The nominees are about to be announced. Will we be able to watch some of the year's best movies on HD DVD or BD? Find out here.


Motion Picture
Babel (announced BD and HD DVD)
The Departed (announced BD and HD DVD)
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed (announced BD and HD DVD)
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

Actress in a Leading Role
Penélope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren for The Queen
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada (released on BD)
Kate Winslet for Little Children

Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg for The Departed (announced BD and HD DVD)

Actress in a Supporting Role
Adriana Barraza for Babel (announced BD and HD DVD)
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel (announced BD and HD DVD)

Director
Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Paul Greengrass for United 93
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel (announced BD and HD DVD)
Martin Scorsese for The Departed (announced BD and HD DVD)

Original Screenplay
Babel (announced on BD and HD DVD)
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Adapted Screenplay
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed (announced BD and HD DVD)
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige (announced BD)

Editing
Babel (announced BD and HD DVD)
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed (announced BD and HD DVD)
United 93

Art Direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (announced BD)
The Prestige

Costume Design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada (released BD)
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Original Score
Babel (announced BD and HD DVD)
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Original Song
An Inconvenient Truth ("I Need To Wake Up")
Dreamgirls ("Listen")
Dreamgirls ("Love You I Do")
Cars ("Our Town") (announced BD)
Dreamgirls ("Patience")

Makeup
Apocalypto
Click (released BD)
Pan's Labyrinth

Sound
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers (announced BD and HD DVD)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (announced BD)

Sound Editing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers (announced BD and HD DVD)
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (announced BD)

Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (announced BD)
Poseidon (released HD DVD)
Superman Returns (released BD and HD DVD)

Animated Feature Film
Cars (announced BD)
Happy Feet (announced BD and HD DVD)
Monster House (released BD)

Foreign Language Film
Efter brylluppet (Denmark)
Indigènes (Algeria)
Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico)
Leben der Anderen, Das (Germany)
Water (Canada)

The nominees are about to be announced. Will we be able to watch some of the year's best movies on HD DVD or BD? Find out here.

The Departed comes out on Blu-Ray and HD DVD Feb 13th.

Babel on Blue-ray/HD DVD Feb 20.

Little Miss Sunshine is already out on DVD, not sure if it's Blu-Ray or HD DVD

Click - already out on Blue-ray (Best Achievement in Makeup)
That's a movie I never expected to be "Oscar-material".
:D

Prestige - Feb 20 on Blue-ray (Best Cinematography/Art Direction).

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Sheduled for May on Blue-ray (Art Direction/Sound).

Marie Antoinette - unknown/postponed release on Blue-ray (Costume)

Poseidon - out now on HD DVD (Visual Effects)

Happy Feet - Blue-ray/HD DVD march 27 (Best Animated)

Monster House - out on Blue-ray (Best Animated)

Cars - Blue-ray later this year (Best Animated)

Initial post updated, color-coded, the works. :)

Topic for discussion:

All studios have Oscar-worthy movies that they haven't even announced on HD DVD or BD:

- Disney hasn't announced The Queen
- Fox hasn't announced Borat, The Last King of Scotland or Little Miss Sunshine
- Universal hasn't announced United 93 or The Black Dahlia
- Warner hasn't announced Letters from Iwo Jima or Pan's Labyrinth
- Sony hasn't announced Volver or The Pursuit of Happyness
- New Line hasn't announced Little Children

For shame!

WOW! Blu-ray Absolutely Dominates That List! Thanks for Putting This Together!

~Josh

Initial post updated, color-coded, the works. :)

Oh boy, that's going to leave the HD DVD faithful NOT seeing red. :)

I wonder if Fox will release Little Miss Sunshine on BD now?

Gary

I'm really hoping Pan's Labyrinth makes it to HD.
J

I wonder if Fox will release Little Miss Sunshine on BD now?



Well they should. The SD DVD is an EE-ridden, two-sided mess.

Thanks for the nice work Grubert, you have way too much free time on your hands :)

But to be honest, if I based all of my movie viewing on Oscar nominees I would be missing some great shows and seeing a lot of crap. But maybe that is just me, opinions are like... well, you know...

I wonder if Fox will release Little Miss Sunshine on BD now?

I don't know; they're trying to heavily target the gamer demographic, and LMS doesn't fit that at all. Then again, they did release The Devil Wears Prada, so it's a possibility.

As time goes on and more people get players, they should be more willing to release a wider variety of titles. I am hoping these nominated films will be day and date, but I won't be at all surprised if some of them don't make it.

WOW! Blu-ray Absolutely Dominates That List! Thanks for Putting This Together!

~Josh


Ya but you see,If you ask a fan of HD DVD,they will say that HD DVD will win this war since they use the VC-1 code mainly and thier basic players are cheaper,so therefore Blu-Ray doesn't have a chance.

I don't know; they're trying to heavily target the gamer demographic, and LMS doesn't fit that at all. Then again, they did release The Devil Wears Prada, so it's a possibility.

As time goes on and more people get players, they should be more willing to release a wider variety of titles. I am hoping these nominated films will be day and date, but I won't be at all surprised if some of them don't make it.

The Fox titles are clearly skewed toward action titles. But, they are coming out with Tristan & Isolde and Butch Cassidy so there is some indication Fox will drop a few. And the Oscars give LMS a lot of free publicity.

I just had an interesting question pop into my mind: What year does the first movie on HD disc get sent out to Academy members for consideration?

Gary

The pre and post Oscar buzz should really drive the sales of these movies ... Glad to see that almost all of the major award nominees will be available in Blu-Ray.