| $70.11M, PG-13 $4.45M, PG 135 min Comedy, Drama. | Gross: $309.42M, R Anne Consigny, Votes: Emile Hirsch, Jon Heder, Catherine Deneuve, Patton Oswalt, Stars: In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization. Biography, Drama, History. Stars: Director: 86 min
Director: The complete list of 2008 Oscar winners, as they come in, plus all the nominees Cate Blanchett, [2], The top 10 films released in 2008 by worldwide gross are as follows:[3]. | Sergei Bodrov | | | Josh Brolin, Action, Drama, War. | Stars: Stars: 114 min Director: | Gross:
Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up The Avengers with the blockbuster hit Iron Man and their respectable attempt at rebooting The Incredible Hulk. Daniel Craig, Stars: Drama.
4,483 Comedy, Romance.
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Director: | 56,084 Gore Verbinski |
115 min | Olivier Dahan $31.66M, PG
| Gross: In September 2007, the Academy hired Gil Cates to oversee production of the telecast for a record 14th time. 169 min Stars:
588,159 Crime, Drama, Mystery. $5.70M, PG-13
| | 121 min Casey Affleck, | 87,547 | $0.12M, R The 80th Academy Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, February 24, 2008 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. | James Mangold A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq. Jordi Mollà, Votes: | Gross: Animation, Comedy, Family. | Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Directors: | Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle. Director:
Joseph Cedar
Paul Greengrass Adventure, Biography, Drama. Amy Adams, Stars:
| | [5] On August 31, after 45 days in release, The Dark Knight reached $500 million domestically, becoming only the second film in history after Titanic to cross the half-billion-dollar domestic milestone, as well as the first film of the 2000s decade. | Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.
The games-to-film genre took a hit this year, with only Max Payne proving to be a worthy adaptation of the source material. |
Viggo Mortensen, Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader. Peter Friedman, Votes: |
| Honglei Sun, Votes: Director:
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Nicole Kidman, | Gross: Stars: The year 2008 involved many major movie events. 21,232 Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. Evan Rachel Wood, $10.30M, PG-13 | Gross: $4.57M, R James McAvoy, Sarah Polley $24.34M, R An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film. Shia LaBeouf,
R.D. Director: Joel Coen
| $6.78M, R 140 min | 629,429 Brad Pitt, Stars: Ben Walker, Votes: A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil Queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer. A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant. The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. | Gross: Biography, Drama, Music. Bindler (director/screenplay); Mark Gustawes, George Mays, Cory Van Dyke (screenplay); Mark Monroe (director); Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Chris Clark. | 81,786 | Oscar Nominated Movies from 2009. Amy Adams, Votes: Julia Roberts,
Director: Cate Blanchett, Javier Bardem, James Marsden, Josef Altin, Votes: Danielle Darrieux, Votes: | | $206.45M, PG-13 | | Stars: $319.25M, PG-13
Orlando Bloom, | Julia Stiles, Votes: Director: Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. 107 min | Saoirse Ronan, Votes: A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. | | Hugh Walsh, Jim Sturgess, Tom Wilkinson, 114 min 102 min
| Gross: Note: Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. $6.61M, R Michael O'Keefe, Votes: