In Contention

There are really only three requirements to be nominated at the 2008 Hollmann Awards.

1) The film must have a US release in 2008
2) I have to have seen the film between Jan 1, 2008 and January 20, 2009
3) Don't suck

With that in mind, I present the following films in contention for the 2008 Hollmann Awards in 2009:

Be Kind Rewind
Burn After Reading
Changeling
Choke
City of Ember
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Diary of the Dead
Doubt
The Duchess
Elegy
The Foot Fist Way
The Forbidden Kingdom
Frost/Nixon
Frozen River
Gran Torino
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hell Ride
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Horton Hears a Who!
In Bruges
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
JCVD
Leatherheads
Mamma Mia!
Married Life
Milk
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Penelope
Pineapple Express
Quantum of Solace
Rachel Getting Married
Rambo
Redbelt
Revolutionary Road
Role Models
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Savage Grace
Slumdog Millionaire
Son of Rambow
Speed Racer
Step Brothers
Synecdoche, NY
Then She Found Me
Tropic Thunder
Valkyrie
Vantage Point
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
W.
WALL-E
Wanted
The Wrestler
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
Young@Heart
Zack and Miri Make a Porno

That's a total of 59 flicks, though still pending are Bolt (which I'm watching tonight), Last Chance Harvey (which just opened here), The Reader (which is playing at the local art house) and The Visitor (which I got from Netflix).

Last year, I had 86 films in contention. Geez. What happened? Was I easier to please or something? Heavens.

Anyway, there's 59 films, with an additional four maybes, so hopefully I'll have a full 63 films to choose from. Let's find out.