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Mickey Rourke & Frank Langella Are Early Oscar Favorites

October 11th, 2008 4:54pm EDT  Post a comment    Add to My News

Mickey RourkeFrank Langella and Mickey Rourke will wrestle it out for next year's Best Actor Oscar, while Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button are musts for Best Film nominations, according to Academy Awards experts.

Revered movie awards watchers at GoldDerby.com have teamed up with a panel of top U.S. film critics for the first Oscars prediction list of the year.

The team agrees Harvey Milk biopic "Milk" and Brad Pitt's new movie "Button" will compete for the Best Film prize with the movie adaptation of hit play "Frost/Nixon," while Rourke and Langella have emerged as the critics' favorites for Best Actor for The Wrestler and "Frost/Nixon" respectively.

All of the critics' other forecasts are split.

In the Best Picture race, Slumdog Millionaire is also a favorite of the expert panel, while Dev Patel ("Slumdog Millionaire"), Cate Blanchett ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), Michael Sheen ("Frost/Nixon") and Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy) all garner at least one vote in respective Best Actor and Best Actress categories.

The Oscar nominations will be announced on January 22.

(This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)


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