niña de piedra

TRES: en memoria a las sirenas, esos personajes preciosos privados de sexo, que en el fondo tal vez existan...

"Al amanecer ya está Miguel sobre su barca

Dame un beso amor , y espera quieta junto a la playa

Y el mar murmura en su lenguaje

maldito pescador despídete de ella

no quiero compartir su corazón

Dicen en la aldea que esa roca blanca es Ana

cubierta de sal y de coral espera en la playa

No esperes más niña de piedra, Miguel no va a volver

el mar le tiene preso por no querer cederle a una mujer

Incluso hay gente que asegura que cuando hay tempestad

las olas las provoca Miguel luchando a muerte con el mar"

Mecano

First Thanksgiving in NYC!

Una vez más, la vida es cíclica y aquí me encuentro huyendo de la nieve en mi primer thanksgiving neoyorkino. Empezaremos la operación pavo el día antes, unos 20 becarios en un piso Manhattan-size, veremos cómo sale.

Cenas, conciertos, parades y espero que un poco de recklessness son los planes para estos días. Habrá report, pero ahora mismo tengo cita en MoMA...

devendra banhart

change by warhol

"When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them."

Andy Warhol

East Village, NYC

shall we?

Can we?
Shall we?
One day
very soon
let us
go away
together
just you and me
Can we?
Shall we?
Call in sick
one day
and travel to the Sea
and hold hands
all day
Can we?
Shall we?
Eat our sandwiches on the train
get drunk on fresh air
and come home tired
And never tell anyone... Ever!

Rob Ryan. MAD, NYC 26/10/09

MOTO, Brooklyn 22/10/09

city evolution

Since I am a grad student now I guess I should move to a more serious kind of posts, but I really don´t feel like doing it. I have enough seriousness at school.
I was scared at first that coming back to Chicago would be a remake of the first time, but (fortunately) it is not (except for the fact that tonight I am attending a party organized by the Spanish armada II).

I´d rather not talk about the homeless situation I lived for two weeks or all the extremely annoying and weird things that kept happening to me regularly like having two useless fingers and fainting alone in my studio when it happened (vampire but still scared of blood); or finding my pj´s on the floor outside in the corridor ¿? at 1am... etc.

I am trying to use the very short amount of spare time I have to discover little changes of the city. Some things stay just the same like the empty bottle or the jazz festival. Some have closed like filter or gourmond. And some others have reopened like pingpong or ginos. There are lots of new buildings, specially in the loop and south loop. But what I need the most is a change in the way of living the city. That is, discovering new spots or performances that I completely ignored the first time.


One of them is the Chicago Art District. There is a late night open house (free drinks included) every 2nd Friday at every gallery in the district. I definitely recommend it.

And the second one so far is the Chicago Farmers Market. There are different locations for each day but I recommend the one right next to my place @ Clark St. It´s a green market where you can find all kinds of fresh vegetables, fruits and flowers. It is a shame that due to the weather it only lasts until October...

las horas allright (crónicas de una raza superior)

La frase de Jordi es definitivamente la que nos une y nos resume como conjunto:

" NUESTRA PATRIA ES EL TALENTO, POR ESO NOS HEMOS EXILIADO. NUESTRA AMBICIÓN ES UN SECRETO."

Como punto de encuentro después de una semana increíble/irrepetible de todos los becarios surge este blog. A largo plazo una utopía de promesas que nos hemos hecho, que no se sabe si se cumplirán pero que ahora parecen factibles. Team building, thunderstorms que retrasan aviones cuando nos acabamos de conocer o que nos hacen huir en barco en medio del lago, balsas improvisadas que no navegan, noches interminables con media de 2hr de sueño, aplausos, compartir historias, conocer Chicago, cantar bohemian rhapsody en un bar imposible al unísono y emocionarnos con Uri, nunca llegar al Lobby a la hora ("we´ll meet at 9:15... whatever that means"), intentar comprender el factor común que nos hace especiales para merecer la beca, speeches sin sentido, recepciones de etiqueta en salones de Harry Potter, gritos de guerra desde el primer día, blue houses, mucha comida, etc. Después de esto y a pesar de que es ahora cuando empieza la aventura es imposible no sentir un vacío al dividirse los destinos.

I´m moving back to the city...

... where I left my heart.

(No es una despedida, es un hasta luego. Nos vemos allí!)

los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres

“El 18% de las mujeres de Suecia han sido amenazadas en alguna ocasión por un hombre” ... “En Suecia el 46% de las mujeres han sufrido violencia por parte de algún hombre” ... “En Suecia el 13% por ciento de las mujeres han sido víctimas de una violencia sexual extrema fuera del ámbito de sus relaciones sexuales” ... “En Suecia el 92% de las mujeres que han sufrido abusos sexuales no lo han denunciado a la policía”.



Siempre he dicho que es una tontería la típica frase de ¨el libro es mucho mejor que la peli¨. Hay que considerar ambos como piezas independientes, y por tanto no comparables. Cuando lees un libro creas tu propia película que jamás será la que otra persona -en este caso el director- se imagine. (Puede ser que ya haya compartido esta reflexión anteriormente...)
En este caso, contradiciendo mi propia teoría voy a compararlas y espero que la peli vaya un poco más al grano porque hasta la página 300 el libro no se empezó a poner interesante. De todos modos y por cabezonería empezaré el segundo...

MJ

"Will you still care?
Will you be there?
In my trials
and my tribulations
Through our doubts
and frustrations
In my violence
In my turbulence
Through my fear
and my confessions
In my anguish
and my pain
Through my joy
and my sorrow
In the promise of another tomorrow
I'll never let you part
for you're always in my heart."

... si hay algo que te lo recuerda.

I am 100% Pure Ibiza/Formentera, and I hope that never changes.
Cuántos recuerdos...

D-day

"... It is an event that has long brought to this coast both heads of state and grateful citizens; veterans and their loved ones; the liberated and their liberators. It has been written about and spoken of and depicted in countless books and films and speeches. And long after our time on this Earth has passed, one word will still bring forth the pride and awe of men and women who will never meet the heroes who sit before us: D-Day.

Why is this? Of all the battles in all the wars across the span of human history, why does this day hold such a revered place in our memory? What is it about the struggle that took place on these sands behind me that brings us back here to remember year after year after year?

...

Nazi ideology sought to subjugate, humiliate, and exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale, fueled by a hatred of those who were deemed different and therefore inferior. It was evil.

The nations and leaders that joined together to defeat Hitler's Reich were not perfect. We had made our share of mistakes, and had not always agreed with one another on every issue. But whatever God we prayed to, whatever our differences, we knew that the evil we faced had to be stopped. Citizens of all faiths and no faith came to believe that we could not remain as bystanders to the savage perpetration of death and destruction..."

Barack Obama

Entrega becas La Caixa

Barcelona, 03/06/09

1987, en Abuli.

Como el mejor regalo de cumple, esta poesía que mi abuela me escribió hace 22 años. Forma parte de ¨Los brotes de Edelweis¨:

17 de Marzo de 1987

"Los árboles aletean
diciéndome un no sé qué.
¿Qué me dirán en su hablar?.
Sara dice... ¡no lo sé!
Ella es un aleteo
nacido de mi manar,
un esqueje de mi árbol
sin entender este hablar.
Sara crecerá en el tiempo
meciéndose toda entera
como un ensueño divino
entre una blanca espinera.
Un Abril,
cuando las flores se vayan
en un átomo de luz
sobre una estela dorada,
Sara escuchará mi voz
en la palmera que hablaba."

Felisa ¨La Santolaya¨

que lo detengan!

Totalmente de acuerdo con el NY Times:

Post-9/11 Realities Warp a Soaring Design

self-esteem

I am and will always be in love with Jordan Catalano.

City of Glass

"And then, most important of all: to remember who I am. To remember who I am supposed to be. I do not think this is a game. On the other hand nothing is clear. For example: who are you? And if you think you know, why do you keep lying about it? I have no answer. All I can say is this: listen to me. My name is Paul Auster. That is not my real name."

Paul Auster

mean

¨ You’re so indie rock it’s almost an art...
You’re so sad maybe you should buy a happy meal
You’re so skinny you should really Super Size the deal
Secretly you’re so amused
That nobody understands you¨

Katy Perry

Cuando me paré a escuchar la letra, ese fragmento me pareció total... y muy aplicable a la par que mean! Si algún día me convierto en algo así, avisadme.

a mi padrino

Con cariño, sin palabras...

breaking dawn

"Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated."

Stephenie Meyer

alas para A.

white bike

It was in Mykonos when I first saw a whole white bike randomly locked near the port and clearly useless. I thought it was some cute piece of street art. Then I found another one in the East Village in NYC, and became suspicious. But I was definitely intrigued last week, when I saw several of them in different spots of London. They made me feel sad and happy at the same time, so I decided to research when I got home.
The cute white bikes are cold "ghost bikes". This is, memorials for bikers that passed away in an accident in that spot. I don´t like memorials but I must say that this is a not morbid but beautiful figure to not forget.

slumdog millionaire

Mi primer Bollywood. Una forma muy original de contar una historia difícil, y de enseñarnos "un poco de la India auténtica". Me ha gustado mucho, salvo el final. No tengo muy claro que sea un final feliz, sino una muestra de avaricia.
La fotografía, los colores, todo es increíble... lo mismo se puede decir sobre el baile final. Jai Ho!

it is not a shampoo bottle now

In order to celebrate The Oscar Night, we went to Angel (Islington) to watch Revolutionary Road. All I can say is that Kate was amazing, I wish she had won it for this movie. She definitely deserves it though, I can´t say the same about Cruz...

eclipse

¨I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me.¨
He sighted. ¨The clouds I can handle. But I can´t fight with an eclipse.¨

Stephenie Meyer

the reader

First movie in London, and it was a bad one... I do not see the point of making a whole movie about a woman that didn´t know how to read while keeping the whole nazi an pedophile profile into the background...

Che, primera parte

"Sean capaces siempre de sentir, en lo más hondo, cualquier injusticia realizada contra cualquiera, en cualquier parte del mundo. ES LA CUALIDAD MÁS LINDA DEL REVOLUCIONARIO."

Esperaba otra cosa de Soderberg (uno de mis favoritos), supongo que una película más pasional. Es tan lenta como la autobiografía que fui incapaz de terminar... De todos modos Benicio del Toro está genial!

cruel intentions

I forgot how much I liked this movie. It is a shame that he had to die before she got her just dessert.

Sebastian: You spend all your time preaching about waiting for love. Well here it is. Right in front of you, and you're going to turn your back on it. So I guess we're just f*****. I'll move on. But you are going to have to live the rest of your life knowing that you've turned your back on love. And that makes you a hypocrite. Have a nice life.
---
Kathryn: You were very much in love with her. And you're still in love with her. But it amused me to make you ashamed of it. You gave up on the first person you ever loved because I threatened your reputation. Don't you get it? You're just a toy, Sebastian. A little toy I like to play with. And now you've completely blown it with her. I think it's the saddest thing I've ever heard.

look right, stay left

On my first day in London, I am starting to summarize little things I´ve learned about living in the UK or just the city itself.

• Porridge: very energetic breakfast made boiling oaks in milk.
• Even though you might think it is a Brita, it is not. Apparently every kitchen needs an electric kettle.
  
• As we all know, British people are (although not politically) left sided about their motion and so are their faucets. So when you wash your face the right side gets cold and the left one gets hot.
• There is one switch for every single plug or electric tool in the house.
• There is no way to dry your hair in the bathroom, unless your hairdryer works with batteries.
• British cats don´t enjoy cuddles.
• There are products with ¨weight watchers¨ points, and apparently I cannot eat more than 19 (points) a day!
• My favourite Banksy´s graffiti is at Blackfriars bridge.
• Car lanes are zigzagged.
• Boys spend a lot of money on haircuts (sometimes so" impossible" looking that are hard to describe).
  
• Oyster is a public transport card.
• Camden tea sellers are ageophobic.
• Only two clues are needed to switch from American accent to British accent: 1)pronounce every vowel with an o in it; 2) don´t forget to pronounce the t.

El curioso caso de Benjamin Button

¨For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. ¨

nominee list 09

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

- NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY - 81ST AWARDS -

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor" (Overture Films)
• Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
• Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)
• Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Josh Brolin in "Milk" (Focus Features)
• Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder" (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt" (Miramax)
• Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)
• Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Angelina Jolie in "Changeling" (Universal)
• Melissa Leo in "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Meryl Streep in "Doubt" (Miramax)
• Kate Winslet in "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams in "Doubt" (Miramax)
• Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company)
• Viola Davis in "Doubt" (Miramax)
• Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)

Best animated feature film of the year

• "Bolt" (Walt Disney)

  Chris Williams and Byron Howard

• "Kung Fu Panda" (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount)

  John Stevenson and Mark Osborne

• "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

  Andrew Stanton

Achievement in art direction

• "Changeling" (Universal)

  Art Direction: James J. Murakami Set Decoration: Gary Fettis

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo

• "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)

  Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Peter Lando

• "The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films)

  Art Direction: Michael Carlin Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway

• "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

  Art Direction: Kristi Zea Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Achievement in cinematography

• "Changeling" (Universal)

  Tom Stern

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Claudio Miranda

• "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)

  Wally Pfister

• "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)

  Chris Menges and Roger Deakins

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in costume design

• "Australia" (20th Century Fox)

  Catherine Martin

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Jacqueline West

• "The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films)

  Michael O'Connor

• "Milk" (Focus Features)

  Danny Glicker

• "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

  Albert Wolsky

Achievement in directing

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  David Fincher

• "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)

  Ron Howard

• "Milk" (Focus Features)

  Gus Van Sant

• "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)

  Stephen Daldry

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Danny Boyle

Best documentary feature

• "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" (Cinema Guild) A Pandinlao Films Production

  Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath

• "Encounters at the End of the World" (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment) A Creative Differences Production

  Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser

• "The Garden" A Black Valley Films Production

  Scott Hamilton Kennedy

• "Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures) A Wall to Wall Production

  James Marsh and Simon Chinn

• "Trouble the Water" (Zeitgeist Films) An Elsewhere Films Production

  Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

• "The Conscience of Nhem En" A Farallon Films Production

  Steven Okazaki

• "The Final Inch" A Vermilion Films Production

  Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant

• "Smile Pinki" A Principe Production

  Megan Mylan

• "The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306" A Rock Paper Scissors Production

  Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall

• "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)

  Lee Smith

• "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)

  Mike Hill and Dan Hanley

• "Milk" (Focus Features)

  Elliot Graham

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year

• "The Baader Meinhof Complex" A Constantin Film Production - Germany
• "The Class" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haut et Court Production - France
• "Departures" (Regent Releasing) A Departures Film Partners Production - Japan
• "Revanche" (Janus Films) A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production - Austria
• "Waltz with Bashir" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production - Israel

Achievement in makeup

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Greg Cannom

• "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)

  John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan

• "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Universal)

  Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Alexandre Desplat

• "Defiance" (Paramount Vantage)

  James Newton Howard

• "Milk" (Focus Features)

  Danny Elfman

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  A.R. Rahman

• "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

  Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• "Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

  Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman Lyric by Peter Gabriel

• "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Gulzar

• "O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best motion picture of the year

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) A Kennedy/Marshall Production

  Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers

• "Frost/Nixon" (Universal) A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production

  Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers

• "Milk" (Focus Features) A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production

  Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers

• "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production

  Nominees to be determined

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) A Celador Films Production

  Christian Colson, Producer

Best animated short film

• "La Maison en Petits Cubes" A Robot Communications Production

  Kunio Kato

• "Lavatory - Lovestory" A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production

  Konstantin Bronzit

• "Oktapodi" (Talantis Films) A Gobelins, L'école de l'image Production

  Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand

• "Presto" (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production

  Doug Sweetland

• "This Way Up" A Nexus Production

  Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

• "Auf der Strecke (On the Line)" (Hamburg Shortfilmagency) An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production

  Reto Caffi

• "Manon on the Asphalt" (La Luna Productions) A La Luna Production

  Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont

• "New Boy" (Network Ireland Television) A Zanzibar Films Production

  Steph Green and Tamara Anghie

• "The Pig" An M & M Production

  Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh

• "Spielzeugland (Toyland)" A Mephisto Film Production

  Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in sound editing

• "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)

  Richard King

• "Iron Man" (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment)

  Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Tom Sayers

• "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

  Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood

• "Wanted" (Universal)

  Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten

• "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)

  Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

• "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

  Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt

• "Wanted" (Universal)

  Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron

• "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)

  Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin

• "Iron Man" (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment)

  John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Screenplay by Eric Roth Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord

• "Doubt" (Miramax)

  Written by John Patrick Shanley

• "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)

  Screenplay by Peter Morgan

• "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)

  Screenplay by David Hare

• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

  Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay

• "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics)

  Written by Courtney Hunt

• "Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax)

  Written by Mike Leigh

• "In Bruges" (Focus Features)

  Written by Martin McDonagh

• "Milk" (Focus Features)

  Written by Dustin Lance Black

• "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

  Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

- MOTION PICTURE NOMINATIONS - 81ST AWARDS

- NOMINATIONS BY PICTURE -

(This list does not include Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects)

"Australia," a 20th Century Fox/Bazmark Film 2 Pty Ltd Production (20th Century Fox) (1 nomination)

Costume design

"The Baader Meinhof Complex," a Constantin Film Production (1 nomination)

Best foreign language film (Germany)

"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)," a Pandinlao Films Production (Cinema Guild) (1 nomination)

Documentary feature

"Bolt," a Walt Disney Pictures Production (Walt Disney) (1 nomination)

Best animated feature film

"Changeling," a Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production (Universal) (3 nominations)

Angelina Jolie - Performance by an actress in a leading role

Art direction

Cinematography

"The Class," a Haut et Court Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (1 nomination)

Best foreign language film (France)

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a Kennedy/Marshall Production (Paramount and Warner Bros.) (13 nominations)

Brad Pitt - Performance by an actor in a leading role

Taraji P. Henson - Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Art direction

Cinematography

Costume design

Directing

Film editing

Makeup

Original score

Best picture

Sound mixing

Visual effects

Adapted screenplay

"The Dark Knight," a Cape Road Limited Production (Warner Bros.) (8 nominations)

Heath Ledger - Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Art direction

Cinematography

Film editing

Makeup

Sound editing

Sound mixing

Visual effects

"Defiance," a Grosvenor Park/Bedford Falls Production (Paramount Vantage) (1 nomination)

Original score

"Departures," a Departures Film Partners Production (Regent Releasing) (1 nomination)

Best foreign language film (Japan)

"Doubt," a Scott Rudin Production (Miramax) (5 nominations)

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Meryl Streep - Performance by an actress in a leading role

Amy Adams - Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Viola Davis - Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Adapted screenplay

"The Duchess," a Qwerty Films/Magnolia Mae Films in association with Pathé Renn and BIM Distribuzione Production (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films) (2 nominations)

Art direction

Costume design

"Encounters at the End of the World," a Creative Differences Production (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment) (1 nomination)

Documentary feature

"Frost/Nixon," a Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production (Universal) (5 nominations)

Frank Langella - Performance by an actor in a leading role

Directing

Film editing

Best picture

Adapted screenplay

"Frozen River," a Harwood Hunt Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (2 nominations)

Melissa Leo - Performance by an actress in a leading role

Original screenplay

"The Garden," a Black Valley Films Production (1 nomination)

Documentary feature

"Happy-Go-Lucky," a Thin Man Films/Simon Channing Williams Production (Miramax) (1 nomination)

Original screenplay

"Hellboy II: The Golden Army," a Universal Pictures Production (Universal) (1 nomination)

Makeup

"In Bruges," a Blueprint Pictures Production (Focus Features) (1 nomination)

Original screenplay

"Iron Man," a Marvel Studios Production (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment) (2 nominations)

Sound editing

Visual effects

"Kung Fu Panda," a DreamWorks Animation LLC Production (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount) (1 nomination)

Best animated feature film

"Man on Wire," a Wall to Wall Production (Magnolia Pictures) (1 nomination)

Documentary feature

"Milk," a Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production (Focus Features) (8 nominations)

Sean Penn - Performance by an actor in a leading role

Josh Brolin - Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Costume design

Directing

Film editing

Original score

Best picture

Original screenplay

"Rachel Getting Married," a Clinica Estetico Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (1 nomination)

Anne Hathaway - Performance by an actress in a leading role

"The Reader," a Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production (The Weinstein Company) (5 nominations)

Kate Winslet - Performance by an actress in a leading role

Cinematography

Directing

Best picture

Adapted screenplay

"Revanche," a Prisma Film/Fernseh Production (Janus Films) (1 nomination)

Best foreign language film (Austria)

"Revolutionary Road," an Evamere Entertainment, BBC Films and Neal Street Production (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) (3 nominations)

Michael Shannon - Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Art direction

Costume design

"Slumdog Millionaire," a Celador Films Production (Fox Searchlight) (10 nominations)

Cinematography

Directing

Film editing

Original score

Original song - "Jai Ho"

Original song - "O Saya"

Best picture

Sound editing

Sound mixing

Adapted screenplay

"Tropic Thunder," a Red Hour Production (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/ Paramount) (1 nomination)

Robert Downey Jr. - Performance by an actor in a supporting role

"Trouble the Water," an Elsewhere Films Production (Zeitgeist Films) (1 nomination)

Documentary feature

"Vicky Cristina Barcelona," a Weinstein Company Production (The Weinstein Company) (1 nomination)

Penélope Cruz - Performance by an actress in a supporting role

"The Visitor," a Groundswell, Participant, Next Wednesday Production (Overture Films) (1 nomination)

Richard Jenkins - Performance by an actor in a leading role

"WALL-E," a Pixar Animation Studios Production (Walt Disney) (6 nominations)

Best animated feature film

Original score

Original song - "Down to Earth"

Sound editing

Sound mixing

Original screenplay

"Waltz with Bashir," a Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (1 nomination)

Best foreign language film (Israel)

"Wanted," a Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment Production (Universal) (2 nominations)

Sound editing

Sound mixing

"The Wrestler," a Protozoa Pictures/Wild Bunch Production (Fox Searchlight) (2 nominations)

Mickey Rourke - Performance by an actor in a leading role

Marisa Tomei - Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

- MOTION PICTURE NOMINATIONS - 81ST AWARDS -

- FEATURE FILMS WITH TWO OR MORE NOMINATIONS -

(This list does not include Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects.)

Picture	Distribution Company	Nominations
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"	Paramount and Warner Bros.	13
"Slumdog Millionaire"	Fox Searchlight	10
"The Dark Knight"	Warner Bros.	8
"Milk"	Focus Features	8
"WALL-E"	Walt Disney	6
"Doubt"	Miramax	5
"Frost/Nixon"	Universal	5
"The Reader"	The Weinstein Company	5
"Changeling"	Universal	3
"Revolutionary Road"	DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage	3
"The Duchess"	Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films	2
"Frozen River"	Sony Pictures Classics	2
"Iron Man"	Paramount and Marvel Entertainment	2
"Wanted"	Universal	2
"The Wrestler"	Fox Searchlight	2

la duda

Meryl Streep está increíble! Oscar más que merecido, espero.

¨Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. When you are lost, you are not alone.¨

new moon

¨ 'So let´s both just be hopeful, all right?' I suggested. 'Not that it matters. If you stay, I don´t need heaven.' ¨

¨ 'Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I´ve ever grasped how much pain she is really in. It´s not normal, Alice, and it... it frightens me. Not normal at all. Not like someone... left her, but like someone died.' His voice cracked. It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I had chosen... Charlie went on in a hopeless tone. 'I don´t know if she ´s going to get over it- I am not sure if it´s in her nature to heal from something like this. She´s always been such a constant little thing. She doesn´t get passed things, change her mind.' ¨

¨I was like a lost moon- my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic disaster-movie scenario of desolation- that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.¨

¨Instead of moving, I thought about Juliet some more.
I wondered what she would have done if Romeo had left her, not because he was banished, but because he lost interest? What if Rosalind had given him the time of day, and he´d changed his mind? What if instead of marrying Juliet, he´d just disappeared?
I thought I knew what Juliet would feel.
She wouldn´t go back to her old life, not really. She wouldn´t ever have moved on, I was sure of that . Even if she´d lived until she was old and gray, every time she closed her eyes, it would have been Romeo´s face she saw behind her lids. She would have accepted that, eventually.¨

¨That would be just like me- ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.¨

¨But I felt his lips press silently against my forehead, and I didn´t care what the motivation was. At least I could be with him before I died. That was better than a long life.¨

¨I thought I´d explained it clearly before. Bella, I can´t leave in a world where you don´t exist.¨

¨Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. very dark, but there were stars- points of light and reason... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.¨

¨ 'I don´t trust myself to be... enough. To deserve you. There is nothing about me that could hold you. '
`Your hold is permanent and unbreakable' he whispered. 'Never doubt that' ¨

Stephenie Meyer.

crepúsculo

Muy mala. La esencia de Edward (vampiro del que estoy platónicamente enamorada) no aparece por ninguna parte... Es una peli de serie B cuando podría haberse hecho una realmente buena! Un desastre...

pilots do matter

...and I´ll never laugh again at the uselessness of the plane´s emergency instructions for landing on the water!

Steve Jobs

Stay hungry, stay foolish!

twilight

I was well aware that my league and his league were spheres that did not touch.


¨Aren´t you hungry? ¨he asked, distracted.
¨No¨ I didn´t feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full- of butterflies.


About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.
Second, there was a part of him- and I didn´t know how dominant that part might be- that thirsted for my blood.
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.


¨I love you,¨ I whispered.
¨You are my life now,¨ he answered simply.


¨Afraid of a needle¨ he muttered to himself under his breath, shaking his head. ¨Oh, a sadistic vampire , intent on torturing her to death, sure, no problem, she runs off to meet him. An IV on the other hand...¨

Stephenie Meyer

I loved it! I know it is a teenage book, but it was just like living the first love again... The conversations between them reminded me of myself (when she was trying not to hyperventilate...). As well as how naturally she deals with their bizzare differences...