Saltzman Sees...2009 Oscars

2009 Nominees & Award Winners of My Oscars

• Best Picture

The Blind Side
The Hangover
Invictus
The Soloist


• Best Director

James Cameron (Avatar)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Clint Eastwood (Invictus)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)


• Best Screenplay

Geoffrey Fletcher & Sapphire (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
Suzannah Grant & Steve Lopez (The Soloist)
John Lee Hancock & Michael Lewis (The Blind Side)
Anthony Peckham & John Carlin (Invictus)


• Best Family Picture

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Monsters vs Aliens
The Princess and the Frog
Up



• Best Actor

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Robert Downey Jr. (The Soloist & Sherlock Holmes)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Brad Pitt (Inglourious Basterds)


• Best Actress

Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side & The Proposal)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia & It's Complicated)


• Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon (Invictus)
Jamie Foxx (The Soloist)
Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)


• Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams (Julie & Julia)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Mo'Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)

To see all the movies I've seen in 2009, Click Here

Saltzman Sees...The Blind Side (2009)

The Blind Side was my Best Picture, Best Actress (Sandra Bullock), 

& Best Screenplay (John Lee Hancock & Michael Lewis)

Saltzman Sees...Top 10 Football Movies of All-TIme

With the Super Bowl yesterday, and my new movie blog launched (http://saltzmansees.blogspot.com) no better time than now to present my top ten Football movies of All-Time:

1. Rudy

2. Remember the Titans

3. Brian's Song (1971)

4. Radio

5. The Blind Side

6. We Are Marshall

7. Invincible

8. The Express

9. The Longest Yard (1974)

10. Jerry Maguire




Honorable Mentioned: All the Right Moves, Any Given Sunday, Brian's Song (2002), Everybody's All-American, Facing the Giants, Friday Night Lights, Heaven Can Wait, Jim Thorpe: All-American, Little Giants, Lucas, Necessary Roughness, North Dallas Forty, Possums, Semi-Tough, The Best of Times, The Game Plan, The Last Boy Scout, The Last Game, The Longest Yard (2005), The Program, The Replacements, The Waterboy, They Call Me Sirr, Triumph of the Heart. The Ricky Bell Story, Varsity Blues, Wildcats, and Year of the Bull

Saltzman Sees...2009 Top 10 List

2009

1. The Blind Side


2. Invictus


3. The Soloist


4. The Hangover


5. An Education


6. Precious. Based on the Book Push by Sapphire


7. Avatar


8. Up


9. Inglourious Basterds


10. Hurricane Season

For all the movies I have seen in 2009, Go to: http://saltinuts40.tripod.com/movies2009.html