2009 Academy Awards News

Here are two fresh news from the Academy.

7 in Running for Visual Effects Oscar
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Iron Man
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

To read the complete press release go here.

Field Narrows to 7 for Makeup Oscar
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Reader
Synecdoche, New York
Tropic Thunder
The Wrestler

To read the complete press release go here.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted the Gordon E.Sawyer Award to Ed Catmull, a computer scientist, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry. To read the complete press release go here.

From these news I can tell that there are high possibilities that The Dark Knight will get nominations in some tech categories, we will see if it makes it to the top categories; also, it’s sort of predictable that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will make it to top and tech categories.