OSCAR TALK: Best Picture

Nominated:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (5)
  
• Frost/Nixon (4)
  
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire (5)

Frost/Nixon was a great watch, but clearly the front-runners are Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. You might have heard that Slumdog has been winning the race to the Oscars throughout this award season, grabbing almost all of the Best Picture awards. Having watched both, however, I don't see why that is. In fact, Button left on me a greater impression than Slumdog. The filmmakers' skills are very comparable (and highly impressive) but i feel that Button has a better production design. I'd like to commend the following people who are artists by nature, having brought us these two jewels of film.

Slumdog Millionaire (10 Nominations)

• Danny Boyle (Director)
• Simon Beaufoy (Screenplay)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(13 Nominations)

• David Fincher (Director)
• Eric Roth (Screenplay)

Nevertheless, only one will come out tops, and I'm counting on either of these two films to win the top prize.