The Carver's House

My uninformed prediction for the win in itals... Best Picture Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air Directing James Cameron - Avatar Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker Quentin Tarantino - Inglorious Basterds Lee Daniels - Precious Jason Reitman - Up In The Air Actress Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side Helen Mirren - The Last Station Carey Mulligan - An Education Gabby Sidibe - Precious Meryl Streep - Julia & Julia Actor Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart George Clooney - Up In The Air Colin Firth - A Single Man Morgan Freeman - Invictus Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz - Nine Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air Mo’Nique - Precious Supporting Actor Matt Damon - Invictus Woody Harrelson - The Messenger Christopher Plummer - The Last Station Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds Animated Feat...

I loved him in I Am Sam , Carlito's Way , The Assassination of Richard Nixon , Mystic River , and Dead Man Walking , because there's always something new and fresh in his performances. Already with two Oscar noms plus one win, Penn's been my hands-down favorite Hollywood actor. Now Sean Penn has taken another Oscar-worthy role in Milk, directed by Gus van Sant. Penn portrays Harvey Milk , who in the 1970s became the first openly gay man elected to a major political post. To be released later this month in the US, Milk couldn't be any more timely with the recent passing of Proposition 8, which effectively limits the California constitution's definition of marriage as exclusive to heterosexuals, thus voiding thousands of already existing gay marriages in the state. Do watch the trailer of Milk.