We are now just under three months away from the 81st Academy Awards which will be held at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles and broadcast by ABC. Variety recently speculated on who is in the running for the coveted Best Director Award and offered an interesting list which can also be used as a check list for must see movies before next February. The Main Contenders:
Darren Aronofsky for The Wrestler
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry for The Reader
Clint Eastwood for Changeling & Gran Torino
David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon
Baz Luhrmann for Australia
Sam Mendes for Revolutionary Road
Chris Nolan for The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant for Milk
Oliver Stone for W.
Ed Zwick for Defiance
Don't count them out:
Woody Allen for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Jonathan Demme for Rachel Getting Married
Lance Hammer for Ballast
Charlie Kaufman for Synecdoche, New York
Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky
Tom McCarthy for The Visitor
Steve McQueen for Hunger
John Patrick Shanley for Doubt
Steven Soderbergh for Che
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