the finest in animated productions, taking home 10 trophies. WALL-E got zero.

Panda won for writing, directing, voice-acting, and production design, as well as best picture. Even its video game beat WALL-E's! Waltz With Bashir--nominated for Best Foreign Film but robbed in the animation category as Israel's official Oscar entry.

I think that it's going to be close between Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E. However, I think that the environmental message and heart string pulling storyline of Wall-E will put it above. youtube.com/watch?v=UblUO0LjPUg.

Kung-Fu Panda will win. It's message is deep. It's story is good.It's action scenes are awesome.

Plus it's hilarious. Haven't seen any other great animated film in 2008.

Wall-E will win this category. Although I thought it was only cute, I still think it should win as well.

My guess is that due to the popularity, marketing, and cuteness-factor Wall-E will likely win the award. In my opinion, however, Kung Fu Panda is a better movie. KungFuPanda had better story and plot.It didn't completely seem like something out of a kid's book.

Wall-E felt very dimmed down version of a movie that could go somewhere, but it just missed the mark, imo. Of course, Wall-E seemed more technically advanced with all the cool effects.

Will Win: Dustin Lance Black for Milk With Penn and Rourke so close in the Best Actor race, this may be the only shot that voters have to honor the greatly beloved "Milk". It also seems that in recent years the Academy loves giving out prizes to first-time screenwriters and Dustin Lance Black certainly fits that bill. Dustin's other notable work is HBO drama series Big Love about a polygamistic Mormon family.

Should Win: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Doctor for Wall-E It's hard for something with little dialogue to win an Oscar in what many think is a line-writing contest, but Wall-E should take home this prize with a gorgeously funny story that had a real theme it explored with the perfect amount of subtlety. As good as film writing gets.

I think Dustin Lance Black will win because the movie has such emotional power.

Dustin Lance Black both should and will win.

Will and should - Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight Ledger on Sunday night will become the second actor to win an Oscar after his or her death. Critics' associations from Boston to Washington have lauded his performance, and he's already won just about every supporting actor award there is, including the Golden Globe. A villain of absolute, unquenchable evil who loves reminding Batman how they are simply two sides of the same obsession, was the engine that drove The Dark Knight to its box-office success.

If an actor other than Ledger wins the supporting actor Oscar, Congress may be called on to investigate. Watch his performance in Brokeback Mountain, for which he was a nominee for Academy Award for Best Actor for this performance, making him, at age 26, the ninth youngest nominee for a Best Actor Oscar. Brokeback Mountain snub will be the reason for his win this time!

Who Will Win – Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight). He would have won if he was alive, so the fact that he isn't shouldn't matter. He did an incredible job with this character, and he deserves the recognition.

Who Should Win – Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight). I also loved Heath Ledger in the 2006 love story 'Candy. ' s range as an actor was truly remarkable.

Heath Ledger hands down should win. S performance in the Dark Knight as the Joker was beyond good. It was spot on as to how the joker would be in real life.

He brought so much to the role, and it's a shame we'll never be able to see his take on the Joker ever again. He should win this, even if the movie wins no other awards (even though it should :/). Why so serious?

This will be a hot topic one for sure. Ledger will win. Here's an interview with Ledger talking about his role as The Joker: youtube.com/watch?v=uKa-aDga1fE Regardless of his death, a lot of folks consider his performance to have outshined the rest of the cast in the movie.In such a well acted movie, that's tough to do.

I think that this movie will win and rightly so - it should win.

Heath Ledger will win. They say dying usually gets you an Oscar, but that is not true. Only one actor has ever won an Oscar posthumously: Peter Finch in 1976 for Network.

Many more have been nominated and not won: 1928/9 Jeanne Eagels, The Letter (actress) 1955 James Dean, East of Eden (actor) 1956 James Dean, Giant (actor) 1967 Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (actor) 1976 Peter Finch, Network (actor) 1984 Ralph Richardson, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (supporting actor) 1995 Massimo Troisi, Il Postino (actor & screenplay).

Heath Ledger will win. It an odd case of intuition based on: - he's dead. (sorry, Darcy, this is my intuition not fact) - he didn't win for Brokeback Mountain - I don't think the movie will get any other major awards - the Golden Globe award he won for Dark Knight paved the way.

I actually think Sean Penn should win for Milk, though.

Who Will Win – Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona). Who Should Win – Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler). I haven't seen Penélope Cruz's film, but she is picked to win by several trustworthy sources.

I am sure she did a fine job, but I loved Marisa Tomei in 'The Wrestler. ' She brought so much to the role. Look for Marisa's small role in the amazing 2007 film 'Grace is Gone.' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772168.

Taraji Henson will win for Benjamin Button. I'm actually a Marisa Tomei fan, though.

Will Win: Taraji Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button she has the fact that "Button" lovers have no other spot amongst the major categories in which to cast their vote. Pitt isn't going to win, "Slumdog" will beat it for Screenplay, Picture and Director, so Henson is really the only shot at its winning any major award, so expect a ton of support her way. Should Win: Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona It's incredibly hard to play crazy and complex.To be insane without losing control.

Penelope Cruz pulls that off flawlessly in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Plus her perfect attachment to the thematic structure of the film through her performance puts her on a level all her own. Another of the five best performances of the year Watch Henson in Baby Boy, a 2001 urban drama film, considered a sequel of sorts to Singleton's earlier, more famous work, Boyz N the Hood.

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