And the Oscar goes to...

Although this might deviate slightly from a movie review, I'm just too excited to have let it passed. I am talking about the upcoming Academy Awards this February and boy do we have a competition this year! With the likes of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Kate Winslet competing for the prized best actress award, we can definitely hope for a bang this time around. Their male counterparts aren't too far off the mark either with Sean Penn for his supposedly incredible performance in Milk (I will have the review of it when I get to see it...someday) and the surprising comeback of Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler directed by Darren Aronofsky, a superb filmaker in his own right whose other films include The Fountain and Requeim For a Dream, also nominated for best picture once. I am too overly estatic about Slumdog Millionaire because it sure is making all the buzz this year, especially after winning at The Golden Globes. It's been a year of filmaking frenzy, 2008. All the harder to take a pick!

So whose night will it be?