Note: None of these screeners
are for sale...so don't even ask. I'm providing
this list solely for the purpose of showing which movies
the studios are interested in pushing for the best picture Oscar. The Academy and
the studios expressly forbid the sale, transfer or duplication
of these videos; and I gladly
accept those conditions. I'm pleased to get these
videos for reference purposes; but as far as
I am concerned nothing can compare with actually viewing
the films in theaters or screening
rooms. I watch very few movies solely on video
every year.
Today (9/20/08) I received from
Warner Bros. the first offer of the option to choose Blu-Ray disks,
rather than straight DVDs. Since I haven't transitioned to HDTV
yet, I won't go there, at least this year. I was wondering when
the studios would start to go this way with these screeners. By
next year I expect these offers to become the norm, although it did
take several years for DVDs to replace VHS tapes totally and become the
standard medium.
9/27/2008 FROZEN
RIVER
Sony
Pictures Classics (mail) DVD
10/23
VICKY
CRISTINA
BARCELONA
Weinstein
Co.
(mail)
DVD
11/5
BURN AFTER
READING
Focus
Features
(FedEx)
DVD
11/10 I'VE LOVED YOU SO
LONG
Sony Pictures
Classics (mail) DVD
11/15 THE
VISITOR
Overture
Films
(mail)
DVD
11/18 SLUMDOG
MILLIONAIRE
Fox
Searchlight (UPS)
DVD
A new
development on the screener front. Fox Searchlight enclosed a
postcard with Slumdog Millionaire to be returned by March 1, 2009,
certifiying that the DVD disk has been successfully distroyed. I
wonder how many recipients are planning on doing so and replying by
that date.
11/19
TRAITOR
Overture
Films
(FedEx)
DVD
11/19 LAST CHANCE
HARVEY
Overture
Films
(FedEx)
DVD
11/19 QUANTUM OF
SOLACE
Sony
(FedEx)
DVD
11/19 RACHEL GETTING
MARRIED
Sony
Pictures Classics (FedEx) DVD
11/25
SYNECDOCHE
NEW
YORK
Sony
Pictures Classics (FedEx) DVD
11/25
FROST/NIXON
Universal Pictures
(FedEx) DVD
11/25 THE
DUCHESS
Paramount
Vantage
(mail)
DVD
11/26 NOTHING BUT THE
TRUTH
Yari
Film Group
(mail)
DVD
11/26 WHAT DOESN'T KILL
YOU
Yari
Film Group
(mail)
DVD
11/28 CHE (2
disks)
IFC
Films (mail)
DVD
11/28 THE YELLOW
HANDKERCHIEF
Corbelle
Film Prods.
(mail)
DVD
11/29
WALL*E
Disney/Pixar
(mail)
DVD
As
usual there are reports that additional screeners have been sent to the
Actors Branch. Anne Thompson's column in Weekly Variety mentions ELEGY
and WENDY & LUCY as examples.
12/2
MILK
Focus
Features
(FedEx)
DVD
12/3
KUNG FU
PANDA
DreamWorks Animation
(mail) DVD
12/3
MADAGASCAR ESCAPE 2
AFRICA
Paramount DreamWorks (UPS) DVD
12/3
THE
WRESTLER
Fox
Searchlight
(UPS)
DVD
A
correspondent to this site notified me that the Music Branch received
the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 DVD on 12/2.
12/4
CHANGELING
(2 disks)
Universal Pictures
(FedEx) DVD
12/8 THE
DARK
KNIGHT
Warner
Bros.
(FedEx)
DVD
12/10 CURIOUS CASE OF
BENJAMIN BUTTON Paramount
(UPS)
DVD
12/10
DOUBT
Miramax
(UPS)
DVD
12/12 INDIANA JONES:
CRYSTAL
SKULL
Paramount
(mail)
DVD
12/12
W.
Lionsgate
(mail)
DVD
12/13
GRAN
TORINO
Warner Bros.
(FedEx)
DVD
12/15 DEFIANCE (2
disks)
Paramount
Vantage
(UPS)
DVD
12/15 REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
Paramount Vantage (UPS)
DVD
12/15 THEN SHE FOUND ME
Think Film (mail)
DVD
12/16
BOLT
Disney
(UPS)
DVD
12/16 MAMMA
MIA!
Universal
(FedEx)
DVD
12/18 SEVEN
POUNDS
Sony/Columbia
(UPS)
DVD
12/18 TALE OF
DESPEREAUX
Universal
(FedEx)
DVD
12/18 THE
READER
Weinstein
Co.
(FedEx)
DVD
12/20
GOMORRAH
IFC
Films
(mail)
DVD
12/19
CROSSING
?
(with Hollywood
Reporter)
DVD
12/22 WHAT JUST
HAPPENED
Magnolia
Pictures
(mail)
DVD
12/22 WALTZ WITH
BASHIR
Sony
Classics
(mail)
DVD
12/23 NOBEL
SON
?
(mail)
DVD
12/23 BOTTLE
SHOCK
?
(mail)
DVD
12/23 AUSTRALIA
(2
disks)
FOX
(UPS)
DVD
12/29 JODHAA
AKBAR
?
(mail)
DVD
12/31 MOSCOW
BELGIUM
NeoClassics
Films
(mail)
DVD
12/31 THE BLACK
BALLOON
NeoClassics
Films
(mail)
DVD
12/31 CAPTAIN ABU
RAED
NeoClassics
Flms
(mail)
DVD
A correspondant reports receipt of HAPPY-GO-LUCKY and EDGE OF HEAVEN. I haven't received either.
1/30/2009 BENJAMIN BUTTON
(score)
PA
(mail)
CD
2/2
WALL*E
(original Song &
score)
Disney
(mail)
CD
2/2
WALL*E
(script)
Disney
(mail)
2/2
FROZEN
RIVER
(script)
Sony
Pictures Classics (mail)
2/3 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (song
"Jaiho") Fox Searchlight (mail)
CD
2/3 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
(score)
Fox Searchlight (mail)
CD
2/4 WANTED
Universal
(FedEx)
DVD
2/4 HELLBOY II
Universal (FedEx)
DVD
2/13 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (script)
Fox
Searchlight (mail)
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