Last year (2007) was one of the first times in many years in which what I felt was the best movie of the year - No Country For Old Men - actually received the appropriate award for being such. Most of the films nominated for Oscar's Best Picture in '07 were notably strong, however - There Will Be Blood was a remarkable piece of work and Atonement was also very very good, for example - and so had No Country failed to take the grand prize all would not have been lost. It was an exceptional year.
Slumdog Millionaire will doubtless be a Best Picture frontrunner (I imagine Gran Torino, Milk, Doubt, Ben Button, and this Wrestler flick will vie for the other spots - I might be overlooking something here), but it is by no means what I would consider the out-and-out best film of 2008, in what has otherwise not been nearly as good a year at the cinema as last.
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