it should at least get nominated.

nah I disagree. There are smaller art films that should get consideration for Best Picture too... the Oscars is a great moment for lesser known, less successful "art" films to get noticed by the audience.

whoa... they changed the comments here....

That's all it ever is though. Nameless films. Not necessarily in the "Best Picture" category, but the awards in general. I'd like to see it nominated, and win.

The Dark Knight is a great movie..
but as far as Best Picture goes, I dont think it should be in there.

Needless to say I agree with Angry Broomstick

so lude, what five films that you've seen at this point in the year do you think should be the final five best picture nominees?

nameless films like Return of the King (And the other two LOTR that were nominated)? Please, if ROTK could win it, The Dark Knight can as well.

I really think that this year is lacking the 'indie cred' punch that the movies from last year had. I saw The Wrestler..it's not "OMG, I need win Best Pic". I haven't seen Slumdog yet, however.

It would be a major leap for comic book movies, that's for certain.

The Dark Knight is my best picture of the year, I don't need the Academy to validate that.

I lost faith in the Oscars the year Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in Love anyways.

Amen to that Delta.

i'm testing out the comment here... I guess it's nifty

THESE ARE MY TOP 5 NOMINEES

5.REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA
4. WALL-E
3.THE DARK KNIGHT
2. EAGLE EYE
1.LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

(NOT IN ANY ORDER OF FAVS OR ANYTHING JUST WHAT CAME TO MIND...)

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE REPO GET NOMINATED... ITS AN AMAZING MOVIE. BUT I DONT HINK IT WOULD WIN.... WALL-E WAS GREAT, JUST IT WILL WIN BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS CHANGING THIS YEAR... THE DARK KNIGHT I BELIEVE SHOULD WIN, EAGLE EYE WAS GREAT, BUT ISNT AT THE TOP OF THE WINNERS LIST IN MY EYE, AND LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, THAT WOULD BE COOL TO SEE AT LEAST GET NOMINATED...

I hope it at least gets nominated

i think that with the road pushed back to 09, it's going to open a spot, and if the dark knight wasn't already in it'll make a strong push to be nominated.

There have been ads like this running in variety for awhile now:
http://adcontent.reedbusiness.com/newsletter_ads0...

it most likely will anyway, for Best Score or Best Cinemateography, Best Sound or Best Editing or something anyway, if not "Best Picture." and hopefully Best Supporting Actor for good ol' Heath Ledger

i think tdk is the best film of the year, by far. if it came out last year, however, i would reserve that designation for there will be blood. and i definitely think *that* should've won over no country.

The Academy Awards have been horrible in the ratings the past few years. What better way to rejuvenate them by 1. Allowing trailers to be shown during the commercials and 2. Nominating The Dark Knight and having thousands upon thousands of fan boys tuning in to hopefully watch their film win. It's a no brainer it will get nominated. Will it win? It should....but probably won't.

Note, I said "Not necessarily in the 'Best Picture' category". I would love for The Dark Knight to win, but all this talk about Slumdog Millionaire is making me worry. In that case, it's a deadly combination of an unheard of movie, with a rags-to-riches "cultural" plot. Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, and Frost/Nixon are all expected - because they have politically/socially energized plots.

I know voters who have say in the Oscars would like to see this get nominated. It'll shake things up in the industry, give REAL ratings for the actual show, and prove that Oscar means Best Picture, not Best Picture That Is In The Meryl Streep/Russell Crowe Genre. Lets pass up the Oscar candy and get down to the nitty gritty. The Dark Knight deserves to be up there with any film this year.

the only thing worthy of an oscar in TDK was Heath Ledgers performance.

no i disagree I think that's just going from one extreme to another. you don't have to be 'fair' and 'nice' when you give out awards. you have to be true. and nominating the dark knight is such a bad decision. there are so many flaws in that movie, and i'm talking about story flaws. i'm just going to point out that the movie fell apart in the middle. and pathetically picked it's own pieces up and pushed them through the finish line. it started pretty good and just ended so lame. people at the moment just don't see the flaws because it was marketed so well, heath ledger died and they're pulling out the pity card, and... well it's the new batman movie and it's more 'realistic' and that's what people want now a days. give it a few years, after everyone metaphorically cums and stops jacking off to it, then they'll realize all the flaws. and they'll actually watch the movie. not see it. One thing that always made me laugh when the movie came out, is that everyone (and i mean everyone) said "the problem about Tim Burton's Batman is that it should have been called 'The Joker' because it was more about him then batman". and now, the only thing anyone seems to point out in the Dark Knight is the joker. nothing else, as if two face, batman, or alfred exist.

okay... i realised this has gotten too long and i totally strayed from the topic. i'm shutting up now.

ha! good this you aren't a judge.

o_O

TDK is imo the best movie of the year so far and yep i also lost faith in the academy when forrest gump (9/10, i liked a lot) beat pulp fiction ( best movie of 94) and shawshank.

I think it deserves a nomination, but probably not a win.

Heath Ledger, though...that's another story.

Oh, the movie will definitely get a nomination for ratings, no doubt. Win though? Very unlikely. Oh, and nice new comment system Peter.

Oh, I think Slumdog will win, by the way.

If The Dark Knight wins there will not be a Batman 3 for a long time..if ever. Chris Nolan seems he would be that way. I just don't think another Batman film could top this one but Gotham City has many story's. ...?...

I'm always a TDK fan but I don't think it's gonna make it to the nomination for Best Picture. It could win the award for Adaptation screenplay or Film Editing or Costume Design, but not Best Picture. Sorry.

This is why The Dark Knight WILL be a Best Picture nominee...

http://entertainmentblur.wordpress.com/2008/11/17...


... though I don't believe it's going to win.

REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA ???, EAGLE EYE ???


OMG... O.. M... G....

Thank god U're not a judge frm Oscars...

C'mon seems like U dun watch Movies alot, Eagle Eye is reli reali badd.. m'mkay..?

The news flying around that TDK had been Disqualified for the Best Score...

& we're soo f*ckin crazy abt that...

I think it will win and the flip side to that will be the end of most shitty comic book movies. And one for the history books. You can't shy away from a great film plus great performances that everyone has seen.

I'm just excited at the idea that two of the strongest contenders for a nod are an animated film about a robot and a Batman movie. It's time the Academy looks beyond labels like these and recognizes good filmmaking when they see it.

Christian Bale's expression in the ad matches mine exactly. Dark Knight for best Picture? WTF?

repo lol.

it will be nominated, but it won't win

lay off the caps dude

everyone has to be honest about this. the movie was great, the best batman movie ever. thats only true because of heath ledger though. i never really liked him before, but his preformance in this movie was incredible. his death didnt affect my opinion of his performance, because i was never a fan. TDK might not get best picture, but heath should win a bunch of shit. they should make up some new shit just to award to him, like best on screen magic trick.

Agreed, TDK has been my favorite movie of the year, but I can't say that I feel that it has been the best. However, Heath Ledger deserves to win something, not just because of his death but because of how he actually became 'The Joker'. I was reminded of how Daniel Day Lewis became Daniel Plainview, and while i'm not comparing him to D. D. L. I am saying that without knowledge of either's methodology they are the two performances in my recent memory that have completely engrossed me.

I strongly disagree with your saying this film fell apart in the middle. Just because the director/writer decided NOT to go with a traditional three part story structure does not validate what you say by any means....sorry you have the attention span of a 2 year old, and therefore can't appreciate The Dark Knight for what it is. :c

Trudat on TWBB; that film will be referenced in the future far more than No Country, witch I loved as well.

It's funny how everyone is saying TDK won't win, but in the Wall-E version for "For Your Consideration" everyone said it had a chance. I believe TDK has a bigger chance than Wall-E to be honest, and I'm Pixar obsessed!

It was good, and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say it was the best picture.

haha you're gonna invoke the wrath of obsessive TDK fanboys... LMAO

It definitely deserves a nomination and a win. TDK was a film that reminded me of the older days of filmmaking, when more filmmakers were focused on making good, solid movies with good characters and stories that keep you involved, rather than super CGI explosions. WALL-E did the same (as pretty much all of Pixar's films do). If ROTK (also an excellent film) can sweep all those awards, then TDK should be able to. I doubt it would be nominated for 11 like ROTK, but I sure hope it does. If neither TDK or WALL-E is nominated for Best Picture, then I'm not watching the Academy Awards. I MEAN that.

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