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Posted by: Josh! 24th July 2017, 08:01 PM

OSCARS 2009
BEST DIRECTOR



The nominees were:
Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
David Fincher "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Ron Howard "Frost/Nixon"
Gus Van Sant "Milk"
Stephen Daldry "The Reader"

What were your favourites? What was unfairly snubbed? Who shouldn't have even been here in the first place?

Here are some of the other nominees from major awards from the same year:
Golden Globes
Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
David Fincher "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Ron Howard "Frost/Nixon"
Sam Mendes "Revolutionary Road"
Stephen Daldry "The Reader"

BAFTAS
Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
David Fincher "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Ron Howard "Frost/Nixon"
Clint Eastwood "Changeling"
Stephen Daldry "The Reader"

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Posted by: Josh! 24th July 2017, 08:05 PM

Not seen Slumdog Millionaire even though I do think it looks pretty brilliant so my winner is different to the Academy's choice.

1 Ron Howard "Frost/Nixon"
2 David Fincher "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
3 Stephen Daldry "The Reader"
4 Gus Van Sant "Milk"

The top two are way out in front though. Howard just takes it for making lots of dialogue so enthralling, I was hooked the whole time with very little action going on - just the power of words. The bottom two are both pretty boringly directed though and would have turned out pretty similar with a different director behind the camera if I'm being honest.

I would have had Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky) & John Patrick Shanley (Doubt), perhaps even Andrew Stanton (WALL-E) who would have been a very inspired pick, in my top five instead but I think Howard would still have been my winner, this year was a really strong year but there were better choices for the Picture and Director categories in my opinion.