Many feel ‘WALL-E’ will not be in the line up since they have a new category for animated films in 2006. This may be true. Sure previous animated films have made the shortlist, such as ‘The Incredibles’, and ‘Shrek’, but can ‘WALL-E’ cross over? Sure it is good enough, but will they want to leave the main category for live actions films only.
The like fantasy films that make money. ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Lord of the Rings (x 3)’ and ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ were all nominated.
They also like a popular comedy (How else can you explain ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ ). The like an epic as well as a popular musical and they have nominated both ‘Adaptation’ and ‘Being John Malkovich’ so they like Kaufman.
Also they sometimes go into the Golden Globe tradition of having six films nominated.
I would say that the safe bets are really:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
So who to round out the final 2 or 3. Most feel ‘WALL-E’ is going to be stuck in the animated category (I will stick to my original predictions for the time being) so I leave that out.
Could ‘Mamma Mia’ make it in? Could we see Synecdoche, New York’ surprise? Can ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ be the serious comedy they love to embrace?
In a few minutes we will know, but it is kind of exciting to think there could be a huge shake up here!
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