My Favourite Films of 2009

2009 was a great year in film. There were enourmously huge blockbusters, quiet indie films, a Tarantino flick, some great comedies, and some amazing animation. Unfortunately, I’m once again catching up before the Oscars air. There were a lot of films that had limited releases that I just didn’t get to see yet, and several of those films are nominated.

This year’s Oscars are also quite interesting. There are ten best picture nominees, though it’s sort of easy to tell which five are the “gimmes” and which would’ve been the top five. That said, it’s going to be one of the most difficult set of predictions that I’ve done yet… Enough Oscar talk, though. Here are some movies I enjoyed in 2009:

My favourite films, in alphatbetical order, are:

(500) Days of Summer
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Avatar
The Hangover
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Star Trek
Up
Up in the Air

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My Favourite Films of 2008

Oh boy. My favourite films of the year. I love this time of year, but it’s always difficult to try and make decisions when I’m still watching films from 2008, and catch up on all the ones that I’ve missed.

I will never understand why huge, Oscar-worthy/nominated/winning movies are not released until after the year in question has ended. They play at some festival somewhere and that is enough to be eligible, but then the Golden Globes and the Oscars come around and most of the public hasn’t had a real chance to see them!

I digress… 2008 was full of great films, and here a few of my favourites:

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Oscar Nominees

The nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning. It’s a big day for a little movie called Juno – it garnered a Best Picture nom, Halifax’s own Ellen Page is up for Best Actress, its Montreal-born director Jason Reitman is up for Best Director, and its stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody is the favourite to win Best Original Screenplay.

This year’s list of nominees is impressive. I’m not sure how I’m going to choose my list of winners. It’s really up in the air in a lot of categories. First step – seeing as many of the nominated films as I can… stay tuned for Oscar picks, and eventually the winner’s list.

The show airs on Sunday, February 24th at 9pm.

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