National Board of Review Selections 1999 and First Oscar Controversy

For the other actors honored, it certainly bumps up their Oscar chances. Particularly for Janet McTeer, for her performance in the independent film Tumbleweeds.

Interesting to see Minghella getting director over a lot of the other front runners we have considered so far.

Noticeably absent from the Board's choices were The Green Mile and The Hurricane, still considered two front runners for the Oscar.

Certainly, the National Board of Review is not always the most telling precursor for who will get nominated for Oscars, but it does get some films and performances at the top of the running. The awards will actually be handed out by the 91-year old National Board of Review on January 18.

Next up ...
 
The Los Angeles and New York Film Critics will weigh in during the next week, and their results will be posted here next week!

Well the studios have or will be beginning their ad campaigns for which films and performances they want to push for Oscar consideration, and here's a rundown of what the studios are pushing the most. So with this extra studio support, we'll most likely see some of these performances and films nominated, particularly if the various critics organizations in the next few weeks pick from these films.

Disney Ad Campaigns 1999 Movies

They think it has three strong Best Picture contenders in its blockbuster ghost story The Sixth Sense, the current hit sequel Toy Story 2 and the well-reviewed but box-office-light The Insider.

For acting, it's planning heavy campaigns for Al Pacino, Russell Crowe and Christopher Plummer from The Insider, young Haley Joel Osment from The Sixth Sense and Richard Farnsworth as Best Actor for The Straight Story.

Warner Bros. Ad Campaigns 1999 Movies

Their Best Picture contenders are Frank Darabont's epic prison melodrama The Green Mile and Oliver Stone's upcoming pro-football drama Any Given Sunday.
 
The studio also plans heavy acting campaigns for Green Mile stars Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan and Any Given Sunday's Pacino and Jamie Foxx.

20th Century Fox Ad Campaigns 1999 Movies
 
They are pushing its mother-daughter drama Anywhere but Here and Anna and the King for Best Picture.

It solved the dilemma of whether Anywhere co-stars Susan Sarandon and Nathalie Portman would compete against each other by deciding

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